Faces of the 47th Ward

Closing Reception: October 5th from 7-9pm at the 47th Ward Office. Stop by, meet and mingle.

WTTW Chicago Tonight Story about Ameya Pawar highlights OpenWall! Ash-har Quraishi profiles Ameya Pawar of the 47th Ward and he gives a shout out to OpenWall.

Visit the 47th Ward Office of Alderman Ameya Pawar, relax and bring your art-loving friends! Revolving exhibition of local artists. Featuring work by:

Andrew Steiner
Ann Ponce
Bill Bartelt
Bill Moran
Emily Rapport
Hiroshi Ariyama
Hugh Spector
Jane Rickard
Larry Zgoda
Mary H. Phelan
Meredith Dytch
Nico Camargo
Patricia Larkin Green

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SICK! Leo Kogan Project Space, Amsterdam

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SICK! is a multi-disciplinary international group show featuring: Inga Cholmogorova (Vilnius/Amsterdam) Charlie Citron (Amsterdam) Thomas Draschan (Vienna/Berlin) Eric Fertman (New York) Ryan Foley (Philadelphia) Grady Gerbracht (New York) Annelien Kers (Amsterdam) Eric Knoote (Amsterdam) Leo Kogan (Amsterdam/Los Angeles) Carlos Little … Continue reading

Around the Coyote’s “1st Annual Painting Competition & Exhibition”

image7_bigMy painting, Supernatural Burgerking (30″ x 31″, oil/canvas),  has been selected to be exhibited in The 1st Annual Painting Competition and Exhibition coordinated by Around the Coyote. The opening reception takes place this Saturday, August 22nd, from 6-9pm at The Splat Flats, 1815-25 W. Division in Chicago. One artist will be selected at the opening to receive the “Best Emerging Painter” Award – other than that brief, tension-filled, awkward moment it should be a lot of fun!! The exhibition continues through September 26th. An afterparty (also Saturday, 8/22, beginning at 9pm) is planned for artists and patrons at Debonair Social Club at 1575 N Milwaukee Ave. in Wicker Park.

This exhibition is curated by Sara Schnadt. The selected artists include Matt Hallinan, Mark Hansen, Lindsey Hook, Diane Huff, Elizabeth Kauffman, Blair Michele Meehan, John Mosher, Gosia Podosek, Emily Rapport, and Erin Rivers.

The Peter Jones Gallery says “good-bye”.

4th of July, oil/canvas, 31" x 31"

4th of July, oil/canvas, 31" x 31", by Emily Rapport.

“Grand Goodbye”, the final exhibition at The Peter Jones Gallery (ending its 20+ year tenure in Ravenswood), will open this (correction) Saturday, June 6th, from 6 – midnight.  The grand finale exhibition “will showcase the diverse talent of artists whose paths have crossed through Peter Jones’ Gallery and studios over its twenty plus years of operation. 60+ Chicago area artists will hang in the gallery as well as in salon style mini-galleries created out of vacated artist studios.”

Emily Rapport (see left), a former denizen of Ravenswood Industrial Corridor, is just one of many artists exhibiting in the final show at the Peter Jones Gallery.

Photography by Andrew Steiner (below) will also be on view. Andrew collaborated with Emily to create the Ravenswood Documentary Project in 2006 for Chicago Artists’ Month – the theme was “Artists at Work” and showed that artists and industry shared a cultural and historic connection through the act of work. View more of Andrew’s photography at: http://andrewsteinerphotography.com

From the Devon Avenue Series. © Andrew Steiner

From the Devon Avenue Series. © Andrew Steiner

We say good-bye to the Peter Jones Gallery with the knowledge that new artistic ventures will naturally occur in its stead. Artists will continue to work together in the cooperative spirit that Peter Jones, and others like him, have fostered over the past 20 years.

The opening reception this Friday will include performances, film and music. The show continues through June 21st. Regular gallery hours are 3-6pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

For more information about the show visit: http://www.peterjonesgallery.com