Chicago Outside the Box

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For the 2015 Outside The Box exhibition, the Chicago object collection explores the idea of play. Every year at about this time, Chicago begins to thaw. The first day that the temperature breaks 50 degrees, the entire city comes back to life as if they had been hibernating for the past 6 frigid winter months. Springtime in Chicago feels like recess in grade school: It’s time to play for a while before we have to go back inside. The colorful objects assembled here allow for a brief moment of careless playtime for children or adults.

Designers will be:

Seth Keller, “Chroma Trays,”  Painted Steel
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Sung Jang, “My Rider B,” Oak
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Steven Haulenbeek, “Photopaddles” Screen Printed Acrylic
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Photopaddles

Helen Maria Nugent,  “Aggregate” necklace and broach, Porcelain
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Aggregate

His Chen,  “Wedge” Cast Silicone
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Wedge

Tyler Willis,  “The Flat Pack” polyurethane foam
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Gahee Kang,  “Spring Rings,” Gold and silver plated steel
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Jim Termeer/Jess Giffin,  “Poly Tattoos”
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Poly Tattoos

Errin Kancal, “Kiss Forks,” Plastic
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