EXPO Chicago: Projects September 17-20, 2015 Navy Pier, Chicago IL It is common knowledge that art fairs provide a significant percentage of art sales nationally and internationally to the art market. While the targeted audience …
Art Basel week, at its most extreme, is a not-so-smooth fusion of art and commerce, the sublime and the quotidian. This jarring combination was perfectly embodied by the visual of the Sabra hummus carts as …
Simon Starling: Pictures for an Exhibition The Arts Club of Chicago 201 E. Ontario Street, Chicago, IL 60611 June 6–September 26, 2014 Simon Starling: Metamorphology Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Ave …
Judy Chicago By Shana Beth Mason Judy Chicago has never been one for subtlety. Her straightforward challenges to patriarchal aesthetics and critical structures in and since the late 1960s have been realized …
Nicholas Gottlund, “Always” Paris London Hong Kong 845 W. Washington Blvd 2R, Chicago, IL 60607 June 6–July 26, 2014 By Amanda Roscoe Mayo Nicholas Gottlund’s show, “Always,” at PLHK in Chicago …
Gaming Development as a Model for Contemporary Art Production By Nicholas O’Brien This essay has been pulled from SFAQ Print Issue 16. Recently, there have been a slew of conversations, debates, …
Rozalinda Borcilă and Brian Holmes, “Foreign Trade Zone: A People’s Consultancy” Threewalls 119 N. Peoria #2c, Chicago, IL 60607 April 26–May 31, 2014 By Amanda Roscoe Mayo Chicago is a town built on industry …
“Jack Wright: A Unified Theory of Painting” Krowswork 480 23rd Street, Oakland, California May 2–June 7, 2014 “Resuscitating Reputation,” by John Held, Jr. When painter John (Jack) Cushing Wright moved to the …
“Activities for a spare hour. Culture vultures. Feed your brain. Going in a group. Going solo. Mood. Chill” Featuring works by Gene Beery, Nicholas Buffon, and Nora Slade. Organized by Bodega, New York. Queer Thoughts …
“Here Lies Space” Heaven Gallery 1550 North Milwaukee, 2nd floor Chicago, IL 60622 April 4 – May 11, 2014 “Here Lies Space” is an exhibition that does not investigate space in terms of installation, …
Currently on view at Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago is “Master Plan” a solo exhibition by John Knuth featuring a body of new paintings. For Knuth, the most basic level of alchemy can be transcendent. …
Puppies Puppies Interviewed by Sam Lipp and Luis Miguel Bendaña from Queer Thoughts, Chicago. On a brisk July day in Chicago, Queer Thoughts sat down with Puppies Puppies for tea and …
“Teen Paranormal Romance” Curated by Hamza Walker The Renaissance Society, Chicago March 9 – April 13, 2014. “Teen Paranormal Romance,” curated by Hamza Walker, is an aesthetically smart show with an equally heady concept. …
Currently on view at devening projects + editions’ offspace, Chicago is “Exile on Main Street,” a solo exhibition by Mike Rea. For over a decade, Chicago artist Mike Rea has used his bombastic wooden sculptures …
Currently on view at Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles is “#PAINTING,” a solo exhibition by Chicago based artist, Josh Reames. Reames’ new body of work considers abstraction and painting in relation to the internet, and …
Currently on view at Western Exhibition, Chicago is “HEAD,” a massive group exhibition featuring work that riffs on portraiture. Other interpretations of the word “head”include suggestive work where viewers are invited to stick their own …
Opening Saturday, March 1st at Sunday Project, Chicago is it’s inaugural exhibition “Tentatively Titled,” a group exhibition comprised of work by five emerging artists who turn the lens directly on themselves. In a world increasingly …
Opening Saturday, February 15th at LVL3, Chicago is “Fruit/Flowers/Appliances,” a group show marking LVL3’s four-year anniversary. For the exhibition, LVL3 welcomes back Conor Backman, Andrew Holmquist, Brian Kokoska, Ben Medansky, and Letha Wilson: five past …
Currently on view in Gallery 1 of Western Exhibitions, Chicago is a solo exhibition by Ben Stone presenting new sculptures in a variety of media that transform two-dimensional graphics into compelling and uncanny three-dimensional forms. …
Opening Saturday, January 11th at LVL3, Chicago is “Codification,” a two-person exhibition by Chicago-based Alex Chitty and Denver-based Zach Reini. “Codification” brings together two artists who deal with similar methods of construction while presenting varying …
