UPCOMING EXHIBITS AND EVENTS


March 2021

The View from Above/Below
Heaven Gallery
With works by Hillary Wiedemann,
Carla Fisher Schwartz, and Erika Lynne Hanson
March 12th - April 25th, 2021
Artists Talk (via Zoom) Saturday, March 20th, 12pm CDT

With the array of scientific and cartographic data made increasingly available through the public domain, our collective vision has expanded. The immediacy of digital technologies allows us to enter a remote landscape many miles, sometimes even light-years away, while physically remaining at home. Using information accessed through open-source media, such as Google Earth, United States National Park video feeds, and NASA satellite imagery, the work in The View from Above/Below alludes to our desire to extend our own vision, proposing new perspectives for viewing place and space. 

Carla Fisher Schwartz’s work draws upon a practice of virtual exploration in Google Earth, culling street-level views that exploit technical glitches in the service’s 3D modeled map. Drawn from an ongoing collection of scenic compositions found within the map, the work catalogs natural forms as pictured through the simulated environment, with frequent visual dysfunctions often exposing the underlying framework of the virtual representation. 

Erika Lynne Hanson watches public webcams located in US National Parks. The parks present entangled questions of wildness, ownership, cohabitation, and imposed boundaries. For this work, attention is paid to the various temporalities on view through the Arches National Park’s traffic camera: a mountain, a highway, a vehicle, or a traffic cone. Through sitting at a loom, pouring cement, or unjamming a printer, attempts are made to become closer with the inhabitants of this scene. 

With a longing to gaze up at the stars, but an inability to do so in a light polluted city, Hillary Wiedemann uses imagery sourced online to explore the ever-expanding views of the cosmos. In this recent project, she investigates the particular upset over SpaceX’s Starlink satellites and their visual disruption to amateur and professional astrophotography. Using images sourced from the public domain, she translates the images to accentuate patterns to create a new set of potential constellations.

The work in this exhibition draws upon intuitively human processes rooted in the desire to understand our surroundings near and far, and to explore the unknown. These impulses lead to discoveries that are enmeshed in contemporary systems of surveillance, often resulting in views previously unimaginable, and often not entirely explainable or comfortable.

Hours:
Friday and Saturday 1-6pm
Sunday 1-5pm
and by appointment

Heaven Gallery
1550 North Milwaukee
2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60622
773-342-4597


March 2017

Hiding in Plain Site
Chicago Artists Coalition

A HATCH Projects exhibition featuring works by Soheila Azadi, Hannah Givler, Leander Mienardus Knust, Raul De Lara, B. Quinn, and Hillary Wiedemann, and is curated by George William Price.

Opening reception: Friday, March 3, 6-9pm
Exhibition dates: March 3 - March 23, 2017
Artists Talk and Screening: Saturday, March 11, 2-3:30pm


Hours:
Monday – Friday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday: 12 – 6 p.m.
Closed major holidays and for some events.

Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St., Chicago, IL 60607


June 2016

Islands of the Sun
Chicago Artists Coalition
A Hatch Projects exhibition featuring works by Soheila Azadi, Jeremiah Jones, and Hillary Wiedemann, curated by George William Price. The artists in this exhibition navigate in between the spaces, cracks, and crevices of the gallery—by being moved and moving others—through rhythmic waveforms that forever cycle between acts of forgetting and remembering.

Opening reception: Friday, June 24, 6-9pm
Exhibition dates: June 24 - July 14, 2016
Hours:
Monday – Friday: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday: 12 – 6 p.m.
Closed major holidays and for some events.

Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St., Chicago, IL 60607


March 2016

Whereabouts
GlazenHuis

Curated by Hyperopia Projects
Participating Artists:
Carina Cheung, Anthony Cioe, CUD, Christopher Duffy, Jes Fan, Keith Lemley, Edison Osorio Zapata, Yuka Otani, Dylan Palmer, John Roach, Trish Roan, Rui Sasaki, Michael Scheiner, Chad States, Hiromi Takizawa, Hillary Wiedemann, Zac Weinberg, Lika Volkova & Caroline Woolard, Benjamin Wright, Bohyun Yoon

Contemporary glassmaking is an inherently dislocated practice. To work with glass is to associate oneself with a tradition that is no longer a relevant part of culture. In so doing, practitioners voluntarily subject themselves to a sense of alienation. Artists navigate the displacement of their craft in contemporary practice with processes that embrace unorthodox methodologies. The resulting work employs mechanisms of reconfiguration, disembodiment, and subversive misappropriation. Tradition and reverence for a material is balanced by approaches that are hybrid, other, and preternatural. These mutations function as microcosms of the discontinuity of our social fabric—oscillating between the familiar and alien.

Glazenhuis
Dorp 14b - 3920 Lommel - Belgium


March 2016

Slow Zoom
Fernwey Gallery
A group show with new works by Arianna Petrich, Rose Sexton, and Hillary Wiedemann, whose work is presented in partnership with ACRE.
March 4-April 3 2016
Opening Reception March 4, 2016 7-10pm

Fernwey Gallery
916 N Damen Ave Chicago, IL 60622
open by appointment, and on weekends 11-4pm


February 2014

White Hot Lamp Black
Southern Exposure
February 7 – March 8, 2014
Opening Reception: February 7, 2014, 7:00–9:00 PM
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00–6:00 PM

Carrie Hott, Dario Robleto, Laura Steenberge, Hillary Wiedemann, Jeremiah Barber with Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Organized by Southern Exposure’s Curatorial Committee

The artists in White Hot Lamp Black investigate the distant edges of our perception: shadows, bright light, dark space and deep holes. Using varied research-based practices, their work reimagines ways to visualize the unseeable or comprehend the fugitive. Like weekend scientists, their lines of inquiry organically develop according to the forking paths of divergent theories and individual associations with their subject matter.

Southern Exposure
3030 20th Street (@ Alabama)
San Francisco, CA 94110


April 2013

One Night only event! April 27th, 2013
8pm-12pm

Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party

SOMArts
934 Brannan Street
San Francisco, CA 94103


The talented Larissa Erin Grier wrote an article about my work on Beautiful/Decay's website


March 2013
Two exciting shows opening this month!!!

A Willing Transfer of Belief
Two person exhibition with Michelle Blade
Johansson Projects
2300 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, CA

On View March 28-May 18
Opening Reception April 5th, 5-8pm

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SPACE TIME!
Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento
1519 19TH St, Sacramento, CA

Curated by Torreya Cummings, and showcasing the work of many talented artists!
On view from March 5-March 31.


August 2012

I'm honored to be a part of this ambitious project organized by S.H.E.D. Projects in West Oakland.

House Show

An offsite exhibition
Opening reception – Saturday, August 4th, 2012
7 p.m. – 11 p.m.
1506 Peralta Street, Oakland CA

On view August 4-17, 2012


June 2012

I am participating in two exciting events this week, and if you are in the Bay Area, I hope you can make it to them!

Wednesday, June 20th, 12 Noon-12 Midnight
Summer Solstice Celebration at Liminal Space in Oakland.

Liminal Space
950 54th St.
Oakland, CA 94608

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Opening Reception, Friday June 22, 6-9 pm
DocumentO
an unofficial satellite of Documenta 13

Krowswork
Oakland, CA
June 22 – July 1, 2012


March 2012

The current issue of Art Practical includes two reviews of my show! I'm honored that Sarah Hotchkiss and Dana Hemenway wrote such thoughtful responses.


March 2012

I'm thrilled to have my work available for purchase on
Little Paper Planes
Check out all the wonderful goods and projects on the site!


Afterimage
Solo Exhibition of work by Hillary Wiedemann
Curated by Kevin Clarke

MacArthur B. Arthur
4030 Martin Luther King Jr Way
Oakland, CA 94609

March 2, 2012 – April 1, 2012
Reception Friday, March 2nd, 7-10 pm

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November 2011

Re-Search
Thea Augustina Eck
Erika Lynne Hanson
Hillary Wiedemann

Charlotte Street Foundation
Paragraph + Project Space
21-23 East 12th Street
Kansas City, MO 64105

Opening: Friday, November 18, 6 - 9pm
Artists talk: Saturday, November 19, noon
Exhibition runs November 18, 2011 through January 7, 2012

press release


October 2011

In the Common Corner of Four Rooms
Dana Hemenway
Cara Levine
Cybele Lyle
Emma Spertus
Hillary Wiedemann

Statler Waldorf Gallery
1098 West Kensington Road
Echo Park: Los Angeles, CA 90026

Opening Reception: October 28th 7-10pm
Exhibition runs October 28 - December 3, 2011

As an artist-run exhibition space in a private residence, Statler Waldorf Gallery is an apartment that takes on a different reason and a different life at an opening than it might on most other nights. Responding to this shifting nature, five artists from San Francisco present work that also acts more generally on the idea of changing the character of a space by thinking it so. Strategies of display, illusion, and concealment extend the experience of change beyond singular contemplation.

Curated by Christina Linden

press release