Cottage Gallery Hours
No longer on view. The cottage gallery portion of the exhibition closed November 13, 2022.
Coloring Book, 2011
Acrylic, dimensional collage and mixed media on Amate paper
Collection of Larry A. Gerber
Dolls contain images of organs removed from my body during surgery.
William Shannon, 1997
Mixed media on paper
Private collection, Chicago
William Shannon is a dancer, skateboarder, choreographer, and video artist, an early pioneer in subverting assumptions about contemporary dance. Shannon resides in Pittsburgh, PA.
The Risk Pictures: Lennard Davis, 2016
Mixed media and collage on paper
Collection of Larry A. Gerber
Lennard Davis is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Davis explores the political, literary, and ethical controversies of disability in numerous books and venues such as Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness and the Body; The End of Normal: Identity in a Bicultural Era; and memories including My Sense of Silence: Memoir of a Childhood with Deafness. He is CODA: Child of a Deaf Adult.
Risk Activity: Davis added all handwritten text in the background (except for CODA). He lives in Chicago and NYC.
Eli Clare, 1997
Acrylic on panel
Collection of Larry A. Gerber
Eli Clare, poet and essayist, is one of the most influential artists and theorists working in Disability Culture. His many books include Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure (2017) and Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation (1999). Clare is based in Burlington, VT.
