Jim Terry – Wrestling Demons: Imaginative & Real
Cartoonist Jim Terry is drawn to demons, imaginative and real life. You know, the ones that get their fangs in you and drain you of your life force beyond repair. He's battled demons head-on for decades. He's prevailed. Now in middle age, he has found balance and carved out ...
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Zachary Weber – Porcelain to Spray Paint Concoctions
The transition from traditional art studies to establishing a career as a young artist is piled high with obstacles. There is need to establish a rhythm for advancing one's investigations, the managing of connections to a growing art world network, and many unforeseen occurrences. At inception, Zachary Weber appears ...
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Matt Davis – Perfectly Acceptable Printing & Publishing
Publishing books can be a complex, difficult, and lofty task. Beyond creation of interesting and timely work, there is the need to understand the process and tools for execution. There is also the need to locate a publisher who understands one's vision and wants to support this effort. Matt ...
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Louise LeBourgeois – Translating Water & Sky
When an artist connects cerebrally and viscerally with experience and a place beyond the studio, there is a synergy that breaths a freshness into the work produced. There is a visible purity in this form of renewal. This observation can be applied to the oeuvre of Louise LeBourgeois. For ...
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Anime Central 2023 – Images & Notes
Anime Central (ACEN) 2023Donald E. Stephens Convention CenterRosemont, Illinois, 60018Friday, May 19, 2023 through Sunday, May 21, 2023
The 2023 iteration of Anime Central continued a solid introduction to all things Japan for those visiting this Midwest entertainment convention. Those seeking new trends from cinema to sound to literature to ...
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Ash Huse – Queer Digital Transformations
We live in a time of where identity and self-reflection have become common themes in aesthetic inquiry. In this, youthful spirits are taxed with sorting through the past, identifying misnomers, addressing present day crisis, and creating new formats in one's studio art practice. Ash Huse is a graduate student ...
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C2E2 2023 – Post-Pandemic Plundering
C2E2: Chicago Comics & Entertainment ExpoMarch 31 - April, 2023McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois
The full review will be posted soon. For now, here are some images for the weekend event:
C2E2 - Chicago Comics & Entertainment Expo, (ET and Ms. Marvel) McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, 2023
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Steven Carrelli – Complexity in Our Visual Experience
One of the pleasures of visiting artist's studios in Chicago for the better part of 30 years is the ability to see how artists explore and work with a wide range of mediums and techniques. There have been new digital and sculptural technology introductions. There have been those who've ...
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Monika Plioplyte – Cyclic Pagan Patterns & Universes
One item I am drawn to is direct display and conversation. Monika Plioplyte holds these nonevasive traits in her art practice and the manner in which she carries herself. In recent time, there's been an insistence to avoid frankness and honesty due to our present socio-political milieu. In Plioplyte's ...
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Cortney Lederer – Creating Platforms for Community & Public Art
Since youth the arts have been a constant element in the life of Cortney Lederer. Upon completing studies in studio arts, arts administration, and working with an array of arts organisations (Deeply Rooted, Blair Thomas, Links Hall, Chicago Artists Coalition), Lederer made a decision to take the big leap ...
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