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Effeminaries

Cameron Crawfor,
Danielle Dean,
Chris Edwards,
Greg Ito,
Kacie Lambert,
Joel Parsons
December 12, 2014 - January 24, 2015
Gallery One, Chicago

Cameron Crawford lives and works in New York. His writing has been included in Blast Counterblast (Mercer Union/WhiteWalls), Manual for Treason for the 2011 Sharjah Biennial, and the 2012 Whitney Biennial catalogue. His artwork has been exhibited in galleries and institutions throughout the United States, including the 2012 Whitney Biennial.

Chris Edwards was born in Newton, Iowa, and lives and works in Chicago. He is currently a counselor at a methadone clinic alongside his studio practice. He received a BA from College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia; an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MSW from the University of Iowa. He has exhibited previously at Julius Caesar, Manifest Exhibitions, and Twelve Galleries in Chicago, IL, and recently completed Carol, a project for the digital platform Sandcastle.

Danielle Dean collaborates with her family and friends as actors to explore our relationship to objects and subject formation. She was born in Huntsville Alabama and grew up just outside of London, UK. She gained a BFA in Fine art at Central St Martins in London and received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Her residencies have included the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. She has shown her work in solo exhibitions at the Bindery Projects in Minneapolis and Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles, and group shows include the Made in LA show at the Hammer Museum n Los Angeles 2014, at the Atelier Sachlink in Vienna, and Auto Italia South East (London, UK). She is currently a resident on the Core Program in Houston, TX

Greg Ito currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Forthcoming exhibitions include Alex Ito and Greg Ito at S-A-D-E, Los Angeles, 2015; group exhibition (curated by Josh Reames) at Circuit 12, Dallas, 2015; and a group exhibition at Alder & Edmark, Los Angeles, 2015. Recent exhibitions include Children with Chris Lux at Mission Comics, San Francisco, 2014; Heavy Withdrawals solo exhibition at City Limits, Oakland, 2014; BAN7 at the YBCA, San Francisco, 2014; Something Other Than with Jonah Susskind at The Hills Esthetic Center, Chicago, 2014; and and when you thought it would last forever… at MOROSO PROJECTS, San Francisco, 2013. Ito is a co-founder of SFAQ magazine, San Francisco (2010-14), and the Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco (2009-13). Ito received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008.

Kacie Lambert currently attends the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and lives and works in Chicago.

Joel Parsons is an artist, writer, and curator based in Memphis, TN. Recent exhibitions include Bay Area Now 7 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, I Am What I’m Doing at the Charlotte Street Foundation’s La Esquina Gallery, Kansas City, and The Replacements at Southfork Gallery, Memphis. His writing has appeared in Art Papers, ARTnews, the Evelyn Avenue Blog, and Number: Magazine. Parsons is an Assistant Professor of Art and Director of Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College, and founder and co-director of Beige, an otherwise space for art and performance. He received his MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012.