Dee Clements Ten x Ten band, Netherfriends Over the course of 2010, Homeroom Chicago and Spudnik Press, two non-profit organizations dedicated to the arts in Chicago, developed a project called Ten x Ten that brought together 10 Chicago bands and 10 Chicago artists/printmakers to cultivate a creative collaborative relationship. Printmakers were invited to select a [...]
Happenstance Constellations: On the Chicago Art School Community and the Evolving Expansion of MFA Thesis Exhibitions Stephanie Cristello As most of us are already very much aware, the Chicago art community is chiefly composed of art school alumni from some of the very major institutions housed around the city. The art circuit here is a [...]
Laura Schell Group photo at Urban Art Retreat Just off the pink line in North Lawndale is a house that at first glance appears like any other. It is a two-story red brick with a fenced in yard on the corner of W. 21st Street and Spaulding Avenue. But if these walls could talk they [...]
Laura Schell Group photo at Urban Art Retreat Just off the pink line in North Lawndale is a house that at first glance appears like any other. It is a two-story red brick with a fenced in yard on the corner of W. 21st Street and Spaulding Avenue. But if these walls could talk they [...]
Yolanda Green We asked about 50 Chicago artists to name at least 5 of their favorite local painters. Then, we tallied up those who were mentioned the most and who seemed to be making the most impact on the scene. There were some painters who received quite a few mentions. Those people are: Dana DeGiulio [...]
Jeriah Hildwine Vincent Uribe is the Director of LVL3 Gallery—a live-work space he is reluctant to call an apartment galley—in the former location of Scott Projects in Wicker Park. This article is the second half of an interview I conducted with Vincent via email. Having gotten Vincent’s background and the story of how he started [...]
Jeriah Hildwine Vincent Uribe is the Director of LVL3 Gallery—a live-work space he is reluctant to call an apartment galley—in the former location of Scott Projects in Wicker Park. This article is the second half of an interview I conducted with Vincent via email. Having gotten Vincent’s background and the story of how he started [...]
40 over 40, artists exhibiting at Ethereal Fauna: The Artist’s Muse 2011 Ethereal Fauna: The Artist’s Muse 2011 is an investigation by Chicago area artists of the inner animal muse within each of us. Artists have created unique metaphorical portraits of his/her animal spirit, or that of another person, place, thing, or even society as [...]
Dee Clements Steven Frost, Monument for Jorge Steven Frost appropriates the combination of male stereotypes and theatricality that defines professional wrestling and boxing using a boastful elocution of craft and textile. His medium and subject matter create a visual tension that teeters on playful kitsch and gender identity. He is part of a generation of [...]
Victor M. Cassidy Mitchell's "Thin As Her Skin," smoke on paper Dennis Lee Mitchell wanted to be a painter, but went into clay after a teacher in art school declared that he had no gift for the brush. He made ceramics for years, but recently changed his work, showing decorated plates and semi-abstract drawings at [...]
