new work by Jessica Bingham
Our Playground
May 3rd - 28th, 2017

Reception: Fri, May 5, 5-7p at PS1

Our Playground features a mix of fabric assemblage pieces and installations based on the recreation of childhood memories the resurfaced with the death of a close childhood friend.

Jessica Bingham received her MFA from Bradley University in Peoria, IL where she focused on painting and installations. In 2015, she co-founded Project 1612, a short-term residency and independent artist-run project space at her home in Peoria.

Gallery hours:
Thu, Fri, & Sun 1-4p
or by appointment 319.855.1985

Cybersquatting With a Honey Pot is a two-person exhibition consisting of work by Jonathan McFadden and David Wischer that was first shown at The Freeport Art Museum in the Fall of 2016. It is a print and installation based exhibition that explores how imagery from social media is sensationalized and more over how we interact with content and imagery on the Internet.

Cybersquatting, also known as domain squatting, is an Internet term that refers to registering a brand or company name to reach a profit. One of the most famous examples is when pop star Madonna sued someone who cybersquatted the use of Madonna.com

The exhibition includes work on paper as well as a site specific installations. While the installation by Jonathan McFadden will be similar to those included in the portfolio it will be site specific to the dimensions and layout of Public Space One.

In addition to the exhibition David and Jonathan will both use social media events as a means of expanding the exhibition beyond the physical space. This has included creating Facebook Live events of the receptions, their artist talks, and day to day goings on (on the Facebook page for the space) as well as Facebook, instagram, and twitter take overs of the spaces social media.

Additional work by each artist can be viewed at:
www.jonathanmcfadden.com
www.davidwischer.com

Scrap Happy Panels -- Pena Lynn Lubrica & Dave Dugan

opening reception/gallery walk: Friday, March 3, 5-8pm

Pena Lynn Lubrica makes new clothing from thrift shop dress shirts and kimonos, and then uses the scraps to make quilts and fabric collages. Dave Dugan draws cartoons on paper he makes out of paper scraps: junk mail, old phone bills, etc, and the fabric scraps too small for Pena Lynn's projects.

Pena Lynn Lubrica & Dave Dugan live in Iowa City.

This will be one of two stops hosted by PS1 for the first spring IC Gallery Walk. --> https://www.facebook.com/events/413259742351564/

The other event is Near Future Going (a block and a half away) --->
https://www.facebook.com/events/275987222814748/

Hazel Batrezchavez & Serena Hocharoen
INTERSECTION/SPACE

February 3rd - 25th, 2017
Reception: Fri, Feb 3, 6-8p at PS1

An exploration into the artists’ experiences as women of color integrating and navigating their bodies in the spaces that they occupy. Taking advantage of the tension between contrasting materials such as handmade paper and metal and combining processes and mediums, their work takes the form of installation, sculpture, and bookwork and engages with “themes of time, space and skin” (Batrezchavez) and “shame, guilt, and smallness...associated with the forming and unforming of identity for marginalized bodies” (Hocharoen).

Hazel Batrezchavez:
My art practice explores themes of time, space, and skin through material and metal-structures. These themes emerged during my time at Grinnell College, as I pursued my interests in attending and organizing events that brought awareness to oppressive ideologies and how they can work to police and marginalize certain bodies of color. My involvement in these events forced me to revisit my painfully raw experiences of trying to fit into the private institutional world. While at the same time these experiences functioned as the driving force behind decisions made about material, texture and size, as I work with large-scale metal sculptures.

Serena Hocharoen:
Much like Hazel, upon moving to Grinnell College, I was exposed to people and ideas that changed my worldview, like feminism and various other social justice issues. Through these lens, I have constantly been learning and rethinking about my experiences navigating spaces as a growing woman of color. In my work I use handmade paper in conjunction with drawings and print media, to make visible this learning process, searching for a sense of place and belonging. My work in this show reflects on feelings such as shame, guilt, and smallness, that are associated with the forming and unforming of identity for marginalized bodies.

Gallery hours:
Tue 6-8p & Fri, Sat, Sun 1-3p
or by appointment 319.855.1985

December 9, 2016 - January 15, 2017

Curated by C.R. Cooper and featuring work in four dimensions by local, national, and international artists: Peter Barnard, Charlotte Greene, Emily E. Ritter, Annalibera, Dave Dugan, Hannah Secord Wade, Dennis Kowalski, Julia J. Wolfe, Anna Tea, Crisia Miroiu, Taylor Yocom, Mustard-in-Law, and Jack Dugan

October, 7-22nd, 2016

Opening reception: October 7, 5-8p

Closing reception: October 21st, 6-8p

Mindful Artist Collective is a supportive community of artists pooling ideas, skills and resources to facilitate the creation of art in Iowa

Artists include:

Carlos Maldonado, Kenny Morgan, Xochicoatl, Taylor Ross

Collective Dysfunction is the collective's premiere exhibition.

Standing Wave (a vibration of a system in which some particular points remain fixed while others between them vibrate with the maximum amplitude)

August 3 - 27th, 2016

Closing reception: August 27th, 4-7p

Justus Roe lives and works in Chicago creating large scale paintings (both interior and exterior), sculptural installations, and canvas paintings, using a variety of visual mediums. His work references architecture, city grid systems, and landscapes. His abstract stylized forms, mark-making and color palette develop work that is at once reminiscent of aerial perspectives and metropolitan environments. Often in collaboration with architects, designers, curators and clients, Roe creates unique, iconic works of art that help to engage audiences and define specific environments. He is part of Fatherless, a collaborative print posse.

justusroe.com - wearefatherless.com

May 13-27th, 2016

Closing reception: May 27th, 6-8p

"The patterns that you find throughout my work are a reminder of our varied but similar structure. The subtle differences can, in time, create such vast expanses between individuals that it becomes hard to see their similarities. My work positions these variations next to each other in order to invite the connection. Our differences only subtly mask the commonality between us. I want to connect seemingly unconnected people through my work. I think a portrait is not just a likeness of someone, but a small glimpse of how related humanity truly is"

- Allen TenBusschen

https://www.allentenbusschen.com

May 13-27th, 2016

Closing reception: May 27th, 6-8p

…not without breaking it… is a sound/visual art installation that investigates global climate change and the retreat of Earth's glaciers. A combination of ice shattering, snow crunching, and glass breaking sounds create the soundscape. A landscape is built from an amalgamation of broken parts, preserved in uncertainty.

GRIT Collaborative
Joshua Marquez (composer)
Dana O'Malley (visual artist)

March 21st - April 8th, 2016

Reception: April 8th, 6-8p

An exhibition of sexual assault survivors work by:

Anonymous, Allison Baker, Katina Bitisicas, Julia Caston, Katherine Farley, Stacey Lee Gee, Emma Greimann, Mellisa Kreider, Lydia Larson, Kalena Meyer, Jeralyn Mohr, Traci Molloy, Danielle Owensby, Margaret Polzine, Ryann Slauson, Taylor Yoco

Curated by Jessica Pleyel.

January 29th - February 13th, 2016

Reception: February 6th, 4-6p

Yoga in the gallery: noon-1p on Saturdays for the duration of the show.

One Aum Eight is a visual mantra meditation as much as it is art installation. The title comes from combining the tradition of mala bead counting (one hundred and eight beads in length) with the term aum as a mantra vibration.

December 11th, 2015-January 23rd, 2016

Opening reception: December 11th, 6-8p with burgers and fries from The Sourball Grill

The upcoming exhibition “Maintenance Mode” takes the subject of work and examines how it both constrains and inspires artistic practice while keeping artists’ lives together. The exhibition opens on Friday, December 11, from 6 to 8 pm and closes Saturday, January 23 at Public Space One, 120 N. Dubuque Street, Iowa City.

The artists in this exhibition look at how the necessary work for maintaining life can become art, either by their jobs influencing the art they make, by taking work as their subject, or by making art from daily activities. Maintenance activities – work that is generally less valued, but which nonetheless sustains, renews, and prolongs - are especially valued by this exhibition.

The exhibition features video, sculpture, objects to form a future performance, interactive web-based art, installation, and drawings. In addition, the artist collaborative Fluxion will produce a series of weekly meals for ten artists, positing cooking as art and putting their artistic practice on a service plane and in the service of their peers. The exhibition also features Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Manifesto for Maintenance Art, a seminal piece of conceptual art writing from the year 1969.

Artists included in the exhibition are: Josh Black, Kasey Bullerman, Leah Burke, Jason Eisner, Fluxion, Paul Howe, Josh Johnson, Michael Kellner, Gretta Louw, Jessica Pleyel, Alexandra Robinson, Jeff Schmuki, Matthew Fleming & The Sourball Grill, M. Earl Williams, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles.

Organized and curated by Bea Drysdale and the PS1 gallery team.

THE SOURBALL (OF THE REVOLUTION) GRILL pops up as a play off Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Manifesto for Maintenance Art to “provide sustenance for the garbage removal needs of the revolution since 2015." Yep. Join us at the opening for the pop-up burger and fry shop and enjoy some fast food done slowly. We’ll be serving burgers and fries (and eternally out of perfume and sox).

Group exhibition

November 13th - December 6th, 2015

Street tour & potuluck: Fri, Nov. 6th, 4 pm (meet at PS1 & stay warm!)

Opening reception: November 13th, 5-7p

Margins of the Multiple is a collaborative print-based project and group exhibition organized by Louise Fisher. Twelve artists have made work situated in the public realm (streets, parks, shops) in the Iowa City area. The work will be showcased as documentation of the project and a map of the installations. Visitors are encouraged to experience and interact with the pieces both in and outside the gallery.

Featuring: Jenny Gringer, Desiree Dahl, Craig Volesky, John Engelbrecht, Ashlie Coady, Sayuri Hemann, Emily Jalinsky, C.R Cooper, Leigha George, Jeanne Smith, Britta Young, Louise Fisher.

September 19th-October 23rd, 2015

Opening reception: September 20th, 4-6

Two works as one entity. The abstract patterns and different materials break into the scenes of figuration and surfaces.

The combination of work creates a surprising and playful conversation driven by a modular collage making approach.

suryagied.de
gyanshrosbree.com

May 9-30th, 2015

Opening reception: May 9th, 6-9p

Community forum: May 9th 6-7p

Guarded // Taylor Yocom

Guarded uses portraits of college women holding their keychain self-defense items to demonstrate the physical manifestation that victim blaming and rape culture have on society.

Nudes Leaked // KT Hawkbaker-Krohn

In direct response to the leaking of celebrity female nudes online, Nudes Leaked invited anyone who identifies as a woman or off of the binary to pose for a photograph where they feel the most naked and powerful at the same time. It was up to subject's imagination and intersections to decide the final result. The idea is to display female nudity ni all of its complications, to demystify its vulnerability, and to question its constant hypersexualization. The subjects here act powerfuly, in consenting solidarity with women whose privacy is continually violated by men behind computer screens. By putting their nude bodies out in public, with all of their stories attached, the Nudes Leaded collective seeks to uproot the status quo that perpetuates the consumption of the female body.

April 24th-May 1st

Reception April 24th, 5-7p

A collaborative venture between artists Danielle Sigler and Maggie Yocius exploring the cycles of change, pattern and stability with special focus on the lunar cycle and the four phases of a one-month cycle in women's bodies. Through watercolor,  large scale drawings, and mixed media, come discover an insider's view of an ongoing conversation between these two women.

March 27th-April 12th, 2015

Reception: March 27th, 6-8p

Corrections by Zora Murff is a photography series that serves as an appraisal of adolescents' experiences in the juvenile justice system, attempting to gain an understanding of how the broader concepts of control and privacy affect their rehabilitation and development.

Eva Adderley & Lindsay A. Nissen

March 6-22nd, 2015

Reception: March 6th, 6-8p

Habit(at)s is an exhibition combining two interactive installations. Lyndsay Nissen's "Clean Sweep" is a modified claw machine which allows game play based on local USGS river data. Eva Adderley invites audiences to "embrace the bowerbird" and scavenge, weave, and decorate her human-sized nests.