Monica Rezman – A Persistent Winding Path
Initially trained in a traditional atelier format, artist Monica Rezman takes a nod from formal aesthetic investigations that found roots in the early 20th century while simultaneously staying current with ongoing current advancements in artistic production. Her artwork melds and transforms hair, cardboard, traditional media, and formal analysis to ...
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Cody Tumblin – Nourishing Lambent Visual Provisions
When one considers the aesthetic practice of Cody Tumblin, they might envision an individual who is part alchemist and part cuisinier with one foot in the kitchen while the other firmly planted in the studio. In recent time, Tumblin has produced a handful of curious visual and culinary presentations ...
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Zachary Cahill – Contemplating & In Search of the Divine
With the release of his recent novel, The Black Flame of Paradise, and an invested art practice, Zachary Cahill has located an aesthetic voice that combines thoughtful analysis with an in-studio physicality that clearly reflects the relationary content that defines our current milieu. Though, upon initial encounter with Cahill's ...
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Allison L. Wade – Transformations of Language Into Form
With a background in literature, Allison L. Wade has been carving out a visual vocabulary that references past and present experience while simultaneously establishing a consistent aesthetic vocabulary that explores contemporary tenets of abstraction. This can be seen in her recent exhibitions here in Chicago at Devening Projects, in ...
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Ali Seradge – Synthetic Fables & Unorthodox Narratives
In his fascination with non-traditional materials, the intersection of American and Middle-Eastern fables, and a willingness to upend long-standing histories, Ali Seradge offers a fresh look at how one interprets past narratives while being firmly placed in the present. On one level, Seradge's creations are clearly jolie laide, even ...
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Orkideh Torabi – Revisiting Male Dominated Narratives
In examining historical narrative paintings, Persian culture, and her personal life experience, Iranian artist Orkideh Torabi crafts fascinating sardonic tales that comment on our male dominated world. Recently, Torabi presented a series of these works at the Weinberg/Newton Gallery in River North. This week the COMP Magazine headed up ...
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Hương Ngô – Reflecting Winds of Perception & Change
In a highly charged political landscape where immigration and other recurring social issues have divided our country, Hương Ngô examines these topics with subtlety and depth that can only be achieved through intimate experience. Ngô's Reap the Whirlwind is currently on view at Aspect/Ratio Projects through October 20, 2018. ...
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Susan Giles – Translating Hand Gestures & Space
Currently, on view at the Chicago Cultural Center is a mammoth work produced by Susan Giles. This piece, "A Large Reference Corral..." is the culmination of extensive research, adept skill in translating precise details at various sizes, unequalled patience, and an ability to realize a vision that extends beyond ...
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Jeff Carter – Functional Formats of Occupying
Currently, Jeff Carter, along with Susan Giles and Faheem Majeed, is presenting works in Tuned Mass at the Chicago Cultural Center through January 6, 2019. Carter's aesthetic practice merges his interest in early 20th c. Modernism with ideas that address our mass consumer culture, polarizing political commentary, and a ...
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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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