DEHD – Sunburn, Horses, and A Love Song
In early March of this year, DEHD released their self-titled debut LP on Maximum Pelt. In the 9 loosely connected tracks, DEHD layers atonal melodies, roaming rhythms, simplified percussion with echoing ethereal verse into a fringe effort worthy of a listen. This week The COMP Magazine caught up with ...
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No Man’s Sky – ProGen Exploratory Philosophies
No Man's Sky
Released August 9, 2016
Platforms: Playstation 4 and Microsoft Windows
Developed & Published by Hello Games
Distributed by Sony Interactive Entertainment (PS4) and iam8bit (PC)
Though the cosmic dust has not yet settled, there is, without doubt, a sense that No Man's Sky offers insight into the ever evolving way we ...
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Damon Locks – Exploring Sound & the Urban Scene
For almost 30 years, Damon Locks has been a consummate artist and musician that continues to explore sound and urban visual aesthetics via his personal investigations and working with a wide range of talented individuals. While visitings Locks' Logan Square studio recently, The COMP Magazine had the opportunity to ...
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ONO – An Unabridged History In Conversation
Initially established in 1980, ONO holds a legendary status in the experimental and fringe music scene in Chicago and beyond. After a 26 year hiatus, in 2012 ONO released Albino followed by Diegesis, 2014, and Spooks, 2015. Clearly, ONO have not tempered their artistic output nor performances in the ...
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With a Wink and a Nod at The Driehaus Museum
"With a Wink and a Nod: Cartoonists of the Gilded Age"
The Driehaus Museum
40 East Erie Street
Chicago, Illinois, 60611
June 25, 2016 - January 8, 2017
These are truly strange transitional times we are presently living through. With countless overwhelming paradigm shifts occurring in so many quarters (cultural, philosophical, political, ...
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Anya Davidson – Cultivating Freedom in Failure
Whether instigating chaos at a local DIY Noise concert or drawing comics with live raccoons wandering about in the next room in Chicago's west Pilsen neighborhood, Anya Davidson has carved out an unmistakable voice that is fiercely brazen, darkly humorous, and reminiscent of a long lineage of significant comics ...
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Alice Q. Hargrave – Memories & the Natural World
Immersing herself in a deep contemplative aesthetic practice focused upon our ever-shifting environment, Alice Q. Hargrave has been producing thoughtful photographs that offer lush, color-soaked and attentive meditations for the better part of 30 years. This week, The COMP Magazine visited Hargrave's expansive and highly organized Bucktown studio to ...
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Jill Flanagan – Rage, Fear & Despair
Channelling, then transforming heavy societal demons by way of an aggressive and spontaneous art and music practice, Jill Flanagan creates those uncomfortable and unique works that require the audience to experience opprobrious time-based nether regions. Recently, The COMP Magazine visited Flanagan's west Pilsen studio to discuss growing up in ...
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Victoria Fuller – Strategies of Power Play
Working with found objects, industrial materials, and traditional media, Victoria Fuller has been creating attentive and mischievous installations and sculptures that investigate issues of power, environmental concerns, and current strategies in appropriation for over two decades. Last month The COMP Magazine visited Fuller's West Hubbard Street studio to discuss ...
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Alan D. Caesar – Touring Destroit with Rena Rouge
Chicago artists hold a long history in touring imaginative worlds within the mind and then translating these experiences into visually intoxicating materials. Visionary sojourns have surfaced in the art of Henry Darger, Lee Godie, the Hairy Who and a litany of other innovative artists working in sublime territory that ...
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