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Michael K. Corbin is an avid art collector, writer, full-time broadcast journalist, yogi and runner. A New York City native, he travels far and wide for art’s sake. He writes for various art websites that include www.absolutearts.com and of course, www.artbookguy.com. Continue reading »

West Loop Trilogy – Part 3
Entare l ‘Inverno
Black Walnut Gallery
Chicago
December 1- 31, 2009

The tone of the current exhibition at the Black Walnut Gallery is in tune with the themes curator, gallery owner Robert Waynor, generally purports. Aesthetically there is a measured distance between the various works. They do not leave possessions in seats beside them, and each artist succeeds Continue reading »

West Loop Trilogy – Part 2
Juan Angel Chavez: Dragging the Leash
Linda Warren Gallery
Chicago
December 11 – January 16, 2010

Juan Angel Chavez’s solo exhibition, “Dragging the Leash”, now at the Linda Warren Gallery, lays out a sermon. It presents an emblematic voyagers tale told in pressed wood and street found jagged things tidied up and made to rejoice. It leads the viewer off the curb like an intruder, Continue reading »

West Loop Trilogy – Part 1
Contemporary Figuratively Themed Works
EC Gallery
Chicago
December 11, 2009 – January 9, 2010

It’s as if couriers have arrived, delivering storms of color and skillfully engineered works to the EC Gallery. With the current exhibition, “Contemporary Figurative Themed Works”, curator Ewa Czeremuszkin, has re-collected and filled full her right-size gallery with the art of Continue reading »

Donald Kuspit is one of America’s most important art critics. He is a Distinguished Professor of Art History and Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and has received fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the NEA, and the Guggenheim Foundation Continue reading »

Thomas Masters: shelter
Thomas Masters Gallery
Chicago
December 4 – January 4, 2010

Moderate in scale, the current exhibition of watercolors by Thomas Masters at the Masters’ Gallery, hardly pretends to be a comprehensive retrospect of the artist. Rather, it provides a compelling, passionate glimpse of the artist’s recent central activity. “shelter” is a treatise on Continue reading »

Ann and Maria Ponce : On TV / Off TV
Packer-Schopf Gallery
Chicago
November 20 – December 23, 2009

The glow of celebrity illuminated the Packer-Schopf Gallery recently with the opening of, “On TV / Off TV”, a joint exhibition combining the elegant portrait paintings of Ann Ponce and the crisp portrait photography of daughter Maria. It was a who’s who Continue reading »

Neoteric Art: You grew up in Iowa and received your BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Discuss the transition moving from Iowa to Chicago, time spent in art school and your time since being a working artist.

Darrell Roberts: I spent most of my early life in school about twelve years of college and art school. After six years, I finally finished a BA in Art History, at the University of Northern Iowa, where I also took painting and drawing classes and immediately moved to Chicago. Continue reading »