Artists in Analog by Dan Gunn Alex Olson, Lisa Williamson at Shane Campbell Gallery
November 14th - January 9th, 2010
Posted
11/16/09
In Alex Olson’s and Lisa Williamson’s first show at Shane Campbell Gallery they find in each other an interesting analog. Alex Olson’s paintings reference different forms of written text like announcements, editorials, or shorthand writing. Their pictorial flatness emphasizes their texture over an optic space and nods to the paintings’ source material. However, these references appear to be really just a way to organize shapes on a two-dimensional surface, to give it a reason to... [more]
It’s rare that an economic downturn has an 'upside' but without the downturn Jan Tichy’s show “Installations” for Richard Gray Gallery would not have been possible. Mr. Tichy’s video installations are literally embedded in the vacant offices and abandoned conference rooms of an entire floor in the Hancock Building. Stepping off of an elevator into an empty and dimly lit level of corporate offices is already an evocative enough experience on its own and is heightened by what... [more]
This coming Sunday, November 22nd from 5 to 7 pm, InCUBATE will hold their final Sunday Soup at their space around the corner from the Congress Theatre at 2129 Rockwell. For a modest donation of $10, participants get a home-cooked meal and the collected funds are granted to an artist voted on by those in attendance. The members of InCUBATE are collectively pursuing their careers and educations, many of them in other cities and countries and the space has been rendered som... [more]
Ever since I read about "Voids" I’ve been excited: a retrospective of empty exhibitions. This suitably ridiculous and heady undertaking plays to my taste for ideas that are either really stupid or really smart. Ideas that go back and forth, and sometimes are both at once are possibly the best. A mixture of artists and curators, John Armleder, Mathieu Copeland, Laurent Le Bon, Gustav Metzger, Mai-Thu Perret and Clive Phillpot and Philippe Pirotte, planned this exhibition. It has travele... [more]
When sculptor Bruce White was a child, he watched his mother sew dresses. She would start with a flat piece of fabric, cut a small V in it, and stitch together the sides of the V to make the cloth dimensional- a cone. Nowadays, White takes flat sheets of aluminum or stainless steel, cuts them to shape, and then bends, folds or curves them to make pedestal-sized sculptures. When he works in large scale, he strengthens the sculpture by reinforcing it internally or welding together... [more]
HALFEMPTY by Erik Wenzel Kay Rosen at Gallery 400
August 25th - November 21st
Posted
11/9/09
I have grown to love Rosen’s unique deadpan combination of careful text manipulation and minimal aesthetics over the years, but this group of work tends towards disappointment. This exhibition at Gallery 400 collects a video, a display case of works on paper with more works on paper on the walls. It has changed over the course of its run since opening alongside Michael Ruglio-Misurell’s “Project #12” in August.
An interesting moment occurred in the exhibition as Ruglio-Misurell’s... [more]
From November 6 – 9, 2009, Navy Pier will host the 16th annual Sculpture Objects and Functional Art Fair (SOFA). More than 65 exhibitions from ten different countries will fill Navy Pier’s Festival Hall with objects and creations from established and emerging artists from the world of craft and design. The three-day celebration of fine and decorative arts will feature throngs of dealer booths and gallery displays. Thirty-three different lectures present topics on Fiber Art, emergi... [more]
Umurbrogol? I hate to admit that the title of Wesley Kimler’s latest exhibition was somewhat foreign to me until his opening. After a quick search on Wikipedia and brief history lesson from the artist, I had a better understanding behind the series. Currently on view at the Eyeporium Gallery, “Umurbrogol” is named after the treacherous mountain range on the island of Peleliu (part of the Palau Islands). This particular location was the site of one the most devastating WWII b... [more]
“Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision” is a spectacle of images that celebrate the illustrious career of Chicago-based photographer, Barbara Crane. On view at The Chicago Cultural Center until January 10th, curator Kenneth C. Burkhart’s attempt to encapsulate a sixty year span of Crane’s photography proves to be an ambitious endeavor. The survey of over two-hundred works is both overwhelming and impressive. Beginning with the 1960s and moving from decade to decade, each series p... [more]
Imagining Poland by Dan Gunn Allan Sekula at Renaissance Society
September 20th - December 13th
Posted
10/26/09
For his show at the Renaissance Society, Allan Sekula placed little 8 1/2” x 11” printed paper texts around the exterior walls. These texts and his manuscript “Polonia and Other Fables” show Mr. Sekula’s attachment to the written word, which forms a context for his photography. The show, also titled “Polonia and other Fables,” reflects Sekula’s interest in capitalist economic systems and the structuring of societies that emerge from those systems. There are endea... [more]
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