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February 23 - March 30, 2019
Keer Tanchak’s work is a discernible exploration of the canon of painting. Sampling historical artworks and appropriating recognizable techniques and genres, Tanchak honestly proves that emulation is essential for painting - a medium that has always operated in a web of tradition and mass cultural references. While engaging with past epochs such as French rococo or European avant–garde, Tanchak often zooms in on marginalized personages in mise-en-scènes, thus infusing the figures with stronger messages and bringing to light the politics of representation. In her first museum solo exhibition, curated by Dallas Contemporary Assistant Curator Lilia Kudelia, Keer Tanchak creates a site specific installation embracing the architecture and history of the building - the metal fabrication factory. This new body of work aims to push the boundaries of display by engaging the entire physical body through the unification of painting and sculptural installation with shiny aluminum which has continually replaced canvas in Tanchak’s artistic practice. The installation functions as a metaphorical X-ray machine which exposes the basic elements of the painting language: the expressiveness of brushwork, the emotive nature of color, and transcendental quality of scintillating light. The immersive installation further addresses the way we perceive art history at present – through tiny reproductions on our gadget screens which resemble virtual post-it notes of a digital art history book. The exhibition title “Soft Orbit” references many elements manifested in the show: gravitation to primary sources, production of “satellite narratives” around historical works, recurring motifs throughout Tanchak’s own stylistic evolutions, the act of perceiving through gazing, ophthalmic sensations, and futuristic references to her spaceship-like installation. open http://www.dallascontemporary.com
FEATURE: GOODE, TANCHAK, WINKER at GOSS-MICHAEL FOUNDATION
Established in 2014, FEATURE highlights emerging Texas-based artists. For past exhibitions click here. For more information, contact Pierre Krause: 214-696-0555 or pierre@g-mf.org
September 2016
Look Attractive The UMKC Gallery of Art is located on the UMKC Volker Campus in the Fine Arts Building at 5015 Holmes in room 203. Fall gallery hours are Mondays 1-4pm, Tuesdays 11am-4pm, Wednesdays 12-5pm, Thursdays 11am-7pm, and Fridays 9am-3pm. After December 14, the gallery will be open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9am-3pm, and Fridays 9am-12pm. You can reach the gallery information line at 815-235-1502 or visit the website for more information.
The Salon Series at MDW Fair
MDW Fair For this week's MDW Fair at the new Mana Contemporary, The Salon Series asked eight alumni exhibitors to collaborate on a body of work that addresses the concept of editioning or multiples, and reflects the decisions, edits and play that occur as two practices work together toward a common resolution. The results have been thrilling. Sculpture, ceramics, painting, drawing and photography have been elided into hybrid forms that have challenged and inspired our participants. We're looking forward to sharing it with you. — JC Steinbrunner EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Friday, November 9: 7pm - midnight MANA CONTEMPORARY CHICAGO BOOTH 204 Refreshments compliments of 5 Rabbit $5 entry fee "The Salon Series is one of the most intellectually —The Chicagoist, 16 June 2012 Curated by Alana Bograd Presented as though emerging from a hiding place to view a wide variety of surprises, this special painting exhibition invites viewers to crawl out of their spaces and get to know the worlds of artists from Chicago, Dubrovnik, Los Angeles, New York City, and Philadelphia. Take a gander, have a look-see, peer and peek this one out, it’s perfect for viewing all day long. May 4th-23rd 2012 Artists: Farrell Brickhouse, David Campbell, Marybeth Chew, Damien Crisp, Sarah Gamble, Jordan Graw, Selma Hafizovic, Todd Keyser, John Kilduff, Doron Langberg, Shanjana Mahmud, Matt Savitsky, Woohyun Shim, Keer Tanchak, and Ben Will CONTACT EMAIL: berlin.little@gmail.com little berlin is located in the Viking Mill, a historic textile-mill turned artist space in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia located at Boston St. at Coral St. – enter through the courtyard at Coral St. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- featuring Joshua Bienko, Erin O'Keefe, Keer Tanchak, Travis Shaffer “Remasters” highlights artists whose work is not only colored by, but directly referencing art ancestry. Artists chosen for this show acknowledge the influence of their predecessors, and embrace the nature of art and culture as cumulative. They create work that is unmistakably contemporary, while simultaneously appreciating and commenting on work that “came before”. When discussing the artists in “Remasters,” it is important to analyze their positions on appropriation. As Nicolas Bourriaud states, “Appropriation constructs a lineage between forms, signs and images.” This view is strongly apparent to the artists in the exhibition who use this practice as a model for building conceptual direction. The separation between their practices becomes an issue of semantics as they start to become either “borrowers” or “samplers.”
JANUARY 2011 VIEW: the new contemporaries Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver B.C. press release click here CLICK HERE TO MAKE RESERVATIONS: The Salon Series is beginning its fall/winter season at The Bluebird this Sunday and we start it with Keer Tanchak's work. Tanchak's oil on aluminum paintings range from the small to the very large. Both will be on display as well as preparatory watercolors. Keer's paintings have a foundation in the Rococo fête galante paintings of Watteau and Fragonard but quickly depart into something more modern and weird. Her works blend a political side (are we living with a new aristocracy?), a painterly side (the tension of surface and volume, specificity versus atmosphere) and a refreshingly odd side (what's going on here and why does it matter?). The $40 entry fee includes aperitifs, a three-course dinner with sides and wine/beer pairings per course, and a discussion with the artist about her work. The event starts promptly at 7pm. Tickets are $40 a person. Reservations required. About The Salon Series Each Salon seats up to forty people and includes a three-course, passed dinner with wine pairings followed by a forum led by the artist and moderated by John Coyle Steinbrunner. Dinners are held at The Bluebird on Sundays at 7pm.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vancouver Sun article by Lucy Hyslop < click! Elissa Cristall Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Keer Tanchak. Opening reception: Saturday May 29th, 2 - 5 pm For more information and images please visit the gallery web site: Elissa Cristall Gallery 2245 Granville Street ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MARCH 2010
http://johanssonprojects.net/phpflickr/velveteen_show.php Johansson Projects presents The Velveteen Order, where powder and paint mask flesh in favor of fiction, serving up Rococo thrills yummier than brioche. Christina Corfield crafts moving dioramas which flaunt the brush of a gaze and the stroke of a sword. Her videos hyperbolize the Old Regime's pretend-sion, ignoring distinctions between historical documentation and fairy tale musings. Redundancy and stripped down actions append significance to the subtlest minutiae. Keer Tanchak's aluminum glamscapes, which mix 1800's lackadaisical malaise with the 2000's self-awareness, quietly invite circumspection of modern wealth and frivolity. Tanchak's exploitation of Old France's artificial flavoring sweetens the modern epidemic dubbed "bourgeois ennui." With seductive visuals and witty commentary, absolutism was never so liberating. Show Runs April 2 – May 15, 2010 Johansson Projects --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------July 2009 Also, keep an eye out for my work in the upcoming midwestern issue of New American Paintings coming out in September!!!! http://www.newamericanpaintings.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 2009 Fresh Picks is Vantage Art Projects' series of affordable limited edition fine art prints. The series allows art lovers to own work that is current and representative of the contemporary artscape. It is an unprecedented way for artists to share their work with collectors and art lovers across the world. Released twice a month, the artist and work is first announced to our mailing list and is sold exclusively through the Vantage Art Projects website. DEAN PROJECT is pleased to announce a special two-gallery collaboration between Crossing Art, Flushing Queens, and DEAN PROJECT, Long Island City Queens, in presenting the group exhibition RoCoCoPoP. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pleasure Paintings:
Windbag , oil on aluminum, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Elissa Cristall Gallery presents CHEER!. This special exhibition presents new work in painting, photography and mixed media work by gallery artists Eric Deis, Maryan Eggermont, Elena Evanoff, Lesley Inlayson, Joe Fleming, Marcia Harris, Anda Kubis, Riki Kuropatwa, Randall Steeves, Bruc Turnbul, Jeroen Witvliet and introduces three new artists: Keer Tanchak, Yang Hong and Linda Murphy. Tuesday - Saturday10:30 am - 5:30 pm Internationally recognized painters such as Tony Scherman, James Lahey, Karin Davie, John Hall, Harold Klunder, Tony Urquhart, Shelley Adler, Graham Gillmore, Jay Isaac, Chris Cran, John Hartman, Kim Moodie, Will Gorlitz, and David Urban are just some of the names making up this list of two hundred selected painters. The two outstanding volumes of Carte Blanche will help change the perceptions of Canadians-and the world-about artistic achievement in Canada. Canadian author Jane Urquhart contributes a thoughtful and timely foreword to the book. Her fiction has been published in more than a dozen countries and has earned awards and honors, including the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Marian Engel Prize, the Trillium Award, the Harbourfront International Festival Prize, and France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger. http://www.magentafoundation.org/books/carte-blanche-2-painting/ Included Artists: Ryan Bartley DEAN PROJECT is thrilled to present “Introduction: Future Dialogues”; this group exhibition presents works by selected emerging artists whom will be part of DEAN PROJECT gallery program 2008-2009. In our commitment in providing a platform to emerging artists we have selected from hundreds of submissions and dozens of studio visits over our first year DEAN PROJECT has curated “Introduction: Future Dialogues”. This group exhibition consists of paintings and works on paper by seventeen emerging artists whose works we are proud to introduce. The artists in this exhibition will be part of the art fairs and gallery program during the 2008-2009 season. These artists represent a reflection of current ideas in contemporary art; mass and social popular culture, materiality and process in painting and works based on personal narratives. These artists will be included in the following exhibitions; Scope London art fair Oct 16-19, Scope Miami art fair December 3-7, “BaRoC&OcoPop” January 8th -February 8th 2009 an exhibition of works based on the current trend of linking imagery from Baroque, Rococo and Pop art movements to address contemporary popular culture ideas in art. In addition “Of Another Nature” from February 12th - March 8th 2009, which explores the use of mythological and fictional references by contemporary artists to develop narratives in their work fueled by personal experiences.
Basel – SCOPE, the cutting-edge contemporary art fair, returns for the second year to New Location Open June 3-8 2008 Tuesday, June 3, 1pm-8pm http://www.scope-art.com/
45-43 21st Street, Long Island City, New York, Tel. 718.706.1462 - info@deanproject.com
http://www.tiafairgalleries.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=3724 August 2007: Images from Sampling..., at the Bjornson Kajiwara Gallery are up on the 2007 page. June 2007:
April 2007:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: EXHIBITION: Keer Tanchak: The Idea of Reflection DATES: April 10 – 21, 2007VERNISSAGE: Thursday April 12, 2007 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. CONTACT: Sandra Goldie at (514) 935-2355 for media materialThe Sandra Goldie Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition featuring work by Canadian artist Keer Tanchak. Tanchak’s new paintings continue to use 18th century French images as the starting point for investigations into Rococo visual culture. Text by Allison Katz, 2007 
December 2007: Keer Tanchak: Lifted PicturesDecember 1, 2006 - January 6, 2007 NAVTASCHULZ GALLERY Contact: Director Ryan Schulz 312.421.5506 or ryan@navtaschulzgallery.com Chicago, IL - NavtaSchulz Gallery is pleased to announce Lifted Pictures, an exhibition of paintings by Chicago-based painter Keer Tanchak. This will be Tanchak's first solo show in Chicago. The title Lifted Pictures is a reference to the artist's penchant for quoting characters from 18thcentury Rococo paintings (specifically those by Jean-Antoine Watteau). Of her chosen subject, Tanchak writes "The 18th century fascination with decadence and romance, and the subsequent political implications of these obsessions, remains a relevant, on-going cultural narrative. My paintings operate within this dialogue, exploring questions of desire and gratification in spaces of extended longing." One specific series of paintings to be exhibited at NavtaSchulz, titled Chicago Girl, is based on two characters found in Watteau's once-contested Fete Champetre, one of two paintings by Watteau in the Art Institute's permanent collection. Typically Tanchak's paintings are complex social scenes of parties or gatherings. With acute attention to detail and color, the figures appear as apparitions of the subconscious while the backgrounds disorient with color and abstraction. This exhibition presents those more complicated paintings in contrast with Tanchak's ongoing series of intimate character studies. What is often so intriguing about Tanchak’s paintings is the tension created between her choice of material, (hand-cut aluminum) and her subject matter, (the female). The compositions are at once intuitive and refined; vulnerable and domineering. This industrial and moderne material not only acts as field and architecture for these frolicking and carefree women, but it also acts as accomplice to their mood. The artist often chooses to allow the reflective nature of the material to take the light of the exhibition space and fill in gaps in the characters bodies: faces blush during the day but become demure in the evening, skirts billow as the viewer travels past a piece. Once the composition is finished, Tanchak buffs the surface of the painting with thin layers of paint or she feathers on thin layers of white glaze. In this final step, previously unseen forms and gestures are lifted out and become essential to the picture. Tanchak is a 2003 MFA graduate of the School at the Art Institute of Chicago. She also received a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal in 2000. She has exhibited in London, Montreal, Tampa, Chicago, Toronto, and San Antonio.
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