Top 5 Weekend Picks! (8/20 & 8/21)
Another round of weekend picks, brought to you by…well…me. Enjoy! 1. Caras de Mexico at 33 Collective Gallery Work by photographer Joe Compean. 33 Collective Gallery is located at 1029 W. 35th St. Reception is Friday, from 7-10pm. 2. Corazón...Interview with Caleb Lyons: Piracy and ‘Abstraction in the 21st Century’
Chicago artist Caleb Lyons, who was interviewed way back when on Episode 95 of our podcast, recently had a solo exhibition at the MCA Chicago as part of the Museum’s 12 x 12 series. Lyons and his partner in life and crime Kathryn Scanlan are the forces behind...Small Is (Usually) Good
CROSS-FADE, a group show of Chicago-based artists who are romantically involved, gives new meaning to the term relational aesthetics. The chosen lovebirds here are Julia Fish and Richard Rezak, Michelle Bolinger and Todd Simeone, and Kevin Kaempf and Michael Thomas of People Powered and Lucky Pierre, respectively—couples who don’t normally collaborate but, as organizer Stacie Johnson points out on the Swimming Pool Project Space website, “their independent practices have been in dialogue for some time.”