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By Chicago Art Map on Nov 28, 2009 in Featured
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Layers at Joseph Glimer Gallery
Dreariness silences the room with the deep browns consuming white walls. Airy atmosphere and graceful gallery assistant juxtapose themselves next to the chilling material mounted. Surprisingly still, decidedly dark, definitively desolate portraits stand among dispersed domestic scenes of tables and chairs, all the work of Mira Hermoni-Levine.
The Last Sunday Soup at InCUBATE
The idea of a “charity dinner” where money is raised for a specific cause is not a new one, but it has always been a successful one; and it has been especially successful for InCUBATE. Not only have nine other organizations adopted their idea of “micro-granting,” InCUBATE has given away over $4,000.00 to more than 25 artists and organizations in the two and a half years they have been at the orientation center.
How to Frame an Allegory
Not all ideas need to turn into products though, the best ones tend to become stories, without the need to turn into products.
Artist: Unemployed at LivingRoom Gallery
Shawnee Barton’s current show at LivingRoom Gallery, “Artist: Unemployed,” puts a 21st century spin on the myth of the starving artist, advocating cheap therapy via photo booths and offering job-hunting advice through fortune cookies.
Sean Ward and Sam Jaffe at Zrobili Gallery
Monica LaBelle visits Zrobili Gallery to see the work of Sean Ward and Sam Jaffe, and apparently a lot of furniture in a bathtub (not part of the art, mind you).
Graphic T’s and the Artists They Partner With
By Chicago Art Map on Nov 23, 2009 in Featured
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Look for Me: Animated Films the Gene Siskel Film Center
Animated puppet theater! Laura Heit’s work at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
Sign of the Times at Monique Meloche
Gretchen Holmes visits Monique Meloche and gives us her perspective on the state of political art.
Magic Realism at Schneider Gallery
Claire Lynch dropps by Schneider to check out some dreamy prints in the Magical Realism show.
Oracle 3 at Rooms Productions
Jeriah Hildwine discusses Oracle 3 at Rooms Productions, and how Rooms fits into the Chicago Arts District.
Politics is Like Trying to Screw a Cat in the Ass
Political art is at its best when it’s art first and foremost, and only incidentally a work of politics.
Choose Your Own Adventure at Fill In The Blank
by Claire Haasl
I had been meaning to make a trek up to Fill in the Blank gallery ({fib}) for quite some time. It’s a fairly new fine art gallery/community art center with programming that ranges from neighborhood scavenger hunts, to film screenings, to screen printing classes. And although their focus is on fostering creativity with [...]
Kara’s Picks
Kara Leffler, one of “men behind the curtain,” so to speak, gives you her picks of what’s opening this week.
Undergraduate Exhibition at the Sullivan Galleries
Monica LaBelle visits SAIC’s Undergraduate Exhibition and finds industrial-styled surprises in the sub-exhibition, Keeping Still.
Heartland at The Smart Museum of Art
Jared Weiss heads down to the Smart Museum and finds “the rarefied voice of the Midwest.”
Orion Over Baghdad at Andrew Rafacz
Niki Grangruth visits Andrew Rafacz to see the recent work of Jason Lazarus: “Orion Over Baghdad”
Car Gallery Takes Art On the Road
Guest contributor Regena Vanostberg discusses the most recent manifestation of artist run space: the car gallery.
Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair (SOFA) starts Thursday
Gala begins on Thursday night. Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair (SOFA) runs Friday through the weekend
Helter Sculpture: Three Curators, Four Artists, and a Parking Space.
Claire Haasl explores what happens when you try and get SAIC and Columbia together via a cement box and some sparkly ham. Curators Andrew Green, E.J. Hill and Matthew Schaffer put together their first show in, quite literally, a Parking Space.
