CHICAGO — Governor Bruce Rauner’s budget axe could lead to the closure of all five buildings in the Illinois State Museum system.
Philip A Hartigan
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.
The Urge to Reach Out and Touch Beyond the Screen
CHICAGO — A flat description of Miami-based artist Jillian Mayer’s work— such as you might find in wall texts or press releases — reads like it’s culled from the syllabus of an Interactive Arts & Media graduate class.
The Art Books of Henri Matisse
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — The Art Books of Henri Matisse at Charlotte’s Bechtler Museum of Modern Art is a travelling exhibition with a new twist.
A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — Artist studios in LA, Winnipeg, Stamford, Hamden (CT), and Scotland.
A View from the Easel
Artists’ studios in Boston, Austin, Houston, London, and Wexford, Ireland.
Sculpting the Shapes of a Monochrome Landscape
CHICAGO — The stated aim of Scaped, a group exhibition at the A+D Gallery, is to create an “artistic ecosystem” of artworks that play with the idea of landscape primarily by removing color and offering a catalogue of various shapes and objects in monochrome.
A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — Artist studios in Annapolis, Boston, Inglewood, San Diego, and Kennewick.
Reading Between the Lines
CHICAGO — The first thing that strikes you about Randi Russo’s show of paintings at Thomas Masters Gallery is the lines, swirling and looping around every canvas like an automatic drawing taken to an extreme degree.
The Salvation of Kitsch
CHICAGO — Looking at Sabina Ott’s work is like seeing a giraffe for the first time: there are so many odd markings, shapes, and textures that you think it can’t possibly work, until the moment the giraffe stands up on its spindly legs and, defying gravity, walks around.