Hương Ngô – Reflecting Winds of Perception & Change
In a highly charged political landscape where immigration and other recurring social issues have divided our country, Hương Ngô examines these topics with subtlety and depth that can only be achieved through intimate experience. Ngô's Reap the Whirlwind is currently on view at Aspect/Ratio Projects through October 20, 2018. ...
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Susan Giles – Translating Hand Gestures & Space
Currently, on view at the Chicago Cultural Center is a mammoth work produced by Susan Giles. This piece, "A Large Reference Corral..." is the culmination of extensive research, adept skill in translating precise details at various sizes, unequalled patience, and an ability to realize a vision that extends beyond ...
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Jeff Carter – Functional Formats of Occupying
Currently, Jeff Carter, along with Susan Giles and Faheem Majeed, is presenting works in Tuned Mass at the Chicago Cultural Center through January 6, 2019. Carter's aesthetic practice merges his interest in early 20th c. Modernism with ideas that address our mass consumer culture, polarizing political commentary, and a ...
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Cole Pierce – Color Strategies & Vinyl Tape
Precision and optical synthesis are core to the aesthetic practice of Cole Pierce. There is a sensory geometry coupled with ocular encounter that establishes a plain of perception. This week the COMP Magazine headed up to the Northside to visit Pierce in studio to discuss what established his focus ...
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Robin Dluzen – Bloodroot, Ameraucana & the Midwest
Robin Dluzen is a whirlwind of energy. Since landing in Chicago, Dluzen has established a healthy art practice, curated a number of insightful exhibitions, and written regularly on the city's visual arts. This week the COMP Magazine trekked up to Avondale to discuss with Dluzen the role family plays ...
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Gina Hunt – From the Badlands to Azimuth
Raised in South Dakota, Gina Hunt's aesthetic practice focuses upon ephemeral modes of experience, cerebral and visceral. In addition to traditional formats of presentation, Hunt has expanded her investigation via production of site-specific works in contrasting environments in national parks and urban centers. This week the COMP Magazine caught ...
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Mike Paro – Youthful Lived Experience
Mike Paro has been on a journey in mind, body, and spirit. Since completing studies at SAIC, he has worked in Antarctica and traveled in Africa, Asia, and Europe. These experiences have profoundly influenced his aesthetic investigations since landing back in Chicago. This week the COMP Magazine visited Paro ...
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Dan Gamble – Visual Meditations: Otherworldly & Quotidian
There's pause...followed by deep thought that is applied with precise technique in the aesthetic practice of painter Dan Gamble. For more than two decades Gamble has produced drawings and paintings that are multifaceted in terms of formal and spiritual investigation. This week the COMP Magazine jogged on down to ...
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Vesna Jovanovic – Foreign Bodies & Visual Prompts
The intersection of art and science has long been fertile terrain for visual representation. And, today in the drawings, paintings, and sketchbooks of artist Vesna Jovanovic one will find insightful, subtle, and preternatural commentary. Assimilating her ongoing studies in art and science, Jovanovic raises questions surrounding scientific representation, empiricism, ...
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SaraNoa Mark – A Conversation with Ancient Objects
Residing in a place that initially appears to be from some distant time and place, SaraNoa Mark's contemporary aesthetic practice requires thoughtful observation. Engaged with trying to decipher the invisible activity of time, Mark creates artworks that could easily sit alongside artifacts and tablets created over a millennium ago. ...
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