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Founded in 2010, ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) is an artist-run non-profit devoted to providing resources to emerging artists and nurturing a diverse community of cultural producers. ACRE’s programs support this generative community with materials, equipment, expertise, conscientiously produced food, and opportunities to exhibit and share work. ACRE’s annual summer residency in rural Wisconsin brings together emerging artists to live and work in a communal setting. A corresponding year-long program of exhibitions and events based in Chicago creates ongoing opportunities for idea exchange, feedback and growth.
Chicago programming and exhibitions take place at ACRE Projects, a multi-use space located at 2921 N. Clark Street in Lakeview. This space is a storefront gallery, office, and basement studios, which is used to support and showcase projects by ACRE residents, alum, and the extended ACRE community. ACRE aims to be a leader at advancing new means of support for emerging artists at critical junctures in their careers. ACRE eschews focus on traditional institutional success, instead prioritizing the unique, individually-defined paths of artists.
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D Rosen: Elemental Impressions of Interspecies Care, of Violence is a solo exhibition exploring non-human animals’ entanglements with human agricultural and domestication practices. Rosen’s cast metal sculptures preserve the ephemeral, materially archiving the methodical activities of Dogs and non-human animals living on farms, and highlighting the enmeshment of care and violence within domestic spaces. In documenting collaborative rituals of care between human and non-human animals — the removal of hazardous material from a Dog’s mouth, the grooming of a pregnant Horse — Rosen rejects historically-rooted power dynamics, reexamining binaries in service of the cultivation of queer ecologies. Furthering the breakdown of conceptual human and non-human animal divides, Rosen uses metal to record care work and interspecies relations.
Typically associated with human industry and innovation, metal is a varied and agential material in itself that is also vital to human and non-human animals alike. The metal plow a Horse or Steer would have pulled to tend crops is now the artist’s chosen method to advocate for human-animal collaboration and care. In reappropriating a material used by humans for violence and forced labor into one that preserves gestures of kinship, Rosen demonstrates matter’s ability to hold a multiplicity of meaning. Building on the tactility of metal, Rosen creates artwork that invites a multisensory experience, using sight, touch, and scent to elicit memories of non-human and human audiences within Elemental Impressions of Interspecies Care, of Violence. Here, Rosen’s sculptural snapshots of the lives of Goats, Horses, and Dogs remind us to respect and nurture interspecies relationships, striving towards comfortable, ethical life cycles for non-human animals beyond the monetary or efficiency benefits they offer us.
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