by laurenvallone | Aug 6, 2009 | Blog
Eel Space, a spanking new gallery just opened this past March in Chicago, is an artist run venue that focuses on thematic exhibitions and mostly local artists. The title of the show, Devastation and Space, honestly had me thinking about the apocalypse and dwarf...
by laurenvallone | Aug 6, 2009 | Blog
“Thumbing granite rocks into the womb of a marshmallow mermaid, sopping granite compound orgiastic waterfalls on the cotton fields of heaven.” That is how the press release opens. Woah. This Saturday, August 8th, Scott Projects is welcoming London based...
by laurenvallone | Jul 16, 2009 | Blog
Food, Inc., by director Robert Kenner, made me feel stupid. It reminded me of every reason why I loved Our Daily Bread, of 2006. Our Daily Bread exercised subtly and restraint, with very still, bleak vignettes of the monstrous places that produce the food we eat...
by laurenvallone | Jul 9, 2009 | Blog
Julius Caeser is a space tucked into a warehouse; very small, very white, very tall ceilings, half a wall of exposed brick. The show, Hear Here, features collaborative works by Kaylee Rae Wyant and Jerome Acks III, that I had read in an essay on the back of the show...
by laurenvallone | Jun 25, 2009 | Blog
I met Rachel Kalom at a queer book group that met at a bar. Not a ton of book-discussing went on, but we did manage to get drunk at 3pm one Sunday every month. When she told me that she was co-curating a show with her coworker Brian Gillham, I was really excited to...
