Proposals and Speculations: Shir Ende and Lancer Livermont

Shir Ende, Walking a Corner (for three), 2019, Screen print on paper, 19” x 24” framed, 15” x 20” print size — Shir Ende, *Walking a Corner (for three),* 2019, Screen print on paper, 19” x 24” framed, 15” x 20” print size

In conjunction with the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial

September 9 – November 20, 2021

Artist Reception: Saturday, October 23rd, 3-6pm

Artists’ Talk: Saturday, October 9th at 2pm (register here)

The FlexSpace is pleased to present a two-person exhibit exploring ideas, new possibilities and practices in architecture from both a visual artist and a seasoned architect.

Shir Ende

Through drawing, print, performance, and video, Shir Ende uses a degree of speculative thinking to explore movement within modern space. Ende works to reduce the “bigness” of architecture, re-imagining built structures as intimately scaled forms generated by movement. Ende holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has shown work at the University of Illinois Springfield, Buddy Chicago, the Chicago Artist Coalition, Gallery 400, Heaven Gallery, Hyde Park Art Center, Terrain Biennial, and was a sponsored artist at High Concept Labs. Ende has screened videos at Comfort Station, Nightingale, and Roman Susan. She has participated in the Center Program at the Hyde Park Art Center and was a 2018–19 Hatch Resident at the Chicago Artist Coalition.

Lancer Livermont

The works of this exhibit explore a design process of drawing and making for three simple projects including a beehive, totem, and sauna. Unlike the conventional architectural design process where a project develops through iterations studied by separate overlay, or the digital design process of iteration through algorithm, the process for these works developed through consolidating systems of site, structure, program, imagery, drafting, and sketching into compound drawings where multiple orientations operate simultaneously and from which physical constructions of the projects were extracted and fabricated.

Lancer Livermont is an architect recently grafted to Chicago from western Colorado. He has practiced architecture for 25 years including the last 15 as owner of Intermountain Architecture Ltd in Colorado. He studied architecture at the University of Arkansas, University of Virginia, and University of Brighton, UK. He began his career working with American Institute of Architects (AIA) Gold Medalist, E. Fay Jones in Fayetteville, Arkansas and is currently a member of the AIA Chicago.