Heather Mekkelson – Crepuscular Beam & Other Recent Works
Working through a transitional period in recent years, Heather Mekkelson has found solid footing in raising a family while investigating new modes of looking at and translating contemporary aesthetic perceptions as they relate to empirical and speculative sciences: anthropology, astrophysics, cosmology, myth, and mysticism. This week the COMP Magazine ...
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Jesse Malmed – Translating Language & Sound
Most comfortable in the public domain (real or virtual), Jesse Malmed investigates the intersection of language, sonic systems, and his contemporary milieu via an array of continually probing installations, performances and videos. Malmed's affable wry wit and unconventional delivery frequently brings pause in a time where discursive display has ...
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Graham Foundation Presents “Spaces…depth”
Spaces without drama or surface is an illusion, but so is depth
February 16 – July 1, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 16, 6-8 PM
6PM: Talk by curators Wonne Ickx and Ruth Estévez
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Madlener House
4 West Burton Place
Chicago, Illinois 60610
T 312-787-4071
F ...
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Three Graces: Glass-Sula, Denault & McWilliams @ USF
Three Graces: Glass-Sula, Denault & McWilliams
On Exhibit: January 30 - February 24, 2017
Artist Reception: February 2, 2017, 6-8pm
MARGIE GLASS SULA
Margie Glass Sula has an M.A. in Painting and Drawing from Governors State University and has worked in traditional gallery settings, as well as outdoors, creating public installation ...
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Kerry James Marshall: Mastry – A Dialogue in Review
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry
April 23, 2016 through September 25, 2016
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611
Kerry James Marshall has been on my radar since my arrival to Chicago in 1993. He's always loomed large and his current exhibition Kerry James Marshall: Mastry at the MCA echoes ...
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Julia Haw – Comfort and Control & Other Paintings
Julia Haw is a lively gregarious spirit that understands the importance of balance within life and her astute layered technical approach in painting. This week The COMP Magazine caught with Haw to discuss her immersion into Chicago's art community, her analytic and technical approach in painting, how life experiences ...
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Dan Rizzo-Orr – IGF & Alternative States of Being
Simultaneously drawing from while subverting common visual language embedded in art history and quotidian activities, Dan Rizzo-Orr has cultivated a rather refined voice in his fledgling career. The COMP Magazine recently visited Rizzo-Orr's west Ukranian Village studio to discuss the transition from an academic setting to a self-perpetuating practice, ...
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CAKE 2015 – Chicago Alternative Comics Expo
In a few short weeks, Chicago will host one of the most curious and salivating of events in the Chicago Art calendar. This year's CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo) looks to be the most exciting one to date with a range of local talent to alternative comic's icons, including ...
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Alberto Aguilar – Family Formations
Working in areas often associated with domesticity and family are frequently looked down upon in the fine arts. There is often excessive sentimentality; precious baby pictures and those secretive images best locked away in a chest hidden at the back of a remote closet in the basement. However, this ...
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Iris Bernblum – Power and Play
Iris Bernblum investigates ideas of escape and release in a manner that reminds one of the playfulness of a young child who is simultaneously juggling constructs of normal and abnormal behavior. The Comp Magazine recently visited her studio to discuss the importance of play and why sometimes it's rather ...
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