Archive for March, 2011


Elysabeth Alfano nominated by TCW as one of Chicago’s Top Singles

Sunday, March 20th, 2011

http://www.tcwmag.com/tcws-top-50-singles-2011#21 Nominated by one of Chicago’s Top Singles by Today’s Chicago Women on the February 2011 issue  is such an honor. Share This!

Candace Jordan Blog on CHICAGONOW

Sunday, March 20th, 2011

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/candid-candace/2011/03/my-interview-on-fear-no-art-chicago-behind-the-scenes-with-art-collectorblogger-candace-jordan.html Check out the great write up by Candace Jordan in her ChicagoNow blog. Share This!

Alan Emerson Hicks

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

40 Over 40: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – Artists Working with Trash By Chicago Art Magazine on Feb 21, 2011 in Chicago Art News, Featured This article is part of Chicago Art Magazine’s “40 over 40″ series. In this day and age, we are looking at an environment that is undergoing massive man-made and natural changes. Read more…

800

Monday, March 14th, 2011

Famous for a piece known as The Styx Boat, street artist 800 makes our artists over 40 list. The Styx Boat, covered in images of hands symbolizing the souls guiding the boat over the Styx river, was placed in a cave-like tunnel location. As the story goes, 800 was fed up with finding a home Read more…

Candace Collins Jordan

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

Candace Jordan is on the May 6th Dinner Party! A completely new and different kind of show, host Elysabeth Alfano invites three Chicago and/or national Celebs and a known chef to a dinner party.  Over food, wine, chocolate, Twitter and a few impromptu performances, the conversations flow!  Filmed live and streaming live on-line, buy your Read more…

William Pope L –

Friday, March 11th, 2011

William Pope L – William Pope.L’s (b.1955) oeuvre exists as a complex contemplation of contemporary issues around race, class, and gender, kaleidoscoped through intense durational performances, installations, and nomadic projects. From his early work on the eRacism series, through the Black Factory Twice Sold project, and to his text and sculptural pieces in Black Is, Read more…

Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger

Friday, March 11th, 2011

Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger – The imagery of partners and collaborators Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger has been near ubiquitous over the past few years in Chicago. Either you’ve seen them performing, knitting a link between them, or discovered their quaint Victorian profiles with beards intertwined, or stumbled across documentation of their far flung Read more…

Deborah Adams Doering

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Deborah Adams Doering – Deborah Adams Doering works in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, print making and installation. She’s been included herein, however, for her massive outdoor installation Code for the Grand River, Grand Rapids_09, temporally located on the lawn in front of the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids. Working at Read more…

Pate Conaway

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

By Chicago Art Magazine on Feb 17, 2011 in Featured Part of our series celebrating artists over 40 years of age As discussed in CAM’s previous article “Performance Art MFA,” performance is a complex and ethereal art form that has found a unique home in Chicago. Likewise, installation, from epic indoor museological pieces to the Read more…

Mary Lou Zelazny

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Mary Lou Zelazny: Mary Lou Zelazny (b. 1956) is a native Chicagoian, and her work shares much of the humor often associated with Chicago painters, especially the Imagists. Her own work explores, “improvisations and…where my humor, discomfort, incomprehension, and pleasure can coexist. This indirect method appeals to [Zelazny] because of the unpredictability and technical demands Read more…