Test 2018 posts
Judy Ledgerwood on Finding Pattern and Decoration in Everyday Life
Judy Ledgerwood discusses her exhibition Far From the Tree in the context of the 40th anniversary of the Pattern and Decoration movement.
Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Art
Judy Ledgerwood’s Blunt Celebrations of Female Sexuality
A delicious tension animates Ledgerwood’s combination of decorous pattern and thick, dripping paint.
Comics
Tracing a Path from Hard-Edge Painting to the Science of Flight
A review of Jacob Hashimoto's solo exhibition In the Cosmic Fugue in comics form.
Art
Geopolitics Through the Lens of the Beatles
CHICAGO — Iraqi-American conceptual artist Michael Rakowitz works in a liminal space between fantasy and reality, much like an artist who makes fan art. This is a compliment and a reality, for it's impossible to think about the artist without thinking about fandom.
Art
10 Chicago Art Exhibitions to See This Winter
CHICAGO — There will be hundreds of exhibitions between now and the end of March, when the weather starts to warm up around these Middle West parts. Here's 10.
Art
Expo Chicago: Streamlined and Sellier Than Ever
CHICAGO — Expo Chicago, an art fair occupying the cavernous Festival Hall on Navy Pier, returned for its second year in its new incarnation, and all the signals coming out from artists and dealers suggested that it was a success.
Art
A Green Screen Mirrors the Impossibilities of Arrival
Somewhere in Los Angeles, a movie is being filmed, an actor is speaking words from memory, and a person is hunched over a screen carefully editing moving images using the green screen, a post-production special effects technique that layers on a background that doesn’t physically exist. The conceptu