Ryan Richey – Making Lemonade from Lemons
From mundane chores to intimate first experiences, the painter Ryan Richey presents details of life in middle America with irony, wit, and an ability to chuckle at even the hardest of life experiences. The COMP Magazine recently visited Richey's Ukrainian Village studio in the near west side of Chicago ...
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Dock 6 Collective – Design & Art Series #9, 6/11/16
Dock 6 Collective
Design & Art Series #9
2100 North Major Avenue
Chicago, IL 60639
June 11, 2016, 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.
DOCK 6 COLLECTIVE
Carson Maddox Studios, -ism Furniture, Lagomorph Design, Navillus Woodworks, SAP Design, and zakrose
DOCK 6 FAMILY
Dan Baird, Jeff Forsythe, Edra Soto, and Hannah Vaughan
GUEST DESIGNERS
Active Alloys, Eve Fineman Design, RANGE, ...
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JaNae Contag – Evolving Apparitions & Environments
Since releasing the EP Implied Elegance in 2015 and relocating to Chicago in 2016, JaNae Contag has kept a diligent stride in her ongoing aesthetic investigations. Her sonic and visual inquiry offers penetrating comment into the metamorphosis of middle America. This week The COMP Magazine visited Contag's Humboldt ...
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Brad Temkin – Traversing Rooftops
Brad Temkin has been making photographs of green environments in urban areas for the better part of twenty years. These images offer the viewer insight into private places, bird's-eye views and a look at the relationship between nature and urban habitats as our cities continue to modernize. Recently, The ...
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Doug Fogelson – Destructive Transformations
Doug Fogelson's inquisitive practice in photography echoes the experimentation that was central to the medium's inception. For the better part of 20 years, Fogelson has consistently produced seductive imagery while investigating unsettling issues (e.g., climate change). This week The COMP Magazine caught up with Fogelson to discuss his current ...
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2016 USF Art & Design Honors Exhibition
2016 USF Art & Design Honors Exhibition
April 11 – April 22, 2016
University of St. Francis Art Gallery
25 East Van Buren Street
Joliet, Illinois 60432
Gallery Mission:
The University of St. Francis Gallery is the on-campus exhibition space at University of St. Francis. Its primary purpose is to enrich the educational experience of ...
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Julia Haw – Comfort and Control & Other Paintings
Julia Haw is a lively gregarious spirit that understands the importance of balance within life and her astute layered technical approach in painting. This week The COMP Magazine caught with Haw to discuss her immersion into Chicago's art community, her analytic and technical approach in painting, how life experiences ...
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Aimée Beaubien – Collecting Within & Recent Works
Over the past year, Aimée Beaubien has been exhibiting a series of elegant, labor intensive site-specific installations in various locations (Texas, Wisconsin and Illinois) around the country. These determined efforts offer a distinct aesthetic strategy that on one level contemplate the intersection between photography and sculpture. One of these ...
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Vincent Uribe – Sugar Talk & Winter Chat
Serving as a central hub for sharing new innovative work by a diverse roster of artists, LVL3 Gallery continues to offer challenging exhibitions and an intoxicating media presence. Directed by Vincent Uribe, The COMP Magazine recently visited the Wicker Park space to discuss the longevity of LVL3, what ...
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Thomas Frank – Environmental & Urban Ruminations
Thomas Frank is an artist/activist who creates complex multi-layered paintings that combine research regarding the impact of industrialization on our environment with an alluring and astute formal technique. Earlier this month, The COMP Magazine caught up with Frank to discuss his enduring connection with the Chicagoland region, the ...
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