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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 »

Zg Gallery: Spring Group Show
Zg Gallery
Chicago
April 23 – May 22, 2010

The Zg Gallery opened its powerful Spring Group Show with the works of thirteen artists, each laying out their individual imagery along side stylistic differences in a generalized dissociation. There is a delicate balance in such a vivid experience, with many of the works holding connections Continue reading »

Noelle Mason: Bad Boys
Thomas Robertello Gallery
Chicago
April 9 – June 5, 2010

In, “Bad Boys,” a solo exhibition of her work, Noelle Mason provides a close up, a look at notions of “hysterical masculinity”. “Bad Boys”, she writes, “is about the representation of masculinity, or the ‘drag’ of masculinity, and how this ‘drag’ is crafted through clothes, accessories, or in the aesthetic of the cinematic ‘gaze.’” But the show, currently at the Thomas Robertello Gallery Continue reading »

Bill Frederick: Something About You
January 16 – March 21, 2010
Elmhurst Art Museum
Elmhurst, IL

A dumpster and an abandoned gas station. A nuclear cooling tower next to a junkyard. Craning electric street lights on an empty highway. These are the places which the expert draughtsman Bill Frederick has always chosen as subjects. His scrupulous ink renderings from Continue reading »

Justyna Adamczyk: New Paintings
EC Gallery
Chicago
January 15 – February 13, 2010

“I don’t want to communicate directly with the thoughts of people seeing my art. I’d like to provide a road show which allows for personal reflection”, notes Justyna Adamczyk. Her current exhibition, New Paintings at the EC Gallery is a challenging row toward Continue reading »

Judith Mullen: Aerie
Linda Warren Gallery (Main Space)
January 22 – February 27, 2010
Chicago

Upon entering the Linda Warren Gallery for Judith Mullen’s current exhibition, “Aerie”, the viewer immediately realizes something exciting is gonna happen. It’s a wonderland, one of thrilling, beautiful art. It’s a cotillion of color, of sculpture, of painting of instillation. Here the artist Continue reading »

Art Shay’s True Colors
Thomas Masters Gallery
Chicago
January 15 – February 15, 2010

Art Shay’s photography is brilliant. And should one be in search of art as solely objects of, and for, aesthetic enjoyment, the exhibition, “Art Shay’s True Colors”, opening Friday, January 15 at the Thomas Masters Gallery, is not that experience. It is not an Continue reading »

Daniel Kim and Michael Parker: Structure and Space
David Weinberg Gallery
Chicago
January 8th – February 20th, 2010

Poise appears conscientiously injected into the current exhibition at the David Weinberg Gallery. The abstract paintings of Daniel Kim, combined with the photography of Michael Parker make for a very impressive introduction to the new year, stepping from the holiday vestibule into 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 »