Above: LAN Party, in the exhibition,
Bad Boys
April 9 - June 5, 2010
Thomas Robertello Gallery
939 West Randolph Street
Chicago, IL 60607
www.thomasrobertello.com
Previously:
What makes a man start fires?
Noelle Mason @ Antena Gallery, 2008
www.antenapilsen.com/exhibit01.html
And:
X-ray image of ivory buddha in transit from Hong Kong to Chicago
Noelle Mason @ Alogon Gallery, 2008
alogongallery.com/artwork/313912_Noelle_Mason.html
www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/7537.html
Tony Fitzpatrick (candid) @ Studio 1020:
Roger Hiorns @ Art Institute of Chicago:
Above: Untitled (Alliance)
Two Pratt and Whitney TF33 P9 engines from Boeing EC135 Looking Glass long-range surveillance planes.
May 1-September 19, 2010
Monroe Street entrance of the Modern Wing; Third Floor; Bluhm Family Terrace. Major funding by Boeing. Curated by the Art Institute of Chicago's Frances and Thomas Dittmer Chair and Curator of Contemporary Art: James Rondeau.
http://art.newcity.com/2010/05/10/review-roger-hiornsart-institute-of-chicago
http://blog.artic.edu/blog/2010/06/16/roger-hiorns-in-conversation
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/artnow/rogerhiorns/default.shtm
Erik Johnson, Union & Canal Street in Pilsen, Chicago, 2010
Erik is the one of the artists on Bravo's new show "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist" , which premieres Wednesday 6/9.
The Northern Saw-whet Owl - Aegolius acadicus - hunt mainly at dusk and dawn and most often use the "sit and wait" tactic to drop down onto prey on the ground from low hunting perches. All text from www.owlpages.com
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Above: Hand of History (Ode to John Heartfield)
oil on canvas, 21.5 x 43 inches
Below: Artist Peter Otto
Exhibition: The Lodger
March 7 - April 9, 2010
3039 West Carroll Avenue
Chicago, IL 60612
(312) 420-4720
www.deveningprojects.com
Exhibition facilitated by Cultural Services in the USA / Consulate General of the Netherlands and Materiaalfonds, Amsterdam
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Wesley Kimler: Open Studio
2046 W. Carroll, Chicago IL
December 19, 2009
artnet.com/artist/21755/wesley-kimler.html
wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Kimler
wesleykimlerstudio.com
Adam Ekberg @ Thomas Robertello
In the between
December 11, 2009 - February 6, 2010
939 W. Randolph, Chicago
"Born in 1975, Adam Ekberg resides in Chicago and graduated the School of the Art Institute's MFA Photography program in 2006."
thomasrobertello.com
adamekberg.com/home.html
The show, currently on view at H Gallery in Bangkok, includes photographic works on acrylic panels, a wallpaper installation (collaboration with Jason Pickleman) and a backlit film installation.
Lead (pronounced /ˈlɛd/) is a main-group element with symbol Pb (Latin: plumbum) and atomic number 82. Lead is a soft, malleable poor metal, also considered to be one of the heavy metals.
Leasha Overturf @ Family Room Gallery:
1821 W Hubbard St, #202, Chicago, IL 60622
www.leasha.com
thepostfamily.com
www.paulelledge.com/blog
Ischar too offered documentary work--but his subjects were male, and his prints in color. Further, Ischar's candid models suggested only the flower of a certain species of manhood. So that while his handling was Mannerist, his study was of something like unto a Greek ideal: mind and body fully developed, then fallen one sun-drenched day into Elysium. Time, in Ischar's work, was frozen. Twenty-five years having passed since the shutter was released: What became of the men depicted?
Doug Ischar @ Golden:
Marginal Waters
816 W. Newport, Chicago, IL 60657
Thursday, Friday and Saturday 1pm - 6pm
And by appointment: 773-209-8889
golden-gallery.org/home.html
In the unstructured dialogue between the antipodes of Overturf and Ischar--b/w and color, the passage of time and the moment, Downstate Illinois and Chicago, female and male, straight and gay--something near to the whole of the story is told. Technically, these two are at the top of their game; they are mature artists. I thought that they were the "best" of what I saw on the opening weekend. And a good curator might easily "say" a lot about the human condition with a juxtaposition of the two. But, more often than not, in the effort to advance one cause, or career, omissions are made with as much care as lies are told.
Above: Tirtza Even and Toby Millman @ Spoke
Palestine Revisited
August 7-22, 2009
119 N. Peoria #3D
Chicago, IL 60607
Saturdays 11am-5pm, or by appointment
"Tirtza Even and Toby Millman each translate their experiences of personal encounters in Palestine into 3-D animations and cut paper works, spanning moments between 1998 and 2008."
spokechicago.blogspot.com
Above: Public Works Group Show @ Andrew Rafacz Gallery
Public Works includes Chris Eichenseer, Justin Fines, Cody Hudson, Andy Mueller
July 31 - August 29, 2009
835 W. Washington Blvd.
Chicago IL 60607
Tuesday-Friday, 11-6; Saturday, 11-5
www.andrewrafacz.com
www.carrieschneider.net
www.moniquemeloche.com
Lora Fosberg:
www.lorafosberg.com
Cody Hudson:
www.struggleinc.com
www.andrewrafacz.com
Renee Shaw @ Logsdon Gallery
Polymorphic Polymers
July 10 - August 1, 2009
1909 S. Halsted St.
Chicago, Il
www.logsdon1909.com
Summer Residents: Women in Performance
CamLab, Gitte Bog, Susan Lee-Chun, Kang-hyun Ahn
June 15th - August 30th, 2009
119 N. Peoria #2d
Chicago, IL 60607
"threewalls will host a group of talented emerging women working in performance this summer for our first thematic residency. Artists will be live and work thoughout Chicago, co-hosted by other organizations. Look for performances, site specific projects and other events through-out Chicago during their stay, including our yearly symposium which will extend the conversation about performance art to our yearly panel and publication."
www.three-walls.org/blog/
www.susanleechun.com
Steven Husby in
Pop Sizzle Hum: Pamela Fraser, Carrie Gundersdorf, Steven Husby, Judy Ledgerwood
June 12 - July 31, 2009
Tony Wight Gallery
119 North Peoria Street, #2C, Chicago
tonywightgallery.com
Ryan Gander in
Several Silences: Lewis Baltz, Troy Brauntuch, Manon de Boer, Paul Dickinson, Ryan Gander, Geissler and Sann, Gran Fury, C.M. von Hausswolff, Harold Mendez, Jonty Semper, Harry Shearer
April 26 - June 07, 2009
The Renaissance Society
5811 S. Ellis Avenue
Bergman Gallery, Cobb Hall 418, Chicago
www.renaissancesociety.org
Elizabeth Chodos curates: Ryan Fenchel, Rebecca Gordon, Mathew Paul Jinks, Stacie Johnson, and Michael Ruglio-Misurell
Myth in Material
April 18-30, 2009
Alogon Gallery
1049 N. Paulina 3R [entry on Cortez], Chicago, IL
alogongallery.com
The "In the Factory" series brings you an interview with Chicago's great photographer Dawoud Bey as he discusses his career as an artist, working with high school students and his exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey.
Above: The Culmination, 2007, oil on canvas, 48" x 72" inches
Nicole Gordon @ Linda Warren
April 3 - May 9, 2009
Artist talk on April 18th, 2 pm
1052 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607
312.432.9500
www.lindawarrengallery.com
Judith Brotman @ threewalls
April 3 - May 8, 2009
Artist talk on April 23rd, 6pm
119 n. peoria #2d, Chicago, IL 60607
312.432.3972
www.three-walls.org
More ...
Sheba Chhachhi @ Walsh Gallery
Winged Pilgrims and Other Creatures
March 27 - April 25, 2009
Tuesday-Saturday 10:30-5:30
118 N. Peoria Street, 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60607
312.829.3312
www.walshgallery.com
Sullivan Galleries
33 S. State, 7th Floor
March 20 - April 3, 2009
Tues-Sat, 11-6
www.saic.edu/
Above: Erin Elizabeth
"Stack expands the conceptual reaches of his investigation of night vision surveillance..."
March 20 - April 25, 2009
118 North Peoria
Chicago, IL 60607
www.moniquemeloche.com
As Lisa Hunter, the Intrepid Art Collector reports, "here's a treat for serious collectors: Juliana Beasley, heir apparent to Toulouse-Lautrec, is having a holiday print sale. She's selling four images from her series "Last Stop: Rockaway Park" in a nice size (18x18) for $250 to $300.
These images were shown at Freize and are in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. But you don't need to read her CV to know that Beasley's the real deal. This holiday edition is limited to 15 prints, so don't dawdle."
The image is "Leopard Lady" by Juliana Beasley. See her website for more images.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.
Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awaken'd birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a summering square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.
Dear as remember'd kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more!
["The Princess: A Medley: Tears, Idle Tears," by Alfred Lord Tennyson; for RM.]
And the sudden rise and slow relapse
Of the long multitudinous rain.
All text from The Center for Biological Diversity
A relative of the Greater Roadrunner, the Yellow-billed cuckoo is also called the Raincrow or Stormcrow because its call heralds the coming of summer rains.
A show of 40+ photographs opens Friday, June 13 at Medicine Park (Chicago Avenue at Washtenaw) and runs through July 9. Friday's opening reception begins at 8 with dj Lauri Apple spinning. Details and a sample below...
Yes, we can also point out and extol the virtues of artists we admire.
One of the greatest treasures Chicago has is the photographer Dawoud Bey.
Bey was one of my surprise discoveries last year when I was in the Chicago Art Fair. He came to my booth, we talked, I found him very interesting. Back at Wesley's where I was staying, I googled him, my favorite spy tactic. I was amazed at how outstanding his photos were! I had suspected that he would be a good artist, but here I was presented with a great one. His works unite a strong humanism (that disgraced word) with striking formal qualities in service of an art at once aesthetically challenging, sociological (in the best sense) and personal. And all that depth is carried lightly, under a mantel of (seemingly) direct image making.
His most recent works feature pictures ...
Leave the woman where she is.
She has two arms of her own
And two legs for that matter
(Which, sir, are no longer any affair of yours).
See that you yourself come through.
In 1811, near the end of his life, poet, ornithologist, naturalist and illustrator Alexander Wilson named this common North American warbler after observing it for the first time in the branches of a Mississippi magnolia tree. This bird, which breeds in spruce trees near the Canadian border of the United States and in Canada, is commonly called the Black and Yellow Warbler.
A kind of woodpecker, the yellow bellied sapsucker harvests sap from trees for food, as well as the insects the sap they tap attracts. The holes these birds make appear as unmistakable horizontal lines of dots that can illustrate the entire trunk of a tree. They manage the trees they use, like any conscientious user of natural resources.
I photographed so much, that I can't make sense of everything yet. But, the churches were the most comforting. The child mannequin and projector came along for the trip, smashed in a suitcase. Fortunately, no problems with airport security, at least in Chicago...
You artists who perform plays
In great houses under electric suns
Before the hushed crowd, pay a visit some time
To that theatre whose setting is the street.
The male woodcock’s courtship flight is spectacular to behold. At sunset he flies to the singing grounds and gives an insect-like “peent” call.
The world was this as well, figures in windows a thousand feet up
Sidelong glimpses of the city on my first day at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
This building is scheduled to close at the end of February or early March. Not that I'm one who cares to shop, but the vacant spaces are looking quite wonderful. I'm hoping to bring the mannequins in after everything is out.
These were shot during 2000 (most for CITY 2000), at raves in Chicago.
I found posting too many pictures in one week daunting to say the least.
I hope it will bring NEW MEANING to your life. (sarcasm)
Thermal updraft sucking things that soar
into the frozen vortex of thunderstorms.
faux angel, Mary Poppins Harpy.
Sorry, I have been a little busy with life lately, and have neglected my baby SHARKS.
I do promise to have a more pulled together post for next time,
but here is just a bit of what's been going down in my life...a tiny bit....
1957 West Chicago, through November, and will be part of Saturday's
"East/West" Ukrainian Village art walk. "Chicago 1900-1959 West"
is comprised mostly of pictures taken on the 1900 block of West Chicago Avenue,
and are part of a larger project capturing daily life in the neighborhood.
Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly,
Asleep on the black trunk,
blowing like a leaf in green shadow.
MySisterThatIsNotMySisterAndItIsJustSoWeirdThatWeEvenGetToBeFriends
BecauseSheLivesThousandsOfMilesAwayIAmSoHappyWhenSheComesToVisit
AndMickeyKnewHerRightAwayInHerHeartTooMySister...
to the ground. No one would help him even if they could.
Possible Christoff / Wolfson Art Post in the works !
While it's true that Rob Miller's accounting of his time in New Orleans with Habitat for Humanity brings home the horrifying disaster of government waste and incompetence, there's nothing quite like a professional photographer to really put you right there on the scene.
Opening this Friday, September 1 at The Architrouve in Chicago is the riveting work of New Orleans photographer and photo dealer Joshua Mann Pailet. Snapshots of the show can be viewed at The Architrouve's web site, and the opening for the show will begin at 5:00 PM.
For more information visit The Architrouve's web site, or contact them directly.
The Architrouve
1433 West Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60622
312.563.1033
Open Tuesday Through Saturday 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM by appointment only.
These are kinda out-takes. Third or fourth drafts. Maybe.
Do you think these are bad?
I don't think Chrysta Bell and I can take BAD photographs. Books full of beauty. Heart.
Cigar. Chango's. Empty Grocery Store. Municipal Building. Big Lots®. Retail Strip Center......
CB has been creating music with one of my heroes,
Director/Musician/Painter/Etc.......David Lynch.
Two of my favorite movies are THE WIZARD OF OZ & BLUE VELVET.
When David Lynch made WILD AT HEART, I wondered if he had made it just for me....
Chrysta Bell has been my muse* for a full decade, and I thank my lucky stars for that !
She is my muse* of all muses. She gets it. Gets me.
*(a guiding spirit, a source of inspiration.)
"Chicago Car Culture," at the Cultural Center through August 27.
Jeez, I hope to offend someone with this "title" as I did a few weeks back....
This is some art from before the ownership of digital cameras.....
Very random, arted & with LOVE !!!!!!!
I hope to be back with some NEW SHIT, next week.............
.....around 4 years ago, I didn't even have a point-and-shoot digital camera. I didn't know Photoshop all that well, but was learning. Now it seems like a whole different world, visually.........
On Sunday, I installed several photos at Flying Saucer on California, and wandered home from Humboldt Park through the side streets of Ukrainian Village, where crucifixes are in bloom.
Sara Hickman is my sister, angel, muse, hero, friend.
Sara has been known to go to department stores,
buy up a bunch of blankets
and take them personally to the homeless during the cold Winter nights.
She is also very involved in numerous charities and human rights issues...
Is a very hands on mom....
She loves to still write letters to the people she loves, in this age of e-mails.....
She is also one hell of a writer, singer & guitarist!
Sara has a new DOUBLE CD out JUNE 20, 2006.
It is a great CD and has a moody disc and a happy disc to fit you either way.
So here is a motherload of photos from our recent years as friends.
Groucho: "Well whadaya say girls? Are we all gonna get married?"
Woman: "All of us? But that's bigamy!"
Groucho: "Yes and it's big of me too. It'll be big of us!"
Tokyo based photographer Rikki Kasso has several regularly updated blogs online. Tokyo Undressed is one of these projects. In the tradition of Araki Nobuyoshi, Rikki juxtaposes 'typical' snapshots with highly sexualized photographs to create a compelling emotional tension.
Twenty new photos will be on display from June 3-30 at the Rainbo Club, 1150 North Damen (at Division).
...the SpenJohnny were playing the Caucus,
Samera was graduating,
Ainjel had already moved away.....
It was the ending of one of my favorite time spans,
and some greatness about to begin....
I adore photographing women!
I adore these women.
My photos are imperfect.
World a blur. Directions? Directionless. Where are you pointing?
These are images from May 2006.
The people you see here are part of my Austin family.
"Google" the ones that don't have links....
I am not being lazy. There are just alot more interesting things about them when you do a search.
it's not in a gallery, it's not in a museum; it's under the cta train tracks or in an alley. i don't know the creators, I was just there to sample it onto film.
Even if her name isn’t familiar, her photographs are. Roberta Bayley’s photographs of the early New York punk scene have a wonderful ubiquitous quality. Sure, her pictures have appeared in magazines ranging from the original Punk magazine to Rolling Stone, and on album covers for artists such as The Ramones and Richard Hell. But Roberta’s images have also traveled beyond the usual print media outlets. For years now, her work has graced T-shirts for sale on St. Marks Place and most recently has appeared on the high-rent walls at Mary Boone Gallery. These pictures have a life of their own, surfacing here and there to remind us of a music scene that influenced so many but was witnessed by only a fortunate few.
The ghosts won’t come to rest. For months, I’ve culled their mythology, steeped it in Chicago history and flashes of abrupt beauty. Close my eyes—their tale dodges me. Open my eyes? I see the passways of their restless circling. I frame and then run as the image materializes.
A FAVORITE PASSOVER FOOD.
Every year in October the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs presents Chicago Artists’ Month. Various cultural institutions and galleries partner with the city of Chicago to offer exhibitions, open studios, demonstrations, workshops, neighborhood art walks, and a variety of additional events in art communities throughout the city.
Okay, okay...I am going to do a current piece next week, but here is something from my digital archives.
Chicago is steeped in the atmosphere for a ghost story I've spent months on. If it's all there, in the turn of the head or blink of an eye, then why should it be anything but a joy to turn images into the words that will prompt the making of a story?
In the coming weeks, I will bring you photos of musicians (sometimes FAMOUS), actors, artists...people who inspire me. My goal here is to show you some of the people who make my life as a photographer interesting. I hope you enjoy this, as I know that I will enjoy bringing it to you, the viewer!
Mickey's light !
Open the door now./ Go roll up the collar of your coat/ To walk in the changing scarf of mist.
Tell your sins here to the pearl fog/ And know for once a deepening night/ Strange as the half-meanings/ Alurk in a wise woman's mousey eyes.
Yes, tell your sins/ And know how careless a pearl fog is/ Of the laws you have broken
wrote Carl Sandburg in a pome he called "Pearl Fog."
“There’s no YOU CAN’T in Vegas”, well at least that’s what the monorail ad says. So I decided to walk away from “the strip” towards a potential vegetarian / vegan friendly eatery. After receiving two signs that I should turn back, I realized “I Couldn’t”. The first sign was a strong smell of weed and the second a couple of methed out gentlemen. I didn’t feel the need to find out what my 3rd sign would be; if any. Maybe I’m just paranoid, but I’d prefer to label it aware.
Over the past ten years or so, I've interviewed dozens of people about the movies they've made.
Warning signs have been posted along portions of Carpinteria beaches in response to a shark attack on two harbor seals last week.
Lanterns
Next week, photographs from Park City, Utah, home of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Here are images from the 2005 edition.
