Proximity magazines will be given away at the event, which will feature an extraordinarily awesome selection of craft beers as well!
“The Printers’ Ball: IT’S ALIVE! is presented by the Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine with the Center for Book & Paper Arts, the Chicago Underground Library, Columbia College Chicago, and MAKE magazine. The 7th annual [...]
In 1888, Pope Leo XIII issued an encyclical “On The Nature Of Human Liberty,” in which he opines that, “judgment must be passed on what has been called liberty of teaching.” A paragraph earlier he says that, “the liberty of which we have been speaking is greatly opposed to reason, and tends absolutely to [...]
Temporary Art Review is seeking qualified applicants for a part time PITTSBURGH REGIONAL EDITOR. We think it’s a paid gig.
“Temporary Art Review is a platform for contemporary art criticism that focuses on alternative spaces and critical exchange among disparate art communities. Temporary is a national network, highlighting both practical and theoretical discourse through exhibition reviews, [...]
Initiated by an old friend of ours, Geert Lovink, the Unlike Us project looks like a great opportunity for you critical digiheads. Check it out..
The aim of this proposal is to establish a research network of artists, designers, scholars, activists and programmers who work on ‘alternatives in social media’. Through [...]
Looks rad. We just ordered one >>
Over the past several years ART2102 has acted as a platform for artists and curators in Los Angeles to realize their projects and exhibitions. From its space in Boyle Heights, ART2102 hosted a vibrant program known for its open cultural discourse and flexibility of ideas, and for engaging both local [...]
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
1344 W 18th Pl, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 16 July 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
Work by Michael Manning, Camilla Padgitt-Coles, Kate Steciw and Michiel van der Zanden.
Co-Curated by Bea Fremderman and Nicholas O’Brien
A Small Forest explores delicate landscapes developed and appropriated by artist that have been found and manipulated within the space of the screen. The scale [...]
July 17, 2011
125 N Harvey Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
Reception: 17 July 2011, 2:00pm—4:00pm
On View: 17 July 2011—10 August 2011
Simon Ingram’s Radio Paintings “results from a sequence of material conversations of unseen and unheard information.” Ingram’s Abstract paintings are produced via a machine that scans the electromagnetic spectrum. Douglas Melini’s tightly pattern symmetrical [...]
July 17, 2011
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Reception: 17 July 2011, 3:00pm—5:00pm
On View: 17 July 2011—9 October 2011
Gent uses photographs and a large-scale installation to reveal consumer habits as seen through the eyes of an ex-grocery store bagger now putting his own wares on public display.
Drawing inspiration from his youth as a grocery store [...]
July 17, 2011
2858 W Montrose Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Reception: 17 July 2011, 5:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 17 July 2011—2 September 2011
Sea Change is the inaugural show for The Meadow. It is a collaborative installation by Karolina Gnatowski and Diana Guerrero-Maciá. The installation explores camouflage (specifically Dazzle camouflage) as a means for transformation.
July 17, 2011
1034 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Screening: 17 July 2011, 8:00pm
Cost: $5 suggested donation
The 2011 Zummertapez video mixtape series continues with a program of work by Chicago filmmaker Lori Felker. Felker’s film and video work uses wry humor and formal inventiveness to playfully investigate human behavior, travel and interactivity. Felker will [...]
July 22, 2011
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: 22 July 2011, 7:00pm—11:00pm
Join Heaven Gallery in celebrating 11 years of art and music with a best of Heaven group show featuring works by Montgomery Perry Smith, Adam Hoff, Stephen Eichhorn, Max Reinhardt, Matt Sauermilch and more.
July 23, 2011
7714 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60626
Reception: 23 July 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 23 July 2011—20 August 2011
On The Beach: Works in Progress Slideshows is looped powerpoint projection of images made between July 2010 and September 2010 along the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coast following the BP disaster. The slideshows are a collection [...]
July 23, 2011 10:00 pm
119 N Peoria St, 3D, Chicago, IL 60607
Reception: 23 July 2011, 5:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 1 July 2011—31 July 2011
Marissa Perel will utilize the exhibition space of Spoke as a space to consider the body. Her performance work is rooted in the relationship between somatic experience as a mode of expression and interdisciplinary art-making. [...]
July 6, 2011 11:00 pm
33 E Congress Pkwy #1, Chicago, IL 60605
Reception: 6 July 2011, 5:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 5 July 2011—5 August 2011
Curated by Jessica Cochran for the Contemporary Arts Council.
Work by Alberto Aguilar, Pamela Bannos, Viv Corringham, Adam Farcus, Regan Golden, Bill Guy, Kirsten Leenaars, Daniel Mellis, Ryan B. Richey, Michael X. Ryan, Fred Sasaki, Allison Yasukawa [...]
July 8, 2011 11:00 pm
3114 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Performance: 8 July 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
Destineez Child, comprised of artists April Childers (on view in the upstairs gallery) and Carmen Tiffany, offer items for your convenience. They are “…providing the best stuff around the area.” Some of the great ideas that got Destineez Child started and inspired [...]
July 9, 2011 11:00 pm
1155 S Lyman Ave, Oak Park, IL 60304
Reception: 9 July 2011, 3:00pm—8:00pm
On View: 9 July 2011—30 July 2011
An exhibition featuring paintings by three Chicago based artists, Jacon Crose, Chris Holmes and Vaughnda Johnson. Although some years apart they all attended and studied art at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Where they acquired a [...]
July 10, 2011 11:00 pm
1716 S Morgan St, 2F, Chicago, IL 60608
Reception: 10 July 2011, 4:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 10 July 2011—31 July 2011
Beautiful Friend, this is the end! My Only Friend, the end! Of our elaborate plans, the end! After approximately 778 days, 72 artists, and 12 group exhibitions of the most contemporary of the contemporary arts, [...]
The Copenhagen Free University was an attempt to reinvigorate the emancipatory aspect of research and learning, in the midst of an ongoing economization of all knowledge production in society. Seeing how education and research were being subsumed into an industry structured by a corporate way of thinking, we intended to bring [...]
We call for everybody to establish their own free universities in their homes or in the workplace, in the square or in the wilderness. All power to the free universities of the future.
—The Free U Resistance Committee of June 18, 2011.
Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus from Patrick Clair on Vimeo.
July 8, 2011 • 6-11pm
The Post Family has been known for finding inspiration in everything from the monumental to the mundane. Given the opportunity to showcase some of their own work together for the first time in a gallery setting since they opened their doors in 2007, the family has decided to [...]
July 6, 2011
33 E Congress Pkwy #1, Chicago, IL 60605
Reception: 6 July 2011, 5:00pm—7:00pm
On View: 5 July 2011—5 August 2011
Curated by Jessica Cochran for the Contemporary Arts Council.
Work by Alberto Aguilar, Pamela Bannos, Viv Corringham, Adam Farcus, Regan Golden, Bill Guy, Kirsten Leenaars, Daniel Mellis, Ryan B. Richey, Michael X. Ryan, Fred Sasaki, Allison Yasukawa [...]
July 7, 2011
1530 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60642
Reception: 7 July 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm
On View: 7 July 2011—20 August 2011
With/in Chicago is a memory map installation of the physical and experiential landscape of my first two years living in Chicago.
My artwork is centered on an exploration of my personal landscape—home, family, memory. My drawings use mapping [...]
July 29, 2011
2730 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Reception: 29 July 2011, 8:00pm—11:00pm
Something concrete. A rock and a vine. Will identity change as the form shifts, or does that very movement alter all that defines it? What would we put in an oversized time-capsule, a grave-marker of the now? If we layer ourselves under [...]
July 15, 2011
2135 N Rockwell St, Chicago, IL 60647
Reception: 15 July 2011, 7:00pm—10:00pm
On View: 15 July 2011—21 August 2011
Featuring the work of Petra Cortright, Tom Dryjanski, Derek Frech, Aaron Graham and Mac Katter.
With the internet and digital media gaining increasing influence on the current generation of young artists, more works tend to have some representation [...]
July 1 – 30, 2011
DIG
2003 N Point #3
Chicago, IL 60647
http://digdigdigdig.com/
Art Lovers,
We are changing our Saturday openings at the DIG Logan Square back to
Fridays. Just like in the good old days. “Doubt Implies Guilt,”
featuring Art by Bert Stabler with Nick Black and Jasmine Young, opens
from 6-9 on the 1st, at 2003 N. Point St., [...]
The 17th edition of the Rotterdam VHS Festival will take place on July 29th 2011. As always we’re looking for new work to include in our program so please send us your tape/dvd/datastick/digital upload!
For more information and an application form go to http://rotterdamvhsfestival.com/
Deadline is: Wednesday July 20th.
Entries can be sent to:
Rotterdam VHS Festival
Postbus [...]
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 [...]
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.
