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All images copyright by the individual artists. View the PhotoArtsChicago.com copyright policy. Natalie Krick, Natural Deceptions, David Weinberg Coat Check Gallery, through Sept 14 GALLERY NOTE: The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University is closed until January for facility repairs to water damage. GALLERIES & ARTISTS: We warmly welcome your comments and suggestions. Please use our contact form for feedback and to submit info and image links for the PhotoArtsChicago newsletter, gallery guide, artist directory and our Behind the Lens blog. All images copyright by the individual artists. View the PhotoArtsChicago.com copyright policy.
Barbara Crane and Joseph Miller, Chicago Photography Center, May 3-June 9 MORE & ONGOING EXHIBITS:
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Wind & Water, Work by Bill Sosin, (above) plus Transported Wind by Harvey Moon, Hauser Gallery, through March 22 Smoking Kids by Frieke Janssen, Catherine Edelman Gallery, March 8-May 4. Beyond Here Lies Nothin': Fifty Years of the American Landscape, Stephen Daiter Gallery, March 8-May 11. Featuring work by Alec Soth (above left), Dennis Witmer (above right), Eugene Richards, David T. Hanson, Christopher Churchill, Barbara Crane, Kenneth Josephson, John Gossage and Art Sinsabaugh. Martina Lopez: Between Reason (above); Mel Keiser: The Écorchés, Schneider Gallery, March 1-April 27 Victoria Sambunaris: Taxonomy of a Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Photography, through March 31 Spectator Sports, Museum of Contemporary Photography, April 12-July 3 Works by Roderick Buchanan, Ewan Gibbs, Michelle Grabner, Jack Goldstein, Julie Henry, Brett Kashmere, Vesna Pavlović (photo pictured above), Paul Pfeiffer, Susken Rosenthal, Katja Stuke and Charlie White Irving Penn: Underfoot, Art Institute of Chicago, through May 12 A Decade of Printmaking: Abstractions, David Weinberg Photography, through March 2 Michael Ward's Britain, Shot Images, through March 15 Shimon Attie: The Neighbor Next Door, Block Museum of Art, through March 24
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Holly Roberts, As The Crow Flies, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Jan. 11-March 2 Above: Man With Holes In The Sky Victoria Sambunaris: Taxonomy of a Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Jan. 11-March 31 Above, top: Distant steam vents, Yellowstone, 2008 Above, bottom: Orange Scheider, Fort Worth, TX, 2000
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All images copyright by the individual photographers. View the PhotoArtsChicago.com copyright policy. Viktoria Sorochinki's Anna & Eve kicks off the new year at the Catherine Edelman Gallery. The Ukranian-born photographer staged scenarios examine the relationship and changing roles of mother and daughter. "It was often hard to tell who held the power and control between the two, and who was learning the essence of being a human in this world," Sorochinki says. The show opens with an artist reception Jan. 6 at 5 pm, with an additional artist talk at noon Jan. 7. It runs through Feb. 25. Catherine Edelman also served as juror for the Coalition of Photographic Arts 5th Annual Juried Exhibition. From more than 450 submitted images, she selected the work of 30 photographers, including David Gustafson, Ryan Lowry and Robert Tolchin, shown above. The show runs through Jan. 21 at the Walker's Point Center for the Arts in Milwaukee, with a closing reception Jan. 20. China Revisited opens with a 5 pm reception Jan. 6 at the Schneider Gallery. The group show features five different perspectives on Chinese culture from photographers Gao Yuan, Wang Wulong, Chen Jiagang and Chen Nong, along with paintings by Yu Quian. Water Lillies #5 by Chen Nong is pictured above. The show runs through Feb. 25. Limits of Photography opens Jan. 21 at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Curator Rod Siemmons says the exhibit "explores the area where the viewer loses faith in the veracity of photography." It features work by John Brill, Randy Hayes, Daniel Hojnacki, Sally Ketcham, Vera Klement, Chris Naka, Rhona Shand, Doug Stapleton and Curtis Mann in a wide variety of contemporary mixed media, video, and technical alteration and manipulation. Hayes' Pass Christian Mississippi is shown above. He and Klement will give an artist talk preceding the opening reception at 4 p, Jan. 26. The show runs through March 25. If you haven't seen it yet, make time to catch Prison: Photographs by Lloyd DeGrane, on display at the Gage Gallery at Roosevelt University through Feb. 4. Through still photos (above), video interviews and inmate letters, the exhibit presents a compelling document of life behind bars. Another 2011 holdover worth a look: Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977 at the Art Institute of Chicago. Exploiting the photographic image in every way possible – in books, slides, canvases, films, and room-size installations – the artists in the exhibit "placed photography firmly on an equal basis with avant-garde painting and sculpture," says the museum. There are more than 140 works on display by 57 artists, including John Baldessari, whose Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts) is shown in detail above. The show runs through March 11. There's also a short window left to see a historic exhibit of American frontier photography at the Art Institute. Thomas H. O'Sullivan: The King Survey Photographs exhibit is in Galleries 1-2 through Jan. 15. Pictured below: O'Sullivan's Pyramid Lake, c. 1867-69. And, through Jan. 22, you can see an intriguing collection called The Three Graces in Galleries 3-4. It includes discarded snapshots curated by New York collector Peter J. Cohen. As the shot by an unknown photographer below indicates, they're all images of three girls or women. A new show at the Art Institute: Rough, Blurred, and Out of Focus: Provoke Magazine and Postwar Japanese Photography opened Jan. 3, and features the pioneering work of Takuma Nakahira, Yutaka Takanashi and Daidō Moriyama for Provoke Magazine, published in 1968 and 1969. The exhibit is at the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries through Feb. 27. Below is a detail from image 4 in Volume 1 of the magazine. Art Shay and the Documenting of Mid-Century America opens Jan. 6 at the Stephen Daiter Gallery. Images like Maxwell Street Precinct Emergency, 1949 (below) will be accompanied by a selection of prints by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Lewis Hine and Walker to, as the gallery puts it, place Shay's work "in well-deserved context." The show runs through Feb. 25. The Chicago Photography Collective explores winter in Chicago in its Out In The Cold exhibit, featuring work by 11 of its 30 members. The show runs through Jan. 28 at its State Street gallery. Find links to more galleries, museums and other photographic venues in Chicago and around the country in the PhotoArtsChicago Gallery Guide. Or check out the wide world of online photo magazines and other related resources in the PhotoArtsChicago Media Guide.
GALLERIES & ARTISTS: We warmly welcome your comments and suggestions. Please use our contact form for feedback and to submit info and image links for the PhotoArtsChicago newsletter. All images copyright by the individual photographers. View the PhotoArtsChicago.com copyright policy. Walls is the name of the new photo exhibit coming to the Chicago Cultural Center in October. The show features work like the image above by Art Fox, winner of Chicago magazine's 2010 Hidden Chicago photo contest. An artist talk is set for Oct. 20; the show runs through Dec. 21. The Suffering of Light show at the Stephen Daiter Gallery features a large body of riveting images from around the world by Magnum photographer Alex Webb. (The shot above was made in Kampala, Uganda in 1980.) "Wherever he goes, Webb always winds up in a Bermuda-shaped triangle where the distinction between photojournalism, documentary and art blur and disappear." says British author/journalist Geoff Dyer. The exhibit runs through Oct. 29. Future shows will be posted on the Stephen Daiter Gallery website. María Martínez-Cañas is celebrated as one of today's most important and influential Cuban-born American artists. Her experimental photography work (example above) will be at the Schneider Gallery this month. According to the gallery, much of her work attempts to capture "false memories" – or imagining what life could have been had her parents remained in Cuba instead of going into exile. The exhibit opens with a reception on Sept. 9 and runs through Nov. 1. Photography as Objects opens at the gallery Nov. 4. Featuring photography by Carole Harmel and Greg Halvorsen Schreck printed on non-traditional objects, it runs through Dec. 30. Opening at the Catherine Edelman Gallery on Sept. 9: Kelli Connell's Double Life. At first glance, images such as Carnival (above) appear to be a portrait of two women. In reality, the same model posed for both roles in each photograph, and Connell used imaging tools to digitally place them in the same scene. The show runs through Oct. 29. Connell will also be at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) on Sept. 27 for a book signing event with Colleen Plumb. The Edelman closes the year with an exhibition of black and white photography by Gary Briechle from Nov. 4 through Dec. 31. Gallery owner Catherine Edelman has also been selected as the juror for the Coalition of Photographic Arts 5th Annual Midwest Juried Exhibition. That show opens Dec. 2 at the Walker's Point Center for the Arts in Milwaukee. Speaking of the MoCP: A gallery talk and reception for the ongoing Our Origins exhibit is set for Sept. 8 at the museum. Chronicling how artists use photography, video, drawing and sculpture to trace our beginnings beyond recorded history, it includes the work of Jenny Åkerlund, Julia Büttelmann, Alison Carey, Eric William Carroll, Michelle Ceja, Ken Fandell, Jason Lazarus, Aspen Mays, Scott McFarland, Patricia Piccinini, Mark Ruwedel, Jennifer Ray, Alison Ruttan, SEMICONDUCTOR, Rachel Sussman and Penelope Umbrico. A talk with Mays, Beyond Visibiity: Photography and Our Connection to the Cosmos, is scheduled for Oct. 4. The exhibit runs through Oct. 16. The MoCP closes out the year with an exhibit called Crime Seen. "In crime, the notion of truth is imperative, and photographs are used as evidence and in the service of identifying perpetrators, sometimes mistakenly," say the MoCP curators. "Photographs also allow us voyeuristic access to the events, and play a major role in how they are remembered and recorded. All of the artists in Crime Unseen grapple with a re-telling of disturbing events, ranging from violent murder to 'softer' crimes." The show includes work by contemporary artists such as Richard Barnes (his Unabomber 01 is shown above left) and Angela Stassheim (her Evidence #11 is above right) as well as historic photos from the Chicago History Museum’s Chicago Daily News archive dating from the 1920s and 30s. Other artists featured: Corinne May Botz, Christopher Dawson, Deborah Luster, Christian Patterson, Taryn Simon and Krista Wortendyke. The show runs Oct. 28 through Jan. 15, 2012. The fourth installment in the Art Institute of Chicago's Exposure series of emerging photographers opens Sept. 3. The exhibit includes work by Matt Keegan, Katie Paterson and Heather Rasmussen (Rasmussen's piece, Untitled (New Orleans, Louisiana, September 10, 2005, is shown above). The exhibit is in Gallery 188 and runs through March 4, 2012. Other photography on display at the Art Institute through Sept. 25: Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Dolls and Masks (Gallery 1) and Souvenirs of the Barbizon: Photographs, Paintings and Works on Paper (Allerton Galleries 2-4). Photography and photomontage also feature prominently in the Museum's Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life exhibit in Galleries 182-184 through Oct. 9. Also at the Art Institute: The Donna and Howard Stone Gallery for Film, Video, and New Media features films by Eija-Liisa Ahtila through Oct. 23. Her new work, the museum says, are sensual, profoundly moving vignettes culled from research and interviews with individuals suffering from psychotic disorders. Above is a still from The House (reprinted courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris. ©Crystal Eye Ltd, Helsinki). The Chicago Photo Collective's GoDoGood exhibit features over 30 photographers and runs through Oct. 2. Up in MIlwaukee, the photographs and writings of Taryn Simon are on exhibit Sept. 22 through Jan. 1 at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The show includes selection of work from ambitious projects such as An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiiar (below). Bring Me Close, a show of photography and video by Aidan Fitzpatrick and Kasia Houlihan, opens Oct. 1 at Comfort Station Logan Square. That's Fitzpatrick's Light at Cafe Du Monde below left, and a still from Houlihan's Hold On video below right. The show runs through Oct. 26. October is Chicago Artists Month. The big photo event is the Filter Photo Festival held Oct. 12-16. See the fest website for details of events spread out over seven different locations.
Use our contact form to get your photo exhibit listed in the next newsletter Our Origins just opened at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, chronicling how artists use photography, video, drawing and sculpture to trace our beginnings beyond recorded history. It includes the work of Jenny Åkerlund, Julia Büttelmann, Alison Carey, Eric William Carroll, Michelle Ceja, Ken Fandell, Jason Lazarus, Aspen Mays, Scott McFarland, Patricia Piccinini, Mark Ruwedel, Jennifer Ray, Alison Ruttan, SEMICONDUCTOR, Rachel Sussman, Penelope Umbrico. A public reception will be held Sept. 8. Download the museum PDF for a list of special events to be held in conjunction with the exhibit. Pictured above: Jennifer Ray, Strangler Fig Embrace (2009) and Jason Lazarus, Eric Becklin, first human to see the center of our Galaxy (2010). Chicago Project IV, the Catherine Edelman Gallery's bi-annual exhibition of local photographers featured in their online gallery, continues through Sept. 3. It incudes work by Matt Austin, Justyna Badach, Jeremy Bolen, Dan Bradica, Troy Flinn, Lenny Gilmore, Wm. Bradley Johnson, Nate Mathews, Bill O'Donnell, TJ Proechel, Charlie Simokaitis and Shane Welch. Known Artists, New Work runs through Aug. 26 at the Schneider Gallery. Featured photographers include Luis Gonzalez Palma, Res, Lalla Essaydi, Chen Nong, and Ursula Sokolowska. Photography on display at the Art Institute of Chicago through Sept. 25: Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Dolls and Masks (Gallery 1) and Souvenirs of the Barbizon: Photographs, Paintings and Works on Paper (Allerton Galleries 2-4). The latest work by Uta Barth is in Galleries 188-189 through Aug. 14. Photography and photomontage also feature prominently in the Museum's Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life exhibit in Galleries 182-184 through Oct. 9. Seeing Kiki Smith's Art Through Photography is at the Block Museum at Northwestern University through Aug. 15. The Chicago Photo Collective's GoDoGood exhibit features over 30 photographers and runs through Oct. 2. Photo exhibits at the Harold Washington Library include Retracing Our Steps: A Photo Journey through 100 Years of the Republic of China (above left). The show is up through August 24 on the library's 5th and 6th floors. Chicago River 1999-2010 by Richard Wasserman (above right) is on display through Sept. 2 in the Congress Corridor on the ground floor.
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