Here are my quick picks for this week’s openings. Do yourself a favor and check out broader listings here and here.

ACRE Summer Benefit @ Johalla Projects

This Friday Johalla Projects will be hosting a fundraising event for ACRE‘s summer residency program, complete with drinks from my favorite Chicago art group, The Hornswaggler Bar. Work by the residency’s 2010 residents will be up for raffle and auction, so you’ll have a chance to pick up work from Caitlin Arnold, Alex Chitty, Ben Driggs, Paul Ershen, Scott Fortino, Rebecca Gordon, Elisa Harkins, Kelly Kaczynski, Irena Knezevic, Young Joon Kwak, Jason Lazarus, Aliza Morell, Heidi Norton, Jennifer Ray, Matt Siber, Montgomery Perry Smith, Greg Stimac, Brian Ulrich and others. $10 at the door this Friday, July 9th from 6-11PM @ Johalla Projects, 1561 N Milwaukee Ave.

Montgomery Perry Smith, Soul Searching

YOUNGER THAN JANIS @ Noble and Superior Projects

Its youth and beauty as interpreted by the young and beautiful in YOUNGER THAN JANIS, the weekend art and music and food exhibition at Noble & Superior Projects. The artists – appropriately all under 27 years old – include Marcel Alcala, Ryan Barone, Lucas Blair, Patrick Bobilin, Connor Camburn, Kevin Clancy, Adam Cruces, Cara Anne Greene, Eliza Koch, Andre & Evan Lenox, Vanessa Macholl, Celia Marks, Ross Meckfessel, Michael Morris, Erin Nixon, Michael Radziewicz, Anna Rochinski, Liz Rugg, Hannah Verrill, Blair Waters, Ali White, Andrew Norman Wilson, Travis Wyche and me, Steve Ruiz. Check it the opening and musical performances this Friday, July 9th from 6-10 and the Film/Video screenings and BBQ on Saturday, July 10th from 7-10PM @ Noble & Superior Projects, 1418 W Superior St, 2R.

Adam Cruces, hit it

Exhibition 8.07102010 @ MVSEVM

The rent is due and the lease is up and apartment gallery/listening spot MVSEVM is closing its doors. In a farewell gesture, work from the gallery’s three directors (Daniel Baird, Jamie Keesling and Bret Schneider) will make up the final show Exhibition 8.07102010, which opens Saturday, July 10th from 6-10PM @ MVSEVM, 1626 N California Ave, 2.

Jamie Keesling

Behaviour @ ADDS DONNA

ADDS DONNA is a new apartment gallery/collective study institution not far from Lake and Pulaski, and for their first exhibition they’ll be showing the humming, floating work of sculptor, artist and director of peregrineprogram, Edmund Chia. Say hi to everyone and the new place at the opening on Sunday, July 11th from 3-5PM @ ADDS DONNA, 4223 W Lake St, #422.

Edmund Chia, Untitled

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