Gallery
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119 N Peoria St, #2A
Chicago, IL 60607
312.480.8390
Gallery hours:
Wednesdays - Saturdays
11am to 6pm
Fall 2010 at Western Exhibitions | A PreviewSeptember 10 to October 9, 2010
Gallery 1: BEN STONE
Ben Stone continues his transformations of two-dimensional images from popular sources into compelling and uncanny three-dimensional forms with six new sculptures that investigate criminal impulses and strange energies. Subjects include the attack of a Kansas City Royals baseball coach by drunken White Sox fans, Team Rocket from the Pokémon animated series; the anachronistic criminal found on neighborhood watch signs, Abraham Lincoln's relationship with the Chicago Bears and a five-foot tall elephant made of coils of rope. Full press release here
Gallery 2: JOEY FAUERSO
Joey Fauerso will show two videos and figurative watercolors on paper that combine landscapes and figures, exploring grey areas between fantasy and reality and challenging notions of the "erotic landscape". "Me Time" is an eight-minute video showing Fauerso making out with a series of puppets. In "Clearing", Fauerso plays a flute in the forest, seducing a young naked man who twirls around until he collapses, while flocks of animated birds fly overhead. Full press release here
October 15 to November 13, 2010
Gallery 1 + 2: MILLER & SHELLABARGER
Miller & Shellabarger will show work from several inter-related projects: two new series of silhouettes, one where their beards are conjoined and the other where larger-than-life, full-body images take advantage of how light and shadow distort the human figure in silhouette; a twin set of pillowcases, each monogrammed with their initials using hair from their beards as thread; body outline drawings made from gunpowder; embossed lead portraits; and images and objects from a recent performance, "Untitled (Pyre)", where they found two naturally fallen, moderately sized trees in the forest, chopped and sawed them into fireplace-sized pieces, stacked the pieces into roughly human sized forms and burned the resulting pyres at dusk.
November 4-7, 2010 (Art Fair)
EDITIONS | ARTIST BOOKS 10548 West 22nd Street (Housed in the former Dia / X Initiative space)New York, New York
Western Exhibitions will present editions by Dan Attoe, Miller & Shellabarger, Paul Nudd & Onsmith, Rachel Niffenegger, Joe Hardesty and Richard Hull, and artist books by Deb Sokolow, Miller & Shellabarger, Andy Moore, Nicholas Frank and more.
More here: http://www.eabfair.com/
November 19 to December 31, 2010
Gallery 1: DEB SOKOLOW
Sokolow is currently at work writing a series of disparate chapters on everything from architectural oddities and conspiracy theories to manners and food for a book that will never fully exist. The implication of an overarching narrative, meta-narrative moments and the voice of Sokolow's unreliable protagonist, though, are the common threads among these non-sequential chapters as is her decision to handwrite each chapter onto a singular, same-sized paper page. All drafts, erasures and revisions are layered onto the page so that this page, when finished, will represent a complete visual record of the chapter's writing process. And each chapter's text will be accompanied by various supporting visuals such as architectural renderings, maquettes, books, binders, painted collages and other objects.
Gallery 2: "The Power of Selection, part 3" curated by Ryan Travis Christian
The Power of Selection Part 3 is the third in a series of three shows curated by Ryan Travis Christian for Western Exhibitions. Christian, who writes for Fecalface.com, Beautiful Decay and selects an Artist of the Day, each and every day on his Facebook page, has organized these shows, the first in January, the second in June and the third here in November, to increase the circulation of contemporary artwork seen in Chicago by showing works from out of town and/or up-and-coming artists. Artists in this salon-style blow-out include Michelle Blade, Louisa Chase, Chris Duncan, Joseph Hart, Maya Hayuk, Matt Irie, Jason Jagel, Michael Kreuger, Matt Lock, Alex Lukas, Bill McRight, Frankie Martin, Eddie Martinez, Kristine Moran, Erin Morrison, Sarah Mosk, Jeanette Mundt, Aaron Noble, Marcie Oakes, Maggie Otero, Mathew Palladino, Hilary Pecis, Cleon Peterson, Brion Nuda Rosch, Kate Ruggeri, Jovi Schnell, Andrew Schoultz, Eric Shaw, Marissa Textor, Ann Toebbe, Sumi Ink Club, Chuck Webster, Ryan Wallace. (This is a partial list).
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