At the same time Chicagoans went to see Art Chicago and Next Art fair, The Biennial Pavilion of São Paulo was transformed once again into the biggest meeting point for the arts market in Latin America.

June 25, 2010
Old Gold presents

Painting With Peter
Peter Hoffman
phoffmanart.com

INVINCIBLE
Dick Dermody
www.2megapixels.com

Opening reception:
June 25 7pm
through July 17th

at Heaven gallery
Heaven is Located at 1550 North Milwaukee, 2nd floor, Chicago Illinois 60622
http://www.heavengallery.com

June 18, 2010
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
and Daniel Albrigo

Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is…
A LOVE STORY

June 18 to August 7, 2010

opening reception:
Friday, June 18, 5 to 8pm

gallery hours:
Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 6pm

WESTERN EXHIBITIONS
119 N Peoria St, Suite 2A
Chicago, IL 60607 USA
(312) 480-8390
scott@westernexhibitions.com

In Gallery 1
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Daniel Albrigo
Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is… A LOVE [...]

June 11, 2010
Cory Arcangel: Music for Stereos
The Art Institute of Chicago
June 11 2010, 6:00pm–7:30pm
Fullerton Hall @ 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603

On the opening night of Sound & Vision, Summer Sounds, a series of Friday night performances, kicks off with the world premiere of a new composition/performance by composer/performer/digital artist Cory Arcangel.

Born in Buffalo and trained [...]

June 5, 2010
Caleb J. Lyons
June 5-27, 2010

MCA
202 East Chicago

Caleb J. Lyons, Untitled Document, 2009. Courtesy of the artist

Caleb J. Lyons’s practice focuses on cultural detritus; mining and resurrecting the presence of melancholy and absurdity in cultural production from (very) recent history. His series of paintings, Real Pirates (a reference to piracy as a form of appropriation), and [...]

July 10, 2010
Mike Pocius organizes and hosts this works on carboard group exhibition.
This community art project shows works made on cardboard only!

You are allowed to be part of the show by dropping your work off between 2pm and 6pm July 9, 2010.
Make sure your work is labeled and priced (include 35% cut for the house).

Opening reception (One [...]

June 19, 2010
New work by Johana Wawro
Eastern Expansion
244 W 31st Street

Opening reception
Friday June 19, 2010
6-9pm

June 12, 2010
Six Years
2004-2010
A retrospective of work by one of Chicago’s best modern painters — Kingdom Kilpatrick

Over 40 works of art, spanning six years, will be on Display.
Saturday June 12th 2010
6pm – 9pm at
Kingdom’s Temple of Culture
3065 N. Rockwell
Chicago, Illinois
773.720.7055

June 25, 2010
LORA FOSBERG
YOU CANT FALL
OFF THE FLOOR

June 25th – August 21st
opening reception with artist
Friday, June 25th, 2010, 6-9 pm

Linda Warren Gallery
1052 W Fulton Market
Chicago, IL 60607

www.lindawarrengallery.com
312.432.9500

June 5, 2010
June 5 – August 1, 2010
Loyola University Museum of Art
820 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611

New Icon explores the notion of iconography in a contemporary society, focusing on new interpretations of old definitions by looking at the personal and public relationships to symbols and signs. Within the context of LUMA, nine artists will present works that [...]

The Co-Prosperity School is an Artist-Run School for and about the advancement and understanding of contemporary Chicago Art. Through guest speakers and class member presentations we will shine a light on the contemporary art scene of Chicago.

One of our goals is to break down the panel discussion dialogue of Chicago’s art and bring it to [...]

June 4, 2010
Chicago artist Peggy Robinson presents a sketchbook diary documenting her journey trekking on Spain’s Camino de Santiago de Compostela.

Robinson walked for five weeks from Pamplona to the fabled pilgrimage destination of Santiago, a journey of roughly 475 miles.

The drawings can be viewed from June 4th through July 4th at the Gallery Cabaret, 2020 N. Oakley.

Opening Reception: [...]

Call for Texts
Proximity Magazine  008
Education as Art issue

Call for proposals due: June 15, 2010

For our next issue we have asked Albert Stabler, Jim Duignan and Keith Brown to guest edit our alt.pedagogy issue. The issue will be released in the Fall of 2010.

The discourses around fine art and education are both “problem children” of the [...]

May 30, 2010

In December 2009, an electrical fire destroyed the Whale — home of Kenneth Morrison, Nat Ward, Michelle Faust, Mackie the Dog, Osso the Cat, four awesome chickens, and the Ever So Secret Order of the Lamprey. Everyone is a-OK, but there’s a ton of debt. So to speed the return to glory, we’re planning a [...]

May 29, 2010
Opening: Saturday May 29th, 2010 from 7pm-11pm featuring works by:

Deborah Stratman
Jim Zimpel
Jesse Avina
Daniel Baird
Jake Myers
and
The Pentagon Education Collective

The artwork featured in this exhibition examines the effectiveness and importance of heroics in contemporary American culture. Images and stories of heroic athletes, soldiers, astronauts, cowboys and other saviors are transformed to expose the idiosyncratic, dangerous, sincere and [...]

The US Surrealism movement has issued a Response to address BP’s manmade disaster.

Please circulate widely.

O octopus, with your silken look! whose soul is inseparable from mine…

-The Songs of Maldoror

We are through with the rational, reasonable, realistic and scientific solutions of faith-based positivism. Instead, we make the following demands and dedicate them to Judi Bari, an Earth First! liberator and lover of old-growth trees who was car-bombed by the [...]

Our friend and long time collaborator Logan Bay lives in Bangkok with his lovely wife Sandy. We were worried about them during the recent battles between the Red Shirts and the military and started reading Sandy’s Blog to find out how they were doing. It was pretty hairy over there, but it seems like things [...]

Proximity 007 (Catalog of Strategies) has shipped and should be on a bookshelf near you. For you non-supporters of print we will be posting selections on-line soon.

Check our Stockists list for a location near you.

If you cannot find it at one of these locations you can order one  from us via paypal and we will [...]

We are very pleased to announce issue 007 of Proximity is now in a store near you. Check our Stockists list for a location near you.

If you cannot find it at one of these locations you can order one  from us via paypal and we will mail it over to you.

PROXIMITY 007 is themed a [...]

Edra Soto has been everywhere in the past year, from her 12×12 show at the MCA, to curating a zombie show at Antena, to shaking hands with the Guerilla Girls (in gorilla hand gloves, no less).  She’s also been on the internet.  This is what she’s drummed up for your surfing pleasure.

Check out her top [...]

Edra Soto has been everywhere in the past year, from her 12×12 show at the MCA, to curating a zombie show at Antena, to shaking hands with the Guerilla Girls (in gorilla hand gloves, no less).  She’s also been on the internet.  This is what she’s drummed up for your surfing pleasure.

www.rattanshack.com
I always dreamed of [...]

Montreal-based art duo Seripop coined a mantra for Version Festival and our related activities. Thanks guys!

We want to thank you, Chicago, and all the participants and visitors to this years Version festival for making it a fantastic, delirious and action-packed affair.

We posted some pics from various programs and shows. If you missed the eleven day [...]

AIGA Chicago is excited to host the first-ever
Chicago Design Week, May 17-21, 2010. From hosted studio tours and juried exhibitions, to lively panel discussions and lectures, we invite the 1,600-plus members of our professional design community—along with students, teachers, businesses, and design-savvy members of the public—to join us as well [...]

May 15, 2010
Start Time: Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 8:00pm End Time: Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 10:00pm
Location: Roots & Culture gallery Street: 1034 N. Milwaukee Ave
City/Town: Chicago, IL View Map Description

On May 15, Roots & Culture will present a program of work by noted Chicago/Toronto artist Steve Reinke. Don’t miss [...]

May 15, 2010
DEATH OF A DEATH OF A SALESMAN by Vincent Dermody ————————————- Vincent Dermody is responsible for the recession and is most likely going the hell. Maybe this will serve as a confessional. REPENT! Or are we too late and this is PURGATORY. Under the divine presence of the central dome of St. Mary’s of [...]

May 15, 2010

Start Time:

Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 9:00am

End Time:

Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 2:00pm

203 Turner Court, West Chicago, IL 60185

On May 15, 2010, in conjunction with the annual West Chicago Blooming Fest, the STUDIO, located at 203 Turner Court behind Main Street, will open its doors to the 4th biannual artXposium. This multimedia art experience, organized [...]

May 29, 2010
ITDN GROUP PRESENTS:

A POETIC CONCEPTION OF REALITY BY ANDY BURKHOLDER FEATURING DJ BURKE

SATURDAY, MAY 29, 6-10PM @ HCX Space, 1254 N. NOBLE ST. CHICAGO, IL.
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Our friends at the Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce are awarding $5,500.00 prize for best art installation in their new storefront program called Make Believe. If you have any competence filling out forms and  have any talent get off yer complaining butt and make a submission!

“WPB is looking for talented artists with the [...]

May 10, 2010
Musicians at Work Forum
Monday, May 10 at the Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center (78 E. Washington Chicago IL).

An industry network session starts at 5:30pm with the panel at 6:00pm.

Paul Natkin from the Chicago Music Commission asked us to curate our infamous 7-11 panel for Monday’s forum.  We jumped at the opportunity. [...]

May 14, 2010
This Friday, 5/14 from 4-7pm, curiosity shoppe will open its doors to the public for one last time.

Stop by and take a souvemento home with you ~ The shopkeeper is liquidating inventory!

Drawing upon the poem “We Alone” by Alice Walker for inspiration, curiosity shoppe is an interactive performance installation that links commodity exchange [...]

May 8, 2010
John Parot and Rachel Niffenegger
Western Exhibitions, 119 N Peoria St, Suite 2A, 5-8pm

May 8 to June 12, 2010
opening reception: Saturday, May 8, 5 to 8pm

May 8, 2010
Steve Krakow
May 8-30, 2010
MCA 12 x 12

Steve Krakow, aka Plastic Crimewave, is an artist, musician, and curator widely known for his info strip, The Secret History of Chicago Music. Comprising approximately 100 8-by-11-inch drawings that incorporate extensive research by the artist, The Secret History of Chicago Music has developed into an important study [...]

May 6, 2010
The End of One is Just the Beginning of Another
2010 Pougialis Fine Art Award Exhibition
EJ HIll and Jessica Hoekstra

May 3 – May 7, 2010
Reception: May 6th, 5 – 8 pm

The Pougialis Fine Art Award is a yearly competition that offers promising Fine Art students an opportunity to study as an apprentice with a senior artist [...]

Proximity contributor (and How We Work columnist) Chris Kennendy (of the Institute for Applied Aesthetics), is ramping up his School of the Future Project. Inspired by anarchist self-education projects like Chicago’s own A-zone, the Public School initiative and other free school projects, the School of the Future combines education with art to reimagine what a [...]

The Printervention party, (C)TAS, Unearthed Americana show, NEXT booth, PMIRL, Proximity magazine release, Berlin afterparty, and the Lumpy Trouser Demons exhibition are under our belt. Join us today for the Art parade and our closing party.