Scion Installation 7 Artist Video: Cody Hudson & Jared Eberhardt from Scion ART on Vimeo.

April 8, 2011
1561 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 8 April 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 6 April 2011—8 April 2011

A Variety of Fits is an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Adam Grossi. Grossi’s work is a soft, fleshy underbelly to normative culture’s rational exoskeleton. Through the prisms of mundane objects—piles of t-shirts, rolling [...]

April 8, 2011
213 N Morgan St, 3C, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 8 April 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 8 April 2011—14 May 2011

Working in photography, sculpture and installation, Norton reorients traditional methods by incorporating new processes and materials, such as live plants, layered wax and other objects. Interested in the nature of visual perception and the trailing legacies [...]

April 11, 2011
Room 157 @ 5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Artist Talk: 11 April 2011, 6:00pm—7:00pm

Tamy Ben-Tor (born in 1975, Jerusalem) is one of a number of prominent female artists inventing characters and playing them herself, her work combines performance with photography and/or video. Prominent in this important lineage of artists are Claude [...]

April 21, 2011
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Exhibition: 21 April 2011
On View: 21 April 2011—29 July 2011

This is the first time a single installation of a large number of the panels from Shadows has been exhibited in Chicago. Shadows was acquired by the Dia Art Foundation from the artist during its inaugural exhibition at the [...]

April 29, 2011
Swift 310 @ 1100 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Symposium: 29 April 2011, 4:30pm
On View: 29 April 2011—30 April 2011

25 years after the publication of Arjun Appadurai’s The Social Life of Things (SLOT) this conference seeks to assess the enormous role the volume has played in catalyzing and shaping scholarly interest in things. In [...]

April 4, 2011
625 N Kingsbury St, Chicago, IL 60654
Artist Talk: 4 April 2011, 6:00pm

If pressed to describe Theaster Gates‘ work in one word, it would be “transformative.” In his performances, installations, and urban interventions, Gates-an artist, musician, and cultural planner, as well as director of arts program development for the University of Chicago-transforms [...]

April 3, 2011
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 3 April 2011, 4:00pm—8:00pm

As an artist I essay to make contact with the unbygone sublime, the unbygone numinous, the unbygone mysterium tremendum. This is especially urgent now in an era of shallow cleverness, scientism, blind “progress,” wing-clipping hyper-reason, dogmatic secularity, and earth-alienation. To put [...]

April 3, 2011
3144 W Carroll Ave, 2G, Chicago, IL, 60612
Reception: 3 April 2011, 4:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 3 April 2011—24 April 2011

Curated by Susanne Doremus.

April 2, 2011
128 N Campbell Ave, G, Chicago, IL 60612
Reception: 2 April 2011, 7:00pm—11:00pm
On View: 2 April 2011—21 April 2011

In her most recent body of work, Caroline Carlsmith uses laborious drawing processes to explore themes of athleticism, toil, humor and mortality. Through repetitive drawings of subjects ranging from anchovies to mixed martial artists, Carlsmith lures [...]

March 31, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2C, Chicago, IL 60607
Artist Talk: 31 March 2011, 7:00pm—9:00pm

Ben Russell: The Artist’s Talk As A Disappearing Act (With Live Video Feed), in which the artist performs a televised lecture regarding the seven works currently on display in his solo exhibition, Uh-Oh It’s Magic. Possible topics to be discussed include: working [...]

threewalls, Roots and Culture and Public Media Institute announce the creation of The MDW Fair, a gathering of independent art initiatives, spaces, galleries and artist groups from the Chicago metropolitan area.  The MDW Fair will demonstrate the diversity, strength and vision of the people/places making it happen in the art ecology [...]

April 30, 2011
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Auction/Party: 30 April 2011, TBA—TBA
Cost: TBA

Details TBA.

April 30, 2011
1254 N Noble St, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 30 April 2011, 6:00pm—10:00pm

Work by Myranda Gillies and Elspeth Vance.

April 29, 2011
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 29 April 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 26 April 2011—30 April 2011

Claire Arctander gets into exquisitely rough things.

Tim Nickodemus paints fragmented images from the body which lie between the visual and the tactile.

JD Pirtle works equally as an artist, programmer, and creative technologist to focus on visualizations and [...]

April 29, 2011
Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 60701
Fair: 29 April 2011
On View: 29 April 2011—2 May 2011
Cost: $20 daily ($25 multi-day pass, $15 seniors/students)

Art Chicago 2011, the annual international fair of contemporary and modern art, brings together the world’s leading emerging and established galleries. Art Chicago offers curators, collectors, artists and art enthusiasts a comprehensive [...]

April 29, 2011
Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 60701
Fair: 29 April 2011
On View: 29 April 2011—2 May 2011
Cost: $20 daily ($25 multi-day pass, $15 seniors/students)

More than an art fair, NEXT is a showcase for the world’s talents and an adventure in innovative culture. An opportunity to redefine the relationship between art and its public, NEXT is a [...]

April 23, 2011
3636 S Iron St, Chicago, IL 60609
Fair: 23 April 2011
On View: 23 April 2011—24 April 2011

threewalls, Roots and Culture and Public Media Institute announce The MDW Fair, a gathering of independent art initiatives, spaces, galleries and artist groups from the Chicago metropolitan area. The MDW Fair will demonstrate the diversity, strength and vision of the [...]

April 22, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2D, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 22 April 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 22 April 2011—29 May 2011

Work by Megan Plunkett.

April 22, 2011
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 22 April 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 19 April 2011—23 April 2011

Christopher Meerdo‘s work is located in the space between the absence and revealing of memory, its authenticity confirmed or denied through the use of photography, sculpture, and moving images.

Rebecca Beachy explores human processing, material intimacy [...]

April 19, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2C, Chicago, IL 60607
Talk: 19 April 2011, 7:00pm
What do US Flag Code, Flag Day, lapel pins, and Betsy Ross have to do with nation building? Katie will lead a conversation on the history of the American flag, its current use, and the desecration of the flag related to flag code. [...]

Various Locations @ 3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Festival: 22 April 2011
On View: 22 April 2011—1 May 2011

These years of recession, insolvency, uncertainty, and calamity have affected us in ways we couldn’tve imagined before. The debt crisis, atomized and divisive political culture, a lethargic economy that sees almost one of out [...]

April 16, 2011
1254 N Noble St, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 16 April 2011, 6:00pm—10:00pm

Details TBA.

April 16, 2011
2135 N Rockwell St, Chicago, IL 60647
Reception: 16 April 2011, 6:00pm—11:00pm
On View: 16 April 2011—22 May 2011

Work by Emre Kocagil.

April 15, 2011
Max Palevsky Theater, Ida Noyes Hall @ 1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Screening: 15 April 2011, 7:00pm

The Open Practice Committee and The Renaissance Society are very pleased to welcome back Pierre Huyghe to the University of Chicago to be a 2011 artist-in-residence. In 2000 Huyghe presented his installation, Third Memory, one of his [...]

April 15, 2011
845 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 15 April 2011, 6:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 15 April 2011—TBA

Work by Tamar Halpern, Jacob Kassay, Carter Mull, Valerie Snobeck, Josh Tonsfeldt and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung.

April 15, 2011
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 15 April 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 12 April 2011—16 April 2011

Jesus Duran creates while meditating on the effects technology has on social constructs, behaviours, physical actions and the sense of self.

Raquel Ladensack creates photographs and 16mm films that explore absence, shifting perspectives, and temporal frequencies.

Paul Nelson makes a [...]

April 14, 2011
162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Performance: 14 April 2011, 6:00pm
Cost: $10 ($5 film center members, $7 students, $4 SAIC/AIC students/staff)

Since 2001, New York-based artists Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder have collaborated on a series of performances and installations that transform the mundane mechanics of film projection into sublime experiences of light [...]

April 12, 2011
Columbus Auditorium @ 280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Artist Talk: 12 April 2011, 6:00pm

The work of Kenyan-born, New York-based artist Wangechi Mutu is a visceral response to her critiques of gender, culture, and mass media imagery. Exploring the female body as a site of engagement and provocation, Mutu’s work is frequently populated [...]

April 9, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2C, Chicago, IL 60607
Talk: 9 April 2011, 7:00pm

Erika Nelson is a visionary artist, educator and one of America’s foremost experts and speakers on the World’s Largest Things. She is a national researcher and speaker on Grassroots Art environments, Roadside Attractions and Architecture, and the World’s Largest Things. Nelson [...]

April 9, 2011
216 N Harvey Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Reception: 9 April 2011, 6:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 9 April 2011—14 May 2011

An ongoing installation performance that Brooklyn-based Sheila Pepe calls “practicing for the end of ephemera.” Previously performed at CAHM in Houston, TX; at Testsite/Fluent-Colab in Austin, TX; Artisterium 3, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia; and at [...]

April 9, 2011
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 9 April 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 9 April 2011—23 April 2011

An installation of images and objects by Rachel Ettling and Paul Erschen.

Recipes for Mold and Sun is a patchwork documentary of the Driftless Area of rural southwestern Wisconsin. Sparked by the artists’ exploration of an abandoned homestead [...]

April 8, 2011
1369 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 8 April 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 8 April 2011—7 May 2011

Work by Ian Pedigo.

April 8, 2011
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 8 April 2011, 7:00pm—11:00pm

Details TBA.

Curated by Easton Miller.

March 8, 2011
213 N Morgan St, 3C, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 8 April 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 8 April 2011—14 May 2011

Work by Heidi Norton.

April 8, 2011
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 8 April 2011, 6:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 8 April 2011—7 May 2011

Work by Adam Pendleton.

April 8, 2011
4200 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Reception: 8 April 2011, 6:00pm—12:00am
On View: 8 April 2011—9 April 2011

Dock 6 Collective is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition in the Design and Art Series. Dock 6 has teamed up with artist Edra Soto to curate this series, as well as inviting some of the leading designers [...]

April 8, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2A, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 8 April 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 8 April 2011—14 May 2011

Work by Michelle Blade.

José Lerma in Gallery 2.

April 8, 2011
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 8 April 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 9 April 2011—5 April 2011

Aay Preston-Myint reconfigures and disrupts familiar objects and sites to depict a critically queer space: a proposition about bodies and relationships in our present and future, in which new iterations of violence and hierarchy compete with [...]

April 8, 2011
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Exhibition: 8 April 2011
On View: 8 April 2011—14 August 2011

The Chicago-based collaborative artists’ group Temporary Services has gained national and international attention for its experimental methods and strategies for making and displaying art. Through social actions, do-it-yourself projects, publications, and public interventions, the artists Brett Bloom, [...]

April 8, 2011
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Exhibition: 8 April 2011
On View: 8 April 2011—14 August 2011

A major figure in contemporary art, Kiki Smith is best known for her sculpture, prints and drawings exploring corporeal (both human and animal) realms and, more recently, the world of fairy tales.

I Myself Have Seen It: Photography and [...]

April 7, 2011
Lecture Center Room A-1 @ 821 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60607
Rally: 7 April 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm

Teach 4 Amerika is a five-week, 11-city, coast-to-coast road trip that crosses state lines and institutional boundaries to inspire and enable local art students to define the future of their own educational experience. Traveling the byways of [...]

April 7, 2011
162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Performance: 7 April 2011, 6:00pm
Cost: $10 ($5 film center members, $7 students, $4 SAIC/AIC students/staff)

As Botborg, Berlin/Brisbane-based artists and musicians Scott Sinclair and Joe Musgrove fuse and rewire raw electronic signals to create intensely visceral experiences of sound-color synaesthesia. Using a complex array of custom electronics, [...]

April 6, 2011
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Screening: 6 April 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm

Video Playlist: Heartaches and Holy Rites features artists who explore the things that break our hearts and the spiritual practices we turn to or invent to cope with the pain. Whether or not we can take the healing process into our own [...]

April 6, 2011
Price Auditorium @ 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Talk: 6 April 2011, 6:00pm—7:30pm
Cost: $20 ($15 members)

Leading up to the 1972 Olympic Games held in Munich, Germany, a number of German and American artists proposed site-specific art projects for the Olympic buildings and grounds designed by architect Günther Behnisch in collaboration with [...]

April 6, 2011
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Panel: 6 April 2011, TBA—TBA

What is art school for? Given its exorbitant cost and the unlikelihood of art market success for most students, what should art education be? And what institutions are best suited for the task?

TEACH 4 AMERIKA: THE CONVERSATION asks local art students, creative [...]

April 3, 2011
3144 W Carroll Ave, 2G, Chicago, IL, 60612
Reception: 3 April 2011, 4:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 3 April 2011—24 April 2011

Curated by Susanne Doremus.

April 2, 2011
2007 N Point St, Chicago, IL 60647
Reception/Release Party: 2 April 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 2 April 2011—24 April 2011

“You’re another man named Richard, also not my darling, you are Richard simply… My darling, did I tell you these are babies that hold the signs. The babies hold the signs.” “I have no problem in [...]

April 2, 2011
1452 N Milwaukee Ave, 3, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 2 April 2011, 6:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 2 April 2011—30 April 2011

Work by Andy Cahill, Alan & Michael Fleming, Yasi Ghanbari, Danny Greene, Joe Grimm, Marissa Perel, Aaron David Ross and Michael Vallera.

“I wish to believe that Bruce Nauman’s work is more about shitting in your pants than [...]

April 2, 2011
1254 N Noble St, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 2 April 2011, 6:00pm—10:00pm

Work by Dayton Castleman.

April 2, 2011
350 N Ogden Ave, 4E, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 2 April 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 2 April 2011—16 May 2011

Work by Paul Cowan.

April 2, 2011
2153 W 21st St, Chicago, IL, 60608
Reception: 2 April 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 2 April 2011—23 April 2011

Look what the cat dragged in. Truth AND consequence. If we outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns.

Laura Davis is playing domestic, but the comforts of home have turned on themselves. Embellishment generates tension and devastates traditional [...]

April 2, 2011
2154 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 2 April 2011, 4:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 2 April 2011—14 May 2011

For his 1st exhibition in Chicago, Belgian artist Rinus Van de Velde will exhibit 12 new, mostly large-scale drawings combined with hand-written text to create a complete environment both in the gallery and “on the wall”—our ongoing [...]

April 2, 2011
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Artist Talk: 2 April 2011, 3:00pm
Cost: $10 general admission ($8 MCA members, $6 students)

Renowned for photographs, videos and text-works that challenge narrow, conventional views of gender, identity, culture, history, and memory, Lorna Simpson discusses her process and her most recent work, placing it in context within the [...]

April 1, 2011
1822 S Desplaines St, Chicago, IL 60616
Reception: 1 April 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 1 April 2011—15 April 2011

Photography and sculpture installation from artist Claudia Berns. This work was born in the hills of Steuben, WI—where Claudia photographed women in green pastures and cold rushing springs. Berns is interested in the way women connect [...]

April 1, 2011
1545 W Division St, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 1 April 2011, 6:00pm—10:00pm

6/6/6 is a traveling exhibition that created itself through connectivity. With the proliferation of social networking and technology-based communication, making real connections becomes more important than ever. Each artist in this exhibition has selected one other artist who lives [...]

April 1, 2011
27 N Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 1 April 2011, 6:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 1 April 2011—21 May 2011

The title of Hoffmann’s exhibition is taken from the book by influential French modernist architect and designer, Le Corbusier; When the Cathedrals Were White. Perhaps most notable among Le Corbusier’s influences found in Hoffmann’s work is the [...]

April 1, 2011
1765 S Laflin St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 1 April 2011, 6:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 1 April 2011—30 April 2011

Work by Duk Ju L. Kim.

April 1, 2011
5228 S Harper Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Reception: 1 April 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 1 April 2011—23 April 2011

Work by Nicole Mauser.

April 1, 2011
1344 W 18th Pl, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 1 April 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm

Featuring work from New Media artists Lenox-Lenox, Geoffrey Pugen and Tabor Robak.

April 1, 2011
833 N Orleans St, Chicago, IL 60610
Reception: 1 April 2011, 5:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 1 April 2011—14 May 2011

Emerging and established artists—from Chicago, New York, and abroad—defend, rebuke, distort, and lovingly misrepresent their own claims to space and place in the Untitled Gallery at Marwen. Territories explores the artists’ perspectives on cultural and emotional terrain [...]

April 1, 2011
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Exhibition: 1 April 2011
On View: 1 April 2011—1 May 2011

Alex Lehnerer is a Chicago based architect and urban designer. In 2009, he established the Department of Urban Speculation (DeptUS) in Chicago. This quasi institution was set up to create a link between Lehnerer’s work as practicing architect and [...]

April 1, 2011
118 N Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Exhibition: 1 April 2011
On View: 1 April 2011—7 May 2011

Work by Huma Bhabha.

March 27, 2011
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Screening: 27 March 2011, 7:00pm
Cost: $5 donation

Eyeball Witness takes its title from cop show terminology, referring to an individual who has seen something happen. Such a person used to be called an “eye witness,” which seemed sufficient, but I like the recently updated “eyeball”… weirdly visceral [...]

March 27, 2011
3039 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Reception: 27 March 2011, 4:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 27 March 2011—14 May 2011

For Cheryl Donegan, Wade Guyton and Tom Meacham, three of the artists featured in Kabinett 6, “weak” images, that is, subjects derived largely from digital sources—high-speed and high-connectivity technology—are wedded to low visibility imagery from personal [...]

March 26, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 3D, Chicago, IL 60607
Performance/Reception: 26 March 2011, 6:00pm—8:30pm
On View: 1 March 2011—31 March 2011

March’s Project Residency WORK IN THE WOODS is act I, scene II in a sprawling “slow play” called IS THIS YOU, WANT? Written, directed, and performed by SCARCITY, a character created by interdisciplinary artist, writer, and [...]

March 26, 2011
500 W Cermak Rd, 511, Chicago, IL 60616
Reception: 26 March 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm

Third Space is an event showcasing a collaborative experiment mediated between students from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, BC, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Each team exchanged informal instructions for a collection of designed objects, suggestive [...]

March 26, 2011
2150 S Canalport Ave #4A-10, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 26 March 2011, 7:30pm—10:30pm
On View: 26 March 2011—1 May 2011

Nobody to Have Any Fun With is an exhibition of works by three Chicago artists from inside and outside the academy: Mac Katter and Dylan Cale Jones (SAIC ‘10) and Vanya Schroeder, English professor (formerly at SAIC), snake [...]

March 26, 2011
3012 S Archer Ave #3, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception/Screening: 26 March 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm

BYOB Chicago (organized by Nicholas O’Brien and Brian Khek) has invited more than 30 Chicago-based and international artists to create a collaborative happening of moving light, sound and performance. The dynamic structure will no-doubt be enhanced by a [...]

March 23, 2011
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Artist Talk: 23 March 2011, 8:00pm

During the course of the evening, Nicholas O’Brien will weave a conversation and lecture around his recent screen based works. These routes will range from a reading of an online conversation about mediated spatial awareness, screening samples from an ongoing video [...]

March 25, 2011
2351 N Milwaukee Ave, 2, Chicago, IL 60647
Reception: 25 March 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm

Work by David Leggett, Matt Nichols and Mario Romano.

Lumpen issue #116 is on the streets. You can download a digital version here or visit your Lumpen friendly store, cafe or donut purveyor.

April 1, 2011
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 1 April 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 1 April 2011—29 April 2011

Katy Keefe‘s work focuses on the translation of lived experience through the rehashing of visual influence. For this exhibition, process is used to explore the lineage of her choices. Keefe’s work follows a cyclical model in [...]

March 25, 2011
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 25 March 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm

Tony Balko and Olivia Ciummo express their thoughts on ROCK through film, video and photo works. In this exhibition they will share processes that speak to thoughts on temporal moments of stability and holding. With some works as collaborations with musician AE [...]

March 19, 2011
1700 W Irving Park Rd, #207, Chicago, IL 60613
Artist Talk/Reception: 19 March 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 19 March 2011—8 April 2011

Craig’s work recognizes relationships of objects through permutations within restricted parameters. Traditions of painting and sculpture are referenced using colored textiles, wood, and hardware.

March 18, 2011
1418 W Superior St, 2R, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 18 March 2011, 6:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 18 March 2011—16 April 2011

POST-SMITHSON presents a series of works by artists creating unmonumental earth art, film, video and collage with content created from alchemical combinations of natural materials. By interweaving straw, dirt, grass and vegetation into intimate works [...]

March 19, 2011
222 N Desplaines St, Chicago, IL 60661
Reception: 19 March 2011, TBA—TBA
On View: 19 March 2011—19 April 2011

Details TBA.

March 24, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2C, Chicago, IL 60607
Talk: 24 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 [...]

Our annual festival is happening again from April 22 to May 1, 2011. We are accepting proposals including texts for Proximity 009 which will be released at the festival.

March 1, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 3D, Chicago, IL 60607
Performance/Reception: 26 March 2011, 6:00pm—8:30pm
On View: 1 March 2011—31 March 2011

March’s Project Residency WORK IN THE WOODS is act I, scene II in a sprawling “slow play” called IS THIS YOU, WANT? Written, directed, and performed by SCARCITY, a character created by interdisciplinary artist, writer, and [...]

March 12, 2011
7714 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60626
Screening: 12 March 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 12 March 2011—2 May 2011

Through a series of comparative gestures in the studio Dana Carter steps into her practice; an ongoing exploration of the velocity of loss, the science of vision, word-play, and interactions with the natural world. At the intersection [...]

March 11, 2011
1930 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 11 March 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm

Artwork by Orion Martin, Dorian McKaie and Adrian Schindler.

March 27, 2011
I’m so broke I can’t even pay attention: Rethinking Social Wealth In & Against
Times of Austerity
March 27th, 2011, 1PM
@ The Co-Prosperity Sphere: http://coprosperity.org

Hosted by: Stevphen Shukaitis

Tom Waits once quipped that he was so broke that he couldn’t even pay attention.
While Waits is not typically thought of as a theorist of crisis, in a strangely prescient
way [...]

March 10, 2011
6601 W College Dr, Palos Heights, IL 60463
Reception: 10 March 2011, 6:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 10 March 2011—31 March 2011

Reason Where It Comes From presents a series of works that explicate the often antagonistic relationship between the body, and designed objects and spaces. Ranging in focus from individual interaction to mass manipulation, each piece [...]

March 10, 2011
30 E Lake St, 1105, Chicago, IL 60601
Reception: 10 March 2011, 4:30pm—7:00pm
On View: 10 March 2011—15 April 2011

Reminiscent of the functional utility of furniture as well as hermetically preserved remnants of crumbled architecture, Christofferson’s formally sleek objects comment, in her own words, “on the tenuous nature of the constructed environment.” In this [...]

March 9, 2011
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Artist Talk: 9 March 2011, 5:00pm

Kalup Linzy is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes videos, performances, and music. His satirical narratives—inspired by soap operas, telenovelas and Hollywood melodramas—deal with race, sexuality, gender, class, and the art world itself. Serving as writer, director, cinematographer, editor, [...]

March 8, 2011
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Artist Talk: 8 March 2011, 6:00pm

Takeshi Moro discusses his 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.

Maybe we are a little late in noticing it’s release, but be advised: E-Flux’s latest issue is amazing and should be required reading for all you art fags. Check it out. From the introduction:

When Paul Chan and Sven Lütticken proposed to gather a series of “reports” on the (mostly) recent rise of right-wing, populist [...]

From the Inbox via Nicolas Lampert:

Colin Mattes (Milwaukee), Nicolas Lampert (Milwaukee), and Jesus Barraza (Oakland) from the Justseeds Artist’s Cooperative have posted 6 copy-right free posters/graphics about the labor uprising in Wisconsin.

Images can be downloaded and turned into window poster, signs, flyers, images for websites, t-shirts, patches, etc. Your call and [...]

March 7, 2011
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Performance/Screening/Talk: 7 March 2011, 7:00pm

Wu Tsang presents a performative lecture & screening about his upcoming feature documentary Wildness, combining live narration and excerpts.

Wildness depicts the creativity and conflict that arises when queer avant-garde performance artists intersect with community at the historic Los Angeles bar Silver Platter, a [...]

March 12, 2011
845 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Performance/Reception: 12 March 2011, 6:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 12 March 2011—14 May 2011

Work by Barbara Kasten.

March 13, 2011
5811 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Reception: 13 March 2011, 4:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 13 March 2011—1 May 2011

This show will address the lingering cultural fallout of the 1960s, in particular its effect on a generation of younger artists and their engagement with the period as it becomes more somberly remote. Fifteen years ago [...]

March 18, 2011
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 18 March 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 18 March 2011—2 April 2011

Noah Furman’s sculptures and paintings take root in intuitive drawings, pulling from a lexicon of forms that reference cartoons, tropes of abstract painting, letterforms and early modern sculpture. These recent works examine the creative act [...]

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

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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 [...]

March 4, 2011
300 W Superior #103, Chicago, IL, 60654

March 4 2011, 5:00pm-8:00pm

The Judy A. Saslow Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of new works by French artist Gérard Cambon and Swiss Artist Edmond Engel.

Gérard Cambon is a self-taught artist living and working outside Paris creating skillful constructions composed of various materials. In 1992 he started to [...]