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.
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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 event has 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.
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Art@Cole’s 23rd exhibit featuring Peanut Gallery Artists
On display through November
Article in LoganSquarist about the event!
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FUN+ART
Sunday, October 27, 7pm-10pm
Cole’s Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee, Chicago
Join AnySquared as we team up with the Sweater Kittens to celebrate our 23rd exhibit at Cole’s featuring Peanut Gallery Artists.
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…
On display through the end of September, AnySquared’s Art@Cole’s #22 features work by local artists:
Jared Haberman
Gabriel Patti
Madison Zalopany
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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!
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AnySquared Projects organizes the Art@Cole’s exhibit series.
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!
Artists We Want You!
AnySquared is rounding up artists for Unity Park’s Art in the Park!
Saturday July 27th
10am-2pm (Spend all 4 hours or stop in for 1!)
Unity Park in Logan Square
2636 N Kimball, Chicago
Be part of a crew of artists painting alongside neighborhood families! The Unity Park Advisory Committee provides materials (canvases and paint). Bring yourself, make something, experience music and enjoy great company!*** It should be a fun summer day!
FREE and sponsored by UPAC, Unityparkchicago.org
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If it rains, event will move indoors to Grace Church, 3325 W. Wrightwood
Art made at the event will be displayed during “A Day in Avondale” on September 28.
***artists are also welcome to bring their own supplies and media.
WEEKLY ARTMAKING:
EXHIBIT:
CLASS:
UPCOMING EXHIBIT:
ONGOING ANYSQUARED EXHIBITS:
This Saturday at the SQUARED! art walk Check out @Cinema_Culture video installation at Threads (#8 on the map) and screening at at 7:30-9pm at Cole’s (#12)!
Part of the SQUARED! Art+Community art walk.
Make sure to visit the other 19 venues for SQUARED! Art+Community! Maps and descriptions on website.
