October 30, 2009 by Jeremiah
Pre-Show Interview here
Post-Show Interview by Sara Distin with Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson:
Fred Tomaselli may be best known for amassing and using copious amounts of pills and herbs in his paintings. But the Brooklyn-based artist is a collector at heart — acquiring, archiving, and assembling not only pharmaceuticals, but also images of flowers, feathers, anatomical illustrations, and other ephemera. In his classically beautiful and psychedelic paintings, he painstakingly rearranges his objects; from afar, individual items are barely distinguishable, but up close, the details are mesmerizing.
Full Interview here…
from Flavorpill & TheDailyBeast
October 28, 2009 by Jeremiah
Set I - Fred Lonberg-Holm - solo cello
Set II - Lightbox Orchestra
Josh Berman - cornet
Caroline Davis - alto saxophone
Keefe Jackson - reeds
Mars Williams - reeds
Michael Colligan - dry ice
Paul Giallorenzo - keyboards
Brent Gutzeit - electronics
Aaron Zarzutzki - acoustics
Liz Payne - viola
Jason Roebke - bass
John Herndon - drums
Fred Lonberg-Holm - conductor
*DJ Sets: Marc Riordan spins Film Favorites
October 27, 2009 by Jeremiah
Halloween night
at CoProseritySphere
960 W 31st St
Chicago Il
An installation, happening, a magazine release, and wig out inspired by the bau haus, halloween and the Just Say No advertising campaign.
Featuring performances by:
/The Gaze
/Basswolf
/Members Only
/Icy Demons
/Nuclear Power Pants
/and a very special guest from Austria
/Visual Jockey-ing by Boo Nerd
with /DJ Hunter Husar /DJ Beau
Installations and art direction by Carmen, Phoebe and crew and some blood drinks by Miss Natasha Newman Thomas.
THIS EVENT IS RSVP ONLY, PLEASE!! RSVP by 4pm on October 31, 2009
You must name all guests.
SEND RSVP to this email address: MrReubenKincaid(at) gmail.com
Admission is $10 with RSVP
October 26, 2009 by Jeremiah
Means Without End
October 30 – December 18, 2009
Opening Reception: October 30, 6:30-8:30 pm
Artist Talk: November 13, 7:00-9:00 pm
Chicago Photography Center
3301 N Lincoln Ave
773.549.1631
Means Without End, 2009 consists of hundreds of 10” x 10” unfolded photograms of peace cranes, tiled together to form a large multi-media installation. The number of color analog photograms represents the number of American deaths in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom on March 19, 2003. This piece examines this death toll, as well as the way the families of these servicemen experience loss. The kaleidoscopic, geometric pattern in dark reds and yellows evokes images ranging from bullet holes to Islamic screens.
A live video feed further complicates the experience of confronting the numbers; it relates a hazy image of an unreachable soldier. He symbolizes the vast gap in narrative rent by war, which tears life into a before and after that cannot be bridged. In the sacred space draped with cranes, far-off voices cry out as they undergo a mortar attack. The installation as a whole, entombed in the gallery, stands as a memorial to those soldiers whose lives have been lost.
This project will continue, appearing in and symbolizing the losses of other states and of the nation as a whole, until it culminates in one large installation representing the total number of war deaths. As the toll mounts, Benine continues to fold and unfold cranes, adding new photograms to the piece. Because the cranes must be created in total darkness, making this work is a trance-like, meditative act—one that becomes less and less possible as more and more people die overseas.
Benine is an internationally exhibited interdisciplinary artist. She received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
See more at ShannonBenine.com
October 24, 2009 by Jeremiah
Every Issue of the International Times from 1966 on.
(thanks for the link @cdschreck)
October 23, 2009 by Jeremiah
One of the Young Guns 7 winners, Mario Hugo, has some brilliant illustrations and typographic ideas. You may have seen it reality, and if not, you will soon.
October 23, 2009 by Jeremiah
“Hand Held Moon”, 2009 by Anne Eastman. Single channel digital video loop, no sound, projected on black wood board.
as seen on VVORK
October 23, 2009 by Jeremiah
Brasil Inspired. Nice site full of Brasilian talent. We already know what they’re capable of:
October 22, 2009 by Jeremiah
November 20th–22nd, 2009: Two Rivers, Wisconsin
from Hamilton: Wood type aficionados will converge for a Wayzgoose weekend, Nov. 20-22, filled with print presentations and type talk including Matthew Carter as he unveils “Carter Latin Wide,” his first wood typeface and the newest addition to one of the premier wood type collections in the world.
Marking the end of summer, Wayzgoose traditionally commemorates an annual gathering of printing staff as they used the last of the season’s pulp to paper the windows in preparation for winter. Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum hosts a modern revival in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Along with Carter, Rich Kegler of P22, Paul Brown of Indiana University and Kartemquin Film’s “TypeFace” documentary will be among the weekend’s presentations.
Details for the event can be found below.
Register Online or download a registration form here.
October 21, 2009 by Jeremiah
My good friend Mark Mutcheon and his partner Jim Distasio have just finished a new documentary, watch it this Sunday on the television.
5000 Miles From Home will air
on Channel 11 (WTTWChicago)
at 6 p.m.
on Sunday, October 25
They went off to save the world…Then came home to transform the world they grew up in. This hour-long documentary tells the riveting tale of Chicago’s Italian Americans and World War II.
A Forward March Media Film
Narrated by Bob Sirott
