AFTER EFFECTS by Thad Kellstadt OPENING-Saturday, October 24th, 7-11pm ------------------------------------------------------------ Thad Kellstadt's After Effects attempts to explore the possible afterlife of objects, once dependent on human touch, now neglected but possessing a new presence. Some believe that the breaking of a mirror brings a lengthy stint of bad luck due to the soul confiscating power of the mirrors reflective surface. After Effects investigates the animism of life's less lustrous objects. In an attempt to kill time at the office a ceiling tile fatefully gets caught in the crossfire, walls are captured in senseless decay, a corpse of one of the countless botanical casualties happening everyday across the country plus many more examples of the grizzly and mundane horrors of the deceased! Thad Kellstadt is a multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in Ohio. His work deals with the teenage spirit, displacement, enlightenment, and modern rural mysticism & myth. He has shown nationally at Space 1026 in Philadelphia, Lump Gallery in Raleigh and Heaven Gallery in Chicago, as well as internationally at Alice Gallery in Brussels, Cell Project Space in London and SKOL in Montreal. He currently lives and works in Chicago, IL. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + SIDE EFFECTS by Jesse Mclean @ +medicine cabinet Pharmaceutical marketing strategies and scenic nature photography combine to serve up a warning: Don’t get too comfortable on that plateau. While the view is spectacular there are other forces at work, just out of earshot and bubbling their way toward the placid peaks. Jesse McLean is an artist working primarily with video. She was born in Philadelphia, studied art at Oberlin College and received her MFA in Moving Image from University of Illinois at Chicago. She has shown her work most recently at threewalls, Migrating Forms at Anthology Film Archives, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Director’s Lounge in Berlin, FLEX, Lump Gallery and Space 1026. ALL in the same night! secondBEDROOM +medicine cabinet 3216 s. Morgan st. Apt 4R Chicago, IL, 60608