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.
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.
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!
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!
Join AnySquared this Sunday for Art @ Cole’s 20th exhibit! Hang out with artists Lewis Lain and John Bambino and see their “Respond. React.” Show! Plus, check out the new front of Cole’s Bar by Flash and Chumbly of ABC (Artistic Bombing Crew) – and, if you have a moment, walk around the corner and check out the new part of the PROJECT LOGAN ABC Mural at Fullerton and Milwaukee behind the bank!
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
Artist reception Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 7:30pm Cole’s Bar 2338 N. Milwaukee On Display Through February 10
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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
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 LainLewis LainJohn BambinoJohn 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 Lainis 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
