Garin Pirnia

Avery Preesman was born on the Caribbean island of Curacao in 1968 and currently lives and works in Amsterdam. He brings his international flare to his latest ambitious endeavors at the University of Chicago's Renaissance Society, in his first Midwest exhibition. On top of showing some of his previous paintings and photographs, he is in the process of constructing two on-site works blanketing the gallery's floor and windows. In creating his structures, he uses a striated method, forming grooves or channels into his materials. His latest, the grotesque "Choir," is an immense triptych made out of oil, pigment and microwax on canvas--wood and sand cement coalescing into linking pieces evoking oak tree branches, with the entire sculpture attached to the gallery's windows. His unusual projects will captivate the gallery and the mind during Preesman's month-long sojourn at Renaissance.

Avery Preesman shows at the Renaissance Society, 5811 South Ellis Avenue, (773)702-8670, through October 29. (2006-09-19)

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