Category: Recommended Viewing
May 19, 2006
Two at MCA
Photo: Catherine Opie
The Museum of Contemporary Art presents two photography exhibits beginning Saturday, May 20.
The first is a major restrospective of German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. "One of the most important and distinctive artists to emerge in the 1990s," according to the MCA, Tillman's "work is internationally recognized for its richly evocative and stylishly intimate reflection on the often overlooked objects and moments in everyday life. Much of his work concentrates on deceptively casual and unforced views of friends and acquaintances, catching them off-guard and at their most unguardedly 'human.'"
In addition, the MCA will be presenting new work by L.A.-based photographer Catherine Opie from her American Cities series, entitled American Cities (Chicago). The MCA says that "these images present a nuanced vision of key aspects of Chicago’s identity in a revelatory and unexpected way that reflects an intermingled formal, conceptual, and documentary emphasis."
Both shows open May 20, 2006. The Tillman retrospective runs through August 13, 2006 while the Opie exhibit continues through October 15.
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May 18, 2006
Spring 2006 WITHiNSIGHT Show
Photo: Kristin Opaskar
The Chicago Photography Center is holding an opening reception Sunday, May 21, 2006 for their Spring 2006 WITHiNSIGHT gallery show which presents original b&w film and both b&w and color digital photography created the following Chicago Photography Center artists:
Tom Cantos
Jenny Deang
Carolyn DeVar
Dave Klotz
Judy McDonald
Kristin Opaskar
Traci Patterson
Kristin Pishdadi
Lane Statterblom
Julie Sielaff
Jan Weber
In addition, there will be a special First Glimpse preview party at the Center from 8 to 10:30 pm, Friday, May 19. Admission is $30 at the door.
The exhibit runs through July 30, 2006 at CPC's headquarters located at 3301 N. Lincoln Avenue.
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November 11, 2005
The 7x7ers Get Flak
From the shameless self-promotion department...
Couldn't make it to the 7x7 exhibit? Have no fear. Point your browsers to Flak Magazine, the online journal of art and media. They've just published a review of the exhibition and a virtual gallery of the work of its participants: Mitch Arsenie, Nick Campbell, Archie Florcruz, Nick Feder, Pablo Korona and Brian Milo. Oh. And me too.
While I may personally have a few quibbles with Ms. Scott's definition of photoblogging -- I see photoblogging in more expansive definition as being a virtual gallery showing the progression of one's photographic body of work over a period of time rather than being solely in the documentary style of its early years (if one calls the end of the last century and the beginning of this one early) -- I see her critique, IMHO, as fair, honest and generally positive. And the presentation of the exhibit and our work was immaculately done. But check it out and decide for yourself.
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July 26, 2005
An American Boy In Paris
Our very own Fromage Feroce (Ferocious Cheese, for you non-French speakers), Nick Feder, has been chronicling his adventures this summer in the City of Lights. Check out his entries here.
