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Work by five artists featured in I space exhibition on artisitic process

Curtis Mann "sculpture, remnant" clear acrylic resist on enlarged, bleached found photograph

Curtis Mann “sculpture, remnant” clear acrylic resist on enlarged, bleached found photograph

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The artistic process – that mysterious zone between creative thinking and doing – will be explored in a new exhibition on view April 25 through May 31 at I space, the Chicago gallery of the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

“Strange Habit” features the work of Chicago-area artists Shane Huffman, Steven Husby, Emily Kennerk and Curtis Mann, and San Francisco-based artist Alice Shaw.

“Through painting, sculpture and photography, this exhibition details the unscripted dialogue between making and meaning,” said exhibition curator Luke Batten, a professor of art and design at the U. of I.

An opening reception is scheduled from 5 to 8 p.m. today (April 25) at the gallery, 230 W. Superior St., Chicago.

The exhibition also will be featured from 6 to 8 p.m. on April 26 as part of the Artroplis Gallery walk sponsored by the Chicago Art Dealers Association.

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



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