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ANDREW RAFACZ is pleased to announce Psychosexual, curated by Scott J. Hunter, in Gallery One and Gallery Two. Chicago, IL, April 6, 2013– ANDREW RAFACZ continues the spring 2013 season with Psychosexual, curated by Scott J. Hunter. The exhibition includes work by Lutz Bacher, Tom Burr, Edmund Chia, Matthias Dornfeld, Jayson Keeling, Jutta Koether, Nazafarin Lotfi, Jeffry Mitchell, John Neff,...   [more]

Opening: April 6th   4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Artist’s Statement I am a fine arts photographer.  My work explores feminine identity and the passage of time.  My style is characterized by photographing miniature scenes composed of dolls, plaster figures and sculpted forms in large format.  The black and white photographs are tone and sometimes painted.  The affect is surreal and mysterious. “Time and Remembering” is a series of sepia-tone...   [more]

Opening: May 4th   4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art is proud to present The Circus Collages of C.T. McClusky from January 11 - May 25. The opening reception will take place on Friday, January 11 from 5-8pm and is free and open to the public. We know very little of C.T. McClusky's biography except that he worked as a circus clown and spent the winter seasons of 1940-1960 at a boarding house in Oakland,...   [more]

Opening: January 11th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The word "tradition" denotes something that is handed down from the past; it generally implies changelessness and venerability. Nonetheless, the artistic traditions of Japan that are highlighted in this exhibition show another side of things that have been transmitted from the past—that is, their inherent instability. The series of displays in this installation demonstrate how Japanese artists appropriat...   [more]

Sun Choi – Embracing of Mark In my work, I use leftover Han Yak which is still has the nostalgic smell and dried products. The leftover Han Yak's smell is a metaphor for a mom's love that is giving away herself to her love. Another metaphor is the mom's satisfaction of the work she did for her loved one's health. If someone has ever received true love from others, he/she has felt the fulfillme...   [more]

The Chicago Urban Art Society (CUAS), a Pilsen-based not-for-profit exhibition and creative-use space located in the Cermak Creative Industry District presents a new group exhibition entitled MEDLEY: A COLLAGE SHOW.  This group exhibit featuring national and international assemblage artmakers marks the galleries first exhibition of the 2013 year in their 3,000 square foot space.  This event is fre...   [more]

Opening: April 12th   6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Dust in Their Veins A Visual Response to the Global Water Crisis An installation of mixed media art works that bring discussion and action to the plight of women and children who are adversely affected by the lack of rights to clean water – the lack can be due to either the global water crisis or living in conflict areas of the world. Candace Hunter (chlee), concept, is a visual artist based...   [more]

Opening: October 26th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Missouri artist Ronald Clayton has a long history of exhibiting in Chicago, but strikes out in new, more abstracted territory with his body of geometrically grounded oil paintings.t About the artist: Ronald Clayton's work has been a strong pillar of the gallery since the mid 90s, and with this new body of work, the artist pushes his unmistakable and unique style into exciting new territory. C...   [more]

Opening: April 19th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Linstrum, an Atlanta Artist, offers romantic yet disconcerting images of nature in his visceral, mixed media paintings.   [more]

Opening: April 19th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Aspect Ratio is pleased to present, The Breath We Took, an exhibition of new work by Chelsea Knight. With The Breath We Took, Chelsea Knight continues her exploration of combining documentary, biography, and fiction to examine contemporary society. Knight focuses her lens on the ways motherhood becomes a constructed performance that follows societal norms and practices. The video is a collaboration...   [more]

Iceberg Projects is pleased to present XXXXXX, a solo exhibition featuring the work of New York–based artist Abigail DeVille (b. 1981, New York City). Marking the first time the artist’s work will be seen in Chicago, XXXXXX will feature a new site–specific installation using scavenged materials and created on location at Iceberg Projects’ Rogers Park gallery in the weeks leading up to the exhib...   [more]

Opening: April 13th   1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

In Gallery Y, Thornton's “The Land Between Solar Systems” mines the breadth of digital advancement for signifiers that have been lost in the shuffle. It's clear that the digital age has changed the way that we experience the world, and Hollis Brown Thornton finds within this constantly developing dialogue a catalyst for artistic investigation. Thornton looks to the experiences of his generation --th...   [more]

Opening: April 12th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

In Gallery X, Waldo extols ordinary icons in his exhibition, “I'll Never Say Never to Always.” Jon Waldo looks to multiple sources for his iconic, nostalgic imagery from within the language of the ordinary. “I’ll Never Say Never to Always” is chock-full of familiar, kitsch symbolism. Motorcycles, automobiles and engines are surrounded by radiating, multicolored lines, glowing like neon s...   [more]

Opening: April 12th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Karthik Pandian's Reversal (2013) is an image and sound installation for a completely darkened room delineated by a grey theatrical curtain and consisting of a 65" plasma monitor and 6 speakers. The piece is composed of 113 still images that Karthik Pandian shot on dead stock Agfa Scala 200X 35mm black and white slide film. The stills are cycled in an aleatory mode by a custom computer program th...   [more]

Opening: March 16th   4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Exhibited concurrently with Sol LeWitt: Concrete Block Structure is the solo exhibition Fred Sandback: Sculptures. In 1986 Sandback, in looking back over twenty years of a consistent art practice, wrote "The first sculpture I made with a piece of string and a little wire was the outline of a rectangular solid . . . lying on the floor. It was a casual act, but it seemed to open up a lot of possibiliti...   [more]

Opening: April 26th   5:00 PM - 7:30 PM