The Cissy Room
March 6, 2015
Front/Space presents The Cissy Room, the inaugural show of the venue’s 2015 spring exhibition season. This curated event focuses on the long distance internet collaboration between artists Chloe Coover (Philadelphia) and Molly Hewitt (Chicago). Much like everyone’s first myspace friendship, Coover and Hewitt were introduced via profile images and earnest messages, quickly connecting over shared aesthetics. A fascination with transformative spaces and bedrooms as containers for fantasy was mutual, though they visualized these notions through their own distinct use of installation, video, and performance. Upon deepening this dialogue, ideas of gender and sexual expression emerged as the native language for exploring these realms. After months of partaking in the tradition of using the internet as a safe space to freely express themselves, Coover and Hewitt have now conjured an analogue dimension we invite you to experience.
Photos courtesy of Tim Amundson
Opening reception held Friday March 6th 2015 6-9pm, followed by an artist talk on Saturday March 7th 2015. Show will run through the duration of March by appointment only. Please email [email protected] to set up an appointment.
About Chloe Coover:
Chloe Coover is an artist, musician, performer, community organizer and writer based in Philadelphia. A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and UPenn, Chloe has exhibited at AUX Space, Crane Arts, Pterydactyl Gallery, Fjord and New Boone in Philadelphia, the Lodge Gallery in NYC, and Non Fiction Gallery in Savannah GA, among others. Chloe is a member and co-founder of BAIT Collective, a Philadelphia-based group of artists and thinkers working to curate and organize events, discussions, lectures, performances and more. In 2014, Chloe put out an album, Songs From a Bedroom In An Alternate Universe and performed in support of it at multiple venues in Philadelphia, New York, Connecticut and further afield. Chloe loves wearing fully monochromatic outfits, the snail emoji, and disappearing into the internet.
About Molly Hewitt:
In May of 2014 Molly screened her short film Maggie's Problem at the Gene Siskel film center in Chicago and has since showed it at various screenings around the city. This summer Molly had a group show at the Bike Room Gallery in Rogers Park titled Yesterdays Leftovers: Artifacts of Video with artists and collaborators Katie Kimmel and Kaycee Conaway. In the latter part of 2014 Molly was in several group shows: Barely Passing at Mana Contemporary,Gratification at The Chicago Urban Arts Society and The good,the true and the beautiful at The Preston Bradley Art Center and g(URL) freax at The Church of Templehead.
