The New Gotham Ballroom: One night only! June 8th
Join us for our annual spring gala, The New Gotham Ballroom, a pop-up 1930s era night-club at the Stan Mansion with dinner by Chef Jared Wentworth and Longman & Eagle. Tickets on sale now!
2011
Veronica Bruce
Welcome to our first Artist-in-Research Resident!
Veronica Bruce
January 1 - February 12, 2012
Open Studios every Saturday from 12-2 PM, Closing Event February 9, 2012
Support Veronica's project on kickstarter here
Alan and Michael Fleming
March 9-April 21, 2012
Opening Reception: March 9, 6-9PM
Artist Talk: April 21, 2 PM
Laura Mackin: 120 Years
January 13-February 25, 2012
Opening Reception: January 13, 2012, 6-9 PM
Artist talk: Thursday, February 9th, 7pm
Laura Mackin is a kind of amateur archivist. Not unlike the countless Tumblr managers of the world, she collects countless and readily available mundane imagery that populates our visual world, reorganizing and cataloging it for re-contextualized consideration; but unlike those countless Tumblr managers (or at least most of them), Mackin invests deeply in the authors of the original imagery. Previously, Mackin has mined ebay seller’s photos, collecting images by single sellers (the Davis mirrors) or a category of sales (wedding dresses), drawing from a select group of their output to shape a kind of oblique portraiture of an individual or a poetic typology.
Zachary Cahill
ZACHARY CAHILL
USSA 2012: The Orphanage Project
September 9-October 15th, 2011
Opening reception: Friday, September 9th, 6-9pm
Artist talk: Thursday, October 6th, 7pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm
Voices from the Center
October 28 - December 10, 2011
Opening Reception: October 28. 2011, 6-9 PM
A multiform project and group exhibition, produced Janeil Engelstad
Artists include Janeil Engelstad, Grafixpol, Oto Hudec, Magda Stanová, Miklós Surányi, Matej Vakula, and Tehnica Schweiz.
in conjunction:
UNFREE FREEDOM: An Exploration of Identity in Central Europe, Curated by Janeil Engelstad
OCTOBER 28 – DECEMBER 10, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY OCTOBER 29, 3-5 PM
at the Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College
1104 S Wabash, 2nd Fl, Chicago
Revolution, Transformation and Identity: Central European Artists Reflect upon Post-Communist Art, Urbanism and Culture, Panel discussion with Oto Hudec, Magda Stanová, Miklós Surányi, Matej Vakula, and Jan Worpus, moderated by Janeil Engelstad
Sunday October 30, 3 PM
Graham Foundation, Madlener House
4 West Burton Place, Chicago, Illinois 60610
Free, RSVP here
Either/Or/Both: July 1-30th, 2011
Either/Or/Both
Artists: Samantha Bittman, Stephanie Brooks, Casey Droege, Michael Milano, Hans Peter Sundquist
Curator: Shannon R. Stratton
Either/Or/Both explores the poetics of relationships and correspondence through painting, drawing and text based work that troubles the boundaries between the intuitive and the systematic by making do within a set of givens and the possibilities in them.
Betsy Odom: Registry (main space) and Montgomery Perry Smith: Milking (project room)
May 6th - June 18th, 2011
threewallsSALON: Curating the Turn
In this SALON session, we ask: what are some boundaries-pushing, interdisciplinary curatorial models that fully embrace all the potential inherent in that role? How has the “educational turn” changed the stakes for independent and institutional curators? How are curators (aspiring or established) responding to, profiting from, or perhaps even ignoring, the academicization of their practice? And what are some thoughtful ways in which curatorial practice is responding to different institutional models, as well as reaching beyond the arts institution, to address activism and politics?