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Posted: (9150) 2010-07-23 12:03:54
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Exhibitor: (386) Lydon Contemporary
Event for: Friday, July 23, 2010

LYDON CONTEMPORARY is proud to announce its new and improved website:

www.lydonfineart.com

Our inaugural group continues through the summer and if you haven't yet been in, we would love to see you. There is work on view by Diane Ayott, Trevor Bell, Judy Campbell, Suzanne Crocker (our newest artist, whose work is now visible on our new website), Susan Wrona Gall, Stephen McClymont, and Margaret Vega.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or wish to make an appointment.

All the best,

Doug Lydon

Posted: (9149) 2010-07-21 10:14:00
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Exhibitor: (305) Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Event for: Sunday, July 25, 2010

Containing Emotions: Bowls Sunday, July 25 12-3 pm

Join the Smart Museum for a reading workshop that examines feeling -- the dimension of experience where sensation meets emotion -- in relation to objects often overlooked due to their fundamental utility. Led by Matthias Regan, participants will consider ordinary and extraordinary bowls and read excerpts from poems and essays by Gertrude Stein, Martin Heidegger, Lorine Niedecker, and John Dewey.

Presented in conjunction with "Good Design", on view at the Smart Museum through September 5.

Free. Space is limited. To RSVP, e-mail kristypeterson@uchicago.edu or call 773.702.2351.

Posted: (9145) 2010-07-15 14:33:34
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Exhibitor: (333) Sullivan Galleries
Event for: Friday, July 23, 2010

AIADO and Fashion Graduate Thesis Exhibition: Gravity Closing reception: Friday, July 23, 5 - 7 pm Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Showcasing design from the Departments of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects (AIADO); and Fashion, this exhibition brings together work by graduate students that explores responses to gravity exemplifying fiction and advocacy through innovation and design.

This networking event is your final opportunity to view the exhibition and engage in meaningful dialogue with this next generation of young designers.

Exhibition hours through July 24: Tues - Sat, 11 am - 6 pm

Posted: (9144) 2010-07-15 11:33:38
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Exhibitor: (73) Hyde Park Art Center
Event for: Thursday, July 15, 2010

LECTURE TONIGHT! "Objects on the Couch": The Meaning in Everyday Things by Christine Atha, 6 pm These days we all seem to have too much 'stuff'. We collect all manner of objects and use them in our homes in carefully constructed displays. We are also fascinated by TV programs such as Clean House and Hoarding that reveal the depth of our obsession with things. But if we had to let go of objects we might be hard pressed to do it and to say just why it is we have kept many of them in the first place. The meaning in things is an extraordinary construction based on a combination of feelings and emotions joined to the impulses to collect and then display. Let's look at your things and decipher the meaning! Bring photos of your displays at home for analysis. This talk will be led by Christine Atha in conjunction with the exhibitions Roger Brown: Calif. USA and The People's Gallery of Everyday Objects.

Posted: (9142) 2010-07-15 05:12:55
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Exhibitor: (349) Experimental Sound Studio
Event for: Sunday, July 18, 2010

Outer Ear Series: KAMAMA 7pm

Experimental Sound Studio is pleased to present, as part of the ongoing Outer Ear Series, Luca Marini (drums/percussion) and Audrey Chen (cello/voice/electronics)who play together as KAMAMA. Chen and Marini combine the raw energies resultant from and continuously growing out of their respective histories and experiences. They have been forming a new language which steadily deepens, evolves, converges and exposes their inherent similarities and striking differences. It is ecstatic music. It is contrary music. and at times, they depart completely from one another as two distinct creatures, but then are drawn back into the fold of an undeniable tenderness and comprehension. $10/$7 students and ESS members

Posted: (9141) 2010-07-12 15:10:22
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Exhibitor: (345) David Weinberg Gallery
Event for: Friday, July 23, 2010

Join us for the opening reception of Friedman & Miss Aniela on the night of Friday, July 23 from 5-8pm. This exhibit features two contemporary female photographers, Amanda Friedman and London-based Miss Aniela, and will run from July 23 through September 4.

Posted: (9139) 2010-07-09 09:51:15
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Exhibitor: (303) Addington Gallery
Event for: Friday, July 9, 2010

ROBIN DENEVAN "River Perspectives: Encaustic Paintings from the Yangtze and Amazon" Opening reception - Friday, July 9, 5-8pm. Artist will be present at the reception. Exhibition continues through August 30, 2009 Encaustic Artist Robin Denevan employs layers of beeswax, oil paint, and natural resins to create visions of exotic locations from Asia and South America. The paintings glow with an inner light, and transcend categories of "abstraction" and "realism". Denevan's latest work was inspired in part by his travels to China's Yunnan Province. His paintings are based on drawings he did of the Yangtze River in an area that will soon be dammed and flooded. These paintings are not about mere recollection. They are about sensory recall. You don't just look at a Denevan, you touch it, smell it, nearly taste it. The layers of seductive materials in these works engage our senses, and in doing so, they drop us, not into the location depicted, but into the artist's own vivid memories of that place. Addington Gallery is located at 704 N Wells St in the River North Gallery District of Chicago.

Posted: (9137) 2010-07-09 07:22:34
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Exhibitor: (138) Evanston Art Center
Event for: Sunday, July 11, 2010

Two openings this Sunday, July 11th 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. New Sculpture on the Grounds, "Grosse Point Confluence" by Arny Nadler Artist Talk at 2:30 p.m. AND Scene@Evanston Art Center Members Show opening

Please come and enjoy the opening of our next members show, Scene@Evanston Art Center, which on Sunday, July 11 from 1-4p.m. The show will continue until August 15, 2010. The exhibition will showcase over 90 works by Evanston Art Center members in ceramics, digital arts, drawing, painting, figure sculpture, jewelry, metal sculpture, mosaics, photography, and printmaking. The exhibition is curated by David Gista, EAC Faculty member. Vera Scekic, Artist and EAC Board Member, is jurying the exhibition for awards. Don't miss the opportunity to meet Sculpture on the Grounds artist, Arny Nadler.

Posted: (9129) 2010-07-08 15:25:29
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Exhibitor: (315) ARTExhibionLink - Gallery UNO Chicago
Event for: Friday, July 9, 2010

ARTexhibitionlink Gallery UNO will participate in 2nd Friday at the FAB Building with the opening reception of Chris Lin's installation 'Bye'. Bye! is the third installment of a series entitled Breaking Point which aims to, using a variety of medium and strategies, investigate our personal relationships and empathy with fictional characters and their daily struggles. Bye! is a performance installation based on a 3 second scene from William Friedkin's 1971 film The French Connection in which the French mobster excapes from the detective on a subway train. The viewers are the detectives; the artist is the mobster... Text and images on www.artexhibitionlink.com During: July 2010 - Gallery hours: Fridays, 6-9 pm, Saturdays 1 -4 pm Opening Reception: Friday, July 9th 6 - 9 pm Tel./Info: 773 225 5319

Posted: (9128) 2010-07-08 05:09:37
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Exhibitor: (349) Experimental Sound Studio
Event for: Friday, July 9, 2010

Hemingway and McManus performance in the studio 8pm $10/$7 for students and ESS members

Gerry Hemingway (trap set, acoustic and electronic addenda) and Terrence McManus (homemade guitars, electronic processing) perform a duo music that is primarily improvised, having evolved from several intense years of work together in numerous settings. Their previous work together has primarily been in the context of performing each other's compositions which, as a process, has more finely honed their collective musical language into a cohesive, thoughtful and far reaching results. There is no limit to the territory these two master improvisors might traverse. It is a music of interplay and listening that engages, challenges and delights the listener all at once with its virtuosity, sense of humor, intensity and honesty.

Gerry and Terry will teach a master class in improvisation Saturday, July

Posted: (9127) 2010-07-07 13:27:03
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Exhibitor: (272) Old Town Art Center
Event for: Sunday, July 11, 2010

Old Town Art Center is proud to present oil paintings by Fabiola Guzman. The artist isolates objects or people on neutral background for a moment of quiet focus.

Reception will be Sunday, July 11, 2-5 pm at the Triangle Center (one block west of Wells and three blocks north of North Ave.). Everyone is welcome. The show will run through August 6.

Posted: (9126) 2010-07-06 09:24:29
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Exhibitor: (384) The Fine Arts Building Collective
Event for: Friday, July 9, 2010


On Friday, July 9, 2010, 5-9 pm, the Fine Arts Building will host its monthly Second Friday Open Studios! 
Come and explore what our galleries and artists-in-residence are up to. From academic painting to conceptual installations, our collection of local, national and international artists have something for every art lovers palate. This is a one of a kind event that takes place in one of Chicago's most historic landmarks. 
 Opening Receptions: Second Floor Gallery "upstairs underground" also: ARTSpace 537 "Works of Paper"

Posted: (9123) 2010-07-06 07:58:22
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Exhibitor: (305) Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Event for: Thursday, July 8, 2010

Mid-Century: "Good Design" in Europe and America, 1850-1950 July 8 - September 5, 2010

Between 1850 and 1950, progressive artists, designers, and architects decisively reshaped the everyday world of objects. Advocating for design reform-and by extension, social reform-they promoted a host of competing ideologies that embraced aesthetic revolution and technical innovation. Drawn entirely from the Smart Museum's collection, this exhibition explores the interweaving history and iconic forms that defined the domestic world of modernism.

smartmuseum.uchicago.edu

Posted: (9121) 2010-07-06 07:53:27
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Exhibitor: (241) Carl Hammer Gallery
Event for: Friday, July 9, 2010

The All-Seeing Eye: Photographic Revelations Opening Reception: Friday, July 9, 6:00 - 8:00 P.M.

Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley - Blythe Bohnen - Lee Godie - Kahn and Selesnick - Mole and Thomas - Francois Robert -Bill Steber - Eugene Von Bruenchenhein- Anonymous vernacular photographs

Exhibition Dates: July 9 - August 27, 2010 In the final Carl Hammer Gallery exhibition of the 2009 - 2010 season, curated by Yolanda Farias-Jones, we confront the notion of how the camera has a unique way of seeing things that lie beneath the surface of what is actually visible at a casual first glance. In The All-Seeing Eye, we are privileged to expand on our comprehension of what we see from the effective insights directed to us by the artists in this exhibition.

Posted: (9119) 2010-07-05 15:46:26
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Exhibitor: (225) Packer Schopf Gallery
Event for: Friday, July 9, 2010

Reception for Three Solos and One Two-Person Exhibition this Friday July 9, 5 - 8 PM LInk here: http://www.packergallery.com/press/july9.pdf

Catherine Jacobi Gleaners, Hawkers and Reapers The smartest found object sculpture.

Nancy Bardawil & Casey Gunschel Skivery Surreal figurative paintings (Bardawil), and 3 leather dogs chasing a hare and a painting on a map (Gunschel)

Danny Hein (solo) South County Scrapbook Watercolors that have the feel of snapshots complete with photo corners.

Harry Young (solo) The Cowboy Constructions of Harry Young Circa 1930-1950 This work is an amazing outsider art discovery. This is the first time it will be exposed.

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