Chicago photographer Jason Lazarus curates this show opening tonight dealing with "Motivation" and ways that artists address that and work through their problems and issues.
There'll be work by 45 artists on view including Greg Stimac, Industry of the Ordinary, and Deb Sokolow.
Hang In There
at the Co-Prosperity Sphere
3221 S Morgan St
Chicago, IL
Opening reception: Friday, June 17, 2011
7 to 10 pm
with live performances by Joan of Arc, Rachel Mason, Mahjongg, Blue Ribbon Glee Club, Magic Key, and more.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Perutz Projects
A new gallery space opens in Niles, IL tonight (which is very close to the NW side of Chicago). Primarily showing photography, tonight's show at Perutz Projects will feature work by Zebadiah Arrington and Nina Hartmann.
Perutz Projects
7420 N Lehigh Ave
Niles, IL
There's a map and directions posted at ArtSlant here. You can also take the Pace 290 bus there and walk a few blocks north.
Opening reception is Friday, June 17, 2011
4 to 8 pm
The show will be on view through July 17th with viewing hours from 10 to 5.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Composition 2: Recent work by Tom Burtonwood
Tonight's opening reception will coincide with the opening of the World as Text show that I wrote about here.
Composition 2: Recent work by Tom Burtonwood
at the Book and Paper Center
at Columbia College Chicago
1104 S Wabash Ave, 2nd floor
Chicago, IL
Opening reception: Thursday, June 16, 2011
5 to 8pm
On view through August 12, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
The World as Text: A Summer Reading Room
Columbia College Chicago's Book and Paper Center has a special exhibition/reading room opening tomorrow night Thursday. Built out of recycled materials, this room will feature over 75 zines, artist's books, catalogues, and other printed matter. Check out the great list of curators and participating artists including Temporary Services, Edie Fake and Joseph Grigely here. There's also a blog here dedicated to the ongoing 2-week design and construction of the reading room.
The World as Text: A Summer Reading Room
at the Book and Paper Center at Columbia College Chicago
1104 S Wabash Ave
2nd floor
Chicago, IL
Opening reception: Thursday, June 16, 2011
5 to 8 pm
On view through August 12, 2011
with various public programs listed here.
The Uptown Photo Show
The Uptown Photo Show
at Alternatives
4730 N Sheridan Rd (1/2 blk south of Lawrence)
Chicago, IL
Thursday, June 16, 2011
6 to 9 pm
Saturday, June 04, 2011
Friends of the Beast: A Tribute to Metal
Full list of artists here.
Friends of the Beast: A Tribute to Metal
at OhNo!Doom Gallery
1800 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL
Opening reception: Saturday, June 4, 2011
6 to 10 pm
Friday, June 03, 2011
Jim Newberry's Print Sale
Jim Newberry, one of the nicest and most talented photographers in Chicago, is having a photo print sale at his studio tomorrow Saturday. You may know his work from the numerous photographs he's had published in the Chicago Reader over the years, as well as his portrait and concert photography in various magazines.
Info below from Jim's site...
Photographs! Framed, unframed, silver gelatin, archival digital, cheap, less cheap but still quite reasonable, etc.
Plus: specially marked prints (at least 10) will be discounted 20% every hour; if not sold by 5:00PM, these prints will be free! Another plus: artwork by others, including Derek Erdman and Steve Keene.
Please come by and say hello, even if you don't want to buy a print.
Some of the subjects photographed:
The Artist Sometimes Known as Prince
Sir Paul McCartney
Alex Chilton
Joanna Newsom
The Frogs
Cat Power
Bobby Conn
Fred Armisen
Frankie Knuckles
My Morning Jacket
David Yow
Tiny Tim
Wilco
Richard Linklater
Plus: specially marked prints (at least 10) will be discounted 20% every hour; if not sold by 5:00PM, these prints will be free! Another plus: artwork by others, including Derek Erdman and Steve Keene.
Please come by and say hello, even if you don't want to buy a print.
Some of the subjects photographed:
The Artist Sometimes Known as Prince
Sir Paul McCartney
Alex Chilton
Joanna Newsom
The Frogs
Cat Power
Bobby Conn
Fred Armisen
Frankie Knuckles
My Morning Jacket
David Yow
Tiny Tim
Wilco
Richard Linklater
Jim Newberry's Print Sale
2100 S Marshall Blvd
Suite 704
Chicago, IL
(near the California stop on the CTA's Pink Line and free parking in the lot north of the building)
Saturday, June 4, 2011
12noon to 5:30 pm
Thursday, June 02, 2011
Closing party for the Chicago Street Art Show
Even though I have some photographs on display in this show, the reason I'm writing about it is that I think it's one of the most visually interesting shows I've seen in a while. Despite complaints by some over who was or wasn't included in the show, the exhibition that is up came together very well. A lot of positive collaboration occurred to put the show together and it shows with many of the resulting installations.
There's the two sets of You Are Beautiful walls, each composed of 15 letters each by 30 artists all together. A huge maze like wall by Mental 312 was layered with wheatpastes and paintings by many Chicago street artists including The Viking, Goons, and Brooks Golden. And this multi-sided work art directed by Chris Silva and including elements by 11 other artists had a lot to keep you engrossed.
There's also the introductory wall with several hundred photographs showing street art in situ outdoors in Chicago, as well as large scale works by Ray Noland/CRO, SARO, Hebru Brantley, the Grocer, Tiptoe, and Don't Fret.
A great book by Joseph Depre, the show's curator, titled "Chicago Street Art", was also released in conjunction with this show. It's priced at $15 and will be available at the closing party and also locally at Quimby's Bookstore, Myopic, and the Museum of Contemporary Art's bookstore.
The show is up through Saturday, June 4th and the closing party will be tomorrow night Friday, June 3rd from 6 to 11pm
Chicago Street Art Show Closing Party
at the Chicago Urban Art Society
2229 S Halsted St (parking on the street and at the rear of the building)
Chicago, IL
Friday, June 3, 2011
6 to 11 pm
There's the two sets of You Are Beautiful walls, each composed of 15 letters each by 30 artists all together. A huge maze like wall by Mental 312 was layered with wheatpastes and paintings by many Chicago street artists including The Viking, Goons, and Brooks Golden. And this multi-sided work art directed by Chris Silva and including elements by 11 other artists had a lot to keep you engrossed.
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| Photograph by Thomas Fennell IV |
There's also the introductory wall with several hundred photographs showing street art in situ outdoors in Chicago, as well as large scale works by Ray Noland/CRO, SARO, Hebru Brantley, the Grocer, Tiptoe, and Don't Fret.
A great book by Joseph Depre, the show's curator, titled "Chicago Street Art", was also released in conjunction with this show. It's priced at $15 and will be available at the closing party and also locally at Quimby's Bookstore, Myopic, and the Museum of Contemporary Art's bookstore.
The show is up through Saturday, June 4th and the closing party will be tomorrow night Friday, June 3rd from 6 to 11pm
Chicago Street Art Show Closing Party
at the Chicago Urban Art Society
2229 S Halsted St (parking on the street and at the rear of the building)
Chicago, IL
Friday, June 3, 2011
6 to 11 pm
We Art You
Ukrainian Village space Frames Graphics Studio will have a group art show open this Friday evening. I was happy to be invited to show some work in this show. This exhibiton was curated by Stefan Johanson and will feature paintings, photography, prints, and sculptures by Sarah Gonzalez, EMENFUCKOS, Stefan, Ghetto P, Billy Danze, Matt Tuteur, NINO, Colum RDC, Tenor RTA, Flash ABC, and more.
We Art You
at Frames Graphics Studio
2110 W Grand Ave
Chicago, IL
Opening reception: Friday, June 3, 2011
6 to 10 pm
Chicago City Pools
Photographer Missy Weimer photographed all 47 of Chicago's public swimming pools during the summer of 2010. She'll be presenting 17 photographs from this documentary series this Friday evening at Wright, the design auction house, in West Town.
Missy Weimer: Chicago City Pools
at Wright
1440 W Hubbard St
Chicago, IL
Opening reception: Friday, June 3, 2011
5 to 8pm
On view through June 17, 2011
POLYAMORY
West Town gallery Noble & Superior Projects, will open their final show this Friday, June 3rd. Titled Polyamory, this show is an ode to apartment galleries and independent art spaces and the people who run them. Noble & Superior Projects is one of those rare apartment galleries like Lloyd Dobler in Wicker Park or Antena in Pilsen, that have a consistent program of well and interestingly curated art shows.
I'm going to miss tramping up the stairs to their space behind a house on Superior St.
This show will feature work by Robin Juan of HungryMan Gallery, Bill Gross of 65Grand, Vincent Uribe and Allison Kilberg of LVL3, Kirk Faber of Kirk's Apartment, and Elliot Reed, Erin Nixon, and Patrick Boblin of Noble & Superior Projects.
POLYAMORY
Noble & Superior Projects
1418 W Superior St
(enter through the gangway on the left, the space is on the 2nd floor of the rear building)
Chicago, IL
This final show will be one night only
Friday, June 3, 2011
beginning at 6pm
Esta Chido Todo: The Drawings of Raul Maldonado
Intuit is one of those art spaces where it's pretty much guaranteed that you'll encounter intriguing and rarely seen art. Considering that much of the artwork they feature is by relatively unknown outsider artists it's great that there's a gallery like this in Chicago devoted to sharing their work. Their upcoming show was curated by Susan Matthews and will be of drawings by Raul Maldonado. Info below from Intuit...
Translated “it’s all cool,” Intuit will present the first major exhibition of the work of Raul Maldonado. A young Mexican immigrant from Hanover Park, Illinois, Maldonado creates large-scale works comprised of 22-by-28 inch poster board, completing and numbering one board at a time on his drawing table. These dozens of boards are then assembled into the completed drawing that can stretch up to 15 feet. Growing up in Guanajuato, Mexico, Maldonado began drawing at the age of 10 inspired by the cartoons he watched on television. Like many self-taught artists, Maldonado finds influence in pop culture sources such as anime and graffiti.
*During the opening reception, guests can treat themselves to a tamale as the tamalespaceship from Tamalli Space Charros will be landing outside Intuit from 6pm-8pm.
Intuit also has a gift shop with outsider art related items that you won't see anywhere else in Chicago, as well as a permanent installation in their back gallery with a recreation of Henry Darger's one-room apartment/art studio.
Intuit also has a gift shop with outsider art related items that you won't see anywhere else in Chicago, as well as a permanent installation in their back gallery with a recreation of Henry Darger's one-room apartment/art studio.
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL
Free opening reception on Friday, June 3rd, 2011 from 5 to 8pm
The show will be on view through September 3, 2011
Admission during regular gallery hours is $5 for adults and free for children under 12
Strange But True
Carl Hammer Gallery in River North will have a great show open this Friday night linking large scale Polaroid photographs by William Wegman of his photogenic Weimarner dogs with vintage sideshow banners. Info from the gallery....
In 1998, Carl Hammer Gallery loaned a large number of vintage sideshow banners to the renowned photographer, William Wegman. Based on his creative interpretation, the artist photographed his favorite subjects against these banners in his inimitable style and titled the newly developed series of color Polaroid photographs Strange But True. We are pleased to pair this remarkable body of work with select examples of vintage sideshow banners by master banner painters Fred Johnson and Snap Wyatt in offering up a summer exhibition by the same title. The resulting effects achieved in this pairing not only portray Wegman's brilliant sense of humor, but display an aesthetic kinship with the imagism of artists uniquely outside of the mainstream and pushes beyond the constraints - formal, social, and personal - that weigh on Western art and society.
William Wegman, Snap Wyatt, and Fred Johnson: Strange But True
740 N Wells St
Chicago, IL
Opening reception: Friday, June 3, 2011
6 to 8 pm
On view through August 26, 2011
Stains Pillowcases by Andrew Jeffrey Wright
Why worry about keeping your pillowcases pure white when you can just purchase them pre-stained? Philadelphia artist, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, has a new set of pillowcases available through Australian shop, Third Drawer Down. Released in an edition of 1,000 and priced at $50, these pillowcases have 4 sides illustrating a fascinating array of stains including eye boogers, pizza, tire tracks, Tammy Faye Baker-style make-up, blood, and fried chicken.
Whatever you've got going on in bed, he's got you covered. Available through Third Drawer Down.
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Get your own Goons!
Goons, one of my favorite street artists, released a set of 30 faces last week at prices ranging from $1 to $30. I ordered a few and just got them in the mail.
Check out the original selection here. He's also got some great stickers and hand drawn posters available. It's a rare chance to pick up one of his pieces since most of his work is wheatpasted to walls.
Check out the original selection here. He's also got some great stickers and hand drawn posters available. It's a rare chance to pick up one of his pieces since most of his work is wheatpasted to walls.
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