by Lise McKean | Sep 19, 2019 | Blog
Electronic billboards blaze with wordless images. ExpoChicago is back. It’s the annual rendezvous of gallerists, collectors, artists, and art friendly crowds at Navy Pier and hotspots around town. Meanwhile, the third Chicago Architecture Biennial kicks off...
by Lise McKean | Aug 3, 2019 | Blog
Lise McKean talks with French artist Sophie Rideaud at her studio and gallery in Les Sables d’Olonne Translation by Laurent Houphoue and Lise McKean Photos by Lise McKean Lise: Let’s start with talking about how you became an artist and came to have a studio and...
by Lise McKean | Feb 15, 2019 | Blog
Closing Event on Saturday, February 16, 2019 4:00-6:00 pm at Aspect Ratio Gallery The Dear Friend Reading by Karen Finley. Performance by A.J. McClenon. Conversation with Stephanie Barber, Phyllis Bramson, Dana Berman Duff, Karen Finley, Matthew Girson, Tracie D....
by Lise McKean | Feb 3, 2019 | Blog
A conversation with Lise McKean Christine Wallers and her work crossed my path in 2010 when we met at the Tai Chi Center of Chicago, where I had gone with a friend for a photo exhibition. The center hosted Christine’s aerie-like studio, adjacent to an expansive space...
by Lise McKean | Dec 2, 2018 | Blog
The die cast by Skycube, an outdoor sculpture by David Wallace Haskins installed in 2015 at the Elmhurst Art Museum, led to Presence, his first exhibition inside the museum in 2016. David and I met in the galleries to talk about the works in Presence and the skein of...