![]() ![]() I suppose it was the lack of delineated shapes, and the way I made my colors blur in a way that could be ultimately suggestive but never singularly deciphered. Accordingly, I was thrilled early in my painting career when I was told that one of my paintings reminded somebody of a colorful Rorschach Test. Not that I believe they hold some literal truth-telling power about their interpreters, but rather because they provide us with an opportunity to reflect upon ourselves and occasionally reorient us toward or around reference points that we forgot we had within us. I have always been fascinated by Rorschach Tests. Frederick is also an active member of Chicago’s improv comedy community. Frederick lives and paints in Rogers Park, where he has been for 13 years. He now works part-time for a mental health nonprofit, doing outreach and education at high schools around Chicago and assisting with trainings for the city’s first responders. 7th: Bio:įrederick has a BA in philosophy (Boston University, 2006) and pursued graduate study of the same at Loyola University before leaving his combined MA/PhD program for mental health reasons in 2011. ![]() For online participants, a secret page on his website will appear on Aug. There will be an interactive component in-person and online! Frederick will not be providing titles for any of his pieces instead, he is asking you to title them - literal or abstract, funny or serious, one word or much more. Chairs will be set up outside for social distancing and we will live stream the event. Join us for the solo exhibition of Frederick Nitsch on Friday August 7th 5-8 PM. With this exhibition, I hope to continue to move forward in ending the stigma and encouraging others to share their stories of trauma in a way that is healthiest for them." ![]() "Numb is how I felt during these traumatic experiences I had gone through for nearly a decade. While the exhibition shows the progression of time and process through Bibbs's perspective, it also allows viewers to navigate through their own physical or conceptual experience with the work. But as time progresses in Bibbs's most recent work, there are parallels between the slow navigation of personal experiences and the rhythmic textile techniques of hand-carding, hand-spinning, and hand-weaving, both of which are a form of transformative repetition. In earlier work, the urgency for Bibbs to understand her personal experiences translated into the fast processes of mark-making in painting. While working between traditional and experimental processes, Bibbs’s large-scale pieces navigate past experiences in what Bibbs considers to be "chapters." Telling stories of trauma and mental health is not always easy, based on the stigmas in our society, which is how it became a central motivation in Bibbs’s practice. Numb is a solo exhibition highlights the fast and slow navigation of past and current experiences through the use of intricacy, color, and form. ![]()
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