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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Kerry James Marshall: Mastry – A Dialogue in Review
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry
April 23, 2016 through September 25, 2016
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611
Kerry James Marshall has been on my radar since my arrival to Chicago in 1993. He's always loomed large and his current exhibition Kerry James Marshall: Mastry at the MCA echoes ...
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ACEN: Anime Central Midwest 2016 Review
ACEN: Anime Central Midwest 2016 Review
The Midwest Anime & Manga Convention
Rosemont, Illinois
May 20, 2016 - May 22, 2016
There was a full-tilt playful naughtiness into the wee hours of the night as Naruto Uzumaki, Mirajane Strauss, Black Jack, Super Mario, Link, Monkey D. Luffy, Rias Gremory, Edward Elric, Akame and ...
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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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C2E2 2016 – In Review
C2E2 (Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo)
McCormick Place
Chicago, IL
March 18-20, 2016
Since 2010, some locals will agree that the beginning of spring is marked by the opening of C2E2 (Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo). There is a breaking in the weather and a bit more sunshine, lost time from those late ...
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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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