FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TONY WIGHT / BODYBUILDER & SPORTSMAN Gallery TONY WIGHT / BODYBUILDER & SPORTSMAN Gallery is pleased to announce The Chicago Index of the Invisible: Incidents and Interconnections, an exhibition of installation and drawings by New York-based artist Dannielle Tegeder. This will be the artist’s second solo showing at Tony Wight / Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery. The Chicago Index of the Invisible is a project that explores the unexplained disappearances and related crimes that have famously taken place in Chicago and vicinity. Drawing on information from a variety of publications, historical archives and online databases about these incidents, this project proposes new modes of documentation, transforming anecdotes into metaphors to address that which is unexplained and the unresolved. Every day, two thousand people are reported missing in the United States. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation there are over 50,930 active missing adult cases as of January 31, 2007. Departing from such facts, and from the eternal fascination and creative speculation that arises from such incidents, the project includes a series of two-dimensional works that function as diagrams or systemic drawings, to elucidate relationships between various missing persons incidents in and around Chicago. Inside a constructed room in the gallery, images are projected displaying fictional and actual sites where these incidents have taken place. Some notorious cases addressed in this regard include the serial killings of nurses in the South Side in 1968 by Richard Speck, the John Wayne Gacy murders in the northern suburbs, and the unsolved Tylenol terrorist murders of 1982 (a world-famous incident in which several persons died after consuming the medicine, bought at various Osco Illinois drug stores, generating the largest police investigation in history). Accompanying the exhibition is a publication that includes poems written by the artist that narrate some of the incidents. The poems are the result of employing different language games and strategies upon existing texts about the disappeared individuals. The Chicago Index of the Invisible plays on the tension between the known and unknown, by taking data about the unexplained and transforming it create a visual system of the hidden. Dannielle Tegeder received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and presently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She has had solo exhibitions in the US (Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York), and internationally (including Paris and Berlin). She is represented by Priska Juschka Fine Art in New York. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions at prestigious venues, such as such as PS1/MoMA, The New Museum, The Brooklyn Museum of Art and Artist’s Space. She has been the recipient of many residencies and grants, including Smack Mellon, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The Fulbright Scholar Grant and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Fellowship. Her works have recently been acquired for the Museum of Modern Art’s, NY Drawings Collection. |