This week’s picks, courtesy of Ryan. Good luck to all Chicago artists showing at Art Basel Miami Beach this week, make it rain. Cant surf in Miami.
I recently interviewed artist Shawnee Barton for a short profile piece @ Newcity. Here’s the whole interview here. Lets talk about your new show Artist: Unemployed at LivingRoom gallery, which addresses your experience as an artist during the current recession. How has the function of your practice changed since day jobs started disappearing? On a practical […]
Brennan McGaffey quietly maintains one of the most interesting art practices in the city of Chicago, creating interactive, mysterious urban interjections with his Intermod Series. Enjoy the interview, a Chicago Art Review first. Tell me a little about yourself and the history and goals of the Intermod Series. What other projects were involved? Around 1999 […]
This week’s picks from Ryan. Happy holiday, click images for links. Two Pheobes!
Seven artists of the week, from Ryan‘s picks. Click images for links. Full march!
With a new address, coat racks, a paneled ceiling and a floor covered in tiny stones, Old Gold has opened again with a one night show featuring the work of Aline Cautis, Josh Mannis and Andy Roche. There was the prevailing social element to the event of the kind expected at one night events, with the work itself giving […]
(Note: I’m catching up on my backlog of shows I attended, photographed, and never wrote about. Enjoy the pictures and the brief summary.) September’s main space at Western Exhibitions featured Paul Nudd, I had wanted to give Dan Attoe‘s show in the second space its own review. The show was quiet, stretching its three pieces for maximum […]
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Posted 16 November 2009
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(Note: I’m catching up on my backlog of shows I attended, photographed, and never wrote about. Enjoy the pictures and the brief summary.) At the end of September, Dominican University’s O’Connor Gallery opened Site Unspecific, a group show which included work by Heather Mekkelson, Mara Baker, Adam Farcus, Rafael E. Vera, Brian Yates and Heidi Norton. The […]
(Note: I’m catching up on my backlog of shows I attended, photographed, and never wrote about. Enjoy the pictures and the brief summary.) The first show at the new Ebersmoore space was also the last show at the Ebersb9 space. Given the straightforward title of Group Painting Show, and including the work of Amy Mayfield, Howard […]
Late late late: Future Facing @ Old Gold Return of Old Gold at new location with Aline Cautis, Josh Mannis, and Andy Roche. Friday, November 13th from 7-10 @ Old Gold, 3102 W Palmer Blvd. Existence Value @ Happy Collaborationist Exhibition Space Paul Cowan and Scott Cowan (AKA the Cowan brothers). Saturday, November 14th, 7-11 PM […]
This weekend is pretty neat. :) Austin Eddy @ Golden Gallery Golden reopens after a short break with I feel better already, at least I think I do., new work from J. Austin Eddy, one of Chicago’s buzzing up and coming painters. Catch up with him at Fecal Face and catch the show’s opening Friday, November 6th […]
This week’s picks from Ryan, with a double replaced with one from me. Click images for links to more. Ditch the tom-tom club, lets get bloated.
Last week I wrote a bit about Eric Lebofsky‘s Superfreaks at the smaller of Western Exhibitions two spaces, with the promise of returning to examine the main space and Melissa Oresky‘s A Wildness of Edges. This here is that. To start with, a few weeks before the opening of her two local shows (she also has […]
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Posted 02 November 2009
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Heartland is about mid-western art: its existence, its creators and their motivations, its role and its history, and its place in the larger context of American and global culture. If that sounds like too big an undertaking for one show, you’re right – the Smart Museum show is only a younger sister, the second iteration […]
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Posted 31 October 2009
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Going to do this quick and superficially, since I’m supposed to be out the door already. Quick note: the search term “Liu Bolin” is generating more hits for this website than anything other than “Chicago Art Review,” perhaps because his work looks so well on the tiny images of the internet. If you’re interested in […]
Jonathan Runcio, Robert Colescott, Dana Dart-McLean, John Copeland, Gianna Commito, Thomas Bayrle, Brennan McGaffey.
Since Logan Square’s Concertina Gallery is pretty fresh and steaming, I’ll introduce their newest show by introducing the space itself: as I understand it, Concertina Gallery is the apartment gallery lovechild of directors and SAIC graduate students Katherine Pill and Francesca Wilmott, who, along with co-founder and former resident Corina Kirsch and design help from current […]
This week’s picks, featuring ebersmoore, Swimming Pool Project Space, Antena, Rhona Hoffman, and Concertina.
Here in Western Exhibitions second gallery space and separated (though barely) by frames rather than by posting dates, Lebofsky’s heroes hold themselves well, funny by way of observational comedy and clever by way of creepy absurdity.
Hey, its Thursday and there are some good shows opening this weekend and you will find a list of the best of them below! On Paper @ Gahlberg Gallery With works on paper from Claire Sherman, Felix Malnig, Melissa Oresky (see below), and Robyn O’Neil (also at Tony Wight and recently reviewed here), this new […]