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 […]
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Posted 08 July 2010
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Quiet scene this weekend, but here’s whats going on. Check out other listings here and here. Gregg Evans and Jeroen Nelemans @ ebersmoore Documentary photographer Gregg Evans and digital film artist Jeroen Nelemans put on double solos at ebersmoore this month. You can catch the opening Friday, July 2nd from 6-9PM @ ebersmoore, 213 N Morgan St, 3C. This […]
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Posted 01 July 2010
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Summer’s here, check it out. Also check out my picks for this weekends art events, and also also check out full listings between here and here. Peter Hoffman and Dick Dermody @ Heaven Gallery Come back ghosts Old Gold present a double showing of painter Peter Hoffman and photographer Dick Dermody, with shows respectively titled Painting with Peter and INVINCIBLE. […]
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Posted 24 June 2010
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This week’s weekend picks for this weekend. I’m leaving a lot out, so check out the additional listings here and here. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Daniel Albrigo / The Power of Selection, part 2 @ Western Exhibitions Big titles mean big events and this month’s pairing (and pairing within a pairing) at Western Exhibitions seems […]
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Posted 17 June 2010
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This weekend’s got some art great events, and if you’re like me, you’re still reeling from the icy finger jabbed by reality television into the heart of your passion for contemporary art which cooled the molten core of belief in the cultural importance and historical significance of art making and pulled aside the folds of academic and […]
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Posted 10 June 2010
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This week’s picks for what’s around and opening. This is one of those hard weeks when there aren’t that many shows opening, but all of them are worth checking out, so to see everything I skipped, get to here. Deborah Boardman @ The Gahlberg Gallery With an install including paintings, hand crank operated canvas loop […]
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Posted 03 June 2010
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My picks for this weekend, though the pickings are slim. Check out other listings here and here. Trew Schriefer and Joanna Goss @ ebersmoore This month ebersmoore opens double solos from Trew Schriefer and Joanna Goss. When I saw Trew’s work last a few years ago, it was tiny acrylic on wood topographic cute abstractions. Grad school […]
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Posted 29 May 2010
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What day is it? Friday’s gone, but hopefully you found other listings and caught something good. Here are my picks for the what’s left of the weekend: Jason Middlebrook @ moniquemeloche I’m usually not a fan of artists using reclaimed materials for site specific installations within a gallery space (as opposed to permanent installations, or architectural […]
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Posted 22 May 2010
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This week’s picks for what to look at. This is another bumper weekend, so make sure to check the other listings to see what I skipped here to make room for friends and people who I owe money to. she went back to where she began & she sat with her back to me @ Attic […]
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Posted 13 May 2010
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Here and my picks for this weekend. For many more listings of art events this weekend, go here and or here. Alphabetization @ Noble and Superior Projects Guest curator Ania Szremski put together Alphabetization as a show of artists who work variously with language and experience. It’ll feature projects by Brandon Alvendia, Scott Carter, Eric Fleischauer, Brookhart Jonquil […]
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Posted 06 May 2010
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Has it been a year already? It has, and the proof is going down all weekend at the Merchandise mart with Art Chicago and NEXT and that other antique fair thing and a host of other integrated events at other locations. Here are my picks for what to see: Art Chicago / NEXT @ Merchandise Mart Included […]
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Posted 29 April 2010
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The festival season kicks off with Versionfest 2010 tonight and this weekend, an eleven day continuum of art and music which will have many more events and sub-events than I can feature here. I’d check out the itinerary at their website (the calendar at the top of the page) for the details, and show up at the opening […]
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Posted 22 April 2010
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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 […]
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Posted 15 April 2010
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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 […]
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Posted 08 April 2010
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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 […]
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Posted 01 April 2010
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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 […]
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Posted 26 March 2010
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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 […]
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Posted 19 March 2010
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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 […]
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Posted 12 March 2010
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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 […]
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Posted 04 March 2010
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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 […]
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Posted 25 February 2010
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