Rachel Hewitt There are plenty of stories and stereotypes about student/teacher relationships, particularly in an art school setting where professors tend to be more informal, and where time spent together generally extends beyond a twice a week lecture with several hundred students in attendance. What happens however, when clichés become reality? What happens when universities [...]
Victor M. Cassidy Crazy Lovestory, Biennale Korea 2009, winner of the Special Prize Working row by row, somewhat like a mason, Maria ten Kortenaar builds squares and rectangles of Limoges porcelain into open-topped cylindrical objects that are about the size of quart paint cans. Each square or rectangle is an individual unit, outlined in blue [...]
A brief introduction to Plein Air Painters of Chicago by Beck Anstee, originally posted on PAPChicago.com: Scott Tallman Powers at work Formed in 2003 by painter, Scott Tallman Powers, the Plein Air Painters of Chicago is a free, voluntary, informal association of artists who paint together on Saturday mornings in the Chicago area. Our membership consists [...]
Jeriah Hildwine Patrick Bobilin 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 [...]
Victor M. Cassidy John Henry's "Bridgeport" (1984) What’s a sculptor to do? Sculpture is tough to sell: most dealers won’t touch it. Marketing on one’s own is a chore and a distraction. Problems multiply as the sculptor’s scale increases. But wait—can’t sculptors get Percent for Art commissions? Don’t they place big pieces in airports and [...]
Victor M. Cassidy John Henry's "Bridgeport" (1984) What’s a sculptor to do? Sculpture is tough to sell: most dealers won’t touch it. Marketing on one’s own is a chore and a distraction. Problems multiply as the sculptor’s scale increases. But wait—can’t sculptors get Percent for Art commissions? Don’t they place big pieces in airports and [...]
Victor M. Cassidy John Henry's "Bridgeport" (1984) What’s a sculptor to do? Sculpture is tough to sell: most dealers won’t touch it. Marketing on one’s own is a chore and a distraction. Problems multiply as the sculptor’s scale increases. But wait—can’t sculptors get Percent for Art commissions? Don’t they place big pieces in airports and [...]
-Sponsored Post- Morris Shapiro, Park West Gallery Director Csaba Markus, Agape Vergina, 2006 | Park West Galleries Collection In the contemporary world of art a battle is raging. As the 20th Century clicked over to the 21st, it provided a convenient demarcation point for this struggle, but it has really been ongoing for at least [...]
Susan Du After the dawn of the Information Age, galleries have moved online, code is considered poetry and Java is fast becoming the lingua franca of international online art. As new media artists in Chicago further erode barriers between technology and fine art, they’re spanning continents to reach out to others with the same idea. [...]
