BOLT Alumni Yvette Mayorga Reviewed @ NewCity
Yvette Mayorga’s distinctive visual style of installation uses frosting—or acrylic that is piped to give the appearance of frosting—to build lands of confection populated with personal objects.
Yvette Mayorga’s distinctive visual style of installation uses frosting—or acrylic that is piped to give the appearance of frosting—to build lands of confection populated with personal objects.
Huong Ngo’s “Reap the Whirlwind” features two bodies of works concealed by darkness. Viewed askance, four black hanging screen prints reveal seductive, Ingres-like female figures.
For the Chicago Artists Coalition, life on the other side of 40 has been busier than ever. As CAC prepares to open another edition of The ANNUAL this week, they've also been busy with a major relocation this year as well as undertaking their first capital campaign.
"If you ever think about me, and if you ain’t gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don’t want myself on your mind if you’re not gonna work for the people." — Fred Hampton
Artadia is pleased to announce the Awardees for the 2018 Chicago Artadia Awards: Leonard Suryajaya and
This week we are joined in the studio by real life art critic for the Chicago Tribune and senior lecturer at the School of the Art Institute, Lori Waxman,
The most recent HATCH exhibition at the Chicago Artists Coalition brings together three artists whose work is deeply grounded in techniques that add dimension to their imagery and challenge a modern expectation of photography in a digital world.
For fourteen years, Newcity has published its annual list of Breakout Artists in the late spring, a fitting time for the budding hopes of every Chicagoan finally seeing the warm light at the end of the gray and dismal tunnel of winter.
For the past several years, Matt Morris has been making paintings of paintings by conceptual artist Sherrie Levine.
Ellen Rothenberg's work can be conceptually characterized as the presentation of enigmatic proposals.
Alexandria Eregbu performs a scene from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man—reinterpreting Louis Armstrong’s simultaneous playing and singing of “(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue.” This perfo
Since 2014 "Articulate" has been producing content aimed at how artworks and artists transform the way we see and understand the world.
Opening on February 1, 2018, Spertus Institute presents a new, commissioned, site-specific installation by Chicago-based artist Ellen Rothenberg.
GOLDFINCH is very proud to present The World Is a Different Place, a solo exhibition of recent drawings, screen prints, digital prints, Xerox prints and a comic by Damon
2016 BOLT resident Yvette Mayorga is currently featured on Bad at Sports THINKS editorial.
The DePaul Art Museum is circulating a questionairre to better understand what Chicago-based artists need and how institutions can better serve those needs.
The first Chicago Art Book Fair is dedicated to showcasing emerging directions and diverse legacies within small press arts publishing.
Please consider donating online to CAC on Tuesday, November 28 for #ILGive on #GivingTuesday, and your gift will make a bigger impact on Chicago's arts community!
After 5 years away, The Moth Mainstage returns to The Harris Theater with a grand homecoming event!
The sooner the better: a sash hung shoulder to hip. We know what they say about the personal, we know that it’s now more than, we know no men are an: tightly wrapped and ripe for unpacking.