REBUS
@ BEN RUSSELL
1716 S Morgan St, 2F, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 7th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, June 19th
XQQQQME Dear Friend, but your FAMILYYYYYY at BEN RUSSELL sure is feeling a bit FAREDCE! We usually have TIMING TI MING in bringing you, TIME TIME, the finest of the fine arts, but for some reason we got LAL in putting together this month’s 5-person exhibition – BEN RUSSELL : REBUS! While putting this show together hasn’t been a P WALK ARK, but believe us when we say that the line-up is M1LLION – an SYMPHON that has finally been completed, that LOV that you dream of at night. We’re getting ahead of ourselves, though – we should really TAKE PETS and remind you, Dear Friend, what it is we’re getting on about.
BEN RUSSELL : REBUS is art-word and art-puzzle made manifest! From Lewis Carroll to Egyptian hieroglyphs to the British game of Concentration to your older brother’s collection of Lone Star Beer bottle caps, BEN RUSSELL : REBUS is yet another move forward in wo/man’s eternal quest to arrive at symbolic meaning through pictogrammatic signification! With the ever-clarifying but perpetually complicating metaphoric powers of art at our ready, we call upon you to venture in/out of that great unknown we call Meaning with naught but a Wi-Fi trail marker as guidepost for your deeply personal inner quest (Zak Arctander). Your path, as it were, will be bound by strange lines and drops of blood (Jim Trainor), it will lead you to a painted cave wall of glyphs and symbols (Carmen Price) and an outcropping of transformative image-combinations (Sarah Mosk), at which point your world will rotate entirely. That thrum of voice and hum of light will settle upon your head, echoing out from smaller-cave to skull and back, an HD image-sound cipher (Ika Knezevic) cracked by your own delicate puzzle of eyes and ears.
So good it must be SICKBIRD, so affecting it’s like a punch IRIGHTI, this is proof positive that art and BEN RUSSELL : REBUS are PPOD – come on down and see for yourself!
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