Chicago Art Gallery Winter Openings – January 8, 2010

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Cocktails and Clay

Hyde Park Art Center

5020 S. Cornell Ave.

Kenwood

Opening reception January 8th, 8PM – 12AM

Think night on the town meets playing in the mud. Every 2nd Friday of the month join us for a late night clay-making, dance-partying, gallery-hopping good time. We%u2019ve got 45 minute clay sessions back in our studios, a live DJ and drink specials all night.

Integration: Form/Context/Content (Susan Aurinko)

Finestra Art Space

410 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 516, Chicago, IL

Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 4:30-9:30 pm

Work from Susan Aurinko

Queen of Heaven: Photographs by John Allan Faier

Chicago Cultural Center

78 E. Washington St.

Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 8PM
Closes March 28th

Michigan Avenue Galleries Chicago-based photographer John Allan Faier%u2019s large format digital color photographs of mausoleums and their lobbies suggest a paradox in their lush treatment of this somewhat culturally taboo subject. The formal qualities of the photographs and the architectural spaces represented are evocative and at times provocative in their incongruity with the subject matter.

Up is Down: Paintings by Joel Sheesley

Chicago Cultural Center

78 E. Washington St.

Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 8PM
Closes April 4th

Michigan Avenue Galleries These large-scale, highly representational paintings focus on the world reflected in the same two puddles outside the artist’s home. By focusing on the myriad of details and in the ambience created by the passing light, the artist opens up a whole new world of observation and creates a sense of mystery from the mundane. Sheesley lives in Wheaton and is a Professor of Art at Wheaton College.

R and R …… and R

Chicago Cultural Center

78 E. Washington St.

Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 8PM
Closes April 4th

Michigan Avenue Galleries Pittsburgh-based Susanne Slavick has created a dialogue of “Crestoration” in her over-painted photographs depicting the destruction in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon. By alluding to historical, mythological, and ornamental details in the added painting, she invites us to think differently about the area’s past, present, and future and just possibly begin the healing process.

Go Figure

Fine Arts Building

410 S. Michigan Ave.

Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 8PM
Closes February 7th

Work depicting the human figure by members of the Fine Arts Building Artists Collective.

Exquisite Pain

Finestra Art Space

410 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 516, Chicago, IL

Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 9PM
Closes January 30th

Photos by Susan Aurinko focusing on ballet.

2nd Annual Evolving Artists Competition

Beverly Art Center

2407 W. 111th St.

Morgan Park

Opening reception January 8th, 7PM
Closes January 30th

Competition open to artists age 21-35. (Including BAC staff, faculty and Young Adult Board members). Hosted by the BAC Young Adult Board. 2010 Judge: Alice McMahon White.

Jack Higgins

Beverly Art Center

2407 W. 111th St.

Morgan Park

Opening reception January 8th, 7PM – 9PM
Closes January 22nd

Political cartoons by the Chicago Sun-Times cartoonist.

iPHONE THEREFORE iART

Chicago Art Department

1837 South Halsted

Pilsen

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 10PM

Chicago Art Department is pleased to present 25 artists from around the world, all exploring the iPhone as creative tool.

True Variations

Logsdon Gallery

1909 S. Halsted St.

Pilsen

Opening reception January 8th
Closes February 6th

Jim Dee: New Paintings

Cheat Codes: Lessons in Love

Antena

1765 S. Laflin St.

Pilsen

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 10PM
Closes February 6th

Group show of video art.

2nd Fridays Opening

Playful Zen

2147 S. Lumber, studio 516 Chicago, IL 60616

Pilsen

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 10PM
Closes January 31st

Featured Artists: Jacqueline Roig, Nicole Villeneuve, Rox Mund, Anthony Misceo, Robert C.V. Lieberman, Mike Devlin The act of finding meaning in the discarded or in the mundane, everyday environment that surrounds us takes resource, careful attention, and guile. Similarly, the act of loss requires just as much care when forgetting or carelessness when it comes to misplacement. PlayfulZen LLC Gallery%u2019s featured artists work across media and concepts but converge upon their interest in the act of discovery and in masking former interests.

Retrospect

Vespine Gallery

1907 S. Halsted

Pilsen

Opening reception January 8th, 7PM – 10PM
Closes January 29th

The final exhibition at this seven-year-old gallery features artists whose work has previously been shown at Vespine.

2nd FRIDAYS Gallery Night

Chicago Arts District

1945 S. Halsted St.

Pilsen

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 10PM

30 area galleries/creative spaces

New Works by Bridget Bolger

South Halsted Gallery

1825 S Halsted St

Pilsen

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 9PM

Elizabeth Ernst

Catherine Edelman

300 W. Superior

River North

Opening reception January 8th
Closes February 27th, 5:30 PM

Description coming soon

Robert Middaugh

Printworks Gallery

311 W Superior St, Suite 105, Chicago, IL

River North

Opening reception January 8th
Closes February 13th

New acrylic drawings and 3-D constructions

JOHN FRASER: OBJECT LESSON: CONTINUATION NEW COMBINATIONS

Roy Boyd

739 NORTH WELLS STREET

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes March 2nd

Luis Gonzalez Palma: Depiction New Portraits

Schneider Gallery

230 West Superior St

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM
Closes February 27th

The Schneider Gallery is pleased to present the new work Luis Gonzalez Palma. Depiction will feature the new portraits by Palma; these works capture the visages of “modern women” as seen by the artist as well as Guatemalan bodyguards. As always, there is something haunting to the gaze of his subjects, something alluring, penetrating, strong yet subtle, forceful yet quiet. The treatment of the bodyguard pieces is noteworthy.

Annual Small Works Show

Gallery KH

311 W. Superior St.

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes February 22nd

Two Centuries: An Architectural Evolution

ArchiTech

730 North Franklin Street

River North

Opening reception January 8th
Closes March 27th

“Two Centuries: An Architectural Evolution” opens in a commercial exhibit of original drawings, prints and photographs from the mid-Nineteenth to the mid-Twentieth Centuries

8 ROOMS, 7 MIRRORS, 6 CLOCKS, 2 MINDS

Catherine Edelman

300 W. Superior

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes March 6th

Photographs by Lauren E. Simonutti.

Abstraction

Perimeter Gallery

210 W. Superior St.

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes February 6th

Work by Keiko Hara, Kathleen Holder, Shoichi Ida, and others.

Robert Guinan

Ann Nathan Gallery

212 W. Superior Street

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes February 12th

For thirty six years, artist Robert Guinan has used Chicago’s moody blues clubs, skidrow memories, lonely el trains, etc. as the setting for his Ashcan School reminiscent paintings. Guinan’s work is new to Chicago audiences- the Chicago artist using the city of big shoulders as his exclusive locale has been solely represented in Paris at Galerie Albert Loeb since 1973. Robert Guinan’s exhibition will open at Ann Nathan Gallery on Friday January 8th. Call 312.664.6622 for further information.

New Wave

Jean Albano Gallery

215 W. Superior

River North

Opening reception January 8th
Closes February 28th

Group show, curated by Emanuel Aguilar, featuring gallery artists and new young talent.

American Prints

Russell Bowman

311 West Superior

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5:30PM – 8PM
Closes March 20th

Including works by Avery, Motherwell, Diebenkorn, Pearlstein, Nutt, Brown, Fischl, Dunham, Marshall

Yin

Melanee Cooper Gallery

740 N. Franklin

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes February 26th

Rimi Yang, Asian abstract figurative painter; David Ambrose, watercolor & pierced gouache

Nathalie Guarracino

Gruen Gallery

226 W Superior Street

River North

Opening reception January 8th

Abstract oil on canvas

Out of Chicago

Jennifer Norback Fine Art, Inc.

217 W Huron Ave, Chicago IL 60654

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes January 26th

“Out of Chicago” focuses on two emerging multidisiplinary Chicago Artists working within a variety of media and style in support of their individual conceptual visions. Unlike artists who work consistently in one media, all media possibilities are considered. In this exhibit Castleman and Tubbs display work investigating notions of displacement, escape and departure.

Winter group show of fine craft

Vale Craft

230 W. Superior St.

River North

Opening reception January 8th
Closes April 10th

Crafts by artists including Kent Williams, Eric Slawson, Alan Carter, and Richard Parrish.

Structure and Space

David Weinberg Gallery

300 W. Superior

River North

Opening reception January 8th
Closes February 20th

Photographs by Michael Parker and paintings by Daniel Kim

Prostrate

Zg

300 W. Superior St.

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5:30PM – 7:30PM
Closes February 20th

Paintings and drawings by Gregory Jacobsen.

Gallery Nights

Byron Roche Gallery

750 N. Franklin, Suite 201

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM

Join us in River North this Thursday and Friday for the first big gallery nights of the year. We will be featuring work by several gallery artists, and will also have on hand antique Mexican Retablos and Prairie and Mission style furniture from Byron%u2019s personal collections that have never been shown before.

Invoking the Unknown

Gallery KH

311 W. Superior St.

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM

Artist: Rick Stevens

Group show with gallery artists

Habatat Galleries

222 West Superior Street

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 7PM

Mr. Imagination

Judy A Saslow Gallery

300 W. Superior, Chicago, IL

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM

A Strong Start to the New Year! Steven Blutter Francois Burland Ed Ott Steven Blutter and Ed Ott will be present

WEATHERBEE’S REVENGE

ebersbmoore

213 N. Morgan, #3c

West Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 9PM
Closes February 6th

Artist: Mark Mulroney

Richard Rezac

Rhona Hoffman Gallery

118 North Peoria St.

West Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 7PM
Closes February 13th

Sculptures and drawings.

Fine Art Rescue Deux

Architrouve, The

1433 West Chicago Ave.

West Loop

Opening reception January 8th
Closes March 12th

LE CIRQUE DE L’ARMÉE ROUGE

Dubhe Carreño

118 N. Peoria St. 2nd Fl.

West Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes March 5th

Anne Drew Potter’s figurative installation

3 Solo Shows

Packer Schopf

942 W Lake St, Chicago, IL

West Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes February 13th

Jason Lahr, DEATHMETALHIPPIEKILLER, paintings and drawings Tim Vermeulen, Moby Dick, paintings Gene Hamilton, Vent Figure Fun! (Ventriloquist Dummy Portraits), paintings

Bohdan Soroka

Ukrainian National Museum

2249 W. Superior Chicago, IL

West Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 7PM
Closes January 30th

Graphic Art

Must Be Fresh!

Walsh

118 N. Peoria St.

West Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes January 30th

Sculptural installation and photography by Han Seok-Hyun.

Square One

Robert Wayner/Black Walnut

220 N. Aberdeen

West Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 9PM
Closes January 31st

Abstract work by Christene Chew-Wallace, Melanie Brown, Aaron Wooten, Mays Mayhew, Katherine Restko, and Kim Thorpe.

Ron Laboray

Peter Miller Gallery

118 N Peoria St

West Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes February 13th

Paintings.

Touring Big Cake Country

Eyeporium

1543 N. Milwaukee Ave.

Wicker Park

Opening reception January 8th, 7PM – 10PM
Closes January 30th

work by Teresa Petersen

Deus ex Machina

E. Myrus Car Gallery

2112 West LeMoyne Avenue, chicago, il 60622

Wicker Park

Opening reception January 8th, 7:00 PM
Closes January 15th, 8:00 PM

In this unique venue, God will appear from the hatchback and conveniently and unexpectedly help an audience member overcome a previously believed insolvable difficulty.

Michelle Menzies

DOVA Temporary Gallery

6016 South Ingleside Avenue

Woodlawn

Opening reception January 8th
Closes January 30th

Concoction – New artwork by Chad Kouri

Rotofugi

1953-55 W. Chicago Ave.

East Village

Opening reception January 8th, 7PM – 10PM
Closes December 24th

Concoction is Kouri’s first solo exhibition. The work, most of which is paper collage with found materials and assorted ephemera, explores the collage medium from a distinctly knowledgeable design perspective. The result is a sampling of artwork that will no doubt establish Kouri in a fine-art medium to accompany his presence in the design and curatorial fields.

Crowns

65Grand

1378 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL

East Village

Opening reception January 8th, 7PM – 10PM
Closes January 23rd

Paintings and drawings by Kim Piotrowski

In Stereo

Rotofugi

1953-55 W. Chicago Ave.

East Village

Opening reception January 8th, 7PM – 10PM
Closes January 24th

Work by Netherland, aka David van Alphen.

Kina Bagovska: “The Running Lights”, Mixed Media

ARC Gallery

832 W. Superior St. #204

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 9PM
Closes January 30th

Kina Bagovskas paintings search for translucency, reflection, and refraction through use of papers and clear foils. She looks to the reflections surrounding us to create a different world that is unreal, dymanic and changing. Backdrops of neutral paint tones serve as windows through which the layers are revealed. Juxtaposed layers create movement and depth in space. Kina has had many solo and group exhibitions in Bulgaria, Finland, Switzerland, Poland and America. Since 2000, she has lived in Chicago, working as a journalist for Bulgarian newspapers and as a teacher at Triton College.

Dylan A. T. Miner: “In the Shell of the Old” Relief Prints with Wall painting and Installation

ARC Gallery

832 W. Superior St. #204

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 9PM
Closes January 30th

Telling stories of the daily struggles faced by working in the building and the dismantling of the rural and industrial Midwest, Dylan A. T. Miner’s bold and unique vision valorizes the perseverance that contributes to the small victories of the everyday. Through the medium of politically charged relief prints and installation, Miner viscerally connects our daily concerns with those of the past by compelling us to act toward the building of “another” possibly better world.

Barb Blacharczyk and Allison Svoboda: “The Energy of Flowing Forms” Ink on Paper or Silk

ARC Gallery

832 W. Superior St. #204

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 9PM
Closes January 30th

The subject of water in Barb’s work is a metaphor for the mysterious energy present in the natural world. She is particualarly interested in the expression of this invisible energy in the flow of water and the eventual emergence of form. Allison works with simple materials, the paper and ink take on a quality that is both ethereal and enduring at the same time. She works quickly on hundreds of sketches and then spends more time digesting the image as she assembles the collage. The final image takes on the quality of fractals and movement found in all natural forms.

Cocktails and Clay

Hyde Park Art Center

5020 S. Cornell Ave.

Kenwood

Opening reception January 8th, 8PM – 12AM

Think night on the town meets playing in the mud. Every 2nd Friday of the month join us for a late night clay-making, dance-partying, gallery-hopping good time. We%u2019ve got 45 minute clay sessions back in our studios, a live DJ and drink specials all night.

Integration: Form/Context/Content (Susan Aurinko)

Finestra Art Space

410 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 516, Chicago, IL

Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 4:30-9:30 pm

Work from Susan Aurinko

Queen of Heaven: Photographs by John Allan Faier

Chicago Cultural Center

78 E. Washington St.

Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 8PM
Closes March 28th

Michigan Avenue Galleries Chicago-based photographer John Allan Faier%u2019s large format digital color photographs of mausoleums and their lobbies suggest a paradox in their lush treatment of this somewhat culturally taboo subject. The formal qualities of the photographs and the architectural spaces represented are evocative and at times provocative in their incongruity with the subject matter.

Up is Down: Paintings by Joel Sheesley

Chicago Cultural Center

78 E. Washington St.

Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 8PM
Closes April 4th

Michigan Avenue Galleries These large-scale, highly representational paintings focus on the world reflected in the same two puddles outside the artist’s home. By focusing on the myriad of details and in the ambience created by the passing light, the artist opens up a whole new world of observation and creates a sense of mystery from the mundane. Sheesley lives in Wheaton and is a Professor of Art at Wheaton College.

R and R …… and R

Chicago Cultural Center

78 E. Washington St.

Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 8PM
Closes April 4th

Michigan Avenue Galleries Pittsburgh-based Susanne Slavick has created a dialogue of “Crestoration” in her over-painted photographs depicting the destruction in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon. By alluding to historical, mythological, and ornamental details in the added painting, she invites us to think differently about the area’s past, present, and future and just possibly begin the healing process.

Go Figure

Fine Arts Building

410 S. Michigan Ave.

Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 8PM
Closes February 7th

Work depicting the human figure by members of the Fine Arts Building Artists Collective.

Exquisite Pain

Finestra Art Space

410 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 516, Chicago, IL

Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 9PM
Closes January 30th

Photos by Susan Aurinko focusing on ballet.

2nd Annual Evolving Artists Competition

Beverly Art Center

2407 W. 111th St.

Morgan Park

Opening reception January 8th, 7PM
Closes January 30th

Competition open to artists age 21-35. (Including BAC staff, faculty and Young Adult Board members). Hosted by the BAC Young Adult Board. 2010 Judge: Alice McMahon White.

Jack Higgins

Beverly Art Center

2407 W. 111th St.

Morgan Park

Opening reception January 8th, 7PM – 9PM
Closes January 22nd

Political cartoons by the Chicago Sun-Times cartoonist.

iPHONE THEREFORE iART

Chicago Art Department

1837 South Halsted

Pilsen

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 10PM

Chicago Art Department is pleased to present 25 artists from around the world, all exploring the iPhone as creative tool.

True Variations

Logsdon Gallery

1909 S. Halsted St.

Pilsen

Opening reception January 8th
Closes February 6th

Jim Dee: New Paintings

Cheat Codes: Lessons in Love

Antena

1765 S. Laflin St.

Pilsen

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 10PM
Closes February 6th

Group show of video art.

2nd Fridays Opening

Playful Zen

2147 S. Lumber, studio 516 Chicago, IL 60616

Pilsen

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 10PM
Closes January 31st

Featured Artists: Jacqueline Roig, Nicole Villeneuve, Rox Mund, Anthony Misceo, Robert C.V. Lieberman, Mike Devlin The act of finding meaning in the discarded or in the mundane, everyday environment that surrounds us takes resource, careful attention, and guile. Similarly, the act of loss requires just as much care when forgetting or carelessness when it comes to misplacement. PlayfulZen LLC Gallery%u2019s featured artists work across media and concepts but converge upon their interest in the act of discovery and in masking former interests.

Retrospect

Vespine Gallery

1907 S. Halsted

Pilsen

Opening reception January 8th, 7PM – 10PM
Closes January 29th

The final exhibition at this seven-year-old gallery features artists whose work has previously been shown at Vespine.

2nd FRIDAYS Gallery Night

Chicago Arts District

1945 S. Halsted St.

Pilsen

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 10PM

30 area galleries/creative spaces

New Works by Bridget Bolger

South Halsted Gallery

1825 S Halsted St

Pilsen

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 9PM

Elizabeth Ernst

Catherine Edelman

300 W. Superior

River North

Opening reception January 8th
Closes February 27th, 5:30 PM

Description coming soon

Robert Middaugh

Printworks Gallery

311 W Superior St, Suite 105, Chicago, IL

River North

Opening reception January 8th
Closes February 13th

New acrylic drawings and 3-D constructions

JOHN FRASER: OBJECT LESSON: CONTINUATION NEW COMBINATIONS

Roy Boyd

739 NORTH WELLS STREET

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes March 2nd

Luis Gonzalez Palma: Depiction New Portraits

Schneider Gallery

230 West Superior St

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM
Closes February 27th

The Schneider Gallery is pleased to present the new work Luis Gonzalez Palma. Depiction will feature the new portraits by Palma; these works capture the visages of “modern women” as seen by the artist as well as Guatemalan bodyguards. As always, there is something haunting to the gaze of his subjects, something alluring, penetrating, strong yet subtle, forceful yet quiet. The treatment of the bodyguard pieces is noteworthy.

Annual Small Works Show

Gallery KH

311 W. Superior St.

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes February 22nd

Two Centuries: An Architectural Evolution

ArchiTech

730 North Franklin Street

River North

Opening reception January 8th
Closes March 27th

“Two Centuries: An Architectural Evolution” opens in a commercial exhibit of original drawings, prints and photographs from the mid-Nineteenth to the mid-Twentieth Centuries

8 ROOMS, 7 MIRRORS, 6 CLOCKS, 2 MINDS

Catherine Edelman

300 W. Superior

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes March 6th

Photographs by Lauren E. Simonutti.

Abstraction

Perimeter Gallery

210 W. Superior St.

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes February 6th

Work by Keiko Hara, Kathleen Holder, Shoichi Ida, and others.

Robert Guinan

Ann Nathan Gallery

212 W. Superior Street

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes February 12th

For thirty six years, artist Robert Guinan has used Chicago’s moody blues clubs, skidrow memories, lonely el trains, etc. as the setting for his Ashcan School reminiscent paintings. Guinan’s work is new to Chicago audiences- the Chicago artist using the city of big shoulders as his exclusive locale has been solely represented in Paris at Galerie Albert Loeb since 1973. Robert Guinan’s exhibition will open at Ann Nathan Gallery on Friday January 8th. Call 312.664.6622 for further information.

New Wave

Jean Albano Gallery

215 W. Superior

River North

Opening reception January 8th
Closes February 28th

Group show, curated by Emanuel Aguilar, featuring gallery artists and new young talent.

American Prints

Russell Bowman

311 West Superior

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5:30PM – 8PM
Closes March 20th

Including works by Avery, Motherwell, Diebenkorn, Pearlstein, Nutt, Brown, Fischl, Dunham, Marshall

Yin

Melanee Cooper Gallery

740 N. Franklin

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes February 26th

Rimi Yang, Asian abstract figurative painter; David Ambrose, watercolor & pierced gouache

Nathalie Guarracino

Gruen Gallery

226 W Superior Street

River North

Opening reception January 8th

Abstract oil on canvas

Out of Chicago

Jennifer Norback Fine Art, Inc.

217 W Huron Ave, Chicago IL 60654

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes January 26th

“Out of Chicago” focuses on two emerging multidisiplinary Chicago Artists working within a variety of media and style in support of their individual conceptual visions. Unlike artists who work consistently in one media, all media possibilities are considered. In this exhibit Castleman and Tubbs display work investigating notions of displacement, escape and departure.

Winter group show of fine craft

Vale Craft

230 W. Superior St.

River North

Opening reception January 8th
Closes April 10th

Crafts by artists including Kent Williams, Eric Slawson, Alan Carter, and Richard Parrish.

Structure and Space

David Weinberg Gallery

300 W. Superior

River North

Opening reception January 8th
Closes February 20th

Photographs by Michael Parker and paintings by Daniel Kim

Prostrate

Zg

300 W. Superior St.

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5:30PM – 7:30PM
Closes February 20th

Paintings and drawings by Gregory Jacobsen.

Gallery Nights

Byron Roche Gallery

750 N. Franklin, Suite 201

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM

Join us in River North this Thursday and Friday for the first big gallery nights of the year. We will be featuring work by several gallery artists, and will also have on hand antique Mexican Retablos and Prairie and Mission style furniture from Byron%u2019s personal collections that have never been shown before.

Invoking the Unknown

Gallery KH

311 W. Superior St.

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM

Artist: Rick Stevens

Group show with gallery artists

Habatat Galleries

222 West Superior Street

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 7PM

Mr. Imagination

Judy A Saslow Gallery

300 W. Superior, Chicago, IL

River North

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM

A Strong Start to the New Year! Steven Blutter Francois Burland Ed Ott Steven Blutter and Ed Ott will be present

WEATHERBEE’S REVENGE

ebersbmoore

213 N. Morgan, #3c

West Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 9PM
Closes February 6th

Artist: Mark Mulroney

Richard Rezac

Rhona Hoffman Gallery

118 North Peoria St.

West Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 7PM
Closes February 13th

Sculptures and drawings.

Fine Art Rescue Deux

Architrouve, The

1433 West Chicago Ave.

West Loop

Opening reception January 8th
Closes March 12th

LE CIRQUE DE L’ARMÉE ROUGE

Dubhe Carreño

118 N. Peoria St. 2nd Fl.

West Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes March 5th

Anne Drew Potter’s figurative installation

3 Solo Shows

Packer Schopf

942 W Lake St, Chicago, IL

West Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes February 13th

Jason Lahr, DEATHMETALHIPPIEKILLER, paintings and drawings Tim Vermeulen, Moby Dick, paintings Gene Hamilton, Vent Figure Fun! (Ventriloquist Dummy Portraits), paintings

Bohdan Soroka

Ukrainian National Museum

2249 W. Superior Chicago, IL

West Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 7PM
Closes January 30th

Graphic Art

Must Be Fresh!

Walsh

118 N. Peoria St.

West Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes January 30th

Sculptural installation and photography by Han Seok-Hyun.

Square One

Robert Wayner/Black Walnut

220 N. Aberdeen

West Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 9PM
Closes January 31st

Abstract work by Christene Chew-Wallace, Melanie Brown, Aaron Wooten, Mays Mayhew, Katherine Restko, and Kim Thorpe.

Ron Laboray

Peter Miller Gallery

118 N Peoria St

West Loop

Opening reception January 8th, 5PM – 8PM
Closes February 13th

Paintings.

Touring Big Cake Country

Eyeporium

1543 N. Milwaukee Ave.

Wicker Park

Opening reception January 8th, 7PM – 10PM
Closes January 30th

work by Teresa Petersen

Deus ex Machina

E. Myrus Car Gallery

2112 West LeMoyne Avenue, chicago, il 60622

Wicker Park

Opening reception January 8th, 7:00 PM
Closes January 15th, 8:00 PM

In this unique venue, God will appear from the hatchback and conveniently and unexpectedly help an audience member overcome a previously believed insolvable difficulty.

Michelle Menzies

DOVA Temporary Gallery

6016 South Ingleside Avenue

Woodlawn

Opening reception January 8th
Closes January 30th

Concoction – New artwork by Chad Kouri

Rotofugi

1953-55 W. Chicago Ave.

East Village

Opening reception January 8th, 7PM – 10PM
Closes December 24th

Concoction is Kouri’s first solo exhibition. The work, most of which is paper collage with found materials and assorted ephemera, explores the collage medium from a distinctly knowledgeable design perspective. The result is a sampling of artwork that will no doubt establish Kouri in a fine-art medium to accompany his presence in the design and curatorial fields.

Crowns

65Grand

1378 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL

East Village

Opening reception January 8th, 7PM – 10PM
Closes January 23rd

Paintings and drawings by Kim Piotrowski

In Stereo

Rotofugi

1953-55 W. Chicago Ave.

East Village

Opening reception January 8th, 7PM – 10PM
Closes January 24th

Work by Netherland, aka David van Alphen.

Kina Bagovska: “The Running Lights”, Mixed Media

ARC Gallery

832 W. Superior St. #204

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 9PM
Closes January 30th

Kina Bagovskas paintings search for translucency, reflection, and refraction through use of papers and clear foils. She looks to the reflections surrounding us to create a different world that is unreal, dymanic and changing. Backdrops of neutral paint tones serve as windows through which the layers are revealed. Juxtaposed layers create movement and depth in space. Kina has had many solo and group exhibitions in Bulgaria, Finland, Switzerland, Poland and America. Since 2000, she has lived in Chicago, working as a journalist for Bulgarian newspapers and as a teacher at Triton College.

Dylan A. T. Miner: “In the Shell of the Old” Relief Prints with Wall painting and Installation

ARC Gallery

832 W. Superior St. #204

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 9PM
Closes January 30th

Telling stories of the daily struggles faced by working in the building and the dismantling of the rural and industrial Midwest, Dylan A. T. Miner’s bold and unique vision valorizes the perseverance that contributes to the small victories of the everyday. Through the medium of politically charged relief prints and installation, Miner viscerally connects our daily concerns with those of the past by compelling us to act toward the building of “another” possibly better world.

Barb Blacharczyk and Allison Svoboda: “The Energy of Flowing Forms” Ink on Paper or Silk

ARC Gallery

832 W. Superior St. #204

Opening reception January 8th, 6PM – 9PM
Closes January 30th

The subject of water in Barb’s work is a metaphor for the mysterious energy present in the natural world. She is particualarly interested in the expression of this invisible energy in the flow of water and the eventual emergence of form. Allison works with simple materials, the paper and ink take on a quality that is both ethereal and enduring at the same time. She works quickly on hundreds of sketches and then spends more time digesting the image as she assembles the collage. The final image takes on the quality of fractals and movement found in all natural forms.