Steve was featured in Issue 003 of Proximity.  We are excited about his new show in LA at the Charlie James Gallery.

Steve Lambert solo show walkthrough from Steve Lambert on Vimeo.

We have been working hard to make this spring happening.
For one we are releasing our one year anniversary issue (#004) this Friday, April 24 at the big Version Festival shindig taking place at the Co-Prosperity Sphere. It will be one nice feature of an action packed evening we have been planning for months. We hope [...]

The type of signs, billboards, historical markers and monuments that dominate public space inform us greatly about the culture and the politics that we live under.

In this, our second-ever lit supplement– curated by Mairead Case – please enjoy…

I am a chronically sleep-deprived art teacher in a Chicago public school, and it’s been a tense two weeks…

Directory of organizations, resources, links and spaces related to the study and practice of architecture in Chicago.

The fist time I went to Central New York state was the first time I knew where it was. The first time I heard about Sudan on the news was the first time I knew where it was, and what was on the nearby borders. Our personal maps of the world are continuously changing. Through [...]

James Jankowiak, William Betts, Katerina Šedá, Shawn May, Chuck Walker, Chang Jia, Jason Hackenwerth all reviewed by Art Fag.

Henry Darger Exhibition – INTUIT – Jan-Jun, 2008

Various Artists – Phantom Galleries, Chicago – February 2008

Sonny’s Café At the School of the Art Institute, Chicago – Feb 21,2008

Various Artists – MCA (Chicago) – Winter/Spring 2008

Various Artists – Museum of Contemporary Photography – Spring 2008

Indexical Frontiers, featuring Adelheid Mers – Inova Gallery – Spring 2008

For more than thirty years, a close relation of mine has worked in the shipping and receiving department of a non-unionized factory in Pennsylvania.

…Cats, no babies, flagellation, flatulation, fraggleation, actually we are the fraggle nation. Ok, ok, serious now…

The space was completely raw before we moved in, so we had to create a “gallery” within an industrial space.

There is a very strong sense of a creative community at AS220. We operate under the philosophy is that everyone has the right to creative expression.

It was a pragmatic decision to interleaf daily life with art. It was a political decision to bring the contemporary avant-garde to the suburbs.

“I get friends to do shows in my apartment that I get to live with; I ask people to come give lectures that I’m present for…”

“This is my studio… I’ve converted it into a cafe for four hours a day, serving art students coffee and hopefully engaging them…

…at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum, Stephanie Smith has organized articulate exhibitions marked by expansive investigations of focused themes.

Relationships within a group can bring additional challenges, especially when they disintegrate.

The city stretches for miles, a Cartesian fabric of right angles only occasionally interrupted by an errant diagonal.

According to Andre Breton’s 1929 “Surrealist Map of the World,” the USA is missing.

Only a bunch of artists would start a new art magazine in the throes of a recession. But someone has to do it. Because, sure—the economy is receding and politics are rent, but cultural production in Chicago is surging yet again. [ Read More... ]