Alex Gartelmann – Shit Guilty & Collaborative Efforts
Alex Gartelmann couples formal visual principles commonly found in architecture and sculpture with alternative visions to create artworks that establish a weirdly subversive and ambiguous cosmology. Last month The COMP Magazine visited Gartlemann's westside industrial corridor studio to discuss his time in Chicago, the influence of skateboarding on his ...
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Darrell Roberts – The Intuitive Traveller
At present, Darrell Roberts is most likely on a plane in transit to his next aesthetic frontier. In recent years, this artist has traveled extensively to various residencies around the globe, while maintaining a serious art practice here in Chicago. The COMP Magazine caught up with Roberts in his ...
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Paul Erschen – Mayor Daley & Store Brand
From abandoned industrial sites to alternative exhibition spaces to DIY music venues, Paul Erschen is that Chicago guy who finds comfort in the obscure gritty minutiae that makes up the city's backbone. The COMP Magazine caught up with Erschen this week to discuss his obsession with detail and materials, ...
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MCA Chicago – DEBUTS NEW VISUAL IDENTITY
MCA Chicago
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MCA DEBUTS NEW VISUAL IDENTITY
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announces the launch of its new visual identity, developed by internationally renowned design studio Mevis & Van Deursen (MVD). The design includes the MCA’s typeface and logo, and is reflected in the ...
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OF & ON PAPER: Erin Elizabeth + Carrie Ann Schumacher
The University of St. Francis Art Gallery presents:
OF & ON PAPER: Erin Elizabeth + Carrie Ann Schumacher
On exhibit: Nov 2 - Dec 10, 2015
Public reception: Thursday, Nov 12, 6-8pm
Address: 25 East Van Buren, Joliet, IL 60432
Of & On Paper is a 2-person exhibition featuring the work of artists Erin ...
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Andrei Rabodzeenko – Technotropic Romance & Other Works
Working in an array of styles that utilize classical medieval traditions to hyper-modern aesthetics and technology, Andrei Rabodzeenko cultivates an intricate cosmology that navigates abstraction to narrative driven dialogues in his contemporary art practice. The work is densely layered, meticulously polished, and quite beautiful. The COMP Magazine recently caught ...
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Corey Postiglione – The Minimalist’s Tango
Chicago has a curious, almost smug, attitude toward abstract art. Simply put, the city is totted as a bastion for narrative driven fine art. For some, the aesthetic practices of the Hairy Who and Chicago Imagists (dating back to the late 1960s) still rule the roost. Nevertheless, there have ...
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Esau McGhee – Inspecting Urban Constructs
Though formerly trained, Esau McGhee appears to be the Outsider's Outsider. McGhee investigates urban class and race constructions via his ongoing series of large collages and installations that use traditional applications coupled with contemporary imagery and methodologies. The COMP Magazine visited McGhee's East Garfield Park studio earlier this year ...
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Plastic Crimewave – Galactic Vision
Upon entering the lair of Plastic Crimewave (aka Steven H. Kraków), one is immediately teleported to another place, time, and being. The space is covered from floor to ceiling with vintage posters of 1970s icons like Burt Reynolds to first printings of Marvel Comic's Daredevil dating back to 1964. ...
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Dan Luedtke – Ideas of Dissidence, Difference & Negativity
We live in a society that amplifies and divides its' population into varied, and at times extreme, political, religious and socially defined ideological tribes. Artist and activist Dan Luedtke works in a realm that challenges the concepts of stable identity formations in his sonic and visual art practice. Recently, ...
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