Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Spread the Ink @ Drive by Press
Sat. August 2nd, at the Happy Dog Gallery (1542 N. Milwaukee, Wicker Park,)Drive by Press
With the Amazing Hancock Brothers, who are friends from Texas that never disappoint.
With the Amazing Hancock Brothers, who are friends from Texas that never disappoint.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Barbara Hashimoto: The Junk Mail Project
2003 S. Halsted (60608)
Tel 312-446-3171
august 8:
Reception from 6-10pm
http://www.barbarahashimoto.com/
Tel 312-446-3171
august 8:
Reception from 6-10pm
http://www.barbarahashimoto.com/
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Artists' Reception for Current Exhibitions at Hyde Park Art Center
Sunday, August 3
3-5pm, Hyde Park Art Center
Join us for an artists’ reception for a number of current shows: Monica Hererra’s Strings , Catherine Forster’s They Call Me Theirs, Are We There Yet? curated by Dawoud Bey, Kiss on the Cheek: Portraits by Dale Washington, and Glow, an exhibition of new works by the Hyde Park Art Center’s photography faculty curated by Karen Irvine, Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
3-5pm, Hyde Park Art Center
Join us for an artists’ reception for a number of current shows: Monica Hererra’s Strings , Catherine Forster’s They Call Me Theirs, Are We There Yet? curated by Dawoud Bey, Kiss on the Cheek: Portraits by Dale Washington, and Glow, an exhibition of new works by the Hyde Park Art Center’s photography faculty curated by Karen Irvine, Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
Live Music @ Enemy
Animal Law
The Menthols
Sseepage
Sexual Freedom
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
doors 8
music 8:30
$5 suggested donation, Enemy
The Menthols
Sseepage
Sexual Freedom
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
doors 8
music 8:30
$5 suggested donation, Enemy
Death Drive by Cayetano Ferrer @ Heaven Gallery
Death Drive Art Opening
Artworks by Cayetano Ferrer
August 02, 2008
12pm-10pm, Heaven Gallery
Death Drive is a one-day exhibition of art works that speak to the function of monuments and memory. The main space contains work in various media, including photography, painting and sculpture. Inverted Taj Mirror (2007) a mirror cutout of the Taj Mahal, plays with the history of this architectural monument, and a reassessment of the complicated intentions of it's creator. Historians Against History (2008) is a sculpture made from a book by the same title, where the pages are glued together and all the text on the open page is blacked out except for a single phrase. These and other works in the show play with the processes through which history is recorded by way of object-making. This reference of historical artifacts is interrupted by hyper-specific site works that encapsulate the present moment by enveloping the architecture around them. In contrast to the works that tell a story from the past and from external sources, the site works exercise a sense of place and perform a shift in the activity of citation, bringing the present into the narrative.
The show culminates in the second space, which is a darkened room containing a single sculpture. Launch Ramp (2008) is a skate ramp that is perforated with thousands of small holes, revealing a glow from the interior. A light emanating through the perforations make up a constantly shifting image, an obfuscated film looping on a muted television which is only experienced through its rhythm and palette. Made as a memorial for a friend who died in a skateboarding accident earlier this month, this sculpture will be dismantled after the one-day show, making it less an enduring monument to his death than a moment of contemplation about his spirited, and at times reckless nature.
Howard Henry Chen @ 12 x 12, MCA
Howard Henry Chen
August 2-31, 2008, 12 x 12
Howard Henry Chen, Journey to the West #8, 2007. Courtesy of Schneider Gallery, Chicago.
Born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1972, Chen and his family emigrated to the United States in 1975, a few weeks before the Vietnam War ended. Over the last six years he has traveled back and forth between the United States and Vietnam documenting physical evidence of the war and the economic and social changes affected by globalization. Focusing on tourism, both foreign and domestic, Chen records the disparities between Americans' perceptions of Vietnam and the rapid changes resulting from the country's growing prosperity.
August 2-31, 2008, 12 x 12
Howard Henry Chen, Journey to the West #8, 2007. Courtesy of Schneider Gallery, Chicago.
Born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1972, Chen and his family emigrated to the United States in 1975, a few weeks before the Vietnam War ended. Over the last six years he has traveled back and forth between the United States and Vietnam documenting physical evidence of the war and the economic and social changes affected by globalization. Focusing on tourism, both foreign and domestic, Chen records the disparities between Americans' perceptions of Vietnam and the rapid changes resulting from the country's growing prosperity.
Focus: Mario Ybarra Jr.—Take Me Out...No Man Is an Island
May 29–August 24, 2008
Gallery 139, Art Institute
Overview: Mario Ybarra, Jr. is a visual and performance artist, educator, and activist who combines street culture with fine art in order to produce what he calls "contemporary art that is filtered through a Mexican American experience in Los Angeles." He has received critical acclaim for his site-specific urban interventions that often bring to light little-known aspects of a particular location’s cultural history. In Take Me Out, Ybarra conducts a comparative study of Los Angeles and Chicago, using the chewing-gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr., and his business ventures in both cities as his jumping-off point. Through extensive archival and anecdotal research, Ybarra draws parallels between these two cities' cultural idiosyncrasies and similarities.
Mario Ybarra, Jr. Take Me Out...No Man Is an Island (detail), 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles.
This new site-specific installation investigates South Central Los Angeles’s lesser-known Wrigley Field—built in the 1920s as the original home of the Los Angeles Angels and torn down in 1966—in relation to its more famous Chicago counterpart. Wrigley also owned Catalina Island, located 26 miles off the coast of Los Angeles. It was here that he held Chicago Cubs spring training, hosted a number of Hollywood movie stars including Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, and populated the landscape with wild boar and buffalo for his guests to hunt during their stays. Catalina is of particular interest to Ybarra because of its omission in the treaty of Guadalupe–Hidalgo, the document that allotted Mexican territory to the United States after the Mexican American War. This technicality motivated the militant Chicano group known as the Brown Berets to lead an unsuccessful but symbolic occupation of the island in 1972.
The exhibition includes a room-size replica of Wrigley Field based on a paper fold-out model of the park designed by the artist. On the walls surrounding the “stadium,” ghost ships are projected in reference to the SS Catalina, built in 1924 by Wrigley to carry passengers to the island.
This will be Ybarra’s first solo museum exhibition. His work was included in the Whitney Biennial this year, and he is a 2008 Creative Capital grant recipient.
Gallery 139, Art Institute
Overview: Mario Ybarra, Jr. is a visual and performance artist, educator, and activist who combines street culture with fine art in order to produce what he calls "contemporary art that is filtered through a Mexican American experience in Los Angeles." He has received critical acclaim for his site-specific urban interventions that often bring to light little-known aspects of a particular location’s cultural history. In Take Me Out, Ybarra conducts a comparative study of Los Angeles and Chicago, using the chewing-gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr., and his business ventures in both cities as his jumping-off point. Through extensive archival and anecdotal research, Ybarra draws parallels between these two cities' cultural idiosyncrasies and similarities.
Mario Ybarra, Jr. Take Me Out...No Man Is an Island (detail), 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles.
This new site-specific installation investigates South Central Los Angeles’s lesser-known Wrigley Field—built in the 1920s as the original home of the Los Angeles Angels and torn down in 1966—in relation to its more famous Chicago counterpart. Wrigley also owned Catalina Island, located 26 miles off the coast of Los Angeles. It was here that he held Chicago Cubs spring training, hosted a number of Hollywood movie stars including Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, and populated the landscape with wild boar and buffalo for his guests to hunt during their stays. Catalina is of particular interest to Ybarra because of its omission in the treaty of Guadalupe–Hidalgo, the document that allotted Mexican territory to the United States after the Mexican American War. This technicality motivated the militant Chicano group known as the Brown Berets to lead an unsuccessful but symbolic occupation of the island in 1972.
The exhibition includes a room-size replica of Wrigley Field based on a paper fold-out model of the park designed by the artist. On the walls surrounding the “stadium,” ghost ships are projected in reference to the SS Catalina, built in 1924 by Wrigley to carry passengers to the island.
This will be Ybarra’s first solo museum exhibition. His work was included in the Whitney Biennial this year, and he is a 2008 Creative Capital grant recipient.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Second Life Sky Study
Second Life Sky Study.
Second Life Sky Studies are filmed in realtime in Second Life by Theoretical Magic (jonCates). These studies document + continue a process of literally reflecting on game engines, virtual environments, skyboxes, region boundaries + invisible limitations. The Second Life Sky Study series is a part of jonCates' ongoing metamachinima project, machinima about machinima: http://metamachinima.wordpress.com
FORMATING:
AUDIO: AAC, Stereo (L R), 44.100 kHz
VIDEO: Apple MPEG4 Decompressor, 359 x 269, Millions
FPS: 24
DATA: 3.79 MB
TRT: Infinite
LOOP: Palindrome
WWW EDITION:
N/UNLIMITED
LICENSE:
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0
SIGNED:
jonCates
2008.07.24
Monday, July 21, 2008
Catherine Forster: They Call Me Theirs
Catherine Forster: They Call Me Theirs
Hyde Park Art Center
opening reception August 3rd, 3-5PM
They Call Me Theirs is a multi-media installation
composed of sculpture, video, prints, and sound, creating an encounter
intended to question the distinctions we make between the natural and
digital world. They Call Me Theirs reverses the
experience of the outdoors by neatly packaging the four seasons in a
“Box Set” placed inside a cabin, suggesting that our efforts to purify
our experience with nature have actually taken us farther away from it.
The title of the work is taken from a line in the poem “Hamatreya” by
Ralph Waldo Emerson, which questions man’s desire to claim ownership of
the land that is inherently owned by nature. In the poem, the Earth
responds, “How am I theirs, / If they cannot hold me, / But I hold
them?”
Two different cacophonous sound tracks play from both the interior and
exterior of the cabin, highlighting the tension between the two
environments. Adjacent to the gallery housing the cabin is a “
hanging
garden” composed of large-scale ink jet prints on aluminum sign panels.
The prints were sourced from video stills,
then painted, and digitized,
creating a luscious though synthetic environment.
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615
773-324-5520
http://www.liveboxgallery.com
http://www.catforster.com
Hyde Park Art Center
opening reception August 3rd, 3-5PM
They Call Me Theirs is a multi-media installation
composed of sculpture, video, prints, and sound, creating an encounter
intended to question the distinctions we make between the natural and
digital world. They Call Me Theirs reverses the
experience of the outdoors by neatly packaging the four seasons in a
“Box Set” placed inside a cabin, suggesting that our efforts to purify
our experience with nature have actually taken us farther away from it.
The title of the work is taken from a line in the poem “Hamatreya” by
Ralph Waldo Emerson, which questions man’s desire to claim ownership of
the land that is inherently owned by nature. In the poem, the Earth
responds, “How am I theirs, / If they cannot hold me, / But I hold
them?”
Two different cacophonous sound tracks play from both the interior and
exterior of the cabin, highlighting the tension between the two
environments. Adjacent to the gallery housing the cabin is a “
hanging
garden” composed of large-scale ink jet prints on aluminum sign panels.
The prints were sourced from video stills,
then painted, and digitized,
creating a luscious though synthetic environment.
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615
773-324-5520
http://www.liveboxgallery.com
http://www.catforster.com
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Landscapes @ Western Exhibitions
Western Exhibitions
Show Dates: July 5 to August 16, 2008
Opening reception: *** Saturday, July 12, from 6 to 9pm. ***
Summer Gallery hours: Saturdays, 12 to 6pm
Several Landscapes & 3 Landscapes (or more) in the Modern Style
Press Release
I forgot to write the names of the Artists and works.
Feel free to leave a comment with information. Also, photos are poorly taken today, they will be better soon.
Show Dates: July 5 to August 16, 2008
Opening reception: *** Saturday, July 12, from 6 to 9pm. ***
Summer Gallery hours: Saturdays, 12 to 6pm
Several Landscapes & 3 Landscapes (or more) in the Modern Style
Press Release
I forgot to write the names of the Artists and works.
Feel free to leave a comment with information. Also, photos are poorly taken today, they will be better soon.
Art Chicago/ NEXT Fair Leftovers
Some leftover photos of booths at Art Chicago and NEXT Fair..
Alan Koppel Booth
Alexander Duve Gallery and Monique Meloche Gallery
Alan Koppel Booth
Alexander Duve Gallery and Monique Meloche Gallery
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