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.
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!
FUN+ART Sunday, October 27, 7pm-10pm 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
The Peanut Gallery | 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.
Art@Handlebar Featuring Photography by Ben Marth On display through the end of October Handlebar, 2311 West North Avenue, Chicago
Ben Marth was born of the north, a child of the long summer. Though he knew not the luxuries of the high borns, he was skilled at crafting fine art and dinosaur calls. He likes the loud screechy ones. Setting forth from the land some call Michigan, he traveled forth to a new, slightly less northern city, Chicago. Ben trained among the masters of Columbia College in the ancient arts, honing his craft for the coming winter. With his studies now completed, he sets forth on his long journey to do battle with the monsters of the first men. Remember, winter is coming, but it’s alright. We got a heater and some coco – stop by. _____
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)
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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!
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!
Make something! Drop-in to AnySquared’s Studio Day Wednesdays from 3pm to 8pm at AnyWhere Space, 2328 N. Milwaukee, 2nd floor. We have supplies! Free. photos
BENEFIT
Support our neighbors who support art and music through their venue! Fundraiser Night @ Cole’s (2338 N. Milwaukee) Tuesday, June 25 for the last leg of Kickstarter for Cafe Mustache (Kickstarter ends Friday June 28).
EXHIBIT EVENT:
Check out AnySquared Studio Day regular, Gretchen Hasse, at the SEX.MONEY.RACE.GENDER: The Ladydrawers (of Chicago, Ill.) She will be drawing from 5-8pm on Thursday June 27 at the Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery, 619 S Wabash. Free.
AnySquared Projects Headquartered in Logan Square’s AnyWhere Space at Milwaukee and Belden, AnySquared Projects is an artist collaborative and network. Propelled by a deep sense of cooperation with our neighbors, we produce art events, projects and ongoing activities with the mutual support and participation of artists and local businesses. With little money and no corporate sponsorship, AnySquared functions on the idea that we can do anything as long as we do it together.
AnySquared Studio Day! Every Wednesday drop from 3pm to 8pm 2328 N. Milwaukee, 2nd Floor.Free.
EXHIBIT:
Sundays Best Opening Friday, June 15, 6-10pm Ground Control, 3315 W. Armitage. Free. Features a collection of photography by Gabriel Carrasquillo from the past ten years of Sundays in Humboldt Park.
CLASS:
Graffiti Art: History and Evolution Saturday, June 15. 2-4pm SiLO Art Space, 5110 W. Irving Park. $25. Course discusses the evolution of Graffiti art through its roots, migration, influence and development from a youth movement into a formidable art form. Class taught by FLASH one of Chicago’s graffiti pioneers.
UPCOMING EXHIBIT:
Crisis Image Archives – Exhibition Part 1 Opening Sunday, June 30, 5-8pm In These Times, 2040 N. Milwaukee. Free. Features exhibition of photographs and binder archives of the Alternative Press Center on view at Art In These Times until September.
ONGOING ANYSQUARED EXHIBITS:
Art@Cole’s exhibit featuring Kimberly Darovec 2338 N. Milwaukee
Art@Handlebar exhibit featuring Tracy Kostenbader 2411 West N. Avenue
