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.
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.
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).
Supplement to the Red Eye Feature. And 23 Chicago Apartment Galleries are on our map.
Guest contributor Regena Vanostberg discusses the most recent manifestation of artist run space: the car gallery.
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.
Candice Weber reviews “Australia,” Concertina’s current show featuring the work of two contemporary Australian artists: Anthea Behm & Aron Gent. In the end Weber muses over Behm’s ability to help us with our own cinamyth, Dances With Wolves.
by Natalie Edwards
Stolen, a collection of thrift-store art, VHS tapes, and cigarette butts, tchotchkes and debris, all borrowed indefinitely from CPS, Spiral Jetty, flea markets, bad public art projects, grandmas, and mothers, has a giant, giant mission: to challenge the thinking behind theft, to engage in a dialogue about appropriation, greed, violation, and ownership.
The exhibition [...]
These sculptures are exceptionally well-crafted, even though the media traditionally invite the kind of care and attention that Fitzgerald gives them.
In a post-apocalyptic world of large-scale oil painting, an ambience conjuring the grainy uncertainty of the daguerreotype butts up against more desolate realities.
Reviewed by Madeleine Bailey
In a random and sometimes hidden collection of objects and tableaus coming out of seemingly disparate kinds of practices, this new Humbolt Park apartment gallery on California and North surprises. Approaching the 2nd floor space from the street, I was signaled from the window of MVSEVM by an LED sign showcasing Jean [...]
Spudnik Press has taken over Wicker Park’s Heaven Gallery, at least for the time being. Currently on show is A Unique Marquee comprised of work from Spudnik artists, and NOTICE – CLOSED a body of work created by Jeremy Lundquist while an artist in residence at Spudnik.
Light (or the lack of it) brought together the pieces in Floor Length and Tux’s third FLAT show, in which the gallery’s proprietors, artists Catie Olson and EC Brown, cooperate with two or three other artists to create an evening of new work.
Hoepfl’s exhibit memorializes the recently deceased Julian Dashper
The one-off performance/event/exhibition was as much about the viewer as it was about the art.
It didn’t take long, however, to see that Staples is doing something new. It is the way Staples uses these penetrations as compositional elements as well as conceptual devices, rather than for their own sake or to do things he could have done equally well with paint. A vase of flowers is transformed into an insect-like head by its cut-out vase, replaced with a transparent backing painted with toothy green stripes.
