My picks for this weekend, though the pickings are slim. Check out other listings here and here.

Trew Schriefer and Joanna Goss @ ebersmoore

This month ebersmoore opens double solos from Trew Schriefer and Joanna Goss. When I saw Trew’s work last a few years ago, it was tiny acrylic on wood topographic cute abstractions. Grad school must have enlarged his ambitions and his surfaces and sent some of that tight and fun abstraction energy Goss’ way. Show opens (opened) Friday, May 28th from 6-9PM @ebersmoore, 213 N Morgan St, 3C.

Joanna Goss

Sebastian Vallejo @ Lloyd Dobler Gallery

Sebastian Vallejo presents some retro painting styles before they were common on t-shirts and corporate cafeteria panel art, complete I’m sure with big prismatic sprays, textured paint, and glitter. Check out the opening Friday, May 28th from 6-10PM @ Lloyd Dobler Gallery, 1545 W Division St, 2nd Floor.

Sebastian Vallejo, Light Ballast

The Pentagon Saves The World @ Pentagon

Heroes and heroism are on the table at The Pentagon Saves The World, with input from Deborah Stratman, Jim Zimpel, Jesse Avina, Daniel Baird, Jake Myers and the (possible created for this show) Pentagon Education Collective. Show goes up this Saturday, May 29th from 7-11PM @ Pentagon, 961 W 19th St, 1F. Soups on early.

Jessie Avina, In this mode, we shall live again (still)

UNCOVER, DISCOVER, DISCARD @ Golden Age

Normally describing a piece of art as sentimental is a good polite alternative for calling it fucking awful, but artists Eric Yahnker, McIntyre Parker, Emilie Halpern, Michael G. Bauer, and Sidonie Loiseleux take the plunge into sentimentality and emotional content in artwork. Opening reception Saturday, May 29th from 6-9PM @ Golden Age, 119 N Peoria St.

Sidonie Loiseleux, Plate #1

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This week’s picks from Ryan.

JP Munro, Trojan War

Christine Frerichs, Woman (inside-out)

Ester Partegas, Ooze

Timothy Bergstrom, So what about vision

Arturo Herrera, Felt

Natasza Niedziolka, Big Star

Kon Trubkovich, Ghost Town

oh come on!

What day is it? Friday’s gone, but hopefully you found other listings and caught something good. Here are my picks for the what’s left of the weekend:

Jason Middlebrook @ moniquemeloche

I’m usually not a fan of artists using reclaimed materials for site specific installations within a gallery space (as opposed to permanent installations, or architectural projects), because however amazing they look the materials usually end up back in the trash at the end of the show. That goes double for any and all student assignments involving reclaimed or recycled materials, most of which are just given added toxicity through paint, glue, resin, and other art materials before ended up back in the heap. Still, Jason Middlebrook’s space-filling starburst construction does sound worth checking out, and the drawings look interesting too. Do it this Saturday, May 22nd from 4-7PM @ moniquemeloche, 2154 W Division.

Jason Middlebrook

Timothy Bergstrom and Daniel Sullivan @ SubCity Projects

I reviewed Daniel Sullivan‘s show at Monument 2 a few months ago, and it’ll be interesting to see what he’s been up to since in this competitive sounding pairing with gloopsaic artist Timothy Bergstrom. Show opens Saturday, May 22nd at 6PM @ SubCity Projects, 410 S Michigan Avenue, 1036.

Timothy Bergstrom, The good, the bad and the ugly

Renate Wolff @ devening projects + editions

This is definitely a show to come out for. Renate Wolff is a German artist who primarily executes large design-heavy wall paintings, and who has installed a very engaging, highly spacial/analytical wall piece titled Skies in between at devening projects. Also featuring works on paper from Berlin artists Christian Bilger, Michael Bause, Ruprecht Dreher, Frank Eltner, Dirk Lebahn, Seraphina Lenz, Christiane Schlosser, Renate Wolff and Julia Ziegler. Opening is this Sunday, May 23rd from 4-7PM @ devening projects + editions, 3039 W Carroll Ave.

Renate Wolff

is there like a glue shit to the canvas seminar??

This week’s picks from Ryan…!

Anthony Discenza, Limits of Poetry

Fabienne Lasserre, Hace Tanto Que No Te Veo

Terry Bozzio

Amy Sillman, The Plumbing

Natascha Snellman, W.C.O.T.Z. Leather

Matthew Ronay, Jiggers

Marcel Vaneeden, 0161

just keep driving