(maybe) THIS TIME

Rick Valicenti was invited to be Loyola University Chicago's 2016–17 Artist-in-Residence. An exhibtion of his work, titled (maybe) THIS TIME, introduced Valicenti to Loyola and the local community through a variety of designed artifacts accompanied by text. (maybe) THIS TIME comments on and responds to social issues, and it is dedicated to the Loyola fine art seniors as they prepare for upcoming work with Valicenti on gun violence.

11 October – 26 November 2016 in the Ralph Arnold Gallery.

"…if nothing else, (maybe) This Time can at least inspire confrontation. I want to inspire more discourse and more conversation around difficult issues." – Rick Valicenti in conversation with Alexandra Senycia of Loyola

"The exhibit was amazing; I haven’t stopped thinking about it. It’s replaced Wallace Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” as my favorite poem. And the extraordinary generosity of the private tour was really special." – Jules Law, Professor of English, Northwestern University

Wheel of Fortune
Round and Round
All of us are one and all of us are one and...
Anyway you spin it some things are just worth repeating.

Made in collaboration with West Supply.

Death Mask
Mirror Mirror on the Wall
When civility dies, everybody loses.

"A hybrid and hyperbolic time piece with a subtle note of George Nelson’s modern clock designs for Howard Miller with a hint of Bernini’s Ecstasy. The centralized “death mask” accents the Vanitas genre without the moralizing. The piece becomes a fitting reminder that suggests the hopefulness of the phrase, “maybe this time”."
– David Versluis

Me
Black and White…
represent the absence and the presence of all colors.
Respectfully,

Listen to Rick tell his Account here.

Want Ads
(or desire WRIT LARGE)
Why with so many online alternatives do we still have these unreconstructed want ads? Are they a vivid testimony to the limits of design? Primitive, crude — yes. Clearly the medium is the massage.

Backgrounded
Being There for almost 15 Seconds
Not everyone is the focus of media attention. This portraiture looked on those positioned behind captioned subjects featured in the NY Times.

Book available on blurb.com.

Monument Maquette
Everyone vs. Tankini
A slice of life: our inalienable right to speak truth to power.

Patriot Table
Red, White, Blue and Dangerous
This life-threatening side table is the ideal accent in any flag waving, All-American decor.

Made in collaboration with Jonathan Nesci.

P & L
Business as Usual
What a difference a consonant makes…
HELP IS ON THE WAY
HELL IS ON THE WAY

Flacid Force
The Sequel in Sequence
On 4 June 1989, the morning after Chinese military forcefully suppressed the Tiananmen Square protesters, Tank Man, aka Anonymous Rebel, stood his ground.

E-Commerce
On target!
Throwing darts is still the ideal pub game.

Money Laundering
Prima Facie Evidence
Maggie, a Rogers Park cairn terrier, processed the goods and returned the filthy lucer missing in the Eastlake Terrace case. Evidence moved from the bowels
of criminal world to the forensic photo lab.

Rick's wife, Dyan Elliott, PhD, wrote a song about their dog, Maggie.

Client: Loyola University Chicago

Service: Art; Exhibitions

Credits: Exhibition photography by Jonathan Allen
Patriot Table photos by Ross Floyd
Account and Want Ads printed and bound by Classic Color

Process

Thirst | Communication Design Practice

(maybe) THIS TIME

The Truth Be Sold lock-up before it was inked.