November 2-4 Opening Night, November 1 Navy Pier Antolini_SOFA_Catalog_Agatona_PR.pdf 1 8/29/18 2:12 PM C M Y CM MY CY CMY K November 2-4 Opening Night, November 1 Navy Pier Owned and Produced by Clarion UX Donna Davies Group Show Director Kathy Murphy Global Sales Director Mercedes Arensberg Gallery Sales Manager Lauren DeMaio Vice President of Events Leah Steinhardt Director of Marketing Nicole Shorette Marketing Coordinator Liza Pontonio Finance Manager Cover: Harumi Nakashima A Disclosing Form 1607 (detail) Collie Ferguson Porcelain Accounting 25 x 15.5 x 13 inches Duane Reed Gallery Stephen Perreault Creative Director November 2-4 Opening Night, November 1 Navy Pier LECTURE SERIES ...................8 SPECIAL EXHIBITS ...............12 CONNECT .............................20 EXHIBITORS ..........................24 PARTNERS ..........................162 Thursday, November 1 5 – 9 pm Friday, November 2 11 am – 7 pm (10 – 11 am VIP hour) Saturday, November 3 11 am – 7 pm (10 – 11 am VIP hour) Sunday, November 4 12 – 6 pm 3 | EXHIBITORS FROM THE DIRECTOR Welcome to the 25th edition of are presenting in this year’s Lecture Series. These are wonderful SOFA CHICAGO! opportunities to hear more about an artist’s work, or new concepts in the applied arts, or how to properly inventory and insure your Thank you for joining us this year for collection. With more than 20 lectures to choose from, there is this momentous year celebrating 25 something for everyone in this year’s series. years of SOFA CHICAGO. Reflecting upon this milestone, I am flooded by We are pleased to welcome our six art and design universities nostalgia as SOFA has always been as part of the CONNECT competition! CONNECT is a concept a community, and the fair has served we have challenged these schools with by asking them to create as a reunion where we catch up with design environments with seating, lighting and conceptual staging one another, discover what is new, where you, our attendees, can “connect.” This year’s schools celebrate one another’s achievements, include: Columbus College of Art & Design (OH); Illinois Institute of and make new friends. And with that spirit, I am proud to share this Technology (IL); University of California, Davis; University of Iowa; year’s exciting fair with you! University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth; and Virginia Tech University. Thank you to Chubb Personal Risk Services and Corning Museum of This year’s fair features nearly 70 galleries representing more than Glass for their generous support of CONNECT. 800 artists, and galleries from around the world. Thank you to all the exhibiting galleries, special exhibits, demonstrations, Partner Pavilion We are grateful for our sponsors, including Chubb Personal Risk participants for being us in this special year. Thank you to all who Services, whose generous support for this 14th consecutive are exhibiting with us again this year and welcome to all our new year, makes our SOFA CHICAGO VIP Lounge and special events exhibitors. This fair would not be here without all of you! Also, we possible. Chubb also sponsors CONNECT and we thank them for extend our gratitude to our cultural partners and attendees for their their commitment to contemporary art and design. Thank you, also, support and recognition of SOFA CHICAGO’s strong reputation as a to Cadillac, our Official Vehicle of SOFA CHICAGO 2018, for their dynamic, international fair dedicated to contemporary and modern commitment to the legacy of art and design. We also wish to thank art and design. Antolini, the world-renowned Italian-based stone company who will bring the concept of HAUTE NATURE to their show space; Jadot We are thrilled to welcome ChiArts as our Opening Night Beneficiary Wines, our Official Wine Sponsor; Artsy, our Official Online Partner; for SOFA CHICAGO 2018. ChiArts is Chicago’s first public arts high River North Design District; and Eataly, who has created beautiful school and supports over 600 rising scholar-artists from all 50 wards. and delicious concessions for this year’s fair. I hope you enjoy the installations and performances that the ChiArts faculty and students will be creating throughout the fair. These are I also want to thank our Host Committee for their tireless support meant to engage our visitors and by doing so, I hope you will join us and generosity of spirit to help champion SOFA CHICAGO. Their true in supporting ChiArts and this important school in Chicago. patronage of not only SOFA but of the arts is inspirational and I am grateful for their advocacy. This year’s Special Exhibits feature 9 spectacular presentations by: Appalachian Center for Craft; Ball State University; Beatrice Wood Last but never least, thank you to the incredible team at SOFA Center for the Arts; ChiArts; Collectors of Wood Art; Museum of CHICAGO. This fair is simply not possible without their tireless Glass, Tacoma; North Carolina and the Studio Glass Movement; The efforts, long days, and good humor! Thank you to Mercedes Arensberg, Chicago Mosaic School; and The Documenta Project. All Special Lauren DeMaio, Collie Ferguson, Kathy Murphy, Stephen Perreault, Exhibits feature important non-profit art organizations, museums, Liza Pontonio, Nicole Shorette, Leah Steinhardt, and the entire team or universities who are presenting thought-provoking exhibits about at SPACE Productions. the applied arts. I hope you enjoy these presentations and find new insights into the work and concepts exhibited. SOFA has always been a platform for education and the Lecture Series is a testament to this. I hope you take advantage of these Donna Davies lectures and hear from the curators, artists, and scholars who Group Show Director, Art Group HOST COMMITTEE Andrea Mills Michelle Impey Ann Nathan Michelle T. Boone Bruce Robbins Rebecca Sive Bruce W. Pepich Susanna Homan Cheryl Durst Suzanne Lovell Christopher G. Kennedy Tony Sarabia Daniel Walker Trish and Glen Tullman Deb and John Gross Zurich Esposito Diana Bitting Fern Grauer George Larson Ginny B. Van Alyea Howard Tullman Jackie Koo Jill Maremont John H. Bryan Kay Bucksbaum Laura Doyle Marilynn Gardner Mark Lyman and Anne Meszko ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AIA Chicago Cadillac American Association of Marie-Eve G. Castonguay Woodturners ChiArts The American Society of Chicago Architecture Biennial Interior Designers – Illinois Chicago Architecture Chapter (ASID-IL) Foundation Karen Ami The Chicago Artists Coalition Antolini The Chicago Design Museum Appalachian Center for Craft Chicago Mosaic School Art Alliance for Contemporary and GoCM Glass Chicago Shakespeare Theater The Art Institute of Chicago Chubb Personal Risk Service The Arts Club of Chicago Benjamin Cobb Artsy Collectors of Wood Art Semina Baek Columbus College of Art Ball State University & Design David Barnhill The Conservation Center Beatrice Wood Center for Consulate General of Denmark the Arts Kelly Comboni Mette Bentzen Corning Museum of Glass Bergstrom-Mahler Museum Tanya Crane of Glass (BMMOG) Aaron Crothers Diana Bitting The Department of Cultural Jen Blazina Affairs and Special Events Mark Bolick/HIS Glassworks (DCASE) Michelle T. Boone DePaul Art Museum John H. Bryan DIFFA Chicago Katie Buckingham THE DOCUMENTA PROJECT Kay Bucksbaum Laura Donefer Laura Doyle Intuit: The Center for Intuitive Museum of Glass, Tacoma Adam Siegel Laura Drake and Outsider Art Shelley Muzylowski-Allen Leslie Silverman/D&L Art Cheryl Durst Jadot Ann Nathan Glass Supply Eataly Doug Jeck North Carolina and the Studio Rebecca Sive Ed Paschke Art Center John Lewis Glass Studios Glass Movement The Smart Museum of Art Elmhurst Art Museum Nicholas Johnson Pascal Oudet Kye-Yeon Son Zurich Esposito Christopher G. Kennedy Bruce W. Pepich Society of North American Alysia Fischer Jackie Koo Pilchuck Glass School Goldsmiths (SNAG) Frank Lloyd Wright Trust George Larson Pittsburgh Glass Center SPACE Design + Productions Marilynn Gardner Wanshu Lee Daniel Randall The Ukrainian Institute of Sue Giannotti Lillstreet Art Center Cynthia Reeves Modern Art (UIMA) Sean Gildea/Oceanside Glass Loewe Foundation The Renaissance Society at Winnie Teschmacher Susan Taylor Glasgow Eric Lovell/Uroboros Glass the University of Chicago Greg Topalian Graham Foundation Suzanne Lovell The Reva and David Logan Katja Toporski Fern Grauer The Loyola University Museum Center for the Arts Howard Tullman Deb and John Gross of Art (LUMA) The Richard H. Driehaus Trish and Glen Tullman Hoss Haley Mark Lyman and Anne Meszko Museum University of Iowa Sarah Haselwood Marco Manansala The River North Design District University of California Davis Petra Hoelscher Jill Maremont Bruce Robbins University of Massachusetts, Susanna Homan Wendy Maruyama Eric Romano Dartmouth David Huang The Mary and Leigh Block Debra Ruzinsky Unknown Lab Hyde Park Art Center Museum of Art Sandra Ainsley Gallery Ginny B. Van Alyea Illinois Institute of Technology Grace McConnell Tony Sarabia Mary Van Cline The International Museum of Heather McElwee Schiffer Publishing Tom Van Daele Dinnerware Design Andrea Mills Bruce Schuettinger/MosArt Virginia Tech University Michelle Impey Museum of Contemporary Art Brad Sells Daniel Walker Instituto Cervantes Chicago Sin-Jeong Seo Kimberly Winkle International Interior Design The Museum of Contemporary Ron Shapiro/Digitry Co Hiroshi Yamano Association (IIDA) Photography ShowClix Marie-Eve G. Castonguay Kye-Yeon Son Katja Toporski David Barnhill LECTURE SERIES 11 am - 12 pm | Room B 2 - 3 pm | Room A 4 - 5 pm | Room A FRIDAY Self-Reflection through Layered Resplendence: Tesserae: