Please join us Saturday April 3 for our only fundraiser of the year which helps fund the projects, publications and exhibitions that are part of our annual arts convergence, Version Festival. There will be extraordinary work on display generously donated by friends of the festival. See some images of the work here.
Art works and services [...]
April 3, 2010
I’M OK YOU’RE OK: THE ART OF SELF-IMPROVEMENT
Jacob C. Hammes
Faith La Rocque & Jaimie Henthorn
Gregg Louis
Habby Osk
Jill Pangallo
April 3 – April 18, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 3, 7:00 – 10:00pm
Gallery Hours: Sundays, 12:00 – 5:00pm
CHICAGO: Concertina Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of I’m OK You’re OK: The Art of Self-Improvement, a group exhibition [...]
April 2, 2010
April 2 – April 24, 2010
GOLDEN
816 W. Newport, Chicago, USA
www.golden-gallery.org
Mike Schuh
Set
Opening Reception:
Friday, April 2, 2009
6 – 9pm
March 27, 2010
non)Sense: Physicality, Perspective and the Consciousness of Relating.
This exhibition features artwork by Joe Grimm and Erica Moore. These artists focus on the body and how and what it senses in space and time through installation artworks. Both Grimm and Moore use installation as a method of investigating the sense-able, [...]
March 27, 2010
Radical Semantics
@ Pentagon
Address: 961 W 19th St, 1F, Chicago, IL 60608
http://pentagon961.blogspot.com
Screening: 27 March 2010, 8:10pm–10:10pm
Radical Semantics is a survey of 16mm films by film-makers whose methods stand in opposition to the algorithmic and computer assisted processes that define many contemporary media works. Often working with home-made optics and developing their film in sinks and buckets, [...]
April 16, 2010
Printervention: Printing for the Public
EXHIBITION AND PUBLIC ART PROJECT RAISING AWARENESS OF SOCIAL ISSUES OF OUR DAY
CHICAGO TOURISM CENTER GALLERY,
72 E. RANDOLPH ST.
APRIL 16 – MAY 4
Features Workshops and Mobile Silkscreen Printing Cart for Distributing Art on Streets and in Parks
WHO: Chicago Department of Cultural [...]
April 3, 2010
VERSION 10 SILENT AUCTION & RAFFLE
Saturday April 3, 2010
7pm to 1am
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St
$10 admission (you get two raffle tickets)
Please join us at our only fundraiser for the year which helps fund the projects, publications and exhibitions that are part of our annual arts convergence, Version Festival. There will be extraordinary [...]
Paul Nudd is the latest artist featured on Martin Garcia’s Web TV show. The short interview is located here.
March 27, 2010
Calling all Gardeners, Collectors, Storytellers, Performers, Muralists, Artists, Home Cooks.
Come One, Come All, and Come Again!
Op Shop announces the grand opening of Adhocity
1530 E. 53rd St. (the former Hollywood video store at 53rd and Lake Park)
Hyde Park
Chicago, Illinois
First opening reception: March 27th 5-9 p.m.
March 27th through May 1st
Wednesday through Sunday 10-6 p.m.
Op Shop announces [...]
March 23, 2010
Tuesday, March 23rd, 7:00 PM
www.three-walls.org
Be our guest for our third SALON, as part of series, The Work of Gambling Historians: Oblique Glances at the Present, curated by Ania Szremski.
There appears to be a growing return to the book amongst younger artists, writers and thinkers. This move towards the material and physical may be in reaction [...]
Bad At Sports, the midwest’s most important art podcast did an interview with one of our favorite artists, Amy Franceschini. Listen here. And keep it up guys!
March 25, 2010
Thursday March 25 , 4:30 – 8:30pm (Con)Temporary Art Space 208 S Wabash
Jon us for very special Thursday Night Opening at (C)TAS with James Bruce King, Bruner and Bay and Reuben Kincaid on Youtube karoake. Plus We have NEW magazines, like Graphic (from S Korea) and Politics is Not a Banana by the Instute for [...]
Last summer we (C-PS and Post Family) mounted the Get It Together Show and it was such a success that we were asked to do it one more time. Last night Get It Together Again opened at the Chicago Tourism Center Gallery on 72 E. Randolph Street. Check out some photos and stop by when [...]
We are involved with four nice events this week.
Laugh Out Lunch is a weekly (on Wednesdays) lunchtime comedy series at the (Con)Temporary Art Space ((C)TAS) in the Loop hosted by Co-Prosperity Sphere’s in-house comedian, Nick Bahr. Starts at noon and ends at 1pm! bring your Chipotle burrito!
Our regular Thursday evening opening at (C)TAS features new [...]
March 27, 2010
Waiting Room
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
Hours of Operation: 12-8pm
One day only! Presented by Stephanie Nadeau, hosted by Spoke, and back by popular demand, Waiting Room invites you to come spend your time. Our mission is to allow you to contribute your time comfortably and productively while remaining completely idle. Wait for as little or as long [...]
March 19, 2010
50 Aldermen/50 Artists portrait
Friday, March 19, 2010
Johalla Projects Gallery, 1561 N. Milwaukee.
Participating artists include:
Aaron Delehanty
Aaron Wooten
Alpha Bruton
Andrea Jablonski
Andrew Bruah
Andy Resek
Aron Gent
Byron Durham
Casey Stockdon
Christa Lohman
Clarisse Perrette
Craighton Berman
David Leveron
David Penna
Derek Erdman
Dubi Kaufmann
Dustin Ruegger
Emanuel Aguilar
Eric Lebofsky
Esteban Alcozer
Felicia Preston
James Ewert
Jennifer Greenburg
Jeremy Bolen
Jeremy Scheuch
Jessica Munguia
Jim Newberry
Joe Sikora
Johanna Meyers
John Geletka
Jon Gitleson
Jon Hisel
Katy Keefe
Kenton Quatman
Krystal Meisel
Lauri Apple
Layne Jackson
Lucas Blair
Lunchbreath
Marie Walz
Marita Sanchez
Melissa Ann [...]
March 27, 2010
PAUL COWAN, ALLA PRIMA
Opening: Saturday, March 27, 2009 – 7-10 pm
Exhibition will run through May 2
Please join us for the grand opening of our new location! We will be presenting work from Chicago artist Paul Cowan.
Strictly defined, alla prima is a painting technique in which the work is completed in one session without time [...]
March 18, 2010
TYPEFORCE: A Conversation About Type & Design in Chicago
with Rick Valicenti + other special guests (including many of the artists)
Thursday, March 18th - 7pm
At Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St
FREE
This is the closing event for the exceptional Typeforce exhibition. So please make it down if you have not already.
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St – in Bridgeport
We had a fantastic time at the Singer Sweatshop last night at our Trendbeheer meets Proximity encounter #5! The Proximity suitcase show rocked, and people enjoyed the Chicago -based publications that we brought over to share. Three kisses on the cheeks goes to Niels Post of trendbeheer for making this happen. Lots of hugs go [...]
Nick Costas, Proximity correspondent, sends us this news:
“Acclaimed British artist Michael Landy has transformed the South London Gallery into a 600m³ container for the disposal of works of art. Artists and collectors are invited to bring works to the SLG to create ’a monument to creative failure’.
Works can be brought to the SLG to be [...]
March 14, 2010
The Suburban Presents: GEROLD MILLER + ANN PIBAL
Dates: March 14 – April 25, 2010
Reception for the artists: March 14, 2010, 2-4 pm
125 N. Harvey Avenue Oak Park, IL 60302 708 305 2657 www.thesuburban.org
The Suburban presents solo exhibitions by Ann Pibal and Gerold Miller. Both artists work with geometric motifs, highly conceptualised [...]
March 19, 2010
“Get it Together Again,” is an exhibition of assemblage, collage, and collaborative work by local, national, and international artists. Organized by Chad Kouri of the Post Family and Ed Marszewski of Co-Prosperity Sphere, the exhibition includes over 25 works on paper, mixed media, and installations including a grocery store with hand drawn products made out [...]
We are on a field trip to The Netherlands to present Proximity magazine and art works featured in its pages!
Our friends at Trendbeheer are hosting our exhibition at the Rotterdam art space Singer Sweat Shop and it will take place Friday, March 12. Our agenda is pretty full. We are meeting up with old and [...]
Our interweb universe is back in orbit. That means the Version 10 Online Submissions Form is in operation and we are back in motion. March 3 is the final deadline for Submissions! Due to the minor disaster we forgot to post some other stuff. For one we like you to please take a peek and [...]
March 12, 2010
PARKING SPACE
2246 W 19TH ST #3R, CHICAGO, IL
PARKINGSPACECHICAGO@GMAIL.COM
847.508.7444
THIS IS NOT FOR SALE IS THE LATEST PROJECT AT PARKING SPACE, OPENING FRIDAY, MARCH 12TH FROM 6-10PM
(ONE NIGHT ONLY)
•This Is Not For Sale seeks to engage with Chicago’s tradition of alternative art spaces by exploiting (celebrating) the apartment gallery’s inherent flaws.
• This Is Not For Sale [...]
March 4, 2010
“Weird It Up!”“Weird It Up” is an exhibition featuring work from Titus O’Brien’s Fall 2009 Advanced Research Studio course at SAIC. The class consisted of Priory Degree students working in multiple disciples, painting, photography, sculpture, video, and writing. In one critique, O’Brien borrowed a line from Rob Reiner’s Spinal Tap to help a student [...]
March 4, 2010
Let There Be Geo
March 4 – April 24, 2010
Curated by Elizabeth Burke-Dain.
Opening Reception, March 4 from 5-9 p.m.
Let There Be Geo is an art exhibition at Columbia College Chicago’s Leviton A+D Gallery that surveys the art of contemporary artists who use geometric form in their work. While employing geometric form in art is not a [...]
