Dan Peterman: Curatorial Conversation at 21c
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JOIN US FOR A WINE RECEPTION AND TALK:
Thursday, August 7, 2025
6 – 7:30 p.m. wine reception With remarks at 6:30 p.m.
FREE event - register to save your spot
https://www.21cchicago.com/experience/event-calendar/curatorial-conversation-with-jeff-stevenson-and-dan-peterman
21c Museum Hotel
55 E. Ontario St. Chicago, IL 60611
21c Museum Hotel Chicago and theNate are excited to be collaborating to present the next Curatorial Conversation. Director and Curator of the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park (theNate)
and the Visual Arts Gallery at Governors State University, Jeff Stevenson will be in conversation with artist Dan Peterman to discuss his artwork and career. We will also be introducing two visiting artists: Gwen Yen Chiu and Andrew Light who will have work on view at theNate in time for Sculpture, Wine & Dine on Saturday, September 13, 2025.
Dan Peterman exhibits widely using recycled materials to produce starkly minimal works that are at once elegant sculptures, functional objects, and critiques of environmental waste
and neglect.
Peterman’s work is an example of adaptive reuse though he was practicing it long before it had an official title. His work explores the “intersection of art and ecology” embracing a wide variety of formal and situational strategies and employing a range
of materials including recycled plastic and metals, as well as organic and post-consumer waste. Though Peterman usually exhibits his work in museums and at art galleries, he is known for displaying his art for the general public. The most known example is his “Running Table”, a 100-foot-long picnic table located at theNate at GovState. The table considers issues around consumption and recycling and is made from the equivalent
of two million recycled milk bottles.
“The Granary Project” creates a conceptual and physical connection, via the nearby Metra line, between The Art Institute of Chicago and theNate by re-interpreting a small ceramic funerary object at The Art Institute, dating from China’s Han Dynasty, believed to provide for the deceased in the afterlife.
Peterman is also a founder and board member of the Experimental Station, an innovative, Chicago-based incubator of small-scale enterprise and cultural projects. He is a former recipient of
the University Scholar Award from UIC; Richard H. Driehaus
Foundation, Lewis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. His works have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Venice Biennial, Italy; Vanabbe museum Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland; Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, IL; among other venues.
for more info: www.thenate.org
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Thursday, August 7, 2025
6 – 7:30 p.m. wine reception With remarks at 6:30 p.m.
FREE event - register to save your spot
https://www.21cchicago.com/experience/event-calendar/curatorial-conversation-with-jeff-stevenson-and-dan-peterman
21c Museum Hotel
55 E. Ontario St. Chicago, IL 60611
21c Museum Hotel Chicago and theNate are excited to be collaborating to present the next Curatorial Conversation. Director and Curator of the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park (theNate)
and the Visual Arts Gallery at Governors State University, Jeff Stevenson will be in conversation with artist Dan Peterman to discuss his artwork and career. We will also be introducing two visiting artists: Gwen Yen Chiu and Andrew Light who will have work on view at theNate in time for Sculpture, Wine & Dine on Saturday, September 13, 2025.
Dan Peterman exhibits widely using recycled materials to produce starkly minimal works that are at once elegant sculptures, functional objects, and critiques of environmental waste
and neglect.
Peterman’s work is an example of adaptive reuse though he was practicing it long before it had an official title. His work explores the “intersection of art and ecology” embracing a wide variety of formal and situational strategies and employing a range
of materials including recycled plastic and metals, as well as organic and post-consumer waste. Though Peterman usually exhibits his work in museums and at art galleries, he is known for displaying his art for the general public. The most known example is his “Running Table”, a 100-foot-long picnic table located at theNate at GovState. The table considers issues around consumption and recycling and is made from the equivalent
of two million recycled milk bottles.
“The Granary Project” creates a conceptual and physical connection, via the nearby Metra line, between The Art Institute of Chicago and theNate by re-interpreting a small ceramic funerary object at The Art Institute, dating from China’s Han Dynasty, believed to provide for the deceased in the afterlife.
Peterman is also a founder and board member of the Experimental Station, an innovative, Chicago-based incubator of small-scale enterprise and cultural projects. He is a former recipient of
the University Scholar Award from UIC; Richard H. Driehaus
Foundation, Lewis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. His works have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Venice Biennial, Italy; Vanabbe museum Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland; Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, IL; among other venues.
for more info: www.thenate.org
Get Tickets
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