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Meg — January 26, 2010

"On Pins & Needles" by Chicago Design Museum & Busy Beaver Button Museum

March 23–May 20, 2017

Clutch Gallery is pleased to present "On Pins & Needles" by Tanner Woodford of the Chicago Design Museum and Christen Carter of the Busy Beaver Button Museum. It's an itty bitty design exhibition that pinpoints key moments in female identity, featuring 17 pin-back buttons. The exhibition ends May 20th, 2017. To schedule a viewing, call (312)894-6263×3.

Tanner Woodford is founder, chairman, and executive director of the Chicago Design Museum, maker of Iterative Work and lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The Chicago Design Museum strengthens design culture and builds community by facilitating the exchange of knowledge through dynamic experiences.

Christen Carter is owner at Busy Beaver Button Co. which she started in 1995 while she was a student at Indiana University. A separate entity from the button factory you know and love, the Busy Beaver Button Museum is a 501C3 non-profit dedicated to the preservation of pin-back button…

Desserting the Center by Jessica Hyatt

For Desserting the Center, participants are invited to help vacate the contents of Jessica Hyatt’s Signature Ramekin.The center is not actually consumable, it is an illusion of Jessica Hyatt’s Signature Dessert.Once removed, the illusion should be reconceived in any form the participant chooses, and placed back in the center.

Jessica Hyatt lives and works in Chicago IL. She has an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art. She has worked at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, MA, the Rose Art Museum in Waltham, MA, and currently works in education at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been shown in Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; and London, England. It has been distributed throughout the United States, and in Mexico, Costa Rica, Spain, Great Britain, Canada, Germany and Vietnam.

Desserting the Center is on view June 11 - August 2, 2013. For further information, contact Georgina Valverde at societyofsmallness@gmail.com.

Unstuck Time: A Small Stage for Wandering Minds by Leslie Baum

January 16 - February 15, 2015

In 2003 I visited Angkor Wat in Cambodia. The temples and stone sculptures possessed a staggering beauty and scale, but it was the small arrangements of stone rubble at every site that really struck me. I speculated. Perhaps these still-life-like groupings and stone stacks were the work of bored tourists, of wandering minds and wandering hands? A few years later, I encountered something similar in New Mexico: arrangements of pottery shards on the dry earth of Pueblo archeological sites.

Time unsticks in these moments. The ancient slips into the now. The piles, cairns, and mosaic-like images pulsate with intimacy and evidence a deep urge to play and to delight in touch, shape, form, pattern and texture.

Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, nothing is perfect.

This expression, associated with the Japanese aesthetic Wabi Sabi, has a far reach. I believe it encompasses these ever-so-casual tableaus placed by anonymous hands. The arrangements, easily abandoned…

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