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 ...
November 8, 2018
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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 ...
September 28, 2018
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Three Graces: Glass-Sula, Denault & McWilliams @ USF

Three Graces: Glass-Sula, Denault & McWilliams On Exhibit: January 30 - February 24, 2017 Artist Reception: February 2, 2017, 6-8pm MARGIE GLASS SULA Margie Glass Sula has an M.A. in Painting and Drawing from Governors State University and has worked in traditional gallery settings, as well as outdoors, creating public installation ...
February 21, 2017
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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 ...
October 7, 2016
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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 ...
September 16, 2016
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Victoria Fuller – Strategies of Power Play

Working with found objects, industrial materials, and traditional media, Victoria Fuller has been creating attentive and mischievous installations and sculptures that investigate issues of power, environmental concerns, and current strategies in appropriation for over two decades. Last month The COMP Magazine visited Fuller's West Hubbard Street studio to discuss ...
July 8, 2016
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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 ...
August 10, 2015
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Carol Jackson – Epic Americana

Carol Jackson has worked in Chicago for almost two decades while navigating epic literature, industrial age americana, and the idea that "the future belongs to ghosts". Jackson recently exhibited work in the highly prestigious Whitney Biennial in NYC and at Chicago's Threewalls Gallery. The Comp Magazine caught up with ...
October 21, 2014
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