Vega Estates

Vega Estates Presents our first show of the season:

Chelsea Culp & Ben Foch: Substance and Shadow

Saturday, June 27, 2009

6pm-10pm

723 W. 16th Street

Chicago, Il 60616

Substance and Shadow is a two-part collaborative installation between Chicago artists Chelsea Culp and Ben Foch. The title of the installation is derived from the novel Substance and Shadow, written by Marius Roux in 1879. The novel, which until recently has existed in obscurity, is a thinly shrouded expose of the early career of Paul Cézanne. Roux's title refers to La Fontaine's fable about the dog that drops the food in its jaw in an attempt to seize its more enticing reflection.

This two-part installation attempts to unravel the dynamic contained both within and surrounding the novel and is an investigation into the social politics of early modernism, tackling both narrative and perception, its impact and its potential role in the contemporary. The garage will be used to address substance by creating an authoritative gallery space, a simulacrum for the experience of canonical art. Using drywall and lighting to produce this effect, the space will suggest a dumb experience of materiality. On display in the basement will be a collection of Peruvian burial dolls, religious relics that may or may not generate something insubstantial and formless, suggesting a conscious experience of immateriality. The substance and shadow of authenticity are separated to determine how much of one lay in the other, how many ways there are to act in accordance with either, and what conditions trigger the decisions to do so.

Hope to see you on Saturday! The summer schedule is listed on our newly updated website under the "current" section. www.vegaestatespresents.com

**Bunker Brew and Vega icecream!

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Vega Estates
Roxane Hopper and Julie Rudder

723 West 16th St.
Chicago, IL 60616
(773) 852-9665
(312) 545-4716
www.vegaestatespresents.com

Summer Show @ Antena

Summer Show
New works by:
Saul Aguirre, drawings
Yarima Ariza, installation

Project Wall Space: Adriana Baltazar, installation

Saul Aguirre, born Mexico City and lives in Chicago is currently getting his BFA at the School of the Art Institute. He has shown his art for more than 15 years throughout Chicago, Mexico, Peru and recently has participated in Bridge Art Miami and Versionfest. His work is in several public and private collections throughout Chicago, Washington DC, Italy and Peru.

Yarima Ariza originally from Bogotá, Colombia and has studied at Columbia College Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has in the past collaborated on art projects involving hair with fiber artist Anne Wilson. Ariza currently lives in Miami.

Adriana Baltazar, born in southwest Chicago, has grown up to be a near hermit hidden away in an office by day to pay off art school debt. By night, squeezing in time to be an artist around homework as well. She completed her BFA at the School of the Art Institute in 2004 and is now pursuing a Master of Arts in Teaching at Roosevelt University. She has shown in different places, big and small, near and far, but finds more pleasure in wandering through neglected nooks in the city and wilderness seeking sublime inspiration and escape in vacant lots and other plots of earth overridden with trees and foliage.

Opening Friday June 26 from 6pm-10pm
June 26 - July 25, 2009

ANTENA
1765 S. Laflin St.
Chicago IL 60608
www.antenapilsen.com
antenapilsen (at) gmail.com
Saturdays noon-5pm or by appointment

Antonio Martinez

“Everyday Realities” Recent works by Chicago Painter Antonio Martinez

Opening Reception June 20th from 5:00pm-10:00pm
June 20 through August 1st 2009

"Autobiographical and narrative in style Antonio explores ideas and images
related to his experiences in the plumbing industry through these recent
paintings. Believing that no art is worthy of its name unless it contains
some element of beauty, he draws his inspiration from the tangle of human
relationships commonly rooted in the every day.

The utmost human activity is collecting. A collector often keeps track of his
life through the gathering of art pieces, even when the art and the collector
approach an idea from different view points. These decisions can then later
influence generations in which they can build upon for the future."
- Walter Fydryck, Chicago

Hour d’oeuvres will be served by: David Jenson Catering 1901 S. Racine Ave. (773)456-3681

PROSPECTUS Art Gallery
1210 W. 18th St. • Chicago, Illinois 60608
Tel. (312) 733-6132 • Fax. (312)733-6797

LOS ARTISTAS DE LA CALLE 18

LOS ARTISTAS DE LA CALLE 18 CURATED BY RICARDO SANTOS HERNÁNDEZ

ARTISTS:
VICTOR ALEGRIA
MARIBEL BURGOS
JUAN CARDENAS
PATRICIA CARDENAS
JOSÉ LUIS CUEVAS
FRANK DÍAZ
LAUREN GIBRICK
ISAURA GONZALEZ
JOSUE JIMÉNEZ
SALVADOR JIMÉNEZ
RUDOLF KOTLIKOV
CAROLINA LÓPEZ
JEFF ABBEY MALDONADO
LUIS PIÑA MORALES
AMANDA MUDROVICH
MARK NELSON
JAIME ORTEGA
MARIA SANTILLAN
RICARDO SANTOS HERNÁNDEZ
JANELLE SMITH
RUFINO TAMAYO
OMAR TELLO
MERCEDES VELA
GABRIEL VILLA

EL VALOR PARTICIPANTS:
MARVIN SCOTT
SABINO MEDRANO
MR. NEGRON
CARLOS VILLALOBOS
KENNETH WILLIAMS
LUIS GARCIA

Opening Reception JUNE 19, 2009, 6PM – 9PM

WORLD GYM PILSEN
1822 S. Bishop Ave.
Chicago, IL 60608
312.491.8700