Thursday, July 23, 2009
Anne Elizabeth Moore on Vocolo for show at Center for Book & Paper Arts at Columbia
Anne Elizabeth Moore, media critic and writer is currently showing at the Columbia College Chicago's Center for Book & Paper Arts. Check out her interview on vololo.org.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Upcoming Faculty Show at Leviton A+D Gallery
_place: Columbia College Art and Design Faculty Exhibition opens on August 13 at Leviton A+D Gallery
___place is about times and spaces of revolution, and their effect on visual images. We use convention and tradition to recognize images, pictures and works of art, and because art images interpret our world, they impact how we understand changes in the experience of place, space and time. We only understand visual things in contexts that are historical, geographic and cultural. Artists respond to those factors, and ___place is an experimental exhibition of such responses. The exhibition uses a notion of revolution to emphasize how changes in what, when, and where we see not only changes the character of visual images, but also tells us something about the tools we use to see the world. Exhibiting artists include Steven Carrelli, Anna Kunz, Betsy Odom, and Michael K. Paxton.
Over the next few week, I will be producing short video postcards about each of these artists. Today, I 'll be interivewing Betsy Odom whose current artwork address the issues of gender, sports and craft. Videos and information from the remaining artists will appear over the next few weeks.
Betsy Odom, Tom Bigbee, leather, elastic
Betsy Odom, Softball Bat, 2008, wood, leather, tape
WHEN: August 13 - September 19, 2009, opening reception Thursday, September 10, 5-8pm
WHERE: Leviton A+D Gallery, 619 S. Wabash Avenue
COST: Free and Open to the Public.
INFO: 312.369.8668 or www.colum.edu/adgallery
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Yummy Edit Grain Feed
I could not help but include this very cool post by Yummy Fresh Grain Edit. Enjoy. Subscribe to their blog. You'll love it.
Editorial Design for Issue One of Pendulum Magazine (2009)
Ah, the bustling city. This magazine cover by Canadian dynamic design duo, Komboh, has it all: high-rises, cars, trucks, and busy people. Juxtaposing the grime of the city is a thick, clean white coil, which adds a simple graphic element to the crowded urban streets. The design is straightforward, clean, unpretentious, and nice to look at.
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Editorial Design for Issue One of Pendulum Magazine (2009)
Ah, the bustling city. This magazine cover by Canadian dynamic design duo, Komboh, has it all: high-rises, cars, trucks, and busy people. Juxtaposing the grime of the city is a thick, clean white coil, which adds a simple graphic element to the crowded urban streets. The design is straightforward, clean, unpretentious, and nice to look at.
In addition to design work, Hans Thiessen and Michael Mateyko at Komboh are also talented illustrators, creating delightfully whimsical works with bursts of color and controlled lines. Check out more of their work on their website, and be sure to visit their blog for more goodies.
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
TimeOutChicago reviews Carl Hammer show Primal
Until July 22, Columbia College's gallery, Leviton A+D Gallery, is exhibiting works from Midwestern contributors of BLAB! Magazine. One of those artists is C.J. Pyle. I am happy to present here a review by Lauren Weinberg, art critic at TimeOut, of the Carl Hammer show Primal that features C.J. Pyle. I will be putting up a video tour of the gallery and the show Midwestern BLAB! next week. Keep a look out for that.
Art review
“Primal”
Carl Hammer Gallery, through Jul 3.
C.J. Pyle, Sugar, 2008.
Thanks to Carl Hammer Gallery’s emphasis on self-taught and visionary artists, several of the works in the sprawling “Primal: Drawing as the Mirror of Self” explore their makers’ psyches with panache—particularly Joseph Yoakum’s fantastic paintings of places he supposedly visited and devout Christian Stephen Palmer’s lovely, intricately patterned portraits of Mary and Jesus. Other pieces don’t fit the show’s introspective theme so neatly, such as Marc Dennis’s confrontational nudes and George Widener’s depiction of Megalopolis 2012, a bustling city dominated by birdlike airplanes. Still, Widener’s work, which the autistic artist has carefully organized and crammed with details, is fascinating.
The many superlative examples of drawing represent the show’s greatest strength: Three blue-penciled boards by Chris Ware offer insight into the comics artist’s process and poignant stories. In four drawings on album covers, C.J. Pyle calls forth miracles with a ballpoint pen, achieving exquisite shading and gradations of tone in weird, dreadlocked figures (pictured) whose faces appear inside-out, as though their musculature sits on the surface of their skin. Marilyn Murphy’s The Time Jumper and The Lost Glove, two pencil portraits of women shown only from the waist down, combine a luscious, photorealistic aesthetic with surreal hints of feminine anomie.
Yet one of our favorite pieces isn’t a drawing: Cow Girl, an unknown artist’s wood carving, depicts a redhead clad only in a hat, boots and suggestively placed holster. The artist knows exactly what he likes—and there’s something charming about his eagerness to immortalize it.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Layer Cake: Tales from a Quinceañera
image: Life on the Block, Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu, 2009
Image: Mexican Quinceanera, Javier Ramirez, Limon
Dating back to the Aztec and Mayan Empires and Spanish colonialism in the
Image: Mexican Quinceanera, Javier Ramirez, Limon
If asked what the Quinceañera means, a celebrant will likely answer: “I’m going from being a girl to being a woman,” but in today’s
Curated by Camille Morgan, Layer Cake: Tales from a Quinceañera has gathered artists who can capture this fantastic confusion through personal engagement - artists who can make transparent the layers of the poufy dress, the many-tiered cake, and the pomp and circumstance to reveal the truths beneath. Viewers will be drawn in and realize that this is not only an Hispanic tradition but a human one.
Image: Mexican Quinceanera, Javier Ramirez, Limon
Media is open to artist interpretation and can include painting, sculpture, photography, site-specific installation, performance and new media.
image: Juana Alicia, Don't Be So Tough, 2008
The exhibition will coincide with
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
Interactive Exhibit Wall – Photo Collage
Throughout the course of the exhibit, students, the rest of the
image: Road Kill Series, Adriana Carvalho, 2009
"I am hoping people will enjoy displaying their crazy, funny, poignant, ridiculous and beautiful photos, " says Camille Morgan, the show's curator. "I am sure everyone will love to view them too. The purpose is to make the exhibit feel like a party everyone is invited to...a place where their experience counts and is important to the celebration of
EDUCATIONAL RELEVANCE OF QUINCEANERA
WHEN: September 8 – October 28, 2009
Artwalk Reception: September 10, 2009, 5-8pm
Official Reception: September 15, 2009, 4-8pm (to feature a real quince cake and Mexican food)
33 East Congress Pkway @
- Curator Talks (by appt) at 312.369.7663 or cmorgan@colum.edu
- Shifting meaning of the quinceañera
- The shifting definition of “tradition”
- Religion and faith in terms of cultural ritual
- Issues surrounding immigration and societal status
- How colonialism affects “history”
- Feminist issues in a patriarchal society
Image: Judithe Hernandez, 2009
WHEN: September 8 – October 28, 2009
Artwalk Reception: September 10, 2009, 5-8pm
Official Reception: September 15, 2009, 4-8pm (to feature a real quince cake and Mexican food)
Steve Caballero (Community Christian Church in Pilsen), Priscilla Mills (author of Quinceanera Connections) and Yolanda Nieves (Artistic Director of Vida Bella Ensemble).
WHERE: C33 Gallery, 33 East Congress Pkway @
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