Twelve Galleries Project presents...

Quarterly #1: MinimumixaM

January 23 - February 20, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 23, 7-10 pm

A group exhibition curated by:

Nicholas Cueva
Dan Gunn
Heather Mekkelson

Pentagon Gallery
961 West 19th Street
1st Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60608
www.twelvegalleries.com
twelvegalleries@gmail.com

Twelve Galleries Project began as a roving exhibition series featuring the work of emerging artists over the course of one year. With each new month, a new location was selected and a new gallery was formed, producing site-specific exhibitions from JANUARY all the way through to DECEMBER gallery.

For its second transitory venture, Twelve Galleries Project presents the Quarterly Site Series. QSS will focus its attention to the efforts of curators and current Chicago galleries. Every quarter for the next three years, within an existing Chicago gallery, three curators will collectively organize a themed exhibition. If the math is difficult, that equals 12 Chicago galleries, 36 total curators with 12 participating per year, and 1,212,212 ideas.

Specific to the Quarterly Site Series is collaboration. With the exception of a theme that is conducive to varied interpretation, there are no rules. Because there are no rules, each exhibition has the possibility to develop new models of curatorial practice. But the most exciting element is the inevitable experimentation and dialogue that occur amongst the curators, the director of the gallery on which the project is parasite, and the audience.

Quarterly Site #1: MinimumixaM is hosted by Pentagon Gallery. For this
exhibition, curators Nicholas Cueva, Dan Gunn, and Heather
Mekkelson have selected works that explore various instances of
minimum and maximum. Featuring artists Chris Edwards,
Eric Fleischauer, Xavier Jimenez, and Liz Nielsen.