Julia Haw – Comfort and Control & Other Paintings
Julia Haw is a lively gregarious spirit that understands the importance of balance within life and her astute layered technical approach in painting. This week The COMP Magazine caught with Haw to discuss her immersion into Chicago's art community, her analytic and technical approach in painting, how life experiences ...
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Barbara Eberhard – Gummin’ It Up & Other Investigations
At a time where most photographs are made digitally, Barbara Eberhard continues to investigate photographic processes that originated in the 19th century with a diligent fervor that regularly yields imagery that is graceful and intimate while transcending time. Recently, The COMP Magazine caught up with Eberhard in Joliet, Illinois ...
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Chicagoland Summer Music Festivals 2016
Chicagoland Summer Music 2016
Greetings all music lovers! Here's a snippet of what's being offered up this summer at some area festivals:
Do Division Street Fest - June 3-5, 2016
Music acts are booked by The Empty Bottle and Subterranean, this is for those interested in music on the fringe of ...
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C2E2 2016 – In Review
C2E2 (Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo)
McCormick Place
Chicago, IL
March 18-20, 2016
Since 2010, some locals will agree that the beginning of spring is marked by the opening of C2E2 (Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo). There is a breaking in the weather and a bit more sunshine, lost time from those late ...
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Aimée Beaubien – Collecting Within & Recent Works
Over the past year, Aimée Beaubien has been exhibiting a series of elegant, labor intensive site-specific installations in various locations (Texas, Wisconsin and Illinois) around the country. These determined efforts offer a distinct aesthetic strategy that on one level contemplate the intersection between photography and sculpture. One of these ...
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Rita Grendze – homeward
In celebration of Woman's History Month, the University of St. Francis Art Gallery presents:
Rita Grendze: homeward
March 7 - April 8, 2016
Artist Talk: Thursday, March 17 @ 10:30 a.m.
University of St. Francis Art Gallery
25 East Van Buren, Joliet, IL 60432
Gallery Hours: Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Homeward explores ...
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Vincent Uribe – Sugar Talk & Winter Chat
Serving as a central hub for sharing new innovative work by a diverse roster of artists, LVL3 Gallery continues to offer challenging exhibitions and an intoxicating media presence. Directed by Vincent Uribe, The COMP Magazine recently visited the Wicker Park space to discuss the longevity of LVL3, what ...
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Thomas Frank – Environmental & Urban Ruminations
Thomas Frank is an artist/activist who creates complex multi-layered paintings that combine research regarding the impact of industrialization on our environment with an alluring and astute formal technique. Earlier this month, The COMP Magazine caught up with Frank to discuss his enduring connection with the Chicagoland region, the ...
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MoCP at 40
MoCP at 40
January 28 – April 10, 2016
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Columbia College Chicago
600 South Michigan
Chicago, Illinois 60605
I experienced a slight state of Stendhal syndrome upon viewing the MoCP's exhibition inaugurating its fortieth anniversary. Having worked at the museum while studying at Columbia College Chicago in the mid-1990s, I was ...
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Claire Molek – Art Wing & Building a Base
Claire Molek has set upon that long and winding journey to establish a platform for artists of her generation and a collector-base to support their efforts. On the coldest and windiest January day of this year, The COMP Magazine trekked out to Molek's Oak Park salon to take a ...
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