WestTown Gallery Network 2nd inaugural Gallery HOP

WestTown Gallery Network presents the second-biannual "The WestTown Gallery Hop"

Saturday, May 6, 2006
12 to 6pm

Win an Alex Jovanovich drawing during the WestTown Gallery Hop

On Saturday, May 6, the galleries of the WestTown Gallery Network open their doors for their second daylong gallery walk, or "hop."

Viewers who visit all six galleries on the day of this season's gallery hop, Saturday, May 6, will be eligible to participate in a raffle to win an artwork by Alex Jovanovich.

Start on the southern edge of the Network at Lisa Boyle Gallery and Western Exhibitions early in the afternoon for treats, then work your way to Booster and Seven, Corbett vs. Dempsey, and 40000, and end up at Fraction Workspace for the raffle at 5:30pm. At each stop, get each gallery's stamp on your WestTown Gallery Map and present the map to Dov or Clare at Fraction Workspace for your chance to win the Jovanovich artwork.

For the Spring 2006 season, WestTown Gallery Network invited Chicago artist Alex Jovanovich, who shows with Fraction Workspace, to design our map. WGN publishes two maps a year, for the Spring and Fall gallery season. This foldout brochure contains a schedule of exhibitions for each gallery and a re-interpretation of the WestTown Gallery Network map by the artist that WGN commissions. WGN then offers, by raffle, a piece of artwork by that artist during that season's WGN gallery hop.

Alex Jovanovich
"Lavender Cobweb"

What's on view at each gallery? See below and visit each gallery's website:

Lisa Boyle Gallery
Amy Jean Porter
www.boylegallery.com

Western Exhibitions
Pedro Velez
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Matthew Northridge
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Carroll & Gaydos
www.westernexhibitions.com

Corbet vs. Dempsey
Margot Berman
www.corbettvsdempsey.com

Booster and Seven
J. Patrick Walsh III
www.boosterandseven.com

40000
David Michael Coyle
www.gallery40000.com

Fraction Workspace
Jungle Tender:
Lauren F Adams
Stacey L Kirby
www.fractionworkspace.org

The WestTown Gallery Network is a consortium of commercial and non-profit visual art exhibition spaces located in the West Town neighborhoods (Wicker Park, East Village, Bucktown, Kinzie Industrial Corridor) of Chicago whose goal is to consolidate a new gallery district for Chicago art enthusiasts. This collaboration will support simultaneous openings and closing receptions, publishing a biannual brochure desgined by a local artist with our schedules and a maps, group promotion both locally and nationally and adding another art destination to Chicago's rich visual arts tapestry.