Roots and Culture held an exciting opening this past weekend on the evening of Saturday, October 6. The show entitled, "There Has Always Been Something Exasperating About My Gifts", exhibited the works of three artists and recent alumni from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Yevgeniya Baras, who received her MFA from SAIC last school year displayed about five of her abstract paintings with strong references to the Holocaust. Dana Deguilio exhibited a video piece paired down with a famous Sinead O'Connor tune in the background. BFA recipient of last year, arist, Ian Hokin, filled a project space with several of his small paintings consisting of a shitting heart, a snow plowing snowman, an underwater diver and a "whacked-out" yet joyously friendly Ronald McDonald.
Danny Zaretsky crosses the camera path of George and Ian Hokin as they discuss Ian's new paintings. (Ian is seen on the right side of this photo wearing a cool shirt with his hands on his hips.)
Artist's Esteban Schimpf, Jessica Moreno, and Tim Louis huddle together and speak about the work surrounding them.
Paintings by Ian Hokin, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IllinoisThe show "There Has Always Been Something Exasperating About My Gifts" is on exhibition at Roots and Culture, from October 6-20, 2007. For more information please visit
http://www.rootsandculturecac.org/
