Tag Archives: Chicago

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field | Fielding Practice: Episode #2

by Claudine Isé | Mar 9, 2011

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field | Fielding Practice: Episode #2

by Claudine Isé | Mar 9, 2011

We’re back with our second edition of “Fielding Practice,” a podcast produced exclusively for Art21’s listeners and readers. On today’s episode, Duncan MacKenzie, Dan Gunn, and I are joined by …

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Ink | A Print World Compendium: IPCNY Celebrates Ten Years

by Sarah Kirk Hanley | Mar 4, 2011

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Ink | A Print World Compendium: IPCNY Celebrates Ten Years

by Sarah Kirk Hanley | Mar 4, 2011

In 1995, a group of print-world professionals and collectors based in New York joined forces to establish a non-profit organization that would be “dedicated to the appreciation and understanding of …

Wangechi Mutu

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Feb 25, 2011

Wangechi Mutu

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Feb 25, 2011

“I’m really trying to pay homage to the notion of the sublime and the abject together and using the aesthetic of rejection, or poverty, or wretchedness as a tool to …

Yael Bartana

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Feb 23, 2011

Yael Bartana

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Feb 23, 2011

“It’s not that I have concrete solutions to the problems … I’m constantly mirroring human conditions and political situations. Is it possible to create this reality or not, that is …

Kori Newkirk

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Feb 21, 2011

Kori Newkirk

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Feb 21, 2011

“No one can make a better Kori Newkirk about Kori Newkirk than Kori Newkirk.”(Kori Newkirk: 1997-2007. Los Angeles: Fellows of Contemporary Art, 2007, 29) The Visiting Artists Program at The …

Lisa Freiman

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Feb 18, 2011

Lisa Freiman

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Feb 18, 2011

“When I first came here, people said, ‘Why are you going to Indianapolis?’ I said, ‘I’m going to Indianapolis because it’s a huge opportunity.’ They answered, ‘What huge opportunity? There’s …

José Muñoz in Chicago

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Feb 16, 2011

José Muñoz in Chicago

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Feb 16, 2011

I write with the animating glow of philosophical idealism, and I articulate my thought through descriptions of performances of queer aesthetics practiced in everyday life, literature and art. — José …

The School of the Art Institute’s Visting Artists Program

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Feb 14, 2011

The School of the Art Institute’s Visting Artists Program

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Feb 14, 2011

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is one of the oldest accredited art and design schools in the US, and The Visiting Artists Program (VAP), where I …

New guest blogger: Thea Liberty Nichols

by Kelly Shindler | Feb 14, 2011

New guest blogger: Thea Liberty Nichols

by Kelly Shindler | Feb 14, 2011

Thanks to Kevin Buist for his terrific posts on design, technology, and dilettantes. Follow his pursuits with ArtPrize here. Up next is Thea Liberty Nichols, a Chicago-based arts administrator, independent …

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Special “Center Field” Podcast: Fielding Practice with Bad at Sports

by Claudine Isé | Feb 8, 2011

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Special “Center Field” Podcast: Fielding Practice with Bad at Sports

by Claudine Isé | Feb 8, 2011

All of us here at Bad at Sports have loved working on our twice-monthly column for this blog, Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports. It gives …

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field | Multiple Possibilities: An Interview with Dan Devening

by Claudine Isé | Jan 25, 2011

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field | Multiple Possibilities: An Interview with Dan Devening

by Claudine Isé | Jan 25, 2011

Dan Devening is an artist, educator (he’s on the faculty of the Paintings and Drawings Department of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago), and the creative force behind …

How To Stretch an Arm Through a Gap : An Interview with Ellen Rothenberg

by Caroline Picard | Jan 17, 2011

How To Stretch an Arm Through a Gap : An Interview with Ellen Rothenberg

by Caroline Picard | Jan 17, 2011

While Ellen Rothenberg works in a range of scale and material, there is a tactile quality to her work–a directness that calls attention to the body. I always think of …

Fostering Pragmatism: An Interview with Nadine Nakanishi

by Caroline Picard | Jan 16, 2011

Fostering Pragmatism: An Interview with Nadine Nakanishi

by Caroline Picard | Jan 16, 2011

Nadine Nakanishi has been working with Nick Butcher in their collaborative independent print shop since 2005. Under the shared moniker, Sonnenzimmer, they’ve made posters for such notables as Beach House, …

Las Vegas Studio

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Jan 14, 2011

Las Vegas Studio

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Jan 14, 2011

“…We look backward at history and tradition to go forward; we can also look downward to go upward. And withholding judgment may be used as a tool to make later …

Occupying Multiple Scales at Once: An Interview with Hiro Sakaguchi

by Caroline Picard | Jan 14, 2011

Occupying Multiple Scales at Once: An Interview with Hiro Sakaguchi

by Caroline Picard | Jan 14, 2011

I am fascinated by varying scales of reference, especially when one has to negotiate multiple scales over the course of a single day. Hiro Sakaguchi works as an art handler, …

Caution, You Are Being Watched: Deb Sokolow and You

by Caroline Picard | Jan 13, 2011

Caution, You Are Being Watched: Deb Sokolow and You

by Caroline Picard | Jan 13, 2011

Deb Sokolow invokes You, the audience. When engaging her work–wall drawings rife with text-narratives that revel in heist, hijinks and mystery, You are not a passive bystander. You are implicated …

At the Center: An Interview With Brandon Alvendia

by Caroline Picard | Jan 11, 2011

At the Center: An Interview With Brandon Alvendia

by Caroline Picard | Jan 11, 2011

While conversations continue (albeit tiredly) to predict the demise of physical book production, new publishers continue to produce books. There is a wealth of new, bright-eyed small presses all over …

Negotiating an Artistic Practice in a Capitalist Ecology: An Interview with Anne Elizabeth Moore

by Caroline Picard | Jan 10, 2011

Negotiating an Artistic Practice in a Capitalist Ecology: An Interview with Anne Elizabeth Moore

by Caroline Picard | Jan 10, 2011

This introduction is short. Anne Elizabeth Moore gave such thorough answers, it seemed more important to let those stand than offer an interpretation of her merit. Safe to say having …

Reenacting a Many Possible Past: An Interview with Irina Botea

by Caroline Picard | Jan 7, 2011

Reenacting a Many Possible Past: An Interview with Irina Botea

by Caroline Picard | Jan 7, 2011

In college, I worked at a barn and my boss kept a special reenactment pony. The horse was prized above all others and regularly traveled the Southeast to reenact Civil …

In Flux Samples: An Interview with Young Joon Kwak

by Caroline Picard | Jan 6, 2011

In Flux Samples: An Interview with Young Joon Kwak

by Caroline Picard | Jan 6, 2011

Young Joon Kwak and I met a week before his solo-show, Eating Without A Face & Death Rites. The work was inspired by his time spent at the ACRE residency …

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment: So My Last Semester Lies Ahead, Then What?

by Carrie McGath | Jan 5, 2011

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment: So My Last Semester Lies Ahead, Then What?

by Carrie McGath | Jan 5, 2011

While I chip away at my thesis and look toward my last semester at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), I have begun to think of my …

Memorial Photographs: An Interview with Jason Lazarus

by Caroline Picard | Jan 5, 2011

Memorial Photographs: An Interview with Jason Lazarus

by Caroline Picard | Jan 5, 2011

When Michael Jackson died, an impromptu dance party took place just outside my window. A young woman pulled up in a car wearing her best 80s outfit; she turned on …

Light and Desire: An Interview with Melanie Schiff

by Caroline Picard | Jan 4, 2011

Light and Desire: An Interview with Melanie Schiff

by Caroline Picard | Jan 4, 2011

While always being aware of her work, Melanie Schiff snapped into focus shortly after I first heard about Ox-bow, the School of the Art Insitute’s residency program in Saugatuck, Michigan. …

New guest blogger: Caroline Picard

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 4, 2011

New guest blogger: Caroline Picard

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 4, 2011

Happy New Year! Heading the 2011 guest blog is Caroline Picard, Editor of The Green Lantern Press. Her writing has been published in a handful of publications including Artiface, Pinch, …

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Top 10 Chicago Art Events in 2010

by Claudine Isé | Dec 31, 2010

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Top 10 Chicago Art Events in 2010

by Claudine Isé | Dec 31, 2010

Meg Onli and Claudine Ise’s list of the ten best–or at least most interesting–events in Chicago art in 2010. 1. Best city-wide, sustained, multi-platform discussion of a single topic in …

Marissa Perel’s Top 10 of 2010

by Marissa Perel | Dec 30, 2010

Marissa Perel’s Top 10 of 2010

by Marissa Perel | Dec 30, 2010

1. Felix Gonzalez-Torres in Deadline, exhibition at the Musee d’ Art Moderne, Paris. October 16, 2009 – January 10, 2010. Curator Odile Burluraux said of the exhibition, “Deadline has chosen …

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field: Sustaining Practices

by Claudine Isé | Dec 28, 2010

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field: Sustaining Practices

by Claudine Isé | Dec 28, 2010

Lately I have been thinking a lot about sustainability and sustenance. Not the environmental kind of sustainability–the personal and emotional kind.  Chicago’s art community is rich in relationships, but like …

Connecting – Part 6: Postscript and Postmortem

by Damien James | Dec 17, 2010

Connecting – Part 6: Postscript and Postmortem

by Damien James | Dec 17, 2010

After exhibiting at The Artist Project in 2008, Pamela Johnson’s American Still Life series began getting attention. Pepperdine University’s Weisman Museum of Art, Adler & Co. Gallery, and the San …

Connecting – Part 5: Effortless

by Damien James | Dec 15, 2010

Connecting – Part 5: Effortless

by Damien James | Dec 15, 2010

During the film My Kid Could Paint That (2007, Sony Pictures), New York Times chief art critic Michael Kimmelman said: I think the beauty of art is that it is …

Connecting – Part 4: All spin of one kind or another

by Damien James | Dec 13, 2010

Connecting – Part 4: All spin of one kind or another

by Damien James | Dec 13, 2010

Errol Morris said at a Chicago Humanities Festival Q&A in 2006, on the iconography of Abu Ghraib, that human stupidity is one of the only things he really believes in, …

Connecting – Part 3: Ceci n’est pas une Twinkie

by Damien James | Dec 10, 2010

Connecting – Part 3: Ceci n’est pas une Twinkie

by Damien James | Dec 10, 2010

I asked Pamela Johnson about other people who had encountered the massive Girl Scout cookies or cheese and cracker Handi Snacks™, eager to know how they were received and processed …

“Elephant,” or Why I Love Performance Art

by Marissa Perel | Dec 9, 2010

“Elephant,” or Why I Love Performance Art

by Marissa Perel | Dec 9, 2010

Recent guest blogger Marissa Perel wrote a post following up her residency on this site. — Ed. 2010 wouldn’t be complete without the Art21 world knowing about this mind-blowing show …

Connecting – Part 2: Useful Junk

by Damien James | Dec 8, 2010

Connecting – Part 2: Useful Junk

by Damien James | Dec 8, 2010

Sometime in September of 2006, I came across the paintings of Pamela Michelle Johnson, vaguely oppressive canvases dominated by clouds of slate and steel gray, foregrounds indistinguishable from back, and expanses …

Connecting – Part 1: Art as Transportation

by Damien James | Dec 6, 2010

Connecting – Part 1: Art as Transportation

by Damien James | Dec 6, 2010

There have been times in my short life when I’ve had the good fortune to witness something new and amazing, from births to deaths and the exhausting amount of possibilities …

Open Enrollment

The Masters in New Arts Journalism Thesis Part Two: Thus It Begins

by Carrie McGath | Dec 1, 2010

Open Enrollment

The Masters in New Arts Journalism Thesis Part Two: Thus It Begins

by Carrie McGath | Dec 1, 2010

I guess you could say my thesis came to me in the guise of an email from one of my favorite galleries in Chicago, the Catherine Edelman Gallery. There was …

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field | Is Locale Needed? Netart in the Midwest

by Nicholas O'Brien | Nov 23, 2010

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field | Is Locale Needed? Netart in the Midwest

by Nicholas O'Brien | Nov 23, 2010

Since moving away from Chicago this past summer, I’ve seen how Chicago and the Midwest have influenced my work, as well as  my work ethic. The spirit of experimentation and …