I Am Logan Square presents the February gallery opening, “Film Is Dead: Edges of The Digital Frame”. This exhibition is a radical video exhibition that celebrates the new wave of underground cinema. The works of Nelson Carvajal and Amir George represent an underexposed avenue of truly independent filmmaking. The opening reception will be held at the IALS gallery, 2644 N. Milwaukee Ave. Revolution Brewing will be providing its signature bacon fat popcorn and seasonal beer for the reception accompanied by delicious treats by Paper Moon Pastry.

Works by Robin Dluzen; Photographs produced by New Bound Media. Curated by MK Meador. Employing salvaged cardboard to construct her water tower support structures, Dluzen draws parallels to the scavenging history of the forms. The individual sculptures are lined up and stacked on top of one another to create a skyline composed entirely of these formerly functional objects. In this way, Dluzen presents the supports and the city’s landscape in a new light, and restores a bit of this outmoded architecture’s glory. Viewing hours are from 12pm-4pm Saturday and Sunday or by appointment.

Curated by Becca Schlossberg and Hannah Klemm. Robert Bills Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Issuing Forth. This group exhibition presents new work by four artists who interrogate, extend, and experiment with the possibilities of painting. Building up, off, and around the traditionally flat plane, these four artists employ distinctive strategies that test both the potential and the limitations of the medium. Each artist creates new supports for the painted surface through a variety of methods and techniques. Resisting traditional painterly methods and artistic methodologies, their work demonstrates ways in which the historical and material trajectory of painting may be redirected to new ends in the contemporary moment. Zoe Nelson dramatizes the division between painted surface and negative space by cutting into the canvas. The cuts, and cut-out shapes and negative spaces produced by them, become key compositional elements. Through an emphasis on addition and subtraction, concealing and revealing, Nelson’s work actively rethinks the acknowledged unity of the object, surface, and frame. Combining a variety of materials such as painted canvas, paper, glass and panels with lean-to wooden structures, Timothy McMullen pushes the concerns of painting into three-dimensional space. McMullen translates elements of the language of painting into the realm of sculpture by inserting two-dimensional media into different spatial and structural frameworks. Josh Reames approximates the material qualities of painting without recourse to a brush. He eschews conventional gestural application, instead mimicking or mirroring its effects. Reames selects alternative tools such as airbrush, palette knife, and paint straight from the tube to reinterpret painterly conventions in a new way. Benjamin Chaffee’s previous work in performance and installation has often addressed and interrogated the act of painting and the conditions necessary for its execution. His new work shows a deep fascination with the materiality, finish, and function of a painted surface and its supports. The resultant objects serve as potential props for a heretofore-unrealized performance, existing in between description and invention.

Survey: Watie White

Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S. Morgan St.
Bridgeport

Opening reception February 3rd, 6-8PM
Closes February 17th

The Chicago Project is highlighting the work of artist Watie White. An intermediary, whose traditional selection of mediums, printmaking, painting and drawing, benefits White’s exquisite skill in interpreting our fundamental experiences. A catalog of the Chicago Project will be available at the Teachers Lounge Project Space at DePaul University. The Chicago Project is curated by Jim Duignan.

It is with great pleasure that Corbett vs. Dempsey presents Negative Joy, a show of new work by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung. In her CvsD debut, Zuckerman-Hartung continues a deeply inquisitive exploration of painting as a primary practice, investigating its material raptures, intellectual speed-bumps, and conceptual limits. Zuckerman-Hartung, who was raised in Olympia, Washington, and now lives and teaches in Chicago, simultaneously has an adoring relationship with paint – its gooey, viscous, repulsive, sexy physicality – and is also instinctively skeptical of its fetishistic power. Working abstractly, in relatively small scale, she reaches into a deep trick-bag, pouring, spraying, incising, collaging, assemblaging, linking, amputating, and otherwise thoroughly working and reworking her canvases. An earlier interest in modernist geometry has been subsumed in a much wider array of effects, blasting open cubist facets and placing them in an explosive array of textures, colors, and even images. Ferociously original and intent on maintaining a permanent personal revolution, Zuckerman-Hartung has rapidly become one of the most visible artists of her generation to emerge in Chicago. Recent exhibitions have included Anna Kustera Gallery (New York) and Spazio Cabinet (Milan), and in upcoming months she will be featured in one-person exhibitions at Jacky Strenz (Frankfurt) in March, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) in May. Negative Joy is accompanied by a 44-page catalog featuring full-color reproductions of the paintings and a conversation between John Corbett and Zuckerman-Hartung.

In the East Wing: MIROSLAV TICHY In the East Wing, CvsD is delighted to present the first Chicago exhibition of work by the maverick Czech photographer Miroslav Tichy (1926-2011). Known for his materially distressed pictures of women in the artist’s hometown of Kyjov, taken on one of several handmade cardboard cameras starting in the 1960s, Tichy’s unique and hermetic images have a mystery and allure that is darkly leering, funny, and often strangely tender. The New York Times called the work an “uncanny fusion of eroticism, paranoia and deliberation.” For some of the prints – which are unique, not editioned –  he created quizzical colored-paper frames, crudely decorated with ballpoint pen. Not quite like any other contemporary photographer, Tichy’s work only came to light in 2004, but since then he has been the subject of many solo exhibitions from Beijing and Tokyo to Paris and London. His first U.S. exhibition was in New York in 2005; in 2010, the International Center for Photography (New York) presented an expansive solo retrospective.

April Behnke Caitlin Berndt Garrett Durant Magalie Guerin Antonia Gurkovska Chinatsu Ikeda Osamu Kobayashi Nazafarin Lotfi Brian Maller Nick Ostoff Mario Romano Kellie Romany Carly Silverman Erin Washington Eros Zhao The Question of Their Content surveys the work of fifteen recent graduate students from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago who explore the ethos of abstraction and the non-objective. Literal depictions are variably reformed and reduced to rudimentary shapes, loose brush work, and informal mediums to depart from conventional symbolic tropes and loaded imagery. The resulting forms dispose images of any easily discernible vintage or origination. The works then exist as a complex sensory experience; independent of influence, like a visual equivalent to atonal music. The viewer approaches each terse description with abandoned ideals in order to focus on the physicality and expression of the mark.

Linda Warren Projects is proud to announce the opening of Alex O’Neal’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, “Migraine Weather, Delta Donuts” in Gallery Y, in which, as the title suggests, two prominent formal aspects of imagery have emerged in his latest body of work: migraine auras and donuts. And Nicole Gordon’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, “Asylum”, in Gallery X, further exemplifies her practice of extending the two-dimensional realm of her paintings into installations, creating sculpture and objects from elements within her pictorial plane and providing the viewer another way to experience her strange and surrealistic vision. Axiomatic to both artists are their creation of highly distinct, visually loaded and idiosyncratic subject matter. This includes constructs that are a kind of private personal theater full of enigmatic characters, narratives, set design and costumes that mesh their individual life experiences and stories with the art historical influences they are both drawn to and compelled by.

Kavi Gupta is pleased to announce our first solo exhibition for Antonia Gurkovska entitled Index. Using materials that stand on the periphery of painterly tradition, such as vinyl, latex, staples, packing material, and found fabrics, Gurkovska’s works are critical of the repetitious gestures, marks and interior formal structures that define their aesthetic. Reminiscent of artists Lucio Fontana, Gustav Metzger and Rudolf Stingel the works Gurkovska has included in Index are deliberate in their rough hewn state and almost always involve a cutting or puncturing of the pictorial plane. Works like the eponymous Index (2011) or Holes Of Steel (2011) are epitomic of Gurkovska’s use of negative space or the absence of material as a primary subject in a work’s composition. However, unlike the Arte Povera approach of Fontana, Gurkovska’s work often presents this canvas cutting only to unveil a secondary plane beneath, suggesting that the aesthetic structure that gives a work its form is never singular, but multiple and fractal.

new works by MONTGOMERY KIM. In our era of super-technologies and hyper-infrastructures, the gap between body and mind seems to become exponentially smaller and blurred. The link between the physical world around us and ideology seamlessly blend into one another, as one is borne from the other in no discernible order. The niches we establish are formed by ever more calculated measures, which we perceive as extensions of our selves. In so doing, our person- our physical being – not only becomes one with external stimuli, but exists with infinite potential. It is possible now for us to immortalize our selves, not through God, but by becoming gods of our own.

“Of a door, neither open nor closed” is a performance of death and time. This new work by Joshua Kent, is the result of a collaboration between the artist and three men with no previous performance experience. A performance of simple movements with text both original and appropriated, the piece vacillates between grinding stillness, and the frenetic energy of everyday lives. Drawing from their collective experience and inexperience the performers move about the space attempting to speak to something they themselves have never personally experienced. Their efforts cannot be called heroic, as they lack virtuosity, yet something else is arrived at in the spaces of the work. As the four men occupy the room, their actions and stillness invite viewers into a liminal space, one seeking to connect viewers with both the present moment and the future. “Of a door, neither open nor closed” is to be shown at DEFIBRILLATOR gallery, a non-profit arts organization and alternative performance space in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. Performances are February 3rd and 4th at 8pm with a suggested donation of $5. This project is supported by a Community Art Assistance Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Performers include: Douglas Van Ramshorst, Seth A. Bird, Ian Wotkun, and Joshua Kent

Fundraising event for North Korean Refugees, with an exhibition by reality personality Young Sun Han. The recent death of Kim Jong-il prompted Korean-American artist and activist Young Sun Han to think about his own family’s connections to North Korea: “My father’s family escaped North Korea somewhere between 1949 and the summer of 1950 at the outbreak of the Korean War. They got us out just in time by bribing Russian officials and stowing away in military tanks across the border.” When the artist’s father passed away in November 2010, Young Sun Han was left with hundreds of cell phone photos that documented his father’s battle with cancer. About six months later, Han began to assemble an intimate book with these images, recently published under the title, sooner later. The book portrays his family’s daily struggles and efforts to combat the disease.

Bert Green Fine Art, after 13 years in Los Angeles, CA, has relocated to Chicago, IL. The new gallery is located on Michigan Avenue across from Milennium Park and a few blocks from the Art Institute on the 12th floor of the Willoughby Building at 8 S. Michigan Ave., an historic high-rise along the famous South Michigan Avenue row of early skyscrapers. Bert Green Fine Art exhibits contemporary artists of all ages in various media, with a particular focus on painting and works on paper. Artists exhibited by the gallery include Clive Barker, Elizabeth McGrath, Sandra Yagi, Barron Storey, Shane Guffogg, Jessica Curtaz, Scott Horsley, Jeff Gillette, Laurie Hassold, Jen Heaslip, John U. Abrahamson, Eduardo Villacis, David Hollen, Valerie Jacobs, Joe Novak, Carl Ramsey, Scott Siedman, Jerome Caja, Gabor Ekecs, and Carlee Fernandez. Artists included in the inaugural exhibition include: Barron Storey, Elizabeth McGrath, Jeff Gillette, Carlee Fernandez, Laurie Hassold, Jen Heaslip, Shane Guffogg, Sandra Yagi, Clive Barker, Eduardo Villacis, Jessica Curtaz, John U. Abrahamson, Gabor Ekecs. There will be a public Grand Opening “Open House” on Saturday, February 4 from 12, 7 pm. Gallery hours are Wednesday, Friday 11 and Saturday 12-5, or by appointment at other times. This inaugural exhibition will be followed by a series of solo shows beginning in March 2012. The gallery has both a main room and a project room. Watch our website for the schedule, which will be posted as it is confirmed.

Sheree Hovsepian’s work is a multi-faceted investigation of photographic processes. In our first solo show with the artist, Hovsepian’s black and white photograms, hypnotic video, and delicately balanced wall-based installations have a physicality that relates very naturally to the body, and more specifically to the artist’s hand. Touch, or the haptic sense, may be more commonly associated with painting or sculpture, but Hovsepian’s tactile manipulations are very present in her mostly abstract photographic works.

Kerry James Marshall Black Night Falling: Black holes and constellations February 4 – May 12, 2012 KJM Black Night Falling.jpg For our very special on the wall project by Kerry James Marshall, the artist has been secretly working in his studio to make a site-specific work for our 10 x 25 foot wall visible 24/7 through our Division Street windows. Marshall simply states “come see it” — need we say more? Kerry James Marshall (American b. 1958 Birmingham Alabama, lives Chicago) received his BFA and honorary doctorate from Otis College of Art and Design LA. He was the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant in 1997, the same year he was included in the Whitney Biennial. In 1998 The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago was one of the first institutions to give Marshall a solo show that travelled extensively. In 2003 Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art followed suit by mounting a very ambitious travelling exhibition. His work was featured in Carnegie International 1999/2000, Venice Biennale 2003, and Documenta 1997 and 2007. Recent solo exhibitions include the Vancouver Art Gallery 2010, SF MoMA 2009, and Wexner Center 2008. Currently, he is working on a major solo show to open at the SECESSION Vienna in September 2012. His work is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, MCA Chicago, Studio Museum in Harlem, Whitney Museum, LACMA, Denver Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art DC, Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Seattle Art Museum, and SF MoMA to name a few. We are pleased to be the first gallery in Chicago to present Kerry James Marshall with a solo project.

An Exhibition to Showcase women’s undergarments and nightwear of the 1950s and 60s. WHAT: Women’s Unmentionables of the 1950s and 60s is a glimpse at the sometimes provocative, often uncomfortable, and always intriguing under layers and nightwearworn by women during a time of rapid change in fashion. All of the exhibition garments, from bras to nightgowns to petticoats and girdles, are from the Fashion Study Collection and the Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest. The selection of garments is decidedly classic, elegant, and sexy.

Kelly K. Jones’ photographs of the North Lawndale neighborhood where she was born and raised aim to challenge our expectations and stereotypes. As both an insider and outsider, the artist explores her personal and complex relationship to place and identity as a white woman growing up and living in a predominantly African-American community. Portraits staged in nature and interior studies offer up figures in which history and intimacy collide. Navigating between the record and the metaphor, Jones’ images of her personal landscape consider issues of culture, race, belonging, and self-image.

Join us for an opening reception celebrating The Limits of Photography. Free and open to the public.

-Friday January, 27th-

Not Cool or Stoic

Slow
2153 W. 21st St.
Pilsen

Opening reception January 27th, 6-9PM
Closes February 18th

Slow has partnered with ACRE to host Not Cool or Stoic as a part of ACRE’s year-long series of exhibitions by 2011 ACRE summer residents. The exhibition features new work from Chuck Jones and from ACRE resident Matthew Schlagbaum. (image by Matthew Schlagbaum) Colored theory. Not color for color’s sake, but named colors for linguistic associations. Matthew Schlagbaum begins with greyscale, a faux grisaille, and slips in a technicolor magic schism. Unlike the filmic precedent, Matthew is invested neither in generating delight, nor affirming faith in humanity or individuality. More like Matthew is illuminating the shameless manipulations that drive familiar stories. Glittering gold. Black and white and read all over. Chuck Jones, a gorillalike hulking man always decked out in Carhartts and work shoes, spins a yarn with earnest ennui. Deeply sentimental moments become meditational gems. But his laser focus meanders – the moment was truly heart-felt, but Chuck is open enough to respond just as deeply to the next. Follow his lead and you may end up with your emotional guard puddled around your ankles, not knowing the differences between true grit, heart-strings, or even what is funny. Chuck and Matthew both reside somewhere shaken, somewhat glum. Not cool or stoic. Each embraces his own direct emotional responses, and calls upon a viewer to dive into a moment. But each is driven toward a view of reality that pulls back the curtain to reveal something as it is complete with contradictions, flaws and untidy conclusions.

 

Painted in 2011

EC Gallery
215 N. Aberdeen
West Loop

Opening reception January 27th, 6-8PM
Closes February 25th

The “Painted in 2011″ exhibition will display works of Tadeusz Bilecki – a new series of abstract portraits painted on paper with a coating of acrylic mixed with a large amount of water – a technique that adds deformity to the paper giving it a sculptural character.

 

Andre Butzer:Andre Butzer

Rhona Hoffman Gallery
118 North Peoria St.
West Loop

Opening reception January 27th, 5:00-7:30PM
Closes March 17th

 

DAVID LEGGETT and MELISSA STECKBAUER

Western Exhibitions
119 N. Peoria St.
West Loop

Opening reception January 27th, 5-8PM
Closes March 10th

David Leggett’s new mixed-media paintings wrestle with complicated feelings towards his two obsessions, painting and hip-hop, as he confronts race, sexuality, fame and class in humorous and ambiguous situations. Melissa Steckbauer’s new photo-based collages are the visual remainder following a personal study in communication and intimate contact, a deviation from the overt sexuality seen in her paintings. Weaved, fringed, puckered, and diced Steckbauer diffuses the status and familiarity of her pictures by manipulating them with naive decoration. Pictures become images and objects; they leave the scope of family albums and are updated within a loose semiotics.

-Saturday January, 28th-

Holding onto Something Slippery

LVL3
1542 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Wicker Park

Opening reception January 28th, 6-10PM
Closes February 19th

Jerome Acks, Alika Cooper and Ryan Fenchel. Holding onto Something Slippery renders visible the creation process through a combination of materials and a hybrid of mediums. Jerome Acks manipulates dimensionality and flatness, calling into question the materials and basic, physical elements of his works. Alika Cooper couples patchwork and layering of common fabrics, which portray intimate figures in camouflaged settings. Ryan Fenchel uses notions of craft and display as tools for discovery, accumulating ideas and materials to be arranged in various ways. All artists employ elements of craft, referencing traditional, if not domestic, means of creation in order to express the tensions between their forms.

-Sunday January, 29th-

LYNN BOOK and SHAWN DECKER

Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N. Ravenswood
Edgewater

Opening reception January 29th, 8PM

Transmedia and vocal artist Lynn Book, in collaboration with electronic musician and sound artist Shawn Decker, will perform The Phaedra Escapes: a song-cycle that deploys Phaedra as a divining tool to denature the form by way of voluptuous frictions between release and containment, stasis and white hot freedom. Part history and part possibility, Phaedra is both a mythical figure and a contemporary sign of escape. The artists spring her from a Baroque opera where she migrated from Racine’s stage, having threaded through centuries of story, including conflicting fragments that Euripides wrote, lost, then wrote again in ancient Greece. Phaedra becomes the ideal escape body for our time, resonant with multiple histories and radiant with propositions for possible futures.

 

Joshua Abelow and Alexander Valentine

Devening Projects and Editions
3039 W. Carroll Ave.
Garfield Park

Opening reception January 29th, 4-7PM
Closes March 3rd

Released in 1969, Songs from a Room was Leonard Cohen’s seminal second album; it’s also the title of New York-based artist Joshua Abelow’s first solo exhibition at devening projects editions. Cohen’s release set the stage for a long career as a poet, lyrcist and vocalist with a sound and attitude that was spare and circumscribe. Like the songs on this ablum, Abelow’s paintings have a similar quality of efficiency and use a melodic thread as the foundation for cutting subject matter. At the root of Abelow’s modestly scaled paintings is a prodigious, career-long reconsideration of Modernist idioms. Filtered through a lens of wry self-deprecation, these tough canvases are produced with highly specific chromatic systems and suggest a historical reverence to artists as diverse as William Copley, Francis Picabia and Rene Magritte (particularly works from his Vache period). We are very pleased to show Joshua’s work at this important time in his career. In the off space, devening projects editions presents Blonder Tongue Audio Baton, a collection of editioned portfolios, publications, prints, posters and packages by Chicago artist Alexander Valentine. The title of the exhibition borrows from the name of a 1950′s analog graphic equalizer as well as the name of an album by the Swirlies, a Boston shoe-gaze band from the 1990s. Alex’s experimental work with a small format offset press comes out of a 70s and 80s music and poster culture driven by immediacy and passion. Cheap Xerox prints, ‘zines, ephemera and ads for rock bands have fueled and inspired a developing personal iconography by this important young graphic artist.

]]> http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/chicago-art-map-openings-jan-26-29-2012/feed/ 0 http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/union-league-club-of-chicago-honors-phyllis-bramson-anne-wilson/ http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/union-league-club-of-chicago-honors-phyllis-bramson-anne-wilson/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:00:25 +0000 Chicago Art Magazine http://chicagoartmagazine.com/?p=19103 Two internationally recognized Chicago artists, Phyllis Bramson and Anne Wilson,  inducted into the Union League Club of Chicago’s Distinguished Artists program at the Club’s biennial Beaux-Arts Celebration Friday, January 20, 2012.

Phyllis Bramson

Phyllis Bramson, a painter, printmaker and Professor Emerita of Studio Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is critically acclaimed for her prolific and lively figurative paintings and works on paper.

Anne Wilson, a Professor in the Department of Fiber and Materials at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is an innovator in fiber arts who reinvents and reinterprets the medium with her sculptural installations, performances, video animations, and collaborative community projects.

These two newest members of the Club’s Distinguished Artist program are being recognized for their contributions to furthering Chicago’s reputation as a world-class center of the arts.

Work by Phyllis Bramson

Bramson began her career as a window designer for Marshall Field & Co. after earning a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree in drawing and painting from the University of Illinois, Urbana and a Master of Arts degree in painting from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Later, she earned a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
She is a recipient of three awards from National Endowment for the Arts, a Senior Fulbright Scholar, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, and a 2004 Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue Jury Award and a 2009 “Anonymous Was a Woman” Award.
Bramson has had more than thirty one-person exhibitions, including those at: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Cultural Center of Chicago; Boulder Art Museum; and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (a mid-career survey).

Her work has been Included in numerous group exhibitions at: Seattle Art Museum; Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Smart Museum; Renwick Gallery, The Smithsonian Institution; and the Corcoran Museum’s 43rd Painting Biennial.
Bramson lives and paints in Chicago and has been a visiting artist in the Graduate Program in Drawing and Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 2007.

A Professor in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Wilson earned Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield, Michigan and California College of Arts, Oakland, California respectively.

Wilson’s art is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Museum of Glass, Tacoma; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, among others.

She is the recipient of grants from the Driehaus Foundation, Artadia, and the Tiffany Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Illinois Arts Council and others.
Wilson’s 2011 solo exhibitions included: “Rewinds” at the Rhona Hoffman Gallery and “Local Industry” at the Knoxville Museum of Art.  In 2010, her work was part of “Hand+Made” at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston and her solo exhibition “Wind/Rewind/Weave” was presented at the Knoxville Museum.

Anne Wilson

In 2007-08, she participated in “Out of the Ordinary” at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Her work was part of “Alternative Paradise” at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan in 2005-06.

Other major exhibitions include: The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston hosted a major solo exhibition of Wilson’s art in 2004, and “Anne Wilson: Unfoldings” was presented at MassArt, Boston in 2002, and at the University Art Gallery at San Diego State University in 2003. She was included in the “2002 Biennial” at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and her solo exhibition entitled “Anne Wilson: Anatomy of Wear” was presented in 2000 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Previous inductees in the Union League Club of Chicago’s Distinguished Artists program are:  Dawoud Bey, William Conger, Barbara Crane, Richard Hunt, Michiko Itatani, Vera Klement, Robert Lostutter, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Kerry James Marshall, John David Mooney, and James Valerio. The late Don Baum, Ruth Duckworth and Ed Paschke were also distinguished artist privilege holders.

Union League Club of Chicago Distinguished Artists Privilege Holder Program

In 1997, the Union League Club of Chicago established its Distinguished Artist Program to honor select Chicago-area artists for their contributions to the visual arts and the community. They are feted at the biennial Beaux-Arts Celebration. In 2002, the program was expanded to include authors and musicians who are honored at separate dedicated events.

Work by Anne Wilson

Union League Club of Chicago’s Art Collection Distinguished as America’s #1 City Club, the Union League Club began collecting art in 1886 and has built one of the most important private collections of American art in the Midwest. Comprised of over 800 works, highlights include art by Claude Monet, George Inness, Leon Golub, Ed Paschke, Kerry James Marshall, and more. With a focus on artists of Midwest, the Club’s collection is a vital part of Chicago’s art history and present.

Earlier this year, a major Chicago Tribune feature article marking the Club’s 125th anniversary of its collection, termed the Union League Club as the other art institute in Chicago.”

In 1997, the Club established an on-site conservation laboratory and added a paintings conservator to the staff, making it the only club in the city with a full-time curator and an in-house paintings conservator.

“The history of its collecting efforts parallels that of a number of museums, yet its collecting philosophy diverged from major institutions,” Neil Harris wrote in the introduction to the Union League Club of Chicago Art Collection.

Ongoing Club activities to promote appreciation of art include recognizing the contributions of distinguished Chicago artists, organizing exhibitions with other Chicago arts institutions and producing monthly exhibitions of contemporary art.

About the Union League Club of Chicago

Founded in 1879 by some of the city’s principal business and thought leaders, the non-partisan Union League Club of Chicago www.ulcc.org has served as a significant force within the community, focusing attention on critical public affairs issues of the day and stimulating action on important social, civic and cultural issues.

Club Leader Forum recently ranked the Union League Club as the best city club in the United States in a survey of 7,000 club managers and presidents.

]]> http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/union-league-club-of-chicago-honors-phyllis-bramson-anne-wilson/feed/ 0 http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/fear-no-art-chicago-launches-new-show-the-dinner-party-130/ http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/fear-no-art-chicago-launches-new-show-the-dinner-party-130/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:00:25 +0000 Chicago Art Magazine http://chicagoartmagazine.com/?p=18881 Join host Elysabeth Alfano at the Mayne Stage theatre the last Monday of every month for a live filming of THE DINNER PARTY, a completely new and different kind of show. Alfano invites 3 artists and a celebrity chef to join in food, art, wine and conversation during this 1 hour show, which also streams live on the internet. Can’t make the Mayne Stage? Watch THE DINNER PARTY on-line at www.FearNoART.tv and tweet in to be a part of this fantastic new multi-dimensional show.

When: Last Monday of every month, beginning Jan. 30

Where: Live performace at the Mayne Stage Theatre and streaming live on www.FearNoArt.tv

What: Dinner Party internet show and live performance

Guests (Jan. 30): artist Tony Fitzpatrick, musician Jon Langford, musical director, Rachel Rockwell, Dinner Party chef Homaro Cantu of Moto and iNG

Price: $18 (Buy tix to Mayne Stage including food sampling), or free on-line viewing.

Time: Doors open at 6:30. Appetizers tasting is at 7:15. Filming starts at 7:30 Dinner sampling is at 8:45

More Information, click on Fear No ART presents THE DINNER PARTY.

The Dinner Party would like to thank iNG Restaurant, its media partner Chicago Gallery News, and Disaster Planning & Response Art Rescue.

]]> http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/fear-no-art-chicago-launches-new-show-the-dinner-party-130/feed/ 0 http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/re-examining-the-new-art-examiner-symposium-128/ http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/re-examining-the-new-art-examiner-symposium-128/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:00:46 +0000 Chicago Art Magazine http://chicagoartmagazine.com/?p=18748 Re-Examining the New Art Examiner

Symposium:  Saturday, January 28, 2012, 10:00am-4:45pm

NIU Music Building, Boutell Auditorium

The College of Visual and Performing Arts at Northern Illinois University invites you to an exhibition and symposium exploring the controversial history and unsettled significance of the most widely-read art magazine ever published in Chicago.  Born out of seismic cultural shifts in the early 1970s, coming of age in the hyper-inflated art world of the 1980s, and embracing its role as part of the global re-theorization of  art practices in the 1990s, the New Art Examiner was an independent magazine of art and cultural  criticism that focused relentlessly on enlarging the debate and raising the stakes for art and artists in the Midwest.

What difference did the New Art Examiner make to the history of art in Chicago? 

What difference does it make to the practice of art in Chicago now that it’s gone?

Join us on January 28, 2012 as we engage these questions in conversation with co-founding editor Derek
Guthrie, and with editors and authors from all three decades of the magazine’s run —many of whom are  featured in The Essential New Art Examiner, an anthology of essays edited by Terri Griffith, Kathryn Born, and Janet Koplos and published November 2011 by Northern Illinois University Press.

• 10:00 – 10:15 a.m.  Welcome: “Redefining Regionalism,” Barbara Jaffee
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• 10:15 – 10:45 a.m.  The Essential New Art Examiner, Kathryn Born & Terri Griffith
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• 10:45 – 12:00 noon Derek Guthrie and Joshua Kind, in conversation with Buzz Spector
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• 1:30 – 2:45 p.m. Janet Koplos, Paul Krainak,  Alice Thorson; Richard Siegesmund, moderator
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• 3:00 – 4:15 p.m. Michael Bulka, Jennie Klein, Susan Snodgrass, Lynne Warren; Richard Siegesmund, moderator
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• 4:30  – 5:00 p.m.    The New Art Examiner: Chicago’s “Independent Voice of the Visual Arts,” 1973-2002, mini-reception, NIU Art Museum Hall Case Gallery, West End Altgeld Hall (the Castle)

 

The exhibition and symposium are free and open to the public.  NIU Art Museum hours, location, and information on the symposium are available at www.niu.edu/artmuseum or by calling 815-753-1936.

Exhibition continues through March 10,  2012;  catalogue and essay by Barbara Jaffee. Directions and maps are available at www.niu.edu/visit/maps/index.shtml. Free parking is available on both the south and north sides of the Music Building as well as on Gilbert Drive just to the west.

]]> http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/re-examining-the-new-art-examiner-symposium-128/feed/ 0 http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/chicago-art-map-openings-jan-20-22-2012/ http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/chicago-art-map-openings-jan-20-22-2012/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:00:43 +0000 Chicago Art Magazine http://chicagoartmagazine.com/?p=19062 Below is a listing from Chicago Art Map of gallery openings taking place this weekend, January 20th – 22nd.

-Friday January, 20th-

Stuck-Up

The Maxwell Colette Gallery
908 N Ashland Ave
Wicker Park

Opening reception January 20th, 6-10PM

Maxwell Colette Gallery and DB Burkeman are excited to present STUCK-UP: A Selected History of Alternative and Popular Culture Told Though Stickers. This traveling exhibition, curated by Burkeman from his extensive personal collection, provides an unparalleled opportunity to explore the expanding role that stickers have played in popular culture over the past four decades. STUCK-UP… features stickers from Street Art legends (Banksy, Barry McGee, Shepard Fairey, Space Invader, KAWS), and internationally lauded contemporary artists not necessarily known for stickers (Andy Warhol, Jenny Holzer, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Tom Sachs) shown side by side with anonymous stickers peeled from the streets of NYC.

 

Unfolding Space

Floating World
1925 N. Halsted St.
Lincoln Park

Opening reception January 20th, 6-8PM
Closes February 17th

A special exhibition brought to you by Floating World Gallery and architects Charlotte Page and Susan Conger-Austin. As each user perceives the elements and installation differently, Unfolding Space addresses the question: is there a way to represent a place objectively? That is, can an object shed the veil of subjective influence? Can information be known without connotation? Or, is the object truly known by all subjective experiences of it? With her system of drawing that melds techniques from cinema and analytical architectural drawing, Charlotte Page unfolds each object in a series of ink drawings to reveal a spectrum of cognitive influence from the most objective to the most subjective, and back again. This exhibition is presented with the generous support of the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

 

ASCENT

Chicago Artists’ Coalition
217 N Carpenter, Chicago, Il 60607
West Loop

Opening reception January 20th, 6-9PM
Closes February 10th

Homa Shojaie presents ASCENT, an installation that investigates the material space of canvas to explore archetypal personas. Shojaie’s new work creates a meditative space that builds on the potential of canvas while metaphorically referencing the body. As the warps and the wefts of the raw canvas are methodically peeled away, layers of meaning reveal the subject’s emotional landscape. Hovering on the edges of painting, architecture, sculpture and text, Shojaie’s installation references a zone that never fully attaches itself to any one discipline. Instead, ASCENT is continuously shifting, carefully diffusing the boundary of the threads found in the frayed canvas, simultaneously revealing everything and nothing.

 

LOSSY: Bolen, Ladensack, Meerdo and Nelson

Roots and Culture
1034 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Noble Square

Opening reception January 20th, 6-9PM
Closes February 18th

Nearly every minute of every day we are inundated with photographic images. The instantaneity of digital photography coupled with internet sharing has shifted our temporal awareness. And as a continuation of photography’s complicated relationship with truth, the expansiveness of Photoshop has further skewed the validity of images once trusted as authentic. These images have come to shape our consciousness. It is this multitude of images that recontextualize photographs once held as autonomous and idiosyncratic. Our photographs are now part of a larger conglomeration of image equivalents, produced by a global authorship.

DRESSING THE LOOM: new works by ALEX MILLER and LORRAINE BARGER

Plaines Project
1822 S. Desplaines St. Chicago, IL
Pilsen

Opening reception January 20th, 7-10PM
Closes January 27th 

DRESSING THE LOOM is a collaborative large-scale installation by ACRE resident Alex Miller and Lorraine Barger. Taking inspiration from the process and structure of weaving and presenting it in an abstracted sculptural form, Miller and Barger break down weaving into basic concepts: line, tension, organization, building and layers. This then emphasizes the beauty of the warp (the vertical element of a woven fabric, threaded on the loom) at the point before weaving begins. Walking with the warp provides quiet meditation and an exploration of the state between tension and potential.

 

National Wet Paint Exhibition 2012

Zhou B Art Center
1029 W. 35th St.
South Chicago

Opening reception January 20th
Closes March 10th

The National Wet Paint Exhibition 2012 is an outlook and an overview of top MFA painting programs in the United States. Wet Paint refers to the idea that this is a fresh group of artists. They are MFA (Masters of Fine Arts) candidates and recent MFA recipients working primarily in the medium of painting. Now on its third year, this growing and highly competitive juried exhibition will bring to Chicago some of the most talented emerging artists in the country. Wet Paint 2012 is fully funded by the Zhou B. Art Center which makes it possible for graduate students to submit works for consideration at no cost. Wet Paint 2012 takes place from January 20 to March 10 in the spacious main gallery of the Zhou B Art Center. Wet Paint is juried and curated by Sergio Gomez, MFA.

 

Global Cities, Model Worlds and The World Finder

Gallery 400
400 S. Peoria St.
West Loop

Opening reception January 20th, 5-8PM
Closes March 3rd

In Global Cities, Model Worlds artists Ryan Griffis, Lize Mogel, and Sarah Ross explore the spatial and social impacts of mega events, such as the Olympics and World’s Fairs. The host cities of these international spectacles seek to transform themselves into global cities through planning, architecture, and ideology. Locally, these events pave the way for redevelopment projects that can create new public resources such as parks, stadiums, or transportation infrastructure, but often result in significant displacement of residents or industry, reinforcing existing inequalities.

 

-Saturday January, 21st-

Anagram City

Golden
3319 N. Broadway, Chicago, IL 60657
Lakeview

Opening reception January 21st, 6-9PM
Closes March 3rd 

Taking its title from an Amazon.com review by Kevin Killian (The Time Traveler’s Wife on Blu-ray), the artists in this exhibition use strategies of representation to present a different recording of the world around us and our perception of it. Featuring: Joseph Cassan, Julia Fish, Kevin Killian, Jessica Labatte, John Neff, and B. Wurtz.

 

-Sunday January, 22nd-

CATHY WILKES: I Give You All My Money

The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave Chicago, IL 60637
Hyde Park

Opening reception January 22nd, 4-7PM

The opening reception will also include a conversation with the artist from 5 to 6pm in Kent Hall, Room 107 (directly northeast of Cobb Hall on the University of Chicago quadrangle). Over the past five years, Irish artist Cathy Wilkes (b. 1966) has garnered international attention for her installations whose signature elements are set amongst, and outfitted with, accoutrements of an abject, quotidian nature. Wilkes’ highly subjective work consists of objects (strollers, soiled dishes, dolls, dried flower petals) that recur as symbolic leitmotifs. Her process of selection and arrangement of materials is measured and refined, drawing equally on a precise formal language and the most intimate of personal experiences to create a compelling autobiographical thread. The Renaissance Society will present “I Give You All My Money” whose title, like that of several other works, has a biblical reference regarding sacrifice.

 

Michelle Grabner: Black Swan

Shane Campbell Gallery (Oak Park)
125 N. Harvey Ave., Oak Park, IL 60302
Oak Park

Opening reception January 22nd, 2-4PM
Closes February 26th

“Black Swan” hosts a selection of new work by Michelle Grabner, that includes embroideries and paintings. The works reinvest in the iconic imagery of the circle and gingham patterning, through the clashing of domestic and minimalist vocabulary. This curatorial project by Shane Campbell’s School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Contemporary Art Seminar will be held at the Shane Campbell Gallery in Oak Park. The proximity of the work to Grabner’s Suburban galleries, studio, and home play an integral role in its inception and reception.

 

NOT ALL DAYS ARE THE SAME: A CONTEMPLATION OF TRANSITS

Roxaboxen Exhibitions
2130 W. 21st St.
Pilsen

Opening reception January 22nd, 7-10PM
Closes January 29th

new works by KAREN BOVINICH. ACRE and ROXABOXEN EXHIBITIONS present an opening reception on SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 2012 from 7-10pm at 2130 W 21ST ST, Chicago 60608. ACRE has partnered with ROXABOXEN EXHIBITIONS to host NOT ALL DAYS ARE THE SAME; A CONTEMPLATION OF TRANSITS: new works by KAREN BOVINICH, the next installment in ACRE’s year-long series of exhibitions by 2011 ACRE summer residents.

]]> http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/chicago-art-map-openings-jan-20-22-2012/feed/ 0 http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/final-2012-community-arts-assistance-program-workshop-119/ http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/final-2012-community-arts-assistance-program-workshop-119/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:00:45 +0000 Chicago Art Magazine http://chicagoartmagazine.com/?p=19018 The Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) is an annual grant opportunity open to new, emerging and mid-career artists and nonprofit arts organizations with annual operating budgets up to $150,000. Applicants can request a maximum of $1,000 for projects that address specific professional and artistic development needs. Individual applicants must be residents of the city of Chicago for at least 6 months prior to the application deadline and not enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate or other degree granting program. Organizations must be incorporated, located in and serving the city of Chicago, have a valid Federal Employer Identification Number, and have acquired, or be in the process of applying for, or seeking funds to apply for 501(c)(3) status.

Download Application

Applications are available in mid-December and are due to the Department of Cultural Affairs by:
Monday, January 30, 2012, 5:00 p.m.

The final Application Assistance Workshop will be held

• Thursday, January 19, 2012 4 – 6 pm 
  Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington Street, 5 Garland Room

NO RSVP NEEDED Please contact Cultural Grants Coordinator with any questions. 312-744-9797

WHAT CAAP FUNDS:

Individual Artists

Professional development in the areas of Artistic, Management, and Technical/Artistic Services including:

• Creation of high quality artistic projects (e.g. development or completion of a work of art)
• High quality training programs (non-credit master classes, workshops, etc.) which develop professional artistic skills
• Technical assistance in the form of a consultant to help with publicity, proposal writing, marketing, financial management, etc.
• Portfolio development: slides, resumes, and audio and video presentations for funders and galleries, etc.
• Exhibition expenses which may include mounting, framing and installation (may not include gallery rental or reception costs)

Nonprofit Arts Organizations

Organizational Development including:

• High quality training programs aimed at developing administrative and organizational skills
• Technical assistance in the form of a consultant to help in publicity, fundraising, board development, planning, marketing, audience development, and bookkeeping
• Documentation of cultural activity through photography, slides, brochures, annual reports, audio and video which will assist the organization in presentations to funders or promotion to attract new and broader audiences
• Assistance for seeking 501(c)(3) status (must contact Cultural Grants staff for separate application instructions)

REVIEW CRITERIA

Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) applications are evaluated by review panels composed of artists, arts administrators, arts advocates, and educators representing a broad range of the community. CAAP panels evaluate grant applications according to the criteria listed below. The review of applications is an annual competitive process. Support in one year does not guarantee funding in subsequent years.

GRANT REVIEW MEETINGS

Grant Review Meetings are held at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington Street. Meetings are open to the public and applicants are strongly encourage to attend. The meeting schedule will be posted late winter or early spring of each year.

For more information on CAAP and its requirements, click here.

]]> http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/final-2012-community-arts-assistance-program-workshop-119/feed/ 0 http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/chicago-art-map-openings-jan-13-15-2012/ http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/chicago-art-map-openings-jan-13-15-2012/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:00:55 +0000 Chicago Art Magazine http://chicagoartmagazine.com/?p=19008 Below is a listing from Chicago Art Map of gallery openings taking place this weekend, January 13th – 15th.

-Friday January, 13th-

The Wrocław School of Printmaking

Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington St.
Loop

Opening reception January 13th, 5:30-7:30PM
Closes January 25th

The Wroclaw School of Printmaking is a wide-ranging exhibition that fills all three Michigan Avenue Galleries. Featuring print-based works by faculty members of the Printmaking Department at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland, the exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of the variety of printmaking techniques and sources of inspiration employed by the artists of the Wroclaw School.

 

SOFT GROUND: new works by EMILY CLAYTON EILEEN MUELLER

Roots and Culture
1034 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Noble Square

Opening reception January 13th, 6-9PM
Closes January 16th

Emily Clayton’s recent work began as a series informed by sunsets, occult photography and stage curtains. Charged with spacial impossibilities, each are asking the viewer for the same thing, to willfully suspend disbelief. Distilling from this a sense of illusion and visual deception, the works are reduced to an atmospheric gradient of color. The series examines the two dimensional plane of an artificial horizon in relation to the stage and studio photography. They are backdrops, scenery, simulated landscapes all void of subject or performer. Situated within the historical tenet of process driven practices the work aims to exhibit a calculated control of material and form. Eileen Mueller%u2019s work focuses on the material history of the photographic image and its role in confounding unwritten or inaccessible histories. Her latest work links her own practice within communal educational spaces and the historic progeny of the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College. While making a pilgrimage to Black Mountain, Mueller sought out the vistas wherein the landscape served as an emulsion, fixing the ghosts of American Modernism. Through embedding her own images into an anomic archive that also contains material mined from historic materials she poeticizes existing histories to build a mythology of the artist.

 

Nikki Renee Anderson: Secret Bodies

Dubhe Carreno
118 N. Peoria St. 2nd Fl.
Pilsen

Opening reception January 13th, 5-8PM
Closes February 11th

Secret Bodies is a series that explores the garden as a private setting. I am interested in the way the garden becomes a space for growth, renewal and transformation. I have memories from childhood of going outside into the garden by myself early in the morning. I knew all of the flowers that could be smelled, touched and even eaten…

 

SUPERSTRUCTURES

The Mission
1431 W. Chicago Ave 60601
West Loop

Opening reception January 13th, 6-9PM
Closes February 23rd

Susan Giles, Jeroen Nelemans, David Salkin SUPERSTRUCTURES brings together three artists who deconstruct the ideologies inherent in our built environment. Susan Giles, Jeroen Nelemans, and David Salkin present new works that examine our experiences of cities, buildings, and nature, as well as the cultural conventions of their representation.

 

Wayne White / Toni Hafkenscheid / Steve Armstrong

Packer Schopf Gallery
942 W. Lake St.
West Loop

Opening reception January 13th, 5-8PM
Closes February 18th

As an artist Wayne White is known for his paintings of faux 3D visual text over second-hand, mass-produced lithographs. Non-sequitur phrases, and distorted advertising blurbs are executed Ruscha-esque style into inside jokes and non-jokes. The result is stimulating with the juxtaposition of painting versus text. In addition to his activities as a visual artist, White has acted as illustrator and cartoonist for several publications, and as director, producer, writer, designer, and puppeteer for Pee-wee’s Playhouse. He is also well known for his commercial work and music videos, including art direction for the Smashing Pumpkins music video Tonight Tonight, and art direction for Peter Gabriel’s music video Big Time. Wayne White lives and works in LA. A full color monograph on the artist is available, produced and edited by Todd Oldham. We are very excited for White’s solo debut in Chicago.

 

F*ck Em

FM*Gallery
310 N. Peoria st. Chicago, IL 60607
West Loop

Opening reception January 13th, 6PM
Closes February 3rd

FM*Gallery is pleased to present a themed group show of works by selected gallery artists Cesar Conde, Mark Hansen, Eileen Miller, Rory Coyne, Melanie Brown, CJ Hungerman, Hebru Brantley, Joshua Backus, Andrew Rauhauser, Dominic Sansone, Franklin Riley, and guest artists Archangelo Crelencia and Christie Helm Each artist has been invited to create 2 identical sized pieces of artwork – the first, with a F*ck Em theme, will be on display starting Dec 9th. The artists were open to interpret the theme however they like… They will then “artistically ask” for your forgiveness when their second piece is unveiled at the Forgive Me show and reception on Jan 13th.

 

Dualities: Barnum and Aono

Eyeporium Gallery
1431 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Wicker Park

Opening reception January 13th, 7-9PM
Closes February 29th

Eyeporium Gallery proudly presents works by Brenda Barnum and Joanne Aono. Barnum’s abstractions glisten with luxuriously applied paint. Her palette is earthy and serious while her titles and shapes reveal tongue in cheek whimsy. The paintings explode with energy barely held within the canvas. Aono’s diptychs are comprised of text and image. As counter-point to Barnum, Aono’s drawings are exquisitely realistic. The drawings are so lean and serene one can get lost in the depth of atmosphere. Similarity and identity are contrasted with individuality and assimilation stemming from her experiences as a twin and her cultural identity as a Japanese-American.

 

New Formalisms 2: Curated by Abraham Ritchie

65Grand
1378 W. Grand Ave.
East Village

Opening reception January 13th, 7-10PM
Closes February 11th

Featuring Samantha Bittmann, Todd Chilton, Steven Husby, Melissa Oresky The follow up to the 2009 exhibition “Beautiful Form” at 65GRAND, “New Formalisms 2″ continues to explore painters making strongly geometric work. As indicated by the title, this exhibition indicates new directions in formal painting.

-Saturday January, 14th-

Hinge Gallery Group Exhibit

Hinge Gallery
1955 W. Chicago Avenue Chicago, IL 60622
Ukranian Village

Opening reception January 14th, 6-9PM
Closes January 25th

Corydon Cowansage Aaron Delehanty Brent Houston Charles Mahaffee MaryKate Maher Ryan Richey Performance piece by Chris Lin and Ryan Richey of Hannis Pannis. Hinge Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a group exhibition featuring the work of six notable emerging artist curated by Hinge Gallery. This exhibition will include painting, drawing, and sculpture.

-Sunday January, 15th-

OTHER FLOWERS: new works by COURTNEY WEBER

ACRE Projects
1913 W 17th St Chicago, IL 60608
Ukranian Village

Opening reception January 15th, 4-8PM
Closes January 16th

OTHER FLOWERS is made up of a series of manipulated cross-stitch patterns on paper. The patterns were found in a town near to the site of the ACRE artist residency in rural Wisconsin and were hand-sewn with embroidery floss, which was dyed using a variety of plants from the property. Using these patterns as a starting point, the work magnifies the tension between abstraction and representation present in traditional needlework. By repeating and collaging pieces from the larger patterns into new forms, the past is obscured but always present in the work. The muted colors mimic a connection to place and history faded by time and memory. Open Hours: Monday, Jan 16, noon-4pm

 

Sari Maxfield, Ghosh and Kimek and Jungmin Park

ARC Gallery
832 W. Superior St. #204
River West

Opening reception January 15th, 2-5PM
Closes January 28th

ARC would like to invite you to a thoughful and diverse new exhibit displaying the works of Sari Maxfield, Ghosh and Kimek and Jungmin Park. Gallery hours: Wed to Sat 12-6 pm, and Sun. 12-4 pm