Top 5 Weekend Picks! (7/24-7/26)

Top 5 Weekend Picks! (7/24-7/26)

1. Hafgerdingar at Chicago Artists Coalition Work by Erik L. Peterson. Chicago Artists Coalition is located at 217 N. Carpenter St. Reception Friday, 6-9pm. 2. Halfway to Equilibrium at Chicago Artists Coalition Work by Stevie Hanley, Esau McGhee and Hui-min Tsen....
Forest for the Trees

Forest for the Trees

I have been distracted in exhibitions recently. My eyes are drawn from the work on the walls to the wall color, the arrangement of work, the lighting, the electrical outlets near the floor, the shadows and conversations of other viewers. I start by looking at the...
Episode 516: Colin Guillemet

Episode 516: Colin Guillemet

http://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_-_Bad_at_Sports_Episode_515Colin_Guillemet.mp3 download This week Mark is back from Europe! From Waterside Contemporary… Colin Guillemet’s (b.1979) work highlights the difficulty of describing art, concepts and...
Back to the future

Back to the future

In an article written in early 2012 for Frieze, Lars Bang Larsen wonders if the problem with social practice, or any art that bases itself in or on “the social,” as it were, is its contemporaneity. For Larsen, it is—or at least was, three years ago—the...