CHICAGO — In Pedro Cabrita Reis’s exhibition at the Arts Club of Chicago, A few lines, a façade inside and a possible staircase, the artist confuses the audience by blurring the lines between his work and the elements of the hosting building.
Kate Sierzputowski
Kate Sierzputowski is freelance writer based in Chicago. Fascinated by artists' studio processes, she founded the website INSIDE\WITHIN to physically explore the creative spaces of emerging and established artists.
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Politics and a Performer Hidden Inside a Gallery’s Walls
CHICAGO — A gallery at the Chicago Artists Coalition currently holds more than just a few pieces of art.
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Astronomical Art of Intimate Proportions
CHICAGO — Five digitally animated images of the sun twist, flare, and twitch within each of their screens.
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An Exhibition About Dogs That Barks but Doesn’t Bite
CHICAGO — Although cats seem to be the current animal darlings of the art world, DOGS CHASE BALLS at Carrie Secrist Gallery focuses on the less-cooed-about creature.
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A Casual Approach at Aqua Art Miami
MIAMI BEACH — This was the 10th year of Aqua Art Miami, which transforms the Aqua Hotel in Miami Beach into a boutique-like art fair. The fair overtook the first and second floors of the building, with art-filled rooms surrounding a small courtyard where visitors broke to dip their feet in the hot tub and sip $13 cocktails.
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Oddball Art Theft Stunt Provides a Link at Ink Miami Fair
MIAMI BEACH — Ink Miami Art Fair, a salon-style fair within the Dorchester Hotel, opened its ninth edition on Wednesday, December 3. Exhibitors were housed in hotel suites, the “booth” a temporarily reclaimed room. The fair, as always, focused on works on paper, but strayed to include the occasional sculpture or drawing produced from cut-out steel.
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Lilli Carré’s Labyrinthine Visions
CHICAGO — White paper sits on white matting within white frames hung on the white walls of Western Exhibitions, the unnerving blank expanse invoking a sense of being thrust into the heart of an endless maze.
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Wrangling Snakes and Flies to Make Art
LOS ANGELES — Upon entering Emma Gray’s 5 Car Garage, you must step delicately over writhing white masses to get a good look at the paintings.
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Unraveling the Mystery of a Couple’s Life in Photographs
CHICAGO — Large, bright photographs currently fill Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, printed from Kodachrome slides that date to the 1950s and ’60s. The photographs were curated by artist Jeff Phillips but feature subjects unrelated to him — he stumbled upon the slides in 2011 at a second-hand store in St. Louis.
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Painting Layered Portraits of Emotion
CHICAGO — Greetings, Margot Bergman’s fourth solo exhibition at Corbett vs. Dempsey, feels like a gesture to the gesture in its titular painting.
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An Artist Grows a Seed in the Palm of His Hand
CHICAGO — Joshua Kent stands barefoot, his palm outstretched and relaxed, in it a mid-size rose quartz crystal nuzzled against a loose pod of soil.
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Covering a City’s Potholes with Art
CHICAGO — Jim Bachor began his personal public-works project to repair potholes with mosaic works in the summer of 2013.