Strategic Communications and Marketing News Bureau

Photographs, video installation and sculpture to open at I space Feb. 7

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Photographs reflecting an architecture professor’s field work in China, and a site-specific video installation and sculpture will be on view next month at I space, the Chicago gallery of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The exhibitions, which run from Feb. 7 through March 8:

orange dot “Inalterable Dreams: The People and Architecture of Chinese Folk Environments,” featuring color photographs by James Warfield, the ACSA Distinguished Professor in Architecture at Illinois. The exhibition, which celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Tongji University/University of Illinois Summer Program in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning, documents Warfield’s field research among the living and working environments of vernacular communities across China from 1988-2003. The exhibition opened at the Deke Erh Art Center, Shanghai, in January; it will travel to the Urbana campus and to Tongji University in Shanghai.

orange dot “Each/Other: Vanishing Point” combines sculpture and video by Gillian Brown and Inga McCaslin Frick. Brown, a photographer and conceptual artist, and Frick, a painter, began collaborating in 1997, after discovering a shared interest in exploring themes relating to consciousness: the formation and dissolution of perception, memory and identity. The exhibition includes individual and collaborative work by the two artists, including “Each/Other,” a haunting video installation – presented in a dark space with reflective surfaces – that opens with the image of a swimmer.

An opening reception for both exhibitions is scheduled from 5-7 p.m. Feb. 7 at the gallery, 230 S. Superior St., second floor, Chicago.

I space gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m .

Read Next

Life sciences Portrait of the research team posing together.

Minecraft players can now explore whole cells and their contents

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Scientists have translated nanoscale experimental and computational data into precise 3D representations of bacteria, yeast and human epithelial, breast and breast cancer cells in Minecraft, a video game that allows players to explore, build and manipulate structures in three dimensions. The innovation will allow researchers and students of all ages to navigate […]

Arts Photo of seven dancers onstage wearing blue tops and orange or yellow flowing skirts. The backdrop is a Persian design.

February Dance includes works experimenting with live music, technology and a ‘sneaker ballet’

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The dance department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will present February Dance 2025: Fast Forward this week at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. February Dance will be one of the first performances in the newly renovated Colwell Playhouse Theatre since its reopening. The performances are Jan. 30-Feb. 1. Dance professor […]

Honors portraits of four Illinois researchers

Four Illinois researchers receive Presidential Early Career Award

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Four researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were named recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. The winners this year are health and kinesiology professor Marni Boppart, physics professor Barry Bradlyn, chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Ying […]

Strategic Communications and Marketing News Bureau

507 E. Green St
MC-426
Champaign, IL 61820

Email: stratcom@illinois.edu

Phone (217) 333-5010