AnySquared Spotlight: Brett Swinney! | VIDEO

AnySquared Spotlight Art Talk Featuring Brett Swinney. AnySquared Spotlight art talks highlight artists of all ages and experiences and include both members and friends. See videos of recent spotlight art talks on our YouTube Channel. JOIN THE DISCUSSION ON ZOOM Wednesday, January 13th at 7:30pm:Facebook Event Reminder > ____ ABOUT BRETT SWINNEYBrettSwinney.com  |  IG: @bswinney42 … Read more

Anysquared is Super Excited

AnySquared is super excited that one of our own, Brett Swinney, was chosen as a curatorial resident for the 2015-16 Hatch Projects at the Chicago Artist Coalition. HATCH Projects is a year-long, juried incubator for contemporary Chicago artists and curators that strives to support an ecology of curatorial and artistic practice. ___ Artists Apply to … Read more

May 12 Community Mural Meeting! — PHOTOS

May 12 Community Mural Meeting! ABC & AnySquared hosted a community meeting about the mural we plan on creating this summer at Project Logan with the help of our neighbors! Lots of brainstorming and ideas floating about themes, fundraising, andvolunteering! Full album from meeting on facebook. If you didn’t make it to the meeting you … Read more

PPPM (Post Post Post Modernism)

AnySquared & Lake Paradise present
PPPM

(Post Post Post Modernism)
See full Exhibition Page


Exhibit Opening Party

Friday March 15, 6-10pm
Lake Paradise, 600 North Albany Avenue, Chicago (map)

Showcases new works specifically created
for the PPPM multi-media exhibit by:

Opening event features live music by:

  • Tholian Web
  • Roland Potions
The PPPM artists were challenged to produce new work outside their usual practice and encouraged to have fun outside their own boxes. The PPPM exhibit displays the multi-media results from each artists’ experiments.

anysquared.com  |  projects@anysquared.com
lakeparadiserecords.com   |  lakeparadiserecords@gmail.com


Additional Viewing Hours by
Appointment Through March
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Also check out AnySquared friends reading in Logan Square:

Triple Play!

Thursday March 21
6:30 p.m.
City Lit Books
2523 N. Kedzie, Chicago

Join Logan Square poet Richard Fox, with Jen Besemer and Robert McDonald, for a free reading at City Lit Books. Contact City Lit at 773-235-2523 with questions.

The Photo Show | Art@Cole’s #18 | Opening

Art@Cole’s #18: The Photo Show

Join AnySquared for an Artists’ Reception
on Monday, August 20 at 8pm
Cole’s, 2338 N. Milwaukee.
On display through September 15. 

Features excellent work by:
Matthew Avignone from his acclaimed Stranger Than Family series
Seaghan Brien from his blizzard series
Laura Kurtenbach
from her self portrait series
Joseph Mietus from his street photography series
Brett Swinney from his street series

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Save the date! Sat October 13 SQUARED! an art walk + more!

Art @ Coles #1 | Group Show

Art @ Coles #1 Full album of artists

Group Show
March 14—April 24, 2010
40 diverse works from 24 eclectic artists.
Organized by AnySquared Projects

Exhibiting Artists:  Karen BeckerWayne BertolaDaniel FigatnerRobert Andre GregorioJennifer HinesSharon HoogstratenSusie InversoAnnette JacksonAnna KarewiczTracy Kostenbader* • lewis lainJeff LibersherNatasha MarkKeelan McMorrowIris Iris Pasic* • Gabriel PattiKatina PetsasThomas PlumJulia Rochholz* • Chris RobertsVanessa ShinmotoLauren StrehlowBrett Swinney* • Alex Uribe *Art at Cole’s AnySquared hanging crew

April 5, 2010 Opening Photos

Art@Coles is an AnySquared Project.

 

Karen Becker


Mariah, 2009, Charcoal/Pastel/White chalk, 18.5” x 25.5”


kbecker72@aol.com
karenbecker.net

 

Wayne Bertola


Untitled, 2009. “Cut & Paste” paper collage, 16” X 20”


wbertola@juno.com
www.artslant.com

 

Daniel Figatner


Collision 4, 2008, Ink on paper, 8” x 12”


My drawings explore the idea of capturing motion in a still image.


dfigatner@yahoo.com
danielfigatner.com

 

Robert Andre Gregorio


Goliath, August 2009, Oil on canvas, 16” x 20”


“Goliath” is the name of a boat, made from a cutout of a plastic container lid. My childhood’s most prized possession


.rg3visual@hotmail.com
rg3visual.blogspot.com

 

Jennifer Hines


honeysuckle, part of the Flower series, 2006, Digital printout, collage with tea-dyed paper, Xerox transfer, 13.5” x 16.5”


A series of works that explore memory and how plant growth is symbolic of all forms of personal growth, from physical to mental growth.


jennifer@jenniferhines.net
jenniferhines.net

 

Sharon Hoogstraten


Flamingo, 2005, Photography, 44”  x 54”


hoogstraten.sharon@gmail.com
hoogstratenphotography.com

 

Susie Inverso


Keys, June 2009, Digital Fine Art, 11” x 17”


susie@crimsoncatstudios.com
crimsoncatstudios.com

 

Annette Jackson


Moon Lighting – triptych, 2008, Copper, Plastic Face Shield, Phenolic Plastic, electric wiring, 40 watt candelabra bulbs, 8″ Diameter and 12″ Diameter


A.Jackson.Art@gmail.com
flickr.com/photos/ajacksonart/

 

Anna Karewicz


Danielle: Lips, cyanotype on canvas, 12” x 16”


Surreal images, mostly film but also uses digital, old photographic techniques (cyanotypes, tintypes), sandwiched or scratched negatives.


epikurewicz@gmail.com
flickr.com/photos/ankakarewicz

 

Tracy Kostenbader


Objects (Suspend, Scrub, Dispense, Sit, Roll, Lighten, Whistle and Clean), 2010, Acrylic on masonite panels


tracytoast@gmail.com
tracykostenbader.com

lewis lain


the key to the golden path, 2010, acrylic and cardboard on window, 32” x 37”


lewis lain utilizes ‘resonant’ materials such as glass (rehab windows) and cardboard to paint a multi-layered story he observes through old windows—textural artistic urban recycling.


lewislain@lewislain.com
lewislain.com

Jeff Libersher


Fathers, 2007, Oil on canvas, 24” x 20”


Surrealistic, visceral oil paintings that depict the artist’s inner-most fears, idiosyncrasies, and childhood monsters.


moxem@hotmail.com
JeffLibersher.com

 

Natasha Mark

Emma, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 16” x 20”

natas_138@hotmail.com
iheartskeletons.com

 

Keelan McMorrow


Domestication, 2009, Acrylic on panel, 18” x 24”


Squaring meticulous executions of figurative subjects within a juxtaposition of abstract yet balanced landscapes, McMorrow’s artwork cultivates a timely and fresh reconciliation of conceptual insights, contemporary design, and classical integrity.”


keelan@keelanmcmorrow.com
keelanmcmorrow.com

 

Iris Iris Pasic


Defaceted Double, 2010 , Sumi ink on macau rice paper, four 9” X 12” frames


scrach84@hotmail.com
myspace.com/irisirisis

 

Gabriel Patti


Wanton Wunch, 2009, Oil & marker on canvas, 36” x 24”


What if c.e.o. Bankers had to live in their failed real-estate ventures?


gabe_patti@yahoo.com
yessy.com/gabepatti

 

Katina Petsas


Being & Nothingness (Existentialism and the Big Bad Wolf), Spring 2008, India Ink, Watercolor & Gouache on Arches Hot Press Paper, 11” x 14”


Illustrative Narrative Artwork – revisionist folklore


katina_petsas@hotmail.com
landofkatina.blogspot.com

 

Thomas Plum


Hey, Charlie!, 2009, Inkjet Print, 32” x 46”


How do cartoon characters function as symbols?


tplum@colum.edu

 

Chris Roberts


Conceptual Art…, 2008, Conceptual Art. Acrylic and enamel on canvas, 20” x 20”


c_roberts75@hotmail.com
artistchrisroberts.com

 

Julia Rochholz


Slowburn, Mixed media, 36” x 41”


julzezr@gmail.com
juliarochholz.com

Vanessa Shinmoto


Islands 1, Mixed media oil on canvas/collage, 11” x 14”


Practicing transformation with line and pigment


vanessa@maladjustedart.com
VanessaShinmoto.com

Lauren Strehlow


Messo, Oil on Canvas, 32” x 32”


Abstract Oil on Canvas, music and emotion are my inspiration, working with light and texture to create each piece and make it unique.l


aurenstrehlow@mac.com
laurenstrehlow.com

 

Brett Swinney


Lincoln Ave, 3:30 am, Photograph, 20” x 24”


brettswinney@gmail.com
brettswinney.net
fluxtuxwux.blogspot.com

 

Alex Uribe


The Morning After, 2005, Oil on canvas, 18” x 24”


Inspired by Magical Realism and Pop Surrealism and working mostly with oil paint, I create a disjointed world, part fairy tale, part nightmare, where it’s inhabitants are damaged yet hopeful.


alexuribe77@yahoo.com