Olivia Zubko – Lifecycles of Objects & Belongings
In this post-pandemic period there are those who located the relevance of family, the importance of (often overlooked) quotidian art approaches, and how to stay busy. Olivia Zubko is one such artist. What is even more appealing is how, in youth, she is expanding dialogues in contemporary ceramics. This ...
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Unyimeabasi Udoh – Medium-Agnostic in Image & Text
There is clear evidence that Unyimeabasi Udoh understands the interrelation of image + text + language and the implications that ensue. From a seemingly simplistic use of appropriation in typographic selection to needlework that draws upon intimate scale and tactile experience, Udoh's communications are fluid, free, open ended, and, ...
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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 ...
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Nic Eckmayer – Perfect Imperfections in Stoneware
Nic Eckmayer explores a marginally tapped area of beauty through ceramics and sculpture in a process that is informed by eastern arts, natural materials, and a controlled level of chance. The artworks straddle utilitarian and fine arts strategies to produce imperfect, yet visually provocative, tactile objects. This week The ...
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Todd Reed – Polished Mechanised Optical Recall
The DNA makeup of Todd Reed must be a most fascinating study. His background should indicate anything but a life as an artist in pursuit of heady investigations that straddle art and science. The cool polished artworks Reed produces utilise analytical and formal strategies that are more often realized ...
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Jeffrey Grauel – Life Cycles: Antiquated Patterns to Funerary Wreaths
Having been raised out west in the 1970s in a family where arts and crafts activities were common, it is not entirely surprising that Jeffrey Grauel's aesthetic practice uses materials often aligned with this time period. What becomes fascinating is how and why Grauel, while working today with seemingly ...
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Todd Mattei – Highly Reactive Introspection
Todd Mattei's means for circumventing sonic and visual strategies during a period of life in transition reminds of the sweeping force we each encounter as creatives during fractured unpredictable moments. There is a clear sensitivity to his practice. This can be seen in the diverse array of art/music collaborations ...
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NADA Art Fair 2019 – A Short Writing & Photo Review
NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance) Art Fair 2019Chicago Athletic Association Hotel 12 S Michigan AvenueChicago, IL 60603Wednesday, September 18 through Saturday, September 21, 2019NADA - https://www.newartdealers.orgNADA is a nomad in the art fair universe. The New Art Dealers Alliance is an array of loosely knitted galleries known for showing new ...
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Elana Marte Adler – Exploring Transferential Colors, Forms & Structures
In part, Elana Marte Adler appears to be on a quest to translate interpretations that can be personal and illusory into sonic and visual form. Working in a variety of conceptual strategies and new to long-standing mediums, Adler's output holds a consistency, though at times fluid, that draws upon ...
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Roni Packer – Interpreting Obsessive Moments in Yellow
Chicago is most fortunate to have the ability to draw from creative spirits from close and far. Today, the city continues to be an international arts destination (regardless of your stance, the city is preparing for Expo 2019, the annual international art fair later the month). The ongoing influence ...
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