(Note: I’m catching up on my backlog of shows I attended, photographed, and never wrote about. Enjoy the pictures and the brief summary.) Berry Sanders is a painter from Eindhoven, Netherlands (home of the Van Abbe Museum, recently mentioned here), and his show Tales From the Bubble was a series of large, black and white […]
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Posted 14 November 2009
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39 Verbs was a one night event put on by Industry of the Ordinary at Packer Schopf. 39 artists were invited to create works based on a list of verbs taken from the IotO website’s history. Though a few artists chose to put in pieces were from their extant work, most took to the project […]
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Posted 14 November 2009
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This week’s picks from Ryan. Click images for links. Chicago art blogosphere!
This week’s picks from Ryan, including: Trenton Doyle Hancock, David Altmejd, Dzine, Glen Brown, Pia Fries, Chris Johanson, and Chris Burden.
While I don’t like getting this soap box dirty with unrelated posts, I want to do some quick hype work for Lumpen’s next issue since I like the magazine and I’ll have some writing in it and more upcoming as more issues come. The magazine, which has run for longer than any independent culture rag […]
Antwerpian artist and illustrator Ephameron‘s exhibition list stretches for Internet miles, but this Friday it got one line longer with her show Letting Go at Believe Inn. With travelogue subject matter and print-sketch composition, Ehpameron (real name Eva Cardon) put together a show which, while it included some digital prints, was best when demonstrating her […]
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Posted 01 September 2009
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Better late than never: Mary from Fill in the Blank Gallery called last Thursday to talk about the relatively new gallery’s definitely new show, Wildlife Features from artist and illustrator Kyle Harter. The show opened Friday, but it runs through to September 26th at 5038 N. Lincoln Avenue. Here’s the free sounds: And as always, […]
Its an alt-space weekend! Open House @ Evan Lennox’s Apartment Its an SAIC party! Its a one night apartment gallery! Evan Lennox sent me an e-mail about this show he’ll be hosting with André Lenox and Lynnette Miranda, featuring work by a dozen Chicago artists including Brad Troemel, Eric Ashcraft, and Syniva Whitney. Check out more information at Curatorial Community, or […]
The full title of this latest show from Around the Coyote (2nd Annual Joseph Frasca Memorial Works on Paper Juried Exhibition) may be all the introduction you need. This is indeed a works on paper exhibition, the second in as many years, and it is in memory of Joseph Frasca. If you haven’t read the […]
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Posted 16 July 2009
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Golf is not intuitive. According to the best Golf holidays direct reviews, everyone has to learn how to swing a golf club correctly. Once you learn how to do this, golf should be a simple matter. Even if you have no intention of playing golf, try this and you will learn that golf is more […]