Tamara Dolyniuk In the heart of one of Chicago’s most vibrant emerging art communities, Pilsen, new opportunities have surfaced for artists that challenge the convention of the traditional gallery. In addition to the abundance of store front pop-up spaces, other local business owners are also promoting the many artists that Pilsen is home to through [...]
W. Keith Brown KEN (Karen Lange, Elena Katsulis, Nikki Zaleski) performing "Revelation 13:2-8" Dispatch is the brainchild of longtime Bucktown resident and artist / educator Karen Lange. It is a small modular apartment gallery and creative space just west of I-90 on the corner of Hermitage Avenue and Cortland Street. A few years ago, after [...]
W. Keith Brown KEN (Karen Lange, Elena Katsulis, Nikki Zaleski) performing "Revelation 13:2-8" Dispatch is the brainchild of longtime Bucktown resident and artist / educator Karen Lange. It is a small modular apartment gallery and creative space just west of I-90 on the corner of Hermitage Avenue and Cortland Street. A few years ago, after [...]
Anthony Brass These artists create and provoke deeper thought, taking inanimate objects and breathing new life into them, yielding a resurrected meaning of what they potentially symbolize together. Here are three local installation and mixed media artists with novel approaches to space and material. Their choices in objects and symbols could be, at first, thought [...]
Expo Chicago's President and Director Tony Karman, speaking at the Preview Event (Note: You can also find our interview with Karman when the show was announced) Jeriah Hildwine Overhead, steel struts crisscross the arched ceiling of the massive structure. I am surrounded by suits and slinky dresses, painted faces and ikebana hairdos. This is the [...]
Originally posted on Chicago Art Collection, and part of “Best of Chicago Art Magazine,” May 26, 2011. Rachel Hewitt Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University We’ve previously discussed the role of art museums as educational resources for the public. What then of university art museums, specifically? It would be fair to [...]
Part of “Best of Chicago Art Magazine,” originally posted May 23, 2011. Carrie McGath Interior of DfbrL8r Walking into Defibrillator (aka: DfbrL8r) Performance Art Space, there is a feeling of noir, like walking into a black and white world that barely waits below the surface to come to life. The edgy performances that have happened [...]
Part of “Best of Chicago Art Magazine,” originally posted March 31, 2011. Yolanda Green Chicago Art Magazine wanted to find out which painters were making an impact in the art scene so we contacted a number of artists about who they think readers should know about. We asked Scott Wolniak, known for his experiments with [...]
Heather Reitsma A painting studio at Palette and Chisel Walking through the elderly and wise 1870s mansion that Palette and Chisel has called home since 1921, one is transported to a time when a young Chicago was finding itself, and finding itself among the international art community. Once a flop house, a group of Art [...]
