Since opening in 2004, Corbett vs. Dempsey has presented a range of international artists as well as artists connected with the historical and contemporary legacy of Chicago. The gallery’s mission has included extensive exploration of widely known artists, including Ellen Berkenblit, Brian Calvin, Arturo Herrera, Charline von Heyl, Dick Higgins, Rebecca Morris, Albert Oehlen, Joyce Pensato, Arlene Shechet, and Christopher Wool, supporting emerging and mid-career figures including Christina Forrer, Gabrielle Garland, Magalie Guérin, David Hartt, Celeste Rapone, Rebecca Shore, Lui Shtini, Cauleen Smith, John Sparagana, Omar Velázquez, and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, and championing artists of critical significance to post-war Chicago including Margot Bergman, Dominick Di Meo, Edward Flood, Philip Hanson, Thomas H. Kapsalis, Robert Lostutter, Christina Ramberg, Diane Simpson, Karl Wirsum, and Jimmy Wright.
Creative music has always been a feature of the gallery’s activities; in addition to having its own record label, CvsD is proud to represent Peter Brötzmann and the estate of Sun Ra.
Member Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA).
Image: Installation view of Christopher Wool, February 8–March 30, 2019. Photo: Robert Chase Heishman.
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Human Non-Human presents a sculpture cannibalized by the algorithm: generative software has scanned and obliterated a single artwork by Curry into nearly three hundred variations. Extracting nascent motifs from the original's silhouette, an array of new mutated forms emerge. In some, faces drift through neon-jellied skulls, while in others a jack-o-lantern maw cracks open where a chin once was. Upon completion of Human Non-Human, Curry destroyed the original physical sculpture, thus transforming these variations into the only record of that work's existence. What remains is a visual projection of what could have been: an amalgamation of possibilities and latent transformations across parallel timelines. The soundtrack is a collaboration with Richard Hawkins.
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