Stephen Knudsen Matt Irie, Department Compartments, acrylic latex on panel 40" x 41", 2011 private collection. Used with permission of artist. http://ebersmoore.com/irie2011.html At first glance it is easy to sense something familiar and rational in a Matt Irie painting, but closer inspection reveals something unfamiliar and even improbable. His solo show You Are The Vanishing [...]
by Stephanie Cristello Chicago has a very haunted history. Although, whether or not that has to do with the recent art being made on the scene is suspect. Lately, it seems that a lot of artists have taken a drink of the black magic kool-aid, from reference to occult superstition, mysticism, alchemy, and ritualistic processes, [...]
Clearly Shawnee Barton’s story – where she tells the story about having her video art rejected from a festival she never entered – really struck a chord with our readers. So we’re going to open up our inboxes to anyone’s personal tale of disaster stories in the visual art realm. So, just in time for [...]
Aleece Dewald "Art is… Figurative" exhibition at Deerpath The name implies more of an exclusive club than an art gallery, and, in a way, that assumption is correct. To present artwork in the Lake Forest gallery that has been around for more than fifty years, people must first be gallery members: no exceptions. However, this [...]
Aleece Dewald "Art is… Figurative" exhibition at Deerpath The name implies more of an exclusive club than an art gallery, and, in a way, that assumption is correct. To present artwork in the Lake Forest gallery that has been around for more than fifty years, people must first be gallery members: no exceptions. However, this [...]
Erica Peplin Technology is a field typically associated with smooth screens, organized interfaces, and on a larger scale, with the pride and “progress” of western civilization. Dirty New Media, a branch of New Media Art, seeks to subvert these unquestioned assumptions by problematizing, rather than idealizing, common technologies. The “dirty” stems from the movement’s deliberate [...]
Jeriah Hildwine From POST-SMITHSON Patrick Bobilin ran Noble and Superior Projects, with Erin Nixon, from 2009 until June 2011. From New York, Bobilin earned his BA in 2008 from Hampshire College, in Sculpture, Film, and Philosophy, minoring in Physics and Music. After graduating he flew to Berlin to work as an assistant for an artist who [...]
Carrie McGath The artist, Young Cho, with her work and a visitor. Photos: Vicky Yen of Stubborn Stone Productions Angela Bryant, the Director of Exhibitions at Dominican University’s O’Connor Art Gallery, spoke to me in an interview about the significance of this River Forest, Illinois space in the realm of contemporary art. Its current exhibition, [...]
Carrie McGath The mission of Gallery Swarm “has but one guiding principle: anyone can be an artist.” This young gallery was started in 2010 by painter, Samuel Gillis. Its short history already shows its deep cooperative spirit. “I would call it an artistic cooperative,” said Glendy X. Mattalia, who runs the gallery with Sam. “There [...]
