Review: Scott Treleaven/Kavi Gupta Gallery
RECOMMENDED Assuming it’s possible to distinguish an artist from a layperson based on abstract theoretical concerns alone: what cachet does an artist carry to distinguish them as such? An unaffected...
View ArticleReview: Chad Kouri and Netherland/Rotofugi
RECOMMENDED The storefront Rotofugi, which does not carry ceramic one-eyed cats smoking, now holds around eighty original works by Chad Kouri and David “Netherland” van Alphen. Kouri, a member of local...
View ArticleReview: John Fraser/Roy Boyd Gallery
RECOMMENDED In the exhibition “Object Lesson,” John Fraser treats his own oeuvre, spanning twenty-something years, like a series of found objects from which to assemble a collage, offering a palimpsest...
View ArticleReview: Get It Together Again/Chicago Tourism Center Gallery
RECOMMENDED Co-curators Chad Kouri and Ed Marszewski successfully “get it together” for their second group show focusing on collage, assemblage and collaboration. Inviting artists from their 2009 show...
View ArticleReview: John Parot/Western Exhibitions
RECOMMENDED John Parot’s exhibition, “Hobbies,” addresses the game of pursuit in gay online dating. In his figurative and abstract works on paper, panel and canvas, Parot makes a sardonic jab at the...
View ArticleReview: Richard Hawkins/Art Institute of Chicago
RECOMMENDED “Third Mind,” a mid-career survey of LA-based artist Richard Hawkins’ art work, opened this October at the Art Institute of Chicago, and will travel in early spring to the Hammer Museum in...
View ArticleReview: Stephen Eichhorn/Ebersmoore Gallery
RECOMMENDED If you’re reading this, I probably don’t have to introduce Stephen Eichhorn. The much-buzzed-about collage artist has been everywhere these past few years, appearing in group shows, solo...
View ArticleEye Exam: Borrowing Time
By Jason Foumberg We are given time but it should be hard won. That is the reigning philosophy of artists who fill time with traces of their existence, with towering piles of process-laden materials....
View ArticleReview: Medley/Chicago Urban Art Society
RECOMMENDED When he conceived of a collage exhibition seven months ago, Peter Kepha, co-founder of Chicago Urban Art Society (CUAS), had three artists from Chicago in mind and wanted to bring together...
View ArticleReview: Mark Wagner/Western Exhibitions
RECOMMENDED While the rest of the country was completely consumed by a bitter election that gained the dubious honor of being the most expensive ever at the cost of over six billion dollars, you would...
View ArticleReview: Lou Beach/AdventureLand Works on Paper
RECOMMENDED Collage artist Lou Beach—whose nom de guerre is a clever Anglicization of the Polish surname Lubicz—has a great sense of humor. A longtime illustrator with a client list that includes the...
View ArticleReview: Medley/Chicago Urban Art Society
RECOMMENDED What first comes to mind when I think of collage? I picture adhesives and ephemera being used in a two-dimensional scale. Unfortunately, I also think about Pinterest and capitalism, and how...
View ArticleReview: Matt Rich/Devening Projects + Editions
RECOMMENDED When I saw Matt Rich’s exhibition “Razors & Vapors,” I experienced a deep sense of déjà vu. I had never seen Rich’s work before, but there was something familiar about his paintings,...
View ArticleReview: John Sparagana, Arturo Herrera and Jackie Saccoccio/Corbett vs. Dempsey
RECOMMENDED These are three image-makers who glory in destruction. New York-based Jackie Saccoccio’s first show in Chicago includes her large and beautiful “portraits.” They’re not the kind of...
View ArticleReview: Michael Dinges, Victoria Fuller, Geoffry Smalley and Karen...
RECOMMENDED The group of shows at Packer Schopf Gallery ruminates on intrusion. There is technological and environmental encroachment, and the intrusive mythos of masculine and feminine ideals. Michael...
View ArticleReview: Morris Barazani/Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
RECOMMENDED Morris Barazani’s kaleidoscopic painting retrospective at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art reveals an individual acutely sensitive to new artistic directions. Spanning the past six...
View ArticleBig Art Issue 2014 – Guest Project by Puppies Puppies
Wherever artist Puppies Puppies exhibits, he has a knack for sensitively responding to the conditions and qualities of that context while bringing forward his own nuanced fascinations with Internet...
View ArticleArt World’s Big Weekend 2014: Comprehensive Listing of Gallery Openings for...
Thursday, September 4 LOOP Dan Ramirez, painting Union League Club of Chicago, 65 West Jackson Opening reception: 5:30pm-7pm, through September 30 (Members only opening, viewing by appointment only)...
View ArticleNews: Hyde Park Art Center Presents Chicago MFA Grads at Expo and in Winter...
Selected from more than 100 nominees, the Hyde Park Art Center has announced the artists to be exhibited in its third biennial exhibition Ground Floor: Evan Baden, Hannah Barco, Greg Browe, Houston...
View ArticleExpo Dispatches: Blah Blah Blah, Bright Inclusions in Expo and Edition, and...
Bag of raw almonds for energy boost, false lashes stowed in my handbag for evening-wear eye-drama boost, press badge and a prayer for stamina: Expo Chicago’s press preview yesterday rolled directly...
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