Hyde Park Art Center biennial exhibition GROUND FLOOR highlights emerging Chicago artists

 Hyde Park Art Center biennial exhibition GROUND
FLOOR highlights emerging Chicago artists

Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, announces Ground Floor, the seventh iteration of the Art Center’s biennial program since
2010 showcasing select work by recent graduates from each of Chicago’s five MFA (Master of Fine Art) programs, on view
from December 10 to March 5.

The exhibition offers a single destination to view some of Chicago’s most promising emerging talent who graduated in 2021-22 from one of Chicago’s five top-tier MFA programs: Columbia College Chicago, Northwestern University, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
The University of Chicago, and The University of Illinois at Chicago. Artists represented in Ground Floor include: Sungho Bae (SAIC), Juan Baños (UIC), Scott Campbell (U of C), Ále Campos (SAIC), Sofia Fernandez Diaz (SAIC), Ali Georgescu (CCC), Sara Grose (U of C), Payton Harris Woodard (SAIC), Patrick Hubbell (SAIC), Nicholas Jackson (UIC), Ajmal “MAS MAN” Millar (SAIC), Travis
Morehead (NU), Natasha Moustache (CCC), Elissa Osterland (U of C), Jess Atieno (SAIC), Shabtai Pinchevsky (NU), Emilie Plunkett (CCC), Corey Smith (SAIC), Frank Vega (SAIC), and Jessica
Walker (NU).

Ground Floor presents the thesis work of the twenty graduates made in the past few years to investigate and articulate conceptual and stylistic trends coming out of Chicago art schools right now. Ground
Floor—so named because it provides a crucial platform for emerging artists and traverses the entire lower level of the Art Center—gives exhibiting artists a major public venue in which to display their
works at a critical juncture in their careers, helping to build, support and ensure a strong and vibrant community of artists in Chicago.

The artists in the exhibition were selected by the Art Center’s Exhibitions Committee from a competitive pool of applicants
who were nominated by respected Chicago-based artists, curators, and administrators. The 2022 jury committee includes nationally and internationally renowned artists and educators Dawoud Bey (committee chair), Anne Wilson, Steve Reinke, Ross Jordan, and Daisy Shultz. The exhibition is curated by Exhibitions and Residency Manager, Mariela Acuña and Director of Exhibitions and Residency,
Allison Peters Quinn.

For more information, visit www. hydeparkart.org.

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