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.
Gretchen Holmes visits Monique Meloche and gives us her perspective on the state of political art.
Claire Lynch dropps by Schneider to check out some dreamy prints in the Magical Realism show.
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 [...]
Niki Grangruth visits Andrew Rafacz to see the recent work of Jason Lazarus: “Orion Over Baghdad”
Claire Lynch brings us a review of Routes to Roots, now showing at Nicole Gallery, and tells us, “don’t be intimidated by galleries, it’s all in the family.”
Lee Ann Norman discusses the current show at Hyde Park’s Home Gallery, Works and Collaborative Works, a show of individual and collaborative works by artists Deedee Davis and Casey Roberts.
by Madeleine Bailey
In Ever Epic, Tanya Hastings Gill invites us into a quiet installation at the Living Room Gallery with fragile drawings that just distinguish themselves from the whiteness of its walls. Resting in an amorphous fairy tale, attention to pattern and line speak to the collision of the natural and the manmade in these [...]
by Elise Goldstein
Gina Litherland’s exhibition of paintings entitled The Murmur of Pearls opened on Friday at Corbett vs. Dempsey in Wicker Park. Though the space showed tremendous reverence and efficiency with its exhibition design, providing an uncluttered and open field for each panel, the paintings themselves offer a cramped window into a densely imaginative world. [...]
By Erik Wennermark
As a newly minted resident of West Town I thought it was urgent for me to get a feel for the activities of my local Chamber of Commerce. I was admittedly unaware of this need, and really just wanted to pop by The Architrouve’s Sketch Thursday to see what that was all about [...]
by Jared Weiss
Two new shows are currently on view at Western Exhibitions: Melissa Oresky A Wildness of Edges and Eric Lebofsky Superfreaks. Not only do these artists’ names rhyme, but their work also presents a dialogue of similar artistic visual language. This language speaks of simplicity, ambiguity, color, and apparent lightheartedness.
Both shows consist, with the [...]
Boudreau’s paintings are like maps directing the artist’s frenetic intent. They posses their own unique legends and rules…
Some art works force the question: What is art, and what is an artist? And what, exactly, makes an image? Shane Huffman’s pieces, currently on display at Shane Campbell Gallery, pose such a conceptual quandary specific to the medium of photography.
“Body Language” features charcoal drawings of female nudes paired with French script pieces.
Contemplation and engagement of the self or the other provide the key focus for Gabriela Morawetz’s latest show, “Closer to Me Than Myself”. On view this month at the Maya Polsky Gallery, the works literally and poetically evoke layers of transient dimensions. This transience or uncertainty can be felt in an almost nostalgic longing to uncover oneself through lost dimensions of time and space.
While Walters seems to be painting with string, the other female artist in the show, Gillian Bates, is drawing with it.
Liu Bolin experiments with a performative piece using himself as a disguise in his own photographs.
