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. See them both starting tonight, Thursday, December 16th from 6-10PM @ GOLDEN, 816 W Newport Ave, and from 8-9PM @ Golden Gallery’s Auxiliary space, 319 N Broadway St.
Mike Andrews, DJ Dubu
Ah, Wilderness! & Austin Eddy @ ebersmoore
Early this year, ebersmoore’s titular galleriests Dominic Paul Moore and Sara Ebers began distributing a modified blank book to artists in Chicago and around the country. By the end of its journey, over 51 different artists had taken part in the project, each adding to and illustrating the book, pasting in and modifying pages, and so creating a kind of 2010 studio time capsule. To celebrate the book’s unveiling, the gallery also invited all participating artists to contribute works to a salon-style über-exhibition. The artists are too many to list here, but as I’m one of them and it’s likely that you are too, I’ll just see you at the opening this Friday, December 17th, from 6-9PM @ ebersmoore, 213 N Morgan St, 3C.
Also on view, new works from Austin Eddy.
Ah, Wilderness! @ ebersmoore
Pastoral Disruption @ Lloyd Dobler Gallery
This show at Lloyd Dobler Gallery features three painters: Michelle Bolinger, whose work I dug at Dig a few months ago; Aliza Morell, whose last show at ACRE Projects show was slightly too Sunday for me to catch; and Eric Ramos Guerrero, a Chicago -> Brooklyn painter returning for his second group show with this gallery. See it Friday, December 17th from 6-10PM @ LLoyd Dobler Gallery, 1545 W Division St, 2nd Floor.
Eric Ramos Guerrero, Slide Sliding
Academy Records / Holiday Fundraiser @ threewalls
This year’s annual threewalls benefit is a 1940’s-themed party-party hosted by Academy Records, who will in turn be hosting a variety show featuring Mrs. Hound; Weeping Eye, Laughing Eye; Turnip Pickle, featuring: Fred Lonberg-Holm, Elba Mini-Pro, Captain One and Gordon Comstock; Mark Jeffrey and Judd Morrisey; Dan “Son of Bing” Gleason, DJ Mr. Wiggles, and more. This is technically art related, so bring a date this Saturday, December 18th from 7PM-12AM @ threewalls, 119 N Peoria St, 2C.
Academy Records
HELP WANTED @ The Exhibition Agency
The Logan Square apartment gallery known as The Exhibition Agency (and formerly known as Concertina Gallery) is closing soon, and curator Corrina Kirsch has put together a final show modeled around cork-board help-wanted postings. Visitors are free to leave requests, or work with curators to be paired up with existing requests for artist, educational, and curatorial collaboration. Check out the opening this Saturday, December 18th from 1-5PM @ The Exhibition Agency, 2351 N Milwaukee Ave, 2.
Help Wanted @ The Exhibition Agency
consider re-arranging your bedroom furniture
Propeller Fund Announcement (edited version)
The Propeller Fund is an awesome project launched this year by Gallery 400, UIC, threewalls (with funding through the Andy Warhol Foundation) which has made good on its promise to distribute $50,000 is funds to fifteen independant, self-organized, and Chicago-based art projects. The full list of winners is here, but I’ve trimmed down some of the language in the list below for super-brief read of where that $50k is headed:
1) The Storefront ($2,000)
A venue designed to support local artists working on sustainable projects.
2) The Lady Dissident Chicago Travel Auxiliary ($2,000)
10 new Chicago neighborhood posters by Alana Bailey and Anne Elizabeth Moore.
3) Nicholas Bastis, David Fleishman, and Brandon Pass ($2,000)
A temporary replica of a Frank Gehry building built in a vacant lot in the West Side of Chicago.
4) Todd Diederich and Sara Fagala ($6,000)
A ballroom ball; with pictures of Todd’s documentary project, a photo shoot, and a fashion line.
5) InCUBATE ($2,000)
Pilot Studies, a project investigating ways to organize and support small creative projects.
6) ChicagoRICAN ($2,000)
A project by Jorge Felix that addresses the production of Puerto Rican artists in Chicago.
7) Dorchester Project ($6,000)
A collaborative initiated by Theaster Gates that encourages community development and access to knowledge.
8) The Suburban and N55 ($2,000)
A stolen cairn will be replaced by a new cairn.
9) Kirsten Leenaars and Lise Haller Baggesen ($2,000)
Mutualism, a project exploring how social networks can be used as a model for curating.
10) The Alliance of Pentaphilic Curators (Jason Dunda and Teena McClelland, representatives) ($6,000)
Five funerals for imaginary deaths.
11) Erik Peterson, Benjamin Liu, Koobmeej Lee, Gary Kupczak, and Laura Thompson ($2,000)
A video game like Guitar Hero, but with an ancient Hmong musical instrument; called Qeej Hero.
12) Laurie Jo Reynolds, Stephen F. Eisenman, and Jeanine Oleson ($2,000)
Two projects (photo series, calling cards) and a series of public presentations on sexual violence, sex offender policies, and harm reduction.
13) Ben Russell and exhibiting artists ($2,000)
Eight experimental film/video screenings, each related to one of the planets.
14) Yet to be named advisory group facilitated by Daniel Tucker ($6,000)
A project-based documentary catalog on Chicago’s art history.
15) Tamalli Space Charros Collective: Omar Ureña Ximénez, Tamatz Juanes, Irradiador, The Aztlán Cardinal, La Pocha Catalana, Luis Humberto Valadez, Saúl Aguirre, Armando Morales, and Luis Muñoz ($6,000)
A business bringing multimedia art and Mexican cuisine into Chicago.
You can meet the winners next week at the awards celebration on Thursday, October 28th at 6PM @ UIC’s Great Space, 400 S. Peoria Street, 5th floor.