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Opening Reception: Today and Possibly Tomorrow by Ryan Woodring

September 10, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Free
Join us for the opening reception of artist Ryan Woodring’s newest solo exhibition at the IMSS: “Today and Possibly Tomorrow.”

Join us for the opening reception of the newest contemporary art exhibition at the IMSS, ‘Today and Possibly Tomorrow’ by Ryan Woodring. This exhibition will be on view from September 6th, 2022, through November 13, 2022.

For more information on the exhibit, visit https://imss.org/ryan-woodring-today-and-possibly-tomorrow/

Opening Reception: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm. Doors close at 5:00 pm.

1524 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60610

Light refreshments are included and alcohol will be served to guests with proof of age. Alcohol served to guests 21+, ID required. A limited amount of candies from the Today and Possibly Tomorrow series will be available as takeaways at the opening event and available for purchase throughout the show in the museum’s gift shop

Accessible accommodations include a ramp entrance and elevator. If you need additional accessibility options or wheelchair seating please contact us at info@imss.org.

Parking and Directions can be found here: https://imss.org/plan-your-visit/#nav

Today and Possibly Tomorrow borrows technical and pragmatic strategies from medical illustration and art therapy to give momentary shape to an undiagnosed, invisible illness. The exhibition features the premiere of an experimental video that uses machine learning and nontraditional image-editing to play with dichotomies of diagnosis, as well as a new series of 3D printed candies interspersed throughout the museum’s collection and gift shop. Each candy’s unique form is derived from a ritualized 3D modeling practice that seeks to visualize the contours of an invisible nausea while experiencing it. Woodring sets forth a methodology for dually recording and excorsising an otherwise all-consuming illness; fostering its temporary coagulation outside the body. Rendering these forms in sugar advertises their potential for reingestion and subsequent dissolve between representational and catalytic agency.

Harboring an invisible chronic illness the past five years has forced Woodring to contend with his relationship to image production; as his body refuses to perform its ailments not only for the mirror but for the MRIs, endoscopies and other tests specifically designed to draw them out. In a post-artificial intelligence (AI) landscape where image collection hardens medical and other socioeconomic systems towards hegemonic predilection, Woodring is compelled by his body’s furtive miscalibration to use these same technologies to push up against the limits of visual representation. While continued advancements in imaging technologies, many of which are on display at the museum, invite human eyes to scour the forms and processes that make up the human body, the unlocatable experiences that fall outside this optical colonization call for different coaxing and coping strategies. Woodring’s work grapples with notions of visibility and reified selfhood endemic to modern medicine and health narratives; valorizing invisibility and uncertainty as foundations for sustained care for the (unexpected) other brought on by illness.

Read more about Ryan Woodring’s work at wwwryanwoodring.com.

About the Artist: Ryan Woodring is an internationally-exhibiting artist with over a decade of experience as a visual effects compositor and supervisor helping to realize award-winning moving image projects such as House of Cards, Kubo & the Two Strings, and the independently-produced The Treadmill. Woodring earned his MFA in Fine Arts at Rutgers University and is currently Assistant Professor of Digital Studies at Drew University, New Jersey, with previous appointments at Syracuse University, Pacific Northwest College of Arts and Open Signal Community Media Center. With grant support from the Andy Warhol Foundation he co-founded and directed three years of a free low-residency in Portland, Oregon that generated enduring mentor-based relationships. Woodring has exhibited and spoken nationally and internationally; including the 2016 Portland Biennial, the Cooley Gallery at Reed College and Video Vortex Malta. He lives and naps in Queens, New York.

About the Contemporary Arts Program: The International Museum of Surgical Science supports a commitment to contemporary art and artists through exhibitions and programs that use the frame of contemporary artistic practice to examine new perspectives in medical-surgical science and our relationship to the body. The Museum’s Contemporary Arts Initiative includes rotating exhibitions of contemporary art, as well as an ongoing Artist in Residence program.

The International Museum of Surgical Science acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

This project is partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.

Details

Date:
September 10, 2022
Time:
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-reception-today-and-possibly-tomorrow-by-ryan-woodring-tickets-395957077277

Venue

International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 North Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60610 United States

Organizer

International Museum of Surgical Science
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