VISUAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES

CURRICULUM VITAE

rehgordon@gmail.com

Born: August 28, 1983, Boston, MA
Lives and works in Chicago, IL

Education

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. M.A., Visual and Critical Studies, M.F.A., Fiber and Material Studies, 2007 - 2067 (forthcoming)

Hampshire College, B.A. Philosophy/Visual Arts, 2001 - 2005

The Cambridge School of Weston, 1997 - 2001.

Curatorial

Second Gallery, Boston MA. Founder and Director, 2005 - 2007 www.secondgallery.org

Gallery TK, Northampton, MA. Director, 2004-2005

Visual Art Exhibitions

Myth In Material. Curated by Elizabeth Chodos. Alogon Gallery. Chicago, IL. April 2009.

Too Big To Fail. Texts, Objects, Bodies, and Images. A Twelve Galleries Project. 3012 South Archer Avenue, Chicago, IL.  April/May 2009.

THE END OF ANALOG. Curated by Eric Fleischauer. Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL. Feb-March 2009.

Screen Saver. Sharp 1213. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Winter 2008.

This Is Boston Not LA. Lamontagne Gallery. Boston, MA. Winter 2008.

Abandoned Plot. Curated by Andy Meerow. Key Foods Parking Lot, Calyer and McGuiness, Greenpoint, Brooklyn. June 2008.

Discipline Problems. Curated by Joseph Grigely. Alogon Gallery, Chicago, IL. Spring 2008.

Open Studios, The Distillery, Boston, MA. October 2005 and May 2006.

The Summer of the Rainbow Braid. Gallery TK, Northampton, MA. August 2005

The Nook. Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Hampshire College. May 2005

Noble Stitches. Gallery TK. July 2004.

Performance

Performance as part of Heaven Is Real. Performance event organized by No Coast at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. January 19, 2010

Better Off Alone. Installation and performance with Kevin Driscoll. Samson Projects, Boston MA. July 6th, 2007

Memories Forever
-"Wind and Wave" Performance with Xavier Cha's Horn of Plenty. Taxter Spengemann Gallery, NY, New York. April 21st, 2006
-Performance at Great Scott, Allston MA. December 30, 2004
-"Megamix" Robert Melee's Talent Show. The Kitchen. New York, NY. June 2004
-Summer Tours: 2003 and 2004. 50+ performances at galleries, music venues, stores, and homes throughout The USA and Canada
-Performance at The Milky Way, Jamaica Plain, MA. December 31, 2003

I Am The Woolly Mammoth Tour--Time-based performance. July - August, 2002

Writing/Conferences

Research areas: Theories of gender and sexuality/queer theory, Continental and Feminist Philosophy, Phenomenology, Postmodern and Contemporary sculpture, installation, video, performance.

Presentation: "The Formation of the Intelligible-Gender, Materiality,Virtuality." Radical Intersections: Performance Across Disciplines. Conference of the Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern University, April 24-26, 2009.

"Space Refigured" Interventions and Objects. New work by Bebe Beard and Liz Nofziger. The New England School of Art and Design, Suffolk University. Catalog Essay. pp. 25-29 Spring 2008.

"The Taking Shape of Meaning, the Meaning that Takes Shape" Apenest #2, 2008.

"Michael Bell Smith Talks to Rebecca Gordon." New York Arts Magazine. January 2008.

"Inhabiting Bodies: The Spatiality of Power" Hampshire College Thesis Project. 80 pp. May 2005

Presentation: "Inhabiting Bodies: The Spatiality of Power." (30 min.)The Society for Women's Advancement in Philosophy, State University of Florida, Tallahassee, FL. March 31, 2006

Teaching and Supervision

Instructor, Innovation and Creativity Workshop, Continuing Studies Adult Program, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Spring 2010.

Instructor, Contemporary Art, Early College Program, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Summer 2009.

Teaching Assistant, Asian Identity in Cinema, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Spring 2009

Teaching Assistant, Aesthetics of Politics and Furious Styles, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall 2008.

Instructor, Contemporary Art, Early College Program, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Summer 2008.

Teaching Assistant, Sculpture, Early College Program, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Summer 2008.

Teaching Assistant, Visual and Critical Studies Thesis I, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall 2007.

Teaching Assistant, Residential College Core Studio, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall 2007.

Supervisor of seven interns to Second Gallery, January 2006 - August 2007

Teaching Assistant, Philosophy of Race, Hampshire College, Fall 2004

Teaching Assistant, Intro. to Aesthetics, Hampshire College, Fall 2003

Other Activities

Active contributor to Visual Reader [tentative title], edited by James Elkins, forthcoming, 2012, published by Routledge. 2008-present.

Founder and regular disc jockey at NIGHT SCHOOL. The Burlngton, Chicago, IL. 2009-present.

Head of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Free Culture Chapter. 2009-present.

Research Assistant to Joseph Grigely, 2007-present

Consulting at Invivia, Cambridge, MA, May 2007

Artist/Research Assistant to Marisa Jahn, 2006-2007

Co-director of Gold Chain, an event production and graphic design partnership active in the Boston area from 2006-2008.

Head judge of All School Show, Massachusetts College of Art, March 2007

Central organizer of South Boston Open Studios, South Boston, MA, October 7th and 8th 2005, November 4th and 5th, 2006

Volunteer at Green Street Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA. September 2005 - January 2006

Awards and Honors

Recognition of Student Leadership 2008-2009. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Boston Globe Magazine "Best of the New Awards", Best New Gallery of 2006 awarded to Second Gallery

New England Chapter of Association Internationale des Critiques d'art, the International Association of Art Critics. 2nd Place for Best Show in an Alternative Space for Liz Nofziger's Grate, Black Gold at Second Gallery. 2006

Hampshire College "Ingenuity Award" for work on Gallery TK, 2005

Selected Bibliography

Eye Exam--From Here to There. Review of Myth and Material, Alogon Gallery. April 2009.

Review: Too Big to Fail/April Gallery. New City. April 2009.

Critics Pick--The End of Analog, Artforum.com, March 2009.

The End of Analog, Time Out Chicago, March 2009.

I Wanna Rock. Greg Cook, The Boston Phoenix, December 2008.

A Conversation with Rebecca Gordon. Matt Nash, Big Red and Shiny, Volume 65, June 2007

Everybody Dance; DIY Flyers are bringing back the party. Franklin Melendez, Soma Magazine, April 2007

Nature, from mysterious fantasy to stark reality; Art and Science. Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, February 2007

Rapt in a Fine Web of Interactive Art? Unexpected Turns, Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, December 2006

At Second Gallery, a colorful combination of culture and nature. Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, October 2006

Installment Plan Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, April 2006

We Made It at Second Gallery. Matt Nash, Big, Red, and Shiny, February 2006

Cute Enough To Go On the Fridge. Meredith Goldstein, Boston Globe, January 2006

Dam Cute. Randi Hopkins, Boston Phoenix, January 2006

A tree of neon foam grows in Southie. Lissa Harris, Weekly Dig, January 2006

We Made It: Ode to an American Yearn. Vanessa Cano, The Mass Media, February 2006

Our Flags
sweatshirts, dowels, paint, thread, yarn, grommets.
2008

(above)

Our Staffs
dowels, paint.
2008

(below)

Our Staffs (detail)
dowels, paint.
2008

Our Flags (detail)
sweatshirts, dowels, paint, thread, yarn, grommets.
2008

Rebecca Gordon
Our Dresser
cement blocks, tiles, grout, crate, paint, shoe laces, assorted keychains, clothes.
29"x11"x19"
2009

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Rebecca Gordon
Columns
cds, jewel cases, tile, grout, spraypaint, lightbulbs and fixtures.

15"x17"x30" each, set of two
2009

The End of Analog
curated by Eric Fleischauer
Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center
Chicago, IL
www.rootsandculturecac.org/Analog.html

Screen Saver

stereo, paint, dowels, tshirts, sweatshirts, rubber bands.

2008