February 3, 2011
Thursday, March 3 · 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Co-Prosperity Sphere 3219 S Morgan St
Come check out the art + hear a nice talk from TYPEFORCE artist Matthew Hoffman.
His lecture “We all have something to say” will look at how people use words to make an impact in the world they live in. Taking [...]
What: Hull-House 1915 Hunger March Reeanactment
When: March 6 : 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Price: Free
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S. Halsted St.
Chicago, IL 60607
312-413-5353
ABOUT THE HUNGER MARCH
In honor of the 150th anniversary of Jane Addams’ birth and Hull-House’s continued commitment to social and public policies, Pocket Guide to Hell Tours will stage a reenactment of the [...]
Gaddafi Spoof gets Internet Fans
MyGreatDVD from Jennifer Chan on Vimeo.
http://jennifer-chan.com/
U-n-f-o-l-d. A Cultural Response to Climate Change
March 16–April 23, 2011
Showing concurrently at Columbia College Chicago’s:
Museum of Contemporary Photography
(600 South Michigan Avenue)
Glass Curtain Gallery
(1104 South Wabash Avenue)
Chicago, IL
http://www.colum.edu/unfold
In 2001, artist David Buckland created Cape Farewell to instigate a cultural response to climate change. Since then, Cape Farewell has brought together leading artists, writers, scientists, [...]
March 1, 2011
The Power of Pro Bono
JEANNE GANG, BERNARDA WONG, NOAH RESNICK, BRIAN HURTTIENNE, & JOHN PETERSON
MARCH 1, 2011
PANEL DISCUSSION AND BOOK LAUNCH
Graham Foundation
for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Madlener House
4 West Burton Place
Chicago, IL 60610
www.grahamfoundation.org
Please RSVP, click here.
Celebrate the Chicago launch of the book The Power of Pro Bono, with a panel discussion and reception [...]
March 1, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2C, Chicago, IL 60607
Panel: 1 March 2011, 7:00pm
If any single role in the art world has been questioned, dismissed, vindicated and debated more than any other, it is arguably that of the art critic. In Chicago alone, panels, exhibitions, and blog posts galore have declared an apparently ceaseless [...]
March 3, 2011
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Performance: 2 March 2011, 7:00pm
Performance by Edie Fake and Lee Relvas.
Lock is a metallic sonic scrapheap of psychic safe-cracking and emotional emergence. Exhaust Yourself is a musical meditation on scarcity and abundance, looked at through the deepwater prism of oil spills.
March 3, 2011
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Artist Talk: 3 March 2011, 5:00pm
Performance by Kalup Linzy.
March 4, 2011
619 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Reception: 3 March 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 3 March 2011—16 April 2011
ZERØ Waste attempts to find solutions for dealing with fashion’s waste, as well as challenge fashion systems through their conceptual framework.
March 3, 2011
162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Screening: 3 March 2011, 6:00pm
Cost: $10 ($5 film center members, $7 students, $4 SAIC/AIC students/staff)
Curated by Lebanese video artist Akram Zaatari (who presented a program of his own works at CATE in Fall 2006), Radical Closure brings together documentaries, independent films, and video art from the Middle East [...]
March 3, 2011
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Reception: 3 March 2011, 6:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 3 March 2011—9 April 2011
Marie Torbensdatter Hermann is interested in the objects that we surround ourselves with in our everyday lives, their placements and our relationship with them. Her ceramic works reference these objects; however, their function is often [...]
March 4, 2011
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Exhibition: 4 March 2011
On View: 4 March 2011—27 March 2011
Takeshi Moro is a photographer who uses traditional photo processes and techniques to create large-scale color prints that are often the result of performative collaborations with his subjects. One such collaboration was to ask people to [...]
March 4, 2011
5228 S Harper Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Exhibition: 4 March 2011, TBA—TBA
On View: 4 March 2011—26 March 2011
Work by David Cordero.
March 4, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2C, Chicago, IL 60607
Performance: 4 March 2011, 7:00pm
Notes on the Emptying of a City is a performance that acts as a dismantled film, where a narrator pieces together the sounds, images, and storytelling of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina before a live audience. Exploring the first-person politics of [...]
March 5, 2011
Price Auditorium @ 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Artist Talk: 5 March 2011, 2:00pm—3:00pm
Painter Joyce Owens grew up in a culturally diverse neighborhood; her strong African American roots were infused with Jewish culture. Responding to the secular theme of Marc Chagall’s The Circus Rider, Owens discusses how her work relates to [...]
March 5, 2011
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 5 March 2011, TBA—TBA
On View: 5 March 2011—2 April 2011
Work by Chris Bradley.
March 6, 2011
3144 W Carroll Ave, 2G, Chicago, IL, 60612
Reception: 6 March 2011, 1:00pm—4:00pm
On View: 6 March 2011—27 March 2011
Work by Aliza Nisenbaum.
March 6, 2011
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 6 March 2011, 4:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 6 March 2011—7 March 2011
In Kyla Rafert‘s obsessively detailed works on paper, truth has been eerily bent to perfection. Set within a meticulously designed world of vanity, beauty, intense color and abundant pattern, recent works evoke a carefully crafted stage [...]
March 6, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2C, Chicago, IL 60607
Talk: 6 March 2011, TBA—TBA
Sara Daleiden is an artist and organizer who focuses on participant experience through the creation of identity systems and interventions in developing landscapes. She is a core member of the art collective the Los Angeles Urban Rangers. The Los Angeles [...]
March 8, 2011
Columbus Auditorium @ 280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Artist Talk: 8 March 2011, 6:00pm
Los Angeles-based SAIC alumnus Kori Newkirk (BFA 1993) creates multimedia paintings, sculptural installations, and photographs that transform his materials into gestures toward the semiotics of cultural identity and his own personal/familial history. His work explores the meaning [...]
March 8, 2011
MCA Theater @ 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Talk: 8 March 2011, 7:00pm
Cost: $10 general admission ($8 MCA members, $6 students)
Sarah Thornton writes about art, the art world, and the art market. Renowned for her book Seven Days in the Art World, she discusses her new research project about the working lives and [...]
March 19, 2011
1452 N Milwaukee Ave, 3, Chicago, IL 60622
Auction: 19 March 2011, 6:00pm—11:00pm
Work by Alysia Kaplan, Amy Yao, Andrew Holmquist, Austin Eddy, David Geeting, David Leggett, Easton Miller, Erin Zona, Gary Petersen, Heidi Norton, Jacob Goudreault, James Cooper, Jason Benson, Jason Lazarus, Jenny Kendler, Jon Rafman, Kate Ruggeri, Kate Steciw, Leslie Supnet, Liz [...]
March 10, 2011
162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Screening: 10 March 2011, 6:00pm
Cost: $10 ($5 film center members, $7 students, $4 SAIC/AIC students/staff)
Amsterdam- and Tel Aviv-based artist Yael Bartana’s slippery, sophisticated films and videos reflect upon contemporary Israeli culture, the ideas and rituals that bind its citizens together, and its larger geopolitical context. Drawing [...]
March 11, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2D, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 11 March 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 11 March 2011—17 April 2011
March 11, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2C, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 11 March 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 11 March 2011—23 April 2011
For his SOLO exhibition Uh-Oh It’s Magic, filmmaker Ben Russell gathers together seven instances of sound and image that speak to the varying possibilities of belief and mysticism within a global construct. Taking its title from [...]
March 11, 2011
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 11 March 2011, TBA—TBA
On View: 11 March 2011—23 March 2011
Legendary Indiana gallery, Uncle Freddy, comes to Co-Prosperity Sphere.
March 12, 2011
500 W Cermak Rd, 727, Chicago, IL 60616
Reception: 12 March 2011, 1:00pm—4:00pm
On View: 12 March 2011—11 April 2011
Work by Candida Alvarez.
March 12, 2011
2007 N Point St, Chicago, IL 60647
Reception: 12 March 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 12 March 2011—27 March 2011
Details TBA.
March 12, 2011
1254 N Noble St, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 12 March 2011, 6:00pm—10:00pm
Details TBA.
March 12, 2011
128 N Campbell Ave, G, Chicago, IL 60612
Reception: 12 March 2011, 8:00pm—11:00pm
Work by Karen Bovinich and EJ Hill.
March 13, 2011
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 13 March 2011, 4:00pm—8:00pm
Becket Flannery’s exploration began with Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan; prior even to the text, a frontispiece depicts the new “artificial man” whose body is the people and whose soul is sovereignty. This cryptic image introduces and also summarizes Hobbes’ thought. The frontispiece [...]
March 14, 2011
3319 N Broadway St, Chicago, IL 60657
Reception: 14 March 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 14 March 2011—7 May 2011
Work by David Malek.
March 15, 2011
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Artist Talk: 15 March 2011, 5:00pm
Eileen Myles operates in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. She is a poet, novelist, and performer who has written extensively on art and writing and the cultural scene. Her experiences range from [...]
March 15, 2011
MCA Theater @ 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Artist Talk: 15 March 2011, 6:00pm
Cost: $10 general admission ($8 MCA members, $6 students)
In Kate Gilmore‘s ambiguous and often humorous works, women—often the artist herself—encounter physical situations that act as metaphors for present-day conflicts and social obstacles. Gilmore performs for the video camera [...]
March 17, 2011
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Exhibition: 17 March 2011
On View: 17 March 2011—23 April 2011
Unfold exhibits the work of twenty-five artists who have participated in the Cape Farewell expeditions in 2007 and 2008 to the High Arctic and in 2009 to the Andes. Each artist witnessed firsthand the dramatic and fragile [...]
March 17, 2011
Price Auditorium @ 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Artist Talk: 17 March 2011, 6:00pm—7:30pm
Cost: $20 ($15 members)
Roe Ethridge was born in 1969 in Miami and received a BFA in Photography at The College of Art in Atlanta, GA. Ethridge’s images emanate from his direct experience of the world. His focus is multiple [...]
March 17, 2011
162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Screening: 17 March 2011, 6:00pm
Cost: $10 ($5 film center members, $7 students, $4 SAIC/AIC students/staff)
Best known for his scathing news media exposé Spin (1995), Brian Springer’s latest film is a labyrinthine, semi-autobiographical documentary about the search for four disparate treasures buried on his family’s farm in [...]
March 18, 2011
1120 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 18 March 2011, 5:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 18 March 2011—30 April 2011
Work by John Sparagana.
Tim Berresheim and Matthias Schaufler in the East Wing.
March 19, 2011
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Artist Talk: 19 March 2011, 11:00am
Artist Eric Lebofsky discusses his work and the works of other artists in the exhibition Seeing is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion.
March 20, 2011
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 20 March 2011, 4:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 20 March 2011—TBA
Work by Jessica Bruah.
March 24, 2011
Fullerton Hall @ 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Artist Talk: 24 March 2011, 6:00pm—7:00pm
Noted Basel art historian Bernhard Mendes Burgi is joined by Charles Ray to discuss his striking sculpture, Hinoki.
March 25, 2011
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 25 March 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 25 March 2011—30 April 2011
Work by Katy Keefe and Vanesa Zendejas.
March 25, 2011
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 25 March 2011
On View: 25 March 2011—3 April 2011
Closing Reception: 1 Apr, 6p-10p
ARTSPLOSIA: current creative artistic manifestations and miscellaneous other things and objects from the students pursuing an official master of fine arts degree in various studio practices from the college of [...]
March 26, 2011
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 26 March 2011, 4:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 26 March 2011—7 May 2011
Work by John Opera.
March 26, 2011
1254 N Noble St, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 26 March 2011, 6:00pm—10:00pm
Work by Mara Baker.
March 29, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2C, Chicago, IL 60607
Panel: 29 March 2011, 7:00pm
As formal educational opportunities become increasingly taxing for the artist (insert educator/critic/historian), students question the value of traditional learning experiences. At the same time, educational institutions have developed formalized disciplinary tracks in arts administration, curatorial practice and criticism, and now [...]
March 31, 2011
Columbus Auditorium @ 280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Artist Talk: 31 March 2011, 6:00pm
Slovenia-born artist Tobias Putrih creates sculptures and installations that use everyday materials such as cardboard and Styrofoam to address architecture and structure, positing models for different uses and forms of inhabited space.
March 31, 2011
162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Screening: 31 March 2011, 6:00pm
Cost: $10 ($5 film center members, $7 students, $4 SAIC/AIC students/staff)
In his incisively witty videos and installations, Tony Cokes juxtaposes familiar archival footage, Google searches, and Hollywood imagery with text and popular music to critique the media’s often reductive representations of race [...]
Dan reveals his take on whats happening in Madtown Wisconsin. Here are a few other good reads for you to get up to date.
Viva la revolt! Thanks for posting this Dan…
We think they need some Chicago people.
” Welcome to ARTOUT – the first artist escort service in the history of art! Our concept is unique and so are our services: we offer a selection of seasoned as well as young and up-coming artists to go out with. In our PFC* world it gets lonely on [...]
February 25, 2011
120 N Green St #5E, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 25 February 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
Curated by Lisa Majer. The exhibition will be a one-night show coupled with a 13 month exhibition calendar.
Swimsuit Edition: A Visceral Body—Relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect. The artists, designers, performers, and thinkers in this edition elicit profound [...]
February 23, 2011
Columbus Auditorium @ 280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Artist Talk: 23 February 2011, 6:00pm
“Personal practice and public practice have always had a dialectical relationship for me.”
Blending making, an activist mode, and mediation, Dorit Cypis (MFA, California Institute for the Arts, and Masters of Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University) has focused “on the physical and [...]
February 22, 2011
Kresge Hall Room 3-365 @ 1880 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Artist Talk: 22 February 2011, TBA
Dave McKenzie works in a variety of media and is known for his playful, conceptual approach to themes such as artistic identity, racial identity, generosity, and the everyday.
CANNOT.FIND.MY.WAY.HOME from theodore darst on Vimeo.
We are super excited about the annual showcase of typography, Typeforce 2, which opens at Co-Prosperity this Friday. Come and behold some beauty and don’t forget to stop by Eastern Expansion to see Jordan Martin’s window installation on your way here. And since you’ll be down here, you may as well stop by Maria’s Packaged [...]
February 19, 2011
1700 W Irving Park Rd, #207, Chicago, IL 60613
Reception: 19 February 2011, 6:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 19 February 2011—11 March 2011
Wyche’s interest in intermedia, the space between standardized media channels, is the basis of this exhibition of new ideas. His explorations of video paintings and audio sculptures are grounded firmly in art theory and [...]
February 18, 2011
1765 S Laflin St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 18 February 2011, 6:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 18 February 2011—19 March 2011
PAINT FX is a web-based painting collective/website produced by artists residing at various locations of the internet: Jon Rafman, Parker Ito, Micah Schippa, Tabor Robak and John Transue.
Artists For Miguel del Valle
February 10, 2011 7-9pm
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan Street
…Chicago Il 60608
Join us Thursday, February 10, 2011 from 7 to 9pm for a chance to meet and ask Chicago Mayoral candidate Miguel del Valle some questions regarding the arts in Chicago.
We have joined a group of concerned citizens who [...]
February 14, 2011 9:00 pm
418 N Clark St, 2, Chicago, IL 60654
14 February 2011, 8:00pm
Slow jams and romantic comedy.
February 19, 2011
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 19 February 2011, TBA—TBA
On View: 19 February 2011—9 April 2011
Work by Claire Sherman.
February 18, 2011
4325 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Auction/Party: 18 February 2011, 6:30pm—11:30pm
Cost: $100 ($50 SAIC/AIC faculty/staff, $25 after 9pm)
The Winter Benefit will begin with hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, and silent and live auctions of fantastic artwork by select friends, alumni, and faculty, and will end with a fun dance party—Ox-Bow style! Friday Night Parties [...]
February 12, 2011
222 N Desplaines St, Chicago, IL 60661
Reception: 12 February 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 12 February 2011—15 March 2011
Robert Bills Contemporary’s group exhibition, Exploding Faces, Confining Spaces, presents three artists whose violence and energy breaks the constraints of historical connotation and exceeds the confined space of their marginalized media. Nathan Vernau’s tormenting psychological [...]
February 11, 2011
2351 N Milwaukee Ave, 2, Chicago, IL 60647
Reception: 11 February 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
Featuring the work of Lindsey Hook, Jessica Minckley and Amber Renaye.
February 8, 2011
33 S State St, 7, Chicago, IL 60603
Panel: 8 February 2011, 12:00pm
Curators John Corbett and Jim Dempsey will lead a public conversation in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Sullivan Galleries with artists Art Green (SAIC BFA 1965), Tyson Reeder, Mary Lou Zelazny (SAIC BFA 1980), and curator Lisa Stone [...]
Please fill out the Creative Chicago Survey.
“Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) is interested in learning more about the creative practices of people who live and work in Chicago. With your help, this survey will paint a useful portrait of the range of creative activity in Chicago, and help us learn more [...]
February 5, 2011
2154 West Division Street, Chicago, IL
Monique Meloche Gallery
reception and artist talk: Feb. 5th @ 1:00pm with Andreas Waldburg-Wolfegg
February 10, 2011
The City as Spectacle: A View from the Gondola
STANISLAUS VON MOOS
FEB 10, 2011, 6PM
Graham Foundation
for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Place
Chicago, IL 60610
FREE ADMISSION
Please RSVP.
Venice and Modern Architecture, or Venice and Modernism altogether make an odd couple. According to Filippo Marinetti, the author of the Futurist Manifesto (1909), gondolas are no more [...]
February 11, 2011
3219 S. Morgan St. Chicago, Il 60608
11 February 2011, 7pm
We have an unusual event featuring musical acts inspired by The 1995 Sex Issue of Lumpen Magazine..
It’s free and more info coming soon..
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St
Doors at 7pm! Ends around Midnight.
After party at Maria’s>
Ornery Little Darlings
HotChaCha (Cleveland)
The Loneliest Monk
Grace Kulp
DJ BSide
February 9, 2011
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan Street, Chicago Il 60608
February 9, 2011 7-9pm
Join us Wednesday February 9, 2011 from 7 to 9pm for a chance to meet and ask Chicago Mayoral candidate Miguel del Valle some questions regarding the arts in Chicago.
We have joined a group of concerned citizens who find Miguel’s progressive stance [...]
February 5, 2011
500 W Cermak Rd, 727, Chicago, IL 60616
Reception: 5 February 2011, TBA—TBA
On View: 5 February 2011—TBA
Work by John Riepenhoff and friends.
February 6, 2011
4223 W Lake St, 422, Chicago, IL 60624
Reception: 6 February 2011, 3:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 6 February 2011—13 March 2011
Ever conscious of the beholder, Lindsay Lawson investigates cogent modes for presentation in her work. Here for American Smooth, she navigates the relationship of past and present through the immersive properties of sound and screen. This [...]
February 9, 2011
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Artist Talk: 9 February 2011, 5:00pm
Artist talk by Stanya Kahn.
February 10, 2011
162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Screening: 10 February 2011, 6:00pm
Cost: $10 ($5 film center members, $7 students, $4 SAIC/AIC students/staff)
Martha Colburn’s wickedly witty animations are assemblages of stop-motion puppetry, multi-layered glass painting, and all forms of pop cultural detritus. Drawing inspiration from the histories of the American West [...]
February 11, 2011
1561 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 11 February 2011, 7:00pm—11:00pm
Ryan Duggan is an artist living and working in Chicago. His work spans a number of mediums, but shares a common tonality. Each piece is a glimpse into his process, never telling the full story, but giving the viewer just enough of [...]
February 12, 2011
1155 S Lyman Ave, Oak Park, IL 60304
Reception: 12 February 2011, 3:00pm—11:00pm
On View: 12 February 2011—5 March 2011
The letter X is a valentine’s show. It’s dedicated to the ex, to the one the got away, the one that didn’t happen and the one we never met.
Not lamenting the past, but rather acknowledging the fact [...]
February 12, 2011
2154 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 12 February 2011, 4:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 12 February 2011—26 March 2011
Work by Ebony G. Patterson.
February 12, 2011
2135 N Rockwell St, Chicago, IL 60647
Reception: 12 February 2011, 6:00pm—11:00pm
On View: 12 February 2011—20 March 2011
Consisting of four works completed by four different artist couples, the show is both an exhibition and an experiment in collaboration.
“As a couple, there is a level of co-dependence and compromise that exists in day-to-day life; and [...]
February 12, 2011
128 N Campbell Ave, G, Chicago, IL 60612
Reception: 12 February 2011, 8:00pm—11:00pm
Miller’s work reflects the processes through which one’s surroundings condition cultural production. Her work recombines architecture, art, memorial, ornament, and design; questioning the distinction between abstraction and representation. LONG GONE explores forms that have existed in human consciousness since [...]
February 13, 2011
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Exhibition: 13 February 2011
On View: 13 February 2011—22 May 2011
For more than 30 years, Judith Neisser has been attentively attuned to the visual aspects of her surroundings, first as a writer and critic of architecture and interior design and, more recently, as a distinguished collector of [...]
February 13, 2011
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 13 February 2011, 4:00pm—8:00pm
Work by Jennifer Ray.
February 13, 2011
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Screening: 13 February 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
For the third consecutive year, the Video Data Bank is bringing a program of their recent acquisitions to Roots & Culture. Seven short pieces represent a range of styles, techniques and concepts. Included in the program is work from Chicago artists Steve [...]
February 15, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2C, Chicago, IL 60607
Talk: 15 February 2011, 7:00pm—9:00pm
The ability to occupy the city, to make oneself visible, to address and mobilize a public, has been drastically diminished as a result of encroachments on public space under neoliberal programs of urbanization. What would it mean to insist on the [...]
February 16, 2011
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Screening: 16 February 2011, 7:00pm
Details TBA.
February 17, 2011
162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Screening: 17 February 2011, 6:00pm
Cost: $10 ($5 film center members, $7 students, $4 SAIC/AIC students/staff)
Brimming with vibrant images of blossoms, orchards, insects, and grasses, the works of celebrated French filmmaker Rose Lowder literally buzz with life. For over thirty years, she has crafted a body of [...]
February 18, 2011
5500 N St Louis Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Reception: 18 February 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 14 February 2011—18 March 2011
An exhibition that investigates the collaboration between metalsmiths and printmakers.
February 18, 2011
Cobb 307 @ 5811 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Artist Talk: 18 February 2011, 7:00pm—8:00pm
In a career spanning over 40 years, Schneider’s abstract studies of landscape and depictions of the body have pushed the boundaries of visual language, from painting to sculpture to film, video and digital media. Schneider will discuss her [...]
February 18, 2011
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 18 February 2011, TBA—TBA
TYPEFORCE is the annual showcase of emerging typographic artists. Firebelly Design and Public Media Institute (Proximity Magazine’s parent .org) put together this exhibition to show just how fantastic Type can be. You can send us a proposal to be in the next show [...]
February 19, 2011
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 19 February 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 19 February 2011—19 March 2011
Work by Theaster Gates, Matthew Paul Jinks, Aspen Mays and Cauleen Smith.
Curated by Elizabeth Chodos.
February 20, 2011
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 20 February 2011, 4:00pm—8:00pm
Work by Christopher Rose.
February 22, 2011
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Talk: 22 February 2011, 5:00pm
Talk by AA Bronson.
February 22, 2011
MCA Theater @ 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Artist Talk: 22 February 2011, 6:00pm
Cost: $10 general admission ($8 MCA members, $6 students)
Scottish artist Susan Philipsz, winner of the 2010 Turner Prize, shares the ideas and processes that generated We Shall Be All, a new sound installation that draws from Chicago’s political and labor [...]
February 24, 2011
162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Screening: 24 February 2011, 6:00pm
Cost: $10 ($5 film center members, $7 students, $4 SAIC/AIC students/staff)
In her striking, cerebral videos, installations, and photographs, German-born, New York-based artist Andrea Geyer mixes documentary and fiction to examine the ways historical narratives and social spaces shift over time and within larger socio-political [...]
February 25, 2011
118 N Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Exhibition: 25 February 2011
On View: 25 February 2011—26 March 2011
Details TBA.
February 25, 2011
845 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 25 February 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 25 February 2011—9 April 2011
Work by Josh Kolbo.
February 25, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2A, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 25 February 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 25 February 2011—2 April 2011
Curated by Keith Couser.
February 25, 2011
213 N Morgan St, 3C, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 25 February 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 25 February 2011—2 April 2011
Work by Stephen Eichhorn.
February 25, 2011
1369 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 25 February 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 25 February 2011—26 March 2011
Work by You Ni Chae.
February 26, 2011
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Talk: 26 February 2011, 11:00am
Art historian Rebecca Zorach connects Jim Nutt’s paintings of imaginary women with approaches to portraiture popular during the Renaissance.
February 26, 2011
1254 N Noble St, Chicago, IL 60642
26 February 2011, 6:00pm—10:00pm
Work by Alexander Stewart.
February 27, 2011
Kent Hall, Room 120 @ 1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Panel: 27 February 2011, 2:00pm
This panel puts the issue of Minimalism’s morphology and relevance to a noteworthy cast of scholars and artists.
Panel includes Rachel Harrison (sculptor), Miwon Kwon (Professor of Art History, UCLA), James Meyer (Associate Professor of Art History, Emory University) and David [...]
February 27, 2011
125 N Harvey Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
27 February 2011, 2:00pm—4:00pm
Work by Ruth Root and Miranda Lichtenstein.
February 28, 2011
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Artist Talk: 28 February 2011, 5:00pm
Talk by Aani Leventhal.
February 28, 2011
Columbus Auditorium @ 280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Curator Talk: 28 February 2011, 6:00pm
Lisa D. Freiman is Senior Curator and Chair of the Department of Contemporary Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. During her eight-year tenure there, Freiman has transformed the experience of contemporary art in Indianapolis. She has created a [...]
February 7, 2011
Columbus Auditorium @ 280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Talk: 7 February 2011, 6:00pm
José Esteban Muñoz is the Chair of Performance Studies Department at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. His publications include various articles and the monographs Disideintifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics, Cruising Utopia: [...]
February 3, 2011
162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Screening: 3 February 2011, 6:00pm
Cost: $10 ($5 film center members, $7 students, $4 SAIC/AIC students/staff)
One of the most important filmmakers to emerge from New York’s seething No Wave scene, and currently enjoying a resurgence of interest in her work, Ireland-born Vivienne Dick created a series of Super-8 [...]
February 2, 2011
Fullerton Auditorium @ 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Artist Talk/Curator Talk: 2 February 2011, 6:00pm—7:30pm
Cost: $20 ($15 members)
Peter Fischli has collaborated with fellow Swiss artist David Weiss since 1979, exploring actions and objects of everyday life referred to as the “poetics of banality.” With an intense focus on detail and unmistakable wit, [...]
300 W Superior #103, Chicago, IL, 60654
February 11 – February 13, 2011
Opening Reception: February 10 from 6 – 9 pm
The Judy A. Saslow Gallery will be exhibiting at the New York Outsider Art Fair, February 11 – 13, 2011. Opening night preview Thursday, February 10 from 6-9 pm. The Judy A Saslow Gallery will be [...]
February 4, 2011
300 W Superior #103, Chicago, IL, 60654
4 February 2011, 5:00pm-8:00pm
The Judy A. Saslow Gallery is pleased to again present the works of Chicago artist Jordan Scott during the month of February. Scott uses thousands of canceled U.S. postage stamps, with dates ranging from 1900 to the present, to create fascinating collages. From a distance they [...]
February 1, 2011
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Artist Talk: 1 February 2011, 5:00pm
Eileen Myles operates in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. She is a poet, novelist, and performer who has written extensively on art and writing and the cultural scene. Her experiences range from [...]
February 1, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2C, Chicago, IL 60607
Panel: 1 February 2011, 7:00pm
In the first session of the @work SALON series, we explore alternative models of curatorial practice.
In May 2010, e-flux editor Anton Vidokle published “Art Without Artists?” in which he described the dangers and demerits of the rising power of the Superstar Curator. [...]
February 3, 2011
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Exhibition: 3 February 2011
On View: 3 February 2011—17 April 2011
Noted for their intense focus on detail and unmistakable wit, Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss have collaborated since 1979, exploring the “poetics of banality”—the actions and objects of everyday life. The pair has worked in a range [...]
February 3, 2011
Fullerton Hall @ 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Artist Talk: 3 February 2011, 6:00pm—7:00pm
To explore the representation of war, An-My Lê has photographed reenacted battles from the Vietnam War, training exercises for U.S. soldiers about to deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the implications of any aggression on the natural environment. [...]
February 4, 2011
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Exhibition/Screening: 4 February 2011
On View: 4 February 2011—27 February 2011
Shooting in 16mm film and exhibiting in digital video, Melika Bass‘ experimental films are characterized by intricate, cyclical structures that emphasize sound and visual textures over traditional narratives. Making use of both non-professional actors and performance artists, [...]
February 4, 2011
Fullerton Hall @ 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Symposium: 4 February 2011, 10:45am—4:00pm
Cost: Free with registration
See the website for additional details.
February 4, 2011
7714 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60626
4 February 2011, 6:00pm
In February 2011, Iceberg Projects will host four nights of Curt McDowell films. Two weeks in a row, on Friday and Saturday nights, Iceberg will have one night of short films and one night of a full-length feature.
See the website for the screening [...]
February 4, 2011
845 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
4 February 2011, 6:00pm—8:00pm
Work by Eliza Myrie.
February 5, 2011
2154 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
5 February 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 “conversation” that [...]
February 5, 2011
Price Auditorium @ 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
5 February 2011, 2:00pm—3:00pm
Chicago artist, educator, and editor Ivan Brunetti speaks to the connections among Constantin Brâncusi‘s iconic modern sculptures and considers Brâncusi’s interest in the dynamic relationship of the organic and the geometric and correlations to his own compositional choices and the [...]
February 5, 2011
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
5 February 2011, 4:00pm—7:00pm
Work by Philip Vanderhyden and Mike Schuh.
Philip Vanderhyden continues his ongoing investigation into the manner in which a painting makes contact with its surroundings. Making use of sets of varying techniques, his new group of paintings can be addressed simultaneously as separate [...]
February 5, 2011 11:00 pm
1452 N Milwaukee Ave, 3, Chicago, IL 60622
5 February 2011, 6:00pm—10:00pm
We are all free to do what we want, when we want, in the manner we want. We let our minds wander to create our own problems, fears and dilemmas. We create our own luck. We are in control of our own future.
We [...]
February 6, 2011 11:00 pm
Swift Hall, Room 106 @ 1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637
6 February 2011, 2:00pm
Luke is modernist with multi-faceted research interests. She co-curated the 2006 exhibition Frank Stella 1958 at the Sackler Gallery at Harvard University. It was the first exhibition to examine the seminal work Frank Stella created in 1958, bringing together [...]
February 6, 2011 11:00 pm
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
6 February 2011, 4:00pm—8:00pm
Work by Maria Jönsonn.
February 6, 2011 11:00 pm
3144 W Carroll Ave, 2G, Chicago, IL, 60612
6 February 2011, 4:00pm—7:00pm
Work by Chris Naka and Min Song.
