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Jolt: Janice Trecker

chicagoa — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:00:29 +0000

Work by Janice Tracker.

Bill Talsma: Things That Are Longing To Appear

karly — Sun, 01 May 2011 23:00:31 +0000

Things That Are Longing To Appear is a storefront installation/window display by artist Bill Talsma that consists of six modified “open & closed” signs presented at 244 W. 31st Street in Chicago. These signs—the kind usually displayed at small businesses—have been redesigned, rewritten and combined together to form a master sentence that spans the 6 objects. Subsequently, thoughts about the reappearance of things as reproduction are simultaneously woven across the signs (and through the master sentence) with smaller, prefabricated marquee-style letters.

Emily Clayton: Sad Cycle

karly — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:00:28 +0000

Sad Cycle includes works that are inspired by death rituals. The exhibition is part of a larger series that seeks to examine ways in which people grieve through a lens of palpably dramatic forms and performance. The pieces shown at Eastern Expansion were created in the past three months and reflect an intimate focus onContinue Reading

Michael Kloss: All Black Everything

karly — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:00:23 +0000

All black everything is a new series of drawings exploring slightly outdated pop culture figures. Mainly men from Edward Furlong to Jim Brewer.

Work by Michael Kloss.

Corinne D’Agustino and Thomas I’Anson: Squaring the Circle

karly — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:04:25 +0000

Work by Corinne D’Agustino and Thomas I’Anson.

Paul Rizzuto: Carny

karly — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:00:24 +0000

Carny is a salon installation of 75 plus photographs captured during Paul Rizzuto‘s recent observations while working for traveling carnivals around the Midwest.

Johana Wawro and Andy Resek

karly — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:00:12 +0000

New work by Johana Wawro and Andy Resek.

Scott Cowan: 19 pictures

karly — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:00:35 +0000

Scott Cowan, in his first photography exhibition, has selected 19 images from a body of work that will eventually contain 10,000 photos. The chosen work illustrates humor, raw tension, claustrophobia, and strangely grotesque excess within and without what is typically thought of as ‘common’ cultural objects. They are clearly fixed ‘facts’ of the real world but impartially recorded within the order and clarity imposed or allowed by the camera. While less focus is placed on direct narrative, the starting point is an egalitarian or evenhanded place where no one object contained within the picture has direct precedence over the other. The emphasis is on shape, color, form, symbol, texture and fragments of space. With this in mind these images re-think about what is considered successful, beautiful, or visually important. It is as if the aesthetic qualities are not a separate issue to resolve apart from the objects themselves.

Rachel Hewitt and Stina Kaczmaryn

karly — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:00:52 +0000

Ryan Mandell: Snowbirds

karly — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:00:37 +0000

Extreme wealth affords an experience of reality unburdened by the traditional concerns of the middle and lower classes. Wealth has dictated our current built environment, and is the requisite to continue to augment it. With sufficient financial instruments an individual can literally construct reality, tailor it to their individual desires, and in essence, create a personal utopia: Presidential libraries, the palatial compounds of Middle Eastern sheiks, and Graceland are examples. This propensity, coupled with a higher tolerance for extravagance and decadence in contemporary culture, promises a future populated by landscapes and architectures that only exist as hyperbole now.

Jorge Miñano Ramírez: Rhetorics of memory

karly — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:00:23 +0000

“The exhibition is a starting point for a reflection about the concept of cultural memory and how it has overcome a binary opposition between the individual and the collective experiences. This reciprocal relationship came across my mind when I had to leave my own country; and experience a completely different place with a new community of friends. The feeling becomes more obvious when a visiting person has to go back home.

“New concepts are related with the perspective of familiar history, memory and gender; colonial, postcolonial, and transatlantic studies; museums, monuments, and memorials, as well as the practical implications for heritage industries. It is also a skeptical way to leave one’s mark and prolong the virtual existence of a person in a specific place with techniques other than photography. The show is composed of graphic, writing, mail correspondence and actions in the city which were created for the exhibition as a tribute to Chicago. The artist also is going to take a group photo of friends and assistants during the opening in the gallery.”"