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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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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. It's been a strong summer for the photographic arts in Chicago, and it's about to get even better.
Chicago Project IV opens July 15 at the Catherine Edelman Gallery. It's the Edelman's bi-annual exhibition of local photographers featured in their online gallery, including 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. (The photo above is by Troy Finn.) Known Artists, New Work opens July 8 at the Schneider Gallery. Featured photographers include Luis Gonzalez Palma, Res, Lalla Essaydi, Chen Nong, and Ursula Sokolowska. Two photo exhibitions open July 2 at the Art Institute of Chicago. Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Dolls and Masks in Gallery 1 and Souvenirs of the Barbizon: Photographs, Paintings and Works on Paper in Allerton Galleries 2-4. Ongoing shows include the latest work by Uta Barth 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. Meanwhile, there are a couple weeks left to see the Museum of Contemporary Photography's excellent Public Works exhibit, which closes July 17. Our Origins opens there July 29. Other notable shows continuing this month: The Working-Class Eye of Milton Rogovin is on exhibit through July 14 at the Roosevelt University Gage Gallery. Seeing Kiki Smith's Art Through Photography is at the Block Museum at Northwestern University through Aug. 15. Besides the rotating monthly exhibits at the the Catherine Edelman Gallery, there are always other interesting works on the walls. Right now one of the pieces they're displaying is Elizabeth Ernst's Photomatic. Ernst asked friends to take pictures of themselves at department store type photo booths and then mounted them on her own three-dimensional "photomatic" sculpture. What do you see when you look into the lens in the middle? You'll have to go to the gallery to find out...
RELATED LINKS Edelman Gallery's Elizabeth Ernst artist page The Edelman's current show: Lori Nix Photo Arts Chicago gallery guide The fantastical future-urban-ruins of Lori Nix's series The City are on display at the Catherine Edelman Gallery through March 5.
To make these photographs, Nix builds detailed dioramas (some take up to seven months) and captures them on film with an 8x10 camera. "Though the scenes are apocalyptic, they nonetheless evince a sense of whimsy and wonder," says the New Yorker. "Even if humans have left the building, life still flourishes." RELATED LINKS More reviews of The City Buy The City book at blurb.com Official artist site Photo Arts Chicago gallery guide Click links below for times and locations for tonight's opening receptions of photographic art.
Catherine Edelman Gallery: Lori Nix: The City Chicago Cultural Center: Chicago and the Diana: Toy Camera Images by Dan Zamudio; and Finding Vivian Maier: Chicago Street Photographer David Weinberg Gallery: The Collective Schneider Gallery: Suzette Bross and Lynn Saville Stephen Daiter Gallery: Elliot Erwin: Small, Serious & Otherwise It's also Open House Week at the Chicago Photography Center. Charles Osgood, former Chicago Tribune photographer and current adjunct professor of photojournalism at Columbia College, will give a talk at the center at 7 p.m. tonight. PHOTOGRAPHERS/GALLERIES: To be listed in the PHOTO ARTS CHICAGO blog or gallery guide, please use our contact form. |
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