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Dominican University presents exhibit of work by Mark Booth

Dominican University's O'Connor Art Gallery will present nothing to do with wizards, an exhibition of new work by interdisciplinary artist Mark Booth, with an opening reception on Tuesday, November 9 from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. Booth will also give an artist talk at noon on November 9. The exhibit will continue through Saturday, December 11.


Booth's installation of text works in hand-cut vinyl and multi-media drawings obliquely explore the subjects of association, categorization, perception, death, and dreaming. The drawings combine abstract text and visual images. The spontaneously composed works feature improvisatory mark-making and writing that investigate the act of writing at the speed of drawing. Booth's use of text, form and imagery explores the materiality, nuance and subjective nature of language. Odd sentence fragments (like gesture drawings) open up narrative spaces, privileging intuition and chance over highly calculated constructions.

Booth is currently an assistant professor of liberal arts, performance and sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received his bachelor's of fine arts in printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design and his master's of fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is involved with experimental music and is a member of Tiny Hairs, an instrumental collective that explores minimalism, noise and pop. He has exhibited at several galleries in Chicago, as well as the University of Wisconsin in Green Bay, Bucheon Gallery in San Francisco, and Dirt Gallery in Seattle. He has also performed at Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt, Germany, "The Outer Ear" Sound Art Festival in Chicago, and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

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The O'Connor Art Gallery is located on the fourth floor of Lewis Hall at Dominican University, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest. The gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The receptions and exhibits are free and open to the public. For more information please contact Jessica Cochran at jcochran@dom.edu.

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