Novelty Landscape (after Dale Eldred), 2025
collage on 1966 USDA poster
image size: 21” x 24”
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Loot Box ends May 17, 11-3pm. I’ll be on hand to chat and deinstall. Come by if you can. 🥂🥂➡️ @materialexhibitions@jaclynjacunski
Several works in Loot Box, at Material Exhibitions, from the Novelty Landscape series. Material has a table of loose collages in back to go through too. Re: Dale Eldred (1933-1993). He was a sculptor and professor at Kansas City Art Institute. A primary aspect of his work was manipulating context…finding the grand in the mundane, the minute in the large. I was in his studio in the 1990s and there was a stack of fluorescent envelopes in the corner. I asked what they were for and he said, “so when I send things out, people notice”.
Sneak Preview of Loot Box opening in Chicago this afternoon, 4-8, @materialexhibitions Many thanks to @jeanalexanderfrater and essayist Elisabeth Kirsch!
Showing out three of my GGrandmother Estella Renick’s (1891-1987) rag rugs. She did what artists do but never thought of herself as an artist. There will be snacks.
Please join us April 23rd 4-8pm
For the opening reception of
Loot Box
Garry Noland
@garrynol@materialexhibitions
Artist’s Statement:
My studio practice is multi-disciplinary. The one constant is an openness to rough patches, glitches or mistakes. The presence of edges or boundaries between mistakes establishes immediate contextual and formal relationships. Those abutments mime our interaction with art and with each other. Closer attention is paid to the verbs of making than to the finality of the resulting noun of the object. What happens when something is put next to something else is the thing.
What goes with what? What happens on either side of the line? What’s good and who decides? Sometimes I am the boss of the material but just as often the material, by virtue of chance arrangements, will tell me what needs to be done.
Art puns and mimes the systems and appearances we experience in both the non-human and human parts of nature. The oft-quoted role of the free press is “to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted”. Art’s first cousin role, then, is to find the mundane in the grand and the grand in the mundane.
Plan-O-Gram No. 20, 2026
acrylic, latex, baking soda, non-skid tape, spray paint/paper
41” x 26”
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One of the pieces on view in Loot Box @materialexhibitions opening 23 April in Chicago. Thanks to @jeanalexanderfrater
Absolutely beautiful video/performance/object at the Art Institute of Chicago by past Material artist Nneka Kai.
This piece is part of a larger and must-not-be-missed exhibition On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival
Thru March 2026
Go see it now and then go back again. Don’t wait until March.
@nneka_kai
🚨🫸🏻FINAL WEEK🫷🏻🚨
I can’t believe our time together @materialexhibitions is almost over - if you haven’t made it to the show, you have a few options before it c͎l͎o͎s͎e͎s͎ ͎O͎c͎t͎ ͎7͎t͎h͎
✍️ schedule your viewing appointment via email or DM
🫖 afternoon TEA & TALK with me and artist/writer/curator @susanaurinko Sunday, October 5th 1-3pm
🖥️ installation images online now with full catalog download available on my website 📸 @kevinpenczak
get your TATTOO TICKET for any of my drawings from Handle with Care before it’s too late! @rohar23@brownbrotherstattoo link in bio.
A special kind of Artist Walk-through @materialexhibitions - family from all over dropped in to see the work and hear a bit about my practice. Big shout out to my brother from another mother @h_marsh_schenck - I have your Yeti. And to @infinespirits for putting out some cards that drew a crowd!
Open thru October 7th by appointment
