We don’t know why we have to look at trendbeheer all the time to find out what is happening in Chicago. Those damn dutchies find the darndest things. Like this blog, We are Supervision, which posts some lovely gangbanger artwork. This might make it to a real gallery near you.
From March 5 – April 9, 2009, the Chicago Public Library challenges you to showcase your creativity by designing a poster that’s inspired by the library and uses the URL chipublib.org.
The Chicago Public Library will then select 30 Finalists to move on to a Judging Night Event on April 23, 2009, held at the Harold [...]
Our friends Ray Noland and our buds at the The Post Family are co-curating, “Officially Unofficial”, an exhibition of prints, posters, photographs, and videos that emerged in 2008 as icons of the art movement in support of Barack Obama for President. The exhibition will include official campaign materials as well as independent work by artists [...]
March 27, 2009
Case-By-Case Basis
Curated by Jeremy Lundquist
March 6th through April 11, 2009
Artist’s reception – Friday, March 27 from 7 to 11pm, coinciding with the Southern Graphics Council’s Conference, hosted by Columbia College with events throughout Chicago (for more information visit www.colum.edu/sgc).
Artists Include:
Diana Behl
Alex Chitty
Regan Golden-McNerney
Joe Hardesty
Noah Hyleck
Jeremy Lundquist
Amanda Repo Taiwo Thomson
Ryan McMurran and Shira Soskel
The work gathered [...]
Please take the chance to check out this year’s Southern Graphics Council Conference
“The 2009 Global Implications Conference features exhibitions, demonstrations, lectures, panel discussions, private collection viewings, and special events at over 40 locations around Chicago.
Keynote speakers include Kathan Brown, Enrique Chagoya, Anne Coffin, and Jane Hammond.
Bad at Sports will be podcasting a series of shows [...]
March 27, 2009
HEBA CHHACHHI
Winged Pilgrims and Other Creatures
Selected works from 2006 – 2009
MARCH 27 – APRIL 25, 2009
Opening reception: MARCH 27, 5 – 8pm
Sheba Chhachhi’s Artist’s Talk: MARCH 25, 12pm
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Classroom MC 608
Photographer and installation artist Sheba Chhachhi presents a selection of works from her oeuvre at [...]
April 3, 2009
In Gallery 1
GEOFFREY TODD SMITH
Geoffrey Todd Smith is a Friend to Beauty!
In Gallery 2
GEOFFREY TODD SMITH
I Could Look at Myself in Your Eyes Forever
Show Dates:
April 3 to May 30, 2009
Opening Reception:
Friday, April 3, 5-8pm
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 6pm
More info:
312.480.8390
scott@westernexhibitions.com
Preview:
http://westernexhibitions.com/GTS/images.html
Western Exhibitions will open two new shows by Geoffrey Todd Smith on [...]
We think they will still accept submissions!
Call for Submissions
For King Ludd’s Midway Arcade
Version Fest 09′
Curated by Material Exchange
Calling all gamers, artists, engineers, tinkerers, hackers, manipulators…
The Midway Plaissance in Hyde Park was the home of the World’s Fair of 1893, an international celebration of the landing of Columbus in North America 401 years earlier. It involved [...]
March 28, 2009
Old Gold presents
C.J. Matherne
&
Jamisen Ogg
March 28 – April 26, 2009
Opening Reception: March 28, 7-10PM
This two-person exhibition features site-specific painting and drawing.
This will be the final month-long exhibition at the current address of Old Gold. We will begin exhibitions in a new Palmer Square location this summer.
Old Gold
2022 North Humboldt Boulevard
Chicago, Illinois 60647
Basement Entrance
Sundays 1-4PM
By Appointment [...]
Completely Worth the Visit
Our release party last Saturday was a blast. Thanks for coming. Even if you didn’t get a fresh copy of the new publications we will make it easy for you. Download a preview copy of Matériel at the magazine’s website. You can purchase one at Golden Age, Quimbys, No Coast, Rotofugi, and Penelope’s. They [...]
Chicago Art Spaces
from (Con)Temporary Art Guide Chicago 2009
(A Proximity Publication)
This List of galleries and spaces was included in the Proximity publication: The (Con)Temporary Art Guide Chicago 2009.
The Guide was released in late April during Version Festival and Artropolis.
For more information on how to be listed please email ed(at)proximitymagazine.com
The guide is divided into ROUTES:
Self-Guided Route: View [...]
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR MONU – magazine on urbanism #11 – CLEAN URBANISM
Download the new Call for Submission – Poster for Clean Urbanism and post it in your faculty!
When it comes to Clean Urbanism – i.e. an [...]
Margot Harrington and Chad Kouri just finished designing our new sister publication, Pr. Pr is a “Posterletter”–half newsletter and half poster–and it rocks! The over sized broadsheet confabulation features an interview with Paul Chan, whose recent exhibition at the Renaissance Society garnered rave reviews.
Also featured is a beautiful poster designed by Margot and inspired by [...]
Bad At Sports is kicking serious as lately.
“They discuss Chris’s work and career and much, much more. … Much mirth, music, and mayhem is had by all. This show is not to be missed!!!” Photo by Tom VanEndye.
We had the honor of being a part of the The We Love Magazine Library that was unveiled as a beautiful exhibition this past Saturday in Tokyo.
Have a visit.
This is no surprise:
Artnet: A report by “wealth-research” firm the Spectrum Group confirms what dealers at the recent Armory Show fairs probably already suspected — the nation’s millionaires are hurting. According to the Wall Street Journal, the number of households with a net worth of more than $1 million dropped by 2.5 million from 2007 [...]
March 21, 2009
March 21, 2009, 8pm
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St
$10 Suggested Donation.
Matériel Magazine and Pr Launch Party and fundraiser for Version Festival
Please come and help us raise funds to pay for Version>09 Immodest Proposals. We will be giving to everyone who attends a complementary copy of our new publishing projects, Matériel and the new Pr [...]
March 20, 2009
Scott Stack: new paintings
March 20 – April 25, 2009
SS-k07 Miami Apt.JPG Miami Apartment, 2008
Opening reception for the artist Friday March 20th, 5-8pm
moniquemeloche
118 North Peoria
Chicago, IL 60607
www.moniquemeloche.com
t 312.455.0299, f 312.455.0899
For his 2nd solo show at moniquemeloche, Scott Stack expands the conceptual reaches of his investigation of night vision surveillance presenting four new paintings. His linear geometry [...]
March 26, 2009
The Binford Experience: Paring Down
Closing reception: Thursday, March 26th 6-9 p.m.
Spoke is excited to present the Binford Experience. Artists Andrew CopperSmith and Keith Skogstrom have developed an art practice where the “architect and engineer meet”. This permits the tandem to discourse on “aesthetics of function obtained via manipulation of scientific laws”. Through Skogstrom’s kinetic mechanics [...]
March 13, 2009
“SUPERSTITION new works by jill lanza and gabe lanza” at Logsdon 1909 Gallery in East Pilsen.
Logsdon 1909 Gallery will be hosting Superstition–a solo exhibition of fictional environments with paintings, works on paper, sculpture, and installation by local Chicago artists Jill Lanza and Gabe Lanza on March 13, 2009 from 6-10pm.
LOGSDON 1909 GALLERY
1909 S. HALSTED ST.
CHICAGO [...]
BASwire: “This week: The San Francisco Bureau continues their series of critics’ roundtables. Patrica and Brian are joined by the curator [and Proximity contributor] Joseph del Pesco, as they take a look at the early exhibitions of 2009 in the Bay Area. During the conversation they discuss Dave Lane, Henry Darger, Mads Lynnerup, Paul McCarthy, [...]
From Chicago Breaking News:
A 50 percent admission fee increase — jacking up the price of entry to the Art Institute from $12 to $18 beginning May 23 — was approved by the Chicago Park District’s Committee on Programs and Recreation Wednesday morning and is expected to win full board approval later in the day.
“We recognize [...]
Nor were we. We were looking for some news regarding the big spring art kick off in NYC and found a few crumbs worth digesting about the Armory Show and other fairs.
Paddy Johnson’s reliable commentary and rated reviews can be found here.
Some NYT items:
Toplessness and Taxidermy in a Bottoming Market
A Painting Called Good, but Only [...]
Artists in a Year of Recession: Impact on Jobs in 2008 examines how the economic slowdown has affected the nation’s working artists.
The study looks at artist employment patterns during two spikes in the current recession – the fourth quarters of 2007 and 2008. This downturn reflects larger economic declines: a Commerce Department report last [...]
Read Flatfile Flatlines
The effects of our bad-news economy are starting to kick in, and it’s not just the deadwood that’s falling. This week, one of the largest and liveliest art spaces in the West Loop, Flatfile Galleries, announced that its current shows will be its last. It closes March 27.
Proximity Magazine invites you to participate in the (Con)Temporary Art Chicago Guide. The Guide showcases the best cultural offerings in Chicago during the Spring season – late April to early May 2009. We are creating a map and publication – including directories, articles, and interviews – about what’s happening at places both prominent and secret [...]
April 3, 2009
April 3 – May, 2009
In Gallery 1:
Geoffrey Todd Smith
Geoffrey Todd Smith Is a Friend To Beauty!
In Gallery 2:
Geoffrey Todd Smith
I Could Look At Myself In Your Eyes Forever
Western Exhibitions
119 N Peoria [...]
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
NYT reports that an exhibition of works by the French-Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed has been prevented from opening in Turin while a prosecutor ponders whether it is illegal to display video clips showing animals being bludgeoned to death and fighting for sport in an arena. The show had already been postponed for weeks at The [...]
Art Review reports:
Cai Mingchao, a Chinese national who in 2006 paid a record HK $117 million ($15 million) for a Ming Dynasty Buddha, said he placed the winning bid for the two Qing bronzes auctioned in Paris last week — and won’t be paying, reports Bloomberg.
The National Treasures Fund, a group backed by the Chinese [...]
It’s a sign of the times now that city officials are targeting art spaces for revenue and fines. New City reported last week that local non profit art space, Green Lantern, was fined for not displaying a proper permit. Also disturbing is last Friday’s visit to the AV Aerie by a dozen CPD officers and [...]
Our longest running publication, Lumpen, was just released as issue #111. You can download a pdf of it now. Coming this month will be the release of Matériel, and Pr, a Proximity Publication. On April 24, 2009 we will release Issue #004 of Proximity as well as the (Con)Temporary Art Chicago Guide. Did we mention [...]
March 8, 2009
The Sketchbook Project Tour – Chicago
Like a concert tour, but with sketchbooks.
Organized by Art House in Atlanta, GA
Over 2,000 artists from around the country were sent a small Moleskine
sketchbooks. Their task was to fill the book with “everyone we know”.
Every book that we receive back will be on display. Visitors are
encouraged to pick up the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
