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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. Forty-three tintypes from the Hyphen-American series by Keliy Anderson-Staley (six samples pictured above) are just one aspect of the new exhibit at the Catherine Edeleman Gallery. Titled Installed, the show includes Ambrotypes by Myra Greene, mixed media by Elizabeth Ernst, photographs of developer trays by John Cyr, and a video installation by Gregory Scott. The show runs July 13-Sept. 1. Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity runs June 30 through Sept. 23 at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Featuring a wide range of artists in a number of media, the exhibit celebrates Chicago's status as the birthplace of the skyscraper. One of the photographs on display is Michael Wolf's Transparent City #6, showing a detail of the twin Marina City residential towers on the Chicago River. Check out the exhibit web page for a list of special events to be held in conjunction with the show. There's a new exhibit of the work of Vivian Maier, the Chicago street photographer whose posthumously printed work first captivated the media in 2011. Vintage Prints, running June 29 through July 21 at Corbett Vs. Dempsey Modern Art, is the third exhibition here of her work, and the accompanying brochure includes a reminiscence by Jim Dempsey, who knew Maier for more than 10 years. For a preview, listen to a radio piece on Maier on the WBEZ culture blog by Alison Cuddy. Film and Photo New York opens in Gallery 1-4 at the Art Institute of Chicago July 20 and runs through Nov. 25. The exhibition draws on the museum's permanent collection, which includes a significant number of New York City street photographs made between the 1920s and the 1950s. Check the exhibition website for the daily film schedule in Gallery 4. Artists for Obama is the mid-summer show at the Stephen Daiter Gallery. The exhibit runs July 12-27 and features prints such as the 2007 portrait of the president by Chicago photographer Dawoud Bey. The show is a re-election fundraiser featuring the work of many artists; more images can be seen at the Artists for Obama Tumblr page.
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 and artist directory. All images copyright by the individual photographers. View the PhotoArtsChicago.com copyright policy. Driving Straight To Hell (above) is one of the many evocative portraits of people living in Appalachia in Salt & Truth by Shelby Lee Adams. Prints from the book by the Kentucky-born photographer are on exhibit at the Catherine Edelman Gallery May 4 through June 3. Later this summer (July 13-Sept. 1), the gallery will display work by Keliy Anderson-Staley, John Cyr, Elizabeth Enrst, Myra Greene and Gregory Scott in an exhibit entitled Some of the Parts. As a sort of modern-day visual take-off on Thoreau's Walden, John Gossage photographed a small, unnamed pond between Washington, D.C., and Queenstown, Md., between 1981 and 1985. Prints from this influential series (sample above) are featured in The Whole Pond and A Little Romance, on exhibit at the Stephen Daiter Gallery through June 12. Eric Holubow's exhibit of urban deconstruction photography (above) continues its run at the Chicago Cultural Center through July 9. See more images and learn more about the artist's work in our exclusive Behind the Lens blog interview. In 1979, Dawoud Bey (now a professor at Columbia College Chicago) held his first solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, N.Y., showing a suite of 25 photographs titled Harlem, U.S.A. The complete exhibit (sample above) has not been seen since then. At least, not until May 2 when it travels to the Art Institute of Chicago. Bey's prints will be on exhibit in Gallery 189 through Sept. 9. Chiaroscuro by Paris-based photographer Alison Harris (above) opens May 4 at the Chicago Photography Center. Survival Techniques: Narratives of Resistance, continues its run at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. The exhibit includes the work of 15 international artists, including Israeli photographer Sigalit Landau, whose Azkelon, 2011 print is pictured above. The show will be up through July 1. Charles “Teenie” Harris was a photographer who worked at the Pittsburgh Courier from 1936 until his retirement in 1975. Samples of his work (such as the photo above) is on exhibit through June 4 in the Congress Corridor at the Harold Washington Library Center. The show is called Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story. The After Classical Portraiture show opens May 4 at the Schneider Gallery. Featured are Lydia Panas, Joyce Lopez, Mark Thomas, and Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman. Each of these artists are influenced by the everlasting style of the Flemish Master painters, though they express it in different ways. The show runs through July 7. 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 and artist directory. 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 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 |
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