Project Logan Mural
PROJECT LOGAN MURALProject Logan MuralAFTER REPAIR AT LIMIT MURAL ON MILWAUKEE – (detail) photo by Brian HerreraDURING REPAIR AT LIMIT MURAL ON MILWAUKEE — Photo by Flash ABCBEFORE REPAIR AT LIMIT MURAL ON MILWAUKEEGETTING READY AT LIMIT MURAL ON MILWAUKEE
A productive weekend at Fullerton & Milwaukee!
AnySquared and ABC (Artistic Bombing Crew) repaired the Limit community/kids mural on Milwaukee with the help of Brian Herrera from the Aspira High School Mural Club. We will be doing a clean-up around the area this Sunday, April 13. As we maintain the mural, will also be setting up dates in the warmer weather for the community to come out and paint again! If you see ABC or AnySquared out there – come visit!
Keep looking: ABC changed up their Project Logan Mural (on the Fullerton side) and are set to continue to change it all season!
• Art at Cole’s #4:Gutter, a South End featured exhibition for the 2010 Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival. Curated by Cheri Basak, Anne-Katrin Elliot, and Rebekah Brown(July 17—August 21, 2010)
• Art at Cole’s #5:Old Stuff: An Exhibition of Old Works by Tracy Kostenbader (August 22—September 3, 2010)
• Art at Cole’s #8:*QUirk* an exhibition highlighting the offbeat, the funny, and the grotesquely twisted work of Nicole Syrquin, Jeff Strong, Katina Petsas and Gabe Patti.(On Display November 15 — December 31, 2010)
• Art at Cole’s #9:Paintings By MacKenzie Stonis (On Display January 2 — February 19, 2011)
• Art at Cole’s #11:Works by Melanie Kasten & Scott Pandel (On Display April 12 — May 29, 2011)
• Art at Cole’s #12:Works by Matthew Bremer for the Milwaukee Ave Arts Fest (On Display July 23— September 4, 2011)
• Art at Cole’s #13:Works by Angela Davis Fegan (On Display September 14— October 31, 2011) Art @ Cole’s
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Call for Artists Art at Cole’s is seeking artists’ and group show proposals for future shows.Interested individual artists: Email projects@anysquared.com (Art at Cole’s” in subject) and include:
1) name 2) medium 3) email and/or website 4) phone number 5) a one sentence description 6 ) attach 3 jpg images of your work. Interested curators or art group: Curated or group exhibition proposals will also be considered.
My work explores notions of gender, ethnic identity and power. It depicts female subjects in imagined spaces or environments composed of urban exteriors, religious interiors, everyday objects and emotionally charged talismans. These spaces are fantastical elaborations on metropolitan existence and cathedrals that use historically/traditionally powerful iconography and symbolism. Placing these subjects in this context is meant to afford power in a representation style usually reserved for religious icons; thus affording them power without overt sexualization as objects. This process continues for me as I shift mediums and materials. The beginning of this body of work is heavily rooted in drawing and building up surfaces with dry materials and has now shifted to a larger scale, using markers and wet media. As a supplement to this work, I also create etchings and lithographs that correspond to some of the existing pieces. Currently I am questioning the role of everyday routine and objects in the creation and establishment of ceremony. angeladavisfegan.com
Works by Melanie Kasten & Scott Pandel April 12 — May 29, 2011
Melanie Kasten | melaniekasten.com | As a designer, I thoroughly enjoy applying modern ideas to traditional methods and images. Within my work you will find many references to animals and nature combined with man-made items from our everyday life. This work is meant to embody what in this day in age comes naturally to us; riding a bike, potting plants, etc. These things have become part of daily life, or at least my daily life. My goal is to acknowledge and embrace these acts and recognize them within the beauty of nature that surrounds us.
Scott Pandel | ScottPandel.com | This body of work is an introspection into moments I once reveled in, that stand clear in my memory, while the culmination of the surrounding feeling of these moments come to pass in a poignant reminder that these pictures, these moments are all but what is left of the fading memories of a time I once loved.
Works by Matt Hilker and Emilie Bouvet-Boisclair February 20 — April 10, 2011 Opening Photos
Matt Hilker | contact | A Chicago-based artist, Matt Hilker’s work deals with home, family, sci-fi, genetics, Greek mythology, and adventure. Details, pattern and a strong central composition are also common themes throughout.
Emilie Bouvet-Boisclair | emiliebsquared.com | My relationship to art can only begin on a personal level. It is a visual biography of my observation or reactions to the circumstances I encounter in my every day life. I draw inspiration from cultural events and phenomenon as well as societal mores and my own emotion. This being said, I find myself attracted to themes of connect vs disconnect and personal vs intra-personal. Humans cognitively create degrees of separation in order to better organize the physical world. A greater realization of the interconnectedness and humanity is required to move forward as a meaningful society and culture. I enjoy using visual metaphors such as labyrinth design & and symbolic objects such as flowers that have a specific meaning attachment. I express myself in a variety of medium, most often being oils, inks and collage. My most recent piece, ‘Borporate Piciet’ is my interpretation of a corporation symbolized by the idealized female form. It is about the face a corporation shows the public, and how they use their portrayed image as a front to cover up their soullessness and destructive mechanical nature. It was originally conceived as my response to the events last summer of the BP spill. Even while the oil spill in the gulf was occurring, lobbyists were pushing legislation through congress that would allow more risky drilling procedures. Corporations continually use distraction through media outlets in order to mask their true function and endeavors. The oil spill is an example of how corporate irresponsibility directly affects the public- being us. I would like this piece to facilitate conversation about our role and responsibility as citizens of a shared community.
Emilie Bouvet-Boisclair, RemainsMatt Hilker, He Steals FishEmilie Bouvet-Boisclair, Borporate PicietMatt HilkerMatt Hilker, Home on the RoadMatt Hilker
Titles: Run DMC, Alice in Wonderland, Sofa King Emo, Gandhi, Twiggy, My Shirt is NOT Pink, Bettie Page, Andy Warhol, Oscar Wilde, Woody Allen, Allergy Season, 8 Arms to Hold You.
AnyPlace: Part of LIP (Life in Progress) an Art Series Examing ideas of “progress.” October 17—November 7, 2010
LIP was selected to be one of 12 Featured Program Series highlighted for Chicago Artists Month. AnyPlace interprets and explores definitions of “progress” as well as work that critiques or represents thoughts, ideas and visions that reference “progress.”
Matthew AvignoneCJ HungermanBecca BrownAlison GreenFrancisco RosadoJulie SulzenAlicia Forestall BoehmGabe Patti
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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.
Long held as an artistic epicenter in Haiti, Jacmel was broadly devastated by the January 12th earthquake. Each artist has their own story of having lost their home, family members, and their studios along with much of their work. In addition to the paintings on display, artisan crafts from one artist will be on display and portions from all drink purchases will go towards the artists as they continue to rebuild their lives in Haiti. The paintings on display, while drawing from a common cultural cache of images and motifs, highlight the dysfunction and turmoil of the artists’ experiences, which often subverts the typical pastoral naiveté common to Haitian folk art. Rose Marie Lamour and Prince Luc are members of the art school and collective FOSAJ located in the city, while Jean Marie Charles resides in the rural area surrounding Jacmel.
