The Beach Party is a yearly art event/party that takes over the entirety of the gallery space, allowing artists to create large, temporary and interactive work, or small, thoughtful pieces that may get sprayed with water. We have invited a range of artists working locally and nationally to playfully address the theme of summer. Harking on all senses, beach cover bands provide music, inflatable sculptures, video, photo, murals and more address the visual, while misters and super-soakers cool down the viewers in the heat of this spectacle. Artists participating include past exhibitors, invited artists/musicians, ...

“The sameness,” as originally named by Lois Lowry, suggests a social balance through the rules of order and structure. All of life's pain and spontaneity disappear through a rigid architecture of overwhelming conformity. Our version of “the sameness” suggests a similar new world order using modernist art and design fundamentals (following in the footsteps of such legendary influences as the Bauhaus and De Stijl), but rather than striving to eradicate imperfections we seek to celebrate variety and interpretation through common elements of line and color.

Please join us for some summer drinks to celebrate the inaugural issue of a continuing series on important contemporary artists!

Spudnik Press Cooperative is hosting a full day of festivities in recognition of three far out years of community print making. In the evening, festivities will move to Happy Dog Gallery. Live jazz and complimentary beer will accompany a silent auction. The event is free, but all guests who contribute the suggested donation of $10 will receive a complimentary print. $25 donations will receive a block printed T-shirt made on site. All contributions will support Spudnik’s artist’s residency program, open studio sessions, free workshops, and new equipment. The Silent Auction will include art from Paul Nudd, Jeremy Tinder, Wrik ...

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 ...

ACRE's boredom-banishing night of art, music, and mirth. Even the broke among us can win stellar contemporary art from Chicago and beyond! Plus the folks from the The Hornswaggler Bar will be on hand providing unique refreshments. Raffle and auction items include paintings, photographs, drawings, and sculpture by local Chicago artists and ACRE’s 2010 residents. Entrance is $10, which includes 3 raffle tickets and a door gift. Additional tickets can be purchased for $4, or you can get 7 tickets for $20. The silent auction closes and raffle winners are announced at 10:30pm. Funds raised go toward ACRE’s inaugural summer ...

A benefit for InCUBATE. A percentage of the bar sales will go towards helping InCUBATE launch our new publication series, Pilot Studies, and many other projects. Featuring DJs Jeff Parker, Naomi Walker, Joelyn Brown and David Marques. Please come and support your local experimental research institute!

Featuring a full bar, Chicago style street food, funky DJs and a world class art auction featuring the generosity and talents of Lauren Anderson, Mike Andrews, Isak Applin, Ali Bailey, Michelle Bolinger, Aline Cautis, Joel Dean, Dana DeGiulio, Rob Doran, Craig Doty, Ryan Duggan, Austin Eddy, Ryan Fenchel, Carson Fisk-Vittori, Howard Fonda, Gabrielle Garland, Theaster Gates, George Gittins, Jacob Goudreault, Geoffrey Hamerlinck, Phil Hanson, Shara Hughes, Michael Hunter, Kelly Kaczynski, Jessica Labatte, George Liebert, Caleb Lyons, CJ Matherne, ...

Event benefiting ACRE Project (The Artists' Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions Project), a non-profit based in Chicago devoted to developing new systems of support for emerging artists and to creating a regenerative community of cultural producers. ACRE investigates and institutes models designed to help artists develop, present, and discuss their practices by providing forums for idea exchange, interdisciplinary collaboration, and experimental projects. Come show us that you're interested, ask us to dance, and drink as much as you can, as a portion of the drink sales will go to the development of ACRE's 2010 residency program.

A one night only of presentations, readings, and a party for In Preparation. The publication, by the writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, was inaugurated in Spring 2008. This is a night of celebrating the 5th issue, where printing work from 25 emerging and mid-career artists and writers, all of equally heterogeneous form, medium, and approach will be represented. Featured are the works of Garret Durant, Dain Oh, Evan Conley, Arend de Gruyter-Helfer, Emma Furman, Ben Bertin, Andrew Gamble, Eric Kaepplinger, Mink Smithsonian, Benjamin Love, Dan Kugler, Robb Todd, ...

Please join us for the release of the sixth issue of Proximity magazine.  There will be an evening of performances by Proximity friends and family as well as an exhibition of works by artists featured in past magazines. The exhibition is part of an exchange project with our friends at Trendbeheer. Works on display will be sent to Rotterdam to be exhibited at Kunst & Complex in early March.

In Public Houses, private homes and Working Men’s Clubs across England a customary tradition for the celebration of Monumental Events and Great Festivals has been to relieve oneself of responsibility and inhibition and organize a Knees Up. In this tradition Industry of the Ordinary invite you and your loved ones to their 2009 Xmas Knees Up. Traditional British food, drink, music, dancing. games and visuals will be served, and the first one hundred guests will receive a commemorative drinking vessel to use and cherish.

Put on your fancy dress, pick up your dance card and join us for mint juleps and hurricanes, red velvet cake, dance tutorials and match making! This year’s party, The Debutante Ball, will unveil our newly renovated space as we expand into unit 2C (formerly Tony Wight Gallery) on the 2nd floor of the 119 N Peoria building. Need the perfect gift? This year’s annual glass will be a set of 4 Hurricane cocktail glasses designed by Philip von Zweck. We’ll also unveil our first ever annual holiday multiples, with two special editions by SOLO artists Christa Donner ...

CHURCH PORCH is a vehicle for the presentation of ideas – an aimless institution that turns on and spreads from a sign, a single neon sign reading CHURCH PORCH. We are a medium for bastard ideas ill suited to commercial spaces. It is the practical minimum of an institution pregnant with failures. Work by Lauren Elder.

Events occurring simultaneously, yet entirely disconnected; a violent temporal incident brought together with the mundane and sometimes ethereal. When combined, the reader is challenged to consider something new. Craig Hansen is a visual artist living and working in Chicago. Chris May is the founding member of Program Studio, a graphic design studio also based in Chicago.

Work by Adrian Rozendaal, Lee Jasper Jones, Dan Hojnacki, Andrew Herner, Paul Kriley, Derrick L. Bowser, Alan Hatcher and Nate Hitchcock.

threewalls and The Green Lantern Press are pleased to announce our latest publishing collaboration, The Artist’s Run Chicago Digest, a complimentary publication to the exhibition Artist’s Run Chicago (curated by Britton Bertran and Allison Peters Quinn) at the Hyde Park Art Center, May 10th-July 5th, 2009. The ARC Digest is meant to archive in print the activities of Chicago’s artist-run spaces between 1999-2009. It acts both as a companion to the exhibition and an extension of that project with interviews by Dan Gunn, essays by Abigail Satinsky, The Pond, Scott Speh and John Neff, Mary ...

A book by Alex Fuller and Gabe Usadel. Limited edition artist prints will be available for sale. Squares, circles and triangles are at the core of what makes the industrial world around us. A universal visual language apparent in all things—the tools we use, the fashion we wear, the buildings we live in and the communications we see. Visionary modernist architects, designers and artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, El Lissitzky, and Josef Albers celebrated both the beauty of form as well as the functional potential hidden within these 3 primary shapes and colors. The Incredible Journey That is Consciousness ...

The Yield is a part of Harvest, a week of events showcasing the work of Harold Arts’ 2009 residents and celebrating the release of our annual compilation album. Each summer, The Harold Arts Residency Program brings together emerging and midcareer artists and musicians to work in the wilderness. This exhibition of over 50 artists presents the product of that work.

Monsters and Dust is a new online quarterly. Issue #1: FIRSTS, hits the internet October 9th at www.monstersanddust.com. Presented by Harold Arts. DJ sets by Alex Valentine, Bea, and the Lady Speedstick. Performance by Lil' Elote. Featuring images, writing, sounds, and interviews from Cody Critcheloe, Erin Foley, MW Blackburn, Cass McCombs, Josh Tyson, Kelley Schei, Simone Meunch & Philip Jenks, Neil Freeman, Jess Holl, MEN, Ignacio Mardones, Elijah Burgher, Latham Zearfoss, David Robert Elliott, Sam Axelrod, Becca Mann, Salem Collo-Julin & Melinda Fries, Matt Kessler, Pilar Tena, Young Joon Kwak ...

Please join us as we celebrate the release of our fifth issue of Proximity Magazine. Very special performances by Magical Beautiful, the debut of The Gaze and sounds and mischief by Hunter Husar.

Please join us for the release of MOTHERWELL, a new arts journal dedicated to the intimate exchange of ideas and the primacy of publication as object. Motherwell contributors Zachary James Johnston and Karthik Pandian will be reading at 8pm. Motherwell Vol. 1: Triumphs & Disasters, will be available for purchase at the party and features new work by thirteen young writers, including Chicago-based contributors, Beth Capper, Bryce Dwyer, Zachary James Johnston, Corinna Kirsch, Ariel Pittman, Kelly Shindler, and Ania Szremski.