Michelle Keim – Beauty, Power and Masculinity

There is a definitive importance in embedding oneself in subject as an artist and photographer. This does not only create ideal image making opportunities, but cultivates a relationship that produces a clear level of authenticity. For the better part of 20 years, Michelle Keim has done just this as ...
September 8, 2015
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Steve Sherrell – The Referential Painter

Steve Sherrell has worked as an artist and educator for over 40 years. As he begins his final semester as a full-time Professor of Art at Joliet Junior College, we have the opportunity to look at this consummate practitioner and reflect upon his influence on generations of Joliet area ...
August 16, 2015
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Roxane Legenstein – From Chicago to Wienerwald

Roxane Legenstein is the quintessential itinerant artist. Having traveled, worked and lived in a variety of cities, Legenstein has created opportunities to produce specific artwork for exhibitions in Austria, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States. In addition, as an educator, Legenstein has utilized this journey to introduce her students ...
July 29, 2015
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Corey Postiglione – The Minimalist’s Tango

Chicago has a curious, almost smug, attitude toward abstract art. Simply put, the city is totted as a bastion for narrative driven fine art. For some, the aesthetic practices of the Hairy Who and Chicago Imagists (dating back to the late 1960s) still rule the roost. Nevertheless, there have ...
July 9, 2015
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CAKE 2015 – Chicago Alternative Comics Expo

In a few short weeks, Chicago will host one of the most curious and salivating of events in the Chicago Art calendar. This year's CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo) looks to be the most exciting one to date with a range of local talent to alternative comic's icons, including ...
May 14, 2015
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Kathie Shaw – Recurring Warning Signs

A central focus of the work of Kathie Shaw looks at our relationship to each other and our environment. Shaw's paintings reside in a space between realism and abstraction, and are influenced by her relationship with Tibetan Buddhism, architectural studies, and ongoing photography investigations. The COMP Magazine recently visited ...
April 30, 2015
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Dan Luedtke – Ideas of Dissidence, Difference & Negativity

We live in a society that amplifies and divides its' population into varied, and at times extreme, political, religious and socially defined ideological tribes. Artist and activist Dan Luedtke works in a realm that challenges the concepts of stable identity formations in his sonic and visual art practice. Recently, ...
April 18, 2015
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Anthony Musiala – Talks Minty Fresh

Anthony Musiala has been working in the music industry for over two decades. As Managing Director of the Minty Fresh record label he has collaborated with numerous exciting talents from around the globe. Recently, USF brought Anthony in to redefine the sound and image of WCSF 88.7FM. The COMP ...
March 28, 2015
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Nathan Mason – Curating, Slabbies, & Squeezimals

Nathan Mason navigates curatorial practice for the Chicago Cultural Center while maintaining healthy investigations in ceramics and decorative arts. In a recent visit to his Ravenswood studio, The COMP Magazine looked at and discussed his ongoing organic figurative ceramic works, strategies for working with area artists on public exhibitions, ...
March 10, 2015
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Potter & Puckett – Seeds InService

Melissa Potter and Maggie Puckett work in a terrain that cultivates socially conscious art in an environmental and eco-feminist dialogue. The COMP Magazine recently visited these artists at the Center for Book & Paper Arts for a discussion on using organic materials to create handmade paper, seed saving, contributing ...
February 24, 2015
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