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 ...

A Star for Roman Grey, new work by Scott Ramon, is an exhibition of what lurks in the darkness where wereworlds collide. Emerging from the basement, filled with must and the filthiest of black molds, come drawings on wrought papers that haven’t seen daylight. The drawings are representations of Roman Grey’s location in a seemingly un-locatable place. They have an "almost" logic. Psychological space resonates. Within a void where entities exist, creatures are displayed with the mapping of teeth and eyes. Constellations and charts form order and chaos. A world of omens is revealed through archaeological iconographical glyphs. The ...

Art: Under 21 presents some of the most stellar artists under the age of 21 in 2010. Thirty sought after high school students from magnet art programs around the country were invited to submit their work for this juried exhibition. Eleven were chosen to exhibit work in the gallery. Alongside the exhibition, a biographical video compilation of these thirty young artists will be distributed during the opening and projected on the screen out back. Work by Nicholas Alguire, Luke Carlson, Sky Cubacub, Jackie Furtado, Walter Latimer, Christine Porco, Christina Quinlan, Julian Stropes, Mitchell Thar, Harrison Tyler and ...

Featuring artists included in the booth at Goffo's section of the NEXT fair. Work by Dan Baird, Caleb Charland, Mark Dal Pra, Carly Fischer, Steve Frost, Lauren Gregory, Brent Houston, Macramerin, Heidi Norton and Cheryl Pope.

An exhibition that showcases collectors as curators. 4 Chicago art collectors have been asked to curate a work of art from their personal collections into a group exhibition that will take place inside of an "apartment gallery." Art on display in the gallery is from the private collections of Curt Conklin, Susan Gesheidle, Jefferson Goddard and Paul Klein.

The exhibition subtly bends the space time continuum by making the future seem like the present or even the past. Daniel Baird’s fallen Space Station, Sherwin Ovid’s keenly rendered diamonds and Caleb Charland’s celestial photographs are all in conversation with another moment, another place, another realistic parallel now.

The gallery will be converted into a Room-sized Loom. Initiated by Julia Sherman, Room-A-Loom is a site-specific weaving-experiment that considers the architecture of the gallery. The loom uses the gallery’s walls to turn a room into a simple machine. It spans the width and breadth of the space, and therefore there is no place to enter without becoming part of the planar field of yarn and donated materials. Throughout the duration of the show, Swimming Pool Project Space holds an open invitation for anyone to bring his/her own materials and learn to weave. This loom is a very simple incarnation of ...

Lauren Gregory is more than a portrait painter. Her untraditional canvases include: fur, wigs and the couch. Depicting a subtle haunting and somewhat disorienting presentation of recognizable faces from the media or more personal interpretations of her loved ones. Often her oils become animations of everyday moments, brush strokes moving frame by frame, caught as a raw reinvention of her canvas. Influenced by a matriarch of artists and from a lineage of landscape and portrait painters, she hails from Tennessee.

Swimming Pool Project Space is proud to present an exhibition of photographs by John Chiara and Sean McFarland, two distinctive artists based in San Francisco. Although deeply informed by their place on the West Coast, Chiara and McFarland both revamp landscape photography as a kind of alchemy, using inventive, experimental processes to produce transformed views that speak to the imagination as much as the facts. Chiara drives around with immense, hand-built cameras, the largest mounted on a flat-bed trailer, to create unique Cibachrome prints that are veiled in ethereal color or heavy darkness. McFarland melds digital collage with unconventional ...

Swimming Pool Project Space is proud to announce GroupSOLO, a rotating gallery performance of 4 solo shows taking place in a single evening. Artists Carol Jackson, Tom Long, Jeffrey Grauel and Diego Leclery will each have a 45 minute-long solo show during the hours of 7-11pm on Saturday, September 19th. Each exhibit will be installed on the hour by preparators/artists Aza Quinn-Brauner and Daniel Baird. They may paint, spackle, hang, build pedestals, install monitors, and do typical gallery tasks throughout the duration of the art work’s rotation. The public performance exposes the behind-the-scenes gallery installation and prep ...