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Baháʼí Temple, Wilmette, Illinois - 2013

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One of my favorite places in all of the world, I'm not sure when I last visited the Baháʼí temple. This is the only place like it in North America, the meditative gardens, symmetrical architecture and the peaceful site are beautiful to visit any time of year.

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It’s here! DECAHEDRON is now live!

June 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of Artists on the Lam. Celebrate with us!

It was on Monday, June 6, 2011, that I published my first post on what would later be voted “Best Arts Blog” in the Chicago Reader’s Best of Chicago issue.

As part of the celebration, I’ve curated an international exhibition called DECAHEDRON.

Knowing from the start that this would be virtual, I wanted to involve more artists than I would for any physical show, as a way to truly take advantage of having an online platform (when getting interviewed about 2020’s acclaimed SLAYSIAN, one point that kept coming up was the silver lining of being able to exhibit bonus pieces as digital exclusives), and to truly fit a milestone anniversary.

I invited all artists from past shows, invited other artists I admired but hadn’t exhibited yet (likening the process to an episodic TV series where you wander the land embarking on different adventures and meeting different characters, and then in the end you go back and revisit all your old friends and ask them to be part of your heist), and—in keeping with the nature of Artists on the Lam group shows—put out an open call for artists too. Past, present, and future are all intertwined.

The result? A show with 74 artists, with over 350 works of art.

Hailing from all over Chicago, the country, and the world, DECAHEDRON’s participating artists include:

Adrienne L. Glover (@a-glorious-art), Adrienne Powers, Agnieszka Ligendza, Alba Margarita (@albamargaritaart), Alex Kostiw, Alix Anne Shaw, Allen Vandever, Angie Redmond, Brianna Lynn Hernández Baurichter, Bruce Riley, Caroline Walser, Carrie McGath, Céline Browning, Chad Kouri (@chadkouri), Charlene Moy, CHema Skandal!, Chris Silva (@lovercraft). Christine Nicklos, Claire Ashley (@claireashley), Clarisse Perrette, Corinne Halbert, Cristy Corso, Czr Prz, Dan Castranova, Danielle Pontarelli, Diane Ponder, Emily Calvo, English Prevo, Glenn Wexler, Hazel R. Magnolia, Heidi Jensen, InsomniaBird, James Gu, James Jankowiak, James Mosher (@moshershow), Juliann Wang, Julius Dizon-Cruz Bautista, Justin Suico, Karen I. Hirsch, Kathy Halper, KC Winter, Keelan McMorrow, Kristin Cass, Kurt Kreissl, Laura Catherwood, Lee Eun Young, Lisa Goesling, Mac Blackout, Mairin Hartt, Mark Pol (@markpol), Mary Porterfield, Mazon, Megan M. Rivera, Melissa Wang, MelonJames, My Linh Mac, Nancy Bechtol, Nathan Stanton, Nik Burkhart, Olivia Shih, Patricia Biesen, Patrick Earl Hammie, Peyton Rack (@peytonrack), Priscilla Huang, Ramiro Silva-Cortés, Rialin José, Richard Gessert, Robert Apolinar, Robin Monique Rios, Sam Riesmeyer, Stafford Hiroshi Smith, Tiffany Gholar, Toby zur Loye, Yuqing Zhu, and you.

View the exhibition: main page & artist pages

// © Jenny Lam 2021

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✨ DECAHEDRON in numbers! ✨

View the exhibition here (main page) & here (click on each artist’s page to enjoy their art and words)

// © Jenny Lam 2021

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Poet Of The Month: Ari Banias

VOLLEY

In the absence of sunlight,  in the absence of a genuine river, I blew air into a balloon. I gave my breath over to its empty shape. I filled & pinched & no matter how fast I tied it off, how tight & swift, the air, my own, drained out. And here I was again and here you were. Watching? No, imagining. So think what this balloon might represent if we passed it back and forth and took turns adding our breath. What the quick tying might. And our marveling at its lovely shape, like an egg but also a tear-drop. Our hands on it, our fingerprints darkening its surface all powdery and matte at first, with a bare sheen. Think of the balloon sent into a crowd at a party. How that crowd might move to keep it in the air, protective and playful, almost flirting with itself, a crowd with light volleys will send & resend a balloon upwards, high above their heads. Until it drifts down and asks to be touched by them again. And with such innocent gestures, they do. Though eventually they too will tire of this. I can’t just say innocent; I know that. But I’m going to say innocent. Innocent as a balloon not meant to last. Think of it handed back and forth between us.

Ari Banias is the author of Anybody (W.W. Norton, 2016). He lives in Berkeley, CA, where he teaches poetry and works with small press books.

“Volley” from Anybody by Ari Banias. Copyright © 2016 by Ari Banias. Used by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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Honored to be a part of @artistsonthelam's Decahedron show. Check out some of my work from my latest Black Box Session series. #art

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Decahedron + collaboration

I’m excited to share that in June, I’ll be showcasing recent works in Jenny Lam’s upcoming Decahedron. (More about the show here: https://artistsonthelam.blogspot.com/2021/03/call-for-artists-decahedron.html as of this posting, call for artists still is open). 

New works will include a serial addition to the Black Box Session Series, and a collaboration with curator, artist and friend Jenny Lam. More about Jenny here: https://www.artistsonthelam.com/ 

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Biography

Adrienne L. Glover is a mixed media artist and photographer who grew up in Chicago. Her work explores lighting, composition, wordplay and double meanings of images and symbols from mundane life, as well as advertising’s influence on culture, gender, self-identify, order and authority.

Glover’s work has been featured in Lexicon, which was voted runner-up for Best Gallery Exhibit in the Chicago Reader’s Best of Chicago 2017 , 2011′s The Exquisite Corpse and a number of other group art shows. 

When not making artwork, Glover serves as a member of the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Museum Council and has a reiki and consulting practice, A Glorious Kaleidoscope. 

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35 mm Photographs by Adrienne L. Glover Via Flickr: 2001-2003

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Mixed Media Collage by Adrienne L. Glover Via Flickr: 2003-present

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Artist Statement | Adrienne L. Glover

Currently my art is based upon meditations on privacy, disruption and the black box.

Merriam-Webster defines black box this way:

1. a usually complicated electronic device whose internal mechanism is usually hidden from or mysterious to the user;broadly :  anything that has mysterious or unknown internal functions or mechanisms

2. a crashworthy device in aircraft for recording cockpit conversations and flight data

The concept of the black box session(s) arrived during the course of discussions revolving around boxed wine, recollections of dalliances, and also contemplation of the phrase itself.

A black box is many things: an attempt to maintain order and records despite disruption.  A disruptor of assumptions. A human mind.  Dictionary definitions are only a starting point. They are not an arrival.