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WESTERN EXHIBITIONS newlsetter, Spring 2010
IN THE GALLERY
Continuing through May 1st in both galleries, RICHARD HULL Images, info and press here SATURDAY, MAY 1, Western Exhibitions will stay open late as part of Chicago Gallery News Gallery District Party, 6 to 9pm. FREE trolleys will circulate from Art Chicago/Merchandise Mart to the West Loop and River North gallery districts. More info here Next show, opening Saturday, May 8, press release here In Gallery 1: JOHN PAROT
In Gallery 2: RACHEL NIFFENEGGERWesternXeditions, the artist books and multiples wing of Western Exhibitions, has a fully updated website -- new prints by Dan ATTOE and NIFFENEGGER/TINDER
-- artist books by Stan SHELLABARGER, Deb SOKOLOW and Dutes MILLER
-- multiples by Vincent COMO, zines by Terence HANNUM, and much, much more.
-- WesternXeditions also is now the exclusive West Loop distributor of BEAUTIFUL/DECAY, featuring John PAROT and Terence HANNUMWestern Exhibitions to participate in the November 2010 EDITIONS | ARTISTS BOOKS art fair in NYC E|AB ’10 will take place at 548 West 22nd Street (former Dia space /former X Initiative). More here GALLERY ARTIST NEWS
JOHN PAROT on Bravo’s new series “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist”
Be sure to watch the premiere on June 9th. Check out his bio page hereOther John Parot news Group show – "Let There Be Geo" at A+D Gallery, Feb-Apr 2010
Reproduction -- BEAUTIFUL/DECAY magazineWestern Exhibitions now represents DEB SOKOLOW. See her work here Other Deb Sokolow news Commissioned comic strip for Creative Time
Commissioned work in “Production Site” on view until May 30th at The Museum of Contemporary Art, ChicagoReviews for "Production Site":
Gaper's Block
CS
Artforum.com
Feature– Flavorwire
Group show – PAPER AWSOME! At Baer Ridgway in San Francisco
UPCOMING
Residency – Art Omi in Summer 2010
SOLO show – Western Exhibitions, November 2010RICHARD HULL’s first solo show with Western Exhibitions up now until May 1st. See images here Reviews:
Artslant
Chicago Art Magazine
New City
Flavorpill
Huffington PostOther Richard Hull news Feature – Analysis of “Sleeping is Believing”, a painting in the collection of the Museum Of Contemporary Art in Chicago, by Dominic Molon, curator at the MCA Group show – Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper at the Art Institute of Chicago
Group show – The Francis and June Spiezer Collection at the Rockford Art MuseumMILLER & SHELLABARGER’s “Untitled Cameo (Beards in a Braid)” was acquired by The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas from Western Exhibitions at the 2009 NADA Art Fair Other Miller & Shellabarger news SOLO show – “Dolos”, Gallery Diet, Miami, Florida, September 2009
Review – Miami New Times
Performance – Untitled (Pink Tube) at Chicago Cultural Center on September 27
Feature – Fiber Arts magazine
Award – Miller & Shellabarger win 2008 Artadia award
UPCOMING
Performance -- Untitled (Pyres), Sawyer, Michigan (details will be forthcoming), Summer 2010
Show/Residency -- Summer Studio, Sullivan Galleries at SAIC, Chicago, Summer 2010
Group show – Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine, September 2010, "Mind Bending With The Mundane", curated by Adriane Herman, featuring the first North American performance of Graves
Performance – Time-Based Art Festival, Portland, Oregon, September 2010
SOLO show – Western Exhibitions, October 2010NICHOLAS FRANK’s work was shown in “Picturing the Studio”
curated by Michelle Grabner and Annika Marie at the Sullivan Galleries, SAIC, ChicagoOther Nicholas Frank news SOLO show –“Reality, whatever that is” at Western Exhibitions, Nov-Dec 2009
Review – New City
Review – Chicago Art Magazine
Review – ArtWrit
Group show – “Wisconsin Triennial 2010” at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
SOLO show – “Nicholas FrankNARRATOR”, at Green Gallery in Milwaukee
UPCOMING
SOLO show – the Poor Farm in Manawa, Wisconsin, Summer 2010STAN SHELLABARGER Vernal Equinox Walking Performance
March 20, 2010. Shellabarger walked from the length of Chicago Avenue from sunrise to sunsetOther Stan Shellabarger news Group show –images from his first-ever walking performance, "One Year Circle, Easton, Maine", 1993, will be included in a group show at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMAC) in Nice, France, this summer, alongside performance luminaries Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, Valie Export, Paul McCarthy, among others
SOLO show – Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Feature – Chicago Magazine
Group show – “Cage and Cunningham: Chance, Time, and Concept in the Visual Arts”, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin
Review – The Badger HeraldGEOFFREY TODD SMITH featured in a solo booth by Western Exhibitions at the 2009 NADA Art Fair in Miami Beach, Florida Other Geoffrey Todd Smith news Group show – "Let There Be Geo" at A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago
Group show – PAPER AWSOME! At Baer Ridgway in San Francisco:
SOLO show – Western Exhibitions, May 2009
Review – New City
Interview – Chicagoist
Review – Huffington Post
Review – Chicago Art ReviewUPCOMING
Group show – Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Summer 2010DAN ATTOE new book, "I MADE MOST OF THIS SHIT UP" now available at WesternXeditions Other Dan Attoe news Group show – "Access All Areas" curated by Arturo Herrera at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin
SOLO show – " Simple Thoughts and Complicated Animals" at Peres Projects Berlin
SOLO show – Western Exhibitions, September 2009
Review – New City
Group show – “Point to one end, which is always present” Small A Projects, New York, NY
Group show –"All Creatures Great and Small", Curated by Maria Brewin´ska, Zacheta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Performance – "PAINTALLICA", hosted by Country Club Los Angeles, August 2009PEDRO VELEZ' new banner "Can We Trust Powhida" Other Pedro Velez news Interview – in the Chicago blog by Whitney Stoepel
SOLO show – “The Day of the Corrupt: Our Father’s left US shit” Western Exhibitions, 2009
Review – New City
Review – Time Out ChicagoMELISSA ORESKY's "Mineral Fabric" featured on Chicago Art Review Other Melissa Oresky news Group show – “Objective: Abstraction”, curated by Scott Grow, at Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN,
December 3rd 2010 - January 15th 2011.
Interview – MW Capacity
SOLO show – “Wildness of Edges” at Western Exhibitions, October 2009
Review – Chicago Art Review
Group show – "On Paper: Felix Malnig, Robyn O’Neil, Melissa Oresky, Claire Sherman", Galhberg Gallery at the College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
UPCOMING
Residency – Santa Fe Art Institute, Summer 2010
SOLO show – Elmhurst Art Museum, 2011JOE HARDESTY in “Zeigen”, curated by Karin Sander at the Temporary Kunsthalle in Berlin Other Joe Hardesty news SOLO show – Western Exhibitions, Nov-Dec 2009
Review – Artnet
Group show – "Access All Areas" curated by Arturo Herrera at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin
Feature – Hardesty’ greybows on thefanzine.
Reproduction –Heroes of Today (catalog). Kerber Artbooks, publisherCheck out BEN STONE’s new website: http://www.marriedbyrobot.com/artwork.html Other Ben Stone news: SOLO show -- Western Exhibitions, September 2010 PAUL NUDD was included in the book New Ornamental Type: Decorative Lettering in the Digital Age Other Paul Nudd news Interview – Chicago Arts
SOLO show – “Vomitomitron”, Western Exhibitions, September 2009
Review – Chicago Art Review
Review – Bad at Sports
Review – Huffington PostDUTES MILLER solo show "The Ecstasyist" reviewed on ARTFORUM.COM Other Dutes Miller news Group show – "Love & Theft" at White Flag Projects in St. Louis, January 9 to February 13, 2010
Review – St. Louis Beacon
Review – West End World
Review – Chicago Art Review. “Top Five Shows of the Year That I Went To”
SOLO show – “The Ecstasyist”, Western Exhibitions, Summer 2009
Profile – New CityERIC LEBOFSKY in 50 Alderman / 50 Artists Press for 50 Alderman / 50 Artists: New York Times
WGN Radio, Interview with Steve Bertrand, March 19
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Mag.comOther Eric Lebofsky news Collection – The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas acquired Lebofksy’s painting “Fusion Guitarist” from Western Exhibitions at the 2009 NADA Art Fair
SOLO show – “Superfreaks”, Western Exhibitions, October 2009
Blog – Eric Lebofsky’s daily posting of Superfreaks, a year long project
Interview – What to Wear During an Orange Alert
Interview – Chicagoist
Review – Chicago Art ReviewInstallation pics of JIMMY BAKER's show "Event Horizon" in January at New Galerie de France in Paris: Other Jimmy Baker news Group show – “Baker, Braunig, Gokita, Hopkins”, Foxy Production, through May 1st.
Group show – The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place , Zabludowicz Collection, thru May 9
UPCOMING
SOLO show –Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, December 2010 - April 2011MARK WAGNER, in "Size Does Matter", curated by Shaquille O'Neal at Flag Art Foundation. Reviewed in artnet
Other Mark Wagner news SOLO show – The 2009 PULSE Art Fair exhibited WAGNER's "Liberty" as a special project.
Reproductions – MARK WAGNER'S currency collages were featured in the June 22 issue of NEWSWEEK
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