Archive for February, 2011
Monday, February 28th, 2011
This article is part of Chicago Art Magazine’s “40 over 40″ series. Though the canon of painting hasn’t been dominated by the representational figurative tradition in oh, I don’t know, at least a hundred years, there are still many artists who choose to pursue that path in their work. A quick flip through recent issues Read more…
Tags: 40 Artists Over 40, chicago art magazine, chicago artists, David Abed, elysabeth alfano, fear no art chicago, figurative realism, nude and still life, SORA, The School of Reprentational Art
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Friday, February 25th, 2011
Johannah Silva, a Chicago painter and full time faculty member at Wright Community College, is a relative new comer to the artist-run space scene. Portage ARTspace, located in Portage Park, opened its doors in mid-2010 and is purported to be a one year experiment. Exhibited artists include Hui-min Tsen, Tom Burtonwood, Holly Holmes, and Phillip Read more…
Tags: 40 over 40, chicago art, chicago art magazine, chicago artists, elysabeth alfano, fear no art chicago, Johannah Silva, Portage ARTspace, Portage Park, Wright Community College
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Laura Schaeffer has made an artist practice out of running alternative spaces. After many years running a commercial gallery space, Schaeffer decided to experiment with the integration of art exhibitions into the domestic space, and Home Gallery of Hyde Park was born. Since 2007 Schaeffer has been exhibiting the works of painters, sculptors, and printmakers Read more…
Tags: 40 Artists Over 40, chicago art magazine, Chicago Artist, elysabeth alfano, fear no art chicago, Home Gallery, Home Gallery of Hyde Park, Laura Shaeffer
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Michelle Grabner/The Suburban Michelle Grabner (b. 1962) runs probably one of the best known artist-run spaces, situated in Oak Park alongside Fraser’s He Said She Said and Tom Burtonwood’s What It Is. Run with her husband Brad Killam, The Suburban has shown many nationally and internationally renowned artists since its establishment in 1999. The Suburban Read more…
Tags: apartment gallery, Chair of Painting and Drawing Department, chicago art magazine, Chicago Artist, elysabeth alfano, fear no art chicago, gallery, Michelle Grabner, The School of the Art Instititute of Chicago, The Suburban
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
Pamela Fraser (b. 1965) received a BFA in painting from the School of Visual Arts in 1988, and proceeded to get her MFA in New Genres at UCLA in 1992. In the past year she’s had three solo exhibitions, in Golden Gallery, Chicago, IL, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany, and 1k Projectspace de Ekster, Amsterdam, Read more…
Tags: 40 over 40, chicago art magazine, chicago artists, elysabeth alfano, fear no art chicago, He Said She Said, Pamela Fraser
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
Tony performs at the Jan. 30 Fear No ART presents The Dinner Party. The Dinner Party broadcasts the last Monday of every month on FearNoArt.tv @ 7:30 CST. For more information and to be a guest in the audience, click here. http://youtu.be/SXh6dLZh7 Tony Fitzpatrick (b. 1958) has been a central figure in the Chicago art Read more…
Tags: 40 over 40, chicago art, chicago art magazine, Chicago Artist, elysabeth alfano, fear no art chicago, Firecat Projects, Tony Fitzpatrick
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Friday, February 18th, 2011
40 Over 40: Artist-Run Spaces By Chicago Art Magazine on Feb 11, 2011 in Featured Chicago has been host to an amazing array of artist-run spaces since at least the 1970’s. Many of these spaces originally emerged as venues working counter to the predominately commercial (and early on, predominantly male) gallery culture in Chicago. Starting Read more…
Tags: 40 Artists Over 40, art chicago, chicago art magazine, Dan Devening, Devening Projects + Editions, elysabeth alfano, fear no art chicago, MFA, Painting and Drawing, University of Chicago, University of Nebraska
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Thursday, February 17th, 2011
by Kathryn Born Breaking the Mold of Ageism in the Art World: Chicago Art Magazine Begins the “40 Over 40” Series Chicago Art Magazine will release a series of eight articles, featuring forty artists born before February, 1971. The series seeks to challenge the New Museum’s acclaimed “Younger Than Jesus” exhibit, which only allowed artists Read more…
Tags: 40 over 40, artists, chicago art magazine, chicago artists, chicago arts, elysabeth alfano, fear no art chicago
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Saturday, February 5th, 2011
Disaster Planning and Responce Art Rescue (DPR Art Rescue) is two fold in focus with approaches for both before and after disasters. Unlike most first responders, DPR Art Rescue offers disaster planning as preparation for the unthinkable. With a DPR plan in place, we already know what we’re up against BEFORE we get to the Read more…
Tags: art crating, art handlers, art packing, art restoration, art shipping, Disaster Planning Response Art Rescue, DPR Art Rescue, fine art, Terry Dowd
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