In school or recently out of school and looking for good on-the-job experience? Well, you're in luck because Gallery 400 is looking for amazing interns!

Gallery 400 welcomes internship applications from current students and recent graduates. Internships at Gallery 400 offer education through professional experience at a dynamic public art venue and university resource.

Internships are available in the areas of Gallery Marketing, Exhibition Preparation and Archival Work. Appointments are a semester in length and require a commitment of 10-20 hours per week, depending on appointment.

Applications are reviewed three times per year. To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to uicgallery400@gmail.com with “internship” in the subject line.

Gallery 400 accepts applications for all internships three times yearly. Please see below for application deadlines.

Application Deadlines
Fall Semester (September-December)	July 28, 2010
Spring Semester (January - May)	December 1, 2010
Summer (May - August)	May 1, 2010

MARKETING:

Gallery 400 seeks undergraduate and graduate students interested in assisting with Gallery Marketing of the exhibitions, lectures, film and video screenings and other programs.

Job Duties include:

• Assisting the marketing staff to maintain the marketing calendar
• Archiving press clippings
• Assist in updating social networking tools within established gallery conventions
• Maintain mailing list
• Assist with documenting exhibitions
• Assist with distribution of marketing materials

Desirable skills in a candidate include a high degree of organization and attention to detail, excellent proofreading skills. Familiarity with social networking websites, digital cameras and knowledge of Photoshop, Excel, and Adobe Bridge is preferred.

This is a non-paid internship.

PREPARATOR:

Gallery 400 seeks undergraduate and graduate students interested in gaining art handling and installation experience in a professional gallery setting. This position is an excellent opportunity for students to develop valuable preparatory experience and polish their professional installation skills.

Job Duties include:

• Assisting in gallery installation and preparation (includes working withlighting, wall patching, painting and artwork installing)
• Assisting with documentation and archiving of exhibitions
• Assisting in the maintenance of Gallery 400 facilities

This position requires very good verbal communication skills and great interest in working with your hands. Candidates should possess familiarity with basic tools; excellent organizational and interpersonal skills; enthusiasm; and a proven track record of prioritizing and completing multiple assignments. Applicants must be able to lift 50 pounds. Basic knowledge and familiarity with a variety of tools, materials and AV equipment is preferred.

Archive:

Gallery 400 seeks undergraduate and graduate students interested in assisting with Gallery 400’s current effort to reorganize and digitize its archive in preparation for a new website and online archival database.

Job Duties include:

• Assisting the gallery archivist in inventorying and organizing documentation and historical material.
• Editing scanned images in Photoshop
• Embedding metadata into digital images
• Uploading digitized material onto the gallery’s website
• Editing the archive for digital accessibility

Desirable skills in a candidate include a high degree of organization and attention to detail, writing skills, and knowledge of Photoshop, Excel, and Adobe Bridge. This is a non-paid internship.

Stephanie Syjuco: Particulate Matter (Things, Thingys, Thingies)
September 7 – October 23
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 8, 5-8 pm

Syjuco’s handmade versions of objects designed by users of the free 3-D modeling program Google SketchUp exist somewhere between the bootleg, the copy, and the translation. Modeled from online designs that seem to lack value or utility, Syjuco’s refashioned versions explore the handmade in the digital-era of design, uniqueness found even within the copy, and collaboration’s relationship to outsourcing, as well as labor, authorship, and value.

Stephanie Syjuco lives and works in San Francisco. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; The New Museum; SFMOMA; The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; and the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, among others. Throughout 2007 she led counterfeiting workshops at art venues in Istanbul, Turkey; Beijing, China; and Manila, Philippines. In October 2009 she presented a parasitic art counterfeiting event, COPYSTAND: An Autonomous Manufacturing Zone in Frieze Projects, London; and contributed proxy sculptures for P.S.1/MoMA's joint exhibition, 1969. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including a 2009 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award.

http://www.stephaniesyjuco.com/

Dexter Sinister: The Plastic Arts

September 7 – October 23

Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 8, 5-8 pm

Diffusing the lines between form and content in graphic design, Dexter Sinister creates presentations and publications that collapse the distinctions between editing, design, production and distribution. Designed as a walk-in-caption and typeset in their newly devised Meta-the-difference-between-the-two-font. font, this exhibition offers a series of frames with which to consider the usual channels of material, subject matter and set-up in exhibition displays.

Dexter Sinister is the compound name of Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt. As a group, Dexter Sinister works as a publishing imprint, a workshop/bookstore based in New York, and an exhibiting artist making art shows and events. David graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1993, Yale University in 1999, and formed the design studio O-R-G in 2000. Stuart graduated from the University of Reading in 1994, the Werkplaats Typografie in 2000, and co-founded the journal Dot Dot Dot the same year.

Further information:

http://www.dextersinister.org/

http://www.dot-dot-dot.us/

http://www.sinisterdexter.org/

Steve Reinke: The Tiny Ventriloquist

November 2 – December 18

Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 3, 5-8 pm

With endearing wit, Canadian-born Steve Reinke makes videos and two-dimensional works that use diaristic and collage elements to relate desire, philosophy and pop culture. Reinke’s videos, ranging in length from a couple minutes to feature-length often feature wryly-humorous uses of voiceover and rhetorical structures. The exhibition will feature new video and two-dimensional works by Reinke alongside videos made in collaboration with Dani Leventhal, John Marriott, Jessie Mott and James Richards. Also on display will be individual artworks by Reinke’s collaborators.

Steve Reinke is an artist and writer best known for his work in video. His work is in many collections including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Centre Pompidou (Paris) and the National Gallery (Ottawa), and has screened at many festivals including Sundance, Rotterdam, Oberhausen and the New York Video Festival. In 2006 he received the Bell Canada Video Award. Coach House Press published a book of Reinke’s scripts, Everybody Loves Nothing, in 2004. He is currently an associate professor of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University.

Further information:

http://www.myrectumisnotagrave.com/

http://blog.musicisplaying.com/

Both Stephanie Syjuco: Particulate Matter (Things, Thingys, Thingies) and Dexter Sinister: The Plastic Arts are presented in conjunction with Studio Chicago.

Studio Chicago is a yearlong collaborative project that focuses on the artist’s studio. Through exhibitions talks, publications, tours, and research, participating organizations celebrate the working artist and reveal their sites of creative production from historical and contemporary perspectives.

For more information, visit www.studiochicago.org.

Core Studio Chicago partners include: Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Columbia College Chicago, Gallery 400, Hyde Park Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and threewalls.

The Gallery 400 2010 summer internship opportunities have been filled. If you're still interested in internship opportunities at Gallery 400, keep in mind the deadline for fall internship applications is July 28, 2010

Join the Gallery 400 team as intern. Learn about art exhibition, presentation and interpretation. Gain valuable experience at a significant university gallery that offers you considerable responsibility and great access to the heart of gallery administration.

Archive Internship

Gallery 400 seeks undergraduate and graduate students interested in assisting with Gallery 400’s current effort to reorganize and digitize its archive in preparation for a new website and online archival database.

Job Duties include:

o Assisting the gallery archivist in inventorying and organizing documentation and historical material.

o Completing the re-organization of the physical archive

o Uploading digitized material onto the gallery’s website

o Editing scanned images in Photoshop

o Writing summaries for past exhibitions

o Editing the archive for digital accessibility

Qualifications:

Desirable skills in a candidate include a high degree of organization and attention to detail, writing skills, and knowledge of Photoshop, Excel, and Adobe Bridge.

This is a non-paid internship.

To apply, please send resume and cover letter to uicgallery400@gmail.com.

Marketing Internship:

Gallery 400 seeks undergraduate and graduate students interested in assisting with Gallery Marketing of the exhibitions, lectures, film and video screenings and other programs.

Job Duties include:

o Assisting the marketing staff to maintain the marketing calendar

o Archiving press clippings

o Assist in updating social networking tools

o Maintain mailing list

o Assist with documenting exhibitions

o Assist with distribution of marketing materials

Qualifications:

Desirable skills in a candidate include a high degree of organization and attention to detail, excellent proofreading skills. Familiarity with social networking websites, digital cameras and knowledge of Photoshop, Excel, and Adobe Bridge is preferred.

This is a non-paid internship.

To apply, please send resume and cover letter to uicgallery400@gmail.com

Preparator Internship

Gallery 400 seeks undergraduate and graduate students interested in gaining art handling and installation experience in a professional gallery setting. This position is an excellent opportunity for students to develop valuable preparatory experience and polish their professional installation skills.

Job Duties include:

• Assisting in gallery installation and preparation (includes working with lighting, wall patching, painting and artwork installing)

• Assisting with documentation and archiving of exhibitions

• Assisting in the maintenance of Gallery 400 facilities

Qualifications:

This position requires very good verbal communication skills and great interest in working with your hands. Candidates should possess familiarity with basic tools; excellent organizational and interpersonal skills; enthusiasm; and a proven track record of prioritizing and completing multiple assignments. Applicants must be able to lift 50 pounds.

Basic knowledge and familiarity with a variety of tools, materials and AV equipment is preferred.

This is a non-paid internship.

To apply, please send resume and cover letter to uicgallery400@gmail.com.

THE TABLEAUX VIVANT SHOW
Film and Video Screening, curated by Jesse McLean and Ben Russell
Wednesday, May 19, 7 pm

This one goes out to all of you fans of mimes, Frozen Moments, The Festival of Living Art episode of the Gilmore Girls, paintings that stare back and Gallery 400's three current exhibitions of works by Eun Hyung Kim, Andy Moore, and Erin Cosgrove. In response to all of the drawn tableaux present in the latter and as part of a more generalized attempt to rethink the still life as a movement-image (FLEISCHAUER), your time-based pals Jesse McLean and Ben Russell have gathered together a series of films and videos that are certain to unstick you in at least two out of three dimensions. This is The Tableaux Vivant Show, after all. - please join us as we sit down to a rather kinetic breakfast (SNOW) and leaf through the funny pages (CHANNEL ZERO), revisit the art history textbooks ad nauseum (FREED, EISINGA), meditate on roadkill-as-landscape (MURPHY), and take a quiet stroll through a field of flickering flowers (LOWDER). Ah, Gallery 400 - who knew that our still lives could be so moving?!?

Featuring:
Breakfast by Michael Snow (15:00, 16mm, 1972-1976) Still Life W/Fruit by Eric Fleischauer (4:30, 16mm, 2005) Art Herstory by Hermine Freed (22:00, video, 1974) As It Was Revealed Unto Jeroen Eisinga by Jeroen Eisinga (8:00, 16mm, 1988) Mary Worth by Channel Zero (15:00, 16mm, 1998) Highway Landscape by JJ Murphy (6:30, 16mm, 1971-1972) Les tournesols and Les tournesols colores by Rose Lowder (6:00, 16mm, 1982-1983)

Here is a sneak peek:

Andy Moore: Artist Talk
Saturday, May 15, 2 pm

In conjunction with John’s Luv, on view April 27 – June 12

John’s Luv is a nearly 1,000 page handwritten and painted book, complete with 4 x 11 foot foldout painting. Alternately fiction, diary, mise-en-scene and metanarrative, this illustrated tale follows John’s attempt to love better and more deeply those around him. Begun in 2003, this massive undertaking pursues answers to Moore’s unremitting ambiguities and doubts relative to community, God, love and daily life. Also on view in the gallery are four related paintings by Moore.

Andy Moore has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Moore’s first show in Chicago was at Beret International, now defunct, and he has since shown in many local venues, including Kavi Gupta Gallery, TBA Exhibition Space, Western Exhibitions, and Dogmatic Gallery. Additionally, his work has been included in an exhibition at Vox Populi, From 2000-2004, Moore was one of four co-owners of of the artist-run space Deluxe Projects. Philadelphia, PA.

UPDATE: This artist talk will also include a disembodied Ozzy Osbourne head. We thought you should know.

Some pictures from our three way opening reception for our Spring Shows, featuring Eun Hyung Kim, Andy Moore, and Erin Cosgrove.

Designing Ego's by Eun Hyung Kim

Renée Green: artist and writer

Tuesday, April 20, 5 pm

Via films, essays and writings, installations, digital media, architecture, sound-related works, film series, and events, Green’s work engages with investigations into circuits of relation and exchange over time, the gaps and shifts in what survives in public and private memories, as well as what has been imagined and invented. Green also focuses on the effects of a changing transcultural sphere on what can now be made and thought.

Green has had solo exhibitions at Portikus, Frankfurt; Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon; Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Vienna Secession, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She has also been included in numerous group exhibitions including Documenta XI, Johannesburg Biennial, Kwangju Biennale, Aperto, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Louisiana Museum of Art, Copenhagen; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; MACBA, Barcelona; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Green has contributed writings to Texte zur Kunst, October, Public Culture and Frieze. Her books include Negotiations in the Contact Zone (editor, Assirio & Alvim, Lisbon, 2003).

Hot Media Series

SEASON FINALE: DIS/EMBODIMENT

Thursday, April 22, 6pm

Hot Media at Gallery 400 is an experiment in collective curation. It is also a forum to stimulate interdisciplinary dialogue on art/media topics relevant to many across the UIC campus and beyond. We curate and present programs consisting of moving image works, interactive arts, visual arts, music, performance, scholarly talks and you name what else. It is an informal yet engaging opportunity to hear, see, and discuss with like-minded culture enthusiasts.

For the fourth and final session of the 09-10 academic year we take on the heavy topic of embodiment and its many forms. Is there room for visceral experience in media/tech saturation? How does the gendered body continue to function? How does the built environment affect embodiment? We will screen moving image works, host three guest presentations, and offer other delights aimed at shedding light on these inquiries. Join in the discussion and tell us your thoughts on bodies, hybrid bodies, anti-bodies and whatever else might apply. Expect surprises as we bring this year’s series of discussions to a haptically charged climax.

Featuring guest presenters:

Ellen Alderman-Hartwell (Theorist, UIC)

Kristi McGuire (Artist/Writer, SAIC)

Michael Sirianni (Artist, UIC)

And works for the screen by:

The Men in Tights

Oblong Industries

Marina Abramovic

And more!

(all works are shown is a strictly educational manner)