Artists and those interested in the arts gathering for fun, mutual inspiration and support. Thanks to Olya for the invite and see you next monthβ¦
Featuring curated playlist and video by Nubes
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Artists and those interested in the arts gathering for fun, mutual inspiration and support. Thanks to Olya for the invite and see you next monthβ¦
Featuring curated playlist and video by Nubes
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Olya Salimova leading the latest of her monthly 15th Element arts gatherings, this time at WellRounded vintage shop in Pilsen, Chicago, Sep 15th.
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Opening of latest show at Sawhorse Gallery in Hermosa, Chicago, Sep 13th: βSecondary Purpose,β a selection of fifty works from the CURAYTOR collection.
Amassed over decades by Chicago-based photographer and innkeeper Ray Reiss, the collection spans more than 3,000 objects...
where the traditional practices of literate communication are noteworthy now only in the absurdity they embody.
14.09.2025 05:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Although in the showβs notes curator Alex Wilson claims emphasis on diversity and broadness of concept in his choices, he has (diversity notwithstanding) hit on a consensus of artistic reaction to the current moment β depiction of a post-legibility era...
14.09.2025 05:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0...of artists setting aside brightness, bombast and carefully crafted pop-culture idiocy; shuffling away from the class show-off toward the one in the back passing around tightly folded-up notes written in smudgy pencil.
14.09.2025 05:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0My notes on the opening of the group show "Abstract Concepts" at Agitator Gallery in Chicago on September 6
Fast-forwarding through meaning, leaving only traces of the expected gestures of communication, this show is additional confirmation of a trend Iβve noted...
Also got to see the exhibition on display there, "Sacred Containers: Capsules, Conduits and Other Stories."
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Art by:
Cecilia Beaven
FΓTIMA
bex ya yolk
Fun and stimulating evening Wednesday the 3rd at Chicago Artist's Coalition for Speed Networking Night. Everybody had a good story to tell. Made it a lot easier to feel optimistic about this city.
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If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula
06.09.2025 21:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 04/ and if you donβt mind them you might find yourself down flat.
25.08.2025 02:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 03/ but were they participating in the conversation? Did we have an understanding? They seemed to be operating from a different principal of gravity from us, but who among those gathered were the ones leaning at a dangerous angle? Point of view and scale are important...
25.08.2025 02:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 02/ To βunderstandβ in old English meant you stood among people who shared certain knowledge (because βunderβ and βamongβ were interchangeable concepts back then). Alex Adkinsonβs industrial/organic steel sculptures stood among the guests at the show closing at Sawhorse on Saturday...
25.08.2025 02:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0My notes on the closing of the two-artist exhibition "Far Down the Phantom Air" at Sawhorse Gallery in Chicago, August 23
25.08.2025 02:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0You can buy a copy for yourself!
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For a while now I've been slowly teaching myself the skills to refurbish relatively low-quality digital images of modern art works and print life-size faithful reproductions of the original works on my high-resolution printer. My latest work is a reproduction of an intriguing Cezanne watercolor.
23.08.2025 04:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Haven't been able to find a satisfactory name for a midcentury modern casting of cyberpunk. Not dieselpunk, not atompunk. Somewhere between Connery-Bond punk and Down-With-Love punk.
19.08.2025 05:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I don't get the blanket resistance to AI art by many artists and art scholars. As if obsession and choice haven't been acknowledged as valid facets of art practice for at least a century.
19.08.2025 05:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I don't get the blanket resistance to AI art. As if obsession and choice haven't been acknowledged as valid facets of art practice for at least a century.
19.08.2025 05:05 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Take me down to Parapluie City where the grass is green 'cause it's always raining
11.08.2025 03:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My notes at the exhibition of Japanese prints and traditional culture at College of DuPage's Cleve Carney Museum of Art in Glen Ellyn -- βHokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating Worldβ
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My notes on Third Friday art exhibition openings in Bridgeport, Chicago, July 18.
Bridgeport Art Center
Zhou B Art Center
Heritage Museum of Asian Art
Oliva Gallery
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July 18th, the Zhou B Art Center in Bridgeport, Chicago, opening of βWe Built This: Making Through Migration,β a show that endeavors to illustrate how artists reflect the experience and perception of immigrant culture and other hybrid outsider identities.
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βThe Ocean Between VIII: Luminosityβ exhibition opening at Oliva Gallery, Logan Square, Chicago, July 18
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βChinese Lotus Shoes: Exploring the Cultural Prestige of Footbinding in Imperial Chinaβ at the Heritage Museum of Asian Art, Bridgeport, Chicago.
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Exhibition opening, "The Landscape is Changing", Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, July 18
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The plight of the art commentatorβ¦
Drawing by Temo artbytemo.com
Rough night as an art commentator when you run into this at a galleryβ¦
Weaving by Kira Dominguez Hultgren www.kiradominguezhultgren.com
My notes on the School of the Art Institute Low-Residency MFA thesis exhibition.
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School of the Art Institute Low-Residency MFA Thesis Exhibition public reception, July 12.
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