May 16, 2009
Variations on a Theme : May 16 – Jul 25, 2009
The title “Variations on a Theme” is most well known as a musical composition “Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn by Brahms” and has been used by many musicians and composers as an activity for exploration. This exhibition presents how the idea of variation [...]
May 16, 2009
Clare E. Rojas : Believe Me : May 16 – Jul 25, 2009
Opening Reception:
Saturday, May 16, 4-7 PM
Clare Rojas is well known for her intimate gouache paintings and expansive wall-based murals and installations that feel as if they have been plucked out of the pages of a fairy tale resonating as both familiar and fantastically [...]
May 30, 2009
May 30 , 2009 6pm – midnight <One Nite only>
The Birdhouse Museum presents:
The annual Works on Cardboard Show
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan Street
This annual group show features a labor of love organized this year by Michael Pocius and friends. All works are created, painted or drawn on cardboard. And they are all for sale.
May 31, 2009
May 31, 2009 2pm
Release of Pr#002
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Avenue Chicago, IL 60615
A talk by Dan Gunn will take place at 2pm
PR # 002
A Survey of Artist Run Spaces 1984- 2009
Essay by Daniel Gunn
Designed by Chad Kouri
Map Designed by Plural
Photos by Shannon Benine
June 1, 2009
June 1, 2009 9pm
TrutheaterTheater
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St
The Unbroken Circle Of Broken Things
TrutheaterTheater presents a tale about the unbreakable spirit energy of
love. The company of four intermixes costumes, puppets, shadows, jokes, song and dance with live and prerecorded sound to create a captivating 40 minute psychedelic
narrative. . .
In the words of Morgan Fitzpatrick [...]
On Sunday May 31, 2009 Public Media Insitute (Proximity’s dot.org parent) will release issue #002 of Pr, our broadsheet newsletter, at the Hyde Park Art Center. It is part of the Artists Run Chicago Exhibition and features and essay about the history of artist-run spaces in Chicago from the last 25 years by Dan Gunn. [...]
June 1, 2009
CINEMATHEQUE SONOTHEQUE – MONDAY JUNE 1 – SONOTHEQUE – 1444 W. CHICAGO – 312.226.7600
SONOTHEQUE PRESENTS: LA KERMESSE HEROIQUE/CARNIVAL IN FLANDERS (1935) – DIRECTED BY JACQUES FEYDER
CINEMATHEQUE SONOTHEQUE: FROM ARTHOUSE TO GRINDHOUSE
EVERY FIRST MONDAY OF THE MONTH
FILMS SELECTED BY JOE BRYL
6PM to 9PM
NO COVER
21+
Henri Langlois (co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française with Georges [...]
May 23, 2009
Hyde Park Art Center – 5020 South Cornell Avenue. Explore the west side apartment galleries on bike with the green caravan led by Jacob C. Hammes and Francesca Wilmott. The tour begins at noon at Roots & Culture (1034 N. Milwaukee Ave.) and will culminate with a barbeque and video art screenings at mini dutch [...]
May 22, 2009
three events:
Archer – 3012 South Archer Avenue. ROLLERVISION! Performance, music, and video by Patrick Holbrook, Rebecca Schoenecker, and Caitlin Lipinski. Friday, May 22, 2009 at 8:00pm – 12:00am.
Medicine Cabinet – 3216 S Morgan St, Apt. 4R. “Ben Russell.” Russell’s performance involves video, “light-sensitive electronics, Michael Jackson at age 13 and a makeshift cloak of invisibility,” [...]
May 21, 2009 6:00 pm
YOU SAM GOULD ROBERT PRUITT HEATH SCHULTZ
and the DEMILITARIZED U.
Friday May 22nd; 6–8PM
Kresge Hall Rm 3-365, 1880 Campus Drive, Evanston
What does it mean to build a creative resistance to the militarization of our culture?
SAM GOULD is an American artist the lead instigator of Red 76 , a collaborative art practice based in Portland. Red76 is the moniker for collaboratively based initiatives [...]
The Chicago Sun Times reports that Chris Kennedy, a son of Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy, will announce his candidacy next week for the US Senate seat occupied by Rolland Burris.
Chris Kennedy is the president of Merchandise Mart Properties Inc., a Chicago-based property owner and management company. The Mart also runs several art fairs including [...]
Each year Public Media Institute, our parent .org, co-produces the Version festival. We just found time to post images from the recent Version 09 Immodest Proposals. Here are links to the NFO XPO and the Chicago Art Parade. The Version Flickr Pool has some nice documentation as well. Enjoy.
Sadly we have to report that one of the artists who participated in Version 09 as part of the Bridgeport WPA project had his mural censored and painted over by local Bridgeport Alderman James Balcer.
Gabriel Villa had been working on the mural throughout the festival and was shocked to discover that the Graffiti Blasters had [...]
Well, part of it is anyway. We have a full PDF preview available of the table of contents so you can see what you are missing. We think now is the perfect time to support independent publications so we don’t see them die off the way that galleries and various non-profits are starting to.
Check out [...]
Lilly Lampe reveiws two books: Fragments by David Carl and Trucks by John Himmelfarb
Jenny Holzer at the MCA Chicago.
Sarah Galvin reviews these three things. Enjoy.
Locust Projects is a non-profit alternative art space that specializes in experimental and/or site-specific artwork.
www.bradbiancardi.blogspot.com
Photos by Ben Speckmann
www.michaelrea.com
Photos by Justin Goh
www.silvia-b.com
Photos by Aron Gent
In order to share hard truths, you need a vehicle. The vehicle could be something that I invent to reveal and other times, the stories come from the mouths of people who have lived them.
I think that the art institution has to change from being a warehouse to being a site for potential action.
For centuries graffiti has claimed visual space throughout cities, impudently besmirching society’s accreted attempts at organizing itself.
Ten years ago, I was looking for a way to understand what life inside prison was like. My brother was locked up in Texas and he refused to let me visit.
An excerpt from James Kennedy’s sparkle-excellent first novel, The Order of Odd-Fish and a new comic from Grant Reynolds.
Portrait paintings have always given me the creeps. “The creeps,” in my opinion, is not necessarily a bad thing.
Can a better system emerge from the wreckage? Can the art world return to making art instead of making inventory? And will any of us be able to afford it?
You are shivering now, hard, and your chest clenches. Your bladder has shrunk too, and you have to pee every fifteen minutes. In a Porta-Potty. Did I mention the wind is blowing thirty miles per hour?
Once again, I bring the performance art version of “Two Truthsand a Lie,” everyone’s second favorite party game.
Times are bad. We see local galleries close and institutions selling their collections. There is financial fraud at nonprofits, “underperforming” auction houses, decreased ad revenue in art magazines, empty booths at art fairs, shrinking state funding, and hiring freezes at art schools. Layoffs and cutbacks are pretty much everywhere.
The upside of all the turmoil in [...]
Paul Chan’s digital videos and projects combine outsider art, surrealism, and popular culture in dystopian visions engendered by events of grave social injustice.
Every year the Southern Graphics Council hosts a massive conference that proves exactly why the printmakers are always the cool kids at art school. Glutted with panel discussions, exhibitions, lectures, and of course, parties, the conference can prove to be both exciting and energy draining. Here are a couple of peeks into the mayhem from [...]
Various Artists – Happy Dog Gallery -March 26th and 27th, 2009
Roots & Culture – Chicago, IL – March 28 – May 2nd 2009
Steve was featured in Issue 003 of Proximity. We are excited about his new show in LA at the Charlie James Gallery.
Steve Lambert solo show walkthrough from Steve Lambert on Vimeo.
This Sunday, May 10 the Hyde Park Art Center will open its Artists Run Chicago show in Gallery 1. Proximity and its related tentacles will participate in quite a few ways. First we asked our friend Michael T Rea to bring over his Spacesuit for Steven Hawking to represent Reuben Kincaid Artist Management. As part [...]
June 19, 2009
Dismantling the Corporate State, and Other Amusements
Works by Anne Elizabeth Moore
June 19 – August 22, 2009
Dismantling the Corporate State, and Other Amusements is an exhibition of nine experimental art works and political projects of Anne Elizabeth Moore at Columbia College Chicago’s Center for Book & Paper Arts, 1104 S. Wabash, 2nd floor. One of [...]
May 10, 2009
Artists Run Chicago
Hyde Park Art Center
May 10 – July 5, 2009, Gallery 1
Featuring 1/Quarterly, 65GRAND, Alogon, Antena, artLedge, Butchershop, Co-Prosperity Sphere, devening projects + editions, Deluxe Projects, Dogmatic, Fraction Workspace, Fucking Good Art (FGA), Green Lantern, He Said-She Said, HungryMan, joymore, Julius Caesar, Law Office, LiveBox, Margin Gallery, Medicine Cabinet/Second Bedroom Project Space, mini dutch, [...]
May 9, 2009
mini dutch gallery presents…
mini fair
Opening: Saturday May 9th from 7-10pm
Runs until Saturday, May 23rd
Closing on Saturday, May 23rd @ 6pm with a bring your own food BBQ: in conjunction with Hyde Park’s Artist Run Chicago bike tour.
Indulging in the world of the small and petite, mini dutch brings you a mini fair. Four [...]
May 15, 2009
Manifest is Columbia College’s campus-wide urban arts festival that celebrates and showcases the creative work of the college’s visual, performing, and media arts students as they go forward to author the culture of their time.
Student Showcase
The body of work concept is the organizing principle behind Columbia College Chicago. We believe in working hard and showing [...]
Friday May 8th get on the Halsted bus and ride it all the way past West Town, Greektown and UIC to Pilsen [Get off at 19th street]. There are more openings than you can handle not to mention that the Skylark (at Halsted and Cermak) has their Fish Fry—seriously good. We will try to post [...]
May 8, 2009
Nullipara by Jen Thomas
Friday May 8th, 2009 – 7:00 to 10:pm
(Exhibition runs through May 30th)
Vespine Gallery and Studio
1907 S. Halsted St.
Gallery hours are: Monday through Thursday, by appointment only, 5-8 pm Fridays, and 12-5 Saturdays.
May 8, 2009
May 8, 2009 from 6:30 to 9:30 PM
(Exhibition runs through May 20, 2009)
within(Reason)
1932 S. Halsted, #408, Chicago, IL 60608
Solo exhibition of works by Chicago artist Justin Santora:
“My subject matter is often ordinary or mundane, sometimes humorous, and occasionally nostalgic. In the last year, I have been fortunate enough to have found a voice in both [...]
May 8, 2009
May 8, 2009 from 6:00 to 10:00 PM
(Exhibition runs through June 6, 2009)
Logsdon 1909 Gallery
1909 S. Halsted St. Chicago, IL 60608.
“No Borders” is an exhibition that brings together artists from diverse cultural and geographic backgrounds to examine the themes of mortality, war, immigration and ethnicity. Addressing the term “No Borders”, each artist determined whether they [...]
So last night NEXT and ART CHICAGO kicked off at The Merchandise Mart in downtown Chicago. After some ping-ponging around the building my friend April and I found the Rueben Kincaid booth, as well as various out of town friends.
Along the way the buzz was, of course, the economy accompanied by swine flu and the [...]
May 2, 2009
SATURDAY MAY 2, 2009
A DAY OF ACTIONS
Chicago Art Parade
Saturday May 2, 2009 6pm
free!
Version is excited to announce the first annual Chicago Art Parade. Join us as we tour Chicago’s West Loop gallery district with the most immodest creations. Comprised of presentations from local and regional artists, the parade will feature a wide array [...]
May 1, 2009
Offical Unofficial After Art Fair May Day party
part of Version 09 Immodest Proposals
Co-Prosperity Sphere 3219 S Morgan St
9pm • $7
performances by:
blue ribbon glee club
Salem
love Connection
and others
The Audacity of Art Exhibition will be open for viewing.
Art fair badge holders have complementary entry>
May 1, 2009
FRIDAY MAY 1, 2009
King Ludd’s Analog Arcade – Version Fest 09 at the Experimental Station
The Experimental Station, 6100 S Blackstone Ave
The Midway Plaissance in Hyde Park was the site of the World’s Fair of 1893, an international celebration of the landing of Columbus in North America 401 years earlier. Chicago intended to out-Eiffel the [...]
