July 31, 2011
3144 W Carroll Ave, 2G, Chicago, IL, 60612
Reception: 31 July 2011, 4:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 31 July 2011—28 August 2011

Work by Holly Murkerson.

July 17, 2011
125 N Harvey Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Reception: 17 July 2011, 2:00pm—4:00pm

Work by Simon Ingram and Doug Melini.

July 16, 2011
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 16 July 2011, 6:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 16 July 2011—27 August 2011

Work by Roe Ethridge, Margarete Jakschik and Jonas Wood.

July 16, 2011
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 16 July 2011, 5:00pm—2:00am
On View: 16 July 2011—TBA

Paintings by Adrienne Pierluissi and photos by Ken Vandermark.

In 2008, Terrie Hessels and Emma Fischer established an ongoing cultural exchange between Holland and Ethiopia.

With funds from the Dutch Government, they have been able to invite European and American musicians to [...]

July 15, 2011
1369 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 15 July 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 15 July 2011—13 August 2011

Work by Philip von Zweck.

July 15, 2011
2135 N Rockwell St, Chicago, IL 60647
Reception: 15 July 2011, 6:00pm—11:00pm
On View: 15 July 2011—21 August 2011

Work by Petra Cortright, Tom Dryjanski, Derek Frech, Aaron Graham and Mac Katter.

July 15, 2011
5228 S Harper Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Reception: 15 July 2011, 5:00pm—7:30pm
On View: 29 June 2011—23 July 2011

What is animal?

A sacramental deity, food, friend, or foe? Does the animal represent wild abandon or domesticated companionship? Is animality something (or someone) that is on the other side of humanity? Or: is it an element [...]

July 9, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2A, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 9 July 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 9 July 2011—13 August 2011

The title of the show takes its name from a 2009 drawing (not in this show) by Deb Sokolow that humorously reflects on some viewers’ aversion to reading text in visual art works. While the use [...]

July 9, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2D, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 9 July 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm

Golden Age is pleased to announce a retrospective of French publisher Kaugummi. Golden Age will display more than 70 zines from Kaugummi’s 7 year publishing history along with a retrospective book to be launched at the event. Publications from Kaugummi’s catalog [...]

July 9, 2011
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 9 July 2011, 4:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 9 July 2011—12 August 2011

Curated by Scott Wolniak.

Work by Thorne Brandt, Ken Fandell, Young Joon Kwak, Jesse McLean, Shana Moulton, Jon Rafman, Andy Roche, Ben Russell, Jen Stark and Kirsten Stoltmann.

July 8, 2011
1324 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 8 July 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 5 June 2011—8 July 2011

Work by Samuel D. York.

July 8, 2011
222 N Desplaines St, Chicago, IL 60661
Reception: 8 July 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 8 July 2011—2 August 2011

Work by Sioban Lombardi and Gwendolyn Zabicki.

July 8, 2011
1120 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 8 July 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 8 July 2011—TBA

Work by Dominick Di Meo.

Jonathan Gardner in the East Wing.

July 8, 2011
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Exhibition: 8 July 2011
On View: 8 July 2011—10 October 2011

Hong Kong-born, Miami-based sculptor Mark Handforth is debuting four new large-scale sculptures at the MCA in early July 2011. All sited on the plaza and the west façade of the building, these dynamic and playful works extend [...]

July 5, 2011
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Exhibition: 5 July 2011
On View: 5 July 2011—31 July 2011

We Are Here is a weekly series of four multidisciplinary art and design situations with Chicago-based participants. Using the gallery as a workspace, the activities of product design collective Object Design League, artist-run project space Golden Age, [...]

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

Work by Jesus Gonzalez Flores.

July 2, 2011
213 N Morgan St, 3C, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 2 July 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 2 July 2011—30 July 2011

Curated by Nina Rizzo.

Work by Christine Gray, Sabina Ott, Conrad Bakker and Stephanie McMahon.

July 2, 2011
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Exhibition: 2 July 2011
On View: 2 July 2011—30 October 2011

Motor Cocktail brings together artists working in the 1960s culled from the MCA’s Collection who used sound and movement to directly engage individuals within mass consumer society and draw them into an immediate sensual experience with the [...]

July 1, 2011
1561 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 1 July 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 1 July 2011—6 July 2011

In Solastalgia, Kendler continues to consider humans beings’ relationship with the natural world through the lens of feminism, modern ecology & environmental activism. Works in the show focus on the complexity of issues such as extinction, [...]

July 1, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2C, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 1 July 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 1 July 2011—30 July 2011

Either/Or/Both explores the poetics of relationships and correspondence through painting, drawing and text based work that troubles the boundaries between the intuitive and the systematic by making do within a set of givens and the [...]

Aron Gent’s Grip, Tip, Slip (2011) was shown at Co-Prosperity Sphere as part of Hang In There

Beyond the commercial realm of tapes, books and inspirational posters, some of the most meaningful forms of motivation are tailor-made. Whether creating a list, mantra or encouraging note to self, we integrate custom motivational tools into [...]

June 30, 2011
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Exhibition: 30 June 2011
On View: 30 June 2011—4 September 2011

The human form has endured as a powerful subject throughout the history of art. This episodic exhibition illustrates pivotal moments in figurative art of the last sixty years through the work of nine exceptional artists: Nick Cave, [...]

June 25, 2011
500 W Cermak Rd, 727, Chicago, IL 60616
Reception: 25 June 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 25 June 2011—9 July 2011

The exhibition’s single work simultaneously and in equal measure recalls a chair, a shaped-canvas painting, entangled insects, and pine-needle basketry. Crawford’s work, after which the exhibition is titled, Babies. Babies. No Babies. (armpit), exists as [...]

June 25, 2011
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Party: 25 June 2011, 12:00pm—8:00pm

ACRE bids adieu for the season with a good old fashioned Pilsen block party! No cover, plenty of free stuff and cheap drinks as ACRE celebrates Chicago’s first official summer weekend. Before we head out to Wisconsin for the 2011 Residency Program, [...]

June 24, 2011
1561 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 24 June 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 24 June 2011—27 June 2011

CTRL is an experiment in webcam culture, S&M and art making. Participants offer submission. Sirianni offers direction. Together they negotiate the limits of their virtual interactions, as shown in this new collection of photographs and videos. [...]

June 24, 2011
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Artist Talk: 24 June 2011, 6:00pm—8:00pm

Artist Rafaël Rozendaal provides an overview of his past and current work.

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

This experimental mixed-media installation highlights the reliance of modern humanity on technological innovations. In this digital age, we have become wholly dependent on devices that can be plugged in. Our jobs, our social lives and even [...]

June 24, 2011
1431 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 24 June 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 20 August 2011—24 June 2011

A new exhibition of painting, sculpture, drawing and collage by thirteen artists. The exhibition includes works by Erica Bohm, Máximo González, Barbara Kaplan, Jerry B Martin, Sylvia Fernandez Palacios, Emilio Chapela Perez, Ponchi, Michelle Prazak, Natalia [...]

July 1, 2011
2003 N Point, 3, Chicago, IL 60647
Reception: 1 July 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 1 July 2011—29 July 2011

Featuring art by Bert Stabler with Nick Black and Jasmine Young.

July 1, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2C, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 1 July 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 1 July 2011—30 July 2011

Either/Or/Both explores the poetics of relationships and correspondence through painting, drawing and text based work that troubles the boundaries between the intuitive and the systematic by making do within a set of givens and the [...]

July 1, 2011
1561 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 1 July 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 1 July 2011—6 July 2011

In Solastalgia, Kendler continues to consider humans beings’ relationship with the natural world through the lens of feminism, modern ecology & environmental activism. Works in the show focus on the complexity of issues such as extinction, [...]

July 8, 2011
222 N Desplaines St, Chicago, IL 60661
Reception: 8 July 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 8 July 2011—2 August 2011

Work by Sioban Lombardi and Gwendolyn Zabicki.

July 9, 2011
119 N Peoria St, 2A, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 9 July 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 9 July 2011—13 August 2011

The title of the show takes its name from a 2009 drawing (not in this show) by Deb Sokolow that humorously reflects on some viewers’ aversion to reading text in visual art works. While the use [...]

July 15, 2011
5228 S Harper Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Reception: 15 July 2011, 5:00pm—7:30pm
On View: 29 June 2011—23 July 2011

What is animal?

A sacramental deity, food, friend, or foe? Does the animal represent wild abandon or domesticated companionship? Is animality something (or someone) that is on the other side of humanity? Or: is it an element [...]

July 16, 2011
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 16 July 2011, 6:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 16 July 2011—27 August 2011

Work by Roe Ethridge, Margarete Jakschik and Jonas Wood.

July 16, 2011 9:00 pm
125 N Harvey Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Reception: 17 July 2011, 2:00pm—4:00pm
Work by Simon Ingram and Doug Melini.

We finally published this interview! Thank you internet gnomes..

These Pilsen murals, as well as the indoor Chicago Cultural Center show, demonstrate a style so distinctive that Zimmerman’s work elsewhere is highly recognizable. Using a candy-colored palette and compositions filled with motion, Zimmerman zeroes in on distinctive faces in the surrounding neighborhood and splashes them across entire walls.

June 11, 2011
2003 N Point, 3, Chicago, IL 60647
Reception: 11 June 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm

Ryan Thompson currently lives and works in Western New York State where he is Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Photography at Houghton College. His work points to both the mundane and the significant as it engages the complex and often strange [...]

June 11, 2011
7714 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60626
Reading: 11 June 2011, 6:30pm

The reading will take place amidst Talk is the object, an exhibition of artwork from Dan Berger’s collection curated by Gregg Bordowitz. In response to the use of titles and wall texts, Bordowitz hung his own poems amongst the pieces. On the [...]

June 17, 2011
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Screening: 17 June 2011, 6:00pm—8:00pm

Video Playlist: Intimate Civics and Everyday Explorers considers the way we use, interact within, and re-purpose public space. Featured artists examine the interplay between public spaces and public policies and the individual lives they affect.

Curated by Kate Bowen and David Oresick.

Work by Paul [...]

June 18, 2011
6932 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Reception: 18 June 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 18 June 2011—19 June 2011

[ALMOST][ABSOLUTELY] is a series of new works by Victor Yañez Lazcano that investigates through audience engagement the ideas of acknowledging space, self awareness, and the shared histories of object and viewer. Through the use of frequently [...]

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

Work by Brian Khek and Micah Schippa.

June 18, 2011
2351 N Milwaukee Ave, 2, Chicago, IL 60647
Reception: 18 June 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 18 June 2011—15 July 2011

From video documents to intricately hand-crafted sculptures made of found fabric and materials, Hope Esser and Christalena Hughmanick mine the everyday to investigate shared and personal histories. Using embodied experience and focusing on the labor [...]

June 18, 2011
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 18 June 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 18 June 2011—16 July 2011

An anonymous group exhibition organized by Justin Thomas Schaefer.

June 18, 2011
2655 W Homer St, Chicago, IL 60647
Reception: 18 June 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 18 June 2011—8 July 2011

The photographic works of Olivia Swider and the multimedia works of Julia Asherman both heavy-handedly transform objects and events that were once grounded in reality. These transformations are resolutions to their questions and observations, and they [...]

June 24, 2011
1821 W Hubbard St, 308, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 24 June 2011, 7:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 24 June 2011—16 July 2011

New work by Rebekka Federle, Julia Vodrey Hendrickson and Liz Wolf.

Curated by Robyn Farrell.

Cut, Bit and Curious presents new work by three artists working with little more than paper, press and blade. The artists utilize traditional [...]

Please join Portoluz and Preservation Chicago in a special tour of the WPA murals at Lane Tech High School. Thursday, June 9th 5pm. $10
In 1934, forty murals from the General Motors Exhibition Hall at the World’s Fair “Century of Progress” became a part of Lane Tech’ art collection, [...]

Our super pals, Logan and Sandy Bay, are in Thailand stirring up a number of projects with their friends and neighbors. This latest interview project gives a glimpse of some of the cool creative cats living in Bangkok.  We expect this to be a great way to be introduced to people making shit happen over [...]

June 6, 2011
2130 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Performance: 6 June 2011, 7:00pm
On View: 6 June 2011—11 June 2011

Over five days, Adrian Schindler and Romain Trinquand will set up a working space functioning like a building site and props factory in the back lot of Roxaboxen Exhibitions. As their own employers, the two performers [...]

June 11, 2011
6932 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Exhibition: 11 June 2011, 12:00pm—12:00am
On View: 11 June 2011—12 June 2011

The latest iteration in Brandon Alvendia‘s investigation of economies, communities, use value, and pedagogy is Thoughts Unsaid Then Forgotten, a collection of several public events presented in succession. The day-long affair is a meditation on and experiment [...]

June 12, 2011
1913 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Performance/Reception: 12 June 2011, 4:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 12 June 2011—13 June 2011

Through sculpture, performance, sound, and writing, R.E.H. Gordon’s work explores and honors the ways communities engage with objects in order to build and sustain new worlds. Throughout is an ongoing interest in exploring various modes of [...]

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 [...]