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Chicago is famous for its large geometric grid of streets. These streets are the framework for which the city’s rich and diverse population has built its neighborhoods. However, there is another network of roadways that is almost as large and almost as interesting as its streets. Continue reading »

I never gave much thought to Mark Rothko or his large colored soaked canvases but with the play Red in town and a planned tripped to Houston where the Rothko Chapel is located I would get my fair share of the man. Continue reading »

I came to the auditorium at 112 S. Michigan with high hopes for an engaged debate on art criticism in Chicago and expected a lively discussion about the recent book The Essential New Art Examiner – a republication of seminal essays from the Chicago-based magazine Continue reading »

Ellen Lanyon & Philip Pearlstein: Objects/Objectivity
Valerie Carberry Gallery
Chicago
September 16 – November 5, 2011
www.valeriecarberry.com

Ellen Lanyon and Philip Pearlstein are artist friends who share outings to collect antiques, flea market finds, and vintage toys – the theme on which exhibition title Objects/Objectivity is based. The articles they find inhabit distinctly different Continue reading »

MDW Fair which had its debut earlier this April ran again this past weekend with the intent of being a bi-yearly event. This time around the Fair—once again on three floors of the GeoLofts building on Chicago’s South side—offered the same Continue reading »

Megan Euker: Reenactments
Linda Warren Gallery
Chicago
April 15 – May 14, 2011
www.lindawarrengallery.com

The Linda Warren gallery is never stingy with its exhibitions and their heady pleasures. They often appear on the verge of being interrupted by applause. The current show, Megan Euker’s, “Reenactments” holds a familiar fit and pours richly into that trend. Continue reading »

Peter Allen Hoffman: When the Cathedrals Were White
Thomas Robertello Gallery
Chicago
April 1 – May 21, 2011
www.thomasrobertello.com

With little fanfare, Thomas Robertello recently opened his relocated gallery in Chicago’s West Loop, reestablishing his presence in the city’s art world with an exhibition of Peter Allen Hoffman, “When the Cathedrals Were White”. “I chose Peter’s work for Continue reading »

Melinda Stickney-Gibson: Laughing, Growling, and Chirping in Paint
Thomas Masters Gallery
Chicago
November 5 – 29, 2010
www.thomasmastersgallery.com

The Modernist inventions of Abstract Expressionism have gradually faded from the contemporary art mainstream, ever since the ascendency of Pop art, Minimalism and conceptual art in the 1960’s. For nearly half a century Postmodernism, with its subversion of subjectivity and its endless thirst Continue reading »

Sometime in the late ’80s, Tony Fitzpatrick opened an exhibition space in Villa Park. A year or two later, he moved it to the then desolate South Loop and eventually to the other end of the block on 13th Street and Wabash. Continue reading »

Beatriz E. Ledesma: Not Quite There Yet
Elephant Room Gallery
Chicago
June 13 – July 22, 2010

There is a richness and sense of place to the exhibition of Beatrice E. Ledesma “Not Quite There Yet”, currently at the Elephant Room Gallery. There’s a theme the artist establishes and celebrates which reaches for explanation while connecting the traffic of conception to development to completion. Continue reading »