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Archive for December, 2011

Moves Thinks Repeats Pauses @ Tony Wight Gallery

January 6, 2011
845 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago IL 60607
Opening Friday, January 6th, from 6PM – 8PM
On view through Saturday, February 25th

Work by Dylan Bailey, Andy Cahill, John Houck, Colin Oulighan, Min Song, and Suara Welitoff.

The Art Museo @ Art Museo

December 30, 2011
5300 N. River Road (Inside InterContinental Chicago O’Hare)
Opening Friday, December 30th, from 12PM – 3PM
On view through Saturday, March 3rd

THE ART MUSEO AT INTERCONTINENTAL O’HARE TO FEATURE ARTISTS FROM SCHOOL OF ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

Rotating Exhibit Showcases Chicago’s Top Fine Art Students, Schools

Rosemont, IL (December 16, 2011) – The Art Museo at the InterContinental [...]

JAP # 8 is Online

One of our all time favorite publications, The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, has just released the online version of the long awaited issue #8. The theme:

No other time than here
No other place than now

From JAP:
As witnessed by the amazing and meaningful mutation of the #Occupy movement, these are transformative times. In editing this issue [...]

Elliot Reed: Till The World Ends @ Kirk’s Apartment

December 16, 2011 11:00 pm
3710 N Marshfield, 1E
Opening Friday, December 16th, from 7PM – 10PM
On view through Friday, December 23rd

http://kirksapartment.tumblr.com

Jake Myers: Short Court @ it’sa_pony projects

December 17, 2011 11:00 pm
2844 W Dickens
Opening Saturday, December 17th, from 7PM – 10PM
On view through Saturday, December 17th

足球 ,ποδόσφαιρο, voetbal, Fußball, le football, calico, futebol, футбол, fútbol, football, soccer. Whatever you may call it, the current installation Short Court by artist Jake Myers explores the interplay between player, spectatorship, and the specific spatial limitations [...]

Karsten Lund ~ Strange Weather, Vague Suspicions @ PEREGRINEPROGRAM

December 17, 2011 11:00 pm
3311 W Carroll Ave. #119, Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Saturday, December 17th, from 2PM – 4PM
On view through Sunday, January 22nd

PEREGRINEPROGRAM is pleased to present new works by Karsten Lund. Developed over the past two years, this group of collages and larger set of small drawings arise from parallel processes that combine repeating, [...]

Ding Dong @ Terrain

December 17, 2011 11:00 pm
704 Highland Ave. Oak Park, IL
Opening Saturday, December 17th, from 3PM – 6PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st

Terrain presents a new work by Michelle Grabner and Brad Killiam. Michelle Grabner is an artist and writer. She is also is a corresponding editor for X-tra and ArtUS. Her writing has been published in Artforum, [...]

Center for Experimental Lectures – Anthony Elms, Edie Fake and Andy Roche @ Alderman Exhibitions

December 17, 2011 11:00 pm
350 N Ogden Ave. Fourth Floor
Opening Saturday, December 17th, from 7PM – 10PM

Alderman Exhibitions is please to host the Center for Experimental Lectures in its inaugural event with presentations by Anthony Elms, Edie Fake, and Andy Roche. The program will feature three new lecture/performances by these creative producers followed by an open [...]

Jordan Martins’ “Strange Attractions” @ Elastic Arts Foundation

Jordan Martins, “Strange Attractions” @ Elastic Arts Foundation, 2830 N. Milwaukee, 2nd Fl
Thursday, Dec 15, 8 – 10 pm

Strange Attractions is a project based the Chicago-specific tradition of hand-painted, block-letter grocery signs which have come to be associated with Hispanic markets.   By exaggerating the expressive colors and gestural rhythms of [...]

Under_Monster @ Co-Prosperity Sphere

Juan Chavez directed his students to do this installation in the front window of the Co-Prosperity Sphere. Reception 6-9 this Friday.

Living Book, 2011

Our friends Plural, in collaboration with The Center for Book Technology, will be exhibiting Living Book, 2011 at Carrie Secrist Gallery Project Room December 10, 2011 – January 15, 2012. In addition to our work in the Project Room, Derek Chan will be exhibiting his stunning work in the main gallery.

at Carrie Secrist Gallery
835 W. Washington Blvd / Chicago, IL

Opening [...]

Semi-Permanent Program @ Gallery 400

December 7, 2011
400 S. Peoria Street
Opening Wednesday, December 14th, at 7PM

We humans are proud of the material accretion of our thinking—the objects and writings that represent our particular experience. We’re especially fond of amassing, grouping, and pondering the leavings. It can be dangerous to be so fond, not only due to the threat of [...]

Holiday Party @ Hinge Gallery

December 14, 2011
1955 W Chicago Avenue, Chicago IL, 60622
Opening Wednesday, December 14th, from 6PM – 9PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st

Hinge Gallery will be open late – until 9 pm – Wednesday, December 14th. Join us for a Holiday Party at Hinge with affordable art for sale, special deals, holiday cookies, refreshments, and more! This [...]

Artist Talk with Cole Pierce & Rusty Shackleford @ Hinge Gallery

December 10, 2011
1955 W. Chicago Avenue, Chicago IL, 60622
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 2PM – 3:30PM
On view through Saturday, January 8th

Join us Saturday, December 10th at 2 pm for a casual artist talk with Cole Pierce and Rusty Shackleford. Both artists will discuss their recent work currently on view in a two-person exhibition at Hinge [...]

FLAT 11 @ Floor Length and Tux

December 10, 2011
2332 W. Augusta #3 front, Chicago
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 7PM – 10PM

FLAT 11 will feature new work from Chuck Jones, Danielle Paz and Frank Pollard, alongside resident FLAT artists Catie Olson and EC Brown.

CHUCK JONES will present a series of large ink drawings of fantasy landscapes with falling trucks and bad architecture.

http://www.babygorilla.com/

DANIELLE PAZ [...]

Autumn Space Presents Tony Lewis @ Autumn Space Gallery

December 10, 2011
1700 W Irving Park #207 Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Saturday, December 10th, at 6PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st

Once again I find myself in the position of a considerate provocateur. However, I presumably behave as one should (as I imagine most people do) and adapt to the limitations and expectations of a kind [...]

Decompositions, new works by Emily Green @ Happy Collaborationists Exhibition Space

December 10, 2011
1254 N Noble

Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 6PM – 10PM
On view through Friday, December 30th

Decompositions is an exploration of decay and deterioration both natural and coerced. Through a variety of time-intensive processes Emily Green takes on the roles of excavator, biologist and meditator, experimenting with organic and synthetic materials while examining the… [...]

ACRE Country Fair @ Heaven Gallery

December 9, 2011
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622

Opening Friday, December 9th, from 7PM – 11PM
On view through Friday, December 9th

Its ACRE’s annual escape to the Country! Cowboys and cowgirls, shine up your spurs, polish your boots and pick out your best plaid for a night of art, music, and dancing! The night [...]

W.M. FitzPatrick: Survey @ Casualiving

December 9, 2011
119 N Peoria St. 3B Chicago IL
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 6 PM – 11 PM
On view through Thursday, January 5th

New work by William W. Fitzpatrick.

Tell Tale Signs @ Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery

December 9, 2011
1120 N. Ashland Ave.
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 5PM – 8PM
On view through Saturday, January 21st

It is with great pleasure that Corbett vs. Dempsey presents Tell Tale Signs, an exhibition of new paintings by ART GREEN.

A member of the original Hairy Who exhibition group, which showed at the Hyde Park Art Center (1966- 1968) [...]

Zacharias Abubeker: A Few Metaphors for Distance @ ACRE Projects

December 4, 2011
1913 W 17th Street, Chicago, IL
Opening Sunday, December 4th, from 4PM – 8PM
On view through Monday, December 5th

A FEW METAPHORS FOR DISTANCE is an exhibition of work exploring the artist’s connection to Ethiopia. The son of an Ethiopian immigrant, Zacharias Abubeker began the process of learning about his cultural heritage four years [...]

I am the Queen @ LVL3

December 4, 2011
1542 N. Milwaukee Ave, 3rd Floor Chicago, Illinois 60622
Opening Sunday, December 4th, from 5:30PM – 8PM
On view through Sunday, December 4th

A film by
Henrique Cirne-Lima & Josue Pellot

I am The Queen takes a look at the often unobserved life of Chicago’s Puerto Rican transgender community. This film documents the Cacique Pageant, the first annual [...]

Communal Aesthetics Vs. Communal Practices: A Panel Discussion @ Iceberg Projects

December 4, 2011
7714 N. Sheridan Rd.
Opening Sunday, December 4th, from 2PM – 4PM
On view through Friday, December 30th

In conjunction with ‘Modernity: Embedding the Art and Advocacy of Margaret Burroughs’, Faheem Majeed and Iceberg Projects present a panel discussion entitled ‘Communal Aesthetics Vs. Communal Practices.’ The aim of CAvCP is to critically discuss the [...]