The sixth annual Art Shanty Projects is happening right now on Medicine Lake in beautiful Plymouth, Minnesota! Proximity contributor Nate Lee just returned and we posted some great pics that are located here.
Art Shanty Projects is going on until February 14, 2009. Visit their site at www.artshantyprojects.org. Now is as good a time [...]
January 28, 2009
Untitled (Field Work) at the O’Connor Art Gallery
Dates: January 28 to February 28, 2009
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 28 from 4-6pm
Exhibiting artists include:
Conrad Bakker, Jason Lazarus, Carrie Schneider, The Franks,
Nicholas Frank, Andrew Coppersmith, Carey Lin
and Amanda Repo Taiwo Thompson.
The exhibition is curated by Jessica Cochran.
About the Exhibition
Dominican University’s O’Connor Art Gallery [...]
January 29, 2009
Thursday Jan 29th, 2009
Please join us for a reception as Permanent Collection artist John
Sparagana signs his new book, a collaboration with critic Mieke Bal,
Sleeping Beauty: A One-Artist Dictionary, published by University of
Chicago Press. Sparagana’s works are produced by hand-distressing the
pages of fashion magazines into cloth-like material in which only hazy
traces of the original image are [...]
Proximity Magazine invites you to participate in (Con)Temporary Art Chicago. This 80-96 page book, to be released along with the next issue of Proximity Magazine, will showcase the best cultural offerings in Chicago during the art fair season – late April to early May 2009.
Our goal [...]
January 29, 2009
Please join us this week for the FIRST MEETING of the NEXT OBJECTIVISTS POETRY
WORKSHOP at 7:00 pm this THURSDAY, 29 JANUARY 2009.
The Next Objectivists is the world’s only literary workshop entirely dedicated
to the study and practice of objectivist poetry. We are a free school of poets
and critics pursuing the techniques of writing poetry from outside [...]
February 1, 2009
***1968/2008***
THE INHERITANCE OF POLITICS AND THE POLITICS OF INHERITANCE
Sunday, February 1 from 3-5pm
at the Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago
4427 North Clark Street
free
Readings and discussion with writers in celebration of the latest magazine
release of AREA Chicago, a publication and event series dedicated to
researching, supporting, and networking local social, political, and cultural
movements. Featuring AREA #7 contributors: [...]
January 29, 2009
ASK ME! HOUSE PARTY
Thursday, January 29 from 7-9pm
hosted by Laurie Jo Reynolds in Logan Square
suggested donation $10 (pay what you can)
reservations required, call 773.281.0824
Have you ever wondered how to improve your sleep hygiene, what it is like to be
a flight attendant, or why there were marches for the right to be bellhops in
Atlanta in 1930? [...]
Is it possible that online trading sites and virtual worlds like Second Life are pointing to a new business model for art fairs? After the decline in revenues at recent fairs and the continuing crisis in the markets many galleries are just staying home. Some see this as an opportunity. After launching their own [...]
The ten first steps that Barack Obama could take to renew the arts by David A. Ross The Arts NewspaperObama’s call to arts The Christian Science MonitorWhat Will Obama Do for the Arts? By Deanna Isaacs Chicago Reader
Golden Belt is hosting the first (and perhaps only) BAILOUT BIENNIAL in response to the current economic crisis and scandals surrounding the $700+ billion bailout.
“This charged, provocative exhibition delves deeply into capitalism, the global economy, post- industrialism, and greed. And unlike most biennials—blockbuster affairs with multi-million dollar budgets, superstar artists, and pavilions—this one was organized [...]
Paul has been conducting some surveillance and documentation of Chicago art activity. Check out his Flickr page.
January 24, 2009
Join us January 24, for a night for OPENING DAY CEREMONIES of the UNLYMPICS
http://unlympics.wordpress.com/
starts at 6 pm — drop by whenever you can. A PARADE WILL HAPPEN. Sparklers. Ribbon dancers.
InCUBATE Storefront, 2129 N. Rockwell (around the corner from the Congress theater on Milwaukee)
PARADE OF NOTIONS
ARTISTIC SECTION
Think/Dance
The Anne Glickman Players
Liaison to the Advisory Council on Parties [...]
February 20, 2009
HUNGRY
works by Rafael Barontini
February 20 – March 13, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday February 20th, 7-11pm
Second bedroom Project Space presents an installation of sculptural and two-dimensional works by artists Rafael Barontini.
Through this group of works, Barontini explores the complexity of simple delights. Late night milk and cookies, temporary alliances as a product of inebriation, juice boxes perhaps, [...]
February 3, 2009
Paper Trail
February 3 – March 7, 2009
Reception: Wednesday, February 4, 5-8pm
Paper Trail is an exhibition of historical material created, produced,
and distributed in the late 1960s by Chicago’s original Rainbow
Coalition-an alliance between The Black Panther Party, the Young Lords
Organization, Young Patriots, and Rising Up Angry. This material is
presented “in conversation” with what can be considered its [...]
Images from Issue #2 – Photography by Rebecca Smeyne
Images from Issue #2 – Photography by Justin Goh
Images from Issue #2 – Photography by Zach Abubeker
Images from Issue #2 – Photography by Justin Goh
January 24, 2009
The 6th annual Art Shanty Projects on Medicine Lake in Plymouth, MN. Saturdays and Sundays, 11am – 4pm, through Feb 14.
Last weekend, several hundred people from all across the North Star state braved the wind and cold to kick off the 2009 Art Shanty Projects. They were treated to, among other things, a Norse blessing, [...]
Our friend Daniel is publishing a series of five articles in <H>Art Magazine in Belgium> the series is: ” an introduction to Chicago, Illinois USA and it’s local critical cultural experimentation, written from the perspective of a magazine editor and curator committed to navigating the city. Look for three more articles in 2009 dealing with [...]
January 29, 2009
Criteria, January 15 – February 28, 2009
Curated by Jimena Acosta and Emiliano Godoy
Opening reception: January 29, 5-8 pm
Art Talks lecture with Emiliano Godoy 6:30 pm, 623 S. Wabash, Rm 203
Criteria explores the ethics and politics that embody contemporary
notions of sustainability. Through a variety of media that gathers
artworks and unconventional design approaches, this exhibition examines
the utopia [...]
Images from Issue #2 – Photography by Rebecca Smeyne
From Issue #2 – Photography by Justin Goh
From Issue #2 – Photography by Zach Abubeker
From Issue #2 – Photography by Aron Gent
January 30, 2009
JAN 30 – MAR 21 VON KOMMANIVANH: YOU ARE UGLY
Opening reception: Jan 30, 5-8pm
WALSH GALLERY
118 N. Peoria Street, 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60607
Tuesday–Saturday 10:30–5:30
The unjust categorizations of a xenophobic society, omnipresent chaos, and the extinction of beauty and humanity on [...]
January 25, 2009
An art parade, temporary housing structures, independent contemporary art space networking, one day only exhibition formats, video sweat lodges, an artist run art fair, a reincarnation of the depression era Public Works of Art Project, a social networked free public school, impressive performances, boring theoretical nonsense, the revamping of a local community center, mapping projects, [...]
An art parade, temporary housing structures, independent contemporary art space networking, one day only exhibition formats, video sweat lodges, an artist run art fair, a reincarnation of the depression era Public Works of Art Project, a social networked free public school, impressive performances, boring theoretical nonsense, the revamping of a local community center, mapping [...]
Just added at the Bureau of Public Secrets website:
DON QUIXOTE ATTACKS THE WINDMILLS
Miguel de Cervantes’s “Don Quixote” is one of the most wonderful books in the world. A middle-aged country gentleman, brain addled by reading too many chivalric adventure stories, adopts the trappings of a medieval knight and sets out to rescue damsels in distress [...]
February 7, 2009
Buttress, Buttress
Denise Kupferschmidt, Aline Cautis, Rebecca Ward, and Jessica Paulson
Curated by Britton Bertran
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 7 from 7-10pm
Show runs until Sunday, March 8th
Buttresses draw an analogous purpose through both architectural and relational feats. In the literal form they are traditional building elements that perform both a structural and decorative purpose. Their propping and [...]
January 23, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
8:00p-10:00p
HARDCORE HISTORIES: Bye Bye Ron Asheton!
The HARDCORE HISTORIES series returns!
HARDCORE HISTORIES is a highly sporadic music history and social event series
devoted to global loud fast underground punk rock and other forms of sonic
mayhem. For tonight’s gathering we will remember Ron Asheton who died earlier this month. Asheton is chiefly remembered as the [...]
January 20, 2009
INAUGURAL CRAWL @ MESS HALL!
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
4:00p-10:00 pm
Mess Hall is participating in the Glenwood Avenue Art District’s Inaugural Crawl!
Have other plans? Then come to Mess Hall on route and design & make copies (we provide the copier!) of your own cheap art poster to commemorate & comment on the inauguration of President Obama & [...]
January 24, 2009
January 24th- February 7th:
Robert Andrade: Archetypes and Ratios.
Opening Reception: Saturday January 24th, 6-10 pm.
http://knockknockgallery.com
January 20, 2009
All Rise for The People of Gaza
“Chicago Musicians in solidarity with victims of the War on Gaza call for Continued Ceasefire and an End to the Occupation”
Join musicians in concert Tuesday at 10 PM January 20th at
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219-21 South Morgan Street
Chicago Illinois, 60608
directions: http://www.lumpen.com/CPS/location.html
Program:
10:00
Multi-Lateral Music by
Ronnie Malley, Ronnie Kuller, Michael Levin, Mark Messing, [...]
January 23, 2009
Twenty
Eight
Portraits
2004 – 2008
YOGI PROCTOR
The Sullivan Gallery presents Twenty Eight Portraits 2004 – 2008 by Yogi Proctor.
Twenty Eight Portraits is a formidable must see in which artist Yogi Proctor
presents a timely observation into the power of images, through an intriguing and
succinct re-presentation of images of power.
SULLIVAN GALLERY
33 S. State Street, 7th Floor, Chicago. IL. 60603. [...]
Art Fag City’s Worst of the Web 2008 is both funny and critical. Good job Paddy! I always had a hard time navigating that site too. Looks like a “new media artist” allowed his dreams to be confounded by the whims of Mr Deitch. But who knows who to blame?
I would like to nominate [...]
We Joined Facebook after realising LittleSis.org (see post below) was cool. Please add us as your friend while you are browsing the universe.
Some new media art fags might remember Josh On’s politically astute and generatively exciting TheyRule.net. His site allows visitors to visualize connections between people who are on multiple boards of fortune 500 companies. Users of the site can conduct and upload their own research to create their own power maps of elite players.
But this concept [...]
“Although this pursuit may seem to be inevitably elusive and fruitless, I am hoping to gain whatever understanding I can through the process.”
Brad and I studied photography together as undergraduates in Nebraska, he has since gone on to grad school at Yale and continues to make images that stir the mind and the soul. [...]
January 18, 2009 1:00 pm
This Sunday, January 18th, from 3-5pm Robin Richman Inc will present new work by Juan Angel Chavez and Cheryl Pope. Please join us for a cocktail reception and viewing.
2108 north damen | chicago | illinois 60647 | 773.278.6150
winter hours: tuesday – saturday 11-6pm, sunday 12-5pm, closed monday
Photoshop Adbusting subway street art.
Portraits: The Obama Administration
Check out this interactive set of portaits by Nadav Kander from the New York Times.
Proposals for selection for ZOOart 2009 are now welcome. ZOOart is a public art event, open to young artists. Now in it’s eighth year it is organised by the Art.ur association with the support of the Cuneo City Council.
For details please visit www.zooart.it
Miss Michela Giuggia
tel./fax 0171 689960
cell. +39 339 690899
Email
Notice:
Attention Chicago:
A highly organized, internationally recognized, massively marketed, thoroughly branded, and extremely expensive series of sporting events is coming to your town. This is not it.
From Saturday January 24 to February 14 2009, InCUBATE and person-in-residence Anne Elizabeth Moore will host a series of games called the Unlympics. They will consist of real [...]
You can finally subscribe to Proximity using credit cards via our Paypal account. Get the next 3 issues delivered to your mailbox for $30 a year.
Post Family Reblog: Sam Post and the good gang at One Design have officially opened The COOP. The COOP is a mixed use creative space nestled in Chicago’s Fulton Market available for rent by day, week or month.The space includes a T-1 Internet Connection, Kitchen & Bathroom, Desk, Security Camera, Office Dog (included) and it [...]
January 15, 2009
Image Splimage: Recent Paintings by Brad Biancardi
January 15 – February 17, 2009
Opening reception: January 15, 6-9 pm
EASTERN EXPANSION
244 W 31st Street Chicago Illinois, 60616
773.837.0145
February 20, 2009
“The Pour Rubber”
Individual & Collaborative Works by Paul Nudd & Nick Black
February 20 – March 21, 2009
(((antena)))
1765 S. Laflin St.
Chicago IL 60608
antenapilsen@gmail.com
Saturdays noon-5pm or by appointment
773.344.1940
opening reception: Friday, February 20 6-10pm
The Pour Rubber is… Black Nudd – Smoldering Heads – ThunderCRUSTS – Two Rerouted Thrift Store Fog Machines – Black Blisters – Feb-lloweenies - Oozing [...]
Looking into the past to see the future.
100+ Abandoned Buildings, Places and Property
JUNK JET
fanzine for electronics and aesthetics
INTERNATIONAL POSTER COMPETITION
17th Edition of Graphisme dans la rue to the theme of THE CITY
For the past 16 years, the annual event known as “Graphisme dans la rue” (“Graphics in the Streets”) has been inviting graphic artists to create large-format posters addressing the theme of “the city”, then posting the works on billboards throughout the [...]
Proximity magazine is joining a group of Chicago- based artists at Trendbeheer presenteert @ Art Rotterdam! We will be presenting and sharing publications from Chicago and spend a few weeks conducting research for our first Proximity City Guide. If you are in Holland during the weeks of February 1-14 please come by the show (Feb [...]
We would like you to find a moment to enjoy the opening of the Winter Art Season. Much to do in neighborhoods throughout the city.
Check out our calendar for details!
January 18, 2009 12:00 am
Partisan Arts International hosts All-Chicago People’s Inauguration Ball
On Sunday January 18, 2009 Partisan Arts International will host the All-Chicago People’s Inauguration Ball at Martyr’s nightclub 3855 N. Lincoln. The event is being planned as a local option for people wishing to celebrate the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
The All-Chicago People’s Inauguration Ball will feature an [...]
January 17, 2009 12:00 am
Inaugural Ball
Sat January 17th 2009
at AV-Aerie 2000 W Fulton, Chicago
Doors at 8pm,
$15 Donations to benefit AV-Aerie; Donation Bar
Come Dressed To The 09′s And Ready To Celebrate!
We’ll be dancing to the sweet sounds of:
The Joel Patterson Trio
DJ Mr P.C.
DJ Jacob Ross
Limited Space Available So Come Early And Stay Late!
RSVP to 312 953 3600
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And the next day!
Partisan [...]
January 20, 2009 12:00 am
Anti Gravity Surprise’s Inauguration Party
with Book Launch & Panel Discussion
Public art group Anti Gravity Surprise celebrates the inauguration by launching the interactive workbook Tell Us What You Think.
Pick up a free copy and listen to members of four local collectives talk about collaboration and group projects that they have helped to inaugurate in Chicago [...]
January 9, 2009
There might actually be something worth seeing …
http://www.chicagoartsdistrict.org
January 9, 2009
Matthew Dennison + Jill Sutton
January 9 – February 27
Show Opening Reception: Friday, January 9, 5-8 pm
Mutualism Matthew Dennison
Matthew Dennison paints a twisted and stylistic narrative with an Americana sensibility, adding skewed perspectives and awkward figures in unusual settings that appear to be ordinary surroundings. His skill of painting and technique are displayed and completed [...]
January 9, 2009
Jason Robert Bell
The Unreasoning Mask: New Revelations in Figurative Metaphysics
January 9 – February 21, 2009
Thomas Robertello Gallery is pleased to present The Unreasoning Mask: New Revelations in Figurative Metaphysics by Brooklyn-based artist Jason Robert Bell, January 9 through February 21, 2009. There will be an opening reception Friday January 9, 5:00 – 8:00 pm. This [...]
January 9, 2009
Jorge Martin & Pablo Soria
January 9 – February 28, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, January 9 5:00-7:30 pm
The Schneider Gallery is pleased to invite you to wander the pathways, landscapes, and memory spaces captured in the works of Argentinean artists Jorge Martin and Pablo Soria.
Both artists use the world of reality to recall memories half dissolved, dreams [...]
January 9, 2009
Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture at Country Club Chicago and in Mouvement magazine (France)
This Friday we are having a small event at a local gallery to display Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture and some of the Chicago based artists will be there to discuss it and sign copies. We will be playing audio from the two CD’s [...]
January 9, 2009
FLATFILE GALLERIES & TH!NKART PRESENT “FRENCH KISS & KARMA:
A MÉLANGE OF CONTEMPORARY ART FROM FRANCE & INDIA” IN JANUARY 2009
Innovative bi-gallery exhibition –Opening receptions January 9th, 15th, & 16th
Susan Aurinko’s FLATFILEgalleries and Laurie R. Glenn’s Th!nkArt, Wicker Park’s contemporary art and policy salon, together will host French Kiss & Karma: A Mélange of Contemporary Art [...]
January 9, 2009
Robin Bowman It’s Complicated: The American teenager
January 9 – March 7, 2009
Catherine Edelman Gallery
300 W. Superior St.
Chicago, IL 60654
Robin Bowman’s five-year journey into the heart of teenage America resulted in a series of [...]
January 9, 2009
Alpestrine: Michael K. Paxton
Curated by Rhonda Bacus
January 9th – February 7th, 2009
Friday, January 9th, 6-9 pm
Linda Warren Gallery proudly announces its first solo exhibition with veteran Chicago artist Michael K. Paxton titled “Alpestrine” — a botany term meaning “grown at high altitudes or in mountainous regions” — clearly apropos for these large, colorful mixed-media drawings [...]
January 9, 2009
Event date: Friday Jan 9th, 2009
Overlap
January 9 – February 21,2009
(opening reception Friday, January 9 from 5-8pm)
a group show featuring painting and drawing by three emerging and
established Chicago artists
with artwork by:
Stephanie Serpick
Tricia Rumbolz
Beverly Kedzior
David Weinberg Gallery
300 W. Superior Street Ste. 203
Chicago, IL 60610
312-529-5090
January 9, 2009
Event date: Friday Jan 9th, 2009
Dimension + Typography: A Survey of Letterforms in Space and Time
features interdisciplinary work in print, video, sculpture, and
installation by an international group of artists, designers, and
programmers including: Mohammad Reza Abdolali, Yeohyun Ahn + John Page
Corrigan + Viviana Cordova, Andrew Byrom, J. Kyle Daevel, Oded Ezer,
Jack Featherstone, Denise Gonzales Crisp, Geoff [...]
New York based artist Lindsay Ballant and friends have created a website campaigning for the world’s largest going away party for George W. Bush. It’s called Bush Bash. We’re going.
The idea is to create a network of “Bush Bash”-themed parties across the nation (or world??). We’re also asking people to post their Bush Bash [...]
January 9, 2009
We begin the New Year with an exhibition by Chicago artist Christa Donner, opening Friday, January 9, 2009. Donner’s project Re:Production, is an exhibition that “re-imagines reproduction” through a wall installation, large scale drawings, a small-press zine and an animation made in collaboration with biologist and fellow artist Andrew Yang.
What role does the notion of [...]
Amanda talks to Nick Lucking and Tim Ivison about www.spcmkr.com and their various projects. Listen here.
SPCMKR facilitates and documents space exchanges, providing a site through which to organize a gift-economy between users. The web-based component of the project provides an interface for locating and contributing resources, arranging for temporarily inhabiting surplus spaces, and documenting both [...]
January 16, 2009
Opening Receptions:
Friday, January 16th, 5pm – 8pm
STICKS
Self-taught artists compelled to create often use whatever materials are available to them. Jan Petry curates this exhibit celebrating those artists who have picked up a stick and made it their own. Tree trunks, branches, twigs, roots…. telephone poles, matchsticks, toothpicks… transformed in the hands of those with the [...]
January 9, 2009
Mucca Pazza Headline at Co-op Image Benefit
Cooperative Image Group Benefit, January 9th at the Empty Bottle
Support youth arts in Humboldt Park January 9th with the first Mucca Pazza Show of 2009! Starting at 9pm, the Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western Ave., will host a Co-op Image Benefit starring headliner Mucca Pazza, an ‘astounding circus [...]
January 9, 2009
KENDRICK SHACKLEFORD
Tank Traps and Hijackings
January 9 – February 8, 2009
Opening reception: January 9, 7-10 PM
Tank Traps and Hijackings is an installation of Shackleford’s new sculpture and prints.
Old Gold
2022 North Humboldt Boulevard
Chicago, Illinois 60647
Basement Entrance
Sundays 1-4PM
By Appointment 773.653.9956
oldgoldchicago@gmail.com
California Blue Line (towards O’Hare),
Walk west on Palmer Boulevard,
South on Humboldt Boulevard to 2022
January 9, 2009
Friday January 9th 7-10pm
Harold Arts Presents:
Try Harder
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave
2nd floor
New Works by:
Jason Lazarus (.com)
Brian McNearney
David Moré
Montgomery Perry Smith (.com)
Performances by:
Aymeric Hainaux (unpoisson.com/)
Lark (myspace.com/larkz)
Mikal Boyd (myspace.com/mykelboyd)
Still looking for a new year’s resolution? You can use ours, it’s simple, Try Harder.
In order to extend this mantra to our collective we challenged four artists to [...]
January 7, 2009
Death and the City: Recent Work at Tell Brak, Syria
Presented by: Augusta McMahon, University of Cambridge
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
7:00 PM
Breasted Hall
Oriental Institute
1155 E. 58th Street
Recent excavations at Tell Brak in northeast Syria have exposed a series of mass graves that were placed on the edge of Brak’s Outer Town at its moment of maximum expansion [...]
Proximity is hosting an open meeting this Sunday January 4 at 3pm at the Co-Prosperity Sphere (C-PS). We are going to unveil our general plans for the new year as well as talk about the forthcoming issue and some future initiatives. C-PS is located at 3219 S Morgan Street in the lovely neighborhood of Bridgeport.
January 11, 2009
ROUNDTABLE:
Sunday, January 11, 2:00 pm
Chicago Artist? Is there such a thing anymore? A roundtable discussion featuring Elizabeth Chodos, Director of Three Walls; Paul Klein, critic; Chuck Thurow, Director of The Hyde Park Arts Center; Philip von Zweck, artist, and more. This event will take place in Swift Hall room 310. (Swift Hall is directly east [...]
January 4, 2009
Jim Lutes
OPENING RECEPTION
Sunday, January 4, 4:00–7:00 pm
featuring a talk with the artist from 5:00–6:00pm in Cobb Hall Room 307 (directly below the gallery)
January 04 – February 15, 2009
A selection of 30 paintings will survey Jim Lutes’ career from his gritty Chicago cityscapes to his current synthesis of figuration and a lyrical process-based abstraction. Although Lutes [...]
January 9, 2009
Opening get down for Casey Murtaugh’s exhibition of new drawings <http://caseymurtaughart.com/home.html>
Friday 9 January from 6 – 11 pm
for the moment -
Finch Gallery
2747 w. armitage (@ california)
312 622-8921
January 5, 2009
TalkingPoint with Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa
January 5, 2009 at 6-8pm
Hyde Park Art Center
Inspired by, among other developments, the Zapatista uprising of New Year’s Day, 1994, three young artists in Pilsen came together in 1996 to found the independent exhibition space and publishing collective known as polvo. Join us for conversation with art worker Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa as she [...]
January 9, 2009
WHEN DOES IT OR YOU BEGIN? (MEMORY AS INNOVATION)
Festival of Writing, Performance, & Video
JANUARY 9 – FEBRUARY 1, 2009
Curated by Amina Cain & Jennifer Karmin
at Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield Avenue
Chicago, IL
NEW LINEUP OF ARTISTS EACH NIGHT
8pm Friday & Saturday
7pm Sunday
tickets $12
$10 students, seniors, & working artists/writers
full schedule online http://www.linkshall.org/09-pp-jan.shtml
**WEEK ONE** January 9-11
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Individual Memory: A Celebration [...]
January 9, 2009
LATFILE GALLERIES & TH!NKART PRESENT “FRENCH KISS & KARMA:
A MÉLANGE OF CONTEMPORARY ART FROM FRANCE [...]
January 6, 2009 12:00 am
Zach Dodson to read at THE PARLOR on January 6th @ 7pm
Say hello to 2009 with Zach Dodson at The Parlor. Zach will read a piece called “The 2043 Field Guide to Living Indoors” – an excerpt from a novel which he hopes will be finished sometime in the next 34 years. Following his 30 [...]
January 10, 2009
The Green Lantern is proud to announce a new group show called “ELEPHANTS IN SMALL PLACES” opening on Saturday January 10th with a reception from 7-10pm. Running until Feb 7th, featuring the work of Shannon Gerard (Canada), Clare Britt (Chicago), Jennifer Wilkey (NY) & Derek Haverland (Chicago).
Elephants in Small Places is a show documenting various [...]
January 16, 2009
Roots & Culture presents:
“Suspend” new paintings by Michelle Bolinger, Clare Grill, Stacie Johnson, Aliza Morell, and Kimberly Trowbridge
Opening Friday, January 16th 6pm- 9pm
Through February 14th
Roots & Culture 1034 n Milwaukee Ave.
This exhibition will present five painters who investigate painting in a variety of ways including memory, observation, arrangement, surface, gesture and desire. The work ranges [...]
January 9, 2009
In Gallery 1
“of or relating to the sky or visible heavens”
with
Shane Huffman
Michelle Grabner
Carrie Gundersorf
Matthew Northridge
Melissa Oresky
Stan Shellabarger
In Gallery 2
Pedro Velez
The Day of the Corrupt: Our Father’s left US shit
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Show Dates: January 9 to February 14, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, January 9, 5-8pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 6pm
More info and images: 312.480.8390 scott@westernexhibitions.com
Western Exhibitions
119 Peoria [...]
January 28, 2009
Dates: January 28 to February 28, 2009
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 28 from 4-6pm
Exhibiting artists include:
Conrad Bakker, Jason Lazarus, Carrie Schneider, The Franks, Nicholas Frank, Andrew Coppersmith, Carey Lin and Amanda Repo Taiwo Thompson.
The exhibition is curated by Jessica Cochran.
About the Exhibition
Dominican University’s O’Connor Art Gallery is pleased to announce Untitled (Field Work), a group show [...]
January 10, 2009
House of the Rising Sun
January 10 – April 5
Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Avenue Galleries
78 E. Washington St.
Free
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois have been collaborating as artists since they met at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1997. Though their output primarily consists of paintings, the pair also collaborates to create sculpture [...]
January 9, 2009
January 9th, 2009 – February 14th, 2009
Opening: January 9th, 2009 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Sculpture, Deborah Simon is exhibiting her new sculptures inspired by the largest bats in the world, the Indian Flying Fox. From the moment Deborah saw an Indian Flying Fox roost, she wanted to sculpt the bats and capture the variety of [...]
January 9, 2009
Michael K. Paxton Alpestrine
Curated by: Rhonda Bacus
Linda Warren Gallery
1052 W. Fulton Market St.
Chicago, IL 60607
January 9th, 2009 – February 7th, 2009
Opening: [...]
January 6, 2009
January 6 – February 1, 2009
Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611-2643
Exploring the relationships among art, politics, and race, Theaster Gates constructs a temple-like structure that merges aspects of African American and Japanese traditions. Gates’s construction also serves as a contemplative space meant to inspire dialogue across philosophical and cultural boundaries on topics [...]
January 16, 2009
More information TBA. Contact the Co-Prosperity Sphere if you are young, Polish and an artist.
