Articles for February, 2010

Houses

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

I think about houses a lot. I day dream about them a lot too. I grew up in a really poor fam­ily and we always lived in apart­ments or duplexes or rented places. We never had a house that was ours that we could etch our heights in the wood…

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Some paintings by Jenn Mann

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

I just dis­cov­ered this artist today, Jen Mann. Rad oil paint­ings of girls and animals.

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Experiments

Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Read­ing a lit­tle about encaus­tic paint­ing today, which is heat­ing and mix­ing bee’s wax and pig­ment and paint­ing with it. Encaus­tic paint­ing is a par­tic­u­lar style I am really inter­ested in and would like to exper­i­ment with. Today I went to the art sup­ply store to buy mate­ri­als. Quite pricey

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Vorab Fabrik, Nadine Nakanishi & Nick Butcher @ Post Family this Friday

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

The Fam­ily Room presents: Vorab Fab­rik, the first solo gallery exhi­bi­tion of the col­lab­o­ra­tive work of Nadine Nakan­ishi and Nick Butcher of Son­nen­z­im­mer.

The Post Fam­ily is Located at 1821 W Hub­bard St #202 Chicago, IL. Open­ing recep­tion, Feb­ru­ary 26, 2010 from 7-11pm Entry is free.

Let’s Be Matching by Eliza Fernand in NYC March 6, 2010

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Our pal Eliza Fer­nand has a new inter­ac­tive per­for­mance piece tak­ing place soon in NYC!
It’s called “Let’s Be Match­ing”. Eliza cre­ates a visu­ally iden­ti­fi­able group of peo­ple by mak­ing them match­ing acces­sories.  The acces­sories are cus­tomized to each per­son in a ten-minute fit­ting ses­sion, and are all made from

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Essimar by Esther Ramirez

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

About two years ago I was at a music show at the now defunt Chicago venue Av-aerie. I was there tak­ing pho­tos of the show for a friend and I met this totally rad girl named Esther Ramirez. I spent the evening hangin’ out with Esther and her Read more »

Announcement: New American Paintings Midwestern Deadline

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

New Amer­i­can Paint­ings is a quar­terly jour­nal fea­tur­ing emerg­ing painters; the dead­line for IL painters to sub­mit work to be selected for the next pub­li­ca­tion is Feb 27th!

If you are not famil­iar with NAP, you can check it out at a Bor­ders Books, Barnes and Noble and some…

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The Life & Times of Bernard Suarez

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

I made these lit­tle draw­ings years ago as pre­lim­i­nary sketches for a much larger project. Bernardo Soares is a char­ac­ter in a novel called ‘The Book Of Dis­qui­etude’ by Fer­nando Pes­soa. While read­ing this book I got the idea to develop some of the minor char­ac­ters and make small draw­ings

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Winter photography by Michelle Geoga

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Michelle Geoga is a Chicago pho­tog­ra­pher that has a stu­dio in the same build­ing as I.  She often shoots for bands, mod­els and actors though recently has taken some beau­ti­ful pho­tos in Michi­gan of the win­ter land­scape.  She has also been exper­i­ment­ing with her cell phone cam­era using it to…

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Scott Wolniak @ 65 Grand

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Scott Wol­niak, You Can Lose Your Bal­ance Feb­ru­ary 19 — March 20 Open­ing Recep­tion: Fri­day Feb­ru­ary 19 (7-10pm)Scott

1378 W GRAND AVE (on noble st) CHICAGO IL 60622–6450 (map) 312.719.4325 | info@65grand.com GALLERY HOURS FRIDAY & SATURDAY 12–5:30PM or by appointment

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