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Friday, November 20, 2009

In(di)visible at Noble & Superior

Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:10 PM

Tw Lis Self (Involved) Portrait

  • Tw Li's "Self (Involved) Portrait"

I saw a crowd of onlookers who ranged from scandalized to righteously indignant to cynically amused gather around TW Li's video installation Police Brutality Grid when it showed in September at Margin Gallery.

Li's video, photography and performance aggressively lampoon systems of control and the impact of technology on daily interaction. His work shows in Noble & Superior Projects' In(di)visible exhibition, which opens Friday 11/20.

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Morning Art: Laurel Delaney

Posted by Julia Thiel on Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 8:42 AM

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Sewing Up the Hole in the Sky, a painting by Laurel Delaney, part of Myth-Illogical, a show of her work opening Fri 11/20, 6-9 PM, at Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee, 312-738-0400.

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Morning Art: Amanda Bray

Posted by Julia Thiel on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:38 AM

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Don’t You Know You Are Connected to Me, a ceramic sculpture by Amanda Bray, part of Coalescence, a show with Pamela Murphy opening Fri 11/20, 5-8 PM, at Dubhe Carreño Gallery, 118 N. Peoria, 773-931-6584.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Drag City Peers Into the Byways of Marrakech

Posted by Peter Margasak on Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:03 PM

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Last month Drag City Records released Ouled Bambara: Portraits of Gnawa, its second project on the sublabel Twos & Fews, run by Kentuckian Nathan Salsburg. Salsburg, who also plays music himself and maintains the swell blog Root Hog or Die—which includes a directory of free MP3s of traditional music of all stripes—has worked for the Alan Lomax Archive since 2000, and both Twos & Fews releases have a raw, folkloric spirit. Last year the label debuted with a collection of a cappella singing by Kentucky coal miner Nimrod Workman, and to celebrate its release the label hosted an informal gathering at Intuit Gallery, where it played Workman’s music, screened rare video footage, and served quasi-authentic hillbilly delicacies.

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Morning Art: Matt Nichols

Posted by Julia Thiel on Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:35 AM

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A sculpture by Matt Nichols, part of Lexiconography, a show of his work opening Thu 11/19, 4-6 PM, at the School of the Art Institute LG Space, 37 S. Wabash, 312-899-5131.

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Monday, November 16, 2009

Morning Art: Konstantin Grcic

Posted by Julia Thiel on Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:04 AM

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Myto Cantilever Chair, designed by Konstantin Grcic and manufactured by Plank with BASF, part of Decisive Design, a show of Grcic’s work opening Wed 11/18 at the Art Institute, 111 S. Michigan, 312-443-3600.

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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Postcards and Rugs by Mark Mothersbaugh

Posted by Peter Margasak on Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:06 PM

He's better known as front man for Devo and for his prolific work scoring TV shows and movies, but Mark Mothersbaugh is a visual artist as well. Back in 2005 I interviewed him about his music and about an exhibition of “corrected” antique photography he calls Beautiful Mutants that was happening at the time.

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Morning Art: Carlo Mollino

Posted by Julia Thiel on Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:44 AM

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An untitled photo by Carlo Mollino, part of Italics, a show of Italian art opening Sat 11/14 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago.

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

The Wall

Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:15 AM

The Wall

  • "The Wall"

East German artist Jürgen Böttcher, also known as Strawalde, went to work for the state film production company DEFA after his paintings were ideologically blacklisted in the 1950s.

He captured the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall and the ghostly operations of disarmed border guards in his 1990 documentary The Wall, playing Thursday 11/12 as part of the the Goethe-Institut Chicago's free screening series Made Behind the Wall: Masterpieces of East German Cinema.

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Morning Art: Douglas C. Bloom

Posted by Julia Thiel on Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:39 AM

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Retrospective, a painting by Douglas C. Bloom, part of Perspectives, a show with Liliana Porter opening Sat 11/14, 4-7 PM, at Carrie Secrist Gallery, 835 W. Washington.

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