Dani Leventhal, 2003
Dani Leventhal’s multi-part project includes a series of boldly
graphic and tenderly personal drawings, a rammed earth platform for women
performers, a vegetable garden, a cookout, and an outdoor evening video
screening. Feather-Stitch is an investigation of issues of domesticity,
identity, purpose, ethics and sexuality. Leventhal invites viewers to
both observe and participate in rituals of her design: sacred, quotidian,
personal and communal that are at once both poetic and playful.
Six one-person or artist-curated exhibitions taking a risk. At The Edge unveils newly created works that are difficult to show in commercial spaces, that extend a working artist's practice, and/or push the boundaries of art experimentation. This is the second year of annual At The Edge exhibitions intended to encourage the most innovative aspects of the Chicago art community's current dynamism. Special thanks to the jury that selected this year's At The Edge projects: Danielle Gustafson-Sundell (artist and co-director of Deluxe Projects), Paul Ha (Executive Director, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis), Kevin Kaempf (artist), Jennifer Reeder (artist and UIC faculty member), and Lorelei Stewart (Director, Gallery 400). A triennial catalogue featuring all At The Edge projects and essays by area writers will be published in 2004.
