CHICAGO — The 37th installment of a series in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace.
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Philip Hartigan is a UK-born artist and writer who now lives, works and teaches in Chicago. He also writes occasionally for Time Out-Chicago. Personal narratives (his own, other peoples', and invented) are the focus of his studio work, and of several public art projects undertaken in recent years.
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CHICAGO — The 36th installment of a series in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace. Want to take part? Submit your studio — just check out the submission guidelines.
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CHICAGO — The 35th installment of a series in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace. This week, studios in Spain, Norway, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Vermont.
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CHICAGO — Tricksters is a show of work by Columbia College Chicago photography students, but if you walked in off the street you would never guess that the work was produced by people who were still undergraduates.
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CHICAGO — If you’re an artist in New York City, you’re probably aware of not-for-profit or publicly-funded resources for artists, such as the New York Foundation for the Arts or the New York Art Resources Consortium, and several others that provide online information for artists about job and exhibition opportunities, spaces for rent, career development, and counseling, and so on. In Chicago, those kinds of resources are much scarcer. But two outlets have been a reliable source of information for artists in the past few decades: the Chicago Artists Coalition (CAC), and the Chicago Artists’ Resource (CAR).
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CHICAGO — Sometimes it almost seems that at any time of the year, at some place in the world, there is a show of Picasso’s work on display somewhere.
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CHICAGO — The 34th installment of a series in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace.
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CHICAGO — The 33rd installment of a series in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace.
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CHICAGO — In the 32nd installment of the series, artist studios in Delaware, Illlinois, Michigan, and Tennessee.
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CHICAGO — There are some situations in life where bigger really is better (readers can fill in the blank on their own), but art isn’t necessarily one of them. Much as I love German uber-expressionist Anselm Kiefer’s “Nigredo,” or the playful idiocy of Jeff Koons’ giant puppy, I wonder whether the effect in either case would be the same if the pieces were twelve by twelve inches rather than fifteen or twenty feet long or high. Particularly in the context of the modern industrial-gallery-museum complex, ”going big” often seems a response to having all those white walls to fill and auction prices to keep up, rather than having something to say on a large scale.
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