This weekend is pretty stacked, but I’ll try to keep my picks spare and simple. For more full listings, click over to here or here or pretty much anywhere these days. Be nice to the CAA crowd!

Troy Richards @ Thomas Robertello

I thought Troy Richards’ video game was pretty cool when I learned about it two years ago, and the prints that came out of the work were just straight great. Richards’ new show The Perfect View is made up of big laser cut vinyls of an airplane crashed into a posh modernism home and opens this Friday, February 12th from 5-8 PM @  Thomas Robertello Gallery, 939 West Randolph St.

Ryan Travis Christian and Jonathan Runcio @ ebersmoore

This month at ebersmoore: two well paired solo shows from drippy black and white local Ryan Travis Christian and geometric/chromatic San Fracisco artist Jonathan Runcio. I caught an early view this week and filmed the dog. Check out the opening this Friday, February 12th from 6-9 PM @ ebersmoore, 213 N Morgan St, 3C. 

Emma Bee Bernstein @ DOVA Temporary

University of Chicago’s DOVA Temporary presents a slide-projection retrospective of the young and late Emma Bee Bernstein’s photography. Also featuring a catalog of critical essays from former faculty and many other Hyde Park art notables. Opening this Friday, February 12 from 5-8 @ DOVA Temporary, 5228 S Harper Ave.

ON PTG

Four galleries will host all of the artists participating in the Chicago Artist Association’s Studio Art Session Painting Panel (or CAASASPP for short), and I’ll just post them as one list. All Shows are this Saturday, February 13th:

Julius Cæsar will present work by Michelle Grabner, Thomas Lawson, Carrie Moyer and Scott Reeder, 4-7PM.

Shane Campbell Gallery will present work by Ann Craven, Peter Halley and Jon Pestoni, 6-8PM.

Rowley Kennerk Gallery will present the work of four painters on the CAA panel, Rebecca Morris, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Mary Heilmann and Varda Caivano, 7-10PM.

Western Exhibitions will present the work of four painters on the CAA panel, Susanna Coffey, Anoka Faruqee, Judy Ledgerwood, Sabina Ott plus Western Exhibitions gallery artist Richard Hull, 7-9PM. (Also at Western: Painters Painting, with work from Dan Attoe, Jimmy Baker, Carl Baratta, Nicholas Frank, Paul Nudd, Melissa Oresky and Geoffrey Todd Smith.)

Re: @ POST Gallery

After ten months of running Chicago Art Review, I finally get to hype my own shit. Re: is a group show I put together about how artists respond to various image phenomena on the internet, and features work from Dee Clements, Brad Troemel,Dominic Paul Moore, Ryan Travis Christian, Lauren Christiansen, David Horvitz, and myself. Opening this Saturday, February 13th from 6-9 @ POST Gallery, 1816 S Racine Ave.

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