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Exploring art and culture in Chicago and beyond. Always looking ahead. https://forwardfolio.com https://forwardfolio.substack.com/notes

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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 month…

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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Forward Folio (@forwardfolio) Opening of latest show at Sawhorse Gallery in Hermosa, Chicago: β€œSecondary Purpose,β€œ a selection of fifty works from the CURAYTOR collection. Amassed over decades by Chicago-based photographer and in...

Opening of latest show at Sawhorse Gallery in Hermosa, Chicago, Sep 13th: β€œSecondary Purpose,β€œ 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...

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where the traditional practices of literate communication are noteworthy now only in the absurdity they embody.

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Although in the show’s 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...

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...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.

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Scrolling and Scrawling "Abstract Concepts," an exhibition of conceptual abstract art at Agitator Gallery in Chicago, show opening Sep. 6

My 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 I’ve noted...

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Also got to see the exhibition on display there, "Sacred Containers: Capsules, Conduits and Other Stories."

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Art by:
Cecilia Beaven
FÁTIMA
bex ya yolk

12.09.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

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4/ and if you don’t mind them you might find yourself down flat.

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3/ 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...

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2/ To β€œunderstand” in old English meant you stood among people who shared certain knowledge (because β€œunder” and β€œamong” were interchangeable concepts back then). Alex Adkinson’s industrial/organic steel sculptures stood among the guests at the show closing at Sawhorse on Saturday...

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Far Down the Phantom Air On the threshold at show closing, Sawhorse Gallery, August 23

My notes on the closing of the two-artist exhibition "Far Down the Phantom Air" at Sawhorse Gallery in Chicago, August 23

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Reproduction print, "Roses in a Vase" Paul Cezanne - Forward Folio's Ko-fi Shop High-quality reproduction of Paul Cezanne's ca. 1885 watercolor, "Roses in a Vase." Exact same size as the original (18.5" x 11.5") Printed on a hig...

You can buy a copy for yourself!

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Cezanne on Paper, Then and Now For a while now I've been slowly teaching myself the skills to refurbish relatively low-quality digital images of modern art works from the internet and print life-size faithful reproductions of the o...

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.

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Haven'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.

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I 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.

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I 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.

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Take me down to Parapluie City where the grass is green 'cause it's always raining

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The Brush Runs Away with Itself β€œHokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World” at Cleve Carney Museum of Art

My notes at the exhibition of Japanese prints and traditional culture at College of DuPage's Cleve Carney Museum of Art in Glen Ellyn -- β€œHokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World”

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Mark-making and Memory-making Third Friday in Bridgeport, Chicago, July 18

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 β€œWe Built This: Making Through Migration,” 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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β€œThe Ocean Between VIII: Luminosity” exhibition opening at Oliva Gallery, Logan Square, Chicago, July 18

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β€œChinese Lotus Shoes: Exploring the Cultural Prestige of Footbinding in Imperial China” 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 commentator…

Drawing by Temo artbytemo.com

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Rough night as an art commentator when you run into this at a gallery…

Weaving by Kira Dominguez Hultgren www.kiradominguezhultgren.com

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A Brief History of Meaning-making School of the Art Institute Low-Residency MFA Thesis Exhibition public reception, July 12

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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#chicago
#chicagoart

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