This week’s picks from Ryan:
Andy Diaz Hope, Day
Not Vital, 8 Halves
Hugh Harman & Rudolf Ising
David Leggett, I can never tell anyone about this. Ever.
Laurel Roth, Allegory of the Monocerus (detail)
Jack Kirby
Mari Eastman, Untitled Mural (Birds)
there are about a hundred of us. we’ve contacted eachother on the internet.
This weekend is going to be stacked. Here are my picks, and you can find more here and here.
Crazy new work from David Leggett. Opens Friday, March 26th from 7-10 PM @ 65GRAND, 1378 W Grand Ave, #3.
David Leggett, The Tragic Misspelling of Thriller
Prepare yourself for some great exploration of the surface and structure in the crazy new work from Ali Bailey. Opens Friday, March 26th from 5-8 PM @Andrew Rafacz Gallery, 835 W. Washington.
Ali Bailey, Life
Art advocate and proponent for art in Chicago Paul Klein had some good things to say about Western’s latest Exhibition of crazy new work from Richard Hull. Opens Friday, March 26th from 5-8 PM @ Western Exhibitions, 119 N Peoria St, 2A.
Richard Hull, Vivid and Heavy
Crazy new work from Joe Grimm & Erica Moore. Opens Saturday, March 27th from 3-8 PM @ What It Is, 1155 S Lyman Ave, Oak Park.
Erica Moore
After a great long wait, Golden Age returns with crazy new work from Paul Cowan. Opens Saturday, March 27th from 7-10PM @ Golden Age, 119 N Peoria St, 2D, Chicago.
Paul Cowan
Relationships are explored and manipulated in Slow’s latest show FREE LOVE, an exhibition of crazy new work from Mican Morgan and Porous Walker. Opens Sunday, March 28th from 6-7 PM @ Slow, 2153 W 21st St.
Mican Morgan
we’ll be at the sullivan galleries drinking until we can do no right
This week’s picks from Ryan.
Jeremy Mora, Welcome Home
Nicholas Frank, REALLY
Porous Walker
Kamau Amu Patton
Lee Lozano, Untitled
Boredoms
Lindsey White
talking points
Writing these helps me remember names. Check out more listings here or here.
“New and young” cult culture (see 4chan memes, probably) including work by Art Johnson, Sunita Prasad, Jon Read, Alee Peoples, María de la Concha, Tayef Ben Messalem and María del Carmen Montoya. Opens this Friday, March 19th from 6-10 PM @ Kunz,Vis,Gonzalez, 2324 W Montana St.
Alee Peoples, Goodbye Chicago
Works on paper by by Adrianne Goodrich, Alex Valentine, Anthony Zinonos, Ben Speckmann, Chris Roberson, Chris Schreck, Doug Shaeffer, Emily Clayton,Greg Lamarche, Hisham Akira Bharoocha, James Harry Ewert Jr, Joe Tallarico, Jordan Martins, Mario Wagner, Matt Nichols, Matthew Rich, Michael Pajon, Netherland, Peter Skvara, Richard Smith, Rod Hunting, Ron Ewert, Ryan Duggan, Sarah Jeziorski, Scott Massey, Stephen Eichhorn and Tom Torluemke. Opens this Friday, March 19th from 5-7 PM @ The Chicago Tourism Center, 72 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601.
Ryan Duggan, After Joey
Painting and sculpture show guest curated by William Staples, with work by Dianna Frid, Deva Graf, Anne Simon, Brian Taylor and Scott Wolniak. Opening Friday, March 19th from 6-9 PM @ ebersmoore, 213 N Morgan St, 3C.
Deva Graf, Untitled Pair (with wrestler)
Anthony Elms in a sailor outfit. Opening Friday, March 19th from 6-9 PM @ threewalls, 119 N Peoria St, 2D.
Irena Knezevic: Culture Guild
I was wondering when Old Gold was going to come back from its comeback. This time around there’s work by Sayre Gomez, Roxane Hopper, George Liebert, Amanda Ross-Ho, Justin Schaefer and Vanesa Zendejas, and it goes down this Friday, March 19th from 7-10 PM @ Old Gold, 3102 W Palmer Blvd.
Vanesa Zendejas, Mound Faker
Objecthood and illusion. Paul Kenneth, Easton Miller and Nozomi Rose. Saturday, March 20th from 6-10 @ LVL3, 1452 N Milwaukee Ave, 3.
Paul Kenneth, Stranger Danger
Ten works from Jason Salavon. Opening this Saturday, March 20th from 5-8 PM @ the fresh new Tony Wight Gallery, 845 W Washington.
Jason Salavon, Old Codes
Two part exhibition from duo Sara Condo and Kate Ruggeri. Opens Saturday, March 20th from 7-11 PM @ Pentagon, 961 W 19th St, 1F.
Sara Condo and Kate Ruggeri
Kick off spring with blue work from Ken Fandell, , Gerard Holthuis, Jerome Acks, Kendrick Shackleford, and Kimberly Baker. Opens Saturday, March 20th from 6-9 PM @ BEN RUSSELL, 1716 S Morgan St, 2F.
BLUENESS
Also check out the openings at Kavi Gupta and Andrew Rafacz on Saturday. See you around!