SEATED IN FRONT OF “ADAPTATION,” INSTALLED AT THE HARRIS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. PHOTO-HARVEY TILLIS
ADAPTATION. STOOPS AND CUBES SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE KELLER CENTER FOR STUDENT USE.
INSTALLATION SHOTS OF “THE NEUTRALIZED THIRD” COLLABORATION WITH MY PARTNER GENEVIEVE WOLFF. AT OPEN HOUSE CONTEMPORARY.
CURATOR MICHAEL CHRISTIANO OF THE SMART MUSEUM, IN CONVERSATION WITH ELENA GONZALEZ ON THE OCCASION OF THE RELEASE OF HER BOOK, EXHIBITIONS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE.
ADAPTATION. INSTALLATION AT THE HARRIS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. STAGE MADE FROM SCHOOL FURNITURE TAKEN APART BY FORMER CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS. PHOTO-HARVEY TILLIS
REPLICA OF LECTERN USED BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN TO GIVE THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. MADE FROM SOLID OAK SCHOOL CHAIR PUT INTO SERVICE FOR CPS IN 1954, THE YEAR THE SUPREME COURT RULED AGAINST THE BOARD OF ED. ENDING THE LEGAL SEGREGATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. PHOTO BY HARVEY TILLIS
SKULL IN ASH, FOR DEATH OF THE MELS, MEL KAISER.
EXTENDED PHENOTYPE – SIDE TABLE
IMPACT STATEMENT 1
IMPACT STATEMENT 2
STOOP CULTURE – REWORKING LABOR, SULLIVAN GALLERY, SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
STOOPS MADE FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL MATERIALS, WITH FORMER CPS STUDENT APPRENTICE, KENDALL HILL. PHOTOS ALMUDENA CASO
TASTE OF CHICAGO, ART GARDEN. 2019
CHICAGO ARCHIVE SERIES, PATHOS EDITION
HUTOPIA, NEUBAUER COLLEGIUM, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 2019
View of scale model of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s writing hut in Skjolden, Norway.
Oracle 4, 28″ x 38″, blueprint from closed Chicago Public school, paint, cabinet doors, glass, felt, 2016Tauroctony, 18″ x 24,” carving on CPS school desks, 2016
Chicago Archive/Infinite Set, 2016Chicago Archive/Infinite Set, 2016A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft, 62″ x 108″ x 16″h, CPS desks and tables, plywood, felt, 2016
Chicago Archive/Infinite Set, 2016Mascot. 2016Elmhurst Biennial: Chicago Statements. Installation at the Elmhurst Art Museum. 2016Da Dee Dee Da Dum De Profundis. Installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for The Freedom Principle. 2015Da Dee Dee Da Dum De Profundis. Installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for the Freedom Principle, 2015CIvics 101, Partial Dining Set, made of materials salvaged from closed Chicago public schools (CPS), 2014, private collection.Framing Members, standard 8′ 2 x 4s made from CPS materials. 2x4s will be made collaboratively, as building blocks for a series of structures, both speculative and functional. 2016The Beast-solo exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center. 2014.Interior of The Beast during a youth-initiated spoken word event. 2014Mascot, carving on student desk top, 2014, private collection.the beast – solo exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, 2014a conversation in the beast with Simon Critchley and Bart SchultzIn conversation with Jamie Kalven about the Happy Factory, 2014Proposal for charter school swing set. Division of Labor at Glass Curtain Gallery, 2014
Built-In buffet table made from CPS materials, collaboration with Walter Kitundu, 2015Oracle 1. Modified blueprint from closed Chicago Public School. 2014
Blueprint Chapel. Installation at the Heilbronn Kunstverein, Germany. from solo exhibition, John Preus: On Drawing
Perfect Smile, from John Preus: On Drawing at the Heilbronn KunstvereinWhat Not, from John Preus: On Drawing at the Heilbronn KunstvereinBlueprint Chapel, installation from John Preus: On Drawing- Heilbronn KunstvereinIncidental Kitchen, 2013, private collection.Incidental Kitchen, 2013, private collection.Top 13 bookshelf, 2013, private collection.table top from a Chicago Public SchoolSlow Sound. solo exhibition at the Experimental Sound Studio/Audible Gallery. 2013huguenot house plans-formulated with Theaster Gates. notes and writing by John Preus. archival inkjet print. 2012 (price upon request)Chicago Archive Series. 2012, private collection.Chicago Archive Series-2015, private collection.Chicago Archive Series-2015, private collection.Chicago Archive Series, with Walter Kitundu, 2015, private collection.Chicago Archive Series, with Will FitzPatrick, 2015, private collection.project leader/Theaster Gates-documenta 13-2012 https://johnpreus.com/selected-projects/982-2/fabrication work for Theaster Gatesform follows function off a short pier-home gallery-2013, private collection.anthem/requiem-huguenot house-2012 https://johnpreus.com/selected-projects/982-2/Pelt 1, collaboration with Kevin Reiswig, skinned rogers park ottoman, leather, string, cedar, 52″ x 68″new material @ northern michigan university https://johnpreus.com/selected-projects/new-material/Dorchester Projects, Archive House-2009-2010dilettante studios-current http://www.dilettantestudios.org/projects/kitchen-as-composition/reader article-2011 https://johnpreus.com/about/press/salvage-operation-john-preus-proustian-art-is-a-recycling-of-things-past/
Feigned Vanity/The Belated Poet-2010mask for an anticipated rite of passage, Johnny jump up 30 x 44, 2005, private collectionI’d Rather Be Fishin’ Material Exchange at the Devos Art Museum, Northern Michigan University-2009beast 1-2005original concept sketch. watercolor on inkjet print. 8.5″ x 11″ 2013live performance in the Huguenot House with Theaster Gates, 2012
red flags salo(o)n-2011 https://johnpreus.com/selected-projects/red-flags-saloon/Threewalls book store, 2009Huguenot House, 2012kids space-Southside Hub of Production, Hyde Park, 2011Original concept sketch for The Beast, solos exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, 2013Rebuilding Mayfield, with Sara Black, part of Gestures of Resistance at the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR.man in green pool, charcoal and pastel on paper, 12 x 16, 1999, private collection.home is where the heart is-2005
