All That Glitters is Gold: A group exhibition curated by Melissa McCaig Welles and Cope2
February 6- March 2, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 7th, 7-10pm
McCaig Welles Gallery
129 Roebling Street, Suite B
Brooklyn, NY
Holy Calamity scream insanity...
www.versionfest.org
Plagued with the strongest buff system in the world and a Mayor determined to reign for life, Chicago’s street history has been blasted, erased, dissolved, and painted brown in hopes that all will forget. The Upset--it’s that unexpected win, here and now is where and when. Our triumph is over these vast oppressors whom previously buffed their way into our existence. These perpetrators attempted to destroy a culture by eradicating its history. Our intentions and motivations are not self-centered, but altruistic. Our documentation is to be shared to the effect that the streets, and those that have claimed them, will never be forgotten.
View Photos of The Upset wall installation in progress here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotoflow/2420976150/
This Saturday is closing night for Radar Eyes, a giant experimental print show co-curated by Ruben Kincaid and Montreal's Seripop at Chicago's Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Featuring work by: Seripop • Xander Marro • Leif Goldberg • Michael DeForge • Rob Doran • Ron Liberti • Daniel St George II • Cody Hudson • Carrie Vinarsky • Sakura Maku • Zeloot • The Little Friends of Printmaking • Justin Gradin • Jesjit Gill • Tom Hohmann • Nolen Strals • Delicious Design • Nina Logan • Mark McGinnis • Raphael Lyons • Lisa Ceccarelli • Dominique Pétrin • Rob Churm • Keith Herzik • Urban Inks • Dan Grzeca • Steak Mtn• J. G. Pizzoli • Luke Frost • Gunsho • Tim Gough • N Freibert • Alphonse Raymond • Other • Dernier Cri • Bongout • Devon Varmega • Matt Hart • DNML • Tetsunori • Push The Button • Dave Bailey • Michael Comeau • Mille Putois • Sonnenzimmer • Mike Krol • Lizz Hickey • E*rock • Brent Wadden • Matthew Lock • Jared Connor • Alvaro Ilizarbe • Luke Ramsey. Performance by The Killer Whales.
The Co-Prosperity Sphere
JK5 OPENING PARTY, Tonight @ THE MISHKA POP-UP SHOP FROM 6-10pm! Mishka NYC will be releasing their new JK5Collection, a colab with artist JK5. Sucklord of Suckadelic is creating a limited edition Kreactivader figure for the opening.
Mishka Pop-Up Shop
218 Bedford Avenue (entrance on N. 5 th)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
L Train to Bedford Ave.
Art Installation by Chicago artist Erik DeBat aka RISK
Piccolo, 859 N. Damen at Iowa in Ukrainian Village
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 8 p.m. to 11 p.m
Risk recently created this Logan Square roller with B-Boy-B. Props.
To Promote the spring 2008 release of their first book, Hamburger Eyes: Inside Burgerworld, the Powerhouse Arena will have a selection of photographs by Hamburger Eyes artists Ray Potes, David Potes, Stefan Simikich, and Jason Roberts Dobrin, as well as regular contributors Ted Pushinsky, Ryan Furtado, Patrick Griffin, Vic Blue, David Uzzardi, Brian David Stevens, Mark Murrmann, Jai Tanju, Michael Jang, Matt Weber, Uri Korn, and Bill Daniel.
OPENING RECEPTION:
March 6th, 6-9PM
@ Powerhouse Arena in DUMBO
37 Main Street
Taken from a Jonathan LeVine Gallery newsletter:
On Wednesday, February 27th at approximately 5pm, an original drawing by Lori Earley was stolen directly off the wall of her current solo exhibition, Fade to Gray, which just opened this past weekend. The drawing “Untitled” was in an elaborate white frame, measuring 16" x 14".
The suspect in question is a white male, approximately 6’2” tall, in his mid-to-late thirties. He was seen wearing a blue baseball hat with a navy blue backpack, and he spoke with a very heavy New York accent.
I'd like to think the art thief is right now molesting the piece in his tiny apartment, keeping it in a unlit room, and feeding it old hotdogs until someone leaves him $35,000 in unmarked bills in a garbage can in Seward Park with no funny stuff.
A-Ron's Wreck Center in New York will play host to a new exhibit by the artist collective Dustward. There will also be a special Dustward one-day-only store with an assortment of paraphernalia for sale, from phone batteries (?) to t-shirts.
Dustward celebrates a variety of disciplines including publishing, graffiti, photography, bike messenger culture, skateboarding, design, and music. Since the early 90’s individual Dustward members have interacted with each other on a variety of levels. In 2007 the artists solidified their social and artistic network forming The Dustward uniting artists from Philadelphia, NYC, L.A. and San Fran. As a collective unit, the artists work to display their unified vision; a bleak, outside look at the last outposts of a crumbling society refracted and rebuilt into an overwhelming, multi-layered, visual, audio, and lifestyle collage. Should be a great show.
The Wreck Center
75 Sullivan Street, NYC
Wed., February 27, 2008
From Slam X Hype
Foundation Projects presents Off-Register, a traveling group exhibition of experimental printmaking.The Off-Register exhibition will showcase prints by a collection of international artists and graphic designers associated through the professional practice of commercial print design, but that do not consider themselves printmakers.
The exhibition explores the relationship these artists and graphic designers have to printing and how commercial processes may inform more traditional methods of fine art print making.
Chicago is the first stop on the year long exhibition tour that opens at Chicago’s new AV-aerie exhibition space, located in the former Open End gallery which previously hosted such exhibitions as Up Our Sleeves and Tragic Beauty.
OFF-REGISTER CHICAGO
February 29th – March 15th, 2008
Featuring Robin Cameron, Michael Coleman, Justin Fines,
Ryan Giese, Grotesk vs. Lowrider [collaboration], Steven Harrington, Maya Hayuk, Cody Hudson, Evan Hecox, Ben Loiz + Carolina Chaves [collaboration], Geoff McFetridge, Colin Metcalf, Andy Mueller, Michael Perry, Jon Resh, Joel Speasmaker, Todd St. John, Andrew Townsend, David J. Weissberg, WEWORKFORTHEM: Michael Cina + Michael Young [collaboration], and Rory Wilson.
AV-aerie
2000 West Fulton, Chicago IL
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, February 29th, 2008, 7pm
Music from The Gutterbutter DJs + Never Enough Hope, presented by The Empty Bottle
$5 Admission
EXHIBITION + PERFORMANCE
Saturday, March 1st, 2008, 7pm
Music from Lightspeed Champion + Never Enough Hope, presented by The Empty Bottle
$10 Admission
**The exhibitions continues onto the Riviera Gallery in Brooklyn, June 12th – July 6th, 2008. Off-Register will continue to travel in the United States and abroad through 2008, with additional locations to be announced soon.
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