This week’s picks on what to see this weekend. There are a lot of shows I’m having to leave off, so be sure to click here and here for more listings.
Peter Saul & Brian Calvin @ Corbett vs. Dempsey
Noble Square gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey opens a new show this weekend featuring old, new, and thoroughly weird work from Peter Saul. Also on view are new paintings from Brian Calvin, whose use of suns and moons once had me convinced that every painting should include one or the other. See them both tonight, January 27th, from 5-9PM @ Corbett vs. Dempsey, 1120 N Ashland Ave.
Brian Calvin, Another Sundown
Midwinter @ Glass Curtain Gallery
Artist Justin Witte put together this exhibition themed around the winter solstice, also called “midwinter,” where the days stop getting shorter and start getting longer. Artists Dana Carter, Joy Feasley, Roxane Hopper,Irena Knezevic, Isaac Resnikoff, Michael Robinson, Paul Swenbeck and Craig Yu provide the art, and you can see it this Thursday, January 27th from 5-8PM @ Columbia College’s Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S Wabash Ave.
Joy Feasley, you made me so very happy
Twice Removed @ Golden Age
Artist and curator Karly Wildenhaus (who also maintains the much-appreciated On The Make) examines the concept and form of that most back-seat-sat-upon, winter-trunk-forgotten, and spring-trunk-discovered form of art ephemera, the exhibition take-away. The only kind of art I meant to collect but accidentally ate. Say Hi and load up this Friday, January 28th from 6-9PM @ Golden Age, 119 N Peoria St, 2D.
Félix González-Torres
Jim Nutt @ Museum of Contemporary Art
If you enjoyed the MCA‘s Calder exhibition, you’ll love their latest and-then-some show on Jim Nutt (of Imagist / Hairy Who fame). The two-part exhibition pairs a look at the artist’s late work with a second context of contemporary artists, such as Carroll Dunham and Tomma Abts, who have followed his lead in theme or practice. Both shows open on Saturday, January 29th @ the Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E Chicago Ave.
Jim Nutt
Andreas Fischer & Melissa Pokorny @ devening projects + editions
This month’s show at Dan Devening’s gallery space pairs found object installations from Melissa Pokorny and new paintings from one of Chicago’s most painterly painters, Andreas Fischer. Check it out on Sunday, January 30th from 4-7PM @ devening projects + editions, 3039 W Carroll Ave.
Melissa Pokorny, Coming and Going
A shared hopelessness seems to have taken the edge off of exclusionary conduct.
– David Lavine
This isn’t to say the kissing and hugging lasts forever.
– Anonymous
The relationship between an artist’s work and attire should not take the form of direct visual analogy. A stripe painter may not wear stripes.
– Roger White
Why haven’t you helped me yet, when you didn’t know I needed help?
– James Bae
Quotations from Paper Monument’s I Like Your Work, Art & Etiquette.
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