http://chicagoart.org/openings.php

http://chicagoart.org/openings.php

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.

Barbara Hashimoto: The Junk Mail Project

2003 S. Halsted (60608)
Tel 312-446-3171

august 8:
Reception from 6-10pm

http://www.barbarahashimoto.com/

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.

Live Music @ Enemy

Animal Law
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.