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Young Masters: This year’s MFA class exhibits at DOVA Temporary
Three Chairs at 48.70 degrees N by Marilyn Volkman; courtesy of the Department of Visual Arts What are you doing? You have ten cubic feet, maybe less, white walls, and a bathroom to tell us: go. This...
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Archive Jive: Artists and aficionados bring jazz back to Hyde Park
(Elly Fishman) While delving into the University of Chicago Special Collections, where innumerable stacks of dilapidated sheet music lines the shelves and jazz records whose jackets have faded with...
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Immersive Viewing: Michelle Menzies’s “Liquid and Mobile States” sucks you in
(courtesy of the artist) Sitting against the east and west walls of DOVA Temporary, the single-room exhibition space of the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago, three video...
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The Graduates - University of Chicago MFA students on their hopes, woes, and...
All-white walls enclose an unidentifiable treadmill-like device, the whoop, whoop, whoop-ing of its enormous belts sounding throughout the room. This gallery-within-a-gallery at the University of...
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Ten For Ten - DOVA Temporary celebrates a decade of MFA paintings
Inconspicuously sandwiched between a nail salon and a dry cleaning plant, DOVA Temporary is a long, lean, spare space with nothing but a reception desk, white walls, and currently, a selection of ten...
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Close Encounters - “Our Demons” come to the walls of DOVA
Nabila Abdel-Nabi “MERCY IS THE DOMAIN OF THE RICH,” travis cried, his booming voice traversing the four walls of the modest gallery space at DOVA. travis (always lowercase), an artist and member of...
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At DOVA Temporary, a University of Chicago art gallery, thirteen individuals sat around a pedestal, each one’s head bent down, their fingers picking steadily at denim. All eyes were on Anne Elizabeth...
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Reading Rainbows - Seven colorful canvases at DOVA encourage a wide spectrum...
Courtesy of DOVA Temporary Nicole Mauser’s luminous colors are the first thing to strike you—ambitious and assertive, her bright palette is a perky antidote for the dark and dreary first days of...
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Meeting Places
courtesy of Matthew Connors With just six pieces hanging on the walls of DOVA Temporary, those who gathered to view “The Space of the Encounter” at the exhibit’s premiere on Friday night spent time...
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