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12/19/11--22:25: Group Show - ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation - February 4th 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM (chan 1483207)

Marilyn: Artist as Icon, is an intriguing look at an iconic name inspiring revisionist glitterati blondes and a continual redigestion of the Marilyn personality. The artist/educator/activist, born Marilyn Zimmerman, has been re-envisioned, recorded, and re-assigned various roles and held projections including admirers as well as toxic projections from within the culture wars.

This exhibit presents the life of a unique individual revealed through images made during her career over a period spanning 30 years. Zimmerman represents many things to many different people and these impressions are eloquently revealed through the diverse images of Marilyn made by numerous artists and photographers; images as eclectic as Marilyn herself.

You are also invited to the 60th Birthday Party of MARILYN! The opening of the exhibit, Marilyn: Artist as Icon, is Marilyn Zimmerwoman's actual birthday celebration. She will thank her guests in a performative overview of her life, as she raises the question, “What could the other Marilyn perhaps have accomplished if she was privy to the seismic shift that 30 years of feminist reconstruction gave us all?”

Artists:

Tom Allen

Steve Boni
Greg Campbell
Bryce Denison
Topher Crowder
Judy Eliyas
Ed Fraga
Ken Josephson

Peter Lenzo
Eric Mesko
Jon Pickell
Erin Robinson
Stanley Rosenthal

Jack Sal

Michael Sarnacki
Mona Shahid

Donita Simpson

Steve Sprague

Jack O. Summers
Millee Tibbs
Robert Warhover

...and others

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01/03/12--18:34: Eleanor Spiess-Ferris, Barbara Rossi, Kerig Pope, Linda Kramer, Carl Hoeckner, Samuel Himmelfarb, Marcena Barton - Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery - February 3rd 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM (chan 1483207)

‘Figurism’ brings together historical and  contemporary body-based art that emphasizes the power and range of the uses of the figure in Midwestern art. Doug Stapleton, Assistant Curator of the Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, brings together the work of over fifty artists, including Marcena Barton; Samuel Himmelfarb, Carl Hoeckner; Linda Kramer; Kerig Pope; Barbara Rossi, and Eleanor Spiess-Ferris.




01/17/12--16:30: Molly Zuckerman-Hartung - Corbett vs. Dempsey - February 3rd 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM (chan 1483207)




01/17/12--16:32: Miroslav Tichy - Corbett vs. Dempsey - February 3rd 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM (chan 1483207)




01/17/12--16:50: Nicole Gordon - Linda Warren Projects - February 3rd 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (chan 1483207)




01/17/12--16:53: Alex O'Neal - Linda Warren Projects - February 3rd 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (chan 1483207)




01/20/12--11:47: Group Show - Bert Green Fine Art - February 4th 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM (chan 1483207)

Bert Green Fine Art, after 13 years in Los Angeles, CA, has relocated to Chicago, IL. The new gallery is located on Michigan Avenue across from Milennium Park and a few blocks from the Art Institute on the 12th floor of the Willoughby Building at 8 S. Michigan Ave., an historic high rise along the famous South Michigan Avenue row of early skyscrapers. Bert Green Fine Art exhibits contemporary artists of all ages in various media, with a particular focus on painting and works on paper.

Bert Green Fine Art exhibits contemporary artists of all ages in various media, with a particular focus on painting and works on paper.

This inaugural exhibition will be followed by a series of solo shows beginning in March 2012. The gallery has both a main room and a project room. Watch our website for the schedule, which will be posted as it is confirmed.




01/21/12--21:49: Danielle Gustafson-Sundell - Julius Cæsar - January 29th 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (chan 1483207)






01/21/12--23:11: Group Show - Hyde Park Art Center - January 29th 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM (chan 1483207)

Gallery 4

Lose yourself in Someone Else’s Dream, a group exhibition that brings together the vibrant artwork of nine artists who boldly blur reality and fiction. The selection of works on paper by local and international artists Arturo Herrera, Richard Hull, José Lerma, Héctor Madera-González, Martin McMurray, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Christina Ramberg, Peter Saul, and T.L. Solien is filled with references to high and low art, the recognizable human form, and the psychological realm. Referencing the figure but eschewing images from the real world, each artist uses techniques of distortion through pliable biomorphic forms, gestural lines, and cartoon-like figures.

Someone Else’s Dream features two artists of the original Hairy Who, who took part in milestone exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center in the 1960s, along with several artists that have never exhibited at this venue. The combination of artists provides an opportunity to create new associations of the work outside of a historical analysis. Without going too far down the proverbial rabbit hole, Someone Else’s Dream acknowledges the personal efforts by each artist and asks what such an exhibition can unlock.

Someone Else’s Dream is guest curated by John McKinnon, the Program Director of The Society for Contemporary Art at The Art Institute of Chicago. From 2007 to 2010, he was Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Milwaukee Art Museum. He has written for Artforum, Art Papers, and X-TRA. He holds dual Masters Degrees in Art History and Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.




01/22/12--18:10: Antonia Gurkovska - Kavi Gupta Gallery - February 3rd 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM (chan 1483207)




01/27/12--09:40: Kelly Kaczynski - Gallery 400 - January 30th 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (chan 1483207)

Kelly Kaczynski is a sculptor and installation artist. Her work, while existing in a temporal-spatial platform, is deeply materials based. She has exhibited with the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; the University at Buffalo Art Gallery; Rowland Contemporary, Chicago; Triple Candie, New York; Gallery 400, Chicago; Islip Art Museum, New York; DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; and the Boston Center for the Arts. Public installations include projects with the Main Line Art Center, Haverford; the Interfaith Center of New York; the Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston; and the Boston National Historic Parks. Kaczynski has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the University of Pennsylvania; the University of Illinois at Chicago; and the University of Chicago. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University. She received a BA from The Evergreen State College and an MFA from Bard College.

Form Fit is a new lecture series organized by UIC MFA Graduates in which local artists, curators, and other contemporary art practitioners present on their work. This series is free and open to the public.




01/27/12--21:53: Sheree Hovsepian - moniquemeloche gallery - February 4th 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM (chan 1483207)




01/28/12--19:17: Joshua Abelow - Devening Projects + Editions - January 29th 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM (chan 1483207)

Released in 1969, Songs from a Room was Leonard Cohen's seminal second album; it's also the title of New York-based artist Joshua Abelow's first solo exhibition at devening projects + editions. Cohen's release set the stage for a long career as a poet, lyrcist and vocalist with a sound and attitude that was spare and circumscribe. Like the songs on this ablum, Abelow's paintings have a similar quality of efficiency and use a melodic thread as the foundation for cutting subject matter. At the root of Abelow's modestly scaled paintings is a prodigious, career-long reconsideration of Modernist idioms. Filtered through a lens of wry self-deprecation, these tough canvases are produced with highly specific chromatic systems and suggest a historical reverence to artists as diverse as William Copley, Francis Picabia and Rene Magritte (particularly works from his Vache period). We are very pleased to show Joshua's work at this important time in his career; please join us for the opening on Sunday, January 29 from 4 - 7 pm.

(b. 1976) Joshua Abelow has been exhibiting in the United States, Europe, and Canada since the early 2000s. As active a blogger as he is prolific a painter, Abelow has had solo shows in New York at James Fuentes LLC, in Toronto at Tomorrow Gallery; he’ll will be featured in an upcoming solo exhibition at Sorry We’re Closed in Brussels, Belgium and a three-person projects at Horton Gallery in Berlin.

During the summer of 2011 Abelow oversaw a series of curatorial projects at “ART BLOG ART BLOG” a gallery space he conceived in the Chelsea studio of his friend and former employer Ross Bleckner. In the fall of 2011, he published a memoir “Painter’s Journal” about his adventures as a burgeoning young artist in New York City in the late 1990s. Abelow will be featured in a solo presentation with James Fuentes at the inaugural Frieze, New York, in May of 2012.

Abelow earned his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1998, and his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2008. He has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, Vermont), the Banff Center (Alberta, Canada), and at Takt Kunstprojectraum (Berlin, Germany). Represented by the James Fuentes Gallery in New York City, you can find Abelow’s blog online at ART BLOG ART BLOG.

On the occasion of his exhibition, devening editions has published Songs from a Room, a new print by Joshua Abelow. Measuring 22 x 16 inches, Songs from a Room is a archival pigment print and silkscreen, limited to 20 impressions (+ 2 APs) and sells for $125.




01/28/12--19:17: Alexander Valentine - Devening Projects + Editions - January 29th 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM (chan 1483207)

In the off space, devening projects + editions presents Blonder Tongue Audio Baton, a collection of editioned portfolios, publications, prints, posters and packages by Chicago artist Alexander Valentine. The title of the exhibition borrows from the name of a 1950's analog graphic equalizer as well as the name of an album by the Swirlies, a Boston shoe-gaze band from the 1990s. Alex's experimental work with a small format offset press comes out of a 70s and 80s music and poster culture driven by immediacy and passion. Cheap Xerox prints, 'zines, ephemera and ads for rock bands have fueled and inspired a developing personal iconography by this important young graphic artist.

To celebrate the opening of Blonder Tongue Audio Baton, Alex will be hosting ONE FOR ONE FOR ONE, a collaborative soundtrack project and DJ set. For the duration of the evening, a select group of Chicago DJs will be playing a record, in response to record, DJ set. ONE FOR ONE FOR ONE features Jocelyn Brown (Clerical Error), Brian Case (Disappears), Aay Preston-Myint (Chances), Beau Wanzer (Hot on the Heels of Love), Joe Proulx (Smith's Night), Emily Elhaj (Implodes), Laura Deutsch (Three of Cups), Seth Sher (Ga'an), Jordan Williams (Flagrant Monday) and Alfredo Nogueira.

Alex Valentine received his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. He is an instructor in the Print Media Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a founding member of No Coast, formerly a retail, exhibition, and studio space dedicated to producing, displaying, and distributing artist projects. His recent projects include the Tokyo Art Book Fair and What It Is Gallery in Oak Park, IL.




01/28/12--19:22: Group Show - Carrie Secrist Gallery - February 4th 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM (chan 1483207)

Exploring our interests in the various connotations surrounding the word 'holes,' (NO) Vacancy is a group exhibition curated by the Carrie Secrist Gallery staff. Building upon the gallery's renewed commitment to emerging artists, (NO) Vacancy will feature a handful of makers new to our space. For example, we will show objects that study structural portals (Jamisen Ogg), emotional gaps (Paul Anthony Smith) and cosmological voids (Vincent Como). Likewise the work of gallery artists Dietrich Wegner (showing Black Oracle, a large-scale sculpture of an asshole) and Angelo Musco (Chicago debut of Xylem, an 8 x 20 feet photographic installation composed of human figures) will reveal formal chasms and imagine an environmental and sensory abyss, respectively. In general, the exhibition shies away from the notion of "wholes" in terms of trying to answer large questions about humanity and existence. Rather the work we've chosen examines architecture or framework, exposes a lacuna in personal knowledge, or nods to a cheekier and more literal use of the word hole.




01/28/12--21:13: - Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) - January 29th 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (chan 1483207)

The art produced during the 1980s veered between radical and conservative, capricious and political, socially engaged and art historically aware. This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s provides viewers with an overview of the artistic production of these heady days, as well as impart the decade’s sense of political and aesthetic urgency by placing many of the decade’s competing factions in close proximity to one another. The exhibition is divided into four sections: The End is Near, Democracy, Gender Trouble, Desire and Longing. By crossing these wires the exhibition hopes to suggest that despite the claims of cynicism or overarching irony sometimes leveled at the work of this period, often what we find are artists struggling to articulate their wants, needs, and desires, in an increasingly commodified and seemingly impenetrable world. This group exhibition include art works by Keith Herring, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lorna Simpson, Cindy Sherman, David Wojnarowicz, and Nan Goldin.