Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Opening This Weekend! (5/28-5/30)

Friday 5/28 -
Hyde Park -
Hyde Park Art Center - 5020 S Cornell Ave. Open Crit, come have your work discussed. Crit from 6-8pm.

Logan Square -
Art on Armitage - 4125 W. Armitage Ave. 30 Days of Dinner Time, a project by Kimmy Noonen. Closing reception 6-9pm.

Loop -
Chicago Tourism Center - 72 E. Randolph St. Chicago Is a Community Garden, group show. 5/28-9/19.

Pilsen -
Roxaboxen Exhibitions - 2130 W 21st St. Gamma Ray Burst Six, work by ANDREW FANSLER, ANDRE CALLOT, SOPHIA CARA DIXON, NICOLE MAUSER, DAVID CORDERO, and YOUNG JOON KWAK. Reception 6-9pm. 5/28-6/14.

River North -
Marwen - 833 N. Orleans St. Asi Esta La Cosa: Emerging Artists From Mexico City and Chicago. Reception 6-9pm.

River West -
Arc Gallery - 832 W. Superior St., #204. Past and Present, work by Charlotte Segal & Rebirth, work by Anne Farley Gaines and Geoffrey Novelli. Reception 6-9pm. 5/26-6/29.

Ukrainian Village -
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art - 2320 W Chicago Ave. NeoSymbolism: Bridges to the Unknown, work by Christina Katrakis, Stanislav Grezdo, William Platz, Tor Dettwiler, Klaus Eyting, and Tom Besson. Reception 6-9pm.

West Loop -
ebersmoore - 213 N Morgan St., 3C. Trew Schriefer and Joanna Goss. Reception 6-9pm. 5/28-6/26.

Wicker Park -
ENEMY - 1550 N Milwaukee Ave., 3rd fl. NOTAG ll, performances of avant-garde music pieces. Performances 9-11pm.

Lloyd Dobler Gallery - 1545 W Division St, 2nd Fl. Sebastian Vallejo: LÜX. Reception 6-10pm. 5/28-6/26.

Saturday 5/29 -
Bucktown -
Prak-sis - 1630 N. Milwaukee Ave. Dense83, group exhidition, fundraiser, and concert. Reception at noon, music begins at 9:30pm.

East Rogers Park -
Impala Gallery - 1768 W. Greenleaf Ave. HEAD IN THE CLOUDS: Illustrations from Mount Olympus, work by Andrea Georgas and Abi Stokes. Reception 9pm.

Humboldt Park -
Simple Gallery - 2846 W. North Ave, 2nd fl. EVERYTHING IS CHANGING, work by Heather Chontos, Woohyun Shim, Leslie Carlson, and Dee Clements. Reception 5-9pm.

Lakeview East -
CIPB Poster Gallery - 661 West Diversey Pkwy. Chicago International Poster Biennial Jury Exhibition. Reception 6-9pm.

Logan Square -
Gallery Provocateur - 2125 N. Rockwell St. Lucid Daydreams. Reception 8-11:30pm. 5/29-8/7.

Monument 2 Gallery - 2007 N. Point St. Me, work by Tim Louis Graham and Diego Leclery. Reception 6-10pm. 5/29-5/30.

Pilsen -
Golden Age - 1744 W. 18th St. Uncover, Discover, Discard, work by Eric Yahnker, McIntyre Parker, Emilie Halpern, Michael G. Bauer and Sidonie Loiseleux. Reception 6-9pm. 5/29-6/27.

Pentagon - 961 W 19th St., 1F. The Pentagon Saves The World, work by Deborah Stratman, Jim Zimpel, Jesse Avina, Daniel Baird, Jake Myers and the Pentagon Education Collective. Reception 7-11pm.

Wicker Park -
Happy Collaborationists' Exhibition Space - 1254 N Noble St. Andy Burkholder: A Poetic Conception of Reality. Reception 6-10pm. One night only.

Rainbo Club - 1150 N. Damen Ave. On 24th Street, work by Dmitry Samarov. Reception 4-8pm. 5/29-6/26.

The Silver Room - 1442 N. Milwaukee Ave. Vision & Sound, work by Emily Anne Evans. Reception 7-11pm. 5/29-7/1.

Sunday 5/30 -
Logan Square -
HungryMan Gallery - 2135 N Rockwell St. Growing Young, work by Austin Eddy and Howard Fonda. Reception 6-11pm.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Opening This Weekend! (5/14-5/16)

FRIDAY 5/14
BUCKTOWN -
WORKSTUDIO gallery - 2137 N Milwaukee Ave. Mug Shots, work by Coraline de Chiara. Reception 5-10pm.

LINCOLN PARK -
Thomas Masters Gallery - 245 W. North Ave. New Abstractions, work by Melody Saraniti. Reception 6-9pm. 5/14-6/9.

LOGAN SQUARE -
Charnel House Chicago - 3421 W. Fullerton Ave. Deus Ex Machina, work by Megan Sterling and Stan Konowitz. Reception 6-9pm. 5/14-6/6.

LOOP -
ARTSpace537 - 410 S. Michigan Ave. May Exhibition, work by Catherine Keebler, Nancy Staszak, Brenda G. Thomas, Sarah Kaiser & Pat Lagger. Reception 5-9pm. 5/14-5/31.

Finestra Art Space - 410 S. Michigan Ave. Suite 516. A Working Artist's Studio, work by Glenn Doering. Reception 5-9pm.

NOBLE SQUARE -
Black Market - 1026 N. Milwaukee Ave. After Eggleston, work by Yvette Marie Dostatni and Alexandra Dietz. Reception 6-9pm. 5/14-5/31.

Corbett vs. Dempsey - 1120 N. Ashland Ave., 3rd fl. Paradise, work by Robert Barnes. Reception 5-9pm. 5/14-6/19.

OAK PARK -
Oak Park Art League - 720 Chicago Ave. Carved & Composed. Reception 7-9pm. 5/14-6/4.

PILSEN -
Antena - 1765 S Laflin St. John Hartley. Reception 6-10pm. 5/14-6/12.

Attic at 1753 - 1753 W Cullerton St. she went back to where she began & she sat with her back to me. Reception 7:30-10pm. 5/14-5/15.

Chicago Art Department - 1837 S Halsted St. freshCAD, work by Allison Putnam, Alexis J Alma, Agnieszka Furtak, Hilesh Patel, Edyta Stepien, Chuck Pryzbyl, Marta Sasinowska, Jennifer Nalbantyan, Mike Wilgus, Ryan Clark, Kirsten Strauss, Jarred Wheeler and Dietrich McGaffey. Reception 6-10pm.

Chicago Arts District - 1945 S. Halsted, Ste. 101. 2nd Fridays Gallery Night. Reception 6-10pm.

Logsdon 1909 Gallery - 1909 S. Halsted St. Wunderbar!, work by Jill and Gabe Lanza. Reception 6-10pm. 5/14-6/5.

ROOMS Productions - 645 W. 18th St. ORACLE V. Reception 7-10pm. 5/14-10/13.

WELIVEINNY$LA - 1801 S Peoria St. Whim Jobs, work by Ellen Nielsen. Reception 7-10pm. 5/14-6/4.

RIVER NORTH -
Carl Hammer Gallery - 740 N. Wells. Child's Play, work by Orly Cogan. Reception 5:30-8:30pm. 5/14-7/2.

Schneider Gallery - 230 W. Superior. A New Angle, group show. Reception 5-7:30pm. 5/14-7/3.

Zolla / Lieberman Gallery - 325 W. Huron. Deborah Butterfield: New Sculpture. Reception 5-7:30pm. 5/14-8/25.

RIVER WEST -
Intuit - 756 N Milwaukee Ave. The Treasure of Ulysses Davis. Closing Reception 5-8pm.

SOUTH LOOP -
Columbia College Glass Curtain Gallery - 1104 S. Wabash. 2010 MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition. Reception 4-7pm. 5/14-6/11.

Columbia College Parking Lot - Balbo Ave at Wabash Ave. Art Car Derby. Race from 2:20-5pm.

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum - 800 S. Halsted St. Messing With Jane: Excavating History at Hull-House. Reception 5-7pm. 5/14-5/21.

UKRAINIAN VILLAGE -
The Hills Esthetic Center - 128 N. Campbell Ave., Unit G. You Can Do It Your Own Way (If It's Done Just How I Say), work by Joseph Mohan. Reception 8-11pm. 5/14-6/5.

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art - 2320 W Chicago Ave. Jim Yood and Gladys Nilsson. Reception 5:30-7pm.

WEST LOOP -
EC Gallery - 215 N. Aberdeen St. In Between, You and I, There Is Space All Around Us, work by Junko Yamamoto. Reception 6-8pm. 5/14-6/19.

Linda Warren Gallery - 1052 W. Fulton Mkt. Cold Comfort, work by Carson Fox & Melange a Trois, work by Rosalyn Schwartz. Reception 6-9pm. 5/14-6/19.

Packer Schopf Gallery - 942 W. Lake St. Andréa Stanislav: to the Western Lands & Rich Lehl: Cattywampus. Reception 5-8pm. 5/14-6/26.

WICKER PARK -
Coalition Gallery - 2010 W. Pierce Ave. Organic Matter, work by Diane Huff and Allison Svoboda. Reception 5:30-8:30pm. 5/13-6/12.

Heaven Gallery - 1550 N. Milwaukee. 2010: digital black or Sun Ra, pt. II. Show at 8pm.

SATURDAY 5/15
BEVERLY -
Beverly Arts Center - 2407 W. 111th St. Paper, group show. Reception 1-6pm. 5/15-6/26.

BRIDGEPORT -
Medicine Cabinet - 3216 S. Morgan St. Philip von Zweck. Reception 7-11pm.

Second Bedroom - 3216 S. Morgan St. Death of a Death of a Salesman, work by Vincent Dermody. Reception 7-11pm.

EAST ROGERS PARK -
Iceberg - 7714 N. Sheridan Rd. Frozen Music, work by Robert MacNeill. Reception 6-9pm. 5/15-6/19.

ELMHURST -
Elmhurst Art Museum - 150 S. Cottage Hill Ave. The Search for Form, work by Eleanor Himmelfarb and Holly Renald Cohn. 5/15-9/12.

EVANSTON -
Perspective Group and Photography Gallery - 1310 1/2 Chicago Ave., Evanston. Inaugural Exhibition. Reception 5-8pm.

LOGAN SQUARE -
Concertina Gallery - 2351 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd fl. Live Forever, the final Concertina show. Reception 7-10pm. 5/15-5/26.

HungryMan Gallery - 2135 N. Rockwell St. Growing Young, work by Austin Eddy and Howard Fonda. Reception 6-11pm. 5/15-5/30.

Zrobili - 2649 ½ N Spaulding Ave, 2N. To Boldly Glow, Maxon Higbee and Maria Vagara. Reception 5-8pm.

MCKINLEY PARK -
Knock Knock Gallery - 3658 S Wolcott Ave, 2F. All My Greys, work by Arend DeGruyter-Helfer, Lauren Elder, Brian Khek, André Lenox, Evan Lenox and Micah Schippa. Reception 6-10pm. 5/15-5/29.

NOBLE SQUARE -
Roots & Culture - 1034 N Milwaukee Ave. Screening of work by Steve Reinke. Screening 8-10pm.

PILSEN -
2ND FLR Gallery - 903 W 19th St., 2nd Flr. Voyage of Swimming Mountains, work by Rose DiSalvo. Reception 6-10pm.

National Museum of Mexican Art - 1852 West 19th St. Mexican Muralists and it's U.S. Influences Symposium. Symposium from 10am-4pm.

STREETERVILLE -
Museum of Contemporary Art - 220 E Chicago Ave. Works on Paper from the MCA Collection. 5/15-fall.

WEST LOOP -
Andrew Rafacz Gallery - 835 W Washington Blvd. Zachary Buchner and False Positive. Reception 4-7pm. 5/15-6/19.

Gallery 400 - 400 S Peoria St. Artist Talk with Andy Moore. Talk at 2pm.

Spoke - 119 N. Peoria, #3D. RE[PUBLIC] IN/DECENCY: Performance Installation and Dialogue. Performance 6-8pm. 5/1-5/23.

Thomas Robertello Gallery - 939 W. Randolph St. Artist talk with Noelle Mason, about her exhibit Bad Boys. Talk at 3pm.

WICKER PARK -
Happy Dog Gallery - 1542 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd fl. Tom Howes and Tedd Anderson. Reception 6pm. 5/15-5/31.

SUNDAY 5/16
EAVNSTON -
Noyes Cultural Arts Center - 927 Noyes St. Sprouting, work by members of the Chicago Korean American Artists Association. Reception 2-5pm. 5/15-6/29.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Opening This Weekend! (5/7-5/9)

FRIDAY 5/7-
August House Studio - 2113 W. Roscoe St. Return of Birds I Have Known. Reception 6-9pm. 5/7-5/29.

Black Walnut Gallery - 220 N. Aberdeen St. May Group Modern Art Exhibit, work by Moca Garcia, Magda Smolenska, Crystal Neiweem, Cooper Link, Bernell Loeb, Claudia Smalley, and Cynthia Lee. Reception 6-9pm. 5/1-5/31.

Catherine Edelman Gallery - 300 W. Superior St. Michael Kenna. Reception 5-7pm. 5/7-7/10.

Chicago Art Source Gallery - 1871 N. Clybourn Ave., 2nd fl. Give + Take, group show. Reception 6-9pm. 5/7-6/19.

Creative Studio Space - 2941 W. Belmont Ave. Art Relief: Help for Haiti, auction and fundraiser. Open 6-10pm.

Elephant Room, Inc. - 704 S. Wabash Ave. The Peculiar Manifestation of Paint in My Life, work by Jennifer Cronin. Reception 6-10pm. 5/3-6/12.

Eyeporium Gallery - 1431 N. Milwaukee Ave. Seen & Unseen, work by Marc Hauser. Reception 6-9pm. 5/7-6/2.

Flat Iron Arts Building - 1579 N. Milwaukee. First Friday Open House. Reception 6-10pm.

Gallery 203 - 1579 N. Milwaukee Ave. Poetix and Color Blocks, work by Bohdan Gernaga. Reception 6-10pm. 5/7-5/29.

Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery - 100 W. Randolph, Suite 2-100. Pathways and Portals, work by Granite Amit. Closing Reception 4-6pm.

Johalla Projects - 1561 N. Milwaukee Ave. Immersioni/Immersions, curated by Anna Cerniglia and Susanna Horvatovicova. Reception 7-11pm. 5/7-5/22.

Las Manos Gallery - 5220 N. Clark St. New American Landscape. Reception 7-10pm. 5/7-6/7.

LivingRoom Gallery - 1530 W. Superior St. Synesthesia for the times, work by Ian McLaughlin. Reception 6-9pm.

Museum of Contemporary Art - 220 E. Chicago Ave. UBS 12 x 12: Steve Krakow, a.k.a. Plastic Crimewave. Reception 6-10pm. 5/7-5/30.

New Wave Coffee - 3103 W. Logan Blvd. Folding the Future, work by Jason Brammer. Reception 6-9pm. 5/7-6/1.

Noble & Superior Projects - 1418 W. Superior St. Alphabetization, work by Brandon Alvendia, Scott Carter, Eric Fleischauer, Brookhart Jonquil and Daniel Lavitt. Reception 6-10pm. 5/7-6/4.

Pritzker Military Library - 610 N. Fairbanks Ct., 2nd fl. The Home Front: What You Can Do! 5/7-7/9.

Richard Gray - 875 N. Michigan Ave., #2503. Chicago, work by Ewan Gibbs. Reception 6-8pm. 5/7-6/19.

Roots and Culture - 1034 N. Milwaukee Ave. Two Black Holes Are Better Than One, work by Carmen Price and Erin Zona. Reception 6-10pm. 5/7-6/12.

Sapere Art - 1579 N. Milwaukee Ave. Keeping Us All A Breast, work by Teresa J. Parker. Reception 6-10pm. 5/7-5/31.

The 1901 Gallery Theatre - 1901 W. Belmont Ave. TAURUS: The May Zodiac. Reception 8pm.

Three Birds Gallery - 1323 N. Milwaukee Ave. Liz Weber. Reception 6pm.

Ukrainian National Museum - 2249 W. Superior St. Mythology of My Motherland, work by Oleksa Kovalenko. Reception 7pm. 5/7-5/30.

Woman Made Gallery - 685 N. Milwaukee Ave. Aviculture, work by Deborah Bryan & Beyond Audobon, group show & Crow Magnus, work by Karen Bondarchuk. Reception 6-9pm. 5/7-7/1.

SATURDAY 5/8-
Fill in the Blank Gallery - 5038 N. Lincoln Ave. Improv. Reception 7-11pm. 5/8-5/28.

Floor Length and Tux - 2332 W. Augusta, #3. Flat 6. Reception 7pm-12am.

Happy Collaborationist Exhibition Space - 1254 N Noble St. Devil’s Barnyard. Reception 8pm-?.

Home Gallery - 1407 E. 54th St. Sketchbook Project. Reception 6-9pm.

Little Black Pearl - 1060 E 47th St. Uncommon Studio, discussion with Derric Clemmons, Luz Castillo, Milton Mizenberg and Jason Middlebrook. Reception 2-4:30pm.

Plaines Project - 1822 S. Desplaines St. new clear winter, work by Paul Erschen. Reception 6-9pm.

Western Exhibitions - 119 N Peoria St. 2A. Hobbies, work by John Parot & As you pass by and cast an eye as you are now so once was I, work by Rachel Niffenegger. Reception 5-8pm.

SUNDAY 5/9-
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago - 280 S. Columbus Dr. Every Fallen Sparrow, work by Joshua Kent. Performance at 7pm.