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 ...
July 18, 2016
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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 ...
May 5, 2016
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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 ...
April 29, 2016
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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 ...
March 15, 2016
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MoCP at 40

MoCP at 40 January 28 – April 10, 2016 Museum of Contemporary Photography Columbia College Chicago 600 South Michigan Chicago, Illinois 60605 I experienced a slight state of Stendhal syndrome upon viewing the MoCP's exhibition inaugurating its fortieth anniversary. Having worked at the museum while studying at Columbia College Chicago in the mid-1990s, I was ...
February 16, 2016
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Serhii Chrucky – Operating Principles or Programmatic Intent

Locating and analyzing patterns, shifts, and signifiers in our architectural and visual culture through serious contemplation and research is central to the ongoing photographic work of Serhii Chrucky. The COMP magazine caught up last month with Chrucky to discuss his affection for the city's architectural and photographic history, the ...
December 14, 2015
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Jennifer Greenburg – Revisiting Vernacular Contributions

Cultivating a chameleon like persona as author, subject and photographer, Jennifer Greenburg has created a sustained practice that offers revamped insight into varied American subcultures and popular myths. This fall, The COMP Magazine visited Greenburg at her Northside studio to discuss her long relationship with the city of ...
October 27, 2015
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Nancy Fewkes – Notes Along a Shallow Margin

Working over the past year southwest of Peoria, Illinois at Spring Lake, Nancy Fewkes has produced a body of work that enlists research practices similar to those found in scientific discovery coupled with a gentle attention focused upon the mundane subtleties one can encounter while trekking through isolated place. ...
October 15, 2015
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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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Jerry Cargill – Analog to Digital Transitions

Working with 19th century processes, Holga cameras, digital technology, and traditional photographic investigations, Jerry Cargill continues to investigate a medium in transition from analog to digital. The COMP Magazine recently sat down with Cargill in Logan's Square to discuss why photography holds such strong affinities with experimentation, what he ...
May 7, 2015
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