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Event For: Sunday, May 12, 2013
Exhibitor: [Hyde Park Art Center]

Posted: 2013-05-08 08:22:58

Exhibition Opening Reception: Abstracting the Seam Sunday, May 12, 3-5 pm Celebrate with the artists Shannon Kerrigan, Christopher Michlig, Patrick McDonough, Sarah Nishiura, Andrew Rigsby, Hans Peter Sundquist, and Stacia Yeapanis.

The group exhibition Abstracting the Seam surveys the ways in which needleworking strategies permeate the painting, collage, video, textile, and installation art by seven contemporary artists whose work addresses the kaleidoscopic urban experience. Using straightforward pattern, line, and repetition common in textiles, the artists featured combine hard-edged configurations with soft material in an attempt to define a physical, personal space within the sub/urban landscape.

This event is free and open to the public. This exhibition will be on view from May 12 through September 15, 2013.

Event For: Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Exhibitor: [Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery]

Posted: 2013-05-13 08:19:07

GALLERY TALK on Wednesday, May 15th, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. FREE EVENT

FOCUS 4 artist MICHAEL ONKEN

Please join us for a gallery talk about the work of Michael Onken. This informal conversation will be lead by ISM Associate Curator DEBRA TAYES. An overview tour of the Focus 4 exhibition will follow.

Carbondal, IL artist, Michael Onken creates narratives that reflect the quiet and sometimes isolated mysteries of our day-to-day lives - rendered in delicate jewel-like images.

Event For: Friday, May 17, 2013
Exhibitor: [Carl Hammer Gallery]

Posted: 2013-05-13 09:32:24

AMY LASKIN, Garden Goddesses, New Paintings Exhibition Dates: May 17 - June 29, 2013 Artist's Reception: Friday, May 17, 5:00 - 8:00 P.M.

In many ways, the artist's paintings call to mind the court paintings of artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Italian, 1527-1593). Laskin's Garden Goddesses paintings combine the lush phantasmagoric, Jamaican landscape in which she lives with the human figure. And, symbolizing the personal impact of that natural landscape, she portrays both its bounty and beauty as female entities, representing and embodying the naturalness of their surroundings, clothed in garments befitting the elegance of women of aristocratic lineage. Soaring above all else, however, are the personified landscapes, an encapsulation of a paradise and a people for whom these paintings speak universally with great fondness and awe.

Event For: Friday, May 17, 2013
Exhibitor: [A+D Gallery]

Posted: 2013-05-15 11:16:16

Please join A+D Gallery and Columbia College Chicago this Friday, May 17, for our 2013 BFA Fine Art Exhibition and Manifest!

Opening reception and college-wide Art Walk 5-7 pm

 Gallery hours during Manifest: 11-8pm

Featuring 28 artists working in a variety of media, the BFA Fine Art Exhibition is showing concurrently at C33 Gallery, 33 E. Congress Parkway. It is also a part of Manifest 2013, Columbia's annual urban arts festival celebrating and showcasing our more than 2,000 graduating students in all fields across campus.

Exhibition runs through June 15. http://www.colum.edu/manifest-2013/

Event For: Saturday, May 18, 2013
Exhibitor: [Packer Schopf Gallery]

Posted: 2013-05-11 10:49:49

Artist Talk with Steven Carrelli at 2 PM.

Steven Carrelli / Collapse / drawing

Steven Carrelli received his MFA in Painting from Northwestern University in 1995. As a 1995-96 Fulbright scholar, he studied egg tempera painting in Florence, Italy. Carrelli has returned to Italy on many occasions to teach and to work, most recently living in Florence for 18 months in 2005 and 2006. He lives in Chicago with his wife, the painter Louise LeBourgeois, and he currently teaches at DePaul University and Columbia College Chicago. Carrelli has exhibited his work throughout the United States, and his paintings have been reproduced in a variety of publications, including Art Scene Chicago 2000 and New American Paintings. Awards include grants from the Ruth Chenven Foundation of New York, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Union League of Chicago.

Event For: Saturday, May 18, 2013
Exhibitor: [Hyde Park Art Center]

Posted: 2013-05-14 14:38:19

Performance & Discussion: NeueBody research by Lee Blalock Saturday, May 18th 3-5 PM

Join us for a new performance by new media artist Lee Blalock. Titled "Notation for Neue Movement Fidelity, No.1", the piece is inspired by old stereo test records that the artist superimposes onto the body as a test of will, control, and new (neue) movement vocabulary. Using fabricated sculptural appendages as drawing prosthetics and physical restraints, dancers will create a document of this test in the form of a large scale drawing. The drawing is performed with the accompaniment of live sound created using custom software and hardware while channeling the eclectic musical arrangement of the original stereo fidelity tests. The drawing will be included in Blalock's current solo exhibition, "Neue", on view at the Hyde Park Art Center until June 23rd. This performance is supported by a School of the Art Institute Faculty Enrichment Grant and in held in conjunction with the current exhibition Neue.

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