Episode 773: Jessica Campbell

Episode 773: Jessica Campbell


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This week we are joined by the great cartoonist and brilliant artist Jessica Campbell. Campbell’s cartoons and relief sculptures are on view at Chicago’s MCA  as part of Comics in Chicago: 1960s to Now. She also has an upcoming exhibition at Western Exhibitions Gallery in Chicago and a graphic novel about to drop from Drawn & Quarterly, “Rave.”

TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (8/12-8/18)

TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (8/12-8/18)

  1. Recuerdos August 14, 6-9PM Co-Prosperity Sphere: 3219 S Morgan St Work by: Juan Arango Palacios, Lissette Bustamante and Moises Salazar 2. Daniel Flood and Marc Benja: Hard/Soft August 13, 5-10PM Oliva Gallery: 3816 W Armitage Ave 3. I Sense Something Has...
Episode 772: Diana Guerrero-Maciá

Episode 772: Diana Guerrero-Maciá


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This week Bad @ Sports Center is winnowed down to skeleton crew, with Ryan Peter Miller chewing the fat with the ever vital Diana Guerrero-Maciá. Fresh from receiving a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts, Guerrero-Maciá discusses her studio practice which includes slow-craft processes in painting, textiles, drawing, print, and sculptural objects. With new work recently completed for two exhibitions, High Touch, at John Michael Kohler Art Center and Light Falls Fast at Traywick Contemporary, this is a hearty conversation.

TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (8/5-8/11)

TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (8/5-8/11)

1. Start a Reaction August 7, 4:30-7:30PM Nuclear Energy Sculpture Plaza, Hyde Park: 5625 S Ellis Ave Work by: Eiko Otake, and Judd Morrissey, in collaboration with Taylor Shuck and Abraham Avnisan   2. Take It From Here August 6, 6-9PM Filter Photo: 1821 W...
Sub-rural #5 Jean-Jacques Lebel Book Review

Sub-rural #5 Jean-Jacques Lebel Book Review

  By Paul Krainak Laurel Jean Fredrickson’s biographical narrative and analysis of artist/writer/provocateur Jean-Jacques Lebel leaves few stones unturned in an account of the surprisingly underrecognized, yet pivotal, French artist from the 1960s. Lebel was a...