do i really have to remind you….?
Quiet Life
Home of the Brave for Slowdown Studio
For more info go HERE.
Local Comfort
LVL3 is proud to present Local Comfort. Local Comfort is a group show featuring over 40 of Chicago’s key local players helping make the community what it is. Kicking off the gallery season highlighting the idea of home Local Comfort brings together work of many mediums to celebrate the diverse range of the makers who call Chicago home.
Featured Artists:
Leslie Baum | Joseph Belknap | Sarah Belknap | Robert Burnier | Jessica Campbell | Alex Chitty | Nora Chin | Diane Christiansen | Alex Bradley Cohen | Mel Cook | Dan Devening | Oscar I. Gonzalez Diaz | Stephen Eichhorn | Hope Esser | Whit Forrester | Alejandro Jimenez Flores | Joseph Grigely | Magalie Guerin | Molly Hewitt | Daniel Hojnacki | Zachary Hutchinson | Cody Hudson | Sam Jaffe | Annie Kielman | Dave Kruger | Anna Kunz | Chad Kouri | Tony Lewis | Ben Marcus | Jordan Martins | Liz McCarthy | Jeffly Gabriela Molina | Noel Morical | Christopher Meerdo | Roni Packer | Josue Pellot | Jason Pickelman | Cole Pierce | Dan Rizzo-Orr | Soo Shin | Adam Scott | Jenn Smith | Geoffrey Todd Smith | Edra Soto | Sabina Ott | Susan Pasowicz | Frances Roberts | Alex Scott | Tim Stone | Marcela Torres | Allison Wade | Cody Tumblin | Erin Washington | Derrick Woods-Morrow | Brittney Leeanne Williams
Opening Reception
Saturday 22 September 2018
6-10pm
Mixtapes for the Next Millennium
The ANNUAL: An Exhibition of New Chicago Art
Mixtapes for the Next Millennium
Curated by Jordan Martins
September 18 - 28, 2018
The ANNUAL is a yearly sales exhibition celebrating cutting-edge Chicago-based artists. Arranged by a guest curator, The ANNUAL creates an accessible forum for collectors to discover affordable new work and engage directly with its creators.
CAC is pleased to announce that Jordan Martins will curate this year's edition of The ANNUAL. His exhibition, Mixtapes for the Next Millennium, brings together a wide variety of studio practices and backgrounds into proximity with one another to encourage surprising synchronicities or points of overlap between them. The exhibition operates with two notions of the term “mixtape” in mind: 1) an informal compilation of songs that reflect different backgrounds and trans-genre jumps, and 2) the hip-hop use of the term to refer to more raw conjunctions of artists that allow for playful, experimental collaborations or tangents sprouting out of an artist’s more formal output. The freedom and spontaneity of the “mixtape” is embraced here in what kind of work is shown and how it is displayed, eschewing polite spacing between works on white walls for playful molecular combinations that explore how the works of different artists can more directly speak to one another.
Featuring:
Marzena Abrahamik
Kellie Romany
Cameron Harvey
ASMA (Matias Armendaris and Hanya Belia)
Jessica Labatte
Sonnenzimmer [Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher]
Marianne Fairbanks
Soo Shin
Brittney Leeanne Williams
John Opera
Claire Ashley
Deborah Handler
Dan Devening
Kaveri Raina
Cathy Hsiao
Daniel Hojnaki
Marissa Neumann
Damon Locks
Gina Hunt
Cody Hudson
Rodrigo Lara
Public Events
Opening Reception, Friday, September 21, 5-8pm
The ANNUAL Breakfast, Friday, September 28, 9-11am RSVP
All events take place at CAC, 2130 W. Fulton St.
15 Artists 30 Works at Mini Galerie
Mini Galerie is back after a long summer break with a large group exhibition featuring 15 Artists 30 Works. Among the fifteen artists will be a selection of those we have already worked with in the past, and artists whose work we very much appreciate at this moment. This eclectic exhibition – covering the walls of the gallery – will open on Friday the 7th of September, 18.00-21.00 h.
The line-up includes Thomas Trum, Janine van Oene, Olivier Vrancken, Matthew Allen, Jean Nagai, Cody Hudson, Stephen Smith, Jordy van den Nieuwendijk, Pablo Tomek, Louis Reith, Wasted Rita, Graphic Surgery, Michael Bennett, Kim David Bots and Koen Taselaar.
Would you like to request the preview catalogue? Please send an email to info@minigalerie.nl.
Quiet Life x Lonesome Rose
Worked on a little collection of goods with Drew Ryan at the Land and Sea Art Department for the Quiet Life x Lonesome Rose collection.
Library Street Collective at Ritz Carleton
Some recent works of mine placed in the Ritz Carleton Cleveland by Library Street Collective. The private collection includes work by Scott Reeder, Beverly Fishman, Paul Kremer, Holton Rower, Kelsey Brookes, Russell Tyler, Cody Hudson, and Adrian Falkner.
No. 808
New T-Shirt designs for the homies at No. 808 in Hawaii.
Louis Buhl & Co.
Louis Buhl added an artist page to the website. Excited to be in good company with the folks over there. check it out HERE.
more late night studies...
Seoul
Thinking back on the fun trip to Seoul to work on the RYSE hotel installation. Below is a photo by Chris Da Canha shot on film for Maekan.
Peace Pots
Some quick Krink doodles to stay loose in the studio...
Notre Studio Visit
Notre stopped by the studio a few weeks ago to talk shop and shoot some photos of some of the Weed Leaf / Peace Sign goods i worked on with Mister Green. Check it out HERE.
Late night studies....
All City Canvas
New print at Mini Glaerie
My show, Let Me Help You is coming to an end at Mini Galerie in Amsterdam. To celebrate this we released a new 50x70cm screen print this AM. To order go to MiniGalerie.nl
Great Ideas at Chicago Design Museum
Excited to be in the Great ideas of humanity show at the Chicago Design Museum. So many good posters in the show including ones by Bob Faust, Chad Kouri, David Sieren, Eileen Tjan, Ivan Chermayeff, James Goggin, Jason Pinkleman, Margot Harrington, Matthew Hoffman, Mike Renaud, Nick Adam, Paula Scher, Renata Graw, Tanner Woodford, Verena Michelitsch and more. Check out info on the show HERE.
Graphic Study
2018
Graphic study from the weekend in Wisconsin.
Maekan Interview
Sat down with the Eugene Kan from Maekan a few weeks back while working on the install at Ryse Hotel and talked shop for a bit. Check out some nice photos (shot on film) by the all around good dude Chris Da Canha and the recorded conversation HERE.