Check this out: Bauhaus-inspired photo exhibit, on display in Chicago as part of the Filter Photo Festival, through Oct. 29, 2010. Chicago Photography Center, 3301 N. Lincoln Avenue. Phone (773) 549-1631 for more information or check out their website here. Also check out Time Out Chicago’s cool slide show of some of the work.
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Which of the above images is A) from the awesome and provocative exhibit “Black Acid Co-op,” a massive installation shown last summer at Deitch Projects, in the rarified NYC gallery world, and which B) depicts the house fire that plagued the Pilsen residence known as the Whale (home to creative collective Order of the Lamprey)? Take your pick, link on your image of choice to learn the answer, then join the Facebook group to keep up to date and Save The Whale.
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[BRIDGEPORT, Chicago] Terrific art is not limited to the worlds of museums and traditional galleries, thank God, and lucky for us in Chicago, we have a world-class city with visual wonders exploding all over the place, and a broad definition of what constitutes art and inspiration. While Co-Prosperity Sphere in Bridgeport has been around a while (their graffiti show was a fantastic and mad highlight of last year), it really seems to be ramping up its act, and leading the pack in what truly seems to be an organically forming arts district (versus those elsewhere in the city promoted by private business – not that there’s anything wrong with that).
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The current Co-Pro show, TYPEFORCE: The Annual Chicago Show of Emerging Typographic Allstars (extended through March 19, 2010), shows off an amazing array of beautiful and challenging lettering. Mechanically typeset, produced by hand, some barely legible but with merits galore to compensate, including one large piece (in the gallery window) of the likes I’ve not quite seen anywhere. When viewed from just about any angle, it may appear to be an abstract fabric installation or flight of fancy predicting the impending onset of spring breezes. (Let us pray, anyway.) But squint, and know what you’re looking for, and it’s a larger than life depiction of the show’s title/logo (which you can view on the Co-pro web page promoting the event.).
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Shown here and on my Flickr page are just some quick highlights of some of the pieces I enjoyed the most, during a whirlwind visit on the day after the opening on Feb. 26, 2010. (While I love a good happening as much as the next guy and love chatting up the artists and other patrons, I often find it challenging to really enjoy the art and to focus on details, and especially to try to photograph if there is something I wish to promote for you, the gentle reader.) Read more
Check out a wide range of creative work – from fantastic hand lettering to poster design to artful web design work for places like Groupon – at the personal website of Chicago designer Will Miller. Will is part of the Firebelly Design family and one of my collaborators in last September’s group exhibition in Pilsen. He’s one of the artists showing at TYPEFORCE: The Annual Chicago Show of Emerging Typographic Allstars, in Bridgeport. Opening this Friday, February 26, 2010. Check it out if you’re a type fiend and in Chicago! More of my some of my favorite work by Will, after the jump: Read more
CHICAGO} Just when I’m about to give up on Facebook and all its trivial distractions, along comes along a cool breeze of inspiration to keep me coming back. This morning was treated to this wonderful photo collection, the portfolio of my friend Tom Slazinski who is the creative director for windows and interiors for the Anthropologie chain of stores. (Tom is based in Chicago but many of the images are for other locations.) A few of my favorite images are presented here, Read more
Found stuff is often fun stuff. For more from the secret collection of oddball found art, go here.
Too hot (or cold) to leave the house? Can’t afford a plane ticket to the Middle East (or Chicago)? Want to peruse a variety of cool contemporary art? Head over to my collection of photo sets at Flickr.com, where you’ll see some favorite work observed recently at museums and galleries in Cairo and Dubai, art fairs in Tampa and Chicago, and schools including Oxbow, Nettelhorst and Ringling. Enjoy, and let me know if you have similar online galleries I may wish to link to.
Sometimes, a gallery has something artistic to say when it’s empty, too.
For more images from this set, visit my Flickr album from Oxbow.
Observed at: “Word Into Art,” excellent restaging of exhibit sponsored by British Museum that I happened across in Dubai, March 2008. While gorgeous art was on display, I also felt signage like this was exemplary as well.
Ever notice how the middle 3 letters of EARTH are … ART? [Photo by Ron Reason, 2008.]
For more from the wonderful public art surrounding the Louis Nettelhorst School in the Lakeview Neighborhood of Chicago, visit my Flickr page here.