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Thursday, February 11, 2010: Gahlberg Gallery

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Gahlberg Gallery at College of DuPage:

ARTIST TALK: Andreas Fischer

Thursday, Feb. 11, 1 p.m.

The artist talk is in conjunction with Fischer's solo exhibition "GHOST TOWN" in the Gahlberg Gallery.

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425 Fawell Blvd.
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137

Thursday, February 11, 2010: The Museum of Contemporary Photography

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EVENTS AT MoCP THIS WEEK

FILM SCREENING: Masterpieces of the Czech New Wave: Milo� Forman's The Fireman's Ball | Thursday, February 11, 6:15pm, 624 S. Wabash, 6th floor, room 602

MEMBERS ONLY EVENT: Bank of America/LaSalle Bank Photography Collection Tour Thursday, February 11, 4 - 5pm | visit mocp.org/get_involved/membership to become a member

CONCERT: OBOE OVERLOAD: ICE at MoCP Friday, February 12, 7:30 p.m.

Visit mocp.org/events for more information about events at MoCP this week and beyond!

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600 S. Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60605

Thursday, February 11, 2010: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

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Opening Reception The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900

Thursday, February 11, 5:30-7:30 pm

Join National Gallery of Art curator Peter Parshall for an introductory lecture to The Darker Side of Light, an exhibition called "wonderfully perverse -- yet surprisingly mesmerizing" by the Washington Post.

The lecture begins at 5:30 pm and will be followed by a reception and exhibition viewing.

Free

smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/darkersideoflight

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5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637

Thursday, February 11, 2010: Gene Siskel Film Center

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An Evening with Dara Birnbaum 6-8pm

A survey of Dara Birnbaum's work in video, presented by the artist herself. Renowned as a pioneer in televisual appropriation, Birnbaum is currently the subject of a major retrospective that began at S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Belgium, and will tour to Museu Fundação Serralves in Porto, Portugal, later in the spring.

Dara Birnbaum's appearance is part of the Gene Siskel Film Center's "Conversations at the Edge" series.

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164 N. State St.
Chicago, IL 60601

Sunday, February 14, 2010: Hyde Park Art Center

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All Exhibitions Reception Sunday, February 14, 3-5pm

Join us this Sunday to welcome six new exhibitions: Andreas Fischer: Ghost Town; Aspen Mays: From the Offices of Scientists; Flow Interrupted; Notes to Nonself by Diane Christiansen and Shoshanna Utchenik; Stan Chisholm: ThingsThatNeverReallyHappened; and The Way Things Are by Bob Peters and David Schutter. Light refreshments will be served. Also, don't forget that this Friday, February 12, is our monthly "Cocktails and Clay" night from 8pm to midnight: we've got 45 minute clay sessions back in our studios, a live DJ and drink specials all night.

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5020 South Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615

Thursday, February 11, 2010: A+D Gallery

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The Object of Nostalgia, through February 20 Curated by René Marquez and Lance Winn February 11th, 5-9 pm Closing Reception with a curators' talk at 6:30 pm

The Object of Nostalgia contemplates the nature of "sentimentality" and its conflicted relation to contemporary art. Each artist represented copes with nostalgia and the condition of longing in a unique and personal way,eschewing both the cold, universalist demands of Modernism and the distanced superficiality employed by Postmodern practices in favor of personal investigation, private narratives, and the full breadth of creative tools and language available to the artist. Artists include Marlene Alt, Brian Bishop, Pamela Fraser, Dawn Gavin, Kathy High, Greg Hopkins, Erika Leppmann, Julia Lothrop, Clayton Merrell, Elaine Rutherford, and Raychael Stine.

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619 S. Wabash
Chicago, IL 60605

Friday, February 12, 2010: ARTExhibionLink.com

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AT ARTexhibitionLink Gallery UNO opens Amanda Joy Calobrisi's show 'Efflorescene'. The artist is exposing some of her most recent works. 'I compose the shots and pose as the model for my paintings and yet, the people in my finished works are not me. These people are strangers to me, they are emotionally indulgent; they wear their hearts on their sleeves - they are lost in daydreams, playfully biding their time waiting for something to happen. Tied up in the drama of their worlds, they have become so used to performing that they only vaguely acknowledge that they are being watched. They look past us, away or close their eyes in order to avoid eye contact.' Amanda Joy Calobrisi

Duration: Feb. 9 - March 4, 2010 Opening Reception: Friday Feb. 12th, 4.30 - 9.00 pm Gallery hours: Friday and Saturdays, 2 - 6 pm and by appointment Tel.Info: 312 4806869

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410 S. Michigan Av, FAB Building, Suite 541
Chicago, IL 60605-1471

Saturday, February 6, 2010: Gallery 400 UIC

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Workers from The Greenhouses of Hope at the Pacific Garden Mission discuss closing the loop Saturday, February 6, 2-5 pm

The Greenhouses of Hope are organized by Nance Klehm, from her description: The greenhouses grow soil, food and people! The Greenhouses opened October 15, 2007. Two to four program individuals work in the greenhouses. They are trained in seed and plant propagation, insect management, vermicomposting, pruning and basic horticultural skills. The cafeteria of Pacific Garden Mission on average turns out 500lbs of food a week. The Greenhouses match the cafeteria waste with what the worms can eat (approx. 300-500 lbs/week). The worm castings are then used to grow ornamental plants for the building and vegetables that are used in the cafeteria. The Greenhouses of Hope "closes the loop!" Food - Waste - Soil-Food. In conjunction with The Free Store.

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400 South Peoria Street
Chicago, IL 60607

Saturday, February 6, 2010: Andrew Rafacz Gallery

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ANDREW RAFACZ announces

GREG STIMAC in Gallery One New photographs

SCOTT WOLNIAK / Afterimage in Gallery Two New works on paper

Please join us for an artists' reception SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 4 to 7PM

Continues through: SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 2010

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835 W. Washington Blvd. Second Floor
Chicago, IL 60607

Saturday, February 6, 2010: Museum of Contemporary Art

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"Production Site: The Artist's Studio Inside-Out," February 6-May 30, 2010 This exhibition reexamines the artist's studio as subject, presenting work that documents, depicts, reconstructs, or otherwise invokes that space. February 4, 6-9 pm: The Artist's Studio as Party opening-night celebration. February 6, 3 pm: Studio Myths Artist Panel: Nikhil Chopra, John Neff, and Amanda Ross-Ho. Three artists in the MCA exhibition "Production Site" discuss their works and ideas about the studio. February 9 and 10: See Mumbai-based artist Nikhil Chopra perform "Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing XI," live in the MCA galleries. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit mcachicago.org.

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220 E Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60601

Friday, February 5, 2010: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

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The Ruin as Souvenir with Verity Platt

Friday, February 5, 12 pm

Explore how prints, journals, and letters helped to make the experience of eighteenth-century travel to Rome comprehensible and accessible to those back home during this lunch-hour talk with Verity Platt, a professor of art history at the University of Chicago.

Free. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Sites to Behold: Travels in Eighteenth-Century Rome, now on view at the Smart Museum.

Space is limited, RSVP to kristypeterson@uchicago.edu.

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5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637

Wednesday, February 3, 2010: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art

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Bloomsbury Lecture Series "Writing in Bloomsbury: E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and Vita Sackville-West" Wednesday, February 3, 6 pm

Mary Ann Caws of the Graduate School of the City University of New York discusses the styles of three major writers of the Bloomsbury group, concentrating on a text by each author--"Howard's End," "Orlando" and "Seducers in Ecuador"--to illustrate their very different approaches.

Held in conjunction with the exhibition "A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections" at the Block Museum through March 14.

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40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

Thursday, February 11, 2010: Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery

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Pathways and Portals: Art. Nature and Science exhibition Reception: Thursday, Feb 11th from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m.

Artists are visionaries for culture and show us different paths for perceiving, exploring and understanding the world. They use mythology, religion, nature and science as portals to other realms. Works include audio/sound installation, drawing, multimedia installation, painting, PHSCologram, and sculpture.

Artists include: Granite Amit, (art)n with NSCA, JPL and MBARI, AnnMarie Cernoch, Michele Corazzo, Shawn Decker, Indira Johnson, James Mesple, Kelley Quinn, Dusty Seno, Eugene Skala, Sharon Skolnick, Michelle Stone, Joan Truckenbrod, and Robert Wapahi.

Free and open to the public.

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

Saturday, January 30, 2010: Gallery 400 UIC

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Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor and Economics Introduction & discussion by Temporary Services Saturday, January 30, 6-8 pm

Temporary Services will give a short introduction to the newspaper, its distribution and the events and discussions happening around the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

Temporary Services is Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer. Temporary Services has produced exhibitions, events, projects, and publications worldwide. In 2008 Temporary Services initiated Half Letter Press, a publishing imprint and an experimental online store.

Art Work and Free Store exhibitions open until March 6.

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400 South Peoria Street
Chicago, IL 60607

Tuesday, February 2, 2010: Visiting Artists Program

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SAYA WOOLFALK Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series Tuesday, February 2, 6pm SAIC Columbus Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Dr.

SAIC alumna Saya Woolfalk (MFA 2004) will present her ongoing project No Place, a multimedia, fictional future that reworks tropes of sexual, racial, and gender difference. The characters and stories in Woolfalk's constructed reality evoke travel narratives, science fiction, and the rhetoric of anthropology to investigate human possibilities (and impossibilities). Through diverse forms of installation, video, painting, drawing, performance, and sound, she reflects on human life and its future through configurations of biology, sociality, and the environment. Woolfalk's selected exhibitions include PS1/MoMA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art; Studio Museum in Harlem; and Momenta Art.

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37 S Wabash Ave 1220
Chicago, IL 60603

Friday, January 29, 2010: Betty Rymer Gallery

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Opening reception: Friday, Jan. 29, 4:30 - 7 pm "Breathing is Free: 12,756.3 -- New Work by Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba" Exhibition continues on view through March 26

Japanese-American-Vietnamese artist and SAIC alumnus Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba (BFA 1992) returns to Chicago for this special exhibition. Hatsushiba created new work for this show as part of his on-going project "Breathing is Free," for which the artist is running a distance equivalent to the diameter of the earth (12.756.3 km) as a memorial to refugees who travel the world seeking a new home. Curated by Dr. Nora Taylor (SAIC Alsdorf Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art), this show also features the film "The Ground, the Root, and the Air: The Passing of the Bodhi Tree" 2007. This exhibition is supported by a gift from Howard and Donna Stone and a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat, 11 am - 6 pm

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280 S. Columbus Drive School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60603

Sunday, January 31, 2010: Hyde Park Art Center

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Talk with the artist Aspen Mays January 31, 2-3 pm

Meteorites welcome! Come with your insights and questions about the new installation by Aspen Mays currently on view in "From the Offices of Scientists," until April 25. This show of new work activates the office cubicle as a site for information production and general inquiry where "big ideas" are generated. Also check out our other on-going exhibitions: Jason Salavon: Spigot (Oracle's Reflection); (Re)Collect; The Way Things Are by Robert Peters with David Schutter; and Andreas Fischer: Ghost Town.

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5020 South Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615

Saturday, January 23, 2010: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art

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Christopher Reed from Penn State University on Roger Fry and the Bloomsbury Group Saturday, January 23, 2 pm

Roger Fry: Art and Life in Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury senior member Roger Fry originated many of the group's ideas on aesthetics and, on a broader scale, beliefs about life. Christopher Reed, associate professor of English and visual culture at Pennsylvania State University, examines the relationship between these sentiments by analyzing Fry's art, domestic designs, and critical and personal writings.

A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections on view through March 14.

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40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

Saturday, January 30, 2010: Thomas Robertello Gallery

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Chicago-based photographer Adam Ekberg will present an artist talk in conjunction with his exhibition "In the between" at Thomas Robertello Gallery on Saturday January 30, 3:00 PM. The gallery is located at 939 W Randolph St, Chicago

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939 West Randolph St
Chicago, IL 60607

Friday, January 22, 2010: Anne Loucks Gallery

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Anne Loucks Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by San Francisco artist PEGAN BROOKE: RIVER/SEA ~ WATER TIME. The show will open January 22nd and run through March 3rd, 2010. Please join us for the opening reception from 5 - 8 pm on Friday January 22nd.

Brooke's recent body of work focuses on the meditative movement, color, and light of water. Inspired by the ocean that surrounds her studio as well as the Aven River in Pont-Aven, France where she has completed several residencies, Brooke utilizes the strength of a reduced palette to draw out line and form in beautiful simplicity.

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1046 W Fulton Market
Chicago, IL 60607