Weekend Highlights: Art Events in Chicago
Erica Peplin
Samuel D. York
At Courtney Blades
1324 W Grand Ave.
Closing Reception: Friday, July 8th, 7:00pm—10:00pm
Sioban Lombardi and Gwendolyn Zabicki: The Exceptional Ordinary
At Robert Bills Contemporary
222 N Desplaines St.
Reception: Friday, July 8th, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
On View: July 8th – August 2nd
Sioban Lombardi and Gwendolyn Zabicki: The Exceptional Ordinary
At Corbett vs. Dempsey
1120 N Ashland Ave
Reception: Friday, July 8th, 5:00pm – 8:00pm
On View: July 8th - August 27th
Mark Handforth Plaza Project
At the Museum of Contemporary Art
220 E Chicago Ave.
Exhibition Opening Day: Friday, July 8th
On View: July 8th – October 10th
Hong Kong-born, Miami-based sculptor Mark Handforth is debuting four new large-scale sculptures at the MCA, all sited on the plaza and the west façade of the building. Handforth typically utilizes materials drawn from everyday civic infrastructure and radically reworks and deforms them into new and exciting configurations.
Space Out, Space In
At Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd.
Reception: Saturday, July 9th, 4:00pm – 7:00pm
On View: July 9th – August 13th
Work by Thorne Brandt, Ken Fandell, Young Joon Kwak, Jesse McLean, Shana Moulton, Jon Rafman, Andy Roche, Ben Russell, Jen Stark and Kirsten Stoltmann. Curated by Scott Wolniak.
Part Wolf
At What It Is
1155 S Lyman Ave, Oak Park
Reception: Saturday, July 9th, 3:00pm – 8:00pm
On View: July 9th – July 30th
An exhibition featuring paintings by three Chicago based artists, Jacon Crose, Chris Holmes and Vaughnda Johnson.
People Don’t Like to Read Art
At Western Exhibitions
119 N Peoria St, 2A
Reception: Saturday, July 9th, 5:00pm – 8:00pm
On View: July 9th – August 13th
While the use of text in contemporary art is fairly commonplace, the artists in this show move beyond the use of single words and phrases by working with paragraphs, lists, fully-formed narratives and book formats, asking viewers to take the time to actively read the work.
The show includes works from several gallery artists: Nicholas Frank’s framed book pages, Adriane Herman’s printmaking and vinyl appliqué work, John Parot’s paintings, a collage from Mark Wagner, and drawings by Joe Hardesty and Deb Sokolow.
Deb Sokolow from People Don't Like to Read Art
US
At Ben Russel
1716 S Morgan St, 2F
Reception: Sunday, July 10th, 4:00pm – 9:00pm
On View: July 10th - July 31st
The artists participating in Ben Russel: US represent a veritable smörgåsbord of artistic alliances as drawn across fraternal, familial, romantic, pedagogical, and altruistic lines. Hand-picked for their collective sensibilities and their beguiling confidence in the generative power of directed camaraderie, these are artists that work together because they live/work/love together – they are US, plain and simple.
