Here is the first installment of our year-end round up of art projects, exhibitions and actions in Chicago which made a difference to us here at Proximity and the Public Media Institute. Some top ten art exhibitions and other lists will be forthcoming.
Please let us know what your favorites were and email ed (at) proximitymagazine.com [...]
Here is the first installment of our year-end round up of art projects, exhibitions and actions in Chicago that made a difference to us here at Proximity and the Public Media Institute.
December 30, 2009
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 30, starting at 8:00 PM at the Op Shop (1613 E 55th ST)
Op-Shop Announces “Shrine of Art”: The Forgotten Jackson Park Art Colony
featuring Pocket Guide to Hell Tour, film screenings
“Nothing is proved, all is permitted” – Theodore Dreiser
“The Opportunity Shop is a marvel, a feat, and a unicorn” – Laura Shaeffer
CHICAGO: The Opportunity [...]
Photographer Carlo Gianferro’s Gypsy Interiors series won a World Press Photo 2009 prize. Enterprising reality tv producers should get on this.
Gypsy Interiors”is a series of portraits capturing the private world of these outwardly loud, vivacious people. Here he finds a rich and profound intimacy, hidden but exhibited among antique furniture, tapestries, paintings, religious images, china, [...]
Issue #006 is themed (An)Other Art Worlds and weighs in at 184 pages.
We invited our friends and friends of friends to contribute to our annual geographically and territorially-based examinations of some other art worlds. This not so random survey of under-represented art scenes, movers and shakers, artist run initiatives, groups, spaces and theoretical constructs helps [...]
” What is refreshing about the exhibition is that there are no Midwest or Dutch stereotypes, but an investigation of materials and clear presentation of ideas which share both countries’ sense of place.”
Trendbeheer, our Dutch partners in art crime, are in Chicago setting up their this weekend-only show at the Co-Prosperity Sphere. Please come by this Friday December 18 for the opening and party or visit Saturday, December 19 for the Rotterdam VHS Film Festival program. Check out some photos of the work in progress. The Art [...]
January 8, 2010
Cheat Codes: lessons in love
A video art show curated by Amelia Winger-Bearskin
Opening Friday January 8, 2010 from 6pm – 10pm
January 8 – February 6
A lesson in love [or, a cheat code] is a key sequence, password, or series of steps to be entered within a video art work [video game] that will provide the player [...]
Tonite we had the great fortune of briefly visiting the Don Celender exhibit by Public Collectors, an archive and research project created by Marc Fischer. Marc is a trailblazing researcher, formidable conceptual artist, and socially engaged art worker and I love the fact that he puts so many amazing hard to find materials on the [...]
This year the Whitney Biennial curators have picked fifty-five artists for the 2010 snapshot of contemporary art in America. Chicago artists Julia Fish, Theaster Gates, Jim Lutes, Curtis Mann and Scott Short have been included in the 2010 show. Congratulations you guys!
Curators Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari announce the artist list for 2010 in the [...]
December 12, 2009
Saturday December 12, 2009
The Annual Holiday Ball!
threewalls requests the pleasure of your company
Put on your fancy dress, pick up your dance card and join us for mint juleps and hurricanes, red velvet cake, dance tutorials and match making!
threewalls annual Holiday Ball is in the works for December 12th at 7:30pm. This year’s party, [...]
December 11, 2009
3rd Annual Wants and Needs Auction on Dec 11, 2009
AREA Chicago 3rd Annual Wants & Needs Auction
Friday, 11th December 7-12pm – Auction @ 930pm -
@ UE Hall – 37 S. Ashland
$10 Donation at the door, $20 Donation for admission and a tote bag. ALL proceeds from AREA’s Wants and Needs Party will benefit [...]
December 11, 2009
Picturing the Studio
Sullivan Galleries
December 12, 2009–February 13, 2010
Reception: Friday, December 11, 4:30–7 p.m.
Curated by Michelle Grabner (SAIC) and Annika Marie (Columbia College), Picturing the Studio is presented in conjunction with the College Art Association’s 98th Annual Conference in Chicago, February 10–13, 2010. With works by more than 30 artists spanning the past two decades, the [...]
Painter Richard Wright, whose painting work includes striking and large-scale frescos, has won this year’s Turner Prize.The Glasgow-based artist, who is inspired by architecture and space, beat Roger Hiorns, Enrico David and Lucy Skaer to take the prize.
Wright works predominantly with paint and gold leaf directly on walls to create intricate and unique graphic designs. [...]
Nancy Klehm is featured in Time Magazine discussing Humanure.
“At one point, Klehm invited her “nutrient loopers” to a potluck and was surprised to see who had agreed to participate. “It was the white collar people, not the ragtag anarchists. Mostly, they were delighted that they got this wacky proposal,” she says. “They didn’t know how [...]
December 15, 2009
Dystopias vs. Enchanted Forests
at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,
220 E. Chicago Ave, in Puck’s Cafe
Dec 15, 6pm
Quimby’s and the MCA present a night of the Cabinet of Curiosities series, offered the third Tuesday of the month. It’s a curated grab bag of “un-lectures” about a myriad of topics that create a variety show-like evening of artist [...]
December 12, 2009
Celebrate! Celebrate? The Politics and Tactics of Visualizing a People’s History
Curated by Aay Preston-Myint and Nicolas Lampert
When: (opens) Saturday, December 12th, 6:00pm-9pm.
Where: Mess Hall, 6932 North Glenwood Avenue, Chicago, IL, Morse CTA Red Line Train Stop
“Celebrate! Celebrate?” features four different poster series that visualize various people’s history and invites the viewer to contemplate the politics [...]
Art Forum scenester report
An Art Burn report
Sylvester Stallone’s Artwork Sells for as Much as $50K at Miami’s Art Basel
Kavi Gupta makes some much needed cash at NADA
Performance art is happening again.
Art Miami Sucked while Pulse Miami did fine.
Temporary Services’ Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer are involved with a great new project called Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics at the Cleveland art space , SPACES. ” Art Work is a newspaper and website that uses SPACES as its distribution hub. It consists of writings from artists, [...]
December 11, 2009
“Dragging the Leash”: Juan Angel Chavez
December 11th – January 16th
Project Space: Shannon Kerrigan
Opening reception with artist Friday, December 11th, 6-9 pm
LINDA WARREN GALLERY
1052 W Fulton Market
Chicago, IL 60607
p. 312.432.9500 f. 312.432.9502
linda@lindawarrengallery.com
Hours: Tues–Sat, 11-5 PM and by private appointment
December 18, 2009 2:00 pm
Trendbeheer Meets Proximity
December 18 to December 20, 2009
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St.
Opening reception: 7pm-9pm December 18, 2009
Performances Program 9pm – 1am December 18, 2009
Featuring Jeroen Kuster, Michael Perkins and special guests.
VHS Film Festival Program: December 19 , 2009 7pm
For the past two years Public Media Institute and Proximity magazine have been collaborating with Trendbeheer.com, [...]
December 11, 2009
ADAM EKBERG – In the between
December 11, 2009 – February 6, 2010
Opening reception Friday December 11, 2009 5:00 – 8:00PM
Thomas Robertello Gallery is pleased to present In the between – an exhibition of new photographs and video by Chicago-based artist Adam Ekberg. In the between is Ekberg’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.
Continuing with the [...]
