This week’s picks from guest Easton Miller. Given unlimited resources and time, […]
This week’s picks on what to see this weekend, slightly delayed due to weather conditions. For more listings, see here and here. Eliza Myrie @ Applied Arts I am interested in anything involving the Manute Bol, so I will of course attend and recommend Eliza Myrie‘s Ohh Manute, which involves Bol’s obituary photograph in a […]
This week’s weekend picks from returning hometown hero Ryan Travis Christian. we will all remember we were here for it together, quite drunk, on Facebook
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, […]
This week’s picks from me. Click on images to see more from each artist. crack claws
I get a lot of e-mail from artists and galleries asking me to visit their shows or write about their work. There are many reasons why I can’t normally respond to unsolicited requests for press, but this video I received today was just too good not to share. You can see more of Janeen‘s work […]
This week’s picks on what to see this weekend. For more listings, check here and here. Dan Gunn & Michelle Grabner @ moniquemeloche This week moniquemeloche gallery is kicking off its four-part Winter Experiment interview series this weekend with a conversation between artist Dan Gunn and artist etc Michelle Grabner. I’m a big fan of both artists, so […]
This week’s picks from me. Click images for links! a hand in your hand
Having a web presence is essential for every artist, regardless of medium, age, location, or even representation on a gallery website. Controlling the availability of images and information on your work and your career is a uniquely modern ability for artists, and it should be taken advantage of – but how? For some, web presence […]
Apparently everything’s happening this weekend. The following list is in no way a complete view, just some of the shows I’m planning to catch; for everything else, check out here and here. Nicholas Knight @ 65Grand Photographer Nicholas Knight is show as art some photos taken of photos being taken of art, throwing in enough appreciated recursion to […]
This week’s picks from me. Click images to see artists’ websites. but this was before facebook got real
This week’s picks on what to see this weekend. As always, check here and here for more. Michael Krueger, Deborah Baker, & Dominic Paul Moore @ Packer Schopf West Loop gallery Packer Schopf (rhymes with shuvopfh) hosts three solos this Friday night: colored pencilist Michael Krueger; embroideress Deborah Baker; and abstract painter Dominic Paul Moore, also […]
This week’s picks from me. Click images for links to each artist’s website. I had that same dream
Drawing and painting often get lumped together as sister media, as if both were equal means of manual image creation, one only wetter than the other. I think of the two as more different than that. Where painting came into its own as method of image production, drawing has a less aesthetic history as a […]
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Here are this year’s top five shows that I went to during 2010, judged on which I remember enjoying best or which were significant to my year, followed by five more shows I really liked. Sorry for all the good shows I missed; I’ll try to catch more next year! 1) New Icon @ LUMA […]
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Posted 31 December 2010
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This week’s picks from me. Happy new year! emergency reblog
About a year ago I started keeping an archive of all the images of artwork that I download. I spend a fair amount of time looking at art online, so this archive grew pretty rapidly. Some images have appeared up on this website, others were for my own reference, but it’s been nice to have […]
This week’s holiday picks from me. Keep an eye out for a special Christmas gift from Chicago Art Review. wasted, falling down stairs
This week’s picks for what to see this weekend. As always, make sure to check more listings here and here. Mike Andrews @ GOLDEN Fiber artist Mike Andrews splits his look this month between an exhibition of new tapestry work at Lakeview gallery GOLDEN’s main space and a massive sculpture at their nearby auxiliary space. […]
Thought on the 50 Aldermen Project / The Daley Show
Last year, Wicker Park gallery Johalla Projects organized a show titled 50 Aldermen, 50 Artists. The show was as direct as its title suggested: fifty artists each selected or were assigned one of Chicago’s city aldermen to use as the subject of a portrait. Artists were determined by an open call – entry fee, first […]