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Peregrine Program
3311 West Carroll Avenue, #119 / peregrineprogram.com
Sun 1pm to 4pm
Peregrine Program is an artist-run space
Nicholas Frank “Peregrine was great...”
May 5 - Jun 16, 2013
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“Peregrine was great...”

So he would hear. In his kitchen in Milwaukee, the artist Nicholas Frank had repeated to himself, sometimes loudly, other times quietly, even
just the word “Peregrine.” He had wondered first of all, about the abridgement of the name of that artist-run space in Chicago, and what was it
really, for he had never been, Peregrine Program, or Projects, or something like that. Over drinks with his friends, he would also often hear the
name Edmund, Edmund the guy who ran the gallery, and almost believe this person existed. Once, the morning after beers at the Polish Falcon
bar, he woke to the thought that he might have met the Peregrine Edmund. That they had talked about painting, paintings, language,
substance, skeletons, flesh, fiber, memory, beings; that the night before they had shaken hands; and they had agreed they were not able to tell
the other artist apart from their project. Nicholas Hermetic Gallery Frank was convinced that this was the Peregrine Program Edmund he had bought a pint for.

In the subsequent months – still unsure when they had exactly first met – Frank would conceive a staging of “ghosts” to this new relationship for he believed that was how some artists existed. First he ghosted drawings by Peregrine Edmund; drawings made with cast-offs, including an old discarded library book, overstock fabric, and mirrors from a thrift-store. And then he imaged images of Edmund’s sculpture; images of a blue object made with seashells and starfish, photographed against fur. And further, he witnessed the pedestal to that sculpture, a Greek column-inspired construction of wood and paint, in white, blue and gold. The artist Nicholas Frank borrowed, sat on (in broad daylight), played with (in the dark), and captured something of some things by the Edmund that ran the Peregrine Program, and presently, he would set down his coffee, grab his bags, lock the door, and he would drive, Milwaukee to Chicago, to Peregrine Program, to say…

Ends June 18th 2013

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
220 East Chicago Avenue / +13122802660 / mcachicago.org
Tue 10am to 8pm, Wed - Sun 10am to 5pm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago presents exhibitions and collections of contemporary art. Please contact museum for more information.
Jason Lazarus
Mar 19 - Jun 18, 2013
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Ends June 22nd 2013

Gallery 400
University of Illinois at Chicago, 400 South Peoria Street, MC 034 / +13129966114 / gallery400.uic.edu
Tue - Fri 10am to 6pm, Sat 12pm to 6pm
HALFLIFERS (Torsten Zenas Burns and Anthony Discenza) I THINK WE'RE READY TO GO TO THE NEXT SEQUENCE: THE LEGACY OF HALFLIFERS
May 3 - Jun 22, 2013
I THINK WE’RE READY TO GO TO THE NEXT SEQUENCE moves beyond the retrospective format to re-examine, interpret and pay homage to HALFLIFERS.
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
1120 N. Ashland Avenue, 3rd Floor / +17732781664 / corbettvsdempsey.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 5pm
Corbett vs. Dempsey specializes in modern and contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Gina Litherland The Reason for the Unreason
May 17 - Jun 22, 2013
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Corbett vs. Dempsey
1120 N. Ashland Avenue, 3rd Floor / +17732781664 / corbettvsdempsey.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 5pm
Corbett vs. Dempsey specializes in modern and contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Gertrude Abercrombie and Julia Thecia
May 17 - Jun 22, 2013
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Kavi Gupta Gallery
835 West Washington Boulevard / +13124320708 / kavigupta.com
Tue - Fri 10am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 5pm
Kavi Gupta Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
McArthur Binion Ghost: Rhythms
Apr 6 - Jun 22, 2013
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Shane Campbell Gallery Chicago
673 North Milwaukee Avenue / +13122262223 / www.shanecampbellgallery.com
Wed - Sat 12pm to 6pm
Please contact gallery for more information.
Amanda Ross-Ho CRADLE OF FILTH
May 4 - Jun 22, 2013
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Amanda Ross-Ho

May 4 – June 22, 2013
Opening, Saturday, May 4th, 6-8 pm

Shane Campbell Gallery is pleased to announce CRADLE OF FILTH, Amanda Ross-Ho’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery in Chicago. Ross-Ho will present a group of new paintings on dyed canvas, together with a large-scale, wall-bound soft sculpture.

Known for her diverse material dialectic, Ross-Ho uses interdisciplinary procedures to manifest complex networks of thought. CRADLE OF FILTH examines the formal and emotional properties of scale and unrestrained gesture, negotiating between expressive impulse and forensic sobriety.

The centerpiece and namesake for CRADLE OF FILTH is a hyper-articulated, 400 percent scale recreation of a teenaged girl’s backpack, which was found by the artist several years ago hanging from the side of a Chicago dumpster. Covered in densely scrawled palimpsests of band names, cultural affiliations, and youthful exclamations, the bag serves as a record and emblem of early developing self-expression.

Ross-Ho’s oversized reconstruction of this ephemeral document elevates it to monumental scale, training a photographic gaze on its impulsive markings. Through Ross-Ho’s reimagining, the massive backpack becomes a kind of ur vessel of identity formation, at once a reliquary and a fertility icon.

Inversely, Ross-Ho’s paintings function as analogous sites of theatrically brash expression. Drawing inspiration from the expulsive energy of the bag’s hieroglyphics, Ross-Ho uses the parallel space of the canvas as a stage for the unencumbered performance of abstract mark making. The paintings—at once confident, excessive, vulnerable, and tentative—emulate the capriciousness of the anonymous bag owner’s nonetheless urgent assertions of defiance and belonging.

Amanda Ross-Ho was born in Chicago and lives and works in Los Angeles. She has a concurrent solo show with Mitchell-Innes and Nash in New York and will present a large-scale public project at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, in July. Her recent solo exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art was accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue and her work has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; Pomona College Museum of Art; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; and in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

To obtain additional information please call Eric Ruschman at the gallery at 312.226.2223, or email eric@shanecampbellgallery.com.

Ends June 23rd 2013

Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Ave. / +17733245520 / hydeparkart.org
Mon - Sat 9am to 5pm, Sun 12pm to 5pm
Lee Blalock Lee Blalock: Neue
Mar 17 - Jun 23, 2013
Lee Blalock speculates on the progression of the evolving body through her drawings, video, sculpture and sound work.
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First solo show by Lee Blalock explores digitizing corporeality and the post-human body at Hyde Park Art Center

Chicago (February 2013) — How will the human body adapt and evolve in the wake of technological advances? Artist Lee Blalock speculates on the progression of the evolving body through drawings, video, sculpture and sound work presented in her first solo exhibition, Neue, which explores the mechanics of prosthetics, and how rhythm and movement can be interpreted through body amplification and prosthetics. Neue will be on view from March 17 until June 23, 2013 in Gallery 5 at the Hyde Park Art Center.

Building from her personal history, an obsession with rules and order, and a love of Speculative Fiction, Blalock creates a new series of artwork that documents and hypothesizes a process of the future superbody and its daily operations. Her works on paper combine computer code, geometric diagrams, and organic hand-drawn gestures to render the imagined figure. Repetition, duplication, and looping of sounds, shapes, and typographic characters are techniques she uses to enliven the work with a mechanical pulse. Far from a modern day Frankenstein, but not quite the bionic woman, the bodies Blalock creates absorb the digital into the corporeal, and question the possibility of a body without race, gender, or biological deficiency.

The exhibition Neue will also debut a site-specific performance by the artist. Blalock’s performances combine her training in martial arts and contemporary dance, and often activate her sculptures and installation. Her performance at the Art Center will explore what a new movement vocabulary might be for a body with sculptural appendages that entail certain limitations and enhancements.

Lee Blalock is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist exploring the possibilities of a post-human and post-gendered world. Through her work, she aims to describe and reimagine the ‘amplified’ human, destroying the existing framework of identity and replacing it with the re-engineered body. For the past five years, Blalock’s work has shown internationally, including in Toronto and Korea. She is a recipient of the Archibald Motley Award and a Clare Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize finalist. Originally from Chester, PA, she received a BS from Spelman College and a MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she currently teaches digital art, core studio, new media, and research topics.
Lee Blalock: Neue will be on view from March 17 until June 23, 2013 at the Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 South Cornell Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60615; 773.324.5520 and www.hydeparkart.org. The Art Center’s exhibitions are open daily and admission is always free.

The Hyde Park Art Center is at once an exhibition space for contemporary art, learning annex, community resource, and social hub for the art curious and professional artists alike—carrying out its mission to stimulate and sustain the visual arts in Chicago. The Art Center is funded in part by: the Alphawood Foundation; Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts; a City Arts III grant from the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events; Field Foundation of Illinois; Harper Court Arts Council; Harpo Foundation; Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; The Irving Harris Foundation; Joyce Foundation; Lloyd A. Fry Foundation; MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at Prince; National Endowment for the Arts; Polk Bros. Foundation; Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust; and the generosity of its members and people like you. The Hyde Park Art Center does not discriminate against any person for reason of race, gender, age, place of national origin, handicap, religious conviction, marital status, veteran status, or sexual preference.
The Renaissance Society
The University of Chicago, 5811 South Ellis Avenue, Cobb Hall #418 / +17737028670 / renaissancesociety.org
Tue - Fri 10am to 5pm, Sat - Sun 12pm to 5pm
William Pope.L Forlesen CURRENT PICK
Apr 28 - Jun 23, 2013
“Forlsen” furthers Pope.L's exploration of difference through an installation of walls, drawings, and a video room.
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Ends June 26th 2013

Chicago Artists Coalition
217 North Carpenter St / +13124918888 / http://chicagoartistscoalition.org/
Mon - Fri 9am to 5pm, Sat 12pm to 6pm
Jessica Bardsley, Victoria Bradford, and Rebecca Hamlin Green “Live/Work” Opening Reception
Jun 7 - 26, 2013
HATCH Projects artists Jessica Bardsley, Victoria Bradford, and Rebecca Hamlin Green consider the fluid ways that one makes a home.
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In the exhibition Live/Work HATCH Projects artists Jessica Bardsley, Victoria Bradford, and Rebecca Hamlin Green consider the fluid ways that one makes a home. For artists, the home is often a place where domestic tasks intersect with intense creative production. With no definitive barrier between home and studio (whether by choice or not), artists mine their environs or those of others to source ideas or to enact works — a process which cultivates a nuanced intellectual and creative engagement to concepts of home in relation to states of being. With references ranging from Emily Dickinson, to personal heirlooms and to domestic rituals, the artists assert and deconstruct the gallery space as a place for living and working.

This exhibition is organized by HATCH Projects curator-in-residence, Jessica Cochran.

There will be an opening reception on Friday, June, 7, 2013, and the exhibition will run through June 26, 2013.
Chicago Artists Coalition
217 North Carpenter St / +13124918888 / http://chicagoartistscoalition.org/
Mon - Fri 9am to 5pm, Sat 12pm to 6pm
Baccara (Madeleine Bailey and Helen Maurene Cooper) “Thirteen Ways” Opening Reception
Jun 7 - 26, 2013
A solo show of new work by BOLT Resident Baccara (the collaboration between Madeleine Bailey and Helen Maurene Cooper).
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Conceived out of an extended game of telephone between Bailey and Cooper, Thirteen Ways is composed of large-scale photographic cylinders that explore the impermanence of the image through a collection of fractured narratives. With architectural insistence, their works invoke astrology and light, the found and the fabricated. Poetically flawed and playful, the installation highlights slippage within a dyadic relationship.
There will be an opening reception on Friday, June 7, 2013, and the exhibition will run through June 26, 2013.

Ends June 28th 2013

Kasia Kay Art Projects Gallery
215 N. Aberdeen Street / +13129440408 / kasiakaygallery.com
Thu - Sat 11:30am to 5pm
Kasia Kay Art Projects specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Mike Wong The Dramatics of Living
Jun 7 - 28, 2013
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Kasia Kay Art Projects is pleased to present “The Dramatics of Living”, Mike Wong’s first solo exhibition with the Gallery. The show, curated by Stefania Carrozzini, is composed of 15 paintings and one video installation entitled “Unburden”.
“The Dramatics of Living“ is an original approach of how Mike views life in recursive forms, paradoxical codes within the complex structures. The audience walks through the journey of living and finally come to the video installation to unburden themselves so that they can be free - to unlearn and learn again.

With or without painting on the canvas, the process to cover and uncover part of the painting, bear witness to a fragmented reality, a precarious existence that is strengthened through a more extensive and complex vision of life, where all aspects from pain to joy are part of the same reality, the faces of the same coin.

This energy is made of a combination of spontaneity and strategy, that will flow to the “Unburden”, a wormhole (box) where the audience is free to release their “burdens” with words, drawings on note pads into the box. Embracing the dramatics of life is possible when the real communication with our inner being take place through the creative journey. At some point of living we need to reflect, unlearn what we have learned so that we can be ready for the next frontier of living with fresh insights to life.

Mike’s painting is best known for his innovative and inventive used of everyday used materials. He likened the canvas to time and space and he explored what it means to paint without the canvas. In the process of art making, everyday objects becomes a medium. A cloth hanger, masking tape, electrical cable ties became part of the installation. The works often has a 3 dimensional quality registering the flow and energy.

With his video installation works, the same theme of space and time are often explored. Some of the works also taps on audience participation. The audience then becomes part of the installation and only through that process, is the work complete.

The paradoxical concept of Mike Wong’s work is to exercise spontaneously within the complex of strategy.

Mike Wong was born in Singapore in 1967. Mike Wong is a multi-media artist who works across platforms of painting, video, theater and installations.
Training in western and Chinese art, as well as in engineering, has given Mike Wong a unique perspective and approach towards his art making. He lives and works in Singapore.
Selected exhibition: Group show in UOB painting of the year (2000); Group show in Jantique Gallery Singapore (2001); Group show in UOB painting of the year (2004); Solo show “Glimpses” in Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore (2008); Group show, Affordable Art Fair, Singapore (2010); Video Installation “Projected” in Woods in the Books, Singapore (2010); Video installation, “The final hours”, Covenant EFC, Singapore (2011); Group show, Substation gallery, Singapore (2011) Dreamscapes, Group show, Onishi Gallery, New York (2011).

Ends June 29th 2013

Valerie Carberry Gallery
875 N. Michigan Ave, Suite 2510 / +13123979990 / valeriecarberry.com
Mon - Fri 10am to 5pm, Sat 11am to 5pm
Valerie Carberry Gallery specializes in modern and contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Judith Rothschild Painting & Collage
May 10 - Jun 29, 2013
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Ends June 30th 2013

Adds Donna
4223 W Lake Street / +13129129601 / addsdonna.com
Sun 1pm to 4pm
The Chic Boutique Chic.ago
May 26 - Jun 30, 2013
Art with Function
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... takes up the Viennese tradition of applied arts and develops it further in accordance with the present day. Since this is neither handicraft nor design, the artwork remains its own consistent independent work. The project has set itself the task of demonstrating the impossibility of assigning the work of young artists to a genre and also the fact that the claim of an artistic work cannot be confined to the narrow frame of a picture on the wall.

Participating Artists:
Cornelis van Almsick, Puneh Ansari, Ovidiu Anton, Thomas Ballhausen, Tizia Barci, Anna Barfuss, Johanna Braun, Emma Maud Corrall, Marco Dessi, Driendl*Architects, Anna Egarmina, David Eisl, Lionel Favre, Karin Ferrari, Paul Philipp Heinze, Denise Herz, Kathi Hofer, Milli Kaufmann, Elke Silvia Krystufek, Mahony, Sands Murray-Wassink, Michael Niemetz, Micha Payer + Martin Gabriel, Stefan Reiterer, David Roth, Fiona Rukschcio, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Michael Strasser, Annette Tesarek, Jenni Tischer, Magda Tothova, Christian Weissenberger, Niki Weitzer, Julia Zastava, Magdalena Zeller

ADDS DONNA
4223 West Lake Street, Chicago, IL
Gallery Hours: Sundays 1 to 4 pm
and by appointment (Tel: 312.912.9601)
Directions: Green Line, Pulaski Stop
www.addsdonna.com

Preview: 26th of May: 1 to 5pm
Opening: 2nd of June: 1 to 5pm

The exhibition concept “Die Chic Boutique” was developed in 2012 and has already been successfully executed twice in Vienna. Now it has become a traveling concept. Johanna Braun and Michael Niemetz, the two creators of “The Chic Boutique”, have selected unique Viennese artists for this presentation in Chicago.
www.DieChicBoutique.com

Ends July 3rd 2013

Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago
600 South Michigan Avenue / +13126635554 / mocp.org
Mon - Wed 10am to 5pm, Thu 10am to 8pm, Fri - Sat 10am to 5pm, Sun 12pm to 5pm
The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) is the only museum in the Midwest with an exclusive commitment to the medium of photography.
Spectator Sports
Apr 12 - Jul 3, 2013
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Ends July 7th 2013

Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Ave. / +17733245520 / hydeparkart.org
Mon - Sat 9am to 5pm, Sun 12pm to 5pm
Cauleen Smith Cauleen Smith: 17
Mar 10 - Jul 7, 2013
Cauleen Smith introduces printmaking into her repertoire with the site-specific installation at Hyde Park Art Center.
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Cauleen Smith explores the south side’s occult history in exhibition featuring new screenprinted work at Hyde Park Art Center

Chicago (February 2013) — Most known for her film, video, and performance work, award-winning artist and Art Center student Cauleen Smith introduces printmaking into her repertoire with the site-specific installation at Hyde Park Art Center. The show, titled 17, will feature approximately 260 feet of hand screen-printed wallpaper. The exhibition title references many facets of arts and culture traditions from ancient history to the modern day, arising out of Smith’s meditations on the number’s spiritual significance as a marker of immortality, as well a number of noteworthy cultural and historical facts and figures featuring the number itself. The exhibition will be on view from March 10 until July 7, 2013 in Gallery 2 at the Hyde Park Art Center.

The work debuting in 17 is especially engaged with Smith’s printmaking process, with the exhibition’s title riffing on the number of patterns that intersect to make wallpaper print a consistent image. The work also arises out of Smith’s research into the legacy of Sun Ra, who was himself a student of numerology and achieved a kind of cultural immortality the number 17 might be said to refer to. Smith produced this new series of screen prints with techniques she acquired from participating in a printmaking class at the Hyde Park Art Center under the instruction of printmaker Elke Claus.

Cauleen Smith received a BA from San Francisco State University and a MFA from UCLA’s School of Theater-Television-Film. Smith was a resident artist at ThreeWalls, the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, and the Experimental Sound Studio. A prominent voice in Chicago’s artist landscape, Smith had simultaneous shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and ThreeWalls in 2012. Smith has received grants from the Film Arts Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and Creative Capital. Recent awards include “Outstanding Artists” by the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture and “Someone to Watch Award” from the Independent Spirit Awards. Her art works have been exhibited at The Kitchen, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, LA County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, as well as international and domestic festivals. Smith was a faculty at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and currently is a visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an Arts + Public Life/Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture Artist-in-Residence at the University of Chicago.

Cauleen Smith: 17 will be on view from March 10 until July 7, 2013 at the Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 South Cornell Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60615; 773.324.5520 and www.hydeparkart.org. Exhibitions are always free and open to the public.

The Hyde Park Art Center is at once an exhibition space for contemporary art, learning annex, community resource, and social hub for the art curious and professional artists alike—carrying out its mission to stimulate and sustain the visual arts in Chicago. The Art Center is funded in part by: the Alphawood Foundation; Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts; a City Arts III grant from the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events; Field Foundation of Illinois; Harper Court Arts Council; Harpo Foundation; Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; The Irving Harris Foundation; Joyce Foundation; Lloyd A. Fry Foundation; MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at Prince; National Endowment for the Arts; Polk Bros. Foundation; Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust; and the generosity of its members and people like you. The Hyde Park Art Center does not discriminate against any person for reason of race, gender, age, place of national origin, handicap, religious conviction, marital status, veteran status or sexual preference.

Ends July 13th 2013

Aspect Ratio
119 N Peoria #3D / +17732067354 / aspectratioprojects.com
Sat 12pm to 5pm, Fri 1pm to 6pm
Daniel Bennett Definitions 1
Jun 7 - Jul 13, 2013
Daniel Bennett’s pilot investigation into the measurement of technologies with the body in a social setting.
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Document
845 W Washington Blvd, 3F / +12627193500 / documentspace.org
Thu - Sat 12pm to 6pm
Document is a printing, scanning and exhibiton space located in Chicago's west loop.
Owen Kydd
Jun 7 - Jul 13, 2013
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Ends July 15th 2013

Park Schreck Gallery
1747 W. North Ave. / +17733091747 / parkschreckgallery.com
Wed 11am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 6pm, Thu 11am to 8pm, Sun 12pm to 5pm
Ray Becoskie When You Stand in Front of Me
May 11 - Jul 15, 2013
We are excited to present another solo show for Ray Becoskie.
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Contact: John Park or Dan Schreck

Phone: 773-309-1747

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PARK SCHRECK GALLERY: When You Stand in Front of Me
Ray Becoskie
5/11/2013 - 7/15/2013
Opening Reception: Friday 5/10/2013 7-9pm

WHEN YOU STAND IN FRONT OF ME—an upcoming art exhibition with opening reception on Friday May 10th, from 7-9pm.

We are excited to present another solo show for Ray Becoskie. Fans of Becoskie will be able to preview artwork that has never been shown before. Opening receptions are always a great opportunity to meet the artist in person.

Ray Becoskie is a modern abstract painter from St. Paul, Minnesota. His work has a simple, sophisticated edge.

Park Schreck Gallery finds talented artists and connects them with buyers who are looking for original artwork. Amazing art, great value.

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For more information, or to schedule an interview with John Park and Dan Schreck,
please call us at 773-309-1747

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1747 W. North Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622

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Ends July 20th 2013

Roman Susan
1224 W. Loyola Ave / +17732701224 / romansusan.org
Thu 4pm to 7pm
Andrew Mazorol, Tynan Kerr, Dylan Alverson, Colin Marx, Lauren Roche Portraits
Jun 22 - Jul 20, 2013 Reception: Sat Jun 22 7pm
A portrait-oriented exhibit of paintings, featuring artists currently based in our Midwestern sibling, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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June 22, 2013 – July 20, 2013
Portraits

Opening Reception:
Saturday, June 22 – 7 pm to 10 pm

Gallery Hours:
Tuesdays 8 pm to 10 pm
& by appointment

Roman Susan presents a portrait-oriented exhibit of paintings, June 22 through July 20.

Featured artists will include Andrew Mazorol and Tynan Kerr, Dakota Temte and Dylan Alverson, Colin Marx, and Lauren Roche.

All featured artists are currently based in our Midwestern sibling, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Portraits is being organized, assembled, transported, and curated by Andie Mazorol.

For further info:
romansusan.org/Portraits | romansusan.org/1224-West-Loyola
or contact Nathan Smith: gallery@romansusan.org

Ends July 27th 2013

Carrie Secrist Gallery
835 West Washington Boulevard / +13124910917 / secristgallery.com
Tue - Fri 10am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 5pm
Anne Lindberg, Paul Anthony Smith, and Kent Michael Smith
Jun 8 - Jul 27, 2013 Reception: Thu Jul 18 5pm
New two-dimensional works by three artists from Kansas City
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Ends July 28th 2013

Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Ave. / +17733245520 / hydeparkart.org
Mon - Sat 9am to 5pm, Sun 12pm to 5pm
Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford Hall of Khan
Apr 14 - Jul 28, 2013
Equestrian war monuments get a modern makeover from emerging artist Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford in a grand new site-specific installation.
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Equestrian monuments come to life in emerging artist Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford’s Hall of Khan at Hyde Park Art Center

Chicago (April 2013) — Equestrian war monuments get a modern makeover from artist Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford in a grand new site-specific installation, Hall of Khan, on view from April 14 until July 28, 2013 in Gallery 1 at Hyde Park Art Center. A culmination of Hulsebos-Spofford’s yearlong residency at the Art Center, the exhibition will feature abstracted forms astride live horses in the gallery to replace the traditional bronze equine sculptures that carry historical riders whose lives and legends have shaped history. Having long been a celebratory symbol of territorial conquest and cultural domination, the artist calls both the form and purpose of the monument into question in this exhibition.

Genghis Khan, Robert Oppenheimer, and Joan of Arc are some of the heroes and villains evoked to interrogate the typical construct of monument: that of the larger than life horse rider in bronze, usually set high on a plinth. The interactive exhibition will present symbolic constructions of historical place, cultural space, and living equestrian sculpture, including an architectural construction entitled “Hall.” Modeled after a graffiti-covered structure in the English Gardens in Palermo, Sicily, which is itself a replica of the Crystal Palace built in Hyde Park, England to house the Great Exhibition of 1851, “Hall” will conjure up the space of exhibition halls for World’s Fairs throughout the ages, and the excitement they generated around cultural advancement and scientific progress. Of particular interest is the connection between Hyde Park, England and Hyde Park, Chicago as sites for these fairs.

A full program of events exploring the connections between horses, technology, cultural progress, and the contemporary public art monument will accompany the exhibition. The Art Center will run a Horses and Heroes summer camp (June 24 – 28) for teens, a free art-making workshop for families (April 14), trips to the Palos Hills Riding Stables, and occasional visits from live horses in the gallery (dates and times at hydeparkart.org). The closing picnic on Saturday, July 27 will include the Art Center as a stop in the 24th annual High Noon Ride organized by The Black Arrow Horseback Riding Club, a south side group of nearly 200 African-American equestrians.

Hall of Khan is generously supported in part by the Harpo Foundation, a Community Arts Assistant Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, an Artist Project Grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency and with special assistance from Palos Hills Riding Stables/New Traditions Riding Academy.

About the Artist:
Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford approaches his practice as a conduit into many worlds, intervening in spheres of activism, art discourse, education, science fiction fandom, and equine technology. Recently he attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and received an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a BFA from Bard College in New York. He is a Fulbright grantee and the recipient of numerous awards, including an Illinois Arts Council Project Grant, a CAAP grant, and a grant from the Propeller Fund. He teaches Sculpture at DePaul University and the Chicago High School for the Arts. The Chicago-based artist is currently in residence at the Hyde Park Art Center from September 2012 through April 2013.

Hall of Khan will be on view from April 14 until July 28, 2013 at the Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 South Cornell Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60615; 773.324.5520 and www.hydeparkart.org. Exhibitions are always free and open to the public.

The Hyde Park Art Center is at once an exhibition space for contemporary art, learning annex, community resource, and social hub for the art curious and professional artists alike—carrying out its mission to stimulate and sustain the visual arts in Chicago. The Art Center is funded in part by: the Alphawood Foundation; Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts; a City Arts III grant from the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events; Field Foundation of Illinois; Harper Court Arts Council; Harpo Foundation; Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; The Irving Harris Foundation; Joyce Foundation; Lloyd A. Fry Foundation; MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at Prince; National Endowment for the Arts; Polk Bros. Foundation; Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust; and the generosity of its members and people like you. The Hyde Park Art Center does not discriminate against any person for reason of race, gender, age, place of national origin, handicap, religious conviction, marital status, veteran status or sexual preference.

Ends August 3rd 2013

moniquemeloche
2154 W. Division / +17732520299 / moniquemeloche.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
moniquemeloche specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Cheryl Pope Just Yell
Jun 22 - Aug 3, 2013
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Thomas Robertello Gallery
27 N Morgan St / +18123451886 / thomasrobertello.com
Tue - Sat 12pm to 6pm
Thomas Robertello Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Samantha Bittman and Gabriel Pionkowski
Jun 14 - Aug 3, 2013
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Zg Gallery
300 W. Superior Street / +13126549900 / zggallery.com
Tue - Sat 10am to 5:30pm
AMY CASEY “Putting Down Roots”
Jun 7 - Aug 3, 2013
Amy Casey continues to draw inspiration from her fascination with the idiosyncrasies of the urban landscape.
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Amy Casey continues to draw inspiration from her fascination with the idiosyncrasies of the urban landscape and her preoccupation with the specter of an impending doom. Amy states, “I've been mixing observations (and actual structures) from my hometown with a general persistent anxiety about life and finding peace in my own meticulous mark making. Brick after painted brick builds an alternate world, in which I actually have some say in how things shape up.” The new paintings are highly detailed renderings of her perhaps overworked imagination. She revels in the minute details of quirky city structures, houses, pubs, lofts and warehouses — commercial and residential space alike, all under unnamed threat.

Ends August 4th 2013

Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Ave. / +17733245520 / hydeparkart.org
Mon - Sat 9am to 5pm, Sun 12pm to 5pm
Shirah Billups, Destiny Brady, Paige Butts, Kayla Echols, Lariece Grayer Passages from Canter Middle School
May 26 - Aug 4, 2013
Hyde Park Art Center is pleased to announce the opening of Passages, a group exhibition of art created by students from Canter Middle School
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Passages exhibition a chance for farewell and reflection for community of Canter Middle School, closing in June

Chicago (April 2013) — Hyde Park Art Center is pleased to announce the opening of Passages, a group exhibition of art created by students from Canter Middle School during a yearlong arts education program provided by the Art Center. During the program, students learned about a wide range of materials and processes including printmaking, silkscreen, darkroom photography, sewing, clay sculpture, and painting, discovering how to express themselves in a variety of media. Elke Claus, an Art Center Teaching Artist, led the program, assisted by Wilma Rodriguez, a Canter School Instructor. The group show will be on view at Hyde Park Art Center from May 26 until August 4 in Gallery 5.

The energy and camaraderie that developed in the studio is reflected in the youth artists’ colorful and dynamic creations. But this exhibition represents more than just an opportunity to showcase young talent. With Canter Middle School closing at the end of the 2012-13 school year, this show documents a transformative and uncertain time for these students. Quite possibly the final activity undertaken by the school’s community, Passages provides an opportunity for farewell, closure, and reflection to the students and their families.

The youth artists include: Shirah Billups, Destiny Brady, Paige Butts, Kayla Echols, Lariece Grayer, Kennedy Hawkins, Nick Johnson, Christian Jones, Neema Kimanelo, Unique Kimbrough, Adriana Lopez, Justice Saunders, and Emani Smalley.

Passages from Canter Middle School will be on view from May 26 until August 4, 2013, at Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 South Cornell Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60615; 773.324.5520 and www.hydeparkart.org. Exhibitions are always free and open to the public.

The Hyde Park Art Center is at once an exhibition space for contemporary art, learning annex, community resource, and social hub for the art curious and professional artists alike—carrying out its mission to stimulate and sustain the visual arts in Chicago. The Art Center is funded in part by: the Alphawood Foundation; Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts; a City Arts III grant from the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events; Field Foundation of Illinois; Harper Court Arts Council; Harpo Foundation; Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; The Irving Harris Foundation; Joyce Foundation; Lloyd A. Fry Foundation; MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at Prince; National Endowment for the Arts; Polk Bros. Foundation; Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust; and the generosity of its members and people like you. The Hyde Park Art Center does not discriminate against any person for reason of race, gender, age, place of national origin, handicap, religious conviction, marital status, veteran status, or sexual preference.

Ends August 5th 2013

Rhona Hoffman Gallery
118 North Peoria Street / +13124551990 / rhoffmangallery.com
Tue - Fri 10am to 5:30pm, Sat 11am to 5:30pm
Gordon Matta-Clark, Suzanne Harris, Tina Girouard The 112 Greene Street Years
Jun 14 - Aug 5, 2013
Group Exhibition
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Ends August 10th 2013

The Arts Club of Chicago
201 East Ontario Street / +13127873997 / www.artsclubchicago.org
Tue - Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 3pm
David Salle David Salle: Ghost Paintings
May 4 - Aug 10, 2013
Salle’s Ghost Paintings (1992) combine painting, photography and performance in a series exhibited by The Arts Club for the first time.
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Ends August 11th 2013

The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue / +13124433600 / artic.edu/aic
Mon - Wed 10:30am to 5pm, Thu 10:30am to 8pm, Fri - Sun 10:30am to 5pm
The Art Institute of Chicago presents exhibitions and collections of ancient to modern art. Please contact museum for more information.
Kara Walker: Rise Up Ye Mighty Race!
Feb 21 - Aug 11, 2013
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
220 East Chicago Avenue / +13122802660 / mcachicago.org
Tue 10am to 8pm, Wed - Sun 10am to 5pm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago presents exhibitions and collections of contemporary art. Please contact museum for more information.
Amalia Pica
Apr 27 - Aug 11, 2013
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Ends August 17th 2013

Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
325 West Huron Street / +13129441990 / zollaliebermangallery.com
Tue - Fri 10am to 5:30pm, Sat 11am to 5:30pm
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
John Buck New Sculptures & Prints
Jun 7 - Aug 17, 2013
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Zolla/Lieberman Gallery is pleased to present New Sculptures & Prints, an exhibition by John Buck, and Petrographic-Prints & Drawings, featuring recent work by Hunter Buck. The exhibition opens on June 7 and runs through August 17; an opening reception will be held on Friday, June 7 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. This will be John Buck’s seventh solo exhibition at the gallery and Hunter Buck’s first.

Inspired by contemporary social issues, folk art, and modernist painting and sculpture, John Buck playfully combines abstraction with the human form to delve into the creation of meaning and narrative. By integrating symbols and stylistic elements taken from sources as diverse as religious iconography and pop culture, Buck’s woodblock panels, crayon rubbings, and sculptures reflect back on the colorful, tangled state of affairs between ourselves and our universe.

Buck’s jelutong wood and bronze figures, part of an on-going series, are composed of balanced and graceful systems of abstractions stemming from single, headless, human bodies. His newest series of panels are based on woodblocks that he began creating in 1980. They are included though a technique that is a recent addition to his printmaking process, in which the original is reproduced with a laser cutter, duplicating the image that was first drawn onto a woodblock with ballpoint pen. This process creates background information which is then painted onto. The intricate panels and rubbings vibrate with activity. Every detail is in flux in Buck’s depiction of the theater of humanity: kissing angles and a ghost rallying at a press conference, cog-filled machines spinning and chugging away with no discernible function, molecules hurtling through space, bodies in peril and bones floating down the river. A video of a recent exhibition of kinetic sculptures at Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum in Lafayette, LA, will also be on view.

John Buck (born 1946) lives and works in Bozeman, MT, and Hawaiʻi. His most recent solo exhibition C’est Magnifique was shown at the Paul and Lulu Hillard University Art Museum in Lafayette, LA. A traveling exhibition of his work, John Buck: Iconography, has been featured at the Crocker Museum of Art in Sacramento, CA; Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT; Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; and the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA. Buck's work is held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among many others.

Petrographic-Prints & Drawings includes relief engravings, stone lithographs, and mototypes that Hunter Buck has drawn, painted, and marked on with found objects, all of them inspired by a recent stay in Iceland during the summer of 2012. The title of the exhibition refers to the artist’s multi-layered process and is a compound of the Latin words “petro” meaning stone and “graph” to scratch. Isolating individual earthy masses from their environment, Hunter Buck’s floating landscapes draw on his impressions of the area as “profound, vast and empty of comforts.” The buildup of layers creates an image that is craggy and multifaceted, reflecting the artist’s fascination with complex color and texture patterns witnessed in Iceland.

Hunter Buck (born 1987) currently resides in Oakland, CA. In 2012 he received his BFA from the California College of the Arts with an emphasis in painting and printmaking.
For further information, please call 312-944-1990 or email zollalieberman@sbcglobal.net.
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
325 West Huron Street / +13129441990 / zollaliebermangallery.com
Tue - Fri 10am to 5:30pm, Sat 11am to 5:30pm
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Hunter Buck Petrographic-Prints & Drawings
Jun 7 - Aug 17, 2013
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Zolla/Lieberman Gallery is pleased to present New Sculptures & Prints, an exhibition by John Buck, and Petrographic-Prints & Drawings, featuring recent work by Hunter Buck. The exhibition opens on June 7 and runs through August 17; an opening reception will be held on Friday, June 7 from 5:00
to 8:00 p.m. This will be John Buck’s seventh solo exhibition at the gallery and Hunter Buck’s first.

Inspired by contemporary social issues, folk art, and modernist painting and sculpture, John Buck playfully combines abstraction with the human form to delve into the creation of meaning and narrative. By integrating symbols and stylistic elements taken from sources as diverse as religious iconography and pop culture, Buck’s woodblock panels, crayon rubbings, and sculptures reflect back on the colorful, tangled state of affairs between ourselves and our universe.

Buck’s jelutong wood and bronze figures, part of an on-going series, are composed of balanced and graceful systems of abstractions stemming from single, headless, human bodies. His newest series of panels are based on woodblocks that he began creating in 1980. They are included though a technique that is a recent addition to his printmaking process, in which the original is reproduced with a laser cutter, duplicating the image that was first drawn onto a woodblock with ballpoint pen. This process creates background information which is then painted onto. The intricate panels and rubbings vibrate with activity. Every detail is in flux in Buck’s depiction of the theater of humanity: kissing angles and a ghost rallying at a press conference, cog-filled machines spinning and chugging away with no discernible function, molecules hurtling through space, bodies in peril and bones floating down the river. A video of a recent exhibition of kinetic sculptures at Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum in Lafayette, LA, will also be on view.

John Buck (born 1946) lives and works in Bozeman, MT, and Hawaiʻi. His most recent solo exhibition C’est Magnifique was shown at the Paul and Lulu Hillard University Art Museum in Lafayette, LA. A traveling exhibition of his work, John Buck: Iconography, has been featured at the Crocker Museum of Art in Sacramento, CA; Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT; Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; and the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA. Buck's work is held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among many others.

Petrographic-Prints & Drawings includes relief engravings, stone lithographs, and mototypes that Hunter Buck has drawn, painted, and marked on with found objects, all of them inspired by a recent stay in Iceland during the summer of 2012. The title of the exhibition refers to the artist’s multi-layered process and is a compound of the Latin words “petro” meaning stone and “graph” to scratch. Isolating individual earthy masses from their environment, Hunter Buck’s floating landscapes draw on his impressions of the area as “profound, vast and empty of comforts.” The buildup of layers creates an image that is craggy and multifaceted, reflecting the artist’s fascination with complex color and texture patterns witnessed in Iceland.

Hunter Buck (born 1987) currently resides in Oakland, CA. In 2012 he received his BFA from the California College of the Arts with an emphasis in painting and printmaking.
For further information, please call 312-944-1990 or email zollalieberman@sbcglobal.net.

Ends August 18th 2013

The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue / +13124433600 / artic.edu/aic
Mon - Wed 10:30am to 5pm, Thu 10:30am to 8pm, Fri - Sun 10:30am to 5pm
The Art Institute of Chicago presents exhibitions and collections of ancient to modern art. Please contact museum for more information.
Sharing Space: Creative Intersections in Architecture and Design
Apr 6 - Aug 18, 2013
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Ends August 19th 2013

Peregrine Program
3311 West Carroll Avenue, #119 / peregrineprogram.com
Sun 1pm to 4pm
Edmund Chia RE: things in the lap
May 20 - Aug 19, 2013
www.peregrineprogram.com/Imprint.html
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PEREGRINEPROGRAM issues its first imprint:

RE: things in the lap

A collection of writing on the first three years of PEREGRINEPROGRAM by Edmund Chia
- eBook or print @ www.peregrineprogram.com/Imprint.html

Ends August 25th 2013

The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue / +13124433600 / artic.edu/aic
Mon - Wed 10:30am to 5pm, Thu 10:30am to 8pm, Fri - Sun 10:30am to 5pm
The Art Institute of Chicago presents exhibitions and collections of ancient to modern art. Please contact museum for more information.
Late Roman and Early Byzantine Treasures from the British Museum
Nov 11, 2012 - Aug 25, 2013
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Ends September 1st 2013

Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Ave. / +17733245520 / hydeparkart.org
Mon - Sat 9am to 5pm, Sun 12pm to 5pm
Shannon Kerrigan, Christopher Michlig, Patrick McDonough, Sarah Nishiura Abstracting the Seam
May 12 - Sep 1, 2013
The seam breaks away from textile art in an exhibition surveying the influence of quilting techniques and practices on emerging artists.
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Ends September 2nd 2013

The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue / +13124433600 / artic.edu/aic
Mon - Wed 10:30am to 5pm, Thu 10:30am to 8pm, Fri - Sun 10:30am to 5pm
The Art Institute of Chicago presents exhibitions and collections of ancient to modern art. Please contact museum for more information.
Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door
Jun 1 - Sep 2, 2013
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Ends September 8th 2013

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
220 East Chicago Avenue / +13122802660 / mcachicago.org
Tue 10am to 8pm, Wed - Sun 10am to 5pm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago presents exhibitions and collections of contemporary art. Please contact museum for more information.
Gaylen Gerber
May 25 - Sep 8, 2013
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Ends September 22nd 2013

The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue / +13124433600 / artic.edu/aic
Mon - Wed 10:30am to 5pm, Thu 10:30am to 8pm, Fri - Sun 10:30am to 5pm
The Art Institute of Chicago presents exhibitions and collections of ancient to modern art. Please contact museum for more information.
Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity
Jun 26 - Sep 22, 2013
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue / +13124433600 / artic.edu/aic
Mon - Wed 10:30am to 5pm, Thu 10:30am to 8pm, Fri - Sun 10:30am to 5pm
The Art Institute of Chicago presents exhibitions and collections of ancient to modern art. Please contact museum for more information.
Zarina: Paper Like Skin
Jun 26 - Sep 22, 2013
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Ends September 29th 2013

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
220 East Chicago Avenue / +13122802660 / mcachicago.org
Tue 10am to 8pm, Wed - Sun 10am to 5pm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago presents exhibitions and collections of contemporary art. Please contact museum for more information.
MCA DNA: Chicago Conceptual Abstraction
May 18 - Sep 29, 2013
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Ends October 6th 2013

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
220 East Chicago Avenue / +13122802660 / mcachicago.org
Tue 10am to 8pm, Wed - Sun 10am to 5pm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago presents exhibitions and collections of contemporary art. Please contact museum for more information.
Theaster Gates: 13th Ballad
May 18 - Oct 6, 2013
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Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 South Greenwood Avenue / +17737020200 / smartmuseum.uchicago.edu
Tue - Wed 10am to 5pm, Thu 10am to 8pm, Fri - Sun 10am to 5pm
The art museum of the University of Chicago. Free and open to the public.
Valerie Snobeck American Standard Movement
Oct 8, 2012 - Oct 6, 2013
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Ends November 10th 2013

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
220 East Chicago Avenue / +13122802660 / mcachicago.org
Tue 10am to 8pm, Wed - Sun 10am to 5pm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago presents exhibitions and collections of contemporary art. Please contact museum for more information.
Think First, Shoot Later: Photography from the MCA Collection
May 18 - Nov 10, 2013
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Ends December 8th 2013

Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
5550 South Greenwood Avenue / +17737020200 / smartmuseum.uchicago.edu
Tue - Wed 10am to 5pm, Thu 10am to 8pm, Fri - Sun 10am to 5pm
Gigi Scaria City Unclaimed
Jan 19 - Dec 8, 2013
Indian artist Gigi Scaria’s site-specific installation combines an immersive mural of an imaginary cityscape with a working fountain.
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Revealing the complex layers and stark contrasts of Delhi, Indian artist Gigi Scaria’s site-specific installation City Unclaimed combines a large photo-based mural of an imaginary cityscape with a working fountain that stands as both a monument to a glorious past and also a reminder of bubbling societal tension.

Covering the central wall of the Smart Museum’s reception hall, the immersive mural is manipulated and stitched together from photographs Scaria has taken around his home city of Delhi. The collage of images shows the extreme differences and layers of social and economic class that are characteristic of the city, which Scaria says “grows and decays by its own logic.” In front of the mural stands a twelve-foot high fountain that mirrors the architecture and images behind it. The five tiers of the fountain resemble Delhi apartment buildings with windows and balconies, and the flowing water raises issues about scarcity, abundance, and the allocation of resources in urban spaces.

City Unclaimed is the artist’s first project for a U.S. museum.

Curator: Jessica Moss, Smart Museum Associate Curator of Contemporary Art

Support: City Unclaimed has been generously supported by BMO Harris Bank.

Ends February 24th 2014

Murdertown
2351 N. Milwaukee / 8433335662 / murdertownchicago.com
The Whitney Houston Biennial
Feb 24, 2012 - Feb 24, 2014
Including:
Nicholas Cueva
Chris Edwards
JJ Manford
Madeleine Reyna
Mario Romano
William Sieruta
Jake Slade
Chris Toepfer
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Ends December 31st 2014

The Arts Club of Chicago
201 East Ontario Street / +13127873997 / www.artsclubchicago.org
Tue - Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 3pm
The Permanent Collection of The Arts Club of Chicago
Jan 1, 2012 - Dec 31, 2014
The Arts Club's collection includes works by Picasso, Klee, Calder, and Polke. By appointment only: call 312.787.3997 to schedule a tour.
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The Arts Club’s collection, acquired from its exhibitions or donated by members and artists, includes works by modern masters: Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Natalia Goncharova, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, Francis Picabia, and Pablo Picasso, among others. Recent contemporary acquisitions include Stephan Balkenhol, Malcolm Morley, Paul Thek, Alex Katz, Richard Artschwager, Yayoi Kusama, Peter Doig, and Sigmar Polke. The Arts Club’s second floor and private rooms, in which the majority of the permanent collection is on display, are accessible to the public by appointment only. Private tours of the collection—ideal for for school groups and tour groups—can be made through The Arts Club office at information@artsclubchicago.org or 312.787.3997. Private gallery talks on The Arts Club’s current exhibition are also available by appointment.

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