Dream
at Hyde Park Art Center
December 12, 2021 –​ March 20, 2022
Curator
press:
NBC 5 Chicago www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/hyde-park-art-exhibit-examines-how-to-build-a-better-world/2708606
Fox 32 Chicago News www.fox32chicago.com/video/1019018
interview:
​Bad at  Sports www.badatsports.com/2022/episode-791-asha-iman-veal-tulika-ladsariya-and-mike-nourse
Link to website
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featuring: Cecilia Beaven Gallegos, Dorothy Burge, Cathleen Campbell, Teresita Carson, Jonathan Castillo (l and r), Jason Dunda, Sarabeth Dunton, Tanya Gill, Brooke Hummer, Janis Kanter, Mayumi Lake, Percy Lam, D. Lammie-Hanson, Frances Lee, JeeYeun Lee, Cydney Lewis, Susannah Papish, Monika Plioplyte, Monica Rickert-Bolter, and Allison Svoboda
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Assertions of space and the demand for an increased self-awareness characterize the many different artworks and practices brought together in this capstone biennial exhibition, "Dream", by the artist cohort identified by the chronological moniker CP9. For the past ten years (minus the stay-at-home lockdown of 2020) Hyde Park Art Center has uniquely dedicated its Education Department and Exhibitions Team resources to foster an annual program of professional development that supports twenty outstanding artists in Chicago.

This year’s program began in February 2021, via weekly Monday evening critique sessions held virtually. Visiting artists and curators from the city joined our core group of twenty-two voices each week to lend their constructive insights on each artists’ practice. These essential conversations helped guide the new art projects presented in this show.

Each of the dedicated CP9 artists has a dream for the reach of their own practice, and the way their work can continue to exist in the subconscious and impact others. Our year together has been defined by a new collective experience of the many ways in which reality possesses the simultaneous hyperbole and mutability, to feel to the human mind as unfathomable and complicated as a dream. The present condition of being fully, truly alive exists in intersections of physicality, imagination, memory.

Hyde Park Art Exhibit Examines How to Build a Better World, NBC5 December 15, 2021

"Dream" gallery, artworks by Allison Svoboda and Teri Carson 2021 (documentation photo by Tom Van Ende)

"Dream" gallery, selections from "I For Nested Pattern" by Monika Plioplyte 2021 (documentation photo by Janis Kantor)

"Dream" gallery, artwork "Won’t You Help to Sing These Songs of Freedom" by Dorothy Burge 2021 (documentation photo by Mayumi Lake)

"Dream" gallery, artwork “The Pharmacist Makes An Important Decision” by Jason Dunda 2021 (documentation photo by Janis Kantor)