Onsmith – Poking the Fringes
Chicago embraces and delves deeply into the fringes of comic art, music and ‘anti-high-art’ culture. This city is rife with non-conformist talent. Onsmith, a cartoonist who basks in the Midwest capital’s dialogue produces provocative, insightful, and frequently uncomfortable meditations that reflect the city’s fascination with the edges of artistic ...
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Phyllis Bramson – Affectionate Arbitrary Anecdotes
Phyllis Bramson’s oeuvre addresses sexuality, gender issues and stereotypes of “good behavior” in complex narrative-based mythologies layed out upon canvas. The COMP Magazine recently visited Bramson’s Greek Town studio to discuss her affinity with the Windy City, romantic nature, thoughtful and sometimes irrelevant meditation, and why painting is still ...
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Kirsten Leenaars – Fictionalized Real Experience
Kirsten Leenaars choreographs visual and sound narratives through directing persons and place to create fictionalized realities. The COMP Magazine recently visited Leenaars’ Humboldt Park studio to discuss making art in a new country, how collaboration is essential to being human and why play should be something not lost in ...
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Anna Kunz – Invitations & Reflections
Anna Kunz produces experiential works that invite the viewer to immerse her or himself into a space that intersects formal complexity in thoughtful rhythmic arrangements. The COMP Magazine recently visited her East Garfield Park studio to discuss her affinity with performance and painting, the relevance of early 20th c. ...
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Meg Duguid – The Entropic Tramp
Meg Duguid is on an epic journey. Using performative practice as foundation while coupling traditional and new strategies of research and art-making, Duguid sifts through historical materials and applies fresh iterations that is often as transient as the roles she takes on in her investigations. The COMP Magazine recently ...
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Scott Dietrich – Eyes on SE Asia
In this age of global communication there are still clearly distinct differences between the Orient and Occident. Photographer, Scott Dietrich, based in Hong Kong diligently seeks out people and place in the spirit of early 20th century street photographers. The COMP Magazine finally caught up with this itinerant photographer ...
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Miguel Cortez – Antena Styled Anarchy
Art spaces and galleries come and go as quickly as the shift from mild autumn to severe winter in Chicago. Antena, directed by Miguel Cortez, appears to have located the pulse of attrition. Offering an eclectic stable of artists who transform Antena into a new media art laboratory; one ...
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Ron Gordon – Preservationist Photographer
Ron Gordon has documented the Chicago urban landscape and its inhabitants for almost 40 years. His photographic practice is simple, direct, yet comprehensive. The COMP Magazine recently visited his Halsted studio on the eastern edge of Pilsen to discuss an array of items ranging from teaching photography at the ...
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Alberto Aguilar – Family Formations
Working in areas often associated with domesticity and family are frequently looked down upon in the fine arts. There is often excessive sentimentality; precious baby pictures and those secretive images best locked away in a chest hidden at the back of a remote closet in the basement. However, this ...
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Victoria Martinez – Intuitive Interventions
Victoria Martinez works in a place between traditional gallery practice and urban intervention. The COMP Magazine recently toured the Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen with Victoria; visiting one of the more unique places in the city, laughing at the absurdities of the art-making process and rolling around in piles of ...
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