ANDOVER, MA.- The Addison Gallery presents Over+Over: Passion for Process, on view through July 31, 2005. As the digitized image on the plasma screen becomes the common means of communication and the keyboard replaces the hand, a number of artists are turning to traditional hobbies and craft expressions as foundations for their art. Informed by process art of the 1970s in which the making of art was as important as the finished product, the artists in this exhibition use manual skills— including meticulous hand-beading, sewing, quilting, silhouette cutting, collaging—and ordinary materials to achieve extraordinary results.

Their two- and three-dimensional contemporary works negotiate a path between organic and geometric form and between the pixelated and the painterly.

Practitioners of extreme craft, these artists focus on obsession from homemaking to hobbies to addictions.

Artists included are: Chakaia Booker, Juliann Cydylo, Tom Friedman, Tom Fruin, Victoria Haven, Lisa Hoke, Nina Katchadourian, Liza Lou, Jennifer Maestre, Elizabeth Simonson, Devorah Sperber, Fred Tomaselli, and Rachel Perry Welty.

This exhibition was organized by the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The exhibition was sponsored in part by Donald and Alice Dodds, Fox Development Corporation, Krannert Art Museum Council, Illinois Arts Council, and Hampton Inn.

The Addison 's presentation of OVER+ OVER: PASSION FOR PROCESS is supported by the Winton Family Exhibition Fund.