October 16, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009 through November 1, 2009
Opening reception: October 16, 7pm to 10pm
A Proximity Presents Exhibition Series
Enter the forest. A walk down the path might lead you to the climbing tree. In the swamp you can see a pyramid rise. Stop for a moment and hear the lambs roll around. This forest appears [...]
Go see The Heartland show this thursday at the Smart Museum
The awesome guys, Rob Davis and Michael Langlois are featured on Bad At Sports.
Yes Men and friends released a parody of the New York Post for last weeks Climate week.
We wish we were at to the New York Art Book Fair.
Pictures of the recent Berry [...]
Patrick Holbrook is the mastermind behind the tiny, but awesome Humboldt Park art space, Eel Space. Links to some wonderful videos, maps, photographs and graphs..
October 29, 2009
Nadine Nakanishi of Sonnenzimmer
Reads From Formal Additive Programs at Quimby’s
This is not another portfolio book by an artist… or at least it’s trying not to be. Formal Additive Programs, Nakanishi’s first release is an attempt to provide insight into a daily art practice and process, while focusing on the commonalities of figurative and abstract [...]
Nate, our captain of tranquility, suggests we all listen to philosopher Boris Groys on the aesthetic responsibility via Frieze podcast
Writer, curator and philosopher Boris Groys gave a keynote lecture on how design today functions as a leading medium of self–revelation and self–positioning in public space
Accidental Publics Symposium
Friday and Saturday, October 2 & 3, 2009
Northwestern University and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Directions
A two-day symposium focusing on temporary public artworks that address an “accidental public” people, viewers, an audience, or passersby who are not expecting to encounter a work of art. The purpose is to theorize and compare [...]
Adam Farcus sends his top ten links as well as his chest size. Here he’s pointing out some sports logos, the SI database, and more. Don’t miss his lecture Oct 3 at the SAIC for the Accidental Publics symposium.
Adam Farcus will be presenting his “Store Interventions” project on Saturday, October 3, at the SAIC as part of the Accidental Publics symposium.
We thought we would share this from our Inbox:
CVAE CLUB is a Chicago based community of like-minded visual art educators, scholars, practitioners, activists, visual artists, and writers. The goal of this collective is to re-imagine the field of Art Education, generate awareness of our practices, establish commonalities, and advocate for a more critical visual art [...]
October 16, 2009
October 16 – November 12—Opening Reception Oct. 15 from 6-9pm
Patrick Holbrook is the mastermind behind the tiny, but awesome Humboldt Park art space, Eel Space.
New York City Garbage. For $100.
View 160 pages of Proximity magazine in less than 20 seconds
September 27, 2009
ULYSSES’ CREWMEN (Insurgent Theater)
September 27, 2009 8pm
Insurgent Theatre Stages Anarchist Play in Chicago
Radical touring theatre company’s newest production, ULYSSES’ CREWMEN confronts audiences with political action at an intractable empasse. This complex original work about the political kidnapping of a US delegate is currently on it’s first tour, an odyssey of the northeast and midwest, [...]
Proximity Issue 005 Release Party
Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219 S Morgan St.
Friday, September 25, 9pm – 1am
Please join us as we celebrate the release of our fifth issue of Proximity magazine. Very special performances by Magical Beautiful, Christo Mofisto, the debut of The Gaze , and sounds and mischief by Hunter Husar.
Admission: $10 for magazine [...]
September 25, 2009
Proximity Presents Exhibition Series:
Tales from the Bubble
September 25, 2009 through October 11, 2009
Opening reception: Friday, September 25 6-9pm
Extended hours until 1 am during performance program
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St
Chicago Il 60608
Tel : 773.837.0145
Exhibition hours: Open during events and by appointment.
Tales from the bubble is the working title Berry Sanders has chosen for his participation in [...]
We’re happy to announce that a week after the pre-release of Issue #5 in print form we have put together a sampling of Columns, Features, Interviews Portfolios, Studios and Reviews for you to view here at our wonderful web site. You can also download a sample pdf here.
We believe whole-heartedly in the power of printed [...]
The stenciled image read “End Torture in Illinois” and featured an outline of the state and the star locating the TAMMS supermax prison…
I was scared by the movie. I also laughed at some parts of it, just as Slate promised I would. What neither scared me nor pleased me was the gory stuff…
LA><ART is the leading independent nonprofit exhibition space in Los Angeles for the production of experimental exhibitions, public art initiatives and emerging artist publications.
Our job is to facilitate what people want to make happen in their individual practice and also to see opportunities for collaboration or trying new things.
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Photos by Ben Speckmann
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Photos by Ben Speckmann
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Photos by Michael Ruggirello
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Rod Slemmons is the Executive Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. He’s had a very distinguished career as a museum professional, teacher, curator, writer, editor and printmaker.
graphic design, lettering, logo, illustration … Vandalism, punk rock, video, sandwich making … Teaching, editing, beard growing, book covers …
My research into the museum’s permanent collection is largely aimed at providing helpful context for each of the artists and artworks that are represented.
I see fine art photography as hemmed in by three ‘P’s: painting, poverty, and Pentax.
In this, our fourth-ever Lit Column, Proximity is pleased to present “How Dark the Corners” – new fiction by Gretchen Kalwinski.
If the Heartland is the giant, general landmass that is the Midwest, KCMO (and KCK) are the spine from which the rest of the nation fans
As the out-of-work scenario bombards the landscape, the miseries of job hunting, resume writing, and searching for employment threaten to drag even the most cheerful among us down…
We live and work in Chicago, a city with some of the country’s best traditional and non-traditional photography incubators. Some of our schools – like The School of Art Institute, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Columbia College – have especially distinguished instructors and programs. And in the past few years…
Did you miss the massive, signed, $15,000, 1999 limited edition of SUMO? You could go see a copy in the collection at New York’s Museum of Modern Art or pre-order your own trade edition from Taschen.
You’ll need this book in your collection alongside the Fall 2009 Proximity: The Photography Issue.
If you haven’t already, you really must listen to Bad At Sports Episode 210 with the Director of the Chicago MCA, Madeleine Grynsztejn.
Art World magazine to end, perhaps due to the fact their idea of an Art World doesn’t exist?
The Bruce High Quality Foundation University opens in NY- pedagogy as art action.
It must be a [...]
We are super happy to have been chosen to exhibit at Publish and be Damned. The event is held in conjunction with the London Art Book Fair and introduces some of the planet’s best independent publications to each other. Our Man in Spain, Jorge Miñano Ramírez, will be holding down our stand for Proximity.
“Surveying a [...]
Enjoy a review of the socially responsible Bi-Rite Grocery Store by Stuart Keeler. Makes us want to open one in Chicago.
Advanced tech and art knowledge is transferred via Ten Links with Christopher Hudgens.
Not to be confused with Vanessa, Christopher Hudgens is an advocate for all things art and tech. As the architect of the online presence of “Bad at Sports” Hudgens is a true champion of dialogue and criticism in the Windy City and beyond. In a previous life he served as Business Operations Manager for Bridge Art Fair [...]
The Bay Area, historically, has been on the cusp of change; this is evident in the social movements, as well as the trends in food, style and living where humanistic attitudes lead contemporary lifestyles. Maybe, it’s how you use your city space, why and what statement, if any is communicated that is the greatest form [...]
September 14, 2009
Monday September 14 – Sonotheque – 1444 W. Chicago – 312.226.7600
CINEMATHEQUE SONOTHEQUE
CINEMATHEQUE SONOTHEQUE PRESENTS: A TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM K. EVERSON
STRANGLER OF THE SWAMP (1946) 59 MINUTES – DIRECTED BY FRANK WISBAR
THE PREVIEW MURDER MYSTERY (1936) 60 MINUTES – DIRECTED BY ROBERT FLOREY
CINEMATHEQUE SONOTHEQUE: FROM ARTHOUSE TO GRINDHOUSE
FILMS SELECTED BY JOE [...]
September 20, 2009
Tilman ”Substance for Julian”
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Carl Suddath
Opening reception for the artists:
Sunday, September 20, 2-4 pm
Exhibitions runs through Oct. 25, 2009
The Suburban
125 N. Harvey Av.
Oak Park, IL 60302
708 763 8554
thesuburban.org
Proudly, The Suburban’s 11th year will also host projects by: Donelle Woolford, Joe Scanlan, Ethan Greenbaum, Katrin Sigurdottir, Gerold Miller, Ann Pibal, Ellen Harvey, Candice Brietz, Richard Roth, Hilary Wilder, Jeff Gibson and Geoff Kleem.
SUBSTANCE (for [...]
Attention authors, artists, cultural workers of the world! We want you to contribute texts and images for issue 006 of Proximity magazine. The theme is (An)Other Art World.
The next issue is a follow up to our first “cities” issue where we presented a series of investigations of under-represented art metropoles around the world. We loved [...]
Perhaps we were too busy hawking our magazine and drinking the free grolsch, but we missed seeing anything that was worthy of much mention from the past weekend’s art overload. Then again we only managed to make it to a few dozen spaces.
What we liked:
EveryBody! Visual resistance in feminist health movements, 1969-2009 at Ispace
Robyn O’Neil’s [...]
September 19, 2009
This Saturday, September 19th, at Golden Age in Pilsen, you are cordially invited to the Chicago launch of MOTHERWELL, a new arts journal published by Paige K. Johnston, dedicated to the intimate exchange of ideas and the primacy of publication as object. Volume One, which is organized around the theme of “Triumphs & Disasters,” will [...]
The fifth issue of Proximity magazine will be pre-released this Friday, September 11, at threewalls* in the west loop during the opening salvo of the fall gallery season.
This issue is devoted to International Contemporary Photography. For a preview pdf of the table of contents and some sample spreads please come back later.
Artists and authors featured [...]
Last night talk-show host Glenn Beck debuted as the Fox News art critic.
Roberta Smith of the NYT chronicles the crisis in The Mood of the Market, as Measured in the Galleries.
As Annie Leibovitz fights her $24 Mil lawsuit an Italian shooter claims she stole his pictures.
Given the state of things its hard to believe that [...]
October 10, 2009
Jeremy Deller: It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq
October 10 – November 15, 2009
MCA CHICAGO
Jeremy Deller: It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq, is a new commission by British artist Jeremy Deller as part of The Three M Project. In an effort to encourage the public to discuss the present circumstances in Iraq, [...]
September 12, 2009 September 13, 2009
The 7th Annual Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago will be September 12 + 13 from 11am – 7pm on Division St. between Damen Ave. and Paulina St. in Wicker Park! click here for directions. Ride your bike, and take advantage of the free bike valet service located near the corner of Division + Winchester!
Be sure [...]
Damien Hirst in vicious feud with teenage artist over a box of pencils
“17-year-old graffiti artist Cartrain [...] was arrested, released on bail, and is waiting to find out if he will be formally charged with causing damage to an iconic artwork worth £10m.”
September 5, 2009
This Saturday, September 5, 2009
12-noon -5PM
ANTENA
1765 S. Laflin St.
Chicago IL 60608
www.antenapilsen.com
“Surveillance & Spirituality”:
New works by Gabriel Villa
Gabriel Villa’s work will be featured in the upcoming solo exhibition,
Spirituality and Surveillance: New Works by Gabriel Villa at Antena
(formerly known as Polvo), Chicago, IL Fall 2009. Also in the Fall
2009, a Solo exhibition entitled, El Arte Es La [...]
September 11, 2009
Hiding in the City
Artist Liu Bolin uses paint to disguise himself in photographs of his native China.
Schneider – 230 W. Superior.
Reception Fri 9/11, 5-7:30 PM. 9/11-10/31
September 11, 2009
Dan Attoe & Vomitromiton
Paintings, drawings, and collages by Paul Nudd exploring fake vomit.
Western Exhibitions – 119 N. Peoria, suite 2A.
Reception Fri 9/11, 5-8 PM. 9/11-10/10.
September 11, 2009
Trash
Work by Vivan Sundaram
Reception Fri 9/11, 5-8 PM. 9/11-11/21
Walsh – 118 N. Peoria, 2nd fl.
September 11, 2009
On Sinking
Drawings by Robyn O’Neil
Reception Fri 9/11, 5-8 PM. 9/11-10/31.
Tony Wight – 119 N. Peoria.
September 11, 2009
Philip von Zweck: The Fortieth Anniversary of the First Anniversary of May ’68 (in September)
Opening Reception:
September 11, 2009
Artist Talk:
October 1st, 2009, 6pm
Symposium:
September 26th, 12-5pm
On View until October 10th, 2009.
“This show is a happy return to a way of working, a way of being an artist shelved a long time ago.”
Many familiar with the work of [...]
September 11, 2009
Translation
September 11 – October 17, 2009
Molly Springfield, Translation, 2008 – graphite on paper
Molly Springfield, Translation
September 11 through October 17, 2009
Opening reception: Friday, September 11, 5:00 to 8:00 pm
Thomas Robertello – 939 W. Randolph
Thomas Robertello Gallery is pleased to present the gallery’s second solo exhibition of work by Washington, DC-based conceptual artist Molly Springfield. Springfield will [...]
September 11, 2009
Pinata Smashing Spectacle
work by Abby Christensen, Ben Fain, Jose Lerma & Cristina Tufino, Michael Jones McKean, Tomas Moreno, Harriet Salmon, Astri Swendsrud, Emily Vanhoff.
Spoke – 119 N. Peoria.
Reception Fri. 9/11 6-10pm. 8/26-9/11.
September 11, 2009
Women
New Work by Craig Doty
Roots and Culture – 1034 N. Milwaukee.
Reception Fri 9/11, 6-9 PM. 9/11-10/31.
September 11, 2009
You’re My Favorite Kind of American
Work by Luis Gispert.
Reception Fri 9/11, 5-7 PM. 9/11-10/10.
Rhona Hoffman – 118 N. Peoria.
September 11, 2009
Growing Up, Photographs by Karen Savage &
Replicators, Paintings by Robert Horvath.
Reception Fri 9/11, 5-8 PM. 9/11-10/10.
Packer Schopf – 942 W. Lake.
September 11, 2009
Kim Curtis: Perception
September 11 October 10, 2009
Opening reception: Friday, September 11, 6-9pm
kasia kay art projects gallery is pleased to present Perception, Kim Curtis’ fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. The artist’s oil paintings, often described as abstract landscapes, evoke and mimic patterns found in nature. Bright colors and bold shapes inspire different meanings within [...]
September 11, 2009
Sep 11 – Oct 24, 2009
Melanie Schiff
The Mirror
835 W. Washington Blvd.
Chicago IL 60607
Tuesday-Friday, 10-6
Saturday, 11-5
T: 312.432.0708
F: 312.432.0709
info@kavigupta.com
September 11, 2009
Freaks & Flash
September 11 – January 9, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, September 11, 5-8pm
Intuit is pleased to present Freaks & Flash, featuring artwork from the heyday of tattooing as a Western folk art. Tattoo flash (the design drawings for tattoos) will be combined with sideshow banners depicting tattooed performers and acetate stencils used for [...]
September 11, 2009
September 11 – October 10
Everybody: visual resistance in feminist health movements, 1969-2009.
Organized by Bonnie Fortune.
The Museum of Contemporary Phenomena presents
A Broadside project regarding the fear of Growing Old
Curated by Helen Slade, Mike Newman and Rashmi Ramaswamy.
I Space
230 West Superior Street
Second Floor
Chicago, IL 60654
312.587.9976
Tu-Sa 11am-5pm
September 10, 2009 1:00 pm
September 10 through September 17, 2009
Gen Siskel Film Center
164 N State Street
Chicago, IL 60601
(312) 846-2600
The Chicago Underground Film Festival exists to showcase the defiantly independent filmmaker. The Festival starts on the 10th with the opening movie “It Came From Kuchar!” and continues all week until the 17th. The Festival features experimental shorts, feature films and [...]
Post from Konrad Becker:
THESIS: Art is dead, truly dead, and activism hasn’t moved in a while and is starting to smell funny.
Seriously. The fun is OVER.
This is a WORKING PROPOSITION of an upcoming 10 September conference, “Critical Strategies in Art and Media: Perspectives of New Cultural Practices,” and we want your explicit opinions. Not just [...]
September 10, 2009
Critical Strategies in Art and Media:
Beyond the obsolete models of artist or author as genius and their fetish
objects, what collective and collaborative practices are inventing new
terrains and flows?
As information and communication technologies saturate our world, how is art giving way to new forms of cultural symbolic manipulation?
Can we identify new models to replace the auteur [...]
September 9, 2009
Recent work by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung and Dana DeGiulio
O’Connor Art Gallery at Dominican University
| September 9 – October 17, 2009
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 9, 4-8pm
Artist Talk and Closing Reception: Saturday, October 10, 5pm
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The O’Connor Art Gallery at Dominican University is pleased to announce the year opening exhibition, Red Peter, featuring recent paintings by rising [...]
America’s Most Stressful Cities
Chicago for the second year in a row the country’s most stressful city. Crowding, poor air quality, a high 11% unemployment rate and free-falling home values have created a cocktail of constant worry affecting many in the Windy City.
Facebook Exodus
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. Facebook, the online social grid, could [...]
The cacophony of voices declaring the death of print is a topic of great concern, but don’t believe the hype. Yes, mainstream newspapers and the corporate publishing houses are in decline, but independent and niche publishing is on the rise.
The unique analog properties of books and indie magazines deserve some attention, some celebration. For this [...]
THE BLDG BLOG BOOK
Chronicle Books, $29.95
Let’s face it most of the web is for short attention span browsing and no one really reads anything lengthy online. This fact makes it odd that I am choosing for my first review in this series The BLDG BLOG Book by Geoff Manaugh.
I thought that everyone browsed the BLDG [...]
September 11, 2009
James Jankowiak
Opening Friday September 11 from 6pm-10pm
September 11 – October 10, 2009
“James Jankowiak paints organically, each work becoming a ritual of repetition. The organic composition of each piece is part of the evolutionary arch of the manner in which he operates. Specifically, the artist is interested in how simple form can evolve from one incarnation [...]
September 6, 2009
The Show ‘n Tell Show
Sunday, September 6, 2009
We’re pleased to announce another edition of Chicago’s first and only Live Talk Show centered around design and the creative arts. The Show ‘n Tell Show is a late night-style show where the guests are the city’s most dynamic designers, photographers, illustrators, poster-makers and more. They each present [...]
September 5, 2009
Retórica del recuerdo
Rhetorics of memory
An installation by Jorge Miñano Ramírez
September 5 – Sept 22, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday September 5 6pm to 9 pm
Eastern Expansion Gallery
244 W 31st St
Chicago
El: Red to Sox/35th.
Bus: 29, 35
Artist Statement:
The exhibition is a starting point for a reflection about the concept of cultural memory and how it [...]
September 12, 2009
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
In Our Likeness: Portraits of Illumination
September 12 – October 31, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday September 12th, 4-7pm
PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION and PHONE!!
moniquemeloche
2154 W. Division (@ Leavitt)
Chicago, IL 60622
773.252.0299
www.moniquemeloche.com
tues-sat 11-6pm
For further information contact Whitney Tassie at 312.455.0299 or 773.252.0299
H.R. 2009 graphite on paper c. Davis + Langlois
“So cheat your landlord [...]
September 12, 2009
Sarah Dunn and Martin Felsen of Urban Lab
invite you to an evening with The Seldoms
Saturday, September 12, 2009
6-9 PM
UrbanLab
3209 S. Morgan St.
Chicago, IL 60608
The Seldoms are kicking off our exciting 2009-2010 Season with an intimate, late summer gathering of friends and fans. We’ll share our plans for the year, including our first-time engagement at the [...]
September 19, 2009
Group Show for Daniel Pink, former chief speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore, inspired by his line in the December 1997 issue of Fast Company: “What’s one thing that all free agents need? Copies!”
featuring Curt Bozif and Matthew Metzger
with Amy Adler, Conrad Bakker, Vince Leo and Sharon Lockhart
curated by Lane Relyea
Saturday, September 19, 2009
6pm-10pm
723 W. [...]
September 11, 2009
September 11, 5-8pm
(show runs until October 24th)
new work by the artists: Rodney Carswell, John Henry, Wonsook Kim, Lisa Nankivil, Darrell Roberts, John Sabraw, John Santoro, Barry Tinsley, Ben Tinsley, Bernard Williams, and Vidvuds Zviedris.
Thomas McCormick Gallery
835 W. Washington Bld.
September 20, 2009
September 20 – December 13
The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. Representing the next chapter in the artist’s long-term project Fish Story, this new series, titled Polonia and Other Fables, picks up the thread of critically documenting and examining the social impact of global economics. Always aiming to [...]
September 11, 2009
Liu Bolin
September 11 – October 30, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, September 11
5:00 – 7:30 pm
The Schneider Gallery is pleased to present work from Chinese artist Liu Bolin series “Hiding in the City,” a performative photography project. The artist, and often the subject, uses paint to camouflage himself and disappear into his environment. Imperial buildings, graffitied walls, [...]
September 11, 2009
September 11 – October 10
Everybody: visual resistance in feminist health movements, 1969-2009. Organized by Bonnie Fortune.
The Museum of Contemporary Phenomena presents
A Broadside project regarding the fear of Growing Old
Curated by Helen Slade, Mike Newman and Rashmi Ramaswamy.
I Space
230 West Superior Street 2nd floor
September 11, 2009
Pearl of the Snowlands: Buddhist Printing at the Derge Parkhang
September 11 – December 5, 2009
Chicago, IL — In an age when the transfer of information is fast becoming digital and paperless, old printing techniques acquire new meaning. Columbia College Chicago’s Center for Book & Paper Arts is presenting an exhibition of prints, books, photographs and [...]
September 26, 2009
Not If, But When
Opening: Saturday, September 26th 2009 6-10 PM
Show runs through October 31st
Artist’s Comments:
I attempt to create constructions that explore the beginnings of creativity and intentions utilizing modest materials and ephemeral elements . Using the moment as product can produce the unlikely, impractical and leaves room for new impulses and spontaneity.
In my sometimes awkward [...]
