Celebrating their two-year anniversary, Chicago-based art collective Deadline Projects presents Absolute Zero, a one-night exhibition of multi-disciplinary art at Happy Dog Gallery in Wicker Park. In their 2009 opening show, local artists display new work inspired by scientific theories of unattainable purity and undefinable states of being. Absolute Zero is a free event and opens to the public on Saturday, April 11th, from 6pm to 11pm. Live music will be performed by Moment Sound.

By definition, 'absolute zero' is the coldest temperature theoretically possible, which is theoretically impossible to achieve. In other words, it's cold. Colder than a Chicago winter-- an unattainable, absolute zero. In temperatures close to absolute zero, matter takes on unusual properties and state changes. What would actually happen to matter at absolute zero can only be hypothesized. As is often unavoidable, scientists find they reach a human limit to their research. As artists, we translate and illustrate our human limitations.

Participating artists in this show include:  Jeremy Bolen, carlsweets, Miguel Guzman, nikki hollander, Damien James, Rob Jeffries, Jason Judd, Blake Parish Lewis, Sarah Perez, Holly Sabin, Stephen Shapiro, David Soukup, and Shawn Stucky.