Artists at Work Forum: Domestic Studios

Artists at Work Forum: Domestic Studios
Co-presented with Gallery 400 at UIC
March 18, 2010 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington, Chicago
312-262-9866

Artists discuss strategies for making work in their home or live/work space. With Lorelei Stewart, Director of Gallery 400, and artists Brian Kapernekas, Jason Lazarus and Georgina Valverde.

Ronnie Bass at SAIC

Ronnie Bass
Wednesday, March 17 at 6pm
MC 1307, Film Video New Media Screening Room
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan

FREE ADMISSION –  SPACE IS LIMITED

Ronnie Bass is a New York based visual artist and musician. He works in video, sound, sculpture and installation. He received an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from the University of North Texas. He has exhibited widely nationally and internationally at institutions and galleries such as P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; The Kitchen, New York; James Cohen Gallery, New York; The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; The Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; and The Contemporary Art Center of Tel Aviv, among others. Musical compositions include the score for Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Hugo Boss Prize Exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London. He is currently producing a hip-hop album intended for release in 2012.

Brought to you by The Parlor Room:
(Photography Graduate Committee on Visiting Artists) in partnership with the Office of the Deans and Division Chairs, and the Department of Painting and Drawing.

landscape | portrait | still life

landscape | portrait | still life
March 13th – March 27th, 2010
Opening Reception: March 13, 6–11pm
March 14th open 12–5pm
By appointment only through March 27th
HungryMan Gallery
2135 N. Rockwell

HungryMan Gallery presents landscape | portrait | still life, a group show curated by Philip von Zweck, exhibiting photography, painting and sculpture. Von Zweck is the former director of VONZWECK, a living room art gallery in Chicagoʼs Humboldt Park. He is currently the producer and host of Something Else radio program on Loyola Universityʼs WLUW 88.7 FM. landscape | portrait | still life pulls together a group of contemporary works that weave themselves through some of the most traditional image forms, while veering from The Tradition in their deft switch-ups in method, posture, and political approach.

Featured artists include: Cornet Baldwin, Andrew Falkowski, Andreas Fischer, Gaylen Gerber with Jesse Chapman, Rachel Herman, Heather Mekkelson, John Neff, and Heidi Norton.

New Acquisitions from the Video Data Bank

New Acquisitions from the Video Data Bank
Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Roots & Culture
1034 N. Milwaukee Ave
Division stop, Blue Line
$5 suggested donation

On Saturday, March 13, the Roots & Culture screening series will feature a program of work recently added to the archive of the Video Data Bank. Focusing on acquisitions from the past year, the program highlights eight pieces spanning a variety of genres and styles. This VDB program has recently screened at several major film festivals, and this Roots & Culture event is an opportunity for the VDB to showcase their new acquisitions in Chicago.

Program:
Jesse McLean, The Eternal Quarter Inch, 9:00, 2008
Sterling Ruby, Triviality, 9:19, 2009
Dani Leventhal, 54 Days this Winter 36 Days this Spring for 18 Minutes, 16:00, 2009
Jim Finn, Great Man and Cinema, 3:55, 2009
Pat Steir 1993: An Interview, 7:00, 1993
Susan Youssef, West Finger Road, 4:00, 2009
Wynne Greenwood & K8 Hardy, New Report, 12:00, 2005
Nicholas Provost, Long Live the New Flesh, 14:00, 2010

Chicago’s Video Data Bank is home to the world’s most extensive collection of videos by and about artists. Established at the School of the Art Institute in 1976 by graduate students Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield, VDB has become world renowned as one of the major collections of video art. The archive contains more than 2,000 titles that, seen as a whole, describe the development of video as an art form, originating in the late 1960s and continuing through the present. Through an international distribution service, the VDB makes video art, documentaries made by artists, and artist interviews available to a wide range of audiences. The organization serves screening venues worldwide, including micro-cinemas, festivals, educational institutions, libraries, galleries and major museums.

FAIR USE: Information Piracy and Creative Commons in Contemporary Art and Design

FAIR USE: Information Piracy and Creative Commons in Contemporary Art and Design
March 1, 2010 – April 30, 2010
Reception: March 11 5-8pm (lecture by Siebren Versteeg at 5)
Gallery Talk: Brandon Alvendia, curator, March 16th 6-7pm
Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 South Wabash Avenue

Sze Lin Pang, Line Langballe and Christina Okai Mejborn of Totem Collective, Guy Ben-Ner, Pratchaya Phinthong, Seth Price, Bea Correa, Kay Rosen, Carson Salter and Snowden Snowden and Siebren Versteeg.

Read the TimeOut Chicago preview here.

Jason Salavon: Old Codes

Jason Salavon: Old Codes
March 13 – April 10, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 20, 5 – 8 pm
Tony Wight Gallery
845 West Washington Boulevard

This will be the first exhibition at Tony Wight Gallery’s new location at 845 West Washington Boulevard, between Peoria and Green, on the second floor.

Using software processes of his own design, Jason Salavon’s distinctive fusion of art and information technology has positioned his work at the forefront of digital art practices. Salavon’s projects often co-opt and reconfigure data from popular culture, investigating the interrelationship between the part and the whole or the individual and the group. The final compositions are exhibited as art objects, such as photographic prints and video installations, while others exist in a real-time software context.

Old Codes is comprised of seven individual works – an LCD panel displaying a hyperreal vanitas still life constantly (yet almost imperceptibly) in flux; a C-print of a computer-generated skull; a digital projection of visual patterns derived from a backlog of the artist’s own Internet search history; two prints that each visually average 80 portraits by both Rembrandt and Hals respectively; and two prints that quantize the palettes of entire art historical oeuvres and striate the results into basic genres. The works in this exhibition, while varied greatly in both form and concept, all offer new perspectives on the intersection of art history and contemporary existence. Salavon continues to bring meaningful structures forward, sampling from the dense field of visual and statistical debris that surrounds us.

Martin Parr

Martin Parr
February 5 – April 3, 2010
Artist’s Reception: March 12, 5-8pm
Stephen Daiter Gallery
230 West Superior Street, Fourth floor (new location)

White/Light

White/Light
March 6- 28, 2010
Artist Talk: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 6 pm
UBS 12 x 12: New Artists / New Work
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Matt Clark and Jeremy Lemos are sound-based artists and musicians who have recorded and performed together since 2003 under the name White/Light. Focusing on the dynamic interplay between electronics and the electric guitar, Clark and Lemos create minimalist drone compositions that emphasize subtle tonal variations, sustained notes and a fascination with the properties of sound.

For their UBS 12 x 12 exhibition, Clark and Lemos produce a site-specific, interactive installation that represents the process behind the creation of a White/Light composition. Consisting of a multilayered soundscape of largely pre-recorded elements, and incorporating turntables, a reel-to-reel tape machine, and electric guitars, the installation evolves over the course of the exhibition through manipulation by both the artists and viewers.

White/Light also performs live in the gallery, interacting directly with the installation every Tuesday evening and during other unscheduled times throughout the month of March. In addition, the artists invite a series of guest musicians and artists to perform as part of the exhibition.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
*White/Light accompanies all of the artists, except Roman Mars.

Roman Mars: Saturday, March 6, 3 pm, Free with museum admission
Roman Mars’ performance coincides with the Third Coast Filmless Festival that takes place in the MCA Theater. Mars is an audio producer, sound designer, and writer.
Disappears: Tuesday, March 9, 7 pm, Free
Disappears is a minimalist rock group comprised of members from Chicago’s The Ponys, 90 Day Men, and Boas. They played at the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival. Drummer Graeme Gibson will not be at this performance.
Tim Kinsella: Saturday, March 13, 3 pm, Free with museum admission
Tim Kinsella is the founder of the longstanding Chicago band, Joan of Arc, and has been a member of Cap’n Jazz, Owls, and Make Believe.
John McEntire: Tuesday, March 16, 7 pm. Free
John McEntire is the drummer for both Tortoise and The Sea and Cake. He is also joining Broken Social Scene for their upcoming LP album and owns and operates Soma Electronic Music Studios in Chicago.
Steve Shelley: Saturday, March 20, 3 pm, Free with museum admission
Steve Shelley is the drummer of Sonic Youth.
Lucky Dragons: Tuesday, March 23, 7 pm, Free
Los Angeles-based experimental group Lucky Dragons consist of Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara.
Félicia Atkinson: Saturday, March 27, 3 pm, Free with museum admission
French sound and visual artist Félicia Atkinson currently resides in Belgium and she recorded two solo albums.
White/Light: Sunday, March 28, 3 pm, Free with museum admission

Keith Carter: Seen & Unseen

Keith Carter: Artist Talk
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 6:30 p.m.
Columbia College Chicago
Stage Two auditorium, 618 S. Michigan Avenue

Keith Carter: Seen & Unseen
March 12 – May 1, 2010
Opening Reception with the artist: Friday, March 12, 5 – 7 p.m.
Catherine Edelman Gallery
300 W. Superior Street

Guillermo Srodek-Hart + Kevin Malella

Guillermo Srodek-Hart + Kevin Malella
March 5th – May 8th
Opening: Friday, March 5th from 5-7:30pm
Schneider Gallery
230 West Superior Street

The Argentinean photographer, Guillermo Srodek-Hart, and the Chicago photographer, Kevin Malella will attend the opening on Friday, March 5th from 5-7:30pm.