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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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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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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Jaime Foster – Telluris Corda, Hearts of the Earth
Jaime Foster
Telluris Corda, Hearts of the Earth
February 1 - February 26, 2016
Public reception: Thursday, February 4, 6:30-9:00pm
The University of St. Francis Gallery
25 East Van Buren
Joliet, Illinois 60432
Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday, 10am-2pm
Telluris Corda, Hearts of the Earth is a solo exhibition featuring the work of artist Jaime Foster, a self ...
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MCA Chicago – DEBUTS NEW VISUAL IDENTITY
MCA Chicago
220 E Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
Web: https://mcachicago.org/Home
MCA DEBUTS NEW VISUAL IDENTITY
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announces the launch of its new visual identity, developed by internationally renowned design studio Mevis & Van Deursen (MVD). The design includes the MCA’s typeface and logo, and is reflected in the ...
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William Conger – Constructing Multi-Layered Ambiguity
Chicago has been described as a tough place to live. For far too many, the city symbolizes corruption, segregated communities and violence. However, on rare occasions there is that anomaly that holds a deep connection and fascination with Chicago's art community and history. Aside from university studies in New ...
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Dan Devening – Manifestations of How and Why We Look
Through a measured and thoughtful sophistication, Dan Devening has maintained a pivotal position in the Chicago art community (and beyond) for a number of years. Since arriving in the city in 1980, Devening has participated in seminal art exhibitions at top tier institutions and directed one of the city's ...
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Andrei Rabodzeenko – Technotropic Romance & Other Works
Working in an array of styles that utilize classical medieval traditions to hyper-modern aesthetics and technology, Andrei Rabodzeenko cultivates an intricate cosmology that navigates abstraction to narrative driven dialogues in his contemporary art practice. The work is densely layered, meticulously polished, and quite beautiful. The COMP Magazine recently caught ...
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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 ...
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