Monika Plioplyte – Cyclic Pagan Patterns & Universes

One item I am drawn to is direct display and conversation. Monika Plioplyte holds these nonevasive traits in her art practice and the manner in which she carries herself. In recent time, there's been an insistence to avoid frankness and honesty due to our present socio-political milieu. In Plioplyte's ...
December 19, 2022
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Soto & Sullivan – The Franklin

Edra Soto and Dan Sullivan run one of the more unusual and progressive art spaces in Chicago. The Franklin is an outdoor gallery and project space that rests in their backyard. No amenities, just the brisk northen winds to energize an artist's creativity. The COMP Magazine recently visited their ...
February 3, 2015
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Anna Kunz – Invitations & Reflections

Anna Kunz produces experiential works that invite the viewer to immerse her or himself into a space that intersects formal complexity in thoughtful rhythmic arrangements. The COMP Magazine recently visited her East Garfield Park studio to discuss her affinity with performance and painting, the relevance of early 20th c. ...
January 9, 2015
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Meg Duguid – The Entropic Tramp

Meg Duguid is on an epic journey. Using performative practice as foundation while coupling traditional and new strategies of research and art-making, Duguid sifts through historical materials and applies fresh iterations that is often as transient as the roles she takes on in her investigations. The COMP Magazine recently ...
January 5, 2015
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Miguel Cortez – Antena Styled Anarchy

Art spaces and galleries come and go as quickly as the shift from mild autumn to severe winter in Chicago. Antena, directed by Miguel Cortez, appears to have located the pulse of attrition. Offering an eclectic stable of artists who transform Antena into a new media art laboratory; one ...
December 31, 2014
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Iris Bernblum – Power and Play

Iris Bernblum investigates ideas of escape and release in a manner that reminds one of the playfulness of a young child who is simultaneously juggling constructs of normal and abnormal behavior. The Comp Magazine recently visited her studio to discuss the importance of play and why sometimes it's rather ...
November 23, 2014
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Olea Nova – Spontaneous Dialogue

Olea Nova works in a place that references art history and theory while investigating new materials and ideas that reflect her Russian heritage and a painterly sensibility that is remarkably relevant in this day of hyper-technology. The Comp Magazine recently visited Nova's Pilsen studio for a delightful dialogue about ...
November 20, 2014
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