Gallery Address:
119 N Peoria St, Ste 2A
Chicago, IL 60607 USA
312.480.8390
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Gallery hours:
Wednesdays - Saturdays
11am to 6pm
June 10 to July 15, 2006
Eric Lebofsky
Josh Mannis
William J. O'Brien
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday thru Saturday:12 to 6pm
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Press release below
Chicago artists Eric Lebofsky, Josh Mannis and William J. O'Brien met during graduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and first exhibited their shared themes of outmoded mysticism, twisted psychology and obscure narratives together in a wildly popular three person show at the now-defunct 1/Quarterly Space in 2004. Join us at Western Exhibitions on June 10th when they reunite to debut three large-scale black-and-white prints as well a new individual works. In addition to his signature colored-pencil drawings, Eric Lebofsky will unveil new paintings on panels, Josh Mannis blesses us with two new freak-out videos and color digital collage, and William J. O'Brien, fresh from a solo show at Miami's Locust Projects, exhibits sculpture and drawings.
Eric Lebofsky
Eric Lebofsky's funny, often disturbing drawings and new paintings on panel illustrate systems of classification, cosmologies, psychologies, obscure literature, and a gentle brand of nihilism. These vibrant images, often portraits in profile, are concerned with past, present, and imagined histories. Collectively, the references implied, and the riffs generated, point toward darker uncertainties that are leavened by large doses of twisted, wry humor.Eric Lebofsky has recently had solos shows at Miller Block Gallery in Boston and Sears Peyton Gallery in New York City and has been included in shows at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Deitch Projects and Adam Baumgold Gallery, all in New York, and in Chicago at Corbett vs. Dempsey, 1/Quarterly and the Betty Rymer Gallery. His solo show at Western Exhibitions last summer was reviewed in Art Papers and his artist book from that show "Things to do in Ice Age" was recently acquired by the artist book collection at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.
Josh Mannis
Josh Mannis' videos and photo collages are performance arenas for interior moments of epic scale and a behavioral psychology bounded by misinformed appropriations of high modernist aesthetics, and by a homegrown mash-up of leftist mysticism.Mannis just had a solo show at Small A Projects in Portland, OR and was recently included in a three-person show at Chicago's Bucketrider, and in group shows at El Particular in Mexico City, New Chinatown Barbershop in Los Angeles, the Bemis Art Center in Omaha, NE, 40000 in Chicago and at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh.
William J. O'Brien
William J. O'Brien appropriates design elements and illustration conventions (he left a career in advertising and graphic design to make "fine art") in a myriad of approaches, from drawing to video to sculpture to fiber art to installation, to nurture ideas, both personal and universal, about sexuality, media, identity and other information streams that course through his art and life.
O'Brien has had solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and Locust Projects and Ingalls and Associates, both in Miami. His work has been shown at Nina Menocal Projects in Mexico City, Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland, Gallery 400 in Chicago, IL and Margaret Thatcher Projects, Artist Space, Participant, Inc., all in New York, NY.
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