From “Best of Chicago Art Magazine”, Nov. 2009 caption id=”attachment_1631″ align=”alignleft” width=”300″ caption=”Chicago-Photography-Collective”][/caption] Carley Demchuk Recently, an organization called the Chicago Loop Alliance began exhibiting art in the loop’s abandoned storefronts. Of the three current exhibition venues, there is no real overarching theme connecting one artist’s work to another’s, other than the general goal of [...]
From “Best of Chicago Art Magazine”, originally posted 11/2009 On Monday, November 9th, Site Unseen (2009): (Dis)abling Conditions, a one night only event, occurred at the Chicago Cultural Center. Chicago Art Magazine sent the Friday Night Army to get “boots on the ground” coverage. Present at the event were: Senior FNA & CAM Critic Erik [...]
From “Best of Chicago Art Magazine”, originally posted 11/2009 On Monday, November 9th, Site Unseen (2009): (Dis)abling Conditions, a one night only event, occurred at the Chicago Cultural Center. Chicago Art Magazine sent the Friday Night Army to get “boots on the ground” coverage. Present at the event were: Senior FNA & CAM Critic Erik [...]
From “Best of Chicago Art Magazine”, originally posted 11/2009 On Monday, November 9th, Site Unseen (2009): (Dis)abling Conditions, a one night only event, occurred at the Chicago Cultural Center. Chicago Art Magazine sent the Friday Night Army to get “boots on the ground” coverage. Present at the event were: Senior FNA & CAM Critic Erik [...]
From “Best of Chicago Art Magazine”, Nov. 2009 Jeriah Hildwine “Politics is Like Trying to Screw a Cat in the Ass” – Charles Bukowski, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories, 1983 If in real life politics is difficult and unpleasant at best, in art it is if anything more troublesome. Give a [...]
-Sponsored Post- Eyeporium Gallery – 1431 N Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago’s Wicker Park Kass Copeland, Space Dreamer, 2009. Three collage artists exquisitely reconstruct realities to express their most individual views in Revisionists’ Realities. Kass Copeland relies on narratives from her childhood, stating, “Words have always evoked images for me,” and frequently uses popular fairy tales, [...]
Gretchen Holmes Three years ago, I had my first bikini wax in preparation for my re-performance of Carolee Schneemann’s “Interior Scroll,” a piece she debuted in 1975 that has endured as a simultaneously cliché and outré icon of feminist body art. The gesture was, first and foremost, an attempt to convey my commitment to engaging [...]
-sponsored post- Laura Coyle, Hornbill. Conte crayons and watercolor. Gethsemane’s first annual art fair. Saturday August 14 – 10AM-5PM Sunday August 15 – 10:00AM- 4PM 5739 N Clark St, Andersonville This is shaping up to be one of the most lovely, home grown art fairs of the season. Gethsemane couldn’t hold back a love for art that [...]
Regena Vanostberg (Satire) When Masque Gallery was forced to close its doors in the spring of 2009, owner and curator E. Myrus found himself not only without a gallery, but also without a home. Myrus had maintained a steady schedule of exhibitions out of his Humboldt Park apartment for two years until the simultaneous desertion [...]
[This made the "Best of" List because I really miss I Space and seeing this great show brought back memories of a gallery I don't want people to forget. Originally posted 9/17/09] Candice Weber Bonnie Fortune and I-Space, the Chicago gallery of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have put together an impressive exhibition of [...]
