Robin Dluzen Many people, from both inside and outside of our city, have told me that Chicago is broken. I’ve sat through panel after panel, and have read article after article complaining about art writing in Chicago and pointing fingers at one another as to who’s to blame. I’m not interested in joining those ranks [...]
Jeriah Hildwine If I had a spirit animal, it would be the Komodo dragon: the master of the slow kill. The Komodo dragon takes game much larger than itself by a rather unique method. The Komodo dragon isn’t venomous. However, the Komodo dragon has rather poor oral hygiene. It feeds on meat, especially carrion, and [...]
-Sponsored Post- “The most unusual thing about public art, and the thing that makes it so different from a conventional art practice, is that you don’t make your own art. It’s made by fabricators.” National Metal Fabricators offers laser-cut, custom metal fabrication. Their 50,000 square foot manufacturing center provides a space and capacity to take [...]
Stephen Knudsen Linda Warren's Los Angeles house gallery SK: Linda, I think some may be surprised to know that Chicago’s Linda Warren Projects actually started as Linda Warren Gallery in 1997 in your home in Los Angeles while you were still working in the film industry. I am picturing the gallery, a swimming pool, film [...]
Alexandra Kadlec To experiment with space in the name of art is to stretch our collective definitions of what is private and public, individual and shared, personal and political. At The Fenn House, an 18-room Victorian mansion in Hyde Park and home to Southside Hub of Production, explorations into these and many other concepts are [...]
Robin Dluzen Woodward's "Huron Street" 71"x87" Graphite and coffee on Paper, 2011 The gritty, aggressive, large-scale works of Matthew Woodward are a kind of contemporary art anomaly. Without that self-conscious level of remove that dominates much of contemporary work created by artists with their terminal degrees, Woodward’s practice is centered around an unabashedly emotional drive. [...]
-Sponsored Post- "moving forward" by Diane Nelson Art and biology have been inexorably intertwined since the earliest stages of humanity. Historically, humans have used depictions of the human body to not only tell stories, but also to understand our physiology. From The Woman of Willendorf, to Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp to [...]
From the archives of when Chicago Art Magazine’s Founder and Publisher Kathryn Born was at the helm of the Chicago Now blog. This post was originally published on September 30th, 2009. Critical Inquiry performed by Candice Weber A recent portrait of the former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin brought together images of fluffy clouds, rainbows, cute animals, and a [...]
Monica Nickolai “If you are a student in grades 6-12 who lives in Chicago, and you can’t afford to pay for art courses elsewhere, you are invited to take art courses at Marwen for free.” Although these words may sound like an online scam, they actually appear on the website for Marwen, a dynamic artistic [...]
From the archives of when Chicago Art Magazine’s Founder and Publisher Kathryn Born was at the helm of the Chicago Now blog. This post was originally published on June 20th, 2009. Joyce Owens Before you get started with this, let me clarify that I am talking about artists who are still selling work at moderate prices through art [...]
