Reading the Remains
Around the Coyote Gallery - 1935 Ohm W. North Ave. Opening reception: May 12 from 7-11pm Symposium: May 12 from noon to 5:30pm Artists Reception: May 19 from 3-5pm Exhibition Dates: May 12 - June 2, 2007 Wicker Park Bucktown Gallery Association Second Saturday Art Walk May 12 from 6-10pm
Sarah Jane Mallin	Chicago, IL- Around the Coyote, one of Chicago's longest running non-profit emerging arts organizations, and the School of the Art Institute are pleased to announce Reading the Remains, the first ever exhibition of graduates from the School of the Art Institute's Visual and Critical Studies Department. SAIC's new Masters program is designed for students interested in the scholarly and creative investigation of the production, dissemination, and impact of visual images, objects, experiences, and practices. With the visual as a starting point, students use multiple methods of critical investigation to study the interactions between visual phenomena and their historical, disciplinary, and social contexts.

In collaboration with the School of the Art Institute, Around the Coyote is pleased to provide exhibition space for the graduates of this exceptional new program. For this exhibition each artist weaves processes of making, seeing, writing, criticism, theory, history, and politics into his or her own hybrid practice. These explorations work to achieve recuperative analyses of how past and future remains fall apart and reform. By experiencing these disintegrating pieces transformed into images, language and feeling, there is hope that we become present and attentive -- even if only for a moment -- to the potential for change.

Garland M. Taylor II

Ismiaji Cahyono

Exhibited artwork includes photography, graphic design, sculpture, video, film, and drawing. The artists were given free reign to curate and design the exhibition, thus using our gallery as a site for the completion of their degree. About the exhibition, the artists wrote: What is left over, undone, unsaid. What is only legible through attention and presence. What is always being lost. What can be redeemed.

The exhibition opens with a free symposium on May 12, divided into three sections: Form : Noon to 1:30 : Dakota Brown, Ismiaji Cahyono, Julia Marsh Projection : 2 to 3:30 : Kelly Mullendore, Ann Pandjiris, Michelle Sciumbato Object : 4 to 5:30 : Mayi Carles, Garland Taylor, Sarah Jane Mallin	Mayi Carles
Julia Marsh