GROUND: new works by REBECCA BEACHY

GROUND

new works by REBECCA BEACHY

FEBRUARY 5-11

Opening Reception: Sunday, February 5, 7-10pm

Open Hours: Saturdays 12-3pm

Roxaboxen Exhibitions

2130 w 21st Street, Chicago 60608

ACRE and ROXABOXEN EXHIBITIONS present an opening reception on SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 2011 from 7-10pm at 2130 w 21st Street, Chicago 60608.  ACRE has partnered with ROXABOXEN EXHIBITIONS to host REBECCA BEACHY: GROUND, the next installment in ACRE's year-long series of solo exhibitions by 2011 ACRE summer residents.

GROUND

With formal and ephemeral gestures of processing and repair, Rebecca Beachy’s sculpture recasts narratives of animal bodies as use objects: deer ground up by hand and returned to the site of collision as highway dust, repairing cracks in the asphalt; a muslin pillow accumulates the down from birds that collided with windows; the stain in a copy paper box is the evidence of having held an injured duck. The work, concerned with the damaged interstice between the wild and human structures, articulates physical engagement as an ethical gauge, positioning meaning as resting first in the material and the concrete. This sculptural presence is used to foreground questions regarding humans as animals, especially the question of the human relationship with gravity and mortality, and hopes to show the complexities in the interconnections between animals, people, and the ground on which both meet, collide, and dwell.

REBECCA BEACHY (b.1982) is a Chicago based artist, born and raised on a farm in Colorado, who works primarily in sculpture and installation. She is a recent recipient of both an MFA in Studio Arts and an MA in Art History from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work has been shown in numerous locations including Edinbugh, Scotland, Dallas, Boulder and Chicago with recent and upcoming exhibitions at Gallery 400, SHOP (Southside Hub of Production), Roxaboxen and Eel Space in Chicago. She currently has an essay published in the latest edition of Puerto del Sol. Most recently, Beachy has been raising chickens and apprenticing as a taxidermist for the Chicago Academy of Scientists at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

More information about Rebecca Beachy can be found at www.rebeccabeachy.com

Roxaboxen Exhibitions is an artist collective run gallery and work space in the heart of Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. We are dedicated to displaying work of awesome artists we encounter, providing a space for creative community collaborations, as well as distributing/acquiring ideas and information. 

More information about Roxaboxen Exhibitions can be found at www.roxaboxenminicastle.com

ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibition) was founded in 2010 with the ambition to provide the arts community with an affordable, cooperative, and dialogue-oriented residency program. The residency itself takes place each summer in rural southwest Wisconsin and brings together artists from across disciplines and levels of experience to create a regenerative community of cultural producers. Over the course of the following year ACRE endeavors to further support its residents by providing venues for exhibitions, idea exchange, interdisciplinary collaboration, and experimental projects.

More information about ACRE can be found at www.acreresidency.org

SUNDAY Jan 29: THE SLOW CLUB // new works by ANNA CAMPBELL

THE SLOW CLUB

new works by ANNA CAMPBELL

JANUARY 29-30, 2012

Opening Reception: Sunday, Jan 29, 4-8pm

Open Hours: Monday, Jan 30, noon-4pm

ACRE Projects

1913 W 17th Street

THE SLOW CLUB is a collection of work that investigates lost queer spaces. Objects and ephemera, including bar mirrors and matchbooks, provide traces of real and imagined histories, encouraging viewers to reconsider their relationship to a recent and radical past. Concurrently with the exhibit at ACRE, elements of The Slow Club will be on view at Parlour on Clark, re-situating the work into the context of a queer social space. Parlour is open 3pm – 2am Sundays, and is located on 6341 N. Clark St 60626.

ANNA CAMPBELL received her M.F.A. in art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her B.A. in studio art from the College of Wooster. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan and teaches courses on sculpture, installation and curating at Grand Valley State University. Her research focuses on queered representations of heroic masculinity through video, sculpture, and installation art.

More information about Anna Campbell can be found at www.annacampbell.net

Chuck Jones @ SLOW

NOT COOL OR STOIC

new works by CHUCK JONES + MATTHEW SCHLAGBAUM

January 27-February 18 , 2012

Opening Reception: Friday Jan 27, 6-9pm

Open Hours: Saturdays noon-5pm

Slow

2153 w 21st Street, Chicago 60608

ACRE and SLOW present an opening reception on FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012 from 6-9pm at 2153 w 21st Street, Chicago 60608. ACRE has partnered with SLOW to host NOT COOL OR STOIC: new works by CHUCK JONES and ACRE resident MATTHEW SCHLAGBAUM, the next installment in ACRE's year-long series of exhibitions by 2011 ACRE summer residents.

NOT COOL OR STOIC

Colored theory. Not color for color’s sake, but named colors for linguistic associations.

Matthew Schlagbaum begins with greyscale, a faux grisaille, and slips in a technicolor magic schism. Unlike the filmic precedent, Matthew is invested neither in generating delight, nor affirming faith in humanity or individuality. More like Matthew is illuminating the shameless manipulations that drive familiar stories.

Glittering gold. Black and white and read all over.

Chuck, a gorillalike hulking man always decked out in Carhartts and work shoes, spins a yarn with earnest ennui. Deeply sentimental moments become meditational gems. But his laser focus meanders—the moment was truly heart-felt, but Chuck is open enough to respond just as deeply to the next. Follow his lead and you may end up with your emotional guard puddled around your ankles, not knowing the differences between true grit, heart-strings, or even what is funny.

Chuck and Matthew both reside somewhere shaken, somewhat glum. Not cool or stoic. Each embraces his own direct emotional responses, and calls upon a viewer to dive into a moment. But each is driven toward a view of reality that pulls back the curtain to reveal something as it is complete with contradictions, flaws and untidy conclusions.

CHUCK JONES was born and raised inside the beltway that circles our nation's capital, now lives and works in Chicago with his family. 

More information about Chuck Jones can be found at www.babygorilla.com.

MATTHEW SCHLAGBAUM is a multidisciplinary artist currently residing in Chicago, IL. Originally from Florida, he received an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as a BFA in Sculpture and a BA in Psychology from the University of South Florida. His work investigates materiality, color, and object-ness in relation to the way in which value is assigned to concepts of emotionality, interpersonal relationships, success, and self-identification. He often implements objects and imagery considered generic or inauthentic in order to tease out the complex emotional relationship we have with these materials.

More information about Matthew Schlagbaum can be found at www.matthewschlagbaum.com

SLOW GALLERY is an alternative exhibition venue for contemporary art. Not quite an apartment gallery, not commercial. Art that leans away from hipster toward introspective and vulnerable (read slightly nerdy).

More information about Slow Gallery can be found at paul-is-slow.info

ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibition) was founded in 2010 with the ambition to provide the arts community with an affordable, cooperative, and dialogue-oriented residency program. The residency itself takes place each summer in rural southwest Wisconsin and brings together artists from across disciplines and levels of experience to create a regenerative community of cultural producers. Over the course of the following year ACRE endeavors to further support its residents by providing venues for exhibitions, idea exchange, interdisciplinary collaboration, and experimental projects.

More information about ACRE can be found at www.acreresidency.org

MR. SMITH GOES TO ROXABOXEN

MR. SMITH GOES TO ROXABOXEN

An evening under the influence of Jack Smith

Friday January 13, 2012 from 7pm-11pm

Suggested donation: $9

South Side Projections and Roxaboxen Exhibitions are pleased to present a Jack Smith themed night of titillation and entertainment. We will be screening Smith's legendary and notorious film FLAMING CREATURES (1962, 43 min., 16mm) and Jill Godmilow's film of Ron Vawter's performance of Jack Smith's play WHAT'S UNDERGROUND ABOUT MARSHMALLOWS (1996, 60 min., DVD). Godmilow will be on hand to discuss Smith's influence on Vawter and the world at large. Then a performance by Chicago's unclassifiable punk-performance art-rock band ONO will conclude the evening's events.

Jack Smith was one of the most important figures in American art of the 20th century. The godfather of performance art, a queer icon, and the originator of the camp aesthetic, he influenced generations of artists including Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, John Waters, Cindy Sherman, and Guy Maddin. FLAMING CREATURES one of Smith's most famous films is a nonnarrative satire of Hollywood B movies and a eulogy to B-movie bombshell Maria Montez. Jonas Mekas, who went to jail for showing it, praised it as "a high level of art which is absolutely lacking in decorum." Onion City Experimental Film Festival programmer Patrick Friel gushes "FLAMING CREATURES is a wonderfully vibrant, messy, and lighthearted film that traffics in titillation and tease, irreverence and playfulness, and a disarmingly free-spirited and freewheeling sense of energy."

For Jill Godmilow's WHAT'S UNDERGROUND ABOUT MARSHMALLOWS, the artist filmed Ron Vawter's uninterrupted performance of Smith's one-person play of the same name, which Vawter combined onstage with a Gary Indiana play about Roy Cohn for the long-running performance ROY COHN/JACK SMITH. The performance details Smith's feud with Mekas over intellectual property: specifically, Smith feared that his most ardent champion was making illegal copies of his films. Filmmaker and educator Jill Godmilow will discuss Smith's influence and her work with Ron Vawter, using clips from her other collaboration with Vawter (ROY COHN/JACK SMITH) to distinguish the politics of Vawter's performance.

The Chicago Punk Database describes ONO as an "Industrial/Avant/Gospel/Noise Band." Since the early 1980s, founders P.Michael and Travis, with a revolving cast of musicians whose contributions kept ONO's sound constantly in flux, have outraged and entranced audiences large and small with their unclassifiable performance art rock.

Roxaboxen Exhibitions

2130 W 21st Street

Chicago IL 60608

www.roxaboxenminicastle.com

Short Court: Tropical Aesthletics

Short Court: Tropical Aesthletics
Curated by Tag Team 

February 10 - March 10, 2012

Opening Friday February 10 from 6pm-10pm


Prepare for fun in the synthetic sun at Short Court: Tropical Aesthletics!
A sporting event and painting exhibition all in one! HOT!HOT!HOT!


This collision of spectacles has it all:
* Attendees can challenge a pair of professional volleyball players
for the chance to WIN $100!
* Chicago's best painters will display event-specific works on the
walls surrounding the court!
*!Muy Caliente!  Imbibe exotic tropical beverages from the Cabana!
*!Muy Caliente! DJ set by wurkstep pioneers SICH MANG!
*!Muy Caliente! Sun Lamps, Palm Trees, Coastal Wildlife, Sun Block, and Sand!
The sandy lines dividing spectators, artists, and athletes will be
smoothed over by all feet that make their way to this one night event
at Antena.


Painters include: Adam Farcus, Adam Grossi, Alberto Aguilar, Alex
Bradley Cohen, Angeline Evans, Brian Wadford, Caroline Carlsmith, Cory
Glick, Edra Soto, EC Brown, Irene Perez, Jeriah Hildwine, Jim
Papadopoulos, Kevin Jennings, Nicole Northway, Pamela Fraser, Philip
von Zweck, Thad Kellstadt, Vincent Dermody


ANTENA
1765 S. Laflin St.
Chicago IL 60608
www.antenapilsen.com
antenapilsen (at) gmail.com
(773) 340-3516
Hours: by appointment only

Skill Party @ Cobalt Studio

One night reception
Friday, December 9, 2011 from 7:00pm until 10:00pm
Cobalt Studio, 1950 W. 21st St// Storefront Space, Chicago

Skill Party is the result of a series of workshops exploring the space between the artist, teacher, and student, and the interaction between these modes.

It is a participatory project in which the process is as much the work as is the outcome. We are artists learning to become teachers, education researchers, and socially engaged activists working in public schools.

Collaboration, participation, and social engagement are core values in guiding our explorations. The work in the show includes collaborative art works, documentation from workshops, individual art work, and classroom work with young students.

//Mapping, Food, Fiber art, DIY, Ceramics & more//
—
Tess Hwang; Shanna Griffus; Kyle Busse; Krystal Korth; Lucy Saldana; Louie Raymo; Kelsea Cadore; Alana Wynes; Paulina Camacho; Rayshawn Nowlin; Devan Picard; Sarah Lesser; Lindsay Abramo; Jessica Rosenbaum

Questions? cobaltartstudio@gmail.com

Art Sale for Antena @ VERGE ART FAIR

Art Sale for Antena @ VERGE ART FAIR



Friday November 18 from 6pm-10pm



Antena will participate in this December's Verge Art Fair in Miami and we are having an art sale to raise funds to pay for necessary expenses. We will have affordable art by Miguel Cortez, Saul Aguirre and others.



For more info on Verge Art Fair: http://www.miamibeachartfair.com/miamibeachmain.html



ANTENA

1765 S. Laflin St.

Chicago, IL 60608
http://www.antenapilsen.com/



MARK NELSON, "Reverse Engineering: Works from the Painted Desert"

Opening Thursday, November 10 · 6:00pm - 11:00pm

 CARLOS & DOMINGUEZ Fine Arts Gallery

1538 W. Cullerton Street, (2000 South, East of Ashland Ave.)

Chicago, IL

MARK NELSON, an artist and teacher, has been a resident of Chicago since 1984, when he arrived from the Republic of Panama. His work was shaped from his roots as a "gringo" living from adolescence into adulthood in a unique Latin American country where the "land divided and the world united".

His work can be found in private collections as well as a commissioned mural painting for the new U.S. Embassy-Consulate in the Republ ic of Panama in 2007. His "Gringolandia" Studio and home is located in Chicago's own Pilsen community, where he is an active and highly regarded artist. He has received numerous grants and awards as a teacher and a professional artist, including twice taking the Illinois Arts Council esteemed Fellowship.

"Reverse Engineering: works from the Painted Desert" is the latest series of works to come from two summer residencies in 2010 and 2011, during which Mark researched the landscape and indigenous history of Northern Arizona as a teacher-ranger and videographer for the U.S. National Park Service. MARK NELSON began his paintings outside of his park residence above the Painted Desert.

The Painted Desert, a carved basin of land once a river larger than the Amazon, is at the center of the Petrified Forest National Park. The park, abundant with Pueblo ruins, petroglyphs, petrified trees, and Triassic fossils, provided rich sources of inspiration to Mark, and he ventured out to other sites under the jurisdiction of the Hope, Navajo, Apache, Zuni, and 18 other indigenous nations.

Nelson attributes his greatest influence during these summers to attending the noon dance rite of Niman, by invitation of Hopi artists. Niman is a Hopi celebration of the Summer Solstice that reunites family and friends. The paintings, which MARK NELSON presents here at the CARLOS & DOMINGUEZ Fine Arts Gallery, are filled with the symbolism, landscaope, colors, and bountifulness of this region.

Not to be missed, these works of artistic vision are a cultivation of enlightenment. MARK NELSON has had a number of unique experiences which have contributed to artistic expressions like none other.

After Opening night, viewing is by appointment:

Contact: Len Dominguez at: feriadelaluna @yahoo.com