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Visual Language
by Robyn Farrell Roulo
Barbara Crane at Chicago Cultural Center
October 3rd - January 10th, 2010
Posted
11/1/09
“Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision” is a spectacle of images that celebrate the illustrious career of Chicago-based photographer, Barbara Crane. On view at The Chicago Cultural Center until January 10th, curator Kenneth C. Burkhart’s attempt to encapsulate a sixty year span of Crane’s photography proves to be an ambitious endeavor. The survey of over two-hundred works is both overwhelming and impressive. Beginning with the 1960s and moving from decade to decade, each series p... [more]
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Imagining Poland
by Dan Gunn
Allan Sekula at Renaissance Society
September 20th - December 13th
Posted
10/26/09
For his show at the Renaissance Society, Allan Sekula placed little 8 1/2” x 11” printed paper texts around the exterior walls. These texts and his manuscript “Polonia and Other Fables” show Mr. Sekula’s attachment to the written word, which forms a context for his photography. The show, also titled “Polonia and other Fables,” reflects Sekula’s interest in capitalist economic systems and the structuring of societies that emerge from those systems. There are endea... [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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A Brief Art History of Wine
by Marla Seidell
Group Exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago
July 11th - September 20th
Posted
9/14/09
On view until September 20, the Art Institute's impressive and wide-ranging exhibition, "A Case for Wine: From King Tut to Today," is interesting not only for its plethora of drinking artifacts but for what it says about the history of human interaction with alcohol. What is clear is the dissolute nature of man and woman in regards to drink over the ages. From an ancient Greek terracotta bowl decorated with men reveling in Bacchic frivolity to an English silvered brass wine ci... [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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Portrait of the Artist: Candice Hunter
by orangemoon
Candace Hunter at An Orange Moon Antiques & Design Studio
August 28th 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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Elementals
by Abraham Ritchie
Walead Beshty, Adam Ekberg, Luisa Lambri, Hiroshi Sugimoto at Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)
June 13th - October 4th
Posted
8/31/09
On the second floor of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) is “Elements of Photography,” curated by Curatorial Assistant Michael Green. This area of the MCA is usually reserved for smaller, “focus” type of shows as befits the minimal square footage of that gallery and this exhibition follows that trend. Pulled from the museum’s permanent collection, the photographs on display, “focus on the elemental materials of nature: light and water. [Which are] also the fun... [more]
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Second Life
by Sonja Srdanovic
at Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
June 19th - August 20th
Posted
8/10/09
The phrase “anything goes” appears to be the theme of our dually dismal and volatile financial year in 2009. This is a year that has artists turning to their everyday environment before venturing forth to invest in anything new. At least that seems to be the larger issue tackled by Zolla/Lieberman’s diverse show “Second Stories: Artists Making Do and Fixing Up,” which consists of works almost all produced in 2009. The up-to-date artistic production allows the exhibited... [more]
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Here I Am
by Kristen Carter
Jed Fielding at Chicago Cultural Center
June 1st - July 5th
Posted
6/29/09
The notion of “the gaze” has become somewhat of a catchphrase with art and has seemingly become inextricable in the discussion of art, its analysis and art theory. However, in these austere yet powerful portraits of blind children in Mexico City, Jed Fielding, a Chicago-based photographer challenges this very concept. This is the last week to see Fielding's "Look at Me," the exhibition closes July 5th. These black and white photographs complicate the role of the viewer and ultim... [more]
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Femme Fatale
by Robyn Farrell Roulo
Lalla A. Essaydi at Schneider Gallery
May 1st 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Posted
5/31/09
The female nude is nothing new to the art world. Art history has seen centuries of women portrayed in such fashion; from the languid and vulnerable to the sensual and stoic. "Les Femmes Du Maroc," the current exhibition at Schneider Gallery challenges such traditional views, featuring new work by Moroccan born artist Lalla A. Essaydi, who also lives in the United States. This her fourth show at the River North Gallery, Schneider has represented Essaydi's work since 2003.
Essaydi... [more]
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