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Respond.React | a collaborative exhibit | Art @ Coles #20

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Art@Cole’s #20:

“Respond.React” a collaborative exhibit that explores “influential creation” through a series of 30-plus paintings by John Bambino and Lewis Lain

Cole’s Bar 2338 N. Milwaukee
December 16, 2012-February 10, 2013.
Artist reception Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 7:30pm.

Respond. React is an exhibition of artistic responses between artists John Bambino and Lewis lain. This experiment in collaboration began with both artists creating a painting. These first ‘prime’ paintings were exchanged and each artist lived with the other’s painting for one week. Each artist then created a painting in response to the other’s ‘prime’ painting. The second paintings were again exchanged and again lived with for a week. Each artist created another painting based off the other’s second painting. These paintings were then exchanged. This cycle of response and reaction continued for four months and the outcome created the series of the paintings currently on display at Cole’s. (Gallery of images on fb)

Lewis Lain
Lewis Lain
John Bambino
John Bambino

John Bambino is a Chicago artist that believes that art should represent oneself, thus his work represents himself. John thinks life is complicated enough; sometimes too much going on in any piece of work can take away from the original meaning and feeling of the piece. His work is composed of simple, bold colors, and his goal is to make his work very enjoyable to look at and for it to stand out amongst everything else. John Bambino’s style is influenced by his cousin, friends, being involved in the hip-hop community, and looking at other artists’ and graffiti artists’ work. www.coasp.tumblr.com

Lewis Lain is a multi-medium artist residing in Chicago. His work focuses on storytelling with simple design and recycled ‘resonant’ material. His use of re-claimed windows and found-glass as canvas with cardboard and acrylic results in multi-dimensional paintings punctuated with extensive use of color and texture.  Recent exhibitions include ‘origins’ and ‘worldview,’ and a mural commissioned by the Village of Oak Park. He is fascinated with constant exploration of the balance between mundane action and annihilating revelation. www.lewislain.com

Art@Cole’s is an ongoing project of AnySquared Projects featuring local artists on the walls of Cole’s Bar every 6-8weeks.Headquartered in Logan Square’s AnyWhere Space on Milwaukee Avenue,  AnySquared is an artist collabrative and network that organizes events, exhibitions and opportunities for and by artists to show and make work

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Artmaking Wednesday!

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TOMORROW is Artmaking Day & Last day for Art Studio Sale!

Wednesday December 19th
from 3pm to 8pm
at AnyWhere Space 2328 North Milwaukee, 2nd Floor
(We will be here for our regular studio day on Dec 26 – come by!)
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Make some art or check out some work by Studio Day artists — featuring paintings, prints, reproductions and other work by Tracy Kostenbader.

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A Night with Maya Deren | Cinema Minima

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Next Cinema Minima:
A Night with Maya Deren
Sunday,  January 6, 8pm
Cole’s, 2338 N. Milwaukee

Russian experimental filmmaker, promoter of avant guard cinema in America during the 40’s and 50’s, Maya Deren’s released works are amongst those at the cornerstone of transgressive cinema.

Featured films include excerpts from her biographical documentary, selected shorts, and scenes from her feature length documentary, Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. Curated by Joseph Strand.

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TOMORROW! Art Studio Sale & Artmaking Days
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Wednesdays December 12th and 19th
from 3pm to 8pm
at AnyWhere Space 2328 North Milwaukee, 2nd Floor
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Make some art or check out some work by Studio Day artists — featuring paintings, prints, reproductions and other work by Tracy Kostenbader.

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Art@Cole’s exhibit: 99 Bottle of Beer on the Wall through mid-December.

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Don’t Forget to check out the current Art@Cole’s exhibit: 99 Bottle of Beer on the Wall through mid-December.

At Cole’s Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee, where local artists and the Cole’s community give homage to the favorite libation. Features over 99 artists and community participants!

 

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Art@Cole’s is an AnySquared Project
This exhibition was organized as part of our SQUARED! Art+Community art walk

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Also on display through mid-December is the MORSELS: small works/small series exhibit at Township! 2200 N. Milwaukee.

Nicholas Decker
Licha DeLaPeña
Sarah Bell
Michael Bolsinga
Kaitlin Kostus
Jared Haberman
Dan Zamudio
Lewis Lain
Kevin Connoughton
Bree Johnson

Christmas on Mars | A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips

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  A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming LipsDecember 2 at 8pm(83 min., 2008, Written and Directed by, Wayne Coyne; Co-Directors: Bradley Beesley and George Salisbury) As much about bleak isolation as it is about colorful optimism, this feature film by The Flaming Lips is set in outer space on the surface of Mars. The … Read more

Check out @Cinema_Culture video installation at Threads (#8 on the map)

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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.

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Make sure to visit the other 19 venues for SQUARED! Art+Community! Maps and descriptions on website.

Cinema Culture, curator of our next Cinema Minima, is creating a film as part of Art On Track this weekend for EL Stories!

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Cinema Culture, curator of our next Cinema Minima, is creating a film as part of Art On Track this weekend for EL Stories!

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For the first time The Cinema Culture will be responsible for creating a film. This weekend we are teaming up with Noisivelvet and Waltzing Mechanics to create the film production of EL Stories,  during Art on Track

The attending audience for Art on Track will get a live viewing of a mobile stage production of the Waltzing Mechanics smash hit, and they get a chance to be an extra in the movie being shot by Anansi Knowbody and Amir George.

Art on Track (AoT) is the world’s largest mobile art gallery. AoT takes place on board a moving six-car CTA train where each train car is given over for free to a different local artist or arts group to curate.

We’re happy to be apart of this, look for the EL Stories film to premiere this fall.

CALL FOR ARTISTS | 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall | Art Cole’s #19

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In conjunction with SQUARED! Art+Community, AnySquared presents 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall for Art@Cole’s #19 — a community exhibit where local artists give homage to the favorite libation.

Look for more Artists Calls for other locations on display during SQUARED! We are planning a small works show, an AnySquared exhibit and installations throughout the event.

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Art@Cole’s #19:
99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
A Community Exhibit!
Opening October 13 and through mid November.

CALL FOR ARTISTS:
Whether you angle for an Indian Pale Ale or gravitate towards a German Pilsner, or are humbled by a Belguim White, Anysquared wants to know what you think about beer?

Beer bottles and/or images of beer bottles are encouraged, but also acceptable are beer related themes and Cole’s-Bar-related representations. The only restriction is your piece needs to hang on the wall in some manner (If you intend to submit a larger piece, contact us).

Submit your intention to participate by September 18. Email projects@anysquared.com, put in subject: “99 Bottles,” and include:

1) name
2)phone number
3) website
4) 1-2 jpgs of the actual work you are submitting or similar OR similar (we understand that you may not have photos for work created specifically for the exhibition)

To be considered for inclusion in press materials: send us jpg(s) of your piece(s) by September 21. Drop off artwork that is ready to hang to AnySquared at 2328 N. Milwaukee on the following dates: September 29, October 3, or October 6 (before 3pm). Please contact us to arrange for a different day. Opening Saturday, October 13 and on display through mid-November.

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For information contact AnySquared at projects@anysquared.com

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We’ve Gotta Fly | Cinema Minima

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Screening Sunday September 2 at 8pm
at Cole’s Bar, 2338 North Milwaukee:

We’ve Gotta Fly
A film by Desert Soap
(73 minutes, 2011)

This film documents and dramatizes the Chicago-based soft rock band Desert Soap’s quest for grooviness (circa 2011) in a pleasantly psychedelic way.

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