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Seven Artists of the Week – a big black cloud

This week’s picks from Ryan and one from me. a big big black black cloud

Studio Visit – Matt Nichols

Next Friday the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will open its 2010 MFA Graduate Exhibition. Well timed to coincide with the Artropolis crowds and featuring over one hundred and twenty students completing the school’s MFA program, the event promises to deliver upwards of nine million dollars in tuition worth of art. Of that great […]

Weekend Preview – but… is it net art?

This week’s picks from me. Check out more comprehensive listings here and here. Scott Cowan and Katy Keefe @ The Hills Esthetic Center Collaborators Scott Cowan and Katy Keefe have put together a stuff installation I’d recommend getting in front of before its gone. Side note: we were trying last week to name as many artist-siblings working, showing, or […]

Seven Artists of the Week – many baseball fans are intolerable people

This week’s picks from Ryan: I said hello!

Weekend Preview – 500 words on what a cool guy you are

This week’s picks. As always, check out some more here and here. Sarah Pickering @ Museum of Contemporary Photography I’m jumping on this one out of first contact interest, but London photographer Sarah Pickering‘s Incident Control does look really, really cool. 36 photographs with section titles of Explosions, Fire Scene, Incident, and Public Order, and you can find the […]

Seven Artists of the Week – cyberbole

This week’s picks from Ryan and a placeholder: dependent upon persons content with small profits

Weekend Preview – www.sharkforum.org

This weekend’s picks for openings. There are a lot more than what I’m putting here, but here’s what not to try to miss: Mike Schuh @ GOLDEN The press info from GOLDEN for Mike Schuh’s Set reads like it might be a harder show to get a mind around than most, descriping videos and sculptures that tilt […]

Seven Artists of the Week – thrill dive

This week’s picks from Ryan: there are about a hundred of us. we’ve contacted eachother on the internet.

Weekend Preview – crazy new work

This weekend is going to be stacked. Here are my picks, and you can find more here and here. David Leggett @ 65GRAND Crazy new work from David Leggett. Opens Friday, March 26th from 7-10 PM @ 65GRAND, 1378 W Grand Ave, #3. Ali Bailey @ Andrew Rafacz Prepare yourself for some great exploration of the surface […]

Seven Artists of the Week – I like hierarchies, I really do.

This week’s picks from Ryan. talking points

Weekend Preview – nice speech shitler

Writing these helps me remember names. Check out more listings here or here. WTF 1.0 @ Kunz,Vis,Gonzalez “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 […]

Seven Artists of the Week – twins! two little ma’fuckers!

This week’s picks from Ryan and one from me. Don’t blame me, I voted for the lava demons.

Elms Choice: Stephanie Brooks’ Love is a Certain Kind of Flower

A studio visit means an excuse to prepare by brushing up on the artist prior to the visit. This means research, you know what that is, how a brainiac pronounces procrastination. In anticipation of a visit this Monday with Stephanie Brooks, I can here and now recommend, just in time for Valentine’s Day (What is […]

Studio Visit – Easton Miller

Last Wednesday I buzzed in and up to Easton Miller‘s Ukrainian Village apartment to check out some of his newest work. I’d first seen his paintings in the Fever Dream show up at Roots & Culture, and was pointed his way for a studio visit by Jacob Goudreault, fellow Fever Dream participant and the last artist who’s studio I’d […]

Weekend Preview – thanks

Here are my picks for weekend art-going. More listings here and here. This Is Not For Sale @ Parking Space Friday, March 12th from 6-10 PM @ Parking Space, 2246 W 19th St, 3R. Synthetic/Sublime @ POST Friday, March 12th from 7-11 PM @ POST, 1816 S Racine Ave. Landscape / Portrait / Still Life @ HungryMan Gallery Saturday, March 13th, from […]

Seven Artists of the Week – Quick Decline

This week’s picks from Ryan: And hey, lets be careful out there.

Weekend Preview – lots of heart ache for a Thursday

This week’s picks. More listings here. Let There Be Geo @ A D Gallery Geometric work is fun as hell to look at, and Let There Be Geo (curiously curated by the organically inclined Elizabeth Burke-Dain) promises sixteen variations on the form from artists Jesse Brown, Nick Butcher, Jeff Canham, Jacob Hashimoto, Maya Hayuk, Cody […]

Seven Artists of the Week – It’s poison! You’re stupid if you eat that.

This week’s picks from Ryan. Don’t open it!

Studio Visit: Jacob Goudreault

I know for a fact that there are brilliant studios with white walls and painted ceilings, glowing with LED panels and humming with tastefully sourceless, low-volume public radio; but for young artists plodding through unfunded gap between undergrad and graduate school, sometimes the studio is wherever you can find it. This week Chicago painter and photographer Jacob […]

Weekend Preview – make it new

Check out these picks for my picks or more listings for more listings. Fever Dream @ Roots & Culture Expect a lot of physical, almost sculptural use of paint at Fever Dream at Roots & Culture, and some of the weird and shitty materials painters love so much these days. Paintings and the rest from […]