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Look for an overview of the work of Terry Evans at the Catherine Edelman Gallery this fall. The exhibit opens Sept. 7 and runs through Oct. 27. It includes 22 images, including aerial work from Chicago, Greenland, North Dakota and Kansas, plant specimens from the Smithsonian and Field Museum collections, slag processing at an Indiana steel plant, and mountaintop removal in eastern Kentucky. Pictured above is Sailboats and Skyscrapers, Chicago, July 29. Juvenile-in-Justice opens Sept. 13 at the Roosevelt University Gage Gallery, featuring the photography of Richard Ross, principal photographer for the Getty Conservation Institute and Getty Museum. Every Breath We Drew is a new portfolio of intimate portraits by Jess Dugan on exhibit at the Schneider Gallery this fall. The show opens Sep. 7 and runs through Oct. 27. Pictured above: Erica and Kritsa 2012. Jimmy Robert Vis-à-vis, running Aug. 25-Nov. 25 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, is the first major solo museum exhibition in the United States of work by Brussels-based artist Jimmy Robert. He typically uses photographic portraiture as a starting point for his works on paper, gently breaking down divisions between two and three dimensions, image and object. In some cases Robert uses found photographs that he tears, collages, tapes, and crumples before digitally scanning them and pinning them to the wall. In other cases, Robert takes new photographs in his studio and crams them into wooden boxes or arranges them on the gallery floor. This fall at the Stephen Daiter Gallery: Collateral Damage: The Human Face of War. There is work by Samantha Appleton, Vincent Cianni, Ashley Gilbertson, and Stephanie Sinclair, plus select historic war photographs by Dmitri Baltermants, Robert Capa, Werner Bischof, Wayne Miller, and others. The exhibit opens Sept. 7 and runs through Dec. 1. Taste of Chicago, a photography exhibit by Joseph Sterling, runs Sept. 8 through Oct. 27 at Alibi Fine Art. The signs in the windows on Michigan Avenue proclaim "We Want To Be Ordinary." Inside the Chicago Cultural Center is an exhibit called Industry of the Ordinary: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, running through Feb. 17, 2013. The show includes a sampling from over 80 of the Industry of the Ordinary (IOTO) projects displayed with objects, photos and video documentation that includes “Line in the Sand” which engaged the public directly as the artists drew a line on State Street with a flesh-colored crayon to encourage on-lookers response. Industry of the Ordinary, by the way, is the name artists Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson have chosen to work under for this project. Pictured above: Match of the Day II, (Industry of the Ordinary, as Old God and Young God, play table football, first to 100 goals, on the promontory point by North Avenue beach) 2005, documentation of performance (photo by Greg Stimac). Jan Tichy is collaborating with the Museum of Contemporary Photography for a one-year period to create a museum-wide exhibition based on the museum’s collection of more than 12,000 images and objects. The first exhibit 1979:1 – 2012:21 opens Oct. 12 and runs through Dec. 23. Pictured above is a still from Tichy's video installation Things To Come (1933-2012). The Prague-born artist works in the mediums of video, sculpture, architecture, sound and photography. QUICK HITS & CONTINUING RUNS: Sense and Sensibility, an exhibit by Shane Huffman, opens Sept. 14 at 65 Grand and runs though Oct. 13. Peripheral Views: States of America at the Museum of Contemporary Photography through Sept. 7. Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity continues through Sept. 23 at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Film and Photo New York continues through Nov. 25 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
SPECIAL EVENTS: More than 100 galleries from around world converge on Navy Pier Sept. 20-23 for Expo Chicago, followed by SOFA Chicago Nov 2-4. The 42nd Annual Pilsen East Artists' Open House is slated for Oct. 5-7. GALLERIES & ARTISTS: We warmly welcome your news, comments and suggestions. Please use our contact form for feedback and to submit info and image links for the Photo Arts Chicago newsletter, gallery guide, artist directory and Behind the Lens series. 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.
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. It's Art Chicago weekend at the Merchandise Mart. Just down the street there's also a new show opening at the Schneider Gallery at 230 W. Superior St. Reception tonight from 5 to 7:30 p.m. for The Reality of Illusion, featuring the work of Cornelia Hediger and Adad Hannah. The gallery calls them "two psychologically inclined photographers." Stop by to find out what that means. The Schneider always has lots of other interesting photo art on display too. The show runs through June 25.
RELATED LINKS Official artist site: Adad Hannah Official artist site: Cornelia Hediger Photo Arts Chicago gallery guide Above is a sneak preview of the Schneider Gallery summer exhibition Known Artists, New Works. The show will feature the latest work from several of the gallery's represented artists, including Luis Gonzalez Palma, RES, Lalla Essaydi, Chen Nong, and Ursula Sokolwska. The show will open July 1.
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