Elnaz Javani – Intersecting Craft, Ideas & Parietal Art Today
Elnaz Javani has located the importance of combining adept craft with art forms and storytelling that date back over a millennium. Though rooted in the past, Javani's practice addresses a range of contemporary ideas that are highly relevant today. This week The COMP Magazine visited Javani at her studio ...
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Zehra Khan – Meditative Masks, Curious Quilts & Engaging Travels
Zehra Khan exudes a graceful efficacious energy and an engagement with life rarely encountered. Her unique background coupled with an outlander sensibility can be seen clearly in the visual materials she produces. This week, The COMP Magazine headed up to Sheridan Park to discuss with Khan her recent artist ...
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Chester Alamo-Costello – A Two-Pronged Approach
In 2014 Chester Alamo-Costello started The COMP Magazine with a group of students (Egzon Shaqiri, Jessica Cuevas, Evan Griffin, and Jazzmyne Robbins) as a platform for covering new art and music in Chicagoland. In addition to functioning as the magazine’s publisher since inception, Chester has had an extensive career ...
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Elana Marte Adler – Exploring Transferential Colors, Forms & Structures
In part, Elana Marte Adler appears to be on a quest to translate interpretations that can be personal and illusory into sonic and visual form. Working in a variety of conceptual strategies and new to long-standing mediums, Adler's output holds a consistency, though at times fluid, that draws upon ...
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Jno Cook – Recalling Kitchen Conversations & Most Unusual Art Inventions
Jno Cook lived many most productive lives. Jno was an artist, educator, engineer, historian, provocateur, thinker and most importantly, a father and husband. I knew Jno, firstly, as an artist who created spectacularly unorthodox kinetic sculptures, artist books, corresponded with and wrote upon photographer Robert Frank and maintained the ...
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Jason Dunda – Examining a Rogue Gallery of Unflattering Portraits
There's still a bit of Canada in Jason Dunda. This can be clearly seen in his current aesthetic investigations. As an expat living in a precarious time where America's divisive ideologies are grossly amplified and nationalistic fervor is at fever pitch, Dunda is now focused upon examining the imbalanced ...
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Matt Kayhoe Brett – Shifting Vision & Weird Phenomena
Part visual anthropologist, part optics investigator, Matt Kayhoe Brett’s artistic practice can be seen to reside in the past, present and future simultaneously. From collecting and arranging mundane artifacts found in the studio or outdoors to working with industrial grade materials, Brett’s ongoing examinations suggest visceral digestion and application ...
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Ji Su Kwak – Balanced Talk & Fluid Identities
The studio of Ji Su Kwak is spartan. Neatly organized in the space are a couple completed works, a couple shelving units with just enough materials to continue experimenting with on new projects, a small table with a laptop, one chair, and a stool. Her practice takes on a ...
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Ed Paschke – An Analysis of Two Paintings
Ed Paschke was a highly influential mid 20th c. Chicago painter. Here, I plan to discuss two works, Minnie (1974) and Ramrod (1969). Minnie depicts woman, while the painting Ramrod depicts a Lucha wrester. While these two painting have some similarities, they have differences as well. Ed Paschke was ...
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Eric Stefanski – Paint Drips, Death & Humor
Coming from a diverse background, Eric Stefanski creates visceral paintings and sculptures that are rooted in the humor and work ethic commonly associated with the working class. His approach and visual vocabulary is abrasive, bold, and comedic in their heavy handed absurdity. This makes them appealing, fresh, and on ...
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