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Voices & Visions
by Spertus
R.O. Blechman, Ivan Chermayeff, Seymour Chwast, Tom Geismar, Bob Gill, Milton Glaser, Carin Goldberg, Mervyn Kurlansky, Art Paul, Paula Scher, Henry Steiner, George Tscherny, Yarom Vardimon at Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
May 12th - August 11th
Posted
5/13/13
By STEVEN CHAITMAN
Design by Art Paul
Jewish artists and Jewish wisdom have combined inspirational forces in "Voices & Visions," a poster art exhibit making its way to Spertus Institute this month.
An initiative of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, Voices & Visions began its quest to communicate Jewish ideas through art by pairing Jewish graphic design artists with quotes from Jewish luminaries and classic texts. The result is a collection of 18 posters that will be open t... [more]
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Art review by Agni
by agnibond
Don't Fret at Johalla Projects
February 8th 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Posted
2/19/13
Don’t Fret’s work is carefree and hilarious not only through the characters but also through the texts. It depicts the common life of everyday people that encompasses the issues related to teenage, adulthood, old age, deprived sex-life, relationships, fights, etc. The works flirts with the genres of portrait, figurative and landscape painting (in terms of the setting they are in). Since they depicted scenes are closely related to us we can infer they are our biographies. Unlike Tim Arroyo th... [more]
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Lost Artists Colony - FIND'em! soon to be legend
by Nancy Bechtol
Lost Colony Artists, David Bechtol, Nancy Bechtol at Avondale Arts Fest
September 23rd, 2012 - September 23rd, 2012
Posted
9/23/12
just check this out on Oct 13. lucky number. amazing fun and art, music, food, and maybe you dancing too!
All media, all styles all really interesting works. come [more]
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'Trouble': Nicholas Sistler channels Kinsey porn
by Nicholas Sistler
Nicholas Sistler at Firecat Projects
April 27th, 2012 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Posted
4/23/12
Here's a link to an on-line article in the Chicago Reader. This previews the exhibition.
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/trouble-nicholas-sistler-channels-kinsey-porn/Content?oid=6104121 [more]
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Art Letter: Young Artists who Know, and Aren't Replicating, History by Paul Klein
by Robin Dluzen
Robin Dluzen at The Charnel House
February 3rd, 2012 - February 19th, 2012
Posted
8/27/12
Originally posted on ArtLetter.com
BY PAUL KLEIN ON FEBRUARY 2, 2012 5:08 PM
There's a lot of new talent emerging on the Chicago art scene, right now; talent that is art-historically knowledgeable and relevant. Artists are taking risks and galleries are following suite.
Antonia Gurkovska is a recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute and makes a worthy entrance, participating in two exhibits opening tonight. In a one-person show at Kavi Gupta, the... [more]
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43 Miles From Center: The Winter Opening at Water Street Studios - by Zachary Johnson
by Water Street Studios
Gallery Director, Steven Lockwood at Water Street Studios
January 28th, 2011 - May 14th, 2011
Posted
5/18/11
hen Water Street Studios first opened in its temporary space near the corner of Water Street and Wilson in Batavia, IL, my mind was filled with preconceptions about the art that would be on display. Having attended various art fairs in the western suburbs, I assumed the art of Water Street would be more of the same: nature photography, realistic paintings, and predictable abstraction. Upon entering I was taken aback. What was once my hometown’s candy store had become a space containing striking me... [more]
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Review: Light & Air/ Coalition Gallery by Regan Golden-McNerney
by Robin Dluzen
Robin Dluzen, Zach Mory, Connie Wolfe at Coalition Gallery - Chicago Artists' Coalition
November 12th, 2010 - December 3rd, 2010
Posted
8/25/12
Review: Light and Air/Coalition Gallery in New City
Robin Dluzen, detail from "Tower Support Grids (Chicago)," 2010, duct tape and silicone caulk on insulation board
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Ethereal can mean delicate, insubstantial, or otherworldly. In “Light and Air” at the Chicago Artists’ Coalition Gallery, each artist’s work reflects upon the different facets “ethereal.” Connie Wolfe’s abstract hand-cut ink-jet prints suspended just inches off the wall appear fragile and d... [more]
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Review: ian Weaver/Packer Schopf Gallery
by Ian Weaver
Ian Weaver at Packer Schopf Gallery
April 2nd, 2010 - May 8th, 2010
Posted
4/28/10
APR 05Review: Ian Weaver/Packer Schopf Gallery
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The African-American community of Chicago’s “Black Bottom” neighborhood, dispersed by white “urban renewal” in the 1950s, is presented here in a mix of faux historical documents, artifacts and maps, colliding a repertoire of symbols associating European racial and nationalist mythology withAfrican-American history and nationalism. There is a knight’s helmet, for instance, incorporating a raised Black Power fist in its design. Likew... [more]
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Chicago's Chicano Art elite welcomes the Pilsen Artists
by Victor M. Montañez
Benjamín Anaya, Salvador Jimenez, Victor M. Montañez, Carolina I Reyes, Robert Valadez at Fonda Del Gusto
March 19th, 2010 - April 30th, 2010
Posted
3/30/10
Pilsen Artists Head North (Wicker Park) @ La Fonda del Gusto
When: home.lafondadelgusto.com
Rockotitlan promoter, Jaime Garza assembled the most cutting edge artists that make their home in Pilsen and brought them to Chicago's North Side, Wicker Park.
The event was a who's who in art royalty starting with the guests.
Marcos Raya, Salvador Vega, Gina Pacheco Gamboa, were among the Pilsen Art community elite who came to celebrate the most recent works from The avant guard Chicano Artists g... [more]
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Portrait of the Artist: Candice Hunter
by anorangemoon
Candace Hunter at An Orange Moon Antiques & Design Studio
August 28th, 2009 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Posted
9/11/09
Originally appeared in Newcity, 8/24/09. Written by Jason Foumberg, Art Editor for Newcity. Courtesy of Newcity and Jason Foumberg:
Candace Hunter
An artist working in collage can make one of two major statements: by selecting and cutting material from piles of old magazines, the collagist either despairingly critiques the ever-flowing fountain of consumer information, or else she is a cosmopolite, joining disparate faces and places into a communal frame.
Candace Hunter is this second type of colla... [more]
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Rosemary Lee/LivingRoom Gallery (Justin Natale, Newcity Art)
by LivingRoom Gallery (LRG)
Rosemary Lee at LivingRoom Gallery
July 16th, 2009 - August 22nd, 2009
Posted
8/2/10
A small real estate brokerage in Wicker Park is an apropos venue for Rosemary Lee’s solo exhibition, “It happens that the stage sets break down.” The versatile office-as-gallery context thematically contributes to the installation of drawings and pliable sculptures, whether or not intentionally. The common element shared by “It happens that the stage sets break down” and Living Room Gallery? Ambiguity. Like the venue itself, Lee’s work combines to present the viewer with elements of... [more]
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Sichhart and Square Cats
by carlbaratta
Fred Sichhart at Paul Henry's Gallery
January 9th, 2009 - March 31st, 2009
Posted
2/19/09
Sometimes, it's hard to make it to openings. I live in Chicago, where openings are so intensely crowded, I can't muster enough social fortitude to leave my house and see art. It seems even more unlikely to travel all the way to Hammond, Indiana on those socially lazy -- or just plain lazy -- occasions.
That said, I am so glad I got out to see Fred Sichhart's show at the Paul Henry Gallery. Dave and Rita Mueller, the owners of Paul Heny's, have put forth a truly original and strange show. Aro... [more]
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Review from CONTRATIEMPO MAGAZINE
by Judithe Hernández
Patrica Acosta, Juan Compean, Ricardo Compean, Miguel Cortez, Cirilo Esquivel, Ricardo Gonzalez, Judithe Hernández, Salvador Jimenez, Antonio Pazaran at National Museum of Mexican Art
January 25th, 2008 - July 20th, 2008
Posted
1/2/09
Contratiempo Magazine
#54, March 2008
Chupacabras: The Myth in the Era of the Internet
Myths and legends have always been a vehicle by which civilizations have gained understanding of themselves and of other things. Studying them implies a stirring up of its deeper cultural mechanisms. In the era of the Internet, that resonating chamber in which rumors spread at light-speed, urban legends can be offered to everyone for examination, like an animal going under the scalpel of so... [more]
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