APRIL 24 - MAY 28, 2011

Solo Exhibition at Strawdog Theater
Opening reception for the artist: 6-7pm, April 29th

Stacia Yeapanis is pleased to announce the exhibition of work from her series of cross-stitched embroideries Everybody Hurts at Strawdog Theatre Company. The exhibition will include new works that have never been exhibited in Chicago, along with work that had it's debut at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in 2009 in the 3-person exhibition MP3 II: Curtis Mann, John Opera, and Stacia Yeapanis.

Everybody Hurts, an ongoing series of embroideries based on television screen captures, deals with the experience of mediated emotion, offering a space for the contemplation and commemoration of human suffering. The exhibition will thematically compliment Strawdog's production of The Conquest of the South Pole, a play about four unemployed German miners who cope with joblessness by reenacting the historic first expedition to the South Pole in their attic. The characters find comfort and inspiration in each other and in the story they experience through reenactment. Yeapanis' series explores the same theme of finding solace in narratives, albeit fictional ones, by meticulously reproducing single moments from contemporary television shows by hand.
For tickets to the play, visit www.strawdog.org