Matthew Bandsuch – Isolated Aesthetic Excavations

Working in isolation for roughly 20 years, Matthew Bandsuch has focused his studio practice on translating an understanding of carbon-based materials into visual representations. In this, Bandsuch works with foundations of drawing to create a long form series of works that takes on a physical manifestation through layering of ...
June 8, 2023
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Milo Christie – Retroreflective Pseudo Volumetric

One of the most remarkable times to make art is in youth. An undefinable raw freedom and fluid yet erratic approach can give rise to something unknown, potentially something the audience (and artist) struggles to identify by name. In the seemingly disjointed visual vocabulary of Milo Christie there appears ...
March 30, 2023
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Millicent Kennedy – Ephemera, Labor & Stories About People

In youth, during summers, Millicent Kennedy would travel north from Mississippi to study drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She fell in love with the city, and now calls it home after studies at regional universities. Currently, Kennedy is the Curator of Exhibitions ...
March 25, 2023
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Sam Jaffe – Pattern-Based Dizzying Effect

For over a decade Sam Jaffe has been producing visually sensuous artworks that track contemporary colour representation via fashion and popular culture. Jaffe's process is a combination of tracking mainstream usage of colour, recycling of materials, and spontaneity. The completed works often play with one's vision to dizzying effect ...
March 10, 2023
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Kelly Reaves – Intuition, Meditation & Exorcising Demons

As a talented painter, musician, and writer, Kelly Reaves has traversed a variety of creative fringe microcosms since arriving in Chicago from Florida in the early 2000s. In her portrayal of moments of intense ecstasy to an intimate embrace there has been a consistent adept fluidity in her ...
February 28, 2023
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Zehra Khan – Meditative Masks, Curious Quilts & Engaging Travels

Zehra Khan exudes a graceful efficacious energy and an engagement with life rarely encountered. Her unique background coupled with an outlander sensibility can be seen clearly in the visual materials she produces. This week, The COMP Magazine headed up to Sheridan Park to discuss with Khan her recent artist ...
November 4, 2021
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