Alex Chitty & Alice Tippit in Conversation with Emanuel Aguilar - The Bristol
Jan 24, 2023, by Invitation · 6pm to 7:30pm
Arts & Conversations
Each opening night will start with cocktails from 6-7:30 p.m., guests will need to register here.
Julia Fischbach and Emanuel Aguilar
PATRON Gallery
PATRON is a contemporary art gallery in Chicago founded in collaboration by Julia Fischbach and Emanuel Aguilar. PATRON is founded on the defining characteristics of a patron of the arts, that is, a person chosen, named or honored as a special guardian, protector or supporter. With this foundation set as a cornerstone, the gallery hopes to open new and traditional avenues of helping audiences of patrons from all walks of life engage and find access to contemporary art.
Artist
Alex Chitty
Alex Chitty’s work invites viewers to grasp intuitively at its meaning which is intentionally left open and demands that we use a range of interpretive vocabularies to decipher the abstract narratives. Through assemblages of objects and imagery she establishes scenarios where we must consider the sum of all its components as a whole entity of meaning. Working within an interdisciplinary practice of sculpture, drawing, photography and installation, Chitty’s work embraces the poetic potentials of form, color, and organization of everyday objects, forming a stage for an anti-devotional relationship to domestic symbols indicative of art historical tropes, such as midcentury style and design. Taking its cue from the pictorial language of painting and sculpture, as well as its signs/signifiers, Chitty’s practice questions the state of an original object when interpreted into a new context – reveling in all of the exciting slippages that occur when traditional systems of representation falter.
Artist
Alice Tippet
Alex Chitty’s work invites viewers to grasp intuitively at its meaning which is intentionally left open and demands that we use a range of interpretive vocabularies to decipher the abstract narratives. Through assemblages of objects and imagery she establishes scenarios where we must consider the sum of all its components as a whole entity of meaning. Working within an interdisciplinary practice of sculpture, drawing, photography and installation, Chitty’s work embraces the poetic potentials of form, color, and organization of everyday objects, forming a stage for an anti-devotional relationship to domestic symbols indicative of art historical tropes, such as midcentury style and design. Taking its cue from the pictorial language of painting and sculpture, as well as its signs/signifiers, Chitty’s practice questions the state of an original object when interpreted into a new context – reveling in all of the exciting slippages that occur when traditional systems of representation falter.
