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If you haven't seen it yet, add it to your summer to-do list. The Arts Club of Chicago is showing Andy Warhol's Shadows, large photograph-inspired panels created in 1978-79. According to Ronnie Cutrone, Warhol’s painting assistant at the time: "Andy had a burning desire to do abstract art… and I said, “you're Andy Warhol; you should paint something that is something, but it's not... you should paint shadows. You love shadows anyway. They're all in your work.” Twelve days later Warhol showed him 150 shadow photographs and they picked their favorites to create a series of paintings. They had been on display in a series of 72 panels at the Dia Art Foundation in New York; 54 are in the Arts Club of Chicago gallery at 201 E. Ontario St. through July 29. Arts Club exhibitions are free and open to the public. Hours are 11-6 Monday through Friday.
RELATED LINKS Exhibition press release Chicago Tribune review Photo Arts Chicago gallery guide Matthew Coolidge, founder and director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, will discuss innovative projects impacting the American landscape and built environment at the Museum of Contemporary Photography Thursday, May 26 at 6 pm. The lecture will be followed by questions from Sarah Herda, director of the Graham Foundation. The talk is part of the MoCP's current exhibition Public Works. Pictured above is the Center for Land Use Interpretation's Houston Petrochemical Corridor Landscan, 2010.
RELATED LINKS More Public Works exhibition events Curator statement Photo Arts Chicago gallery guide Still some time to see the 2011 Coalition of Photographic Arts annual members show. There are about 400 images in this show from 102 photographers, including the above image by Sylke Vonk. There will be a closing reception for the exhibit at 7 pm on Saturday, May 21 at the Mayer Building, 342 N. Water St., Milwaukee.
RELATED LINKS Show review by Midwest Editorial Photo Sample images from the show, by artist Photo Arts Chicago gallery guide Though probably best known for her sculpture, the German-born artist Kiki Smith has also worked in a number of other media. On exhibit through Aug. 15 at the Block Museum is I Myself Have Seen It: Photography and Kiki Smith. The show includes more than 200 objects including photos like the one above from her Sleeping Witch series. You can also see two videos and some of Smith's sculptures.
RELATED LINKS More about the show and related events at Chicago Arts Magazine Artist interview by Journal of Contemporary Arts Photo Arts Chicago gallery guide Uta Barth will be at the Art Institute of Chicago at noon Saturday, May 14 to talk about her new exhibit, and to draw a bright white line with light (an untitled image from the show is shown above). The exhibit runs through August 14 in Gallery 188-189.
RELATED LINKS More info on the show at the Art Institute site Article on Barth's work by the Journal of Contemporary Art Photo Arts Chicago gallery guide Elsewhere, the new exhibit by the Chicago Photography Collective, features the work of 15 of the group's members. Shown above is Bus, Missouri-Arkansas Border, 1977 by Jon Randolph, who is featured in the show along with Peter Ha. The exhibit runs through May 27 inside the Block 37 building entrance at 108 N. State St. The CPC gallery is part of the Pop-Up Art Loop initiative and is open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
RELATED LINKS More images and info about the show Jon Randolph's blog at thirdcity.org Photo Arts Chicago gallery guide Documentarian photographer Milton Rogovin died at age 101 in January. "His direct photographic style in stark black and white evokes the socially minded work that Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Gordon Parks produced for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression," said the New York Times in its obituary. His work lives on in an archive at the Library of Congress. Portions of that collection, like the print above, are on exhibit at Roosevelt University's Gage Gallery through June 30.
RELATED LINKS Official artist site Online archive at the Center for Creative Photography Photo Arts Chicago gallery guide There will be an opening reception Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. for a new exhibit by Charles Swedlund at the Stephen Daiter Gallery, 230 W. Superior. Circa 1955 compiles a lifetime of work by the Chicago-born photographer and teacher. The show runs through June 25.
"Charles Swedlund is a remarkable figure in the last half-century of creative photography," says Keith Davis, Senior Curator of Photography for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. "A man of richly varied talents, Swedlund has left an indelible mark as an artist, a teacher, an author, and more. It is, in fact, the rich diversity of his dedication to the medium that perhaps not surprisingly, has made it difficult for the field as a whole to grasp the quality and originality of his life’s achievement.” RELATED LINKS Slide show and more artist info on the gallery's website Photo Arts Chicago gallery guide Armin Limke (his photograph of site workers praying at the Ghazi Barotha hydoelectric scheme in Pakistan is above) is one of more than 50 photographers represented in Public Works, the new exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. "Public Works examines geographically and chronologically diverse examples of built infrastructure captured through the lenses of mid-20th century to contemporary artists," says curator Natasha Egan. "Generally regarded as profoundly boring, infrastructure, we see through this work, has complex political, economic, and social dimensions." Egan gives a tour of the exhibit Wednesday, May 4 at 12:30 p.m.
RELATED LINKS Full list of photographers and more images from the exhibit More exhibit events Photo Arts Chicago gallery guide Documentary photography of the 1930s is being celebrated this month at the Art Institute of Chicago through the lens of three of the most important figures of the period: Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans and Margaret Bourke-White.
"Photographic activity flourished in America in the 1930s during the Great Depression, and the genre of documentary emerged as a mode of understanding contemporary event," say the curators of the museum's American Modern exhibit, in Galleries 1-4 through May 15. "At the same time, advances in technology, production, and distribution transformed mass media in this country: Americans enjoyed weekly picture magazines, radio broadcasts, and popular movies in unprecedented numbers. Photography played an especially critical role in contemporary culture, appearing in books, newspapers, and magazines as well as being accorded exhibitions in art museums and galleries."These works are also documented in the book American Modern: Documentary Photography by Abbott, Evans and Bourke-White. "Well-written essays reveal the dark mood and deeply political roots of the documentary style and focus on each artist's journey," says Shutterbug. |
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