Monday December 5th ushers in another session of the Co-Prosperity School Fall/Winter session.
We are now accepting members. You should be one. Email coprosperityschool@gmail.com for contact.
The Co-Prosperity School is an Artist-Run School for and about the advancement and understanding of contemporary Chicago Art. Through guest speakers and class member presentations we will shine a [...]
Map of the Heart is a series of participatory, public art projects combining true stories and the collective imagination of the individuals of a community to develop audience-interactive visual fictions. Please help our Friend Hoyun Son, raise some funds to present her Chicago leg of the project. Any amount will go a [...]
The Vegan Gallery, a homey space on Division, has a busy calendar filled primarily with exhibitions featuring vegan artists, performances, and environmentally themed workshops. Read More >>>
By Rachel Hewitt
The Vegan Gallery, a homey space on Division, has a busy calendar filled primarily with exhibitions featuring vegan artists, performances, and environmentally themed workshops. For a short few weeks the gallery, mysteriously changed to VG, if in promotional materials only, is showing Tantalized a group of twenty works by Andrew Ek and [...]
6:00PM , Monday, November 28, 2011 @ The Co-Prosperity Sphere 3219-21 South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL
A severe housing crisis is gripping families and communities across the United States. Since the fall of 2008, the US Government purchased millions of foreclosed properties from banks through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The concrete result has been [...]
November 20, 2011
New work by David Linneweh & Leslie Mutchler
Opening reception Sunday November 20th, 3pm – 8pm
Exhibition continues through December 17th by appointment
For the exhibition, Play, artists David Linneweh and Leslie Mutchler invite participants to explore this idea in two distinctly different ways. Linneweh’s paintings of re-configured architecture relate to the spaces outside the interior walls to [...]
Now online at never-the-same.org
Never the Same’s web project has launched with an initial publication of ten interviews (with Kelan Phil Cohran, Jorge Felix, Emily Forman and Josh MacPhee, Dara Greenwald, Aaron Hughes, Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell, Mary Jane Jacob, Ladyfest Midwest, Patric McCoy, and Christina Obregón and Jose David).
The ten conversations, transcribed and edited [...]
November 19, 2011
2007 N Point St 1F, Chicago, IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, November 19th, from 7PM – 10PM
On view through Friday, December 30th
1dM is pleased to present:
Marilyn Manson Without the Makeup
Andrew J. Greene & Daniel Sullivan
11.19.2011 – 12.30.2011
Opening reception from 7-10, Saturday the 19th of November, 2011.
Andrew J. Greene and Daniel Sullivan will each present two paintings and [...]
November 19, 2011
2612 W. Nelson, 3rd floor, Chicago, IL
Opening Saturday, November 19th, from 6PM – 10PM
On view through Sunday, November 20th
Six artists explore the phenomenon of wholeness through the transformation from an existing state to a preferred one. In the method of recursion, repetitive steps are taken based on previous steps. Forming solutions in [...]
November 19, 2011
704 HIghland Ave. Oak Park, IL
Opening Saturday, November 19th, from 3PM – 6PM
On view through Saturday, December 4th
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”
The formal aesthetics of poetry and how figurative language describes affection and emotion is an ongoing investigation for Stephanie Brooks, whose practice includes an archive and [...]
November 18, 2011
128 N Campbell Street, Chicago 60612
Opening Friday, November 18th, from 8PM – 11PM
On view through Thursday, December 1st
NOMINAL MYSTIQUE
Nov. 18 – Dec 1, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, November 18, 8-11pm
Performance by SETH SHER & MIKALE DE GRAFF: 10:30pm
Open Hours: By Appointment Only
NOMINAL MYSTIQUE is a play on the formality of art as visual experience [...]
November 18, 2011
2153 West Division Street, Chicago, Il
Opening Friday, November 18th, from 6PM – 11PM
On view through Saturday, November 19th
Andrew Ek is self taught painter living in Chicago. He is known for dark, sensual figurative paintings which could be described as magic realism. He studied Industrial Design Technology at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh [...]
3219-21 South Morgan st. Chicago, Il
Opening Friday, November 18th, from 7PM – 12am
On view through Saturday, November 19th
LEVEL EATER 2
at Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219-21 South Morgan st. Chicago, Il
NOVEMBER 18th & 19th, 2011
OPENING RECEPITION: NOVEMBER 18TH, 2011 AT 6:00PM TO 9:00PM
LIVE MUSIC STARTING AT 9:00PM to 11:00PM
($5 COVER AFTER 9:00PM)
Galley Hours for Saturday November 19th, 2011, [...]
LEVEL EATER 2
NOVEMBER 18th & 19th, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION: NOVEMBER 18TH, 2011 AT 6:00PM TO 9:00PM
LIVE MUSIC STARTING AT 9:00PM to 11:00PM
($5 COVER AFTER 9:00PM)
Galley Hours for Saturday November 19th, 2011, 12:00pm to 6:00pm
Work by:
Ben Carney, Carl Baratta, Caroline Carlsmith, Daniel Everett, Grant Reynolds, Jake Myers, Jenn Wilson, Jenny Kendler, Jeriah Hildwine, Jesse [...]
November 19, 2011
2612 W. Nelson, 3rd floor, Chicago, IL
Opening Saturday, November 19th, from 6PM – 10PM
On view through Sunday, November 20th
Six artists explore the phenomenon of wholeness through the transformation from an existing state to a preferred one. In the method of recursion, repetitive steps are taken based on previous steps. Forming solutions in [...]
November 19, 2011
400 South Peoria Street
Opening Saturday, November 19th, from 2PM – 5PM
Public Collectors is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums, and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible. Public Collectors asks individuals that have had the [...]
November 18, 2011
2153 W 21st Street
Opening Friday, November 18th, from 6PM – 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 17th
Theodore Horner has been studying American History. He has been drawing portraits of 18th and 19th century presidents. He has also been collaborating with Jason Dunda. To ensure that his collection of portraits is cohesive, Theodore drew [...]
November 12, 2011
2154 West Division Street, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Saturday, November 12th, at 1PM
On view through Saturday, November 12th
Please join us for coffee, cookies, and a conversation about painting and Scott Stack’s exhibition City of the Future.
Special thanks to Letizia’s Natural Bakery for providing coffee and cookies and to AAA Rental Systems for providing seating.
November 12, 2011
7714 N. Sherdian Rd. Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, November 12th, from 6PM – 9PM
On view through Friday, December 30th
Iceberg Projects is proud to announce the opening of ‘Modernity: Embedding the Art and Advocacy of Margaret Burroughs’, an upcoming exhibition by Chicago-based artist, Faheem Majeed. As the former executive director of the South [...]
November 11, 2011
1550 N Milwaukee, 2nd floor
Opening Friday, November 11th, from 7PM – 11PM
On view through Friday, November 4th
Heaven Gallery welcomes an exhibition of new work by Scott Jarrett. In the Lining is an exhibition of reworked and reconsidered materials, objects, and histories selected by Jarrett according to a set of rules and regulations [...]
November 11, 2011
3319 N Broadway, Chicago IL
Opening Friday, November 11th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, January 14th
Golden Gallery is pleased to announce “Honor Among”, a solo exhibition of artwork by Doug Ischar featuring large-scale photographs of The Eagle, a San Francisco leather bar (1987), alongside a single-channel video (2007). Both illustrate key themes of [...]
November 10, 2011
Madlener House, 4 West Burton Place, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, November 10th, from 6 PM – 8 PM
On view through Saturday, December 17th
In addition to the exhibition Nancy Holt: Sightlines, the Graham Foundation is pleased to present Arch, a project by artist Holly Downing and typographer Jack Stauffacher in its library from November [...]
November 10, 2011
23 E. Madison, Chicago, Il.
Opening Thursday, November 10th, from 5PM – 8PM
On view through Wednesday, November 30th
Artists presented: Keith Buchholz, Alejandro Cesarco, Derek Chan, Chelsea Culp, Iker Gil, Amber Ginsburg and Lia Rousett, Jason Lazarus, Adelheid Mers, Judd Morrissey and Mark Jeffery, Sabina Ott, Jan Tichy, Julie Walsh.
Daily activities include 50 pairs [...]
Mess Hall is currently organizing a series of events that trace the flows of capital, material resources, networks or relations of power, etc. Events are open to a variety of formats and timeframes: lectures or mini-presentations, screenings or workshops, performances of all types. They can follow the flow of
a resource from origin through consumption to [...]
On 11/11/11 in collaboration with Half Acre Brewing Company, we are releasing a commemorative Lumpen 20th Anniversary beer called The Chairman.
On 11/11/11 in collaboration with Half Acre Brewing Company, we are releasing a commemorative Lumpen 20th Anniversary beer called The Chairman.
The Chairman is a very limited release. It’s an Imperial Red Ale created to remember the men and [...]
November 9, 2011 11:00 pm
400 South Peoria Street
Opening Wednesday, November 9th, from 5 PM – 6:30PM
LaToya Ruby Frazier (born 1982) explores her family’s intergenerational lineage through photographs and videos that blur the line between self-portraiture and social documentary. By appearing on both sides of the camera and engaging her mother as a co-creator of her [...]
November 8, 2011 11:00 pm
400 South Peoria St., Chicago IL
Opening Tuesday, November 8th, from 6PM – 8PM
Join us at Gallery 400 for an evening of cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, artist performances, and music by Latham Zearfoss (MFA, 2011) of Chances Dances. Acquaint or reacquaint yourself with Gallery 400 as Director Lorelei Stewart discusses the Gallery’s innovative programming [...]
November 6, 2011 11:00 pm
5811 S. Ellis Ave.
Opening Sunday, November 6th, from 2PM – 4PM
Mike Edison is the former publisher of High Times, a Hustler and Penthouse scribe, and the former editor-in-chief of Screw magazine. This performance/reading celebrates the release of Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! of Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers – AN AMERICAN TALE OF [...]
November 5, 2011 11:00 pm
1955 w. Chicago Ave, Chicago IL, 60622
Opening Saturday, November 5th, at 6PM
On view through Wednesday, January 4th
Hinge Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of two solo shows by artist Cole Pierce and Rusty Shackleford on Saturday, November 5th, 2011 from 6 – 9 pm at 1955 West Chicago Avenue.
Since receiving his MFA [...]
November 4, 2011 11:00 pm
1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, November 4th, from 6PM – 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 11th
Jaime Raybin and Ryan Hogan are material-driven installation artists working with ambiguous specimen-like forms. Their exhibition “Suspension” fuses art and biology, and features exclusively self-illuminating work. The show runs November 4 through December 11, [...]
November 4, 2011
217 N Carpenter St. Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, November 4th, from 6PM – 9PM
On view through Friday, December 2nd
“Aftermath”, an exhibition of 5 BOLT Residents co-curated by the husband-and-wife team Jeriah Hildwine and Stephanie Burke.
Aftermath refers to what is left behind after an event, especially a destructive event, or an extinction. The artists in [...]
November 1, 2011
400 South Peoria Street, Chicago IL
Opening Tuesday, November 1st, from 6PM – 8PM
Nov 1st 2011
Book Release Party Steve Reinke’s The Shimmering Beast
@ Gallery 400
400 South Peoria Street, Chicago IL
Opening Tuesday, November 1st, from 6PM – 8PM
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Steve Reinke’s book The Shimmering Beast is out now. Join us for an evening of readings [...]
November 1, 2011
217 N. Carpenter Street, Chicago Chicago, IL
Opening Tuesday, November 1st, from 6PM – 8:30PM
BOLT resident Amber Hawk Swanson will present “Online Comments (August 2007 – August 2011)” a performance that responds to early press for her “Amber Doll Project” (2008) on November 1 from 6-8:30pm in the BOLT Project Space (217 N. [...]
