January 16, 2011 11:00 pm
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
16 January 2011, 4:00pm—8:00pm
Better Favorite features new sculpture, works on paper and printed matter. Magnificent for all enthusiasts! Chitty and Lear fully describe their newest developments in-depth to the most glorious magnitude. Better Favorite is convenient and makes good sense, rating excellent in practicality, goodness and family [...]
January 15, 2011 11:00 pm
2332 W Augusta Blvd, 3F, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 15 January 2011, 8:00pm—10:00pm
Work by Chris Hefner, Christy LeMaster, Catie Olson and EC Brown.
January 15, 2011 11:00 pm
7714 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60626
Reception: 15 January 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 15 January 2011—TBA
He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore is a photography project which engages image-making as a platform to intervene inside Western culture’s traditions and expectations related to masculinity, class, and heroism. This project opens up a space [...]
January 15, 2011 11:00 pm
2154 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Artist Talk: 15 January 2011, 1:00pm
It’s that time of year again, and we’ve got an ambitious 4-part program that you shouldn’t miss! We have invited four artists new to the gallery to present an installation of their choice. Each week-long installation culminates with a Saturday afternoon [...]
January 14, 2011 11:00 pm
1369 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 14 January 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 14 January 2011—TBA
Work by Nicholas Knight.
January 14, 2011 11:00 pm
213 N Morgan St, 3C, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 14 January 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 14 January 2011—19 February 2011
Work by Howard Fonda.
January 14, 2011 11:00 pm
119 N Peoria St, 2C, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 14 January 2011, TBA—TBA
On View: 14 January 2011—TBA
Work by Mindy Rose Schwartz.
January 14, 2011 11:00 pm
119 N Peoria St, 2A, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 14 January 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 14 January 2011—19 February 2011
The iconic display of a head, severed and mounted on a stick, is ubiquitous as a representation of ominous primordial savagery. Cliché in its references to cannibalistic ritual, human sacrifice or cautionary symbolism, its general [...]
January 14, 2011 11:00 pm
118 N Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 14 January 2011, TBA—TBA
On View: 14 January 2011—18 February 2011
Work by Anne Wilson,
Work by Judy Ledgerwood.
January 14, 2011
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Exhibition: 14 January 2011
On View: 14 January 2011—13 March 2011
The fiber art of Chicago artist Theo Leffmann (1911–96) evokes the ancient and the exotic, echoing pre-Columbian and non-Western processes and forms with a distinct personal vision.
Leffmann’s 40-year-career coincided with a revolution in textile art in the [...]
January 14, 2011
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Exhibition: 14 January 2011
On View: 14 January 2011—3 April 2011
Constructivists, Time Travelers, Model Makers, Archeologists, Deconstructivists, Collectors, Photographers, Evocateurs, Postmodernists, Jokesters, Computer Geeks, Actors, Poets, Retro-futurists, Dreamers, Sculptors, Absurdists, Storytellers…
These words appear during the opening credits of Kahn & Selesnick’s film Apollo Prophecies [...]
January 13, 2011
Price Auditorium @ 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Artist Talk: 13 January 2011, 6:00pm—7:30pm
Cost: $20 ($15 members)
Despite affinities with Chicago Imagist and Northwest Coast abstraction traditions, Jim Lutes’ enigmatic work resists classification within any one school or group. According to critic David Pagel, his work vacillates between representation and abstraction in [...]
January 13, 2011
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Artist Talk: 13 January 2011, 6:00pm
Join us as we host exhibiting artist Guy Tillim in conversation with Krista Thompson, PhD. Thompson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University who has taught courses and written extensively about African and Caribbean Art, [...]
January 10, 2011
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Exhibition: 10 January 2011
On View: 10 January 2011—6 March 2011
In his project Avenue Patrice Lumumba (2007–08), South African artist Guy Tillim (b. 1962) records the architecture and infrastructure of colonial and postcolonial Africa. Patrice Lumumba (1925–61) was one of the first elected African leaders in modern times. [...]
January 9, 2011
5811 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Reception: 9 January 2011, 4:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 9 January 2011—27 February 2011
The Renaissance Society, Lismore Castle Arts, C. Waterford, Ireland, and the 2010 Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, in collaboration with Van Abbemuseum, co-commissioned Irish artist Gerard Byrne (b. 1969) to create this new multi-channel film installation [...]
January 8, 2011
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 8 January 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 8 January 2011—5 February 2011
Work by Elijah Burgher, Ryan Fenchel, Jonah Groeneboer, Shane Huffman and Erin Zona.
January 8, 2011
845 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 8 January 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 8 January 2011—19 February 2011
Work by Talia Chetrit and Daniel Gordon.
Work by Matthew Metzger in the South Gallery.
January 8, 2011
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Exhibition: 8 January 2011
On View: 8 January 2011—30 January 2011
For the month of January, the MCA presents an exhibition of the work of four young, Chicago-based cartoonists and animators: Jeffrey Brown, Lilli Carré, Paul Hornschemeier and Anders Nilsen. In their own unique styles each of these artists expands [...]
January 4, 2011
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Exhibition/Screening: 4 January 2011
On View: 4 January 2011—6 February 2011
David Wojnarowicz‘s 1986–87 video A Fire in My Belly is a poetic, unfinished tribute to the artist’s friend and colleague, Peter Hujar, who died of AIDS.
An excerpt of the work was recently removed from the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition Hide/Seek: [...]
January 20, 2011
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Reception: 20 January 2011, 6:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 20 January 2011—26 February 2011
Best known for her sparse use of bright colors in otherwise empty black or white backgrounds, Chicago-artist Pamela Fraser takes color as her main subject and plays with the logic of established color systems. Fraser’s newest work continues [...]
January 21, 2011
1561 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 21 January 2011, TBA—TBA
Work by Matt Siber.
January 21, 2011
5228 S Harper Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Exhibition: 21 January 2011, TBA
On View: 21 January 2011—26 February 2011
Curated by Renee Stout and Rebecca Zorach.
January 22, 2011
2154 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Artist Talk: 22 January 2011, 1:00pm
It’s that time of year again, and we’ve got an ambitious 4-part program that you shouldn’t miss! We have invited four artists new to the gallery to present an installation of their choice. Each week-long installation culminates with a Saturday afternoon [...]
January 22, 2011
125 N Harvey Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Reception: 22 January 2011, TBA—TBA
On View: 22 January 2011—27 February 2011
Work by Chris Bradley.
January 22, 2011
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 22 January 2011, TBA—TBA
On View: 22 January 2011—5 March 2011
Work by Michelle Grabner.
January 23, 2011
125 N Harvey Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Reception: 23 January 2011, 2:00pm—4:00pm
On View: 23 January 2011—TBA
Work by Philip Vanderhyden, Zach Formalt, Danna Vajda and Chris Dorland.
January 23, 2011
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
23 January 2011, 4:00pm—8:00pm
Work by Drew Griffith.
January 23, 2011
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
23 January 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
Work by Hyeon Jung Kim.
Her most recent work, Maze – 2010, an installation and video work, is a reflection of
the labor-intensive practices of her parents’ new working situation after immigrating to
America. Maze revolves around the social and cultural aspects of life in America through
the lens of [...]
January 25, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2C, Chicago, IL 60607
Talk: 25 January 2011, TBA—TBA
Details TBA.
January 26, 2011
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Screening: 26 January 2011, 6:00pm
This screening of short videos features work by artists including Walid Raad and Miranda July, who consider when and how to rebuild, recover, and start fresh. Curated by Kate Bowen and David Oresick.
January 28, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2D, Chicago, IL 60607
Exhibition: 28 January 2011
On View: 28 January 2011—6 March 2011
Encountering the “take away” artwork, consisting of unlimited or large-run editions whose individual pieces are free for the taking, has become a common occurrence in contemporary art exhibitions. A strategy notably employed in Félix González-Torres’ “stack” [...]
January 28, 2011
1344 W 18th Pl, Chicago, IL 60608
28 January 2011, TBA—TBA
Work by Zak Arctander.
January 29, 2011
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Exhibition: 29 January 2011
On View: 29 January 2011—29 May 2011
Further solidifying Nutt’s stature as an internationally significant artist, Jim Nutt: Coming Into Character provides an excellent opportunity to expand the artistic framework in which to consider his work beyond Chicago’s Hairy Who. While Coming Into Character offers [...]
January 29, 2011
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Exhibition: 29 January 2011
On View: 29 January 2011—29 May 2011
Since 1990, Jim Nutt has focused exclusively on female heads in spare line drawings and rich, detailed paintings. This exhibition is a retrospective of Jim Nutt’s work that emphasizes the development of these important paintings through their [...]
January 29, 2011
2154 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Artist Talk: 29 January 2011, 1:00pm
It’s that time of year again, and we’ve got an ambitious 4-part program that you shouldn’t miss! We have invited four artists new to the gallery to present an installation of their choice. Each week-long installation culminates with a Saturday afternoon [...]
January 29, 2011
3319 N Broadway Ave., Chicago, IL 60657
Reception: 29 January 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 24 January 2011—26 February 2011
An exhibition of new works by John Henderson.
For Henderson, the practice of painting functions as both a performance and a symbolic field, a daily activity through which to examine, dismantle, reconfigure and question the traditionally unique [...]
January 30, 2011
Room 106 @ 1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Panel: 30 January 2011, 2:00pm
Led by Christine Mehring, Associate Professor of Art History, the University of Chicago.
Judd’s multiple roles as artist, critic, designer, activist, and curator will form the basis for discussion led by Mehring. The roundtable’s four participants—Erica Cooke, Jadine Colingwood, Solveig [...]
January 30, 2011
ACRE Projects
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
30 January 2011, 4:00pm—8:00pm
Work by Erin Leland.
Local artist, Chef, Gallerist and Sweetheart of Art cholos, Eric May, is close to launching this project and he needs your financial support. Make it Happen!
ART THOUGHTZ: Post-Structuralism from Hennessy Youngman on Vimeo.
We shot some images of our Select Media Festival 9 show, Infoporn II.
December 12, 2010
6pm – 10pm / Free / BYOB (Bring your own Beamer)
Co-Prosperity Sphere / 3219 S Morgan Street
coprosperity.org
We take down the Infoporn II exhibition and leave the gallery walls blank for use in Chicago’s first Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB) event. BYOB is a series of exhibitions hosting artists and their projectors. Started by Berlin-based Rafäel Rozendaal, we [...]
December 11, 2010
6pm – 9pm / Free / Meet the Presenters / Co-Prosperity
Sphere / 3219 S Morgan Street / coprosperity.org
Pechu Kucha-toids, 20 X 20-ers, video curators, powerpointers, and Tour Guides of reknown explain their work in a simple lecture presentation format and screening.
Please note that the Infoporn II show will be open for viewing from 2pm to 9pm.
Presenters:
Nick Fraccaro
Jerry Boyle
Paul Durica
Screening:
Infoporn [...]
December 10, 2010
7pm – 12:30am / $6 / Opening Party for SMF9
Co-Prosperity Sphere / 3219 S Morgan Street
coprosperity.org
Inspired by artists and designers who use available analog and digital tools to communicate complex data from the everyday to the very obscure, we present this project as an homage to our love for data visualization… A selection of works from [...]
December 10, 2010
6pm – 9pm / Free / Sad Cycle / Emily Clayton
Eastern Expansion / 244 W 31st Street
Sad Cycle includes works that are inspired by death rituals. The exhibition is part of a larger series that seeks to examine ways in which people grieve through a lens of palpably dramatic forms and performance. The pieces shown at Eastern [...]
December 9, 2010
9 December 7pm – 11pm / Free / Proximity Issue 008 / Release Party
Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar
960 W 31st Street / communitybar.wordpress.com/
We open SMF9: Infoporn II with the release of our own contribution to the information overlaod. Proximity magazine’s Issue 008, themed Education as Art, is a 230 page opus and [...]
December 12, 2010
12 December 6:00-10:00pm / Free / BYOB (Bring your own Beamer)
Co-Prosperity Sphere / 3219 S Morgan Street
We take down the Infoporn II exhibition and leave the gallery walls blank for use in Chicago’s first Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB) event. BYOB is a series of exhibitions hosting artists and their projectors. [...]
December 11, 2010
Co-Prosperity Sphere / 3219 S Morgan Street
11 December 6:00-9:00pm
Pechu Kucha-toids, 20 X 20-ers, video curators, powerpointers, and Tour Guides of reknown explain their work in a simple lecture presentation format and screening.
Please note that the Infoporn II show will be open for viewing from 2pm to 9pm.
Presenters:
Nick Fraccaro
Jerry Boyle
Paul Durica
Screening:
Infoporn Video program Starts [...]
December 10, 2010
244 W 31st Street, Chicago, IL
10 December 6:00-9:00pm
Emily Clayton is a Chicago based artist whose sculptural works interpret ghostly forms.
Sad Cycle includes works that are inspired by death rituals. The exhibition is part of a larger series that seeks to examine ways in which people grieve through a lens of palpably dramatic forms [...]
We open Select Media Festival 9: Infoporn II with the release of our own contribution to the information overload. Proximity magazine’s Issue 008, themed Education as Art, is a 230 page opus and represents our latest and greatest effort in publishing. Stop by and get a copy at a discount ($10), enjoy some beverages [...]
We just wanted to toot our own horns by congratulating the designers, artists, and photographers that won us 3 different awards for Print magazine’s The Best American Design of The Year. Plural Design was recognized for its work on Lumpen Magazine and the (Con)Temporary Art Guide Chicago. Michael Freimuth got an award for Issue 006 [...]
December 19, 2010
125 N Harvey Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
19 December 2010, TBA—TBA
A one day event.
December 18, 2010
119 N Peoria St, 2C, Chicago, IL 60607
18 December 2010, 7:00pm—12:00am
Get your boots on, it’s time for threewalls annual Holiday Ball, and this year we are excited to hand over the reigns to Academy Records for a holiday variety show! Please join us December 18th for an evening of entertainment, yuletide merriment, [...]
December 17, 2010
213 N Morgan St, 3C, Chicago, IL 60607
17 December 2010, 6:00pm—9:00pm
Ah Wilderness! features work by Tom Berenz, Timothy Bergstrom, Deborah Boardman, Ryan Travis Christian, Seth Curcio, Dan Devening, Austin Eddy, Stephen Eichhorn, Richard Galling, Corinne Halbert, Ryan Da La Hoz, Matt Irie, Thaddeus Kellstadt, Paul Kenneth, Chad Kouri, David Leggett, Shona Macdonald, B.C. MacEachran, Alexis [...]
December 17, 2010
1545 W Division St, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60622
17 December 2010, 6:00pm—10:00pm
New work by Michelle Bolinger, Eric Guerrero and Aliza Morell.
December 17, 2010
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
17 December 2010, 7:00pm—10:00pm
Brittany Ransom is a new media artist that strives to probe the lines between human, animal and environmental relations. We exist in a culture that is in the midst of a technological revolution. With our society’s existing dependence on emergent technologies comes [...]
December 16, 2010
816 W Newport Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
16 December 2010, 6:00pm—9:00pm
Work by Mike Andrews.
December 14, 2010
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
14 December 2010, 6:00pm
Jessica Labatte discusses her work during this informal gallery talk. The program is part of the MCA’s monthly UBS 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work exhibition series.
Labatte is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her [...]
December 12, 2010
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
12 December 2010, 4:00pm—8:00pm
New sculptures, photographs and video work by Daniel Shea.
December 11, 2010
222 N Desplaines St, Chicago, IL 60661
11 December 2010
Material Syntax presents three artists with diverse yet overlapping interpretations of media relationships. From the traditional plastic art of painting to the new medium of digital photography, these artists employ their unique artistic methods to create images that represent the changing field of [...]
December 10, 2010
939 West Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60607
10 December 2010, 5:00pm—8:00pm
Work by Lilly McElroy.
Barbara Koenen in the project space.
December 10, 2010
2nd floor @ 1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
10 December 2010, 6:00pm—11:00pm
Cost: $20 ($10 students)
Dust off your cowboy boots and join ACRE for a night of art, music and merriment. Find the perfect holiday gift for your loved ones at ACRE’s art auction, raffle and sale. Get into the country spirit while [...]
December 9, 2010
7pm – 11pm / Free / Proximity Issue 008 / Release Party
Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar
960 W 31st Street / communitybar.wordpress.com/
We open SMF9: Infoporn II with the release of our own contribution to the information overlaod. Proximity magazine’s Issue 008, themed Education as Art, is a 230 page opus and represents our latest and greatest effort in [...]
December 7, 2010
Room 157 @ 5440 South Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, IL 60615
7 December 2010, 5:00pm—6:00pm
Jeanine Breaker’s recent work deals with the creative potential of methods/techniques employed by geoscientists to study the Earth’s “dermis” and “epidermis,” to provide a uniquely visceral material engagement of the soil and to enhance public awareness regarding issues of [...]
December 7, 2010
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
7 December 2010, 6:00pm—8:00pm
Join us in discussion with Diane Barber, Co-Executive Director/Visual Arts Curator of DiverseWorks (Houston, TX), Lorelei Stewart, Director of Gallery 400, UIC and co-sponsorer of The Propeller Fund with ThreeWalls and Allison Peters Quinn, Director of Exhibitions at HPAC regarding the art [...]
December 6, 2010
280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
6 December 2010, 6:00pm
Chiefly known for his elegant and scholarly writing, Richard Sennett deftly explores the disciplines of architecture, design, music, art, literature, history, and political and economic theory. Celebrated for his studies of social ties in cities, Sennett has produced more than a dozen books, [...]
December 3, 2010
1120 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
3 December 2010, 5:00pm—9:00pm
Work by Margot Bergman.
December 3, 2010
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
3 December 2010, 6:00pm—9:00pm
A performance and installation by Coppice (Noé Cuéllar and Joseph Kramer) with sculptures by Alex Miller.
Copse is a three-movement composition for performed multi-channel sound installation, based on the atomization and dispersal of instrumental aspects. The products/by-products of the instrumentation are separated and shuffled [...]
December 5, 2010
3144 W Carroll Ave, 2G, Chicago, IL, 60612
5 December 2010, 4:00pm—7:00pm
Work by Brad Killam.
December 5, 2010
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
5 December 2010, 7:00pm—10:00pm
Young Joon Kwak’s newest series of sculpture, photography, installation and performance work Eating Without a Face and Death Rites, a ceremonial program of performances themed around the possibilities contained in different forms of death and decay.
The works in Eating Without a Face grew out of Kwak’s [...]
December 4, 2010
2007 N Point St, Chicago, IL 60647
4 December 2010, 6:00pm—9:00pm
New works by Jason Benson and Joel Dean.
December 4, 2010
2655 W Homer St, Chicago, IL 60647
4 December 2010, 7:00pm—10:00pm
Three Chicago artists explore the absence of a figure, specifically scenes depicting the desolate spaces human beings unavoidably leave behind after socializing, creating, working, and living; it’s the party after everyone has left, where once purposeful monuments become purposeless and empty interior [...]
December 4, 2010
2542 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
4 December 2010, 7:00pm—10:00pm
In 1821 a fleet of English ships set sail for the Northwest Passage, the golden fleece of shipping routes. Of course, they did not find it. They did, however, get trapped in the ice for nine months. When Captain William Parry recognized they [...]
December 4, 2010
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
4 December 2010, 8:00pm—12:00am
For the past four years, AREA Chicago has brought together artists, researchers, educators and activists at our annual Wants & Needs Auction to hang out, dance, and bid on a wide range of services and items provided by the AREA community. Items and [...]
December 4, 2010
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL
4 December 2010
UBS 12 x 12‘s 100th artist Jessica Labatte‘s formal explorations of everyday objects and materials focus on color and shape while emphasizing a collage aesthetic grounded in both the illusionistic tendencies of photography and the still life tradition. In works involving elaborate compositional strategies [...]
December 4, 2010
500 W Cermak Rd, 727, Chicago, IL
4 December 2010, 1:00pm—4:00pm
Seemingly endless attempts at reading the ultimate paleomodernist novel had me turn to its twenty-two CD audio set. Attention failed me and tired of tedious disk-changing I came to “The Complete Consort,” lecture five in a series of lectures titled Literary Modernism: The [...]
December 4, 2010
128 N Campbell Ave, Chicago IL 60612
4 December 2010, 6 – 9 pm
The Hills Esthetic Center opens their doors to the viewers, artists and greater community that have supported the gallery space in its inaugural year. The Hills Esthetic Center began in January 2010 and has developed throughout the year as a [...]
