School of the Arts at Indiana University Northwest announces an exhibition by artist Max Guy: Quarantine Yoga and Other Assemblages.
Guy has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Prairie Gallery, Produce Model and Chicago Cultural Center.
The exhibition, located in the Gallery for Contemporary Art, features a suite of eight sculptures, three works on paper and a video. Each work uses silhouettes, natural and built environments and human bodies in some way.
Guy explains that his work evokes “many distinct aspects of city living” inviting audiences to consider architecture, cohabitation, domestic life and “civilization at odds with nature.”
The titular Quarantine Yoga is a series of sculptures, which are human silhouettes resting on the gallery floor.
“The silhouettes are of my partner Shir and myself stretching and doing yoga poses while quarantined at home in winter 2020” Guy said. “Here, I was thinking about figurative sculpture under conditions of confinement.”
A video installment, No Reason (binocular pollution), is part of an ongoing study of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Chicago, where the Local 130 Plumbers Union dyes the river green in a spectacle that commences the day’s festivities.
The river's water is so saturated green that one can easily edit it in post-production to turn it convincingly to any color you want. In this stereoscopic edit of the parade, a green river is paired with a black river, making the video a much more formal piece than others Guy has made previously.
“The river itself starts to feel like a fluid, amorphous silhouette in the company of the other works,” Guy said.
Quarantine Yoga and Other Assemblages will run through October 3.
IU Northwest campus is home to two art galleries:
The School of the Arts Gallery is located in the Arts and Sciences Building (2nd Floor) at 3415 Broadway Gary, Indiana, and the Gallery for Contemporary Art is located in the Savannah Center at 65 W. 33rd Ave., Gary, Indiana.
Both galleries’ viewing hours are Monday through Thursday from 12-5 p.m.
For more information, email iunsoa@iu.edu.
