Breakout Artists 2008: Chicago’s next generation of image makers
By Jason Foumberg, with contributions from Brittany Reilly The Department of Cultural Affairs and the Chicago Artists’ Coalition report that there are an estimated 80,000 artists and “creative types”...
View ArticleLook Up Above
By Dan Gunn The six-lane Polish Falcon Bowl in Milwaukee, built in 1917, is one of the oldest bowling alleys in the country, and it is also the strange site of the second gathering of art-geeks for the...
View ArticleReview: Zak Prekop/Shane Campbell Gallery
RECOMMENDED There are literally many ways of seeing the superb abstract canvases that recent Art Institute grad Zak Prekop has on view at Shane Campbell Gallery. Stare at “Yellow Painting” (2008) long...
View ArticleReview: Jan van der Ploeg/Shane Campbell Gallery
RECOMMENDED For Dutch artist Jan van der Ploeg’s first exhibition with Shane Campbell Gallery, he brought his paintings to the United States in his luggage, reminding me of the “Suitcase Paintings”...
View ArticleReview: Jonas Wood/Shane Campbell Gallery
RECOMMENDED Jonas Wood’s painting style possesses such a frank matter-of-factness that an initial impression can be, like the work first seems, over-simple. Coupled with a subject matter that includes...
View ArticleReview: Alex Hubbard/Shane Campbell Gallery
RECOMMENDED Perhaps the most iconic photographs ever taken of an artist at work (one could almost say “money shots”) are the 1949 images of Jackson Pollock in Life magazine, viewed through a pane of...
View ArticleReview: Anthony Pearson/Shane Campbell Gallery
RECOMMENDED Small is beautiful in Anthony Pearson’s show at Shane Campbell’s new gallery space on Milwaukee Avenue. This sparse exhibition consists mainly of Pearson’s abstract untitled photographs...
View ArticleReview: Chris Bradley/Shane Campbell Gallery
RECOMMENDED Chris Bradley has created a Robert Gober-style sculptural constellation where common objects (pretzel sticks, potato chips, paint rollers) are cast in bronze, painted as real fakes, and...
View ArticleReview: Joanne Greenbaum/Shane Campbell Gallery
RECOMMEDED Wilco fans have already seen Joanne Greenbaum’s work, though they might not know it. Greenbaum provided cover art for the band’s 2011 “The Whole Love,” as well as illustrations for a...
View ArticleEye Exam: New Moves in Chicago Sculpture
By Jason Foumberg It’s an exciting moment for sculpture in Chicago. I’ve tracked a few patterns in contemporary object-making through these nine current exhibitions. Jun Kaneko at Millennium Park The...
View ArticleReview: Greg Gong and Jon Pestoni/Shane Campbell Gallery
RECOMMENDED California-based painters Greg Gong and Jon Pestoni have, through unifying abstract forms over a variety of ground materials and techniques, developed complementary methods that result in...
View ArticleReview: New Image Painting/Shane Campbell Gallery
RECOMMENDED Featuring fifteen artists and an incendiary press release that decries what it sees as the preeminence of “soulless” and “anemic” abstraction, “New Image Painting” at Shane Campbell Gallery...
View ArticleNews: Major expansions for Kavi Gupta and Shane Campbell galleries
Two of Chicago’s most prominent galleries—Kavi Gupta and Shane Campbell—are expanding into larger spaces. Kavi Gupta has added an additional building to their Chicago properties, situated in the Little...
View ArticleReview: Shio Kusaka/Shane Campbell Gallery
RECOMMENDED Japanese-born, American-trained ceramicist Shio Kusaka appears to be standing in both worlds. Formally, she’s one-hundred percent Japanese, making the cups and bowls of conventional...
View ArticleReview: Mimi Lauter/Shane Campbell Gallery
RECOMMENDED The works in Los Angeles artist Mimi Lauter’s “A Carnival of ‘Musical Echo'” are a rare combination of frenzied, physical immediacy tempered by meticulous formal complexity, and feature an...
View ArticleArt 50 2015: Chicago’s Visual Vanguard
Long heralded as a mecca for alternative practices, collectivity and socially engaged art, Chicago increasingly finds itself among the most visible international art destinations precisely because of...
View ArticlePortrait of a Gallery: Emanuel Aguilar and Julia Fischbach, Patron Gallery
As I stroll slowly into Patron Gallery, Emanuel Aguilar walks briskly up to greet me. With partially unpacked artworks leaning against the walls and the smell of fresh paint lingering in the air, the...
View ArticleReview: Kishio Suga/Shane Campbell Gallery
RECOMMENDED Mono-ha (“school of things”) is a group of contemporary Japanese artist-philosophers who manipulate things just enough to make some of their physical properties a noticeable object of...
View ArticleReview: Chris Bradley and Alex Chitty/Shane Campbell Gallery
RECOMMENDED Alex Chitty once said in an interview that she arranges found objects in her work so “they seem to have always belonged together.” On display in Shane Campbell Gallery’s domestic project...
View ArticlePortrait of the Artist: William J. O’Brien
Weaving his way gracefully around shelves brimming with colorful sculptures and past an in-progress colored pencil drawing tacked onto the wall, William J. O’Brien guides me into the ceramics section...
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