February 20, 2009
February 20 – March 28, 2009
In Gallery 1
ADRIANE HERMAN
Human Doings
In Gallery 2
Prints from FRESH HOT PRESS
Opening Reception: Friday, February 20, 5-8pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 11am to 6pm
More info and images: 312.480.8390 scott@westernexhibitions.com
WESTERN EXHIBITIONS
119 N Peoria St, Ste 2A
Chicago, IL 60607 USA
Paul Chan is an important and provocative artist whose influence on contemporary art and culture is immeasurable. Please make an effort to see his exhibition of new work and hear him speak at one of his talks.
The Renaissance Society presents three lectures related to an exhibition by Paul Chan, March 1 – April 12, 2009
Paul [...]
Gorilla Tango Theater
Friday March 13th and Saturday March 14th at 10pm
1919 North Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL
$10, purchase tickets at theater or online at www.gorillatango.com
“Performance duo Nicholas & Warner present their latest collaborative effort detailing the mixed contextualization of characters in a world demanding of efficiency & adaptation.
“Spectacular Gestures that don’t change a thing” is situated within [...]
Momus, aka Nick Currie, blogs about the death of print. It’s not looking good for pulp in Chicago after the bankruptsies of the Tribune and The Chicago Reader as well as the collapse of print titles like Stop Smiling and Prompt. One interesting fact he pulled out is that for every magazine pronounced dead in [...]
We forgot to mention earlier last week that that one hundred years ago, on February 20, the Futurist Manifesto was presented on the frontpage of Le Figaro. Well, Dutch Art mag Metropolis M didn’t forget nor did many other European art fags. Here is a handy link to Futurist Cookbook recipes that we can all [...]
Here is nice concept to emulate next Valentines day: exhibit some very tasty treats amidst some delicious art. Artist and Contributing Editor, Mike Genovese, sends some warmth and cheer via photos from a fundraiser that took place at Oh Wow in Miami. Pictured here is artist Jen Stark hanging with a nice lad. Wish we [...]
The Stinger may be your future condo.
March 20, 2009
March 20 through April 18, 2009
Cameron Gray
You Get What You Deserve
New Work
Paintings on wood tiles on panels
Carl F. Hammer
Carl Hammer Gallery, Inc.
740 N. Wells Street
Chicago, IL 60654
March 13, 2009
Michael Stickrod at he said-she said Friday, March 13, 6:00-8:00The filmmaker and artist will screen films, play sound works, and show related objects.
“Michael Stickrod addresses the psychology of human ties by cutting to the center of his familial circle. He uses scanned photographs and found audio to create nearly abstract sequences embedded between [...]
March 13, 2009
Insider Art
Thrones Gallery
123 N. Jefferson St. #3R
Opening: 6-9pm
Work by Jason Benson, Joel Dean, Austin Eddy, John Friel, Dom Garritano, George Gittins, Jacob Goudreault, Ian Hokin, Sachi Pollard, Justin Swinburne and Korey Vincent. Through April 10.
March 15, 2009
Dave Hullfish Bailey; Cameron Martin
The Suburban,
125 N. Harvey Ave. (Oak Park)
Opening: 2-4pm
March 27, 2009
Cody Hudson: thanks man, see you around man, fuck yeah, you guys are wild, thanks man, i dig it, see you;
Corey Arnold: FISH-WORK
Andrew Rafacz Gallery, 835 W. Washington Blvd.
Opening: 6pm
March 27, 2009
Boombox
Heaven Gallery, 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. #2
Opening: 7-10pm
Since the rise of blues and jazz in the early parts of the 20th century, Chicago has been a hotbed for music. Over the last two decades, Chicago’s visual artists and graphic designers have joined this cultural ferment by lending their talents to the current generation of musicians. [...]
March 27, 2009
Without You I Am Nothing: Cultural Democracy from Providence and Chicago
Green Lantern, 1511 N. Milwaukee Ave. #2
Opening: 7-10pm
Without You I am Nothing: Cultural Democracy from Providence and Chicago is an exhibition of works on paper that are not intended for public consumption but to create small venues for public participation. The exhibition features posters by [...]
March 3, 2009
Tuesday Mar 3rd, 2009
Voices Lecture: Maud Lavin
Art Historian, Chicago
5pm
Gallery 400 Lecture Room
Lavin has published essays and writing on a wide range of subjects,
including Hannah Hoch’s Weimar-era photocollages; the role of graphic
design in shaping the public sphere, -particularly democracy and social
issues; and, most recently, being middle-aged. This lecture, a discussion
of women’s need for aggression along with [...]
April 3, 2009
Rebecca Shore
AEiOU
New Paintings
April 3-May 8
(reception April 3, 5-9pm)
Hal Rammel in the East Wing
Corbett vs. Dempsey
Corbett vs. Dempsey is located on the third floor of the Dusty Groove Building, above Dusty Groove America, 1120 N. Ashland, just south of Division Street, in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood.
Corbett vs. Dempsey is open on Thursday, Friday and Saturday 11am [...]
February 28, 2009
Women Get Fucked
Curated by Natalie Labriola and Annie Purpura
Alogon
1049 N Paulina #3R
Chicago, IL 60622
February 28 – March 22, 2009
Opening reception February 28, 7-10 PM
Women Get Fucked is an exhibition that looks critically, ambivalently, and hopefully at the history of female art, while carving out a space for dialogue around contemporary female artists. This exhibition takes [...]
Our friend Niels Post posted his Connect 4 video that aired on national television in Holland some years ago. We bet we could kick his ass in a game.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
“The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. This project was completed as part of my thesis work in the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at [...]
Magedelena Bors makes household items turn into exquisite sculptures.
We are sending our sort of top secret broadside magazine project to the printers this week. Matériel is an oversized, newsprint publication that’s a collection of the best/brightest designers/illustrators/photographers work we can find – creating a showcase for their submitted work. It’s a sister magazine to Proximity providing a ‘design’ counterpoint to Prox’s ‘art’ focus. [...]
Since it’s so cold out we thought we’d illuminate it some more.. During the 2008 Festival of World Cultures in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, German artist Edgar Mueller, a Master of 3d Pavement Art, transformed a huge slice of the East Pier into a dramatic ice age scene.
We are going to start blogging links to individual artists whose work we find inspiring. Please take a look at Sam Winston’s work. His typographical skills are paired with an advanced illustrative craft that is the envy of Design school kids and Book art afficionados everywhere. His installations are not have bad either.
Last year Public Media Institute (Parent dot org of Proximity) held Select Media Festival with the theme of Infoporn. We haven’t lost that love of the art of information design. Good magazine, purveyors of the finest inforporn in America, just posted this graphic describing the Most Used Subway Systems In the U.S. And Around the [...]
Not quite the plan some of us expected but the extra $50 Million to the NEA might help out in ways we have yet to measure.
NEW YORK. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Smithsonian Institution have secured a small allotment of federal funding as part of the $787bn American Recovery and Reinvestment [...]
Yves Saint Laurent Art Sale’s 1st Night Brings In $264 Million
PARIS — Despite the global economic crisis, a lot of money seems to be left over. On Monday, the private collection of Yves Saint Laurent and his partner became the most expensive one ever sold at auction, bringing in more than $264 million on the [...]
February 28, 2009
“Waiting out the Rain“ is a stark hommage to Roma culture in modern Kosovo. In this Post Family exhibit, Swiss photographer, Ester Vonplon, pairs her own photographs with those taken by the Roma children that she befriended while teaching photography workshops in Rahovec/Orahovac, a village in the South of Kosovo.
Waiting out the Rain – The [...]
Stephanie Burke, a gallery crawl guide for Chicago, has explained all of tonights openings very nicely for you on her blog.
The Co-Prosperity Sphere is not going to be crazy tonight. However it will be showing some of Dave the Lightbulb Man’s colllection of recent works. Dave may conduct some interview sessions for his tv show. [...]
February 20, 2009
Old Gold presents
Sebastian Craig
DERMA
February 20 – March 15, 2009
Opening Reception: February 20, 7-10PM
DERMA is an exhibition of sculpture and video. Sebastian Craig lives and works in London, UK, where he is the director of i-cabin.
Old Gold
2022 North Humboldt Boulevard
Chicago, Illinois 60647
Basement Entrance
Sundays 1-4PM
By Appointment 773.653.9956
oldgoldchicago@gmail.com
www.oldgoldexhibitionsandevents.com
California Blue Line (towards O’Hare),
Walk west on Palmer Boulevard,
South on Humboldt [...]
February 20, 2009
ICE at MoCP Featuring Phyllis Chen, piano and toy piano
Friday, February 20, 7:30 PM @ MoCP
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), recently described in the
New Yorker magazine as “a powerhouse of new-music programming on a
Chicago-New York axis,” is proud to present the third concert of its new
chamber music series at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Phyllis
Chen, [...]
February 20, 2009
131+ paintings by Dave the Light Bulb Man
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan Street
Chicago Il 60608
Bridgeport artist and tv talk show host Dave The Lightbulb Man is having his first solo exhibition of recent works. His “impressionistic” series will be on view Friday February 20 between 6-10pm. Dave will also be conducting interviews for the next episode [...]
Video of the controversial Renaissance Society Panel, Is there such a thing as a Chicago artist anymore? is on YouTube. Enjoy. There are twelve in the series!
February 20, 2009
February 20 – March 28, 2009
In Gallery 1
Adriane Herman
Human Doings
In Gallery 2
Prints from Fresh Hot Press
Western Exhibitions
119 N Peoria St, #2A
Chicago, IL 60607
February 20, 2009
Holle Cambodia a project by Anne Elizabeth Moore
Dispatch a threewalls a project organized by Shannon Stratton
The Tract House a project by Lisa Anne Auerbach
Opening Reception:
February 20th, 2009, 6-9pm
Curator’s Talk with Anne Elizabeth Moore:
March 26th, 2009, 6pm
On View until March 27th, 2009
CHICAGO: threewalls has organized three exhibitions for view during the 2009 Southern Graphics Council that [...]
February 20, 2009
Opening Friday, February 20th, 6pm-9pm
at Roots & Culture 1034 n Milwaukee Ave.
The End of Analog
Featuring: Brandon Alvendia, Rebecca Gordon, Jon Satrom, Todd Simeone, Robert Snowden + Carson Salter, & Alexander Stewart + George Monteleone
The conclusion of analog television broadcasting in the U.S. can be understood as heralding the arrival of the digital era. The End [...]
We thought it was over a year or so ago when we started Proximity, but now that the New York Times decides… it must be so! Read what every art dealer going to the New York Art fairs has sitting on their desk this week. The article, The Boom Is Over. Long Live the [...]
March 1, 2009
The Renaissance Society presents an exhibition by
Paul Chan, March 1 – April 12, 2009
Paul Chan’s digital videos combine outsider art, surrealism, and popular culture in dystopian visions engendered by events of grave social injustice. Past projects have engaged such groups as the Black Panther Party, the Teamsters, Indymedia, Voices in the Wilderness, and the Friends [...]
Hundreds of piñatas filled with space blankets were installed beneath underpasses throughout Chicago to bring attention to the issue of homelessness in the city.
Watch the video about the Pinata Factory project put together by Coop Image Group and others.
” The piñatas are the output but are far less important [...]
Our contemporary art media buddies at Neoteric Art feature Proximity Magazine as one of their One Question interviews. They asked “What are some of your long term goals for Proximity?” You can read a response here.
February 13, 2009
Clusterf*ck: Books by ZG Gallery Artists
ZG Gallery
February 13th, 2009
February 13, 2009
Big Mess: Paintings by Sonja Drummond and Andrew Holmquist @ GOLDEN
Opening Friday, February 13, 2009
816 W. Newport #1 – Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Reception: 7 – 10pm
Drummond and Holmquist share an interest in an imaginative painting process that is rooted in an off-the-beaten-path version of popular culture. Working in a Surrealist-type manner, each artist’s method of [...]
February 13, 2009
All the King’s Horses
Linda Warren Gallery
February 13th – March 27th, 2009
Artist Reception: Friday, February 13th, 6-9 pm
Linda Warren Gallery is proud to announce the opening of Peter Drake’s third solo exhibition at the gallery - “All the King’s Horses” – a title that calls to mind Humpty Dumpty who sat on a wall, had great [...]
February 13, 2009
Friday, February 13th, 8:30pm
Gage Gallery
18 S. Michigan Ave.
Scott Blackwood, director of Roosevelt’s MFA Creative Writing Program, reads from his new novel, We Agreed to Meet Just Here.
February 12, 2009
Homeland
photographs by Nina Berman
Thursday, February 12
5:00 p.m. – Reception
6:15 p.m. – Lecture
Gage Gallery
18. S. Michigan Ave.
Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery is pleased to present the spring exhibition – “Homeland – Photos by Nina Berman” – at the Gage Gallery, 18. S. Michigan Avenue, from February 12 – May 22, 2009. Berman’s photos tell the story of [...]
February 12, 2009
Photodimensional
Opening Reception: Thursday February 12th, 5 – 7pm
Museum of Contemporary Photography
“PhotoDimensional is an exhibition of works by contemporary artists who investigate the relationship between sculpture and photography, between two and three dimensions, and explore perceptual issues intrinsic to those relationships. Their works resist the notion that the world simply gets folded into the two-dimensional surface [...]
February 12, 2009
The City Gallery at the Historic Water Tower presents “The Animals are Outside Today”, photographs by Colleen Plumb.
Reception from 5-7pm, February 12th.
806 N. Michigan
February 13, 2009
7:00-10:00pm
Feb 13th, 2009 – Design Lab Workshop – 1932 S. Halsted St #405
This month DesignLabWorkshop is constructing an installation titled 1x.
This project explores themes common in the studio’s work, including the challenges and opportunities of utilizing a single material in multiples, the interplay of graphics and architecture, and the dynamics of user interaction. 1x [...]
February 13, 2009
In honor of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th Birthday this February, the Chicago Art Department will feature 200 portraits of Honest Abe in a variety of mediums. In Lincoln’s spirit of equality and diversity this exhibition is about participation. An open call was made to artists and non-artists alike to submit their portraits of Abraham Lincoln. Although [...]
Proximity is in Rotterdam to take part in Trendbeheer Presents @ Art Rotterdam. We posted a few images of the show (a few pre-show and some from the opening night) to give you an idea of the action. We are in the middle of our research mission and will upload some more stuff later.
An art parade, temporary housing structures, video sweat lodges, an artist run art fair and expo, a reincarnation of the depression era Public Works of Art Project, a social networked free public school, boring theoretical nonsense, the revamping of a local community center, mapping projects, an open source design agency for social movements, and korean [...]
Trendbeheer presenteert @ Art Rotterdam starts this Tuesday. Proximity magazine is taking part of this massive group exhibition featuring many Chicago-based and Holland-based artists. We will be posting images of our Excursions in Rotterdam soon.
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
