170 N Scoville
Molly Rudberg & Brad Leshnock, hosts
Julie Rodrigues Widholm, curator
Noelle Allen, artist
Project: Bent Day
Materials: Resin
Allen will exhibit 3 large-scale resin sculptures developed specifically for the colorful front garden at 170 N Scoville Avenue, Oak Park, IL. Similarly to the original Terrain, 170 N Scoville is across the street from a school and the artist developed an installation that relates to a common trope in children's drawings, the rainbow. Bent Day are open framed, looped ribbons that riff on the elusive, mystical nature of the rainbow.
Both images depict test runs of the project near my studio at Dominican University.
Born in Sacramento and now living and working in Oak Park, Noelle Allen has exhibited her artwork across the United States and abroad in Italy and Germany. Most recently, Allen has exhibited her work at the Riverside Art Center, Evanston Art Center, and Comfort Station. Upcoming, Allen will have a solo show at Regards, in the Spring of 2016. Allen’s art has been positively reviewed in the Chicago Tribune, Art Ltd. Magazine, and Chicago Social, to name a few, and has had catalogues of her work published by the University of Pennsylvania and Paula Cooper Gallery. Allen has been awarded a number of grants through Dominican University where she is an associate professor of sculpture. She has been a visiting artist at Indiana Wesleyan University, Mills College, and DePauw University. Allen holds a BA from Smith College and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Julie Rodrigues Widholm, a Chicago-based curator and writer, is Director of DePaul Art Museum