LIP | Life in Progress | 2010 Art Series

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AnySquared asked artists to explore definitions of progress, visions of progress, or critiques of “progress,” as well as how we progress (in our work, in our art, in our communities, as human beings, in the world, in the city, etc.). LIP showcases answers through two curated group art exhibitions, a video screening and an open studio/artmaking day at venues that are part of the current landscape of the Logan Square neighborhood.

LIP Series | PHOTOS
• Oct 17 AnyPlace Opening Photos & Benefit for Larry Green
• Oct 8th Unfinished Exhibition Opening Photos
• Oct 4th Anysquared Crew Installation Photos

AnySquared’s LIP Series was selected as a Featured Program — one of twelve highlighted during Chicago Artists Month.The annual celebration of Chicago’s visual art community includes over 200 events throughout the city. 

AnyVision
A Cinema Minima Short Video Screening
Exploring Visions of Progress

Sun October 3, 7:30-10pm
Cole’s, 2338 N. Milwaukee Avenue

Progress: what is progress? Whether in our own lives or within the world around us. How do we document change? Through observation, animation, narration, exposition, experimentation, lamentations, explanations?

Experience cinematic explorations through various visions of progress at Cinema Minima’s AnyVision screening for the LIP Seires.

See full schedule and 6 of the screened videos below

Schedule:

7:30pm

• Protoform (15 min, Time-lapse video) By Ryan Scheidt. A time-lapse video documenting the work-in-progress and the technical challenges of “pressing” an 8 foot by 12 foot painting with 5 assistants.
• Not a Palindrome (5.5 min) By Matt Hyland. A Drama.
• my loneliness is a lazy prostitute (4 min) By Joy Whalen. Performance video.
• Democracy in Action: Participatory Budgeting in Chicago’s 49th Ward (5 min) By Ines Sommer. Documentary.

8:10pm

• pulsar (3.5 min, sound by Dan Ditlevson) by Nick Morr. Found VHS footage pumped through television and re-photographed with a digital camera and music.
• WRECKS (3 min) By Joy Whalen. Performance video.
• Radio Realidad — La Voz Popular (8 min) By Radio Populares. Documentary of trainings and development of a community radio station in rural Honduras.
• FUNHOUSE (10 min) By Andy Resek. Snapshot of Juggalo subculture at the Logan Square Auditorium.

8:45pm

• Ectoplasm (6 min) By Sarah Leitten. Depicts various stages of a process in which different women are creating a pie.
• AMERICANADIA (9 min) By Michael J. Bolsinga. A time-lapse video of the artist at work.
• Hungry For Attention (9.5 min) By Matt Hyland. A Drama.

9:15pm

• BROKEN WINDOWS, OPEN DOORS (45 min, English and Spanish with subtitles) By Anna Karewicz. Documentary of Republic Windows and Doors workers factory occupation, the growing support, and the successful resolution.

Cinema Minima, is a monthly film series.

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Karyn Ross, “The most intriguing thing for me about making art is that the result is always unexpected. No matter how well I plan, somehow in the do – the process of making the art – the piece never matches what was in my imagination – it is always a work in process, a work in progress.”

Michael Bolsinga, “…Things change throughout the painting process, sometimes the whole idea behind the painting itself even changes (as in AMERICANADIA); good parts get painted over for better parts, colors are swapped over and over again, and layers and layers of paint are put on. At some point, which I’ve never been able to define, the final project jumps out and says, ‘We’re done.'” AMERICANADIA video

Nicolas Rojas: project, “…In an attempt to show others this place that is full of magic and beauty, I recorded the river, walking by the riverside with my video camera. But on the screen I could only see a fraction of the scene at a time. So I took still frames of the video and displayed them next to each other (Turning images spread in time, now spread in space). But the digital montage didn’t resemble the color, texture or quality of the place I saw. So I traced the image into a drawing that would be the base and guide to make a painting…”

Allen Vandever, “…between each layer I pour a layer of epoxy resin so there is a layer of clear plastic between every layer of paint. So you can actually see the layers that are suspended above the old ones which gives you an insight into the process…”

Iris Iris Pasic, ” Each line filled sheet is a search for meaning and a message. Each drawing is an open gate through which multitudes of symbols gush forth and arrange themselves into forms, shapes and conglomerations. The intended purpose of every image created is clarity and further understanding. “

Julie Sulzen, “This work represents the beginning stages of a sunrise painting on Washtenaw. The essential elements being blocked in are the structures and colors.”

Robert Hogan, “I use Sharpie fine point markers to make pointillism works on paper of landscapes and cityscapes, and am currently working on “The Bean” in Millineum Park. I have been taking pictures of its progress as I have been working on it over the last month. I have over 160 photos, which I have made into a slideshow detailing the progress of the piece as I complete it. In total, I have over 75 hours invested in the current work.”  

Anne Hayden Stevens, “I have been reading about contemporary artists using archives, and have been particularly motivated by a Hal Foster piece called ‘The Archival Impulse’, which I include in my materials.” A quote: “…archival art is as much preproduction as it is postproduction: concerned less with absolute origins than with obscure traces (perhaps “anarchival impulse” is the more appropriate phrase), these artists are often drawn to unfulfilled beginnings or incomplete projects—in art and in history alike–that might offer points of departure again.”

Unfinished:
Show Us What You’re Made Of
A Group Exhibit Showcasing
the Artmaking Process

October 8 – November 6, 2010
New Wave, 2557 N. Milwaukee Avenue

Opening Reception Event:
Fri October 8, 6pm-9pm
Featuring Music By Wes Imel

• Oct 8th Exhibition Opening Reception Photos
• Oct 4th Anysquared Crew Installation Photos

Unfinished showcases the unique process of creation: both through “finished” and “unfinished” works. The exhibit intends to demystify the process of artmaking by revealing how works-in-progress develop: How do artists do what they do? Curated by Julia Rochholz and AnySquared Projects.

Artists:
Steven Barrett • Michael Bolsinga • Anna Browning • Nicholas Decker • Robert Hogan • Tracy Kostenbader • Iris Iris Pasic • Robert Pierce • Nicolas Rojas • Julia Rochholz • Francisco Rosado • Karyn Ross • Leon Sarantos • Anne Hayden Stevens • Julie Sulzen • Brett Swinney • Allen Vandever

Francisco Rosado, “…Inspired by Puerto Rican artist Ramón López who uses crates to weave paintings, the idea to use supermarket crates as stencils occurred to me when I first arrived to Chicago, began interacting with my new environment and noticed that supermarket crates were as ubiquitous here as they were in my native Puerto Rico; stacked all over the city and used for every imaginable commercial and personal purpose.”

Steven Barrett, “This piece is unfinished because I feel as though it is missing something powerful to make it more epic. It is missing an essential item that I am now in pursuit of. I have been digging from the past and the present and still have nothing yet. I think that one day it will just either come to me or it will be something that is right in front of me.”

Nicholas Decker, “…The art is literally me hanging on the wall. Every shirt has been worn by me, some show the wear some not so much. But, I believe it documents the progression in my life and with that, illustrates my evolution as an artist…”

Anna Browning, “I’ve created these pieces in a rather tedious process of first the classical, draw, paint, create. Then I take that painting, cutting it into 192 pieces, all the while carefully measuring and plotting where they will then be placed on the board that is marked and measured to guide me where to hammer nails at varying heights. Then the 192 pieces are glued the 192 nails, effectively recreating and putting together the painting that was created and then cut apart. The process itself speaks of creation, destruction and the regeneration of beauty, or the beauty that can be found even in destruction.”

Leon Sarantos, “I am painting scenes from the University of Chicago campus. I’m also an architect, and my paintings are inspired by the beauty of the campus’s traditional Gothic architecture.”

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Alison Green

Kasia Ozga

Julie Sulzen

Matthew Avignone

Francisco Rosado

Lucy Mueller

Alicia Forestall-Boehm

Gabe Patti

Larry Green

Monica Manoski

AnyPlace
An Art @ Cole’s Group Exhibit
Examining Progress

October 17 – November 7, 2010
Cole’s Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee Avenue

Opening Reception Event:*
Sun October 17, 6pm-9pm
Featuring Music by Mang
ood Donated by Chicken Run

• Oct 17 AnyPlace Opening Photos & Benefit for Larry Green

AnyPlace interprets and explores definitions of “progress” as well as work that critiques or represents thoughts, ideas and visions that reference “progress.”

Artists:
Matthew Avignone • Becca Brown
Alicia Forestall Boehm • Alison Green
Larry Green • Robert Harrison
CJ Hungerman • Tracy Kostenbader
Paul Kulon • Lewis Lain
Kevin G. Malella • Monica Lynn Manoski
Lucy Mueller • Kasia Ozga
Gabe Patti • Francisco Rosado
Julie Sulzen • Dan Zamudio

Art @ Cole’s is regular art series.

Kevin G. Malella

Becca Brown

C. Hungerman (detail)

Paul Kulon

Dan Zamudio (detail)

Robert Harrison

Tracy Kostenbader

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*Kidney Donor Benefit for Local Artist Larry Green (4-8pm at Cole’s). Couldn’t make it to the benefit? You can still help!

A fund has been set up and donations can be sent to:
Larry Green Benefit Fund, c/o Fifth Third Bank,
233 S. Wacker Drive 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60606. If you are interested in being a donor,
please call Alexia Davis, Transplant Coordinator
University of Illinois Chicago Medical: 312 996 7308.

Support and Information for Kidney Transplant Awareness for Larry Green

AnyProduction
Public Open Studio/Artmaking Day.

Come Create Art With Us!Open Studio:
Wed October 27
3pm-9pm
Anywhere Space Studio, 2328 N. Milwaukee Ave

AnySquared invites the public to the Anywhere Space Studio for an afternoon of art. Come with supplies and participate in art studio day by working on your art alongside AnySquared artists.

Demonstrations by artists throughout the afternoon/evening. food and beverages encouraged, Fun mandatory!

AnySquared is an artists’ collaborative.