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 ...
An exhibition that celebrates the centennial year of Ox-Bow, school of art and artists’ residency. Located in Saugatuck, Michigan, for the past 100 years, Ox-Bow has provided an immersive experience for artists where the influence of a creative community, pristine natural environment and the process of retreat has made a lasting impact on countless individuals.
The artists in this exhibition represent the range of relationships that artists have to Ox-Bow, from faculty members, to staff, to resident artists, to fellowship recipients and students. The majority of the artists included in the exhibition represent the contemporary generation, while two artists, George ...
A program of work by noted Chicago/Toronto artist Steve Reinke.
For this exhibition, Carmen Price and Erin Zona have produced a variety of multiples and works on paper that reflect their mutual interests in language, sexuality, the night sky, cinema, jazz, work, loss, emoticonography, and time.
Also featuring a new installation by Kate Ruggeri in the project window.
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, ...
Re-arranging pre-arranged non-arrangements. Formal, temporary and permanent situations. New work by Carson Fisk-Vittori and Michael Hunter.
The Roots & Culture screening series will feature a program of work recently added to the archive of the Video Data Bank. Focusing on acquisitions from the past year, the program highlights eight pieces spanning a variety of genres and styles. This VDB program has recently screened at several major film festivals, and this Roots & Culture event is an opportunity for the VDB to showcase their new acquisitions in Chicago.
Work by Jesse McLean, Sterling Ruby, Dani Levanthal, Jim Finn, Pat Steir, Susan Youssef, Wynne Greenwood & K8 Hardy and ...
Work by Jacob Goudreault, Angel Otero, Max Reinhardt, Simon Slater, with special guest Easton Miller.
The premise of this exhibit is to address painting as an increasingly abstract notion, and to consider its inherent sculptural and object based possibilities. The way has been clearly cut to broach the topic of "subject as object" with respect to painting, to lure out the infinite possibilities paint and its associated materials has when piled up, cut and woven, collaged, wrapped around a form, chewed up and licked onto whatever, etc, etc. Clearly there is nothing new about apparently non-traditional uses ...
Curated by artist and California College of the Arts graduate, Liliana Lewicka, the exhibition features work in a wide range of media including illustration, new media, painting, photography, sculpture, textile, and video. Prompted by the 1985 music project We Are the World, co-written by Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson, and recorded by nearly 50 of the biggest names in music in an effort to raise money and awareness of the famine crisis in Africa, this current show asks artists born in the 1980s to reimagine on the original project. Conceived as both a critique of the ineffectiveness of ...
New sculptures and paintings by Brian McNearney begin to try to empathize with and understand the plant's sense of humor, while simultaneously feeling seriously sorry for them, ultimately left terrified at their prevalence.
New sculptures and paintings by Edra Soto explore how different forms represent ideas of Heaven and Hell. Speculations of what awaits us after passing, rebirth, transformation, world peace, communions, hope, love, and ideas of mental and spiritual darkness are all referenced through a lens of a Roman Catholic upbringing.
Roots & Culture gallery presents a screening of video work by Scott Wolniak. As an artist whose video work grows out of his regular studio practice, Wolniak’s humorous, labor-intensive and frequently metaphysical work is a well-regarded fixture in the Chicago gallery community. This program highlights ten years of Wolniak’s videos, from early pieces focusing on performance, to more recent animation projects. This screening of collected work is a rare chance to see the bulk of Wolniak’s pieces, most originally shown in installation contexts, in one program.
Scott Wolniak is an interdisciplinary visual artist working in drawing, sculpture, video and installation. ...
Craig Doty has always held an interest in the powerless subject. This has typically taken the form of youths in group self-destruction, in situations of pure vanity, glory, and depravity. Resisting the overwrought casual aesthetic of any late-night party photographer, and the ease of such documentation, Doty's images use their contrivances to develop something more potent. Never moralizing, never sympathizing, they have the presence of an aestheticizing influence that evades being responsible or negligent, as ethically resigned as any one night stand, fist fight, or hearty three-day bender.
Two young men forcing another to eat a goldfish, or restraining a ...