Studio Day’s Are Wednesdays Feb 29, March 7, 14 & 21 from 3-8pm AnyWhere Space, 2328 N. Milwaukee Ave. Honest Abe Art Show: Call For Artists Deadline March 22 Email projects@anysquared.com for information. facebook | twitter | anysquared.com
Art @ Coles # 15BODYSHOP | exhibit featuring figurative workby Karen Becker, Gretchen Hasse, and Christine Parisi February 12 through March 21, 2012at Cole’s Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee, Chicago _______ Plus, walk SE around the corner to check outpaintings by Tracy Kostenbader at Township/Panchos, 2200 N California, Chicago
A atrocious act of art abduction has taken place at Cole’s Bar and Honest Abe has gone AWOL! Avenge this aversion to an amiable ambiance by applying to the Honest Abe Art show! Arriving 2012! Honest Abe Art Show Call for Artists facebook | twitter
New Exhibition by Fugscreens Studios: HIP FOR ARTSTERS AT COLE’S Exhibition on display from November 6 through January 6, 2012
Opening Reception: Monday, November 14 at 8pm Cole’s, 2338 North Milwaukee
Fugscreens Studios | Founded by Zissou Tasseff-Elenkoff, Fugscreens Studios is an independent silk screen studio based in the heart of Wicker Park. Established in 2008, Fugscreens prints gigposters and fine art prints priding itself on working with local bands and artists and creating strong relationships with its clients. “Keeping the work fun and exciting is our goal.”
______ Current Exhibition This week is the last week to check out work by Angela Davis Fegan through October 31. _______ Upcoming Exhibition HIP FOR ARTSTERS AT COLE’S by Fugscreens on Display November 6–December 3, 2011 Opening Reception: Monday, November 14 at 8pm Founded by Zissou Tasseff-Elenkoff, Fugscreens Studios is an independent silk screen studio … Read more
• 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.
