Kirsten Leenaars – Fictionalized Real Experience
Kirsten Leenaars choreographs visual and sound narratives through directing persons and place to create fictionalized realities. The COMP Magazine recently visited Leenaars’ Humboldt Park studio to discuss making art in a new country, how collaboration is essential to being human and why play should be something not lost in ...
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Meg Duguid – The Entropic Tramp
Meg Duguid is on an epic journey. Using performative practice as foundation while coupling traditional and new strategies of research and art-making, Duguid sifts through historical materials and applies fresh iterations that is often as transient as the roles she takes on in her investigations. The COMP Magazine recently ...
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Miguel Cortez – Antena Styled Anarchy
Art spaces and galleries come and go as quickly as the shift from mild autumn to severe winter in Chicago. Antena, directed by Miguel Cortez, appears to have located the pulse of attrition. Offering an eclectic stable of artists who transform Antena into a new media art laboratory; one ...
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Alberto Aguilar – Family Formations
Working in areas often associated with domesticity and family are frequently looked down upon in the fine arts. There is often excessive sentimentality; precious baby pictures and those secretive images best locked away in a chest hidden at the back of a remote closet in the basement. However, this ...
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Victoria Martinez – Intuitive Interventions
Victoria Martinez works in a place between traditional gallery practice and urban intervention. The COMP Magazine recently toured the Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen with Victoria; visiting one of the more unique places in the city, laughing at the absurdities of the art-making process and rolling around in piles of ...
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Claire Ashley – Inflatable Absurdity
Claire Ashley is a breath of fresh air (no kidding)! Creating larger than life inflatable and interactive sculpture, Ashley bridges formal and performative aspects in a playfully intelligent voice. The Comp Magazine recently visited Ashley at her Oak Park studio to discuss her unconventional practice and why artists don't ...
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Chuck Jones – Questioning Authority
Chuck Jones is a towering funny person and a serious artist who investigates hubris, authority and failure through varied dialogues and media. The Comp Magazine recently caught up with Chuck to discuss needlework, why his comedy is compulsive and how the medium is the message and the message is ...
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Iris Bernblum – Power and Play
Iris Bernblum investigates ideas of escape and release in a manner that reminds one of the playfulness of a young child who is simultaneously juggling constructs of normal and abnormal behavior. The Comp Magazine recently visited her studio to discuss the importance of play and why sometimes it's rather ...
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Olea Nova – Spontaneous Dialogue
Olea Nova works in a place that references art history and theory while investigating new materials and ideas that reflect her Russian heritage and a painterly sensibility that is remarkably relevant in this day of hyper-technology. The Comp Magazine recently visited Nova's Pilsen studio for a delightful dialogue about ...
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Paul Hopkin – The Slow Storyteller
Paul Hopkin established Slow (Gallery) in 2009 in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, as an alternative venue for presenting innovative new art by regional, national and international artists. The space is not quite an apartment gallery, nor commercial space. Hopkin presents artworks that can be seen as challenging ...
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