Soft Drugs - Opening February 14, 6-9pm

By Erik Peterson on February 11, 2014
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I would like to invite you to join me this Friday at Defibrillator Gallery for the exhibition Soft Drugs, where along with an amazing group of artists, I will be showing three new pieces, Pigeon (Neon), Cooler (Orange Void), and The Center Line (a collaborative work with Meg Duguid). This show will either make your date's night as a prelude to a fancy dinner or make you feel great about not having to pay for a fancy dinner.
 
All the details are below, so read at your own risk!
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DFBRL8R and A&DWORKS present:
SOFT DRUGS
curated by Teresa Silva
GALLERY HOURS: FEB 02/12 – 16.14 @ 12noon – 8PM
OPENING RECEPTION with PERFORMANCES: FRI 02.14.14 @ 6-9PM
1136 N MILWAUKEE AVE. CHICAGO IL 60642
Across performance and objects, SOFT DRUGS looks at how artworks incorporate play as process or idea for understanding or perceiving the world. play in artistic practice has a way of opening up audiences to new possibilities and perspectives and, while this activity is often felt to be a game, it is a key and rigorous approach in each artist’s idiosyncratic form of production. play can also employ humor or quirk to offset weighty issues or generate new awareness of one’s surroundings. the exhibition showcases performances, moving images, and sculptures that examine issues or challenges of the body, distraction, attraction, the built environment, and the apocalypse as sets of phenomena that could be heavy though lightened through playful and artful tactics.