Allison Glenn is a curator, writer and Director of Monique Meloche Gallery. Glenn has curated exhibitions at Monique Meloche Gallery, the Arts Incubator in Washington Park, Terrain Exhibitions, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Mana Contemporary, and supported exhibitions at the Hammer Museum and the Hyde Park Art Center. Her essays have been featured in publications for The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Prospect New Orleans Biennial and The Studio Museum in Harlem. She has been published in Art21, Newcity, andFNewsmagazine, amongst others. Glenn received dual Masters degrees in Modern Art History, Theory and Criticism and Arts Administration and Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Bachelor of Fine Art Photography with a co-Major in Urban Studies from Wayne State University, in Detroit. http://cargocollective.com/allisonglenn

Victoria Martinez:

As an interdisciplinary artist, I compose and structure mixed media ephemeral collages. My objectives are to establish urban environmental interventions within abandoned spaces, on my own and in collaboration with the people who live in close proximity to these spaces. These urban interventions ultimately culminate with performances that are directly related to the art work(s). I collect and incorporate into my art works samples of items such as discarded encyclopedias, fabric/textiles, kitschy articles, as well as ‘found’ entities indicative of urban environments and Mother Earth, i.e. boxes of fabric, string, photographs of flowers…Perhaps to many people the articles/items that I use in my art are superfluous and disposable. However, when I discover these materials in abandoned spaces, I think of these items in terms of giving them a chance at potentially better and longer lives.    There is ‘mystery’ in all of these things; I will never know or entirely understand the history behind the commodities that I find as I explore in dusty warehouses or leaf through texts from aged journals. This process is fascinating to me. I relate this to the ‘feeling’ of calm air before the spontaneous, ejection of a speeding bullet or the intuitive anxiety of darting after the falling candy from piñatas.

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