CHICAGO — Tuesday night I road middle shotgun while snuggled tightly between Jesse Malmed and Raven Munsell, prodding the couple with questions about their mobile art gallery, Trunk Show.
Kate Sierzputowski
Kate Sierzputowski is freelance writer based in Chicago. Fascinated by artists' studio processes, she founded the website INSIDE\WITHIN to physically explore the creative spaces of emerging and established artists.
The Naked, Aging Body in Performance
The piece began with two naked artists covered in photographs of the female body, behind which hid coils of fishing line pierced into the skin. This was “Balancing on the Edge/Age,” a work addressing societal views of menopause and old age by Mexican artist Rocio Boliver, also known as La Congeleda de Uva, with Spanish artist Begoña Grande.
An Art Wedding Full of Strangers
CHICAGO — A passerby looking through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Conaway Center in Chicago’s South Loop last Friday night would have assumed she was witnessing a wedding.