The Paper Crane

The snow is melt­ing here in Chicago and turn­ing into a chilly spring rain. The birds are singing and signs of May flow­ers are abreast. As you may have noticed it’s been a while since my last post. Though idle on the inter­net, I have been quite the oppo­site in real life. I’m work­ing on plans and logisitcs for 3 upcom­ing shows this sum­mer in Chicago. I am happy to announce that Sim­ple Gallery is pre­sent­ing a solo exh­i­ni­tion of Keith B. Evans pho­tographs in late sum­mer. Details on this have yet to be announced though I promise to post as soon as they are thor­oughly decided upon.

The sec­ond show also in late sum­mer is for the Logan Square art walk tak­ing place in the Logan Square neigh­bor­hood in Chicago spon­sored by the Logan Square Preser­va­tion Board. This project is headed by David Keel, I am his self pro­claimed part­ner in crime. As the neigh­bor­hood is striv­ing to estab­lish an arts dis­trict, David and I are putting together an exhi­bi­tion to show off some of Chicago’s emerg­ing finest and try­ing to get the rights to house the show in a recently ren­o­vated his­tor­i­cal build­ing on Mil­wau­kee Avenue. I will also dis­close more on this at a later date. I can say, how­ever, that I am thrilled by the neighborhood’s desire to spon­sor the arts and make the Mil­wau­kee Avenue a bona fide arts district.

Lastly but not leastly, June 6th David Keel and I will be show­ing our new paint­ings in a two per­son solo exh­i­ni­tion. I will have a spe­cial post for describ­ing the who’s, where’s, what’s and when’s of each of the afore men­tioned as the time gets closer. I’m delighted to be apart of all three events and even more so for the con­tri­bu­tions Sim­ple Gallery can make to our arts com­mu­nity here in Chicago.

Ah yes, I almost for­got two very impor­tant events. Sun­day May 24th Sim­ple Gallery will be hav­ing it’s 2nd fundrais­ing event at Whistler in Logan Square. Free musi­cal per­for­mances by The Notes and Scratches, A Tundra/Locks as well as other enter­tain­ments for the eyes. This is an all day event, so come and drink all you can because the gallery gets to take some bar money home!
Addi­tion­ally the Pla­gia­rists are hav­ing a fundraiser art exhi­bi­tion, Art in the time of Pla­gia­rism at Coun­try Club in Wicker Park on Fri­day April 24th. I will be show­ing a new paint­ing as well as work by Tony Fitz­patrick, Mat Daly, Ash­ley Alexan­der, Emily Rap­port and many, more. Come by, have some fun, see some great work, sup­port our local arts com­mu­nity and maybe have a drink or two while your there.

Posted by Dee Clements on Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 at 7:42 pm. You can follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.