Exhibition | Creative Camerawork

It’s An Art Exhibit Summer

As of this writing, it’s too hot to stay outdoors for an extended period–even for photographing–not unlike sub-zero blizzard weather. Fortunately, our major museums and galleries are air-conditioned, and there is an array of exhibits waiting for you and your mates to visit.

This is as good a place to begin as any: http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/now/2012/291 and the “Contemptible” is free to Illinois residents on Tuesdays. There are six or eight engaging exhibits; here is a page, containing 95 more theses, from the Molly Zuckerman-Hartung exhibit handout (this text is reproduced on one wall of the gallery):

Martha Schneider’s Gallery is featuring an important group show which includes Patty Carroll and Thomas Kellner: http://schneidergallerychicago.com/home.html

The Catherine Edelman Gallery has a major group show called Installed. http://edelmangallery.com/exhibitions/2012/installed/installed.htm

The ‘tute has Roy Lichtenstein, Dawoud Bey, and Film and Photo in New York: http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/film-and-photo-new-york

MCOP has Peripheral Views: States of America, which includes a contribution from Harry Shearer(!).

DePaul’s http://museums.depaul.edu/exhibitions/ show is called Drawn from Photography.

Don’t forget that Metra has a weekend rate, and you can always contact me for help.

2012/07/23
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Submit Your Portraits to SHOTS

Good ol’ SHOTS Magazine falls somewhere between the pop photo publications and, say, Aperture: it’s not full of not gear geeks or techies, nor does it aspire to the worlds of universities or galleries. It’s full of earnest enthusiasm and well-made pictures. If you’re enthusiastic enough to hit their August 1 deadline (or if your name is Ernest), send your pictures for the theme issue.

Everybody makes portraits, right?

http://www.shotsmag.com/guidelines.htm

2012/07/12
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Viva Vivian

Here are some images from vintage prints by Vivian Maier that you have not seen before. Some are as small as 3×3 inches; any of them would fit in your hand. They’re not from the collection that prompted the blockbuster Cultural Center show and the book.

Go look at the collection, but ya gotta hurry. The Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery is above Dusty Groove America; perhaps you already know where that is. Read all about it at http://www.corbettvsdempsey.com/ and contact me here if you need directions/encouragement. At the gallery, you might see Ben, who was so nice to everyone at the Tony Wight Gallery on the day of the AP “Power Walk In The Noonday Sun” field trip.

Here’s a little deep background on some of the work: http://gapersblock.com/ac/2011/01/06/getting-the-right-angle-on-vivian-maier/

2012/07/11
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Julie Meridian’s “Specimens”

“A constant collector of nature’s commonplace wonders, Julie Meridian is an artist with a reverent curiosity about the natural world. Inspired by the carefully classified and preserved specimens in the vast collections of the Field Museum, she began photographing her own collection. Instead of documentation, her intent is to convey the unfathomable mysteries the specimens exude, exploring themes of fragility and endurance, beauty and decay, chance and destiny, life and death,” according to Art World Chicago.

“Employing a simple background of white paper and constantly shifting natural light, meridian uses her camera to preserve each specimen in an ephemeral framework constructed solely of light and shadow. Her reward is the startling moment when the mundane reality of the specimen undergoes a quiet metamorphosis. Hovering between specimen and poetry, science and art, the moment challenges her to measure the immeasurable: the inevitability of loss and the transcendence of beauty.”

http://www.ryersonwoods.org/Programs/Art/ArtExhibitions.html

http://www.juliemeridianphotographs.com/

2012/05/21
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I Attend, You’re Attending, He/She Attended

At the Seniors’ AP Art Show this evening:

2012/04/19
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April’s Always Apt For Hopping

For those of you who are scheduled to attend next Tuesday’s field trip: bring $6.00 with you for a round trip Metra fare (that’s the student ID discount rate) and $2.25 for the CTA (if you bring, say, $100.00, that leaves you $91.75 for a gourmet luncheon). We’ll take our attendance at the school before we get bussed–to the rail depot–then we’ll commute downtown and walk to the Cultural Center to see two, or possibly three, exhibits. There may be time for the Gage Gallery as well, one block away, and nourishment of the food sort. We’ll ride the Brown Line El to visit galleries in the River North neighborhood; then we’ll hoof it back to the 1:30 train and return to Borington at 2:32.

Here are links to current exhibits.

http://www.explorechicago.org/city/en/things_see_do/event_landing/events/dca_tourism/EricHolubow.html

http://www.explorechicago.org/city/en/things_see_do/event_landing/events/dca_tourism/writenow.html

http://www.explorechicago.org/city/en/supporting_narrative/events___special_events/special_events/tourism/morbid_curiosity.html

http://www.roosevelt.edu/GageGallery.aspx

http://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/2012/04/survival_techni.php

http://www.edelmangallery.com/exhibitions/2012/beltra/beltrashow2012.htm

http://schneidergallerychicago.com/home.html

2012/04/12
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Ecce ICCI.

Click on the writings to enlarge and read.

Once again, the participating artists were Karlee Wech, Stephanie Washko, Stephanie Walterman, Hana Vanderveen, Katie Strack, Brooke Schocker, Hayley Schaut, Sean Ruffatti, Marcus Rowe, Margaret Rajic, Austin Presti, Sammy Padiak, Nikki Nixon, Kelly Neises, Elisabeth Monsen, Mackenzie Lestan, Duyen Le, Sarah Lagenstrass, Nicole Kornely, Cassidy Karwowski, Alex Hallerberg, Kailey Gilbert, Kaeley Ferguson, Maddie Carrigan, Olivia Bueno, Kyler Bruner, Sarah Betar, Morgan Behrens, and Grace Barbolla. (Go Google yourselves.) And thanks to all the insightful in-house reviewers, some of whom are represented here.

2012/03/30
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ICCI Reinvents Itself

The Interstate Creative Camerawork Invitational is back after a year’s hiatus. Participating schools include Schaumburg, Lincoln High in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Lake Zurich, Cary-Grove, Buffalo Grove, and good ol’ BHS.

No awards per se this time, but certificates of participation all around.

Ms. Covelli of LZ chose to attend over another event at their school (I always thought she was brilliant and perceptive).

The show is so wide-ranging that it’s diffcult to know where to look.

Get in to see everything tomorrow or Friday; don’t try on Monday or Tuesday (some sort of SWAT training will make a visit to the school potentially life-threatening); after spring break, the AP Seniors exhibit will displace this stuff fairly rapidly.

Artists in the exhibit are Grace Barbolla, Morgan Behrens, Sarah Betar, Kyler Bruner, Olivia Bueno, Maddie Carrigan, Kaeley Ferguson, Kailey Gilbert, Alex Hallerberg, Cassidy Karwowski, Nicole Kornely, Sarah Lagenstrass, Duyen Le, Mackenzie Lestan, Elisabeth Monsen, Kelly Neises, Nikki Nixon, Sammy Padiak, Austin Presti, Margaret Rajic, Marcus Rowe, Sean Ruffatti, Hayley Schaut, Brooke Schocker, Katie Strack, Hana Vanderveen, Stephanie Walterman, Stephanie Washko, and Karlee Wech.

2012/03/21
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Bonus Karma: Colleen Plumb’s “Animals Are Outside Today”

Bonus karma: credit for effort that is over and above and aside course requirements, often referred to as “extra credit.”

This came up only sporadically in class on Thursday and Friday, so here’s a reminder to get to the March 4 reception for the exhibition at the place called Brushwood, in Riverwoods. I suspect it’s a venue not unlike the Wauconda Ansel show. Travel east on Lake-Cook Road, past Milwaukee Avenue; turn left on Portwine to its end, left on Riverwoods to the Ryerson Conservation Area.

Ms. Plumb’s artist’s statement says, in part: “…Henry Beston stated regarding animals in his book, The Outermost House: ‘They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.’

“Contradictions define our relationships with animals. We love and admire them; we are entertained and fascinated by them; we take our children to watch and learn about them. Animals are embedded within core human history—evident in our stories, rituals and symbols. At the same time, we eat, wear and cage them with seeming indifference, consuming them, and their images, in countless ways.

“Our connection to animals today is often developed through assimilation and appropriation; we absorb them into our lives, yet we no longer know of their origin… This series moves within these contradictions, always questioning if the notion of the sacred, and the primal connection to Nature that animals convey and inspire, will survive alongside our evolution.”

In this particular case, don’t read the Reader (nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain) so you won’t witness the indignity of the review’s senseless link to an article about a good restaurant’s serving of pigtails. I may have noticed this because I may be ADHD (“Look! A bird!”).