Running the Numbers: An American Portrait November 15 - December 14 Exhibition reception: November 15, 5-8pm Image: Shipping Containers by Chris Jordan In this solo exhibition, Seattle artist Chris Jordan looks at contemporary American culture through the way that we primarily see society portrayed in the media - pure statistics. Each image portrays a quantity of something - prison uniforms that represent the number of people incarcerated per year, plastic bags used by consumers every five seconds or handguns representing the number of gun-related deaths that happened in 2004. Through the use of images rather than numbers alone, Jordan hopes that his work will reach out to the public in an attempt to communicate visually the problems that people in the U.S. are facing. Statistics can feel abstract and many times make it difficult for people to connect with topics that they feel only vaguely relate to them; this project thus visually examines these vast, numerical measures of our society. Each large-scale piece is a detailed print that is assembled from thousands of smaller photographs of the actual subject matter that Jordan is discussing in his work. Check out a review by Vital Source Magazine Cosponsored by the Center for 21 st Century Studies, Cultures and Communities, UW-Milwaukee Students for a Democratic Society, the Urban Ecology Center , and the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort Images: Shipping Containers (Detail) by Chris Jordan Chris Jordan Gallery Talk November 16, 4pm, Union Art Gallery Join Running the Numbers: An American Portrait artist Chris Jordan as he gives a slide lecture about his photographic work, raising some of the issues and challenges we face as individual consumers in hypermodern American society. Reverend Billy Talk Anti-Consumerism Activist and Subject of What Would Jesus Buy? November 27, 7pm, Union Ballroom - Reception to follow in UAG * An Installation by Peck School of the Arts students will be on view in the Atrium Gallery (across from the bookstore) * Here are some higlights: Campus Level, Room W199 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. Milwaukee, WI 53211 414.229.6310 Hours: Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri & Sat 12-5pm; Thu 12-7pm * There will be special extended hours on Saturday, September 29 from 9am-5pm *