Chicago Art Net

Monday, May 21, 2012: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art

2012-05-17T17:05:57Z

Fluids @ The Block Northwestern's Department of Art Theory & Practice Reinvents a Happening by Allan Kaprow Monday, May 21, 1 to 4 pm

DURING THREE HOURS, TWO CUBIC STUCTURES OF ICE BLOCKS (MEASURING ABOUT 10 FEET LONG, 10 WIDE, AND 8 HIGH EACH) WILL BE BUILT AT THE BLOCK MUSEUM. THEIR WALLS ARE UNBROKEN. THEY ARE LEFT TO MELT.

Those interested in participating should meet outside The Block Museum at noon. Participants include artist and professor Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, his students, and possibly you. You can also come to watch or explore the cubes when they are done.

tinyurl.com/fluidsnu

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40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

Friday, May 18, 2012: Gene Siskel Film Center

2012-05-16T10:05:42Z

Gene Siskel Film Center presents "Gerhard Richter Painting" One week only - May 18-24

"Gerhard Richter Painting" is a documentary about the art and life of the Richter, often considered the greatest living painter. Notoriously camera-averse and taciturn, he opens up about his art and life, including a moving recollection of his complete break from his East German past. Most revealing is the artist at work as he creates two new paintings in a never-ending process of dissatisfaction and revision that compellingly illustrates his credo that "painting is another form of thinking."

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164 N. State St.
Chicago, IL 60601

Friday, May 18, 2012: EC Gallery

2012-05-16T09:05:35Z

Teiji Hayama : Inno-scents

May 18th - June 2012 Opening reception: May 18th, 6-8 pm

The EC Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by Japanese artist Teiji Hayama in "Inno-Scents".Please join us for the opening night reception on Friday, May 18th, 6 pm - 8pm.

For his exhibition at the EC Gallery Hayama will present a selection of new works, including oil paintings and a works on paper. The works depict young girls evolving into women. They represent messengers whose glassy, ambiguous gazes remind the viewer of the importance of life. The portraits are pure and uncovered. Nudity is not nakedness, but a form of innocence - one and unique entity showing the purest essence of the human being.

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215 N. Aberdeen
Chicago, IL 60607

Wednesday, May 16, 2012: Donald Young Gallery

2012-05-12T14:05:25Z

The Donald Young Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by James Welling.

Opening reception, Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 5 to 7PM

GALLERY HOURS Tuesday-Friday: 9:30AM to 5:30PM Saturday: 11AM to 5:30PM

The reception is free and open to the public. If you would like more information, please contact Emily Letourneau at 312.322.3600 or gallery@donaldyoung.com.

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224 S Michigan Avenue Suite 266
Chicago, IL 60604

Saturday, May 12, 2012: Packer Schopf Gallery

2012-05-10T13:05:17Z

On Saturday May 12 from Noon to 5:00pm we will be participating in EXPLORE FULTON MARKET. It's a great day and more than just galleries are participating. Tour Chicago's original produce district situated between Green and Racine Streets, Kinzie and Randolph.

The Green Line "EL" Stop at Morgan is almost done. June 1st is the happy guess. This is literally in front of our gallery. We will now be the gateway to all things West Loop! Lake St. is going back to a 2-way and there will better parking in the hood again.

Artist Matthew Cox was mentioned as one of the must sees at Pulse NYC this past week on Art Observer. Blogged in the NYC Daily News and Paul Klein's ARTLETTER. We have 11 works here at the gallery. Matthew Cox's show along with Paul Lamantia and Brett Eberhardt are up through May 26th and their images are up on our site as well.

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942 W. Lake Street
Chicago, IL 60607

Thursday, May 10, 2012: peter miller gallery

2012-05-08T16:05:49Z

Brooks Cashbaugh: Demotic Emolument (of The People, a reward for Good Work) May 12 - July 7, 2012

artist's reception, Thursday, May 10th, 5-7pm

"There is a spirit in the figures from history that seems to be forgotten. Many of their names are little known or unknown and I think that's a problem. The legacies of figures are ripe for revival. It's time to look back at these icons with new eyes in hopes of inspiring new ideas and spurring new actions. The paintings seek to remind us of these forgotten currents of American identity by utilizing the misused or overlooked elements of different forms of visual art that compliment the ideals of these figures." Brooks Cashbaugh, April 2012

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118 N Peoria
Chicago, IL 60607

Wednesday, May 9, 2012: Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery

2012-05-07T06:05:03Z

Special Gallery Talk by Exhibition Curator, Doug Stapleton

Figurism: Narrative and Fantastic Figurative Art from the Illinois State Museum Collection exhibtion

Noon to 12:45 p.m.

Please join us for a curator gallery talk of the Figurism exhibition. Figurism brings together historical and contemporary artwork from the museum collection that emphasizes the power and the range of the narrative and expressive figure in Midwest art.

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100 W. Randolph Suite 2-100
Chicago, IL 60601

Friday, May 18, 2012: Gallery Swarm

2012-05-06T08:05:35Z

Join us at the Swarm for the Struggle Series Sculpture by Peter Dallos

Opening Reception May 18th 7pm-10pm

http://www.galleryswarm.com/master-page-7 www.galleryswarm.com

DJ Servoe http://www.djservoe.com/ playing jazz greats

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2902 N Clark St Part of Olson Rug
Chicago, IL 60657

Friday, May 4, 2012: Thomas Robertello Gallery

2012-05-01T09:05:31Z

LAURA FAYER Treasure

SARAH HICKS The Earth is Blue Like an Orange

May 4 - June 2, 2012

Opens May 4, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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27 N Morgan St
Chicago, IL 60607

Sunday, April 29, 2012: Shane Campbell Gallery

2012-04-26T12:04:28Z

Jon Pestoni works on paper

April 29 - June 10, 2012

Opening, Sunday, April 29, 2-4 pm

****Please note, this exhibition is at the Oak Park location

Shane Campbell Gallery 125 N. Harvey Ave. Oak Park, IL 60302

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673 North Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL 60642

Saturday, April 28, 2012: Betty Rymer Gallery

2012-04-24T15:04:50Z

IMPACT: Graduate Performance Festival

Saturday, April 28, 7:00 p.m. - program repeats - Sunday, April 29, 7:00 p.m.

Performance Space, 280 S. Columbus Dr., room 012 School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Free and open to the public

Graduate students completing their degrees at SAIC present their live performance thesis works, which cross the borders of theater, movement, and the visual arts, and collectively present a vision of the next wave of performance art.

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33 South State Street School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60603

Friday, April 27, 2012: Sullivan Galleries

2012-04-24T15:04:41Z

2012 MFA Exhibition

Sullivan Galleries School of the Art Institute of Chicago

April 28 - May 16 Reception: Friday, April 27, 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Free and open to the public

A must-see presentation of the next generation of artists and designers, this exhibition features work by more than 130 students completing their MFA degrees at SAIC. Guest curators Steven Bridges, grupa o.k. (Julian Myers and Joanna Szupinska), Tumelo Mosaka, and Pablo Helguera transform the galleries into series of visual encounters and unconventional experiences.

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33 S. State Street 7th Floor
Chicago, IL 60603

Friday, April 27, 2012: Linda Warren Gallery

2012-04-24T10:04:23Z

April 27 - June 15, 2012 Gallery Y and Gallery O: Tom Torluemke: Ring Around The Rosie Gallery X: Jeriah Hildwine: Living Dead Girls Opening Reception: Friday, April 27, 2012, 6-9pm

Linda Warren Projects is excited to announce the opening of two first time solo exhibitions at the gallery - Tom Torluemke's "Ring Around the Rosie", in Gallery Y and O, and Jeriah Hildwine's "Living Dead Girls" in Gallery X. In these wildly fantastical shows, both artists push the boundaries of their imaginations, mediums, and skills, to a dizzying breadth and depth. Ascribing their influences to both the personal and cultural, they flirt with a gamut of emotions and ideas and employ fully intended mechanisms to engage the viewer in an extraordinarily powerful visual experience. Full of awe and humor, passion and violence, beauty and ugliness, hope and despair - their underlying stories, whether based in reality or merely in fantasy, expound on universals that relate to us all.

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327 North Aberdeen Suite 151
Chicago, IL 60607

Friday, April 27, 2012: Gallery Swarm

2012-04-21T10:04:47Z

Gallery Swarm is proud to host Chicago's own

Chris Thiel

Opening Reception Friday April 27 7-10pm

Her works of imaginary painted mixed collage is very unique, whimsical, edgy and personal to the artist.

Wine a Hor' dourves by the Swarm

See you then

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2902 N Clark St Part of Olson Rug
Chicago, IL 60657

Saturday, April 28, 2012: Bert Green Fine Art

2012-04-21T10:04:41Z

Scott Horsley: Natural History: April 19 Ð May 18, 2012 ArtistÕs Reception Saturday April 28, 2012, 4Ð7 pm Gallery Hours WednesdayÐFriday 11-6 pm, Saturday 12Ð5 pm Scott HorsleyÕs work explores issues surrounding nature, culture, technology and social interactions; speciifically how private and public social behavior is mediated by the use of technology and how such interaction plays into the idea of the Òsurveillance society.Ó This is a series of 10 graphite on paper diptychs, mounted on panel, which pair an image of an extinct animal with an image of a member of the species which likely caused its extinction. The human subjects are all nude and using digital media to photograph themselves in their natural habitat, the domestic privacy of the home bathroom. Horsley here presents nature as an absolute valueÑall our behaviors are part of a single continuum of history and evolution.

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8 S. Michigan Ave. Suite 1220
Chicago, IL 60603

Saturday, May 5, 2012: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

2012-04-20T12:04:38Z

Symposium: Of Hospitality Saturday, May 5

Dig into questions about hospitality in the realm of art and culture during this day-long symposium that combines discussions, performances, and meals.

Highlights include the premiere of The Identical Lunch Symphony by Alison Knowles * Food trucks that blur the line between culinary experience and art * Keynote lecture "To All Those Who Set the Stage" by critic and theorist Jan Verwoert * Dinner reception created by Soup and Bread Chicago * And much more!

RSVP for FREE at http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/symposium

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5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637

Thursday, April 19, 2012: Columbia College Photography Department

2012-04-18T12:04:11Z

LAUREL NAKADATE will be presenting the final Lectures in Photography of the spring semester on Thursday, April 19 at 6:00 PM in Columbia College's Ferguson Lecture Hall, located at 600 S. Michigan Avenue, 1st floor. Admission in FREE to CCC students, staff and the general public.

Laurel Nakadate has received widespread critical acclaim for for photography and film based work. Her work was recently featured in a one person exhibition at MoMA/P.S. 1, "Laurel Nakadate: Only the Lonely," and has appeared in museums and galleries worldwide. Nakadate is known for her works in video, photography, and feature-length film, which examine issues of voyeurism, loneliness, the manipulative power of the camera, and the urge to connect with others, through, within, and apart from technology and the media.

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600 South Michigan Avenue 12th floor
Chicago, IL 60615

Friday, April 20, 2012: Center for Book & Paper Arts (Columbia College Chicago)

2012-04-18T07:04:08Z

Interdisciplinary Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition

PUBLIC OPENING: Friday, April 20, 5-7PM On view through MAY 17, 2012

The MFA Thesis Exhibition features projects by students graduating in the Interdisciplinary Arts Department. Work on view will represent book and paper practices, performance and media.

Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Temple Jantu-tu Cunningham, Jenny Louise Garnett, Michelle Graves, Michael Chad St. John

Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts Kaitlin A. Kostus, April Llewellyn, Daniel Anthony Lubniewski, C.J. Mace, Trisha Martin, Haley K. Nagy, Amy J. Rabas, Don Widmer

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1104 South Wabash Ave 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60605

Sunday, April 22, 2012: Hyde Park Art Center

2012-04-17T09:04:58Z

Exhibition Reception for "Hairy Blob" Sunday, April 22, 3 - 5 pm

Curated by Adelheid Mers, "Hairy Blob" features work by: Becky Alprin, Nadav Assor, Deborah Boardman, Lauren Carter, Ashley Hunt in collaboration with Taisha Paggett, Sarah FitzSimons, Judith Leemann, Kirsten Leenaars, Faheem Majeed and Emily Newman. Design contributions by Tristan Sterk, Adam Trowbridge and Jessica Westbrook.

Join many of the artists and the curator from the exhibition "Hairy Blob" in celebrating their latest achievements. Refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public.

Hairy Blob is on view until July 29, 2012. Please visit www.hairyblob.net for an impressive list of performances and events as well as lively discussion about the show.

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5020 South Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615

Thursday, April 19, 2012: Bert Green Fine Art

2012-04-13T12:04:23Z

Scott Horsley: Natural History April 19 Ð May 18, 2012 ArtistÕs Reception Saturday April 28, 2012 ¥ 4Ð7 pm

Gallery hours are WednesdayÐFriday 11Ð6 and Saturday 12-5, or by appointment.

Bert Green Fine Art is pleased to present a solo show by Gainseville, Florida-based Scott Horsley. HorsleyÕs work explores issues surrounding nature, culture, technology and social interactions; speciifically how private and public social behavior is mediated by the use of technology and how such interaction plays into the idea of the Òsurveillance society.Ó

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8 S. Michigan Ave. Suite 1220
Chicago, IL 60603