June 24, 2011
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Exhibition: 24 June 2011
On View: 24 June 2011—23 October 2011
The Donna and Howard Stone Gallery for Film, Video, and New Media welcomes a new work this May by Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila. Ahtila’s films, culled from research and interviews with individuals suffering from psychotic disorders, are [...]
June 24, 2011
1765 S Laflin St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 24 June 2011, 6:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 24 June 2011—23 July 2011
Work by Salvador Jimenez.
June 24, 2011
5228 S Harper Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Reception: 24 June 2011, TBA—TBA
On View: 24 June 2011—TBA
Curated by Zachary Cahill.
June 24, 2011
845 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 24 June 2011, TBA—TBA
On View: 24 June 2011—30 July 2011
Details TBA.
June 23, 2011
619 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Reception: 23 June 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 23 June 2011—20 July 2011
Based on Karl Kraus’s notion of allowing an idea, place, material, object enough wiggle room to change—encouraging an active détournement—we allow others to experience the detourned phenomenon in a new way. If allowed running room, a [...]
June 19, 2011
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 19 June 2011, 4:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 19 June 2011—20 June 2011
Work by Valerie Magarian.
June 18, 2011
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Exhibition: 18 June 2011
On View: 18 June 2011—16 October 2011
Pandora’s Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the Collection is an exhibition that relies on the deep resources of Joseph Cornell’s work within Chicago, as well as the Chicago public’s warm familiarity with the American master’s work. Because of [...]
June 18, 2011
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 18 June 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 18 June 2011—23 July 2011
Organized by Justin Thomas Schaefer.
June 17, 2011
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 17 June 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 17 June 2011—30 July 2011
Curated by Chaz Evans and Lorelei Stewart.
The specificity of work in electronic media warrants investigations that refine categories past “the digital” or “the internet.” File Type is an exhibition which analyzes the cultural character of digital file [...]
June 17, 2011
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 17 June 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 17 June 2011—2 July 2011
Hang in There is an exhibition asking artists to make motivational artworks. Cultural producers often face difficult roads to develop a sustainable practice. This exhibition is an opportunity for artists to provide an alternative to the [...]
June 12, 2011
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 12 June 2011, 4:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 12 June 2011—13 June 2011
Work by REH Gordon.
June 11, 2011
128 N Campbell Ave, G, Chicago, IL 60612
Reception: 11 June 2011, 7:00pm—11:00pm
On View: 11 June 2011—2 July 2011
Noah Furman’s recent paintings deal with unitary forms—the letter, the hand, the brain—the body part truncated, amputated from the whole, the word’s mark separated from its meaning, mashed into a non-referent thing. They aspire to [...]
June 10, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2D, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 10 June 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 10 June 2011—10 July 2011
Work by Pia Howell.
June 10, 2011
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 10 June 2011, 6:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 10 June 2011—24 June 2011
Happiness Machines—the NEW energy drink—is a beast of joy. So good you’ll be hooked! Be gone dull day, now you can get your zip and smile about it. Happiness Machines will make its debut appearance this [...]
June 7, 2011
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Artist Talk: 7 June 2011, 6:00pm
Each month, hear first-hand from the Chicago-based artists featured in the MCA’s UBS 12 X 12: New Artists/New Works exhibition series and gain insight into the ideas and process that led to the work on view.
June 5, 2011
4223 W Lake St, 422, Chicago, IL 60624
Reception: 5 June 2011, 3:00pm—5:00pm
On View: 5 June 2011—11 July 2011
Skin as material and metaphor links the practices of Leeza Meksin and Yevgeniya Baras. The two met in New York in 2009. After exchanging studio visits, a playful dialog formed around issues of gender, materiality, [...]
June 5, 2011
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 5 June 2011, 4:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 5 June 2011—6 June 2011
Having been struck seven separate times by lightening across a period of 35 years, Roy Sullivan died in 1985 from natural causes. And, although generally conceived of as improbable, lightening does in fact strike in the [...]
June 5, 2011
3144 W Carroll Ave, 2G, Chicago, IL, 60612
Reception: 5 June 2011, 4:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 5 June 2011—26 June 2011
Curated by Matt McAuliffe.
Works by Matias Faldbakken, Sophie Calle, Joe Smith, Andy Kaufman and Benjamin Bellas.
June 4, 2011
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Exhibition: 4 June 2011
On View: 4 June 2011—26 June 2011
John Henderson’s (b. 1984) work forges an unlikely alliance between the heavy metal industry and abstract art by casting all-over gestural paintings in aluminum and, more recently, bronze. His UBS 12×12 show consists of all new work [...]
June 4, 2011
6932 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Reception: 4 June 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 4 June 2011—5 June 2011
Drawing on Chicago’s reputation for political favoritism, visiting artist Priscilla Stadler ushers in the city’s first post-Daley mayoral term by bringing favors to the people. Using Mess Hall and ACRE Projects as a base of operations, [...]
June 4, 2011
3319 N Broadway St, Chicago, IL 60657
Reception: 4 June 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 18 May 2011—25 June 2011
Equal parts exhibition and performance, John Neff Prints Robert Blanchon will be in process at Golden Gallery from May 18 to June 25, 2011. The show will revolve around Blanchon’s 1995 photo-based conceptual work Untitled (aroma / 1981), [...]
June 4, 2011
2007 N Point St, Chicago, IL 60647
Reception: 4 June 2011, 7:00pm—11:30pm
On View: 4 June 2011—26 June 2011
A project by Brandon Alvendia.
In consultation with Camp Gay members, including Todd Bailey & Bridgette Buckley.
Picture the area directly across the famed Margie’s Candies at Armitage and Western, the sleepy Cole Taylor Bank with its drive-up ATM [...]
June 3, 2011
1418 W Superior St, 2R, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 3 June 2011, 6:00pm—10:00pm
Noble & Superior Projects is proud to present our FINAL one-night exhibition POLYAMORY. This exhibition showcases artwork created by curators of several of Chicago’s independent galleries. By exhibiting the visual work of these curators who are committed to providing venues to [...]
June 3, 2011
222 N Desplaines St, Chicago, IL 60661
Reception: 3 June 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 3 June 2011—5 July 2011
A group exhibition of three artists with contemporary perspectives on the historical theme of visual narration, realized within three completely different media. Narratives have formed the content of canonized artwork from the marble friezes of antiquity [...]
June 2, 2011
425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Reception: 2 June 2011, TBA—TBA
On View: 2 June 2011—6 August 2011
This exhibition features a large selection from the College of DuPage collection of more than 150 original Polaroid and black and white photographs, awarded through The Andy Warhol Foundation’s Photographic Legacy Program. The exhibit includes iconic [...]
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» I’ve Zine the Darkness« is an exhibition about the artzines phenomen, it’s aesthetic and political dimensions and the practise of self-publishing used by artists to spread their work. The exhibition will take [...]
May 12, 2011
3710 N Marshfield Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Reception: 12 May 2011, 8:00pm
On View: 12 May 2011—3 June 2011
New works from Hannah Manfredi.
May 7, 2011
500 W Cermak Rd, 511, Chicago, IL 60616
Slideshow Presentation: 7 May 2011, 5:00pm
Slide shows from the Milan Furniture Fair 2011 by Felicia Ferrone, Helen Maria Nugent, Tim Parsons, Lisa Smith, Michael Savona and SAIC MDDO students.
May 7, 2011
1716 S Morgan St, 2F, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 7 May 2011, 5:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 7 May 2011—19 June 2011
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May 12, 2011
1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Reception: 12 May 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 12 May 2011—11 June 2011
Work by Kate Bowen, Amy Herman, Alyssa Marzolf, Jessica Rodrigue and Katherine Rae Walters.
May 10, 2011
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Artist Talk: 10 May 2011, 6:00pm—7:00pm
Matthew Metzger 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.
Bad At Sports and Caroline Picard on the reenactment that blew our minds..
Until recently, my recollection of the Haymarket Riot is as follows:
Me, age 15 in the high school library looking over microfiche and taking notes on note cards as had been suggested by our US History teacher. As prickly as he was hilarious, he [...]
May 5, 2011
1440 W Hubbard, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 5 May 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 6 May 2011—20 May 2011
Valerie Carberry Gallery and Wright collaborate to present Wall, a monumental work by Tony Smith from 1964. A sleek mass in painted steel, Wall achieves harmony in concept and form. Smith frees Wall from its architectural function as [...]
May 6, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2C, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 6 May 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 6 May 2011—18 June 2011
Betsy Odom mines a vast array of materials and techniques culled from traditional crafts and trades to explore the display of identity. Working from leather tooling to woodturning, ceramics to air-brushing, mold making to metalworking, [...]
May 7, 2011
1318 N Milwaukee Ave, #300, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 7 May 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
TWEEN is a survey of responses to the animated GIF via animated GIF-the bastard child of early motion picture technology and most pesky annoyance generator capable of rendering the most sober of images into perpetual ridicule. Local, national, and international [...]
May 10, 2011
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Panel: 10 May 2011, 6:00pm
How Chicago Are You? is an evening discussion that will explore the role of place in the production of creative works. Intended to provoke questions about the existence of a regional style, Chicago based practitioners from the fields of art, architecture, cartooning, [...]
May 1, 2011
125 N Harvey Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Reception: 1 May 2011, 2:00pm—4:00pm
On View: 1 May 2011—10 July 2011
Work by Zak Kitnick and Valerie Snobeck.
Curated by Maxwell Graham.
May 1, 2011
125 N Harvey Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Reception: 1 May 2011, 2:00pm—4:00pm
Work by Sara Greenberger Rafferty and Ruby Sky Stiler.
In the house: Two Fold by Colleen Asper and Ethan Greenbaum. Work by Christopher Aque, Beth Asper, Lauren Beck, Stephanie Brooks, Julia Fish, Joanne Greenbaum, Samara Golden, Nate Heiges, Bill Jenkins, Judy Ledgerwood, [...]
May 1, 2011
244 W 31st St, Chicago, IL 60616
Reception: 1 May 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
Things That Are Longing To Appear is a storefront installation/window display by artist Bill Talsma that consists of six modified “open & closed” signs presented at 244 W. 31st Street in Chicago. These signs—the kind usually displayed at small businesses—have been [...]
May 6, 2011
5228 S Harper Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Reception: 6 May 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 4 May 2011—7 May 2011
Work by Gabrielle Garland.
May 6, 2011
1561 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 6 May 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 6 May 2011—TBA
Work by Michael Sirianni.
May 7, 2011
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Exhibition: 7 May 2011
On View: 7 May 2011—29 May 2011
In Matthew Metzger’s UBS 12 x 12 show Nocturne, two paintings-one depicting the cover of 1980s R&B group Surface’s self-titled debut album, and the other a rubber band lying coiled on a bare panel-frame a set of [...]
May 7, 2011
1120 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 7 May 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 6 May 2011—2 July 2011
New works on paper.
H.C. Westermann in the East Wing.
May 7, 2011
1452 N Milwaukee Ave, 3, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 7 May 2011, 6:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 7 May 2011—11 June 2011
A collaborative exhibition featuring Carson Fisk-Vittori, Derek Frech, Justin Kemp, Joe Lacina, Joshua Pavlacky and Daniel Wallace.
Fruits of a connected and continuous collaborative consciousness, A rod stewart little richard prince charles manson family is [...]
May 7, 2011
2007 N Point St, Chicago, IL 60647
Reception: 7 May 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 7 May 2011—22 May 2011
IF OUR WORLD PROTECTS is the first solo show for duo Lenox-Lenox.
May 7, 2011
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Screening: 7 May 2011, 7:00pm
Cost: TBA
Screening of new works by Chicago artist Andy Roche, including his four collaborative films with David Price (originally exhibited at Saturday Cinema in 2010), videos made for Andy’s band Black Vatican, and premieres of several unseen works.
The screening includes the release [...]
May 8, 2011
3144 W Carroll Ave, 2G, Chicago, IL, 60612
Reception: 8 May 2011, 4:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 8 May 2011—29 May 2011
Work by Frank Piatek.
May 11, 2011
Kersten Physics Teaching Center, Room 120 @ 5720 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Artist Talk: 11 May 2011, 5:00pm
Ute Meta Bauer is an associate professor and the director of the recently established Program in Art, Culture, and Technology at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning, where she served as director of the MIT [...]
May 12, 2011
Price Auditorium @ 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Artist Talk: 12 May 2011, 6:00pm—7:30pm
Cost: $20 ($15 members)
Paul McCarthy uses provocative and often satirically violent imagery to parody archetypal subjects in irreverent performance-based multimedia work. He explains, “My work seems to be about tearing down and opening up conventions.” During the 1970s, [...]
May 13, 2011
1765 S Laflin St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 13 May 2011, 6:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 13 May 2011—11 June 2011
Work by Adam Trowbridge and Jessica Westbrook.
May 13, 2011 11:00 pm
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 13 May 2011, 6:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 13 May 2011—25 June 2011
Work by Mark Grotjahn.
May 13, 2011 11:00 pm
5228 S Harper Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Reception: 13 May 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 11 May 2011—14 May 2011
Work by Jacqueline Hendrickson.
May 13, 2011 11:00 pm
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 13 May 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 13 May 2011—11 June 2011
Work by Frank Heath and Brendan Meara.
May 13, 2011 11:00 pm
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 13 May 2011, 7:00pm—2:00am
On View: 13 May 2011—10 June 2011
An art show celebrating Mexican Ranch culture, as seen through the life of the Gonzalez Family. Although the family primarily lives in urban Chicago, they maintain a tight-knit community on their rural Indiana ranch. On display [...]
May 13, 2011 11:00 pm
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 13 May 2011, 7:00pm—11:00pm
On View: 6 May 2011—28 May 2011
Work by Joseph Patrick Mault, Patrick Francis McGuan and Charles Thomas Fogarty.
Guest curated by Max Reinhardt.
May 13, 2011 11:00 pm
1822 S Desplaines St, Chicago, IL 60616
Reception: 13 May 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 13 May 2011—TBA
Work by Claire Arctander.
May 14, 2011 11:00 pm
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Exhibition: 14 May 2011
On View: 14 May 2011—14 September 2011
Since the early 1990s, Los Angeles–based artist Uta Barth has examined photographic and visual perception—how the human eye sees differently from the camera lens and how the incidental and atmospheric can become subject matter in and of themselves. [...]
May 14, 2011 11:00 pm
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Artist Talk: 14 May 2011, 12:00pm—1:00pm
Photographer Uta Barth provides an overview of her career, from her early work to her most recent series, …and to draw a bright white line with light, debuting the same day in the Modern Wing.
May 14, 2011 11:00 pm
1254 N Noble St, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 14 May 2011, 6:00pm—10:00pm
Details TBA.
May 15, 2011 11:00 pm
5811 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Reception: 15 May 2011, 4:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 15 May 2011—26 June 2011
Chicago artist William J. O’Brien (b. 1975) works in multiple mediums, including ceramic, textiles, wood, and metal, along with works on paper. His corpus reflects a playful attention to the expected properties of each material, and [...]
May 15, 2011 11:00 pm
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 15 May 2011, 4:00pm—8:00pm
Work by Lydia McCarthy.
May 20, 2011 11:00 pm
118 N Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Exhibition: 20 May 2011
On View: 20 May 2011—8 July 2011
Curated by Terry R. Myers.
Work by André Butzer, Folkert de Jong, Lari Pittman, Rona Pondick, Jeni Spota, Nicola Tyson and John Wesley.
May 20, 2011 11:00 pm
119 N Peoria St, 2A, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 20 May 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 20 May 2011—2 July 2011
Work by Rachel Niffenegger and Paul Nudd.
Band of Bikers in Gallery 2. Organized by Scott Zieher.
May 20, 2011 11:00 pm
213 N Morgan St, 3C, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 20 May 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 20 May 2011—25 June 2011
Work by Mark Mulroney.
May 20, 2011 11:00 pm
1369 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 20 May 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 25 June 2011—7 May 2011
Work by Jasmine Justice.
May 21, 2011 11:00 pm
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 21 May 2011, 4:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 21 May 2011—2 July 2011
Work by Greg Stimac.
May 21, 2011 11:00 pm
2154 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 21 May 2011, 4:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 21 May 2011—31 July 2011
Work by Kendell Carter.
May 21, 2011 11:00 pm
7714 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60626
Reception: 21 May 2011, TBA—TBA
On View: 21 May 2011—TBA
Work by Gregg Bordowitz.
May 21, 2011 11:00 pm
350 N Ogden Ave, 4E, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 21 May 2011, TBA—TBA
On View: 21 May 2011—27 June 2011
Work by Thomas Roach.
May 21, 2011 11:00 pm
2332 W Augusta Blvd, 3F, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 21 May 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
Work by Brandon Heuser, Kristen Romaniszak, Catie Olson and EC Brown.
May 21, 2011 11:00 pm
128 N Campbell Ave, G, Chicago, IL 60612
Reception: 21 May 2011, 8:00pm—11:00pm
Work by Brandon Anschultz and Adam Farcus.
May 22, 2011 11:00 pm
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 22 May 2011, 4:00pm—8:00pm
Work by Jessye McDowell.
May 27, 2011
27 N Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 27 May 2011, 6:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 27 May 2011—13 August 2011
Work by Patrick Berran.
May 28, 2011
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Exhibition: 28 May 2011
On View: 28 May 2011—18 September 2011
This exhibition is the first survey of the artist’s work to date. Spanning the years 1996 to 2010, it examines Bradford‘s work in all media, beginning with early sculptural projects, and culminating in a number of new commissions. [...]
May 28, 2011
6932 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Reception: 28 May 2011, TBA—TBA
Work by Marian Glebes.
May 29, 2011
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 29 May 2011, 4:00pm—8:00pm
Work by Scott Whipkey.
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 [...]
