Moholy-Nagy: Future Present @ AIC
Moholy-Nagy: Future Present
September 30, 2016 through January 3, 2017
The Art Institute of Chicago
Regenstein Hall
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603
When I was first introduced to László Moholy-Nagy in the late 1980s I struggled to get my mind around the theories he explored and his use of nontraditional materials. In ...
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Expo Chicago 2016 – A Reflection & Couple Questions
Expo Chicago 2016
THE INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION OF CONTEMPORARY & MODERN ART
CHICAGO | NAVY PIER
September 13-16, 2016
A Reflection & Couple Questions
Art fairs in most cases tend to reside in a similar space. The focus is upon commerce, being seen, wining and dining, and other related activities that I tend to lack ...
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Alison Ruttan – Investigating Instinct & Aggression
Utilizing strategies often attributed to social scientists, Alison Ruttan investigates characteristics of human behavior through insightful works that reveal our propensity with aggression which is evolving at an alarmingly escalating pace. Recently, The COMP Magazine visited Ruttan at her Oak Park studio to discuss her exploratory use of ...
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Damon Locks – Exploring Sound & the Urban Scene
For almost 30 years, Damon Locks has been a consummate artist and musician that continues to explore sound and urban visual aesthetics via his personal investigations and working with a wide range of talented individuals. While visitings Locks' Logan Square studio recently, The COMP Magazine had the opportunity to ...
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Anya Davidson – Cultivating Freedom in Failure
Whether instigating chaos at a local DIY Noise concert or drawing comics with live raccoons wandering about in the next room in Chicago's west Pilsen neighborhood, Anya Davidson has carved out an unmistakable voice that is fiercely brazen, darkly humorous, and reminiscent of a long lineage of significant comics ...
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Alice Q. Hargrave – Memories & the Natural World
Immersing herself in a deep contemplative aesthetic practice focused upon our ever-shifting environment, Alice Q. Hargrave has been producing thoughtful photographs that offer lush, color-soaked and attentive meditations for the better part of 30 years. This week, The COMP Magazine visited Hargrave's expansive and highly organized Bucktown studio to ...
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Alan D. Caesar – Touring Destroit with Rena Rouge
Chicago artists hold a long history in touring imaginative worlds within the mind and then translating these experiences into visually intoxicating materials. Visionary sojourns have surfaced in the art of Henry Darger, Lee Godie, the Hairy Who and a litany of other innovative artists working in sublime territory that ...
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Tony Fitzpatrick: The Secret Birds @ DePaul Art Museum
Tony Fitzpatrick: The Secret Birds
May 12, 2016 - August 21, 2016
DePaul Art Museum
935 West Fullerton
Chicago, Illinois, 60614
Tony Fitzpatrick was one of the first guys I met in 1993 when I arrived in Chicago. I remember this encounter well for Jesse Bercowetz and I had created an atrociously grotesque 13 ...
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CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo) 2016 in Review
CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo)
June 11-12, 2016
The Center on Halsted
3656 N Halsted Street
Chicago, IL 60613
Though the tragic events in Orlando could be heard being discussed in the aisles at this year's event, there was a sense of victory felt throughout the expo. Once again, CAKE offered a broad ...
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Andreas Fischer – Negotiating Function & Representation
Drawing from ephemeral experiences and shifting mythologies in contemporary society, Andreas Fischer creates thoughtfully precise, yet spontaneous, artworks that negotiate his place in the world. Recently, The COMP Magazine visited Fischer's west Fulton street studio to discuss our common early experiences, his passion for cycling, his role as an ...
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