Cole Pierce – Color Strategies & Vinyl Tape
Precision and optical synthesis are core to the aesthetic practice of Cole Pierce. There is a sensory geometry coupled with ocular encounter that establishes a plain of perception. This week the COMP Magazine headed up to the Northside to visit Pierce in studio to discuss what established his focus ...
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Buddy Damen and the Last Call – Closing Time Melodies
Buddy Damen was born in 1939 in Florence, Alabama, across the river from Muscle Shoals. He had five younger sisters, most of whom married, all of whom had children. He left home at the age of 16 and made his way west, playing on street corners and in honky-tonks ...
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Ciurej & Lochman – Evolving Histories and Processed Views
With nearly 40 years of collaborative efforts under their belts, Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman have expanded awareness of the female voice in the fine arts while simultaneously staying current with new formats and strategies for visual presentation. This week the COMP Magazine caught up with Ciurej & Lochman ...
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Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford – Transient Sculptural Assemblies
Working in terrain that straddles social possibilities and aesthetic innovation, Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford has carved out an uncommon practice that assembles unique methods of collaboration while simultaneously investigating new methods of production and installation. This week the COMP Magazine caught up with Husebos-Spofford at his Mana studio in Pilsen to ...
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Hailing from Prison City: We are the Brigade
Prison City Brigade, a post-hardcore band from Joliet, IL, is hot on the local punk music scene and their reach is constantly growing. The band formed in early 2013, and after more than a few false starts, released their first EP “The Corner of Debauchery and Nowhere” in 2015. ...
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Robin Dluzen – Bloodroot, Ameraucana & the Midwest
Robin Dluzen is a whirlwind of energy. Since landing in Chicago, Dluzen has established a healthy art practice, curated a number of insightful exhibitions, and written regularly on the city's visual arts. This week the COMP Magazine trekked up to Avondale to discuss with Dluzen the role family plays ...
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Gina Hunt – From the Badlands to Azimuth
Raised in South Dakota, Gina Hunt's aesthetic practice focuses upon ephemeral modes of experience, cerebral and visceral. In addition to traditional formats of presentation, Hunt has expanded her investigation via production of site-specific works in contrasting environments in national parks and urban centers. This week the COMP Magazine caught ...
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Michelle Bolinger – A Visual Tug of War
Working in an area that takes visual queues from mid-20th c. Minimalists and contemporary artists investigating various modes of seeing, Michelle Bolinger produces paintings that are visual conundrums that merge fields of color with defined forms, geometric and circular. This week the COMP Magazine visited Bolinger in her Logan ...
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Larry Ross – The Riberenos & a Conversation
Larry Ross has held a lifelong connection with the sciences and visual arts. Trained as a urologist and having taught and practiced medicine for a number of years at UIC in the College of Medicine, Ross is the Clarence C. Saelhof Professor Emeritus in the Department of Urology. In ...
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Heather Mekkelson – Crepuscular Beam & Other Recent Works
Working through a transitional period in recent years, Heather Mekkelson has found solid footing in raising a family while investigating new modes of looking at and translating contemporary aesthetic perceptions as they relate to empirical and speculative sciences: anthropology, astrophysics, cosmology, myth, and mysticism. This week the COMP Magazine ...
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