dimensional lines: art + dress September 11 – November 6, 2011 Opening Reception Sunday, September 11, 1 to 4 pm
Gallery Hours: Mon. – Thurs. 10 am – 9 pm; Fri. – Sat. 10 am – 4 pm; Sun. 1 – 4 pm First floor galleries are handicapped accessible. Limited, free parking is available.

Curator Gillion Carrara Contributing Curator Fraser Taylor
The Art Center has asked a group of Chicago-based artists and designers who are at the forefront of their disciplines to collaborate on an exhibition that will bring art, dress and site together. This unique, site-specific installation will present corporeal and conceptual relationships between the work of artist Fraser Taylor and Conrad Hamather, Melissa Serpico Kamhout, Beata Kania,
Anke Loh, Kristin Mariani, Katrin Schnabl, and Kristina Sparks within the Art Center space.
Notable writers Sandra Michels Adams, Alex Aubry, Caroline Bellios, Margaret Hawkins, along with distinguished poet Stuart Dybek, will contribute text. Scenic and lighting designers, Mary Griswold and Geoffrey Bushor will add to the ambience.

Schnabls’ large-scale garment-based installation originates from the central sun-room of the Evanston Art Center main floor gallery space on the south side and weaving from the inside out through the yard past the central trees to the north bench overlooking the beach. The trailing net-like structure is built from garments, and through garment making processes. It navigates building and land, fluidly connects the indoor with the outdoor spaces, is present at once inert, yet activated, and through scale and duplication evokes associations of memory and history, a fictitious, yet modern ‘remembrance of things past’.