Exhibit | Oct 10 – Nov 2AnySquared’s Because Art Opening and Residency PhotosArt Swap Event PhotosOnline Publication | BecauseArt ___________ Public Events | 2810 N. Milwaukee Avenue, ChicagoAnySquared’s Residency at the Hairpin Arts Center is activating their space as we encourageartists and community participation with exhibitions, workshops, talks, artmaking days, “ART + Community” events, performance, … Read more
Artists + Community: Join us for Unity Park’s ART in the Park! Saturday, August 23rd 10 am to 2 pm
2636 N. Kimball (at Schubert)
Spend a fun day painting/making with fellow artists and community members. Show up and use supplies provided by Unity Park Advisory Council or bring your own.
READ ARTICLE: Artists of Chicago: Tracy Kostenbader & SALVAGE Exhibit at The Plant Tracy Kostenbader in front of her “Triple Seat Production” (acrylic, charcoal, pencil, pastel, block print ink, water-soluble marker on 6 re-used canvases) at the opening event at the Salvage exhibit on June 21, 2014. See the full interview…
NOTE BECAUSE OF RAIN: Unity Park’s Art in the Park eventhas been rain postponed and will be rescheduled
for August 23rd. Keep an eye on Unity Park’s site.
Artists + Community: Join us for Unity Park’s Art in the Park event
2636 N. Kimball (at Schubert)
Spend a day painting/making with fellow artists and community members in the park. Just show up and use provided supplies or bring your own.
Get help enrolling in healthcare on Feb 21 and enjoy the event. 2338 N Milwaukee.
Deadline to submit art for the Raven exhibit at Handlebar is March 3.Save the Date for out ArtStarter/4th Anniversary Party on March 10.Join our friends at Hairitics on Feb15 at the Valentine Hair of the Dog Party to celebrate their 10th Anniversary. 2340 N. Milwaukee.Sat Feb 15 – Fun A Day at Paperish Mess
Reception for Art@Cole’s #23 featuring Peanut Gallery Artists 7pm | front room
Sweater Kittens Variety Hour 8pm | back room/stage*** Kick of Halloween week with some creeped-out comedy, games and prizes.
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Art@Cole’s exhibit includes Traci Hercher, Brandon Howe, Charlie Megna, and Kelly Reaves. The Peanut Gallery is a space for creative collaboration, experimentation, exhibition and good, old-fashioned mingling. Our goal is to connect creative people with one another and nurture a vibrant, inclusive community, while encouraging questioning of established norms and general, good-spirited mischief. We believe that 10 minds are greater than one, and collaboration/ communication/ cooperation is the basis for progress.
Traci Hercher | As a right-handed, left-eye dominant artist, I locate and examine incongruities in America. Working primarily in the medium of photography during a moment in which our lives are over-photographed, I purposely document the anomalies. I seek to accomplish this without exploiting photography’s most unique and valuable trait: its veracity. I am invested in the relationship between myself and my subjects, as well as that of my body and the apparatuses by which I arrest movement in the world. I strive for objectivity despite its elusiveness; each photograph answers the question, What would this look like if I were not here?
Brandon Howe | The work was generated spontaneously, with little or no forethought regarding the final image. Over time, consistencies reveal themselves and patterns emerge. I believe in this method of art-making as a means of channeling what cannot be consciously defined.
Charlie Megna | Heavily influenced by Eastern philosophy, Tribal rituals and American skate culture, my colorful gouache and gold-leaf paintings combine loaded, symbolic motifs with the banal, the humorous and the commonplace. In these tribe paintings we recognize glimpses of sacred ceremonies that feel familiar, but that expand with closer inspection into mystery and secrecy. In addition to the paintings, I create costumes, physical relics, writings of the tribes myths, symbols and so on to further realize this created world.
Kelly Reaves | My work embraces hedonism. It is my attempt at clarity while clumsily bobbing in a pool of indulgence, my slaphappy pursuit of an unclear reward, drunkenly driven by manic whims and lofty but fleeting notions. I want my work to appeal to our most basic human emotions through lurid visual cues and a visceral manipulation of materials. I try to elicit lewd thoughts with only paint strokes. Oil painting is an ostentatious pursuit, combined with vulgar party deco to indulge my cravings for salty men, greasy sandwiches and sticky messes.
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***The Sweater Kittens are Totally Ghoul!
Lineup Featuring…
Witch standup with Annie Donley and Sarah Ashley
Scary bits with Matt Barats and Nick Mestad
Larissa Zageris, Katie Johnston-Smith and Joey Gilmore invoke the dead!
To celebrate our 22nd exhibit at Cole’s, AnySquared teams up once again with the Sweater Kittens for some:
FUN+ART! Sunday, August 18, 7pm-10pm Cole’s Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee
Art@Cole’s #22 Exhibit Opening Reception 7pm, Front Room (through 10pm)
and
Sweater Kittens Variety Hour 8pm, Back Room/Stage Free comedy with a Back-To-School theme, showcasing some favorite funny people: Storyteller Joey Dundale! Class Clown Gary Richardson! And the big-brained Adam Burke! Don’t forget there will also be games, prizes and school supplizes!
AnySquared friends from Artistic Bombing Crew have done it again and organized new artists to continue another Project Logan Mural transformation. Check out the wall and the alley near Fullerton and Milwaukee now! More changes after this weekend!
