This week’s picks from Ryan.
Aaron Curry
Paul McDevitt
Kaspar Müller, Zip
Megan Euker, Saturnia
Tracey Emin
Rachel Kneebone, Stations
Kenny Scharf
We’re we looking for a hot, nude research person. Now, just someone who would work from home, doing a short project for pay. Craig’s list
Last Saturday University of Illinois at Chicago’s Gallery 400 closed its late spring show, which had featured Eun Hyung Kim‘s wall paintings and drawn sculptures in the main space, a video by Erin Cosgrove, and, nestled between the two, paintings and a monumental artist’s book by Andy Moore titled John’s Luv. I’m not throwing that work around – at over 900 hand-written and painted pages, the thing was a labor of art making that dwarfed the flanking exhibitions. That’s no knock on Kim or Cosgrove – John’s Luv could have made anything (including Moore’s other paintings) look like gesture in close comparison.
Andy Moore
Andy Moore
Andy Moore
Moore’s book is more than just an extensive stretch of studio labor crystallized into a single object, though had its content stopped there it would have already been worth discussing. It has a written narrative, arranged an ongoing series of non-linear vignettes chopped into chapters, which follows a anti-Meursaultian protagonist in his adventures through life and love. The stories are very compelling, frighteningly honest even when dialed up to near absurdity, and the regularity of the stories suggest some level of autobiography. Where on that continuum between fact and fiction each story lies isn’t made clear, but they’re clearly not all completely invented. Many take place on buses and trains, and its no surprise that Moore’s handwriting also bears the jostled marks of public transportation.
I encourage you to read the text in the pictures below, if you can:
Andy Moore, John's Luv
Andy Moore, John's Luv
Andy Moore, John's Luv
Wherever the source, and even with an otherwise sentimental class of attributes, John’s Luv makes a powerful effect. The layers and layers of white-out editing, with phrases in bubbles and tiny script shoving into and out of every line, give the writing an awesome, stuttering, insisting cadence. Every surface is tortured with paint and sealant to ensure stability, and long stretches feature washy illustrations or abstractions like personal reveries between expressions. There is a forty four square foot painting on the table that the book appears to lie upon, but which is revealed to be a gigantically impractical foldout. Surprise at every turn.
Andy Moore, John's Luv
Its single book form at once connects John’s Luv to a history of printed multiples, but cancels multiplication through its unique hand-made layering and clean documentation through its rough reflective surfaces. The book privatizes the work’s reading to one or two readers at a time, imposing strong control over how this work is seen. The form closes itself by its size, challenging a reader to either stand for unlikely hours absorbing its content or else to leave with the knowledge that the greater part was missed. In this Moore plays to the outside, employing a hermetical attack to frame the book as the product of a self-satisfying creative, but Moore himself (who recieved his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago) is no outsider. I’d like to think Moore knew well that the best way to leave an audience is stunned, unsatisfied, and deeply curious, and that’s exactly what John’s Luv did.
I give it a:
Andy Moore’s John’s Luv was on display April 27 – June 12th @ Gallery 400, 400 S Peoria St.
This week’s weekend picks for this weekend. I’m leaving a lot out, so check out the additional listings here and here.
Big titles mean big events and this month’s pairing (and pairing within a pairing) at Western Exhibitions seems poised to prove the point. Expect a conversation of work in the main space, with P-Orridge/Albrigo‘s Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is…A Love Story arranged as a double solo with Albrigo responding in paint to P-Orridge’s often surgical investigations into wealth, self, and malleability. In the second space, Ryan Travis Christian (source of our own Artists of the Week) curates Power of Selection, part 2 including artists Ben Jones, Denise Kupferschmidt, Keegan McHargue, and Dana Dart-McLean. Opens Friday, June 18th from 5-8PM @ Western Exhibitions, 119 N Peoria St, 2A.
Daniel Albrigo, Untitled
From the roster, it looks like ANGELS is going to be a thorough look at painting by way of representation, complete with chairsy sculpture/painting and a decent dose of trompe l’oeil. Artists include Christopher Cosnowski, Aukje Koks, , Lester Monzon and Craig Yu, but I’m most excited about seeing the smart pairing of Andrew Falkowski and Matthew Metzger. The show is only up this weekend, with the reception on Friday, June 18th from 6-10PM @ Kunz,Vis,Gonzalez., 2324 W Montana St.
Matthew Metzger
GOLDEN is showing new ballpoint drawings from Lloyd Durling this month, as well as opening up an exciting project/complementary/auxiliary space a few blocks away. The main space reception begins this Friday, June 18th from 7-10PM @ GOLDEN, 816 W Newport Ave, and the aux space (complete with a bevy of cool smaller works from Elijah Burgher, Evan Conley, The Franks, Alex Valentine, Kaylee Rae Wyant, Aspen Mays, and Mike Andrews) opens the same night, Friday, June 18th at 9PM @ Golden Gallery Auxiliary Space, 3319 N Broadway St.
Lloyd Durling, Flood
Saturday is pretty much just a Robert Barnes closing at Corbett vs. Demsey and some juggalos documented at Eastern Expansion. Its a front loaded weekend. Did you ever notice you can type the word typewriter on just the top row of your keyboard?
This week’s picks from Ryan.
David Korty, Clouds
Carsten Höller, Y
Sean Scully, Red Bar
Christina Ramberg, Untitled Torsos
Karl Wirsum, Grape Dance
Nick Hornby
Charley Harper, Listening Center
generation sext
Despite what you may have read, Justin B. Williams is not dead.
The lengthy and entertaining accompanying text for his latest exhibition Justin B. Williams: The last paintings (1985-2010) at Monument 2 describes the art-heroic discovery by Nevin Thomlison of the last paintings Justin executed before his equally heroic death saving a child from an out of control vehicle. Whether this was a little prank or sketchy, stretchy reference to a deceased doppelgänger, I don’t know – in any case, it probably scared some old friends and framed the work nicely in romance, innocence, and adolescence.
The show hangs like a collection of smaller projects, with framed clippings and sketches (adorned with increasingly ubiquitous clear polymer mystery goop), floor-displayed gridded micro-paintings, surface experiments and big, mostly straight-material oil paintings. The works are brought together by the artist’s unmistakable composition, his low saturation palette and impulsive, cartoony warble lines. When put all together in the big paintings, the results are intense overgrown gardens of activity. The variety of approaches is a good thing, implying progress and ambition, so I have a feeling these paintings won’t be Williams last.
Justin B. Williams
Justin B. Williams
Justin B. Williams
Justin B. Williams
Justin B. Williams
Its rough that these works were only up for a night, as a few are complex enough to want to get back and chew through their layers and relationships. The central, thematic content Williams is using is exciting to see, both in the dense paintings and the sparse surfacey sandboxes, where it drives the material experiments in a way that shows purpose slightly more than play.
I give it a:
Justin B. Williams: The last paintings (1985-2010) was a one night exhibition on Saturday, June 12th @ Monument 2, 2007 N Point St.
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 community galvanization just long enough to want to give it all up in disgust and get into sensible and tangibly rewarding careers like civil engineering or bait farming so great art events are exactly what you need. Here are my picks for what to see, with additional and much more broad listings available at such fine links as this one and this one.
Forward slashes are titular jewels, and no one knows this better than performer/musician/artist/composer/subversive Cory Arcangel, who’s composition/performance Music for Stereos will be performed/installed/recited this Friday, June 11th from 6-7:30PM @ The Art Institute of Chicago‘s Fullerton Hall, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603.
Cory Arcangel
Thanks to a silly license issue (and a tip to the cops from Deb Sokolow’s CIA tails), 65GRAND is going to be closing its doors and relocating after five years and thirty three exhibitions at the third floor apartment of director Bill Gross. Thanks, Bill!
65GRAND
Anni Holm is no Nico, but she’s certainly the busiest artist/director/curator/organizer of Danish origin living in West Chicago that I’ve met so far. For her latest project, Holm has collaborated with artists Lise Haller Baggesen , Gitte Bog, Gudrun Hasle, and Berit Nørgaardon a show exploring social relationships and connections titled I’ll be your Mirror, which has an opening reception this Friday, June 11th from 5-8PM @ Spoke, 119 N Peoria St, 3D.
Anni Holm (bucharest, romania)
While many are still grieving the loss of artist Justin B. Williams, who was killed last May in a tragic accident in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, friends and family can observe a memorial exhibition of his final paintings rediscovered and on display this Saturday, June 12th from 6-10PM @ Monument 2, 2007 N Point St. Keep drinks inside.
Justin B. Williams
chat rooms
This week’s picks from Ryan. Also remember not to forget to miss out on tonight’s debut of Bravo’s Work of Art, the contemporary art reality show featuring Western Exhibition’s John Parot and a few other Chicago artists.
Melvin Martinez
Zachary Buchner, Untitled (Poured Violet Orange)
Sean Duffy, The Palette
Lloyd Durling, Flood
Lance Letscher, Amusing Story
Nik Christensen, Slow Time
Elise Ferguson, Foil Red
for shame
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.
With an install including paintings, hand crank operated canvas loop of faults, and artist books and videos, Deborah Boardman‘s A Porous Space paid for my summer studio in overtime. Though all the way out in the suburbs, the artist was nice enough to arrange a free bus there and back for those interested. The opening is tonight, Thursday, June 3rd from 6:30-8:00 PM @ Gahlberg Gallery, 425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn.
Deborah Boardman, a Porous Space
Noble and Superior have put together a nice pairing of photography from Kate O’Neill (Third Law) and a ruinenwerty installation constructed from common objects by Rebecca Kressley (ON THE SOUTH LOCK OVER SHINE). Show opens Friday, June 4th from 6-10PM @ Noble and Superior Projects, 1418 W Superior St, 2R.
Rebecca Kressley
Britton Bertran of 40000 fame has put back on the curatorial gloves for New Icon, an exhibition at Loyola which fittingly covers contemporary iconography and includes such popular artists as Zachary Buchner, Pamela Fraser, Carrie Gundersdorf, Dan Gunn, Diana Guerrero-Maciá, Brennan McGaffey, William J. O’Brien, Sze Lin Pang and Kevin Wolff. Check out the opening reception this Friday, June 4th from 5:30-7PM @ Loyola University Museum of Art, 820 N Michigan Ave (RSVP required).
Zachary Buchner, Untitled (Pink Yellow)
When I met Eric Fleischauer in the hallway outside his studio a few weeks ago I couldn’t recall what his work looked like, but had I been remembering I would have told him that I really liked it and looked forward to his next show, and then he would have told me that he’s having an opening pretty soon at threewalls. And true enough, Fleischauer’s POST-CURSOR opens this Friday, June 4th from 6-9PM @ threewalls, 119 N Peoria St, 2D.
Eric Fleischaur, The Decisive Moment
This benefit for the Harold Arts Residency promises to be well worth the $15 entry fee, with decor and installations and artwork from contributing artists Jesse Harrod, Brian McNearney, David Moré, Edra Soto, Casey Ann Wasniewski, Duncan R. Anderson, New Catalogue, Dana Carter, Eric Fleischauer, Maggie Haas, Adam Hoff, Jessica Labatte, Brian McNearney, Heidi Norton, Claire Pentecost, Alise Spinella, Carson Fisk-Vittori and Virgil Wong. You know when you see this much red in a preview post there’s a good reason for it! Check it out this Saturday, June 5th at 9PM @ Longman & Eagle Hotel, 2657 N Kedzie Ave.
Alise Spinella, love machine kit #9
Ok, we’re in.
This week’s picks from Ryan with some vacation subs from me. Hey, its been a busy week!
Scott Fortino, Glass Pane
Simparch, Exhausted
Scott Teplin, how something works, "cantilever"
Jaq Sartier, L.Burnt Orange (Net)
Bill Saylor, Sweeper
Daniel Eatock, Wall Shelves Supported by the Objects they Bear
Los Carpinteros, Dibujo Reciclible
are you kid rock?
My picks for this weekend, though the pickings are slim. Check out other listings here and here.
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 must have enlarged his ambitions and his surfaces and sent some of that tight and fun abstraction energy Goss’ way. Show opens (opened) Friday, May 28th from 6-9PM @ebersmoore, 213 N Morgan St, 3C.
Joanna Goss
Sebastian Vallejo presents some retro painting styles before they were common on t-shirts and corporate cafeteria panel art, complete I’m sure with big prismatic sprays, textured paint, and glitter. Check out the opening Friday, May 28th from 6-10PM @ Lloyd Dobler Gallery, 1545 W Division St, 2nd Floor.
Sebastian Vallejo, Light Ballast
Heroes and heroism are on the table at The Pentagon Saves The World, with input from Deborah Stratman, Jim Zimpel, Jesse Avina, Daniel Baird, Jake Myers and the (possible created for this show) Pentagon Education Collective. Show goes up this Saturday, May 29th from 7-11PM @ Pentagon, 961 W 19th St, 1F. Soups on early.
Jessie Avina, In this mode, we shall live again (still)
Normally describing a piece of art as sentimental is a good polite alternative for calling it fucking awful, but artists Eric Yahnker, McIntyre Parker, Emilie Halpern, Michael G. Bauer, and Sidonie Loiseleux take the plunge into sentimentality and emotional content in artwork. Opening reception Saturday, May 29th from 6-9PM @ Golden Age, 119 N Peoria St.
Sidonie Loiseleux, Plate #1
Creating fully linked blog posts is very difficult when tethering from my cellphone’s spotty 3G service!
This week’s picks from Ryan.
JP Munro, Trojan War
Christine Frerichs, Woman (inside-out)
Ester Partegas, Ooze
Timothy Bergstrom, So what about vision
Arturo Herrera, Felt
Natasza Niedziolka, Big Star
Kon Trubkovich, Ghost Town
oh come on!
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:
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 projects), because however amazing they look the materials usually end up back in the trash at the end of the show. That goes double for any and all student assignments involving reclaimed or recycled materials, most of which are just given added toxicity through paint, glue, resin, and other art materials before ended up back in the heap. Still, Jason Middlebrook’s space-filling starburst construction does sound worth checking out, and the drawings look interesting too. Do it this Saturday, May 22nd from 4-7PM @ moniquemeloche, 2154 W Division.
Jason Middlebrook
I reviewed Daniel Sullivan‘s show at Monument 2 a few months ago, and it’ll be interesting to see what he’s been up to since in this competitive sounding pairing with gloopsaic artist Timothy Bergstrom. Show opens Saturday, May 22nd at 6PM @ SubCity Projects, 410 S Michigan Avenue, 1036.
Timothy Bergstrom, The good, the bad and the ugly
This is definitely a show to come out for. Renate Wolff is a German artist who primarily executes large design-heavy wall paintings, and who has installed a very engaging, highly spacial/analytical wall piece titled Skies in between at devening projects. Also featuring works on paper from Berlin artists Christian Bilger, Michael Bause, Ruprecht Dreher, Frank Eltner, Dirk Lebahn, Seraphina Lenz, Christiane Schlosser, Renate Wolff and Julia Ziegler. Opening is this Sunday, May 23rd from 4-7PM @ devening projects + editions, 3039 W Carroll Ave.
Renate Wolff
is there like a glue shit to the canvas seminar??
This week’s picks from Ryan…!
Anthony Discenza, Limits of Poetry
Fabienne Lasserre, Hace Tanto Que No Te Veo
Terry Bozzio
Amy Sillman, The Plumbing
Natascha Snellman, W.C.O.T.Z. Leather
Matthew Ronay, Jiggers
Marcel Vaneeden, 0161
just keep driving
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.
Video from Georgia Wall and performances by Vicki Fowler, Millie Kapp, Isabella Ng, Libby O’Bryan, Ali Scott and Hannah Verrill. Going on this Friday, May 14th from 7:30-10PM @ Attic at 1753, 1753 W Cullerton St.
Frozen Music is a pretty fucking metal way to describe your art, but the pictures I’ve seen suggest sculptor Robert MacNeill isn’t stretching too far. His new show opens Saturday, May 15th from 6-9PM @ iceberg., 7714 N Sheridan.
Robert MacNeill, we fertilized your lawn today
Philip von Zweck moved his medicine cabinet, the former VONZWECK medicine cabinet, to Medicine Cabinet, replacing their medicine cabinet with his own. Opens Saturday, May 15th from 7-11PM @ Medicine Cabinet, 3216 S Morgan St, 4R.
Medicine Cabinet
Good things end and Concertina Gallery was a pretty good thing. For its final exhibition, the gallery is hosting Live Forever, a show about immortality with work by Dave Dyment, Megan Hildebrandt, Jason Lazarus, Tibi Tibi Neuspiel, Ruben Nusz, and Marty Burns. Opens Saturday, May 15th from 6-10PM @ Concertina Gallery, 2351 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor.
Dave Dyment, Oz Misremembered
Steve Reinke, Hobbit Love Is
Here’s some helpful self-promotion: Anni Holm put together a show of work connecting to or inspired by those Skymall magazines you find tucked into seats on flights as part of the mini-artfair she helps run in the suburb of West Chicago. I’m in it, and so is Claus Ankersen, Lise Haller Baggesen, Tom Burtonwood, Mario Contreras, Gemma Correll, Diana Gabriel, Aron Gent, Richard Holland, Holly Holmes, Matt Logan, Mark Osterman, Sara Phalen, Grant Ray, Alison Rhoades, Andrew Rigsby, Victor Yanez-Lazcano, and Matt Austin. Check it out this weekend, Saturday, May 15th from 9AM to 9PM and Sunday, May 16th from 10AM to 2PM @ 203 Turner Ct, in West Chicago.
Steve Ruiz, Gigantic Proportions
See you out.
This week’s picks from Ryan. Thanks, Ryan!
Suse Bauer, Revolutionary male sculpture in the headquarter of a female bank
Liz Markus, Nancy 17
Matthew Palladino, The Rapture
Hadrien Dussoix, You May Find Yourself In A Beautiful House
Fabienne Lasserre, Halsey
Trudy Benson, Tape Deck
Mie Olise Kjaergaard, JET STAR 2
Apartment gallery? What apartment gallery? The gang and me are just having a little fun back there, aren’t we boys? See? Ain’t no apartment gallery here, no sir, no art a’tall. Maybe down the block, maybe by the brickrows – I hear they’ve got apartment galleries goin’ all the time over there. Why you up here, shakin’ down us innocent civilians instead of down there where the real apartment galleries are? So unless you’s got a warrant…
If you stopped by the Swimming Pool Project Space booth at NEXT, or if you were lucky enough to catch the landscape | portrait | still life exhibition curated by Philip von Zweck at Hungry Man, or even if you visit Swimming Pool Project Space’s Irving Park location this weekend for their mother’s day show (Mom’s and Mimosas), you may have run or will run into the work of Chicago photographer and SAIC photography professor Heidi Norton. I’d first encountered her work back in the Site Unspecific show at Dominican University’s O’Connor Gallery (mini reviewed here), and last week I was able to get down to visit her studio to toast some mimosas and see what she’s been up to since.
Heidi Norton
Norton’s work runs a few topics and that afternoon there were two main and somewhat separate projects up for viewing. The first was part of what I’d seen at the O’Connor – a series of east-coast travel photos pointing at and nearly recreating traditional photography forms. In one, a conch shell is displayed in front of a beach sunset. The initial cliche beauty masks some irregularities – the horizontal tangents flatten and clamp space, the window’s screen is erased by blown-out light only, and there’s a subtle Filipino manufacturing tag on the – oh, fake – conch itself. These kinds of subtle maneuvers played all through this body of work, with photos facing kitsch at a wrestler’s crouch.
Heidi Norton, Conch Shell and Sunrise
The main work, however, in progress and partially on display at NEXT, was a series of still life photography referred to as New Age Still Life and consisting of shelved photos having just as much to do with painting theory as anything else. The contraption Norton built to make these photos was impressive itself – a series of suspended Plexiglas plates onto which shelves and objects could be placed and shot overlapping in space. The compression of space by this method is so seamless that I would have been a long time in figuring her method outside of this visit.
For example, she’ll use this:
Heidi Norton
To create this:
Heidi Norton, Higher Self
Norton paints plants white to photograph them, and often rephotographs the same plants after they’ve either died from the suffocating white shell or are in the process of sloughing off the paint film like little postmodern parables. Other objects have been being plucked from the basement of her New Age-y parents and make a quiet first-person insertion into this otherwise more formal and critical looking work.
Heidi Norton
Heidi Norton
Its fun stuff. If you’re up for seeing some of the fresh new fruits of this studio labor, check out Heidi Norton this Sunday, May 9th from 1-5PM @ Swimming Pool Project Space, 2858 W. Montrose.
Here and my picks for this weekend. For many more listings of art events this weekend, go here and or here.
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 and Daniel Lavitt and opens Friday, May 7 from 6-10PM @ Noble and Superior Projects, 1418 W Superior St, 2R.
Brookhart Jonquil, On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox
For Two Black Holes are Better Than One, artists Carmen Price and Erin Zona have created prints and drawings centered on language, sexuality, the night sky, cinema, jazz, work, loss, emoticonography, and time. Opens Friday, May 7th from 6-10PM @ Roots & Culture, 1034 N Milwaukee Ave.
Carmen Price, Kingz Kush
This month’s 12×12 goes to Steve Krakow, musician, historian, curator, illustrator and artist Steve Krakow. If you’re at all interested in Chicago’s music or Chicago itself, you should get down to the MCA. The exhibition opens on Saturday with a party Friday, May 7th from 6-9PM, and the first musical and fun event is actually on Tuesday, May 11th at 6PM @ the Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E Chicago Ave.
Plastic Crimewave, Shel Silverstein
If you’re like me, you’re counting the days until Bravo TV’s Work of Art starts broadcasting and changes everything. One of those waiting comets is Chicago’s own art world celebrity John Parrot, who’s hobbies is up this month at Western Exhibitions along with macabre up and comer Rachel Niffenegger. Check out the openings Saturday, May 8th from 5-8PM @ Western Exhibitions, 119 N Peoria St, 2A.
John Parrot, Animal Style
wave them around
This week’s picks from Ryan, with a bonus one from Ryan.
Tyler Cufley, Untitled (pink swords)
Anthony Goicolea, First Snow
Robin Rhode, Juggla
Alison Brady
UFEX, Sig Sauer #2
Jessica Labatte, Untitled (Gradient Ribbon)
Isa Genzken, Untitled
Andrew Falkowski, Grey Backdrop 3
bake me in a pie
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:
Included for quick reference. Preview night is tonight, Thursday April 29th, from 6-9 PM (its private… well, sort of), with the regular hours Friday and Saturday 11AM – 7PM, and on Sunday 11AM – 6PM, and Monday, 11AM – 4PM. Tickets are $20 or free for people who thought to read this.
Excellent still life photography from Chicago artist Jessica Labatte. Opens this Friday, April 30th from 7-10PM @ GOLDEN, 816 W Newport Ave.
Jessica Labatte, The Economy
A giant MFA show which you will attend to support your friend – however, in a cruel rehearsal of the post-grad experience, you will be unable to find her among the grand assembly of other artists on display. Your text messages will go unnoticed, alerts and vibrations hid in the loud crowd contact. You will give your congratulatory bouquet to a petite ceramics graduate on your way out. Opens Friday, April 30th from 8-10PM @ Sullivan Galleries, 33 S State St, Floor 7.
Kira Mardikes
This month Kavi Gupta is showing off a slice of Tony Tasset’s work from the ten years between 1986 and 1996. Guaranteed to impress, the exhibition opens Saturday, May 1st from 6-9PM @ Kavi Gupta Gallery, 835 W Washington Blvd.
Tony Tasset, Pedestal (leveled)
Nice and dark group show featuring Shane Huffman, Barbara Kasten, Anthony Pearson and Erin Shirreff. If I had to guess, I’d say it’ll have something to do with the unknowns (historical, functional, etc) attached to objects. Opens Saturday, May 1st from 6-8PM @ Shane Campbell Gallery, 1431 W Chicago Ave.
Erin Shirreff, Shiv
Dana DeGiulio makes paintings full of creepy black and white chaos and spidery line-work, but expect something maybe more at her new show with Julius Cæsar. Definitely worth checking out, which you can do this Sunday, May 2nd from 4-7PM @ Julius Cæsar, 3144 W Carroll, Unit 2G.
Dana Degiulio, Quicksand, except lateral, like as per future
I’ll see you there.
This week’s picks from Ryan and one from me:
Suzy Oliveria
Susie Reiss
Paul Thek, Untitled (black-mass...)
Carl Ostendarp, Untitled (Couple Painting - Yellow)
Michaela Eichwald, Trotzdem
Nicholas Byrne, Double Portrait
Jim Hodges, Untitled (Study for Gray)
I”m sitting on my sofa, eating pizza, drinking coffee, listening to cds, and no, I haven’t gotten dressed yet.