The Chicago Art Calendar for Jan 29-Jan 31, 2010

B-Fest at Northwestern University

(thank you Gaper’s Block)

Oh God, it’s B-fest.  Gaper’s Block mentioned it and I had a visceral reaction – memories of my youth flooding back. So here’s your chance: get locked in a building (literally -  if you leave late at night, you can’t re-enter) for 24 hours with young people on acid, and watch movies that are so bad, they’re incredible. It’s like the Rocky Horror Picture Show, everyone’s yelling along with the old standbys, they’re probaby still playing “The Wizard of Space and Time” backwards, just like 20 years ago.

Homelistening #2.3

Date: Saturday, January 30, 2010
Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: MVSEVM, 1626 N California ave #2
**BYOB**

Artist Talk with Aspen Mays

Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010
Time: 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell Avenue

Come to this informal artists talk where you can meet the artist and ask him or her questions! This month features Aspen Mays discussing her work from the exhibition From the Office of Scientists which activates the office cubicle as a site for information production and general inquiry where “big ideas” are generated.

Hollis Sigler found her artistic voice in the unrestrained drawings of her youth, but the Chicago artists vi

brantly colored faux-naive style draws in viewers only to reveal emotion-laden and very personal content. Reflecting on passion, fear, romance, escape, desire, suburban entrapment, and dreams of fame, the psychologically complex narratives each reveal the aftermath of a scenario but leave the viewer to solve the mystery of what has occurred.

The deeply personal and passionate paintings and sculptures of Angel Otero have made a mark on the cultural scene over the past few years. Otero, having just completed his MFA degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago this spring, was one of only four awardees nationwide to receive the prestigious Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the visual arts this year, which will support his work over a two-year period in New York. This exhibition at the Cultural Center will be Otero’s largest solo show to date; it will bring toget

her some 12-15 new works from the artist’s studio and private collections as evidence of his masterful use of materials, as well as revealing his ideas that stem from growing up in Puerto Rico and training in Chicago.

In her largest and most comprehensive exhibition to date, Christine Tarkowski continues to anal

yze the systems of belief that pervade and shape our lives. From large-scale cast iron sculptures that examine the ascent and descent of the automobile to modest etchings of satellites in orbit, her recent work highlights rituals performed in a void. Tarkowski even constructs her own faith-based system for non-existent congregants with a concrete geodesic dome serving as a place of worship and an alt-gospel soundtrack by Jon Langford.

Modernism Again—Some Videos by Anri Sala

Date: Friday, January 29, 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: Art Institute of Chicago, 111 So. Michigan Ave

Michael Fried, Johns Hopkins University, shows and analyzes several works by the young video artist Anri Sala.

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Date: Friday, January 29, 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 10:00pm
Location

:  Noble and Superior Projects, 1418 W Superior St

Featuring the work of Patrick Bobilin and Cara Anne Greene

Work by Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba documenting his ongoing project of running a distance equivalent to the diameter of the earth.

To celebrate the long – awaited release of American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago: From World War I to 1955, a scholarly catalogue showcasing the Art Institute’s expansive permanent collection of American art, the Department of Prints and Drawings has organized this companion exhibition. Approximately 140 prints, drawings, collages, and watercolors from the permanent collection offer the opportunity to ruminate on what constituted “modern” at various moments during the first half of the 20th century.

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.

The Power of Selection, Part 1 & Suitable Video: Works From the Suitable Exhibitions Archive

Date: Saturday, January 30, 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location:  Western Exhibitions, 119 N. Peoria

Work by Alika Cooper, Mike Rea, Allison Schulnick, Marissa Taylor, and Eric Yahnker & Group show curated by Scott Wolniak.

Chicago-based photographer Adam Ekberg will present an artist talk about his exhibition “In the between” at Thomas Robertello Gallery

Paintings

The Eye of a Butterfly

Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 9:00pm – Saturday, January 30, 2010, 1:00am
Location:  Butterfly Social Club, 722 W. Grand Ave.

BUTTERFLY SOCIAL IS HONORED TO PRESENT OUR FIRST FEMALE ART EXHIBITION BY THE LOVELY CAROLINA REYES…COME SHOW SUPPORT TO THIS AMAZING TALENT AND LADIES SUPPORT YOUR FELLOW SISTERS IN THE ART COMMNITY!!!!!!

THE SHOW STARTS @ 9PM AND WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY REGGAE BEATS FROM SPECIAL GUEST DJ PAPA G UNTIL 2AM.
YUMMY ORGANIC DRINK SPECIALS AND NO COVER….YES THIS IS A FREE SHOW SO NO EXCUSES!

” My hope is to leave my audience questioning ideas within themselves and moving them to open the gates of communication, allowing them not to be afraid to express who they are and how they feel.”-CAROLINA REYES