Orkideh Torabi – Revisiting Male Dominated Narratives
In examining historical narrative paintings, Persian culture, and her personal life experience, Iranian artist Orkideh Torabi crafts fascinating sardonic tales that comment on our male dominated world. Recently, Torabi presented a series of these works at the Weinberg/Newton Gallery in River North. This week the COMP Magazine headed up ...
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Catie Olson & EC Brown – Shoulder-to-Shoulder
Working in tangent with another artist on a project for any sustained time is challenging. It is only on rare occasion that a distinct unified voice prevails over muddled egos. Though elusive, a recognizable pattern can be found in the art (and life) collaboration of artist duo CatieO & ...
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Doug McGoldrick – Juggling Art & Life Challenges
Balancing a career as a professional photographer, teaching part-time, and raising a family is daunting in this day and age. Top those three time-consuming activities with an ongoing aesthetic pursuit has been Doug McGoldrick's life challenge for the past 20 plus years. This week The COMP Magazine caught up ...
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Three Graces: Glass-Sula, Denault & McWilliams @ USF
Three Graces: Glass-Sula, Denault & McWilliams
On Exhibit: January 30 - February 24, 2017
Artist Reception: February 2, 2017, 6-8pm
MARGIE GLASS SULA
Margie Glass Sula has an M.A. in Painting and Drawing from Governors State University and has worked in traditional gallery settings, as well as outdoors, creating public installation ...
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Moholy-Nagy: Future Present @ AIC
Moholy-Nagy: Future Present
September 30, 2016 through January 3, 2017
The Art Institute of Chicago
Regenstein Hall
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603
When I was first introduced to László Moholy-Nagy in the late 1980s I struggled to get my mind around the theories he explored and his use of nontraditional materials. In ...
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Alison Ruttan – Investigating Instinct & Aggression
Utilizing strategies often attributed to social scientists, Alison Ruttan investigates characteristics of human behavior through insightful works that reveal our propensity with aggression which is evolving at an alarmingly escalating pace. Recently, The COMP Magazine visited Ruttan at her Oak Park studio to discuss her exploratory use of ...
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Jennifer Cronin – Spectacularly Ordinary
JENNIFER CRONIN: Spectacularly Ordinary
Artist Lecture: Thursday, October 6, 2016, 11am
Show Dates: September 7, 2016 - October 20, 2016
Join the University of St. Francis Art Gallery on Thursday, October 6 at 11am as Jennifer Cronin speaks about her current body of work, Spectacularly Ordinary on display at the USF Art ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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