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…

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…

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…

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…