What We’re Doing This Weekend 5.8-5.10

Friday

• Frozen Smoke

Opening!
6-9pm

May 8- June 6, 2009

Roots and Culture
1034 N Milwaukee
Chicago, IL 60622

In her Video Animations, Sabine Gruffat experiments with live-rendered computer animation and unexpectedly combines it with analog signal processes dating back to early video art techniques. Vanesa Zendejas will exhibit a suite of new paintings and drawings that “collect and redistribute patterns and textures.”

Saturday

• Jenny Walters: In Lieu Of Gifts

Opening!

7-10pm
May 9-June 13, 2009

Green Lantern
1511 N. Milwaukee Avenue
Second Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60622

“Evoking a consciousness of nostalgia and absence, Walters’ work probes the idea that identity often exists in a fluid state. It is in this investigation into stages of uncertainty–the doubling, dividing and interchanging of the self–that she so adeptly creates a visual experience of the uncanny or a sense of helplessness evoked by the anxiety of unknown emotions.” via the press release

Sunday

• Michael Coolidge: Free Bowl Excursions on the City of Chicago (Or, a socio-recreational approach to the art of land use interpretation)

12-2pm

Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and The Everyday (InCUBATE)
2129 N. Rockwell St.

12:00pm – 2:00pm

Michael Coolidge, Guest Chef and InCUBATE person-in-residence, presents… Free Bowl Excursions on the City of Chicago (Or, a socio-recreational approach to the art of land use interpretation). $10 per person includes brunch by Sunday Soup.

• Artists Run Chicago

Opening!

3-5pm
May 10-July 5, 2009

Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615

“Artists Run Chicago is an exhibition showcasing the energy and audacity of some of the most noteworthy artist-run spaces that have influenced the Chicago contemporary art scene over the past decade. Chicago has long been known for cultivating a strong entrepreneurial/Do-It-Yourself spirit in business and the arts. The participating artist-run venues have transformed storefronts, sheds, apartments, lofts, industrial warehouses, garages and roving spaces into contemporary art galleries testing the notion of “exhibition” while complicating the definition of art. Coinciding with the Hyde Park Art Center’s 70th anniversary, Artists Run Chicago reconnects the Art Center to its beginnings as an artist-run space by showcasing spaces that continue the legacy.”

Featuring: 1/Quarterly, 65GRAND, Alogon, Antena, artLedge, Butchershop, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Devening projects + editions, Deluxe Projects, Dogmatic, Fraction Workspace, Fucking Good Art (FGA), Green Lantern, He Said-She Said, HungryMan, joymore, Julius Caesar, Law Office, LiveBox, Margin Gallery, Medicine Cabinet/Second Bedroom Project Space, mini dutch, Modest Contemporary Art Projects, NFAVONZWECK. Space, Normal Projects, Old Gold, Polvo, Roots & Culture, Scott Projects, Standard, Suitable, Swimming Pool Projects, Teti, The Suburban. With special contributions by Imperfect Articles, INCUBATE, Mess Hall, Seven Three Split, and ThreeWalls.

• Screening at the opening: If I record this now, I won’t forget you in the future

A video show to represent the Swimming Pool Project Space.  It includes 8 video artists: Rob Carter, Julie Lequin, Lauren Gregory, Lisa Majer, Aspen Mays, Michael Robinson, Oli Rodriguez, and Aaron Hoffman.

Check out the website for an extensive list of events including kimchi demonstrations, bike tours, cookouts, screenings and more.