Hey, this is the weekly post where I usually put up my picks for the weekend, but since the city is taking it easy on art openings for the next few days (though there still are a few), I thought I’ll dedicate this post to suggesting that you check out New Icon @ Loyola University Museum of Art if you haven’t seen it yet. The show has some of what I think is the best art up in the city right now (and which I’ll be writing more about soon) but it’ll all close up and come down after this weekend so go see it while you can. You’ll be happy you did!

That said, there’s also Sara Schnadt‘s Network, Domestic Intervention @ What It Is, which might be the most actively disruptive installation I’ve ever heard of for a multi-functional domestic gallery space. It’ll also be great excuse to cut out to Oak Park and see what Holly and Tom have been up to. The show opens Saturday, July 31st from 3-8PM @ What It Is, 1155 S Lyman Ave, Oak Park.

Sara Schnadt, Network

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This week’s picks. Check out more listings here and here.

Danny Think Tank

Danny Think Tank is a space and show going up this weekend for the Milwaukee Ave Arts Festival, and will feature work by Curt Bozif, Derek Chan, Ryan Fenchel, Dan Gunn, Roxane Hopper, Lisa Majer, Stephen Nyktas, Cole Pierce, Julie Rudder, Kendrick Shackleford and Craig Yu. Come see the opening this Friday, July 23rd from 6-10PM @ 2628 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor.

Stephen Nyktas, Kiwi

Grant W. Ray @ Spoke

Spoke hosts the probably awesome results of Grant W. Ray‘s pseudo-scientific investigation into electric and psychic communication with nature.  Check it out this weekend only, and stop by the opening on Friday, July 23rd from 6-9PM @ Spoke, 119 N Peoria St, 3D.

Grant W Ray, Athens, Ohio: Shadow of its Former Self. Electric Quija Board for Trees

Jessica Taylor Caponigro @ The Hills Esthetic Center

This month at The Hills, artist Jessica Taylor Caponigro will install a site specific layering of fabric, wood, patterns and objects in a piece she’s giving the doubly intimate title Looks Like A Place I Came In. The opening for this sharp domestic look is on Friday, July 23rd from 8-11PM @ The Hills Esthetic Center, 128 N Campbell Ave, G.

Jessica Taylor Caponigro

Booze and Bacon @ Slow

I’m always a fan of summer good time feel good party shows, and Booze and Bacon looks set to be one of those exactly. In addition to the refreshingly honest refreshments, there will be an overload of work from artists Brooke Barnett, Benjamin Bellas, Tola Brennan, Judith Brotman, Christopher Bungart, Ann Chen, Laura Davis, Meg Duguid, Jason Dunda, Kirk Faber, Brent Garbowski, Max Garett, Jeffrey Grauel, Matt Harrison, John Henley, Andrew Holmquist, Fred Holland, Michael Hunter, Carol Jackson, Brad Johns, Larry Lee, Kirsten Leenaars, Mican Morgan, Helen McElroy, Chris Naylon, William Newhouse, Susannah Papish, Laura Prieto-Velasco, Scott Ramon, Tim Schade, Sarah Wild and Philip von Zweck. Opening is this Saturday, July 24th from 7-10PM @ Slow, 2153 W 21st St.

Tim Schade

Welcome to the Neighborhood @ William H. Cooper Manufacturing

Andrew Rafacz Gallery is either hosting or involved in hosting a number of artists at the William H. Cooper Manufacturing building. Pretty cool collection, with Zachary Buchner, Karl Erickson, Andrew Falkowski, Heidi Norton, John Opera, Joe Pflieger, Matt Stolle and Philip Vanderhyden showing work. Check it out this Saturday, July 24th from 12-3pm @ William H. Cooper Manufacturing, 816 N Spaulding Ave.

John Opera, unitled (Maquoketa)

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This week’s picks. Check out more here and here.

Terence Hannum @ PEREGRINEPROGRAM

Terence Hannum is a pretty metal dude, performing (along with André Foisy) in Chicago’s intensely metal experimental duo LOCRIAN and making comparatively heavy paintings in low-end monochrome. Check out some of his new work on display this month in Negative Altars, opening this Friday, July 16th from 6-8PM @  PEREGRINEPROGRAM, 500 W Cermak Rd, 727.

Terence Hannum, Scenes from Altar

The Humboldt Moving Picture Show @ Richmond Manor

In a combination of indoor installations and outdoor screenings, Curators Stephanie Nadeau and Amira Hanafi bring together 25 videos from a local and international set of artists for the first annual Humboldt Moving Picture Show. The artist list looks really interesting. Check out the screening and show this Saturday, July 17th @ Richmond Manor, 1625 N Richmond St.

Patrick Holbrook, Talk to Me

Anthony Elms brings Danielle Gustafson-Sundell, Shane Huffman, Erin Leland, Matthew Metzger, Sonny Venice, and Philip von Zweck. Katherine Pill brings Madeleine Bailey, Samantha Bittman and Matt Nichols. Philip von Zweck brings three curators, Christina Cosio (who brings Erik Peterson), Stevie Greco [who brings Jason Bryant, Todd Mattei and Caroline Picard), and David Roman (who brings Matt Irie and Dominick Talvacchio). Somehow this is all arranged like swimming pool lanes, but we'll have to see for ourselves this Saturday, July 17th from 6-10PM @ Swimming Pool Project Space, 2858 W Montrose.

Todd Mattei, With the Prayer

Paul Cowan, Matt Stolle and Thomas Roach @ devening projects + editions

Two shows go up this month at devening projects + editions, an analytical collaborative painting exhibition from Paul Cowan and Matt Stolle titled Causality Without Cause, and a mass-media installation from Thomas Roach titled Wheatstone Stereoscope. Both shows open Sunday, July 18th from 4-7PM @ devening projects + editions, 3039 W Carroll Ave.

Matt Stolle, Untitled (MP11)

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Here are my quick picks for this week’s openings. Do yourself a favor and check out broader listings here and here.

ACRE Summer Benefit @ Johalla Projects

This Friday Johalla Projects will be hosting a fundraising event for ACRE‘s summer residency program, complete with drinks from my favorite Chicago art group, The Hornswaggler Bar. Work by the residency’s 2010 residents will be up for raffle and auction, so you’ll have a chance to pick up work from Caitlin Arnold, Alex Chitty, Ben Driggs, Paul Ershen, Scott Fortino, Rebecca Gordon, Elisa Harkins, Kelly Kaczynski, Irena Knezevic, Young Joon Kwak, Jason Lazarus, Aliza Morell, Heidi Norton, Jennifer Ray, Matt Siber, Montgomery Perry Smith, Greg Stimac, Brian Ulrich and others. $10 at the door this Friday, July 9th from 6-11PM @ Johalla Projects, 1561 N Milwaukee Ave.

Montgomery Perry Smith, Soul Searching

YOUNGER THAN JANIS @ Noble and Superior Projects

Its youth and beauty as interpreted by the young and beautiful in YOUNGER THAN JANIS, the weekend art and music and food exhibition at Noble & Superior Projects. The artists – appropriately all under 27 years old – include Marcel Alcala, Ryan Barone, Lucas Blair, Patrick Bobilin, Connor Camburn, Kevin Clancy, Adam Cruces, Cara Anne Greene, Eliza Koch, Andre & Evan Lenox, Vanessa Macholl, Celia Marks, Ross Meckfessel, Michael Morris, Erin Nixon, Michael Radziewicz, Anna Rochinski, Liz Rugg, Hannah Verrill, Blair Waters, Ali White, Andrew Norman Wilson, Travis Wyche and me, Steve Ruiz. Check it the opening and musical performances this Friday, July 9th from 6-10 and the Film/Video screenings and BBQ on Saturday, July 10th from 7-10PM @ Noble & Superior Projects, 1418 W Superior St, 2R.

Adam Cruces, hit it

Exhibition 8.07102010 @ MVSEVM

The rent is due and the lease is up and apartment gallery/listening spot MVSEVM is closing its doors. In a farewell gesture, work from the gallery’s three directors (Daniel Baird, Jamie Keesling and Bret Schneider) will make up the final show Exhibition 8.07102010, which opens Saturday, July 10th from 6-10PM @ MVSEVM, 1626 N California Ave, 2.

Jamie Keesling

Behaviour @ ADDS DONNA

ADDS DONNA is a new apartment gallery/collective study institution not far from Lake and Pulaski, and for their first exhibition they’ll be showing the humming, floating work of sculptor, artist and director of peregrineprogram, Edmund Chia. Say hi to everyone and the new place at the opening on Sunday, July 11th from 3-5PM @ ADDS DONNA, 4223 W Lake St, #422.

Edmund Chia, Untitled

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