Chicago Art Events- Daniel Everett - Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) - April 2nd 6:00 PM - 9:30 PMDaniel Everett repurposes technology, including videogames of his youth, computers, and the Internet to explore the intersection of public and private space. The exhibition opens April 2 during First Fridays as part of the monthly UBS 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work exhibition series at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago and is on view through May 2 […]
- Félicia Atkinson, White/Light - Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) - March 27th 3:00 PM - 4:00 PMAs part of the March UBS 12 x 12: New Artists / New Work series, sound and visual artist Félicia Atkinson performs on March 27 in the 12 x 12 gallery space, and on March 28 White/Light gives their final 12 x 12 performance, also in the gallery space. Experimental music duo White/Light -- musician Matt Clark and sound engineer Jeremy Lemos -- create an intera […]
- Ted Halkin - Corbett vs. Dempsey - April 2nd 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM[…]
- Gazira Babeli, Janell Baxter, Patrick Lichty/Cao Fei, Scott Kildall - Antena - April 2nd 6:00 PM - 10:00 PMLiminality describes the nature of being “in-between”; neither here nor there – or perhaps here and there. This exhibition explores the nature of liminality though examining work from the virtual world, Second Life, and its dialogues with issues of physicality via an exhibition at Antena Gallery, Chicago and on I Am Columbia Island in Second Life. The show w […]
- Adam Trowbridge, Jessica Westbrook - Antena - April 2nd 6:00 PM - 10:00 PMJessica Westbrook is an interdisciplinary artist and designer working with photography, graphics, animation, interactivity, video, sound, and installation. Her modular projects explore desire, visual cues, cultural artifacts, and contradictory sensations that vacillate between great fortune and impending catastrophe. Currently Westbrook is an Assistant Profe […]
- Daniel Everett - Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) - April 2nd 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Tag Archives: pop art
Coop at Corey Helford Gallery
Corey Helford Gallery presents the highly-anticipated solo exhibition of new works by celebrated Pop-artist Coop. Since 2006, Los Angeles has been on the waiting list for Coop’s next explosion of larger-than-life pop iconography, and his upcoming solo show of irreverent and outrageous fine art is sure to deliver.
Bold and brazen does not begin to describe [...]
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de Young Museum – presents “Warhol Live” – San Francisco
Art and music go together like bread and buttah, so it makes perfect sense that over the course of his meteoric career, the legendary Andy Warhol (1928–1987) used the medium of music to transform himself from fan, to record album designer, to producer, to celebrity night-clubber, to rock star.
Thankfully, a new retrospective exhibit, Warhol Live [...]
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Yayoi Kusama – Japanese Artist – Environmental Installations
Yayoi Kusama (草間彌生 or 草間弥生, born March 29, 1929) is a Japanese artist. Her paintings, collages, soft sculptures, performance art and environmental installations all share an obsession with repetition, pattern, and accumulation. Her work shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and [...]
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Victor Castillo – Restless and Wild