Caleb Beck – Bent Paintings & an Impossible Shot
Caleb Beck takes risks. Sometimes, measured application is clearly realized, while in other instances youthful impulsiveness prevails. In our hyperactive capitalist culture where art is commodified prior to proper assessment, Beck understands the importance in taking his chances (no matter how lofty) in the torturous terrain that one navigates ...
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C.A.K.E.: Chicago Alternative Comics Expo 2019
C.A.K.E.: Chicago Alternative Comics Expo 2019Center on Halsted3656 N. Hasted StreetChicago, Illinois, 60613June 1-2, 2019C.A.K.E. - http://www.cakechicago.com
C.A.K.E. is that comics experience where there's a bit more experimentation and weirdness. There's an approach to comic creation that tosses the focus on the $$$ to the bin. The works are often ...
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ACEN: Anime Central 2019 – A Review in Photos
Anime CentralDonald E. Stephens Convention Center5555 River RoadRosemont, Illinois 60018May 17-19, 2019
In recent time, for me, spring's beginning has been marked by the annual anime festival, Anime Central, held out in Rosemont. The event offers a flurry of activities for anime, cosplay, J-pop music fans, manga enthusiasts, Japanophiles, and ...
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Boris Ostrerov – Iniquitous Poo, Colorful Forms, & an Uzbek Voice
Boris Ostrerov makes a lot of "shit". This simple statement can certainly be misinterpretated. I trust you will set aside my overly drole and literal note and focus moreso upon the quality and revelatory production of this young and exciting artist. Ostrerov is that rare breed who has taken ...
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Yinka Shonibare’s A Tale of Today @ the Driehaus
Yinka ShonibareA Tale of TodayMarch 2, 2019 through September 29, 2019The Richard H. Driehaus Museum40 East Erie StreetChicago, Illinois, USA, 606011
Though a bit foggy, I'm certain my initial encounter with the work of Yinka Shonibare was at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City a couple decades ago. I ...
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Holly Cahill – Propositions of a Female Craftsman
Working in loosely connected spheres of inquiry, Holly Cahill is known to frequent a wide range of disciplines simultaneously. Be it architecture, choreography, fiber arts, painting, sculpture or hyperdimensional phenomena, one finds a distinct interconnectedness in her approach to formal ideas and materials. This week the COMP Magazine visited ...
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Erin Smego – Navigating Sculptural Fashion
It can be said that sculpture and fashion can be easily linked. Distill the two disciplines down to their essential form and one finds the occupying of space and commenting upon present day aesthetics to be two apparent intersections. A young Chicago artist, Erin Smego, is investigating this frequently ...
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Julie Weber – Subtleties in Light, Form, and Being
There is a sensual luminosity in the elegant approach to visual meditation in the practice of artist/photographer Julie Weber. In her photobook REMNANTS, published by Chicago's Skylark Editions, light experiments, and installation works one finds a clean and clear translation expanding investigation that references formal elements and ideas that ...
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Michelle Wasson – A Sizable Unencumbered Aesthetic Approach
Without doubt, entering the massive studio of Michelle Wasson one will note a sense of ephemeral thoughts in contemplation. An immediate realization of scale is located due to the size of the space, the large works, and her apparent reflective production. Wasson's practice and conceptual approach is fluid, substantial, ...
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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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