12.13-15.2019
Facility's Fall-A-Faire is a curated exhibition and sale of Chicago's most exceptional, and least categorizable makers. Expect to be fueled viscerally and to discover some new must-have objects and accessories.
Featured Artists
As both artist & designer Jack Cave breathes new life into elements and images of the discarded to elevate to them to extraordinary accessories such as bags, belts, and other objects of desire.
Semi Delareyna is an experience designer and fashion artist. His work stands in between alter worlds, circulating in repetitive rings, crossing from dimensions to senses. It presents the doubtful orbitual dance of materials and not materials.
Grace DuVal is a wearable artist, maker, and designer who creates sculptural garments from non-traditional materials. Transformation is a key element of her work, as she reconstitutes mundane materials into extraordinary wearable objects.
Mauricio Forero's work toys with the idea of making design a discipline that does not hold a particularly useful purpose —relying on mystery, his objects to float between conceptual art and designed object.
“Tiny bits talk to each other to create a textural, rich whole. Feel beautiful.” — Sophia Forero
Ellen Greene’s hand painted gloves are derived from her fine art practice. In her winter 2019 season, Greene does not shy away from the original imagery that made her fine art pieces so dynamic. Gorgons, Demonic pin-ups, mythical sea witches and cry-baby cherubs are just some of the outrageous hallucinatory imagery meticulously hand painted on Italian leather gloves.
All of Ai KijimaI's work is created through the use of a few simple elements — textiles, needle and thread. Over the years she has collected not only Japanese textiles, but countless examples of traditional and contemporary textiles from all over the world to rework into her own extraordinary textile-based jewelry.
Minjung Michelle Kim is the founder and creative director of Mizel Jewelry. Her designs have been sold in many luxury department stores and museum shops nationwide as well as featured in Vogue, Elle, Allure, W, In Design, and many other fashion and design magazines.
Manifold is a design and fabrication studio that creates unexpected forms in metal with exacting craftsmanship. Deriving satisfaction and inspiration from the hands-on process, owners Ross and Elizabeth Fiersten have been producing furniture and sculptural objects over the past twenty years for showrooms and galleries around the country.
Christopher Rhodes is a professional Clairvoyant and Mystic based in Chicago. He has performed thousands of readings to hone his natural abilities after years of training. When he’s not working one on one with clients, he teaches meditation and energy work to people all around the world.
Robin Richman ...I begin with a fiber which could be jute, metal, silk or thread. Losing myself in the process of knitting, crocheting or knotting until a transformation of the materials occur and the outcome is a mysterious blend of technique that becomes a 3d sculpture or as simplistic as a curtain textile.
Carolyn Rosenberg creates bespoke accessories and jewelry with a focus on upcycling vintage materials and embellishing functional fashion items. Every collection is unique, each piece is one of a kind.
David Rosenberg and Jordan Dolin’s current project, LightBox, is a series of kinetic sculptures which examine the interplay of design, light and movement. This series draws inspiration from the modern designers of the 1950’s through the 1970’s and then interprets it through an outsider artists perspective.
$oundsuit$hop is the collaborative line of Cave-emblazoned objects by Bob Faust and Nick Cave.
The House of Frankie Lou is a multi-disciplinary design practice, specializing in innovative furniture for the modern home. A collaboration between Numbskullduggery (Polly Yates) and Manifold (Ross and Elizabeth Fiersten), the studio is rooted in a love of experimentation and a deep respect for craftsmanship.
Lindsey Whittle is a multimedia performance/fashion artist, print designer, educator, and PIQUE gallery co-instigator whose primary mediums are collaboration and color. Consistently whittle creates work through her daily garment compositions and print language to maintain conversations around her art ideas outside of traditional art spaces.