Work by Gina Beavers (NYC), Chris Bradley (Chicago), Andrew Guenther (NYC), Anna Krachey (Austin), Elisa Lendvay (NYC), Tim Louis Graham (Chicago) and Eliza Myrie (Chicago).
Even twins are never exact copies of each other and yet, there lingers the common complaint that things seem the same everywhere. Films repeat the same threadbare storylines, grand political gestures are merely gestures of old with predictable outcomes, and the idea of the new (that which does not resemble anything else) becomes a difficult fiction.
Art consists of transformation, a transformation between the visible and the invisible relations between things. ...
This installation draws upon the ecological effects of vibration and the history of sonic warfare. At root is an interest in the way sound both makes and disturbs place. Its very nothingness seduces us. Historically, sound has been an ideal medium for the performance of psychological warfare because of how efficiently it evokes events and locations. Whether declarative, as with anthems or artillery, or deceptive, as with sonic decoys or surveillance, the audiosphere is well disposed to militarization.
Inside the gallery, aural encounters occur in two strains: one territorial, where sound travels through the ground walked upon, as much felt as ...
Work by Liz Nielsen, Kate Ruggeri and Brendan Sullivan.
Connectivity from the "real thing" is removed or sometimes replaced in art just as relationships are fabricated from false presumptions. We create expectations for one another that eventually either satisfy, call for compromise or lead to disappointment and failure. Feeble Intimacy showcases three artists who touch on methods of interaction with the viewer and incorporate themes that focus on human connectivity with one another and the environment.
Art, religion, and spirituality are deeply intertwined. For thousands of years artistic production was concentrated in manufacturing houses of worship and objects for religious devotion. In the mid-nineteenth century, artists began exploring non-religious themes and, eventually, the importance of religion in art waned. Although art from the last two hundred years appears to lack a strong religious viewpoint, it would be incorrect to assume that it no longer possesses any spiritual significance. As we enter into the second decade of the twenty-first century, Westerners have become more accepting of alternative spiritual customs. WHO’S YR SHAMAN? is a group exhibition featuring ...
Minutes away from downtown pairs the paintings of artist Orion Martin with an ambitious installation of post-war furniture from the collection of design scholar Hudson Harrington Berry. This collaborative exhibition activates the domestic tradition of the art object, as well as the designed object, as a ponderous and slowly unfolding artifact that adds pleasure to the everyday, both ontologically and aesthetically. Minutes away from downtown enacts a marriage of the gallery and domestic space, which explores this long-held human desire to augment one's environment with cultured beauty.
"Interiors curated without compromise are an intellectual satisfaction. They tell a story. They confer ...
Presented by the Network of Crowded Art.
Actually, everybody is a dragon, but current conditions discourage and disallow us to express those sinuous traits.
Like a multi-headed hydra, Hey, We're All Beginners Here! is an exhibition with numerous voices to illuminate our historical moment and paths into the future. It's a series of social events and collection of images. Cultural workers and artists from different fields are contributing to this cloud of images. Among those contributing are Robin Hustle, Sarah Kavage, Pennie Brinson, Salem Collo-Julin, Sarah Ross, Red76, Sarah Smizz, Courtney Moran and Park ...
Recent kinetic sculptures and mixed media drawings by Chicago based visual artist Mark Porter.
Through the fusion of found and custom made objects, Porter creates mechanical prototypes which mimic human and animal behavior as well as natural phenomenon. Emphasizing the quality of hand-made object, Porter's sculptures serve as performative prototypes, which embrace experimentation and the relationship between inventor and invention, as well as invention and user.
Artists include Terry Evans, Jeremy Bolan, Martha Williams, Justin Schmitz, Stephen Eichhorn, Julia Stotz, Makaya Larson, Jason Lazarus, Matt Austin, Mary Scherer, Aiden Fitzpatrick, Brian Sorg, April Wilkins, Kyle Obriot and Zach Goheen.
For No One But Us is a collection of work by artists using photography as a way to engage in their creative process. Images that would only exist on a hard-drive, in a bedroom, or on a studio wall are on display at LivingRoom. The photographs in this presentation are images that ...
Work by Carrie Gundersdorf.
"You are far weirder than someone merely into S&M. At least they have a tradition. We have some idea what S&M is about. There's movies and books about it. But so far as I know, there is nothing to explain the way you are."
In Whit Stillman’s 1994 film Barcelona, Chris Eigerman’s expertly portrayed acerbic, tactless naval officer Fred has his cousin Ted nailed—a man who spends entirely too much effort analyzing the smallest subtext of his decisions. Reading complicated narratives into otherwise simple relationships, he applies elaborate and largely irrelevant sales and management strategies to the smallest personal decisions. Ted ...
Sara Schnadt is a Chicago-based performance/installation artist. Raised on an international commune in Scotland, an ‘alternative’ context which considered itself as a social experiment outside of conventional culture, she spent formative years understanding herself as an outsider, an observer. Since moving to the United States in 1986, Sara has become fascinated with the unifying rituals and values that are common threads in contemporary western culture, and has made work that frames and resonates with those common threads.
Formally, Sara makes performance and installations that use task, found objects, interactivity, projection, and movement derived from common gestures. Her work creates environments ...
Please join Columbia College Chicago's Photography Department in celebrating the conclusion of the 2010 Summer Digital Artist Residency Program. For one night only we will be presenting work by collage artist Stephen Eichhorn created during his month long residency.
With non-work by Mike Nudelman, Samantha Bittman, April Behnke, Blake Heo, Paul VerBurg, Jan Berkson, Jacqueline Norheim, Sarah Sohn, Brian Hubble, Magalie Guerin, Murassa Qazi, Kirk Faber, Marissa L. Perel and Nicholas Cueva.
"Religare": according to Tom Harpur and Joseph Campbell the word Religion derives from the Latin word "ligare" which means "bind, connect", and combined with the prefix "re"= re-ligare, i.e. re (again) + ligare or "to reconnect". For this art exhibit, artists will create work that analizes and critiques the concept of religion.
Work by Saul Aguirre, Miguel Cortez, Rocky Horton, James Jankowiak, Laura Olear, Josue Pellot, Polly Perez, Jenny Priego, Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa and more.
This summer, the Sullivan Galleries presents Summer Studio. Transforming the gallery into artists' working space, a place of public presentation into one of process, Summer Studio is a rare chance for artists to share in the company-and energy-of others, while sharing the resources of this institution. Artists-in-residence come from Chicago and beyond to use the galleries to explore diverse and ambitious projects that engage discussions and practices that are particular to the studio. Launching new collaborations for SAIC, Summer Studio is also organized with threewalls, a Chicago institution dedicated to increasing the city's cultural capital by cultivating contemporary art practice ...
Summer is best used nursing a cocktail on the veranda, not for stewing over challenging concepts.
Booze and Bacon is my personal foolproof recipe for crowd pleasing. A group of dynamic people indulging in simple pleasures is both the desired outcome and generative of the next. It’s like that kiss good night after a really good first date: enough of what you want to get you hooked for the second. Maybe we don’t learn that much along the way, but it sure is a hell of a ride.
This show will feature artists who have been exhibiting for years, sometimes in really ...
Work by Zachary Buchner, Karl Erickson, Andrew Falkowski, Heidi Norton, John Opera, Joe Pflieger, Matt Stolle and Philip Vanderhyden.
A solo exhibition of Jessica Taylor Caponigro’s work; a site-specific installation titled Looks Like A Place I Came In. Caponigro’s response to the space respectfully takes into account the existing architecture as a means of interacting with her brought in constructions. Drawing influence from her family’s history by means of the decadent lacy fabrics juxtaposed with gaudy laminate flooring that surrounded her elders homes, Caponigro employs these dichotomies in her installations. Contorting sheets of fake cherry wood with a jungle of living houseplants to form contemporary sculptural forms, screenprinting temporary wallpaper of lace patterns, and covering the walls with ...
Danny Think Tank will feature recent work of 11 Chicago based artists, showcasing a survey of contemporary practices. The ongoing dialogue within Danny Think Tank will guide the curatorial decisions as the group responds to the unique location. The exhibition will take place in a vacant loft/apartment, exhibiting a collection of paintings, photography, collage, sculpture and video.
Work by Curt Bozif, Derek Chan, Ryan Fenchel, Dan Gunn, Roxane Hopper, Lisa Majer, Stephen Nyktas, Cole Pierce, Julie Rudder, Kendrick Shackleford and Craig Yu.
If Nature Could Talk, is an interactive event that explores the uncanny relationship between art, science, and nature. Based on the investigation of Human/Nature dynamics through marks, traces and symbols of pseudo-scientific experiments, the work suggests what nature might be thinking and feeling in an evidentiary context. Chicago based artist, Grant W. Ray has photographed these strange attempts at communicating with nature. He will be presenting this historic archive and five extraordinary inventions for two nights only at Spoke Gallery. Participants will be invited to interact with ordinary objects that have extraordinary functions such as, “Ronald Johnson’s Talking Plants,” ...
Silkscreen prints from the collection of Jason Pickleman.
Carny is a salon installation of 75 plus photographs captured during Paul Rizzuto's recent observations while working for traveling carnivals around the Midwest.
Causality is the relationship between an event (the cause) and a second event (the effect), where the second event is a consequence of the first. Traditionally, we have experienced this relationship with assumed expectations and relations. Aristotle’s example of essential causality is a builder building a house. This single event can be analyzed into the builder building (cause) and the house being built (effect).
Continuing their reflection and analysis of modernity in art, Paul Cowan and Matt Stolle question, analyze, confirm and modify tropes and conventional tactics of the art object and artistic practice. Through their explicit references to ...
The Humboldt Moving Picture Show presents a program of over 25 artists’ interpretations of the moving picture. An outdoor screening will be held at sunset in the Sideyard at Richmond Manor, while experimental videos, films and animations will also be installed in the apartment.
Curators Stephanie Nadeau and Amira Hanafi use Richmond Manor not as a gallery, but as a domestic space that retains its character: the intact living room is a site for conversation around the TV; garage windows are animated by video installations; at a desk a viewer contemplates images of abandoned offices. The outdoor screening transforms an empty ...
Using the theme of direction, three curators conceptualize their various interpretations of the word by dissecting the gallery into physical lanes.
Anthony Elms curates the work of artists Danielle Gustafson-Sundell, Shane Huffman, Erin Leland, Matthew Metzger, Sonny Venice and Philip von Zweck.
Katherine Pill curates the work of artists Madeleine Bailey, Samantha Bittman and Matt Nichols.
Philip von Zweck curates sub-curators Christina Cosio, Stevie Greco and David Roman.
Christina Cosio curates the work of artist Erik Peterson.
Stevie Greco curates the work of artists Jason Bryant, Todd Mattei and Caroline Picard.
David Roman curates the collaborative work ...
This exhibition brings together some of the talent from the book Art of Touring (Square Root Books) and the local music community to showcase creative endeavors when not rockin’ on the stage. Whether video, pictures, sketches or written word, these musicians keep their creative edge sharp while whittling away the hours in a van, on a plane or walking about the cities they frequent.