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Alienated Production
by Erik Wenzel
Liam Gillick at Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)
October 10th - January 10th, 2010
Posted
10/19/09
"Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario" is the midcareer survey of New York and London-based artist Liam Gillick. The show takes on the idea of what a mid-career survey is, as its subject. In dealing with institutions Gillick has a propensity for problematizing the relationship between artist and venue. For each stop of the exhibition, he “gifted” half of the space back to the venue. This forced the interactions between artist and curator out into the open. Gillick contributed four ele... [more]
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Luis Gispert: Kind of American
by Dan Gunn
Luis Gispert at Rhona Hoffman Gallery
September 9th - October 11th
Posted
9/21/09
Luis Gispert’s exhibition “You’re my favorite kind of American” on view at Rhona Hoffman Gallery until October 17th is dominated by an intriguing video installation titled “Rene”. Split between three wall sized screens the video chronicles the daily activities of a workingman. The older middle-aged gentleman lives and works in a derelict restaurant supply shop. The camera zooms in on his weathered hands as he turns over the equipment searching for the correct fi... [more]
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Bright Branches
by Dan Gunn
Jessica Labatte at Scott Projects
September 12th - September 25th
Posted
9/21/09
Jessica Labatte’s photography in “Bright Branches” at Scott Projects presents a humorous approach to twisted and transcendental still lifes. (Untitled) Space Weeds is a digital print of a still life with requisite vase and flowers on a table plus pink balloons and a ripped out magazine image of a supernova. The vase and flowers cast a blue hue on the wall and the balloons languid pink echoes in the burst of the supernova. Nearby is a related shot called Poster an image of... [more]
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The Heart and Soul of Nature
by Marla Seidell
Julia Hechtman at Devening Projects + Editions
August 30th - October 10th
Posted
9/14/09
On view until October 10, Julia Hechtman's "Irrationalism" photographs at Dan Devening Projects present an inverted view into the heart and soul of nature. The crux of the exhibition are the six framed 31 x 39 photographs (all 2009) displayed in the 450 square foot room with old maple floors at Devening. The room is windowless which makes for a perfect gallery viewing, the large color photos against pristine white walls demand contemplation.Hechtman, who recently completed artist... [more]
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Reflection: a video program
by Erik Wenzel
Posted
9/7/09
It is critical today that exhibition strategies for time-based art are examined. Unlike a painting, sculpture, or photograph, if a video is 7 minutes and 30 seconds, that is exactly how long it takes to “see it.” There are also issues of gallery space, sound levels, light pollution and on. The current video program at Gallery 400 has an interesting approach in that the work of five artists “linked by their varying approaches to artist agency” are screened five days a week... [more]
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Overlap
by Robyn Farrell Roulo
Hisham Akira Bharoocha, Bjorn Copeland, Matt Irie, Alexis Mackenzie, HILARY PECIS, Brion Nuda Rosch, Tobacco, Eric Yahnker at ebers|B9
July 17th - August 15th
Posted
8/3/09
Chicago’s artistic landscape is a winding path with many stops along the way. From well-known galleries on Michigan Avenue and River North, to the cutting edge spaces in the West Loop, the city offers a variety of venues for art. Over the past decade some of the lesser known artistic communities have become a hotbed for alternative project spaces that lend a helping hand to struggling artists and gallerists alike. You may find art hanging on the walls of a favorite restaurant... [more]
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It All Depends on What the Meaning of the Word “Is” Is
by Erik Wenzel
Taylor Hokanson, Chris Reilly at Gallery Uno
July 10th - August 1st
Posted
7/20/09
It is always exhilarating to visit the Fine Arts Building. You step off the street of present day Chicago and are transported to the 1930s. After riding in a manually operated roller-coaster elevator that hurtles upward through the darkness, controlled by an expert driver, you arrive on the 5th floor of a building with dark wood trim everywhere and halls of doors with frosted glass that should have hand painted signs saying “private detective.”Instead of men in fedoras and snappy three-piece s... [more]
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Response to Response
by Kathryn Born
Conrad Bakker, FRED CAMPER, Janina Ciezadlo, Alicia Eler, Jason Foumberg, Dianna Frid, Carol Jackson, Claire Wolf Krantz, Christian Kuras, Duncan MacKenzie, Silvia Malagrino, Christopher Meerdo, Adelheid Mers, Corey Postiglione, Claire Prussian, Lane Relyea, Carrie Schneider, Polly Ullrich, Lori Waxman at I Space Gallery
April 24th - May 30th
Posted
5/6/09
The idea: art critics pair with artists, and let the artists have the final word.
"Response: Art and the Art of Criticism," was curated by the well-respected group Chicago Art Critics Association (CACA), with Polly Ulrich, Claire Wolf Krantz and Janina Ciezadlo as the "point people" for I Space Gallery. Expectations were high for the eighteen art critics and artists who were featured simultaneously. But the bloggers and reviews weren't lavishing praise.
Wrote Claudine Ise, of... [more]
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This is Not a Piece of Notebook Paper
by Kathryn Born
DennisSchommer, Julie Farstad, Karen Hanmer, Tom Huck, Teresa Mucha James, Michael Krueger, Anna Kunz, Jon Langford, Rich Lehl, Ashley Nason, Karen Savage, Jenny Schmid, Matt Schommer, Will Sturgis, Chris Uphues, Ian Weaver at Packer Schopf Gallery
February 20th - March 28th
Posted
3/1/09
In anticipation of the Southern Graphics Council (a major printmaking convention hosted by Columbia College in late March), Packer Schopf is hosting the group print show "Ce n'est pas un spectacle de caracteres (This is not a print show)." But, ah ha, it is a print show. It has a collection of prints from the artists of White Wings Press and a dozen other print artists.
Two things that stood out:
Rattail, 2007, by Matthew Schommer and William Strugis features a mouse and snake and boy with a hole... [more]
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Danes and a Mad Max Chandelier
by Kathryn Born
Nancy Genn, John Himmelfarb, Adi Holzer, Carrie Iverson, Carl Krull, Alexandra Loewe, Jennifer Mannebach, LUCY SLIVINSKI, Shawn Stucky at FLATFILEgalleries
February 20th - March 27th
Posted
3/1/09
FLATFILEgalleries looked spectacular, even from outside, on opening night. Lucy Slivinski's Inspired Terrain sculptures are generally over seven feet tall and are lighted, spiney, colorful and a combination of these things. Although I have grown truly weary of art made with recycled materials, her craftsmanship is refined enough to balance out the crudeness of the found materials. In Ornament, (see poorly-lit photo below), chipped reflector lights dangle like gemstones in a flurry of ben... [more]
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