Alice Q. Hargrave – Memories & the Natural World

Immersing herself in a deep contemplative aesthetic practice focused upon our ever-shifting environment, Alice Q. Hargrave has been producing thoughtful photographs that offer lush, color-soaked and attentive meditations for the better part of 30 years. This week, The COMP Magazine visited Hargrave's expansive and highly organized Bucktown studio to ...
July 18, 2016
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Jill Flanagan – Rage, Fear & Despair

Channelling, then transforming heavy societal demons by way of an aggressive and spontaneous art and music practice, Jill Flanagan creates those uncomfortable and unique works that require the audience to experience opprobrious time-based nether regions. Recently, The COMP Magazine visited Flanagan's west Pilsen studio to discuss growing up in ...
July 14, 2016
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Victoria Fuller – Strategies of Power Play

Working with found objects, industrial materials, and traditional media, Victoria Fuller has been creating attentive and mischievous installations and sculptures that investigate issues of power, environmental concerns, and current strategies in appropriation for over two decades. Last month The COMP Magazine visited Fuller's West Hubbard Street studio to discuss ...
July 8, 2016
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Alan D. Caesar – Touring Destroit with Rena Rouge

Chicago artists hold a long history in touring imaginative worlds within the mind and then translating these experiences into visually intoxicating materials. Visionary sojourns have surfaced in the art of Henry Darger, Lee Godie, the Hairy Who and a litany of other innovative artists working in sublime territory that ...
July 4, 2016
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Paul Schranz: Entropy @ the University of St. Francis Art Gallery

PAUL SCHRANZ: Entropy University of St. Francis Art Gallery 5 East Van Buren Street Joliet, IL 60432 July 11 - August 25, 2016 Artist Lecture: Thursday, August 25, 1pm Closing Reception: Thursday, August 25, 6-9pm USF: How long have you been practicing art? PS: I've been practicing art for 50 years and as a photographer, 49.  ...
June 28, 2016
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Tony Fitzpatrick: The Secret Birds @ DePaul Art Museum

Tony Fitzpatrick: The Secret Birds May 12, 2016 - August 21, 2016 DePaul Art Museum 935 West Fullerton Chicago, Illinois, 60614 Tony Fitzpatrick was one of the first guys I met in 1993 when I arrived in Chicago. I remember this encounter well for Jesse Bercowetz and I had created an atrociously grotesque 13 ...
June 23, 2016
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Andreas Fischer – Negotiating Function & Representation

Drawing from ephemeral experiences and shifting mythologies in contemporary society, Andreas Fischer creates thoughtfully precise, yet spontaneous, artworks that negotiate his place in the world. Recently, The COMP Magazine visited Fischer's west Fulton street studio to discuss our common early experiences, his passion for cycling, his role as an ...
June 11, 2016
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Ryan Richey – Making Lemonade from Lemons

From mundane chores to intimate first experiences, the painter Ryan Richey presents details of life in middle America with irony, wit, and an ability to chuckle at even the hardest of life experiences. The COMP Magazine recently visited Richey's Ukrainian Village studio in the near west side of Chicago ...
June 7, 2016
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Kerry James Marshall: Mastry – A Dialogue in Review

Kerry James Marshall: Mastry April 23, 2016 through September 25, 2016 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 East Chicago Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60611 Kerry James Marshall has been on my radar since my arrival to Chicago in 1993. He's always loomed large and his current exhibition Kerry James Marshall: Mastry at the MCA echoes ...
May 30, 2016
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JaNae Contag – Evolving Apparitions & Environments

Since releasing the EP Implied Elegance in 2015 and relocating to Chicago in 2016, JaNae Contag has kept a diligent stride in her ongoing aesthetic investigations. Her sonic and visual inquiry offers penetrating comment into the metamorphosis of middle America. This week The COMP Magazine visited Contag's Humboldt ...
May 12, 2016
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