Frank Van Duerm : Symbols/Souvenirs : Mar 6 – Mar 27, 2010
The Hills Esthetic Center is pleased to announce it's second exhibition Symbols/Souvenirs with Chicago native Frank Van Duerm.
The exhibition Symbols/Souvenirs is a shop, installed in a gallery. On sale are cultural icons, symbols, and memorabilia from around the globe, including original guided meditation dvds and Tanya Harding vhs sex tapes. Enlarged representations of objects, originally produced for the express purpose of remembering people and places of geographic, cultural, and ideological significance are present in surplus.
The Hills Esthetic Center is an artist-run space located in the depths of Chicago’s Western Corridor. Boasting a history as a music venue and installation-themed art loft with artists’ studios and an audio recording facility, The Hills has opened their latest venture; a white-walled exhibition space. The space exists to promote a constant flux of challenging and undervalued contemporary artwork hosted in a non-commercial, artist-controlled environment.
Frank Van Duerm (American, 1982) works with art, music, and design. He received BFAs in Sculpture Industrial Design from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2007. After stints as a commercial package designer and display artist, Van Duerm currently has a set of solo shows in Chicago at The Hills Esthetic Center and Pawn Works.
The Hills Esthetic Center
128 N. Campbell Street, Unit G, Chicago, IL
[From the original press release.]
