Weavemaker Pro
@ The Plaines Project
1822 S Desplaines St
Opening Friday, June 29th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, July 6th
One of the oldest technologies in the world, weaving joins two sets of tensioned threads at right angles to form a cloth. Weavemaker Pro is an expose of seven different personalities working from within the construct of a class to explore this grid. As weavers, we all start with this foundational structure and investigate concepts including play, irony, contrast, party, and melancholy, using a variety of different materials and techniques. We are investigating weaving as a medium, exploring what a woven cloth can be, utilizing craft for art’s sake.
The seven weavers included in the show are students and recent graduates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago:
Bryanna Bibbs
Krystal Difronzo
Susanna Dotson
Chelcie Laggis
Melissa Leandro
Moira O’Neil
Etta Sandry
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10:29 am • 26 June 2012 • 8 notes
The Dragon is the Frame @ Gallery 400
Inspired by the life and work of Mark Aguhar
Artists: Mark Aguhar, Claire Arctander, Nina Barnett, Jeremy Bolen, Elijah Burgher, Edie Fake, Pamela Fraser, Tiffany Funk, R. E. H. Gordon, Steve Hnilicka, Kasia Houlihan, Mark Kent, Young Joon Kwak, Andrew Mausert-Mooney, Marianna Milhorat, Tim Nickodemus, Aay Preston-Myint, Juana Peralta, Macon Reed, Colin Self, Michael Sirianni, Nathan Thomas, Neal Vandenbergh, Xina Xurner and Isaac Fosl-van Wyke, Allison Yasukawa, Gwendolyn Zabicki, and Latham Zearfoss
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4:01 pm • 25 June 2012 • 50 notes
Show Room: Laura Davis, Carson Fisk-Vittori and Julia Klein
Curated by Shannon Stratton
threewallsSOLO
June 29 – August 4
Working collaboratively within the simple constraint of a white carpet, Laura Davis, Carson Fisk-Vittori and Julia Klein combine, overlap, manipulate and prop-up each other’s objects, making decisions about the nature of display and decoration as they are considered in the art gallery, the retail venue and the home. All three artists work with objects in a process of interrogating and collapsing these discrete realms, questioning the seemingly artificial boundaries that determine what is precious versus what is functional; how things are used publicly versus privately and how decisions about display and presentation itself have the power to elevate objects from the mundane to the marvelous.
8:00 am • 21 June 2012 • 3 notes
unbuiltroads:
Andreas Fischer, Still Life, 2012, oil, acrylic, charcoal, caulk, 23.5 x 19 inches
Robots Will Keep Us as Pets
Andreas Fischer with Ariel Dill, Amanda Dalton Innis, Sofia Leiby, and Trew Schriefer
June 22 - August 5, 2012 @ Alderman Exhibitions
Opening Reception: Friday, June 22, 6-9PM
Maybe it is ridiculous to worry that technology will take over. On the other hand, maybe it already has? Robots Will Keep Us as Pets aims to initiate a discussion about the manual, haptic aspects of painting and the complex personal exchanges that go along with it. The exhibition grew out of a series of meetings with Andreas Fischer that often centered on his process-based, dialectical practice, which involves working and reworking canvases, and at the same time maintaining multiple conversations with other makers. Combining a continuum of skilled manipulation to silent knowledge and an interest in the products of reciprocal relationships, the artists of Robots Will Keep Us as Pets each assert their own particular version of human intimacy. These affinities for the personal, obsessive, and communal aspects of painting create openings for collective introspection that just might keep the robots from taking over.
8:38 pm • 20 June 2012 • 8 notes
Odie Off
threewallsSOLO
June 29 – August 4
Odie Off is an off comment, off the books, off kilter, face off between artists Mike Rea and Kelly Kaczynski. Begun as a simple provocation, Odie Off assumes a position somewhere between process, performance and production where the interactions between the two artists equally elicits both banter and dialogue.
4:01 pm • 20 June 2012 • 2 notes
My favorites from the Lichtenstein show at the AIC
2:47 pm • 19 June 2012 • 14 notes
unbuiltroads:
Views of HARLAN, LARACUENTE, LICHTY/EARTH @ New Capital Exhibitions, Chicago
April 20 - June 17, 2012
(I destroyed a pair of black leather wedges walking on that gravel floor…)
9:46 pm • 16 June 2012 • 20 notes
1 hour left to make this happen, Chicago! Put your arts support where your mouth is ……
Kickstarter - Happy Collaborationists Performance Art Programming at ACRE
12:29 pm • 16 June 2012
currently on view at Tony Wight Gallery: Matthew Metzger/Sreshta Rit Premnath
7:57 am • 15 June 2012 • 2 notes
Image: Allison Wade @ ACRE Projects
OPENINGS & EVENTS 6/14-6/17
thursday 6/14
-MORE: readings by Matthew Goulish, Matthias Regan, Anastasia Douka, Sam Davis, Jill Riddell, Abigail Satinsky, Chiara Galimberti @ threewalls
friday 6/15
-smith/pace: cosmos @ new capital (closing reception for HARLAN, LARACUENTE, LICHTY /EARTH)
-allstate: Lauren Elder, Brian Khek, Andre Lenox, Evan Lenox, Micah Schippa, ft. Drew Olivo @ robert bills contemporary
-Material Assumptions: Paper as Dialogue, Curated by Jessica Cochran, with Elizabeth Isakson-Dado, Hannah King, and C.J. Mace @ Columbia College
-a long time coming @ heaven gallery: works by COLE ROBERTSON, ELINA MALKIN, ELISA “POOPER” HARKINS, MARVIN ASTORGA and VIRGINIA ABERLE
saturday 6/16
-VOIDS: work by Rafael E. Vera @ the franklin
sunday 6/17
-MAY OR MAY NOT: new works by LEE DELEGARD & ALLISON WADE @ ACRE Projects
3:58 pm • 14 June 2012 • 1 note
