Chicago Gallery News January-April 2013

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CHICAGO GALLERY NEWS

THOMAS MASTERS GALLERY 20 YEARS IN THIS ISSUE • Chicago Gallery News turns 30 • Photographer Laura Letinsky • 3Arts supports Chicago artists • The new Logan Center for the Arts • Gallery openings + more

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IMPORTANT ART IS BEING MADE IN CHICAGO

“I was so grateful for the opportunity to participate in 3Arts Artist Projects (3AP). This is a huge boon for artists who struggle financially to make their work even in the best of times. My project is all about making new paintings and rebuilding after most of my work was damaged in flooding earlier this year. Now, with the help of 3AP, I will be able to turn this setback into something truly positive.”

– David Leggett 2009 3Arts Awardee

DAVID LEGGETT Unforgivable Blackness Acrylic on canvas, 2012

3AP allows everyone, near and far, to invest directly in the art and careers of Chicago artists. You can pick the projects that inspire you and decide how much to pledge – $5, $50, $250, or whatever you wish.

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IN THIS ISSUE: January-April 2013 10 12 14 16-23 The University of Chicago’s Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts is now open in Hyde Park.

24-26 We interviewed photographer Laura Letinsky for this issue’s artist profile

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The Galleries

Picasso comes to the Art Institute this February.

Pablo Picasso, Maquette for Richard J. Daley Center Monument, 1965, Simulated and oxidized welded steel, 41 1/4 x 27 1/2 x 19 in., The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Pablo Picasso, 1966.379

The guide to area galleries + art centers.

Geographic listings include contact details, exhibitions, artists, specialties + more.

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Woman Made Gallery in the West Loop celebrates 20 years

Openings + Gallery Receptions Exhibiting Artists Artists currently showing around town Gallery Specialties Abstraction, emerging, antiques, prints + more What’s Happening: Features + Art Interviews • Letter from the Publisher • Artist Laura Letinsky • Art dealer Linda Warren • Suburban collectors Anne + Mark Siebert • UChicago’s new Logan Center for the Arts • Kevin Nance looks at the impact of 3Arts; An expert answers Collection Questions; We preview what’s new with 3 exhibiting artists Additional Highlights + CGN News An online tool for buying art; Galleries new to CGN; An antiques top-ten list; Art + food at Telegraph; Artists + dealers in the news Pull-out Gallery District Maps Take our maps along when visiting galleries or navigating city + suburban art destinations.

Also find a list of ongoing art tours + walks

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River North West Loop / Fulton Market / West Side Hyde Park / Pilsen / Pilsen East / Bridgeport Michigan Avenue / The Loop / South Loop North Side: Wicker Park / Bucktown, Ravenswood, Lincoln Park, and Beyond Suburbs + Beyond (Wisconsin, Michigan + Indiana)

Art Resources + Art Centers 46 53 Art classes take place at several area art centers: Lakeside Legacy Arts Park in Crystal Lake offers programs monthly.

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Art Businesses, Services + Resources Framers, auctioneers, appraisers + more Art Centers, Collectives + Artist Studios Extended list of museums + institutions online only Gallery Index 8

CHICAGO GALLERY NEWS years

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Founded in 1983 Chicago Gallery News is the central source for information about the area’s art galleries, museums, events, and resources. CGN aims to be a clear, accessible guide to the region’s creative world, as well as an advocate on behalf of Chicago's art community.

Magazines are available by subscription. Complimentary copies are also available in all listed galleries, in area art centers, at the Chicago Cultural Center, in local museums, and at hotel concierge desks throughout Chicago and the suburbs.

Published 3 times annually: January / May / September ©2013 Chicago Gallery News, Inc.

Publisher + Executive Editor Virginia B. Van Alyea Managing Editor + Business Manager Laura Miller Contributing Writers Mary DeYoe Kevin Nance Interns Joanna Aslanian Erin McGuire

Chicago Gallery News 213 W. Institute Pl., Ste. 407 Chicago, IL 60610 Tel 312-649-0064 info@chicagogallerynews.com www.chicagogallerynews.com Facebook.com/ChicagoGalleryNews Twitter @ChiGalleryNews January-April 2013 Vol. 28, No. 1 © 2013 ISSN #1046-6185

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ON THE COVER: Thomas Masters reflects on 20 years Living with art every day is the best part of being an art dealer. I enjoy being surrounded by its mysterious power, its potential to communicate, and when very good, its ability to change the way people think about and see the world. Living with art can enhance our connection to culture enormously.

We live in a time in which there are myriad ways to view, experience, select and acquire art. Still, the gallery remains an enduring entity in this process. The intimacy of the “viewing room,” as Alfred Stieglitz described his own progressive space, creates unique connections - the dealer is a kind of caretaker who must convey understanding of the artist’s work to the collector, hopefully creating a bridge to the artist’s vision. It is in the gallery space where the closest bonds between these three players are formed. This environment has no equal. Day after day, and over again, this repeated here process forges strong relationships.

Having a gallery is not really like having a job, or even a career; it is a lifestyle, and a very good one. Having a gallery for 20 years both is and isn’t a long time. It is when one thinks back to 1993, when young parents just beginning their collections visited the gallery on weekends with children in strollers; now those children are away at college. It is a long time when I realize that the gallery’s youngest, most promising artist today was just five when the gallery opened. It isn’t such a long time when one considers the longevity and accomplishments of other dealers in this city, some of whom have been in business 30 or 40 years and have built national and international reputations.

I started as a “grass roots” gallery. I really did not know anyone in the art world. I had a very small amount of money and no one was standing behind me if I failed. In the beginning it was one day at a time, then one month at a time. It was one new artist at a time, and one collector at a time. We enthusiastically engaged each person who came through the door. Over time, the number of collectors grew; helping each one develop their collection has been, and still is, one of my greatest pleasures.

Thomas Masters Gallery 245 W. North Ave. (60610) Tel 312-440-2322 W-F 12-6; Sa 11-6; Su 12-5 Thomas@thomasmastersgallery.com www.thomasmastersgallery.com

Longevity has benefits, but 20 years in business can make one feel a little old and certainly a little tired. It is also an opportunity to stop and reflect for a moment. For me 20 years at the gallery means I have been successful as well as passionate, and I’ve certainly enjoyed it. I’m most grateful for the enduring legacy created by the artists, collectors, friends and supporters who have made it all possible. -TM

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GALLERY OPENING RECEPTIONS A new year and dozens of new reasons to visit Chicago’s galleries and museums. Kickoff 2013 by attending the opening of the season on Friday, January 11. As usual you’ll find an open house or gallery walk to attend each weekend, as so many of the city’s creative hubs offer monthly events like 2nd and 3rd Fridays, as well as Saturday events. January and February can seem like stay-at-home months as we seek shelter from the cold and the dark, but there is much to be seen and experienced in the art world. Visit our website for the most up-to-date list of openings in the region this season, and we’ll see you in the galleries!

DISTRICT KEY:

• River North • West Loop + West Side

• Pilsen +

Pilsen East, Bridgeport + Hyde Park • Michigan Ave., Loop + S. Loop • North Side + Bucktown + Wicker Park • Suburbs + Out of State: IN, MI, WI Opening receptions for new exhibitions take place every 6-8 weeks on the first night of a new exhibition, usually some time between 5-9pm on Friday nights, unless otherwise noted.

Artists are often present, and the public is welcome.

A helpful pull-out map to guide you on your gallery hopping may be found on page 27.

Online openings

JANUARY F, January 4 The Elmhurst Artists’ Guild F, January 11 Addington Jean Albano ArchiTech Roy Boyd Echt Catherine Edelman Gruen Galleries Carl Hammer Hilton | Asmus Robert Jendra Ann Nathan Jennifer Norback + The Project Room Perimeter Rangefinder Ken Saunders Schneider Vale Craft David Weinberg Zolla / Lieberman Chicago Artists’ Coalition Packer Schopf Rotofugi The Art Center (Highland Park)

Su, January 20 Evanston Art Center (1-4pm)

Sa, February 23 Bert Green

Su, February 24 Evanston Art Center Th, January 24 (1-4pm) State St. Gallery, Robert Morris Univ.

NIU Art Museum MARCH F, January 25 F, March 1 Firecat Addington The Elmhurst Roy Boyd Artists’ Guild Echt Tall Grass Arts Assoc.

Gruen Galleries Robert Jendra FEBRUARY Ann Nathan Jennifer Norback + F, February 1 The Project Room Carrie Secrist Perimeter Lillstreet Ken Saunders Krasl Art Center (MI) Schneider Lakeside Legacy Arts Woman Made Logan Center F, February 8 The Art Center Jennifer Norback + (Highland Park) The Project Room College of Lake Linda Warren County: Prospectus Robert T. Wright Rotofugi Lakeside Legacy Sa, February 9 LACUNA

F, February 15 Carl Hammer Hilton | Asmus Printworks Chicago Artists’ Coalition F, January 18 4Art Inc. McCormick Bridgeport Art Center Woman Made Yale Factor 4Art Inc. Bridgeport Art Center Zhou B Art Center Yale Factor F, February 22 Zhou B Art Center Packer Schopf Jackson Junge Firecat ZIA College of Lake County: CGN coordinates Robert T. Wright private gallery tours

Sa, January 12 Bert Green LACUNA

Th, March 7 Chicago Art Source F, March 8 Jean Albano Catherine Edelman Rangefinder David Weinberg Zolla / Lieberman Rotofugi The Elmhurst Artists’ Guild Sa, March 9 LACUNA Bert Green ZIA

for groups of 4-40. including receptions and transportation.

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Galleries are inviting places to take a break from the outdoors as well as find visual comfort all winter long.

F, March 15 Jennifer Norback + The Project Room Chicago Artists’ Coalition 4Art Inc. Bridgeport Art Center Yale Factor Zhou B Art Center Jackson Junge Lillstreet

F, April 12 Chicago Artists’ Coalition Linda Warren Prospectus College of Lake County: Robert T. Wright Sa, April 13 LACUNA

W, April 17 F, March 22 Brauer Museum (IN) Printworks Krasl Art Center (MI) F, April 19 Sa, March 23 Addington Chicago Printmakers Gruen Galleries Collaborative Carl Hammer Hilton | Asmus W, March 27 Robert Jendra Brauer Museum (IN) Jennifer Norback + The Project Room F, March 29 Vale Craft Firecat Zolla/Lieberman Lillstreet 4Art Inc. Bridgeport Art Center Yale Factor APRIL Logan Center Zhou B Art Center Th, April 4 NIU Art Museum Sa, April 20 Bert Green F, April 5 ZIA McCormick Logan Center F, April 26 Rotofugi Brauer Museum (IN) Firecat Lakeside Legacy

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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Located just one block east of the historic Water Tower, MCA Chicago presents a range of new work by today’s artists and provides an engaging space for the exchange of ideas.

220 E. Chicago Ave. 312.280.2660 mcachicago.org

There’s always something happening at MCA Chicago. Join us for free daily tours and a wide variety of artists’ talks, family-friendly activities, performances, social events, and more.

Official Airline of MCA Chicago

Martin Creed Work No. 1357, MOTHERS, 2012. Courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York. Installation view, Martin Creed Plays Chicago, MCA Chicago, 2012. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.

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EXHIBITING ARTISTS The following list includes artists with exhibitions taking place around Chicago between January-April 2013. CGN maintains a list of additional artists regularly represented by all galleries in the area, including galleries not included in this edition of CGN, as well as many independent artists.

For our comprehensive list please contact us: 312.649.0064 or info@chicagogallerynews.com

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Chardiet, José….....Ken Saunders Coffey, Susanna...........Printworks Colescott, Warrington….NIU Art Museum Conger, William...................Zolla / Lieberman Conger, William……...Printworks Craig, Melissa Jay…………..ZIA Curtaz, Jessica............Bert Green Cutlip, Michael...........………ZIA

D-G DeVarney, Adam........….Rotofugi Devereux, Alex…….......……ZIA Di Sante, Don……Packer Schopf Digeros, Marc…….……Lillstreet Dix, Otto……..NIU Art Museum Dürer, Albrecht…...........NIU Art Museum Factor, Yale……….…Yale Factor Fairweather, Seth…Ken Saunders Feder-Nadoff, Michele…...Brauer Museum Ferber, Herbert…...............Valerie Carberry Ferrari, Virginio….….State Street Fitzpatrick, Tony…..........Jennifer Norback + The Project Room Fitzpatrick, Tony…............Firecat Fogelson, Doug…..Linda Warren Forsythe, Jeffrey……...Perimeter Fydryck, Walter...........Prospectus Gallagher, Greg...Lubeznik Center Garland, Gabrielle……..Elmhurst Art Museum Gauthier, Kathryn...Woman Made Geichman, Judith...Carrie Secrist Georgiades, Aristotle..............Carl Hammer Georgiou, Kostis…Hilton | Asmus Gholizadeh, Azadeh.........Chicago Artists’ Coalition Gorchov, Ron….Russell Bowman Goro, Michael...................Jennifer Norback + The Project Room Graham, Andrew……...Roy Boyd Greco, Ettore…................Jennifer Norback + The Project Room Grzeca, Dan………….....Rotofugi

Adkins, Terry…....Block Museum Aeling, Jeff…….............Perimeter Afshar, Ani…….....Hilton | Asmus Aguilar, Alberto…......…Elmhurst Art Museum Anderson, Tim....Thomas Masters Arroyo, Tim……......…Prospectus Attie, Shimon…....Block Museum Baker, Deborah….Packer Schopf Bartelstein, Patti…..........Jennifer Norback + The Project Room Baum, Don…...........Elmhurst Art Museum Beck, Rick………...Ken Saunders Bellis, Eric……..Thomas Masters Bernhard, Cindy..…........Jennifer Norback + The Project Room Bodker, Lene……...Ken Saunders Bower, John…...Lubeznik Center Bramson, Phyllis…..........NIU Art Museum Bramson, Phyllis….............Zolla / Lieberman Brown, Roger….Russell Bowman Burke, Mary………….……...ZIA Burnham, Daniel……..ArchiTech Carter, Scott.............Evanston Art Center H-K Cartwright, Stephen…...Evanston Art Center Cascia, Bruce….......The Elmhurst Haas, Richard……..…Printworks Artists’ Guild Harvey, Cig………….........Firecat Hashemi, Maral…..............Brauer Museum

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Chicago Gallery News

blog keep up with the art news on our CGN blog: highlights, recaps, early warnings, scoops + more chicagogallerynews.com/blog Hauser, Marc……........HAUSER Hauser, Marc…….........Schneider Hermant, Emily..............Evanston Art Center Hess, Derek……………Rotofugi Hilton, Arica….…Hilton | Asmus Höfer, Candida...Russell Bowman Hogarth, William…........NIU Art Museum Hook, Lu + Ry...Lubeznik Center Huck, Tom..….NIU Art Museum Hutter, Sidney........Ken Saunders Hyers, Martin.................Elmhurst Art Museum Iannelli, Alfonso………ArchiTech Janssens, Frieke……....Catherine Edelman Jendra, Robert......Robert Jendra Johnson, Frankie…........Lakeside Legacy Junge, Laura Lee.............Jackson Junge Jungen, Brian……..Logan Center Kao, Raeleen………....Bert Green Karklin, Peter….....Packer Schopf Kim, Duk Ju L. .........Zhou B Art Center

King, Jill...........Jennifer Norback + The Project Room Klement, Vera……..............Zolla / Lieberman Knowles, Sabrina…Ken Saunders Kohl, Tammy…….Hilton | Asmus Kostiner, Lewis……..Rangefinder Kroll, David…..Zolla / Lieberman Kuhn, Jon………...Ken Saunders Kun, Shay…….......Linda Warren Kwak, Su……….Brauer Museum

L-N Lamb, Matt……………..Hilligoss Laurent, Richard…………….ZIA Leib, Shayna………………...Echt Lerner, Arthur……….Printworks Levato, Lauren…...Packer Schopf Linklater, Duane….Logan Center Lopez, Martina………..Schneider Lozar, Carmen……Ken Saunders Marcus, Joyce…..The Art Center (Highland Park) Margoni, Nathan............Krasl Art Center Marioni, Dante…...Ken Saunders

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Roy R oy B Boyd oyd G Gallery allery ry March 1st - April 16th Opening March 1st 5:00 - 8:00 PM

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Marshall, Kerry James..................

Printworks Marshall, Kerry James…..Russell Bowman Mebane, William…..Elmhurst Art Museum Mesplé, James…..Jackson Junge Mills, Jennifer..................Chicago Artists’ Coalition Miserendino, Alyssa…...Elmhurst Art Museum Moulton, Josh……Josh Moulton Niffenegger, Audrey…Printworks Norton, Craig……..Carl Hammer Nutt, Jim………Russell Bowman Nutt, Jim…………….Printworks

O-R Ostoff, Nick…..Zolla / Lieberman Ottinger, Christopher.......Chicago Artists’ Coalition Paschke, Ed……Russell Bowman Pearlstein, Philip…….Printworks Pharis, Mark……………Lillstreet Phillips, Sonya………….Lillstreet Ploughe, Susan...Lakeside Legacy Reintjes, Alison………..Lillstreet

Reisman, Polina…The Art Center (Highland Park) Renner, Luis…..............Tall Grass Ricci, Jonathan……….....…..ZIA Riley, Bruce……....Packer Schopf Ris, Julie……….....Woman Made Robbins, Renee……..……Firecat Roberts, Darrell.........Zhou B Art Center Roberts, Holly…............Catherine Edelman Rocca, Suellen……….Printworks Romano, Mario...................Zolla / Lieberman Romero, Alejandro…...Prospectus Roth, Peter….......Gruen Galleries Royal, Richard……Ken Saunders

S-T Sabraw, John….........McCormick Salhus, John...Zhou B Art Center Sands, Meredith................Thomas Masters Saraniti, Melody................Thomas Masters Schuler, Rene Romero….Jennifer Norback + The Project Room Schulze, Franz……….Printworks

Schutter, David....................Logan Sievers, Matthew…....State Street Sippel, Jeff...........Gruen Galleries Slemmons, Kiff.................Douglas Dawson Smith, Kiki….…Russell Bowman Soltys, Bob………….Rangefinder Sonnenberg, Connie........Lakeside Legacy Arts Park Spiess-Ferris, Eleanor…....Packer Schopf Stanislav, Andréa...Packer Schopf Stapleton, Douglas……...Jennifer Norback + The Project Room Sternfeld, Joel....Russell Bowman Stillion, Michael….Linda Warren Sundquist, Hans Peter…Lillstreet Svoboda, Allison….Woman Made Tanimura, David…………Firecat Teifeld, Fred………..Rangefinder Test, William…………..…Firecat Thelen, Linc...Zhou B Art Center Thornton, Hollis Brown......Linda Warren Toebbe, Anne...........Elmhurst Art Museum Turk, Francine……KM Fine Arts

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U-Z Utermohlen, William…...Jennifer Norback + The Project Room Valentine, Ed……..Linda Warren Valerio, James…….....Printworks Vega, Carlos Estrada….Roy Boyd Vera, Rafael E. ...........Bert Green Waldo, Jon……….Linda Warren Wallor, Kendall...Lakeside Legacy Weaver, Kathy……….............ZIA Wegman, William...............Russell Bowman Wehmer, John………McCormick Weinberg, David.................David Weinberg Weinberg, Steven...Ken Saunders Whitehead, Frances…Printworks Whiteley, Richard...Ken Saunders Wiener, Ronit……The Art Center (Highland Park) Wright, Frank Lloyd....ArchiTech Yucelen, Belgin….Hilton | Asmus Zawitkoski, Beverly………....ZIA

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GALLERY SPECIALTIES If you are looking for a certain kind of art specialty or medium, such as abstract painting, Old Masters or photography, please consult this list. Chicago galleries specialize in a wide range of art, but this directory makes your search easier by indicating galleries that regularly specialize in the following categories. Once you’ve narrowed your list, please consult our index or visit chicagogallerynews.com and contact galleries directly for more information.

Additional galleries and specialties are also listed online.

Abstract Expressionism McCormick

Asian Andrew Bae Douglas Dawson Floating World The Golden Triangle NIU Art Museum Pagoda Red PRIMITIVE

Eastern European Kamp Maya Polsky

Emerging Addington Roy Boyd Bridgeport Art Center Chicago Art Source Chicago Printmakers Audubon Prints Collaborative Joel Oppenheimer, Inc. Deer Path Art League Catherine Edelman British Elmhurst Art Museum Hildt (EAM) Bert Green Ceramics Bridgeport Art Center Carl Hammer Jackson Junge Colletti Lakeside Legacy Douglas Dawson Ann Nathan Leigh Packer Schopf Lillstreet Prospectus Ann Nathan African or African Judy A Saslow Perimeter American Schneider Vale Craft Douglas Dawson Carrie Secrist Gruen Galleries State Street Chicago Scenes Carl Hammer Linda Warren ArchiTech Ann Nathan Woman Made Art De Triumph + PRIMITIVE Zhou B Art Center Artful Framer Judy A Saslow ZIA Chicago Printmakers Zolla / Lieberman Collaborative Antiques Josh Moulton The Golden Triangle Fiber Arts / Textiles Jennifer Norback Pagoda Red Douglas Dawson Ann Nathan Contemporary Antiquities + Perimeter Haitian Artifacts PRIMITIVE Jackson Junge Douglas Dawson ZIA The Golden Triangle Crafts PRIMITIVE Figurative Vale Craft Bert Green Architecture Early 20th Century Thomas Masters ArchiTech Jennifer Norback Josh Moulton Fine Art Frederick Baker Linda Warren Hildt Zygman Voss R.S. Johnson Artists’ Books Kamp Chicago Printmakers McCormick Collaborative Platt Printworks Galleries Maurice Zygman Voss Gallery Sternberg Zygman Voss

Abstraction Jean Albano Roy Boyd Valerie Carberry Chicago Art Source Gruen Galleries KM Fine Arts Leigh McCormick Jennifer Norback Richard Norton Perimeter Platt Fine Art David Weinberg ZIA Zygman Voss

EMILY LEACH CERAMICS

Using wheel throwing + hand building techniques, Emily Leach makes both sculptural + functional forms from stoneware + porcelain clay bodies. Surface patterns + textures are created by layering under-glazes, stains + high-fire glazes with a painterly approach referencing nature, landscape + classic patterns.

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GALLERY SPECIALTIES Fine Painting + Prints 18th + 19th Century ArchiTech Frederick Baker Hildt R.S. Johnson Platt Galleries Maurice Sternberg Zygman Voss Fine Prints Contemporary ArchiTech Andrew Bae Frederick Baker Chicago Art Source Chicago Printmakers Collaborative Bert Green R.S. Johnson KM Fine Arts NIU Art Museum Perimeter Printworks Prospectus Zygman Voss Folk, Native or Outsider Russell Bowman Carl Hammer Ann Nathan Packer Schopf Judy A Saslow Vale Craft Linda Warren Furniture + Decorative Arts Andrew Bae Colletti Douglas Dawson The Golden Triangle Pagoda Red Poster Plus Vale Craft Glass Echt Leigh Ken Saunders Impressionism Art De Triumph + Artful Framer Kamp Richard Norton Galleries Maurice Sternberg Zygman Voss

Installations Bridgeport Art Center Lakeside Legacy Zhou B Art Center

Plein-air Kamp Pop Rotofugi

Jewelry Bridgeport Art Center Leigh Judy A Saslow Vale Craft Landscape Deer Path Art League Lakeside Legacy Josh Moulton Yale Factor Zygman Voss Latin American Prospectus Art Modern + Contemporary Masters Russell Bowman Valerie Carberry Richard Gray KM Fine Arts Jennifer Norback Richard Norton Prospectus Art

Modernism Valerie Carberry Kamp KM Fine Arts McCormick Multi-Media Deer Path Art League Hilton | Asmus Old Masters R.S. Johnson Kamp KM Fine Arts Galleries Maurice Sternberg Zygman Voss Photography Alibi ArchiTech Chicago Art Source Deer Path Art League Catherine Edelman HAUSER Hilton | Asmus Jackson Junge Robert Jendra Printworks Prospectus Schneider Shot Images David Weinberg ZIA

Posters / Lithography Colletti Poster Plus State Street Quilts Vale Craft Regionalism Art De Triumph + Artful Framer Robert Jendra Josh Moulton Russian Maya Polsky Sculpture Addington Roy Boyd Bridgeport Art Center Valerie Carberry Echt Richard Gray Bert Green Gruen Galleries Carl Hammer Jackson Junge KM Fine Arts Krasl Art Center Lakeside Legacy Leigh Ann Nathan Packer Schopf Perimeter Judy A Saslow Ken Saunders Zhou B Art Center Zolla / Lieberman

Imaging & Craft

Surrealism Jackson Junge Zygman Voss Wildlife / Nature Joel Oppenheimer Works on Paper Frederick Baker Russell Bowman Chicago Printmakers Collaborative Hilton | Asmus Printworks Zygman Voss

Digital Image Reproduction & Crafts JK Imaging & Craft | jkimagingcraft.com | 312.243.9355 1319 W. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60622

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NEWS - WHAT’S HAPPENING

Letter from the Publisher - CGN Turns 30 in 2013!

I tell the story of how CGN got started often, but it’s still amazing to me that 30 years ago in Chicago, just a handful of galleries populated an unfamiliar area that is now well known as River North. From that initial hub of creativity the art scene exploded to other neighborhoods, studio buildings and art institutions. Published in the winter of 1982/83 by Natalie van Straaten, CGN, first known as the Superior / Huron Gallery News, consisted of four black and white pages and outlined the locations, exhibitions and opening dates for just 16 galleries. In 2013 we cover hundreds of spaces all around the city, in print and online.

well as coming up with new ways to help readers navigate the art world. It’s in that spirit that we introduce our new Collector Questions section for this issue. For the first edition we address old fashioned organization updated for an online world. Changes around us haven’t just been digital: Kevin Nance assesses the new landscape of arts funding, writing about the 3Arts Foundation as it marks $1,000,000 raised at its 5 year anniversary. Mary DeYoe also previews UChicago’s new Logan Center for the Arts.

From left, some of CGN’s past covers: The original in 1983; a thicker, bound

format in 1987; CGN went full size with We are broadening our coverage of working Richard Gray Gallery + Anthony Caro’s artists this year, profiling photographer Laura Chicago Fugue in 1994; Boo Radley, Carl Hammer Gallery’s dog in residence stood Letinsky, while checking in with a handful of out in 2002, the year CGN went online other exhibiting artists to get the scoop on their journeys that last longer upcoming shows this season. than we would have ever guessed. Dealer Linda Warren shares our senCGN has had many looks throughout the years, The new is critical in contemporary art, but timents as she marks 10 years in Chicago after and its content and reach has certainly expand- antiques have also become a bigger part of starting out in L.A. When beginning a new CGN in recent years.

In time for this April ‘s ed along with the community, but its mission Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair, endeavor most people are grateful to have their has remained the same: to be the city’s arts two experts share a savvy Top 10 list to inspire doors open for a year or two. CGN owes its cheerleader and to share clear, up-to-date and longevity and evolution to many your vintage and antique hunts as well as the engaging information about our art scene. people in Chicago and beyond, way you think about furniture in your home. and we will look forward to many As we celebrate 30 in 2013, CGN will be making more editorial additions to the magazine as The art world is full of surprises, and so are the future art-filled anniversaries.

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Artist Insights: Laura Letinsky

BY LAURA MILLER

For years the question, what is a photograph had Laura Letinsky’s subtly haunting photographs driven my practice; if stick with you. The scenes in her work convey anything and everything ease and elegance, yet they are conceptually is ripe as photography’s loaded with references to art history, literature, subject, and given the music, and writing. The viewer is asked in unrelenting volume of changing ways to consider what her images sig- images, why make picnify to them. Born in Winnipeg, Canada, tures? What do they do?

Letinksy attended the University of Manitoba I now understand the and Yale’s School of Art before migrating to answer has to do with Chicago, where she is currently a Professor of what they are - that is, Art at the University of Chicago. She is reprepictures are how they sented locally by Valerie Carberry Gallery, in exist in our world, how addition to other galleries in the U.S., Canada, we produce and consume and Germany. them.

LM: How does Chicago compare to other cities where you’ve exhibited or where you’re represented?

LL: Chicago is a great community. There’s a bit of self-consciousness about being smaller than New York or L.A., with all the negative associations of provincialism and its insecurities, but Chicago is fantastic in that its scale is big enough to be stimulating, challenging, and diverse while still being manageable on many levels. I can live here and manage to make art, teach, have kids, space, a garden, friends that is, a life that is full and rich. Every place has benefits and challenges but I find Chicago a really productive and fabulous balance.

For the series I decided that to use images, mine and others, indiscriminately with objects, digital downloads, and scans permitted a kind of promiscuity that felt right. It’s a way of negotiating my ambivalence for this medium, a deep and abiding love and irrevocable loathing. To focus this inquiry around home and food portends a potent array of issues including consumption, sexuality, need, want, labor, gender, etc.

What are you trying to set the stage for when you’re assembling scenes for your photographs? A specific mood or memory?

There’s not really a mood or memory as there was with the earlier manifestations of my stillAs a University of Chicago professor is life work. In this series I am feeling my way there any sound advice that you adhere to around, trying to find a way to set up ideas, personally that you’ve shared with a student? ambivalences, conflicts, resolutions, relationI recently had a critique with a student who ships, that bespeak of “home.” was setting up a stranglehold on the possibility for experimentation and learning and Still lifes have such a loaded history. Are seemed at odds with her larger interests. I there any specific artists you see your work encouraged her to toss out the division referencing/influenced by/commenting on? between her art and the rest of her life and to When I first began my references were the instead revel in the places where she drew fun Northern European still life masters, particuand enthusiasm, skepticism and challenge; to larly Pieter Claesz, in front of whose work I venture to places she didn’t necessarily know still get weak-kneed. Later I turned to others vs. well-trod ground. Art that is about art in this era, as well as Chardin’s scenes of food, exclusively is to me relatively narrow. There the Renaissance’s religious and allegorical are artists for whom this makes sense, but I’m paintings, Modernists who used the still life most thrilled when art makes me see different- precisely because of their disregard for its ly - seeing understood here as knowledge. domesticity, i.e. its familiarity. Stronger for me now are a range of artists whose work In your Ill Form and Void Full series the explores the tensions between the personal incorporated collage elements add layers of and public sphere: Jessica Stockholder, complexity to the work and blur the lines of Richard Tuttle, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, space and perception: What is real? What is Mickalene Thomas… For the last two years, a photo of a photo, or a copy of a copy? writing and music have had more impact for What is missing? What might the viewer my practice than visual references. add? How did this series came about?

In 2010 I began work after a year’s hiatus. A How do you feel about including your work number of events had conspired such that I in magazines that usually celebrate the perstopped making pictures, uncertain of fectly polished? Are you breaking any rules, whether I would be able to continue; knowing or maybe starting a new trend - celebrating I couldn’t continue as I had. A crisis of belief? the imperfect?

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Letinsky’s work at Valerie Carberry Gallery in Chicago

My pictures are never going to be widely accepted; they are not the new paradigm.

I’m grateful for those who appreciate my sensibility, but the aspiration of perfection along with its inevitable failure and dissatisfaction is perhaps too deeply ingrained.

Commercial work is really interesting and hearkens back to pre-modernist artistic practice in which we were hired guns, producing work for clients, the church or other patrons.

The notion that art if informed by commerce is somehow impure is a modernist invention which, while it served some purpose, is a pretty impossible conceit.

Do you have any New Year’s resolutions?

Just the usual aspirations for deep and abiding fulfillment of all my wishes and desires, some altruistic, others pretty petty…

Family and friends, first and foremost.

Any big plans coming up for 2013?

I’m really excited about my shows at the Denver Art Museum and The Photographers’ Gallery in London. I’ve also got some travel planned to Istanbul, Guadalajara and Mexico City, maybe Oaxaca, and Beijing. I really want to go to India and feel that I’m taking a circuitous route. I’m looking forward to delving back into the studio so as to continue in the direction I’ve begun.

Extended content on our website.

At right: Laura Letinsky.

www.lauraletinsky.com

3ARTS: Changing Chicago artists’ lives for 5 years artists’ retreat in Lake Forest, and next year plans to expand that program to include month-long residencies with larger stipends at a national network of similar artist residency programs.

By KEVIN NANCE

When the nonprofit grant-making organization 3Arts was founded in Chicago five years ago, its leaders thought they were joining a stable community of similar groups providing financial support to local artists. The organization’s unique, tripartite focus—on jumpstarting and/or developing the careers of women artists, artists of color and those with disabilities in the performing, teaching and visual arts—was intended to supplement the funding activities of other funders, including private foundations and government-subsidized agencies. Individual artists (as opposed to arts organizations) who might not be lucky enough to secure funding for their careers and projects from, say, the Illinois Arts Council or the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, could turn to 3Arts.

“I’m a huge fan of 3Arts,” says Peter Handler, program director at the Driehaus Foundation. “I don’t know of any other organization like them in the city, and the work they do is tremendously important.”

The fact that 3Arts is virtually the only game in town in its niche has made it a crucial lifeline for a community of artists whose careers might otherwise have The Franklin in Garfield Park. Photo credit: Michael Metts stalled—artists such as Riva Lehrer, whose of other workers, and we nearly doubled professional and personal prospects the number of grants to about 10,” says absorbed a potentially crippling blow when executive director Esther Grimm, who also her live/work condo in Edgewater was provides professional feedback and menflooded by thousands of gallons of rainwatoring to artists, including those who are ter during a storm in 2009 while she was But as the years went by, 3Arts found itself nominated for 3Arts grants but don’t out of town. increasingly lonely in the world of Chicago receive them at first. “Then about a year arts advocacy. The Driehaus Foundation, ago, we realized that the one-time support “It destroyed most of what I owned, and which had for years been giving a small wasn’t enough. Typically when you win a there was more than $20,000 worth of number of $15,000 grants to visual artists, grant like ours, you’re never eligible for damage that wasn’t covered by my insurdiscontinued that practice after its board another. But our artists need ongoing sup- ance,” Lehrer recalls. “Fortunately I was changed its priorities. The Illinois Arts port for their projects, and so we decided able to use part of my 3Arts money to put Council, which had once been a major that the most impact we could have was to my studio back together. I don’t know benefactor to visual artists around the stick with them over the long haul, helping what I would have done without it. Really, state, had seen its grant programs devastat- them build momentum and really get their 3Arts is amazing. They listen better than ed by budget cuts of around 60 percent; its careers off the ground, or just be there for any arts organization I’ve ever dealt with. grants to individual artists, which had once them when they need us.”

They have a passionate love for artists and amounted to several thousand dollars per a practical eye for how to help them. artist, have in many cases shrunk to a few They’re a total gift to the city. I just wish hundred dollars—hardly worth the time we had a lot more people operating at that “We started out giving and effort a midcareer artist would need to level. Or if 3Arts could manage to get a about six annual grants, devote to the application process. In some significantly larger group of donors, they cases, artists who had been notified of could be truly transformative.” but then during the grant awards later received letters notifyrecession, artists were ing them of the state’s inability to send the Something similar happened to emerging unemployed at twice the rate artist David Leggett, who used his initial promised monies.

3Arts grant to pay off debt, buy a computof other workers, and we Now, with a few exceptions such as the and rent a larger studio, which allowed nearly doubled the number er MacArthur Foundation (at which a local him to transition from making small-scale of grants to about 10.” visual artist’s chances of winning a grant artworks to creating larger pieces. are hardly more than those of winning a Subsequently, his studio was flooded, and Powerball jackpot) and the City of - 3Arts Executive Director he used the money from a 3Arts project Chicago’s Community Arts Assistance grant to repair damage to the studio and its Esther Grimm Program (whose individual artist awards contents. are capped at $1,000 each), 3Arts is virtually alone in providing substantial grants to Then there’s Harold Mendez, who’s using individual visual artists. 3Arts now awards 3Arts currently has an annual budget of the proceeds from his 2012 grant to devel10 unrestricted grants of $15,000 to artists about $740,000, all of which is raised from op a collaborative multimedia project at the each year, along with an increasing number donors and given directly to artists.

Studio Museum of Harlem to be unveiled of grants earmarked for specific projects.

(Salaries for the two-person staff, including in February. He also plans to use part of the money to visit his home country of Grimm, come from proceeds from a sepa“We started out giving about six annual rate fund.) The organization also supports Colombia, where he will do family research grants, but then during the recession, in the national archives for an art project six two-week residencies at Ragdale, an artists were unemployed at twice the rate 18

Grimm calls a significant “ripple effect,” providing arts opportunities to a number of underserved neighborhoods in Chicago. One example is The Franklin, a small exhibition space constructed in the backyard of the home of conceptual artist Edra Soto and her husband, the custom fabricaTop: Maria Vergara, Scandanavian Feast, oil on canvas. Photo by Tom Van Eynde. tor Dan Sullivan, Bottom: Harold Mendez, Let the shadows in to play their part, mixed-media installation, eucalyptus bark, at 3522 W. Franklin black silicon carbide, water-soluble ink, marking chalk, spray enamel, latex paint; 12’ x 20’ x 6", 2012 Blvd. in Garfield Park. “Dan did most of the construction, but the materials are so expensive,” Soto explains. “We couldn’t have done it without the 3Arts money.”

that’s been in the planning stages for years. “It’s been in my mind since 2005, but until recently I haven’t had the resources to make it happen,” he says.

“Without the 3Arts grant, it would take me a lot longer. Chicago is a great city with great institutions, but I feel like the funding structure for artists doesn’t match the other things that Chicago offers, even though there’s so much money here. It’s great that 3Arts exists, because I know so many artists who’ve changed their practice in so many ways because of 3Arts.”

There’s also Maria Vergara, a young painter who told Chicago Gallery News that she’ll use a significant portion of her 2012 3Arts grant to buy “a heck of a lot of art supplies” for a monthly program in which she teaches art-making to autistic children from local Hispanic families.

“The kids are really good at art, they learn super-fast, but the funds for the program keep getting cut,” she says.

“They want to paint on canvas, but I have to give them paper and crayons.

But they really deserve it, so I’m going to get them some canvas.”

Like Vergara’s teaching, several other 3Arts-funded projects are having what

And at 3550 W. Lawrence, in Albany Park, now stands North Branch Projects, a community space founded by artist Regin Igloria that gives free instruction in art-making and book-binding to residents of the neighborhood, which has few arts organizations of any kind. “I created it in 2010 because I was frustrated with the relationship of the contemporary art world to people in Albany Park, where I grew up,” says Igloria, who also works as director of artist residency programs at Ragdale.

“There was almost no connection between the art world and non-artists, so the idea was to create a place where the concept of creativity could be explored as part of a broad dialogue with my neighbors.”

As it happened, Igloria’s 2011 3Arts grant arrived in the nick of time. “It was literally a lifesaver, because I used up all my savings and was down-and-out financially, just trying to keep this place running,” he says. “The money really helped me keep the doors open, and it gave me such a morale boost, knowing that someone was there to help me keep it alive.”

To learn more about 3Arts, their artists, and ways to become involved, visit www.3arts.org

Collection Questions Advice from Experts

In CGN’s new series about collection management, we will hear from a range of art experts about topics like estate planning, art insurance, conservation and more. For this debut edition, Rebecca Korach Woan, founder of Chartwell Insurance Services, addresses collection cataloging systems and reasons why collectors need them.

Collectors need to be organized for a variety of reasons. Anything from a natural disaster scenario to a routine estate assessment will require that you have access to detailed information about the art in your home. Rebecca Woan, founder of Chartwell Insurance Services (chartwellins.com) works with high net-worth clients, but her advice for keeping tabs on your artwork and for making regular updates throughout the year is a helpful habit for collectors of any level. If you are organized from the get-go, updating your database will never seem overwhelming, it won’t get put-off until too late or you are unprepared. You will better enjoy the pursuits of your passion and ensure your collection’s future for many years.

Some programs are relatively simple database projects, while others go beyond organization and are meant to be used by curators. Many are web-based and allow specific customization options. Some help you keep notes while attending art fairs or visiting galleries. There are also guides to art world lingo, networking and custom slideshow or PDF options.

The following programs, recommended by Forbes Collector, will help you whether you are just getting started or if your collection is worthy of sophisticated curation.

• Collectify ($149.95) www.collectify.com • ARTSYSTEMS / Collections ($895) www.artsystems.com • ARTBASE / Collector ($2,500) www.artbaseinc.com • GALLERY SYSTEMS / EmbARK Collections Manager ($1,995) www.gallerysystems.com • Artmanager Online Curator ($300-$4,800/year) www.artmanageronline.com Note: Woan says it is important to receive quarterly backups from whomever is maintaining the collection in order to avoid losing contact with the collection manager and potentially your valuable data.

Chartwell Insurance Services does not accept referral fees if software is purchased from any listed vendors.

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Collector Profile: Anne + Mark Siebert Collectors Anne and Mark Siebert bought a house in suburban Naperville 21 years ago, and though they like their quieter pace of life 30 miles outside of Chicago, they have become devoted gallery visitors. After first meeting artist Peter Max one day at a suburban mall, they were so delighted with the personal experience that they started venturing downtown in search of more. They found a community ready to teach and welcome them with open arms, and many of those relationships have become twoway dialogues with artists and dealers that have opened up their world and shown them that art can indeed change your life. - GV

Any space we go into, if you want a director to explain about the gallery or the artists, they’re more than happy to do it, but on the tour you get so much additional background. Even with artists we’re familiar with, when we hear the dealer talk we learn something that we didn’t know before.”

The Sieberts approached their newly discovered Sitting down over coffee and pastries in their passion for art like tidy kitchen, Mark and Anne told me when The Sieberts’ neutral living room is a showcase for sculpture, ceramics, and colorful paintings. Works seen dedicated students and here from left to right: paintings by Jamie Adams, and William Conger; on the table: William Lieberman, they first realized how eye-opening art could did their homework.

Ruth Duckworth, and Jay Strommen; on pedestal and sideboard: Josh Garber be as a part of their day-to-day life. Mark According to Anne, “Neither admitted that the first spark was in fact in a one of us has a background in art, but once we with us.” William Lieberman says there’s somesuburban shopping mall in the late 1990s. One went to River North, that was it for the malls. thing special about the relationship with day they wandered into Merrill Chase, where We were captivated. Our tastes changed really Garber, “Anne and Mark both elevate his Peter Max was having an exhibition, and process. Josh is so into it – his whole existence quickly – they’re changing still even now.”

Mark laughingly remembers thinking, “‘He’s a revolves around his art. They make him feel it’s really famous artist. Let’s go in.’ So we met really important. They help artists feel good The Sieberts have lived in the same house in him. And we actually bought something.” about who they are.”

Naperville for 21 years. Having made some updates over the years, their most significant To Anne seeing an artist’s passion in person Nearly every piece in the collection has a backchange seems to be the addition of abundant was a revelation, and she wanted more. The story that the Sieberts are eager to share. A artwork to almost every wall and tabletop. couple plunged headfirst into what would painting by Betty Cleeland, black with scatAccording to Anne, “Everything else is pretty become an art collecting addiction. Seeking art bland in our home - it’s all beige and black, so tered bits of red and yellow, hangs in the famiin gallery spaces in the city, they ventured in we’re not limited by colors. We fall in love and ly room by the TV. Anne tells me that they by train and introduced themselves to dealers, make it work.” To Mark their collecting ended up buying the work when the shuttle attended dozens of openings and panel discus- approach is very straightforward, “There is no Columbia exploded in 2003. The Sieberts sions, as well as BFA and MFA shows at the watched the news before heading into the city formula where we think, OK now we have to School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They get this type of art or that type. We try to keep to visit Roy Boyd Gallery. “Betty says you’re got to know a number of artists, such as Dan either looking through the end of a microscope things different – various materials and mediAddington (also a dealer), whose piece was the ums, young artists as well as established – in or a telescope. The painting was a reminder of second one they purchased in River North the mysteries of the universe and the need for order to have a range.”

(Ron Clayton, represented by Dan, was the space exploration. It especially struck us on first), and William Conger. The dealers they that day I guess.”

Connecting with artists has been a particular met, like Ann and Roy Boyd of Roy Boyd source of engagement for the couple. “We're Gallery, Frank Paluch of Perimeter Gallery, proud of the fact that we support local Chicago In a tiny room off of the hall is one of Nicholas Myra Casis and Meg Sheehy at Zg Gallery, Sistler’s diminutive works. Mark explains it is galleries. We have purchased art from 13 and William Lieberman of Zolla/Lieberman all Chicago galleries, and many of the artists in based on erotica from the Weimar Republic in took the eager new collectors under their colGermany, commenting on what many women our collection are local. We treasure our relalective wing to help them learn. Coming to had to do to make ends meet after WWI. The tionships with all of the artists that we've gotdowntown galleries to see what was new soon ten to know,” says Anne. About sculptor Josh charged scene is almost too small for the casual became an escape from a structured 9-5 life. observer to see, but Anne clearly recalls a day Garber Mark shares, “We have lunch or dinner with him, or he’ll have us out to his studio. when a plumber, finishing up some work in the To learn more about this new scene, Mark and Sometimes he runs ideas by us. At an opening house, had his nose practically in the piece, Anne started going on the free River North astounded at the small scale discovery of a after he’d just found out that he was a finalist Saturday Gallery Tours when they began over for a commission for the City [of Chicago], he naked woman in a compromising position. She a decade ago. Mark recalls, “We continued to was sketching and asking what we thought. It says, “I was torn whether or not to pretend to go on the tours even after we started to collect. was fascinating to be in that kind of discussion be shocked. His expression was priceless.” with him.” Anne says they even Mark is an insurance attorney, and Anne is a give him a little feedback when he asks, “I think Josh more than biologist turned textbook representative. She explains, “What we do certainly colors our any of the other artists lets us in on the process. He shows us pro- experience. We tend to be very black and white and analytical in the way we evaluate totypes - sometimes we snap things. Collecting art has sort of given us the them up. That’s a lot of fun for gray. That artistic element is an interesting us. I think when artists are surlayer for us that’s added a dimension that didrounded by other artists maybe they forget how unique their tal- n’t exist before we started collecting. It wasn’t ents are. As non-artists, we want part of how we used to think.” to tell them how phenomenal Looking ahead, Anne reflects, “We plan to be their gift is. I think they need to hear it. And anyway, I’m not sure with this art for quite awhile, but we do get a sense that it will exist beyond us. Since almost anyone could even stop us from all of our works are originals, we lend whenevtelling them ‘fabulous job!’ I think artists are thrilled with each er there’s a request. All an artist has to do is ask. They are also invited to come here to visit chance to talk to interested peoThe Sieberts lounge in their colorful corner. From left to right: Paul Sierra, Su-En Wong, ple. They’re all so willing to share their art anytime too, since it’s a part of them.”

John Buck, Sarah Hicks (on glass table), William Conger (in back corner)

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Linda Warren Gallery turns 10 in 2013 Linda Warren’s past 10 years in Chicago have gone by quickly: the gallery will officially turn 10 this June. Thinking about how she got started, as well as what’s ahead, Warren was in a reflective mood when we spoke in the fall.

Though she accidently got into the art business when she was living in L.A. over a decade ago, nurturing artists’ careers came naturally to someone who lives for today. Her passion for nurturing artists’ careers has given her a personal framework with which to build a successful gallery program, and it has led to some new and surprising projects at home and around the country. -GV When Linda Warren was working in production in the Los Angeles film industry in the 1990s, an artist friend asked her to store art in her home after being evicted from his studio.

She was more than willing. When Warren started casually showing the artist’s work to film colleagues and selling it, she figured she was just helping everyone out. Soon, another artist asked if Warren would show his work as well. She recalls, “I would get excited and bring a painting to someone, just as a friend – I started out as a conduit from the artist to the buyer, and that really continues today.”

Despite never feeling truly passionate about the film industry, she says it was a good living through which she made a lot of contacts.

Transitioning from the film world to art didn’t happen over night. Aware that a lot of the film people she worked with were counting on her for employment, Warren eventually converted her entire Silverlake Hills home to a gallery and began to balance her dual role. The result was what Warren remembers as “an apartment gallery on steroids,” filled with hundreds of people and crazy events. Looking back on the experience, she says she can’t believe she allowed it.

and money. Why would I constrain myself?

I’m going to go with what resonates for me.’

People can take it or leave it.”

When working with artists, Warren wants to show quality, as well as what she responds to.

She’s ambitious but realistic about the overwhelming volume of work out there, much of which is admittedly poor quality, but a great deal, she says, is also good but simply overlooked. She confesses, “I’m very open to looking at everyone’s art who submits. Maybe other people try, but I absolutely do look at everything; it’s exciting to me. I have a box under my desk of stuff I just like. If I can help an artist, I’ll do it, though this year I might have just 6 shows, and that makes it harder for an artist to have a show here. The ones I work with have to let me do what I do.”

Warren favors evolution versus planning in her life. She says, “I view my entire career in this as something that happened very naturally. I don’t plot. Setting just an exhibition schedule is even a struggle for me.” Her attitude is that hard work can make up for planning: “I quit law school to go to Israel, and there I became a citizen and became immersed in day to day life. You don’t think much about tomorrow there – that life sort of fit with me. If I’m alive tomorrow that’s great.

I’m a hard worker and I’m passionate about what I do. That’s the key for anyone.”

Since moving to a larger gallery space around the corner on North Aberdeen in 2011 and becoming Linda Warren Projects, Warren says business has changed in surprising ways.

The space accommodates two exhibition spaces now, Gallery X and Gallery Y, and outside of the gallery Warren has taken on a handful of substantial corporate art consulting contracts. Warren is candid about the biggest difference between selling art out of the gallery and working on corporate collections – the financial reward gap is vast. Though she In the midst of managing her new profession, says she’s always been of the mind-set that she Warren reconnected with a man she had loves the gallery business enough to lose known when she was in law school nearly 20 money, now she’s pleased that the corporate years earlier. After seeking Warren’s advice on work is feeding the business and supporting acquiring artwork for his home on the north some overhead. shore of Chicago, the couple decided to reconnect for good. Warren closed the L.A. space Warren’s current project has been taking her and moved to Chicago to marry her former to Cleveland for the better part of two years, love as well as help raise his four young boys. where she’s been working on a corporate colShe put new gallery plans on hold, but it was lection for Eaton Corporation’s new world tough to wait: “I dropped an insanely different headquarters. “I didn’t know what I was getlife and became a suburban housewife. When ting into,” she says, “I got the call when I was I finally opened the gallery here in 2003 I was out walking my dog. They showed me renderjust ready – I knew this was what I wanted.” ings of the building and they didn’t have a specific budget, but they asked me to come up In L.A. Warren had reached out to artists and with a contract based on several scenarios. friends and was used to having people come They wanted it to be reflective of their busito her. When seeking a space in Chicago she ness.” Warren’s own vision was what the comgravitated to the West Loop, where she says pany wanted. Tasked with curating the art for she liked living in her own little world. Linda an 800,000 square foot space for 1,000 Warren Gallery opened in 2003 and became a employees (there are 90,000 worldwide), Fulton Market destination, showcasing art by Warren began with a PowerPoint presentaa variety of emerging as well as established tion of 150 artists. When the back and forth artists working in a variety of media. She began, she says, “They flipped out. They liked remembers, “When I first moved here Paula 100 out of 150. I didn’t really know what they Henderson - she was my inaugural show here were going to go with – it was a crapshoot. and I represented her in L.A. - introduced me We went from there to find out what they to some collectors who quizzed me, ‘What are loved. A lot of work also had to be commisyou going to specialize in?’ I just looked at sioned, since we were dealing with 50 and 30 them like, ‘What do you mean? It’s my energy foot walls. We’ve got great work from 21

Linda Warren in her West Loop space

Emmett Kerrigan, Juan Angel Chavez, and Lora Fosberg, among many others.” Warren is now close to the project’s final frontier and can finally see how things are shaping up. It is difficult to begin with just drawings, she admits, but it’s great when you realize it’s been two years and you’re already installing all that art.

Warren works hard to support her family as well as her artists. Whereas most dealers today say they have no choice but to travel and participate in art fairs, Warren says she usually does just one a year, though in 2012 she didn’t do any. Art fairs remind Warren of the film industry. She explains, “There’s this insane amount of work and exhausting energy required. You might just be talking to people that are not that interesting. It’s exhilarating if you’re selling, but if you’re not, it’s depressing.

I know it’s important to artists. It’s just an energy that I cannot stand. The point of what I’m trying to do with my life is to help the art.

How I do that might not be how everyone else would, but I want everyone to succeed. I guess it’s ‘please don’t rely on me only.’ I’m not going to be a slave to it either.”

Looking ahead, perhaps to the next 10 years, Warren still wonders how to balance her life with the gallery. She acknowledges, “The kids are more independent now, so everything’s going to change. What’s going to happen down the road? I don’t know. I envision doing things much more internationally. I want the gallery to keep going, and it would be great if I could have one big project every couple years as well.” Warren’s husband has always said the longer you’re in business the more likely you’ll succeed. To Warren, “I know now that it’s true. It takes a lot of time to get it going in this business. I literally don’t have a strategy. It’s going to take time to understand my aesthetic and it’s changing like everyone else’s. That’s how it’s always going to be. It’s a ton of work and it can be a grind, but I just love it.”

Linda Warren Projects www.lindawarren.com 327 N. Aberdeen (60607) 312-432-9500

Chicago’s new Logan Center: expect the unexpected

BY MARY DE YOE

Basbaum launched would you like to participate in an artistic experience in 1994.

The University of Chicago has long been Centered around a heavy metal object known for pushing boundaries and challenging called “New Bases for Personality” expectations. The new Reva and David Logan (NBP) and painted white with royal Center for the arts is no exception. blue trim, the dimensions are approxiLess than a year old—the building had a mately 49” x 31.5” x 7.” The NBPs are “soft-opening” in March 2012, then celebrated meant to live outside the gallery for with the three-day Logan Launch Festival participants to do with as they please. in October—the Logan Center has already When resting on the ground, the object demonstrated its strong commitment to the looks almost like a miniature ice rink. study, practice, and presentation of art that is Since 1994 NBPs have been used in experimental, multi-disciplinary, and engaging. artistic experiences in over 40 cities across four continents. “However genThe glass and limestone structure stands out erous the project may sound, it amid the Neo-Gothic buildings on the UofC demands a lot in return,” said Szewcyzk campus, punctuated with an 11-story tower. of the challenge of the person (or group The Center, designed by husband and wife of people) in possession of the object. team Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, feels light and open. The tower offers impressive sweep- The exhibition, which was on view at ing views of Hyde Park, and as you make the Logan Center this past fall, highyour way down the staircase at the south end lighted through documentation and of the tower you can see the solar paneled-roof diagrams some of the ways that the of one arm of the Center and the grass roof of community used the NBPs. One another. Williams and Tsien said their design clever example is MFA student Tucker was inspired by urban landscapes and the Rae-Grant, who worked with librarians prairie, with the tower referencing both the to incorporate the NBP into the The city’s skyscraper tradition and silos rising from Joseph Regenstein Library collection where the Midwestern prairies. it could be checked-out like any piece of media in circulation.

This blending of styles and references is a theme that carries through the Logan Center. This project by its very nature resists exhibiThe space was designed to foster cross-discition in a traditional sense, questioning notions plinary encounters and collaborations. With about the function of a gallery. As Szewczyk art studios, screening rooms, theaters, classexplained, “this work was perfect for a nonrooms, exhibitions and rehearsal spaces the collecting entity, and it was a way to repurbuilding allows for dynamic interactions pose the white cube [in our case] as a type of between students, faculty and members of the lab—a place for experimentation.” larger Hyde Park and Chicago community.

The gallery, however, is not the only place “We think about the Center as a portal where visitors will find exhibitions. Running between north and south,” said concurrently with would you like to participate in Monika Szewczyk, Visual Arts Program an artistic experience was Wall Text. Co-curated Curator. “We very much want to be open to

by Szewczyk and Zachary Cahill, Open and engage the South Side community as well Practice Committee Coordinator, the show as the campus.” The building itself is designed featured 25 text-based works by 10 artists to support this. The box office entrance is with strong ties to the UofC community, located on the south end of the building, mak- including Jenny Holzer, that were displayed ing two main entrances—there is also one at on walls (and windows, in the case of Anthony the north end—and a symbolic flow of energy Elms, who was recently named curator of the from both ends of the city. For Szewczyk, who Whitney Biennial along with Michelle leads Logan Center Exhibitions, this idea of Grabner and Stuart Comer) throughout the openness is important. building. The exhibition is accompanied by a booklet produced by artist David Giordano.

It was for this reason that Szewczyk felt so More than merely an explanatory text, the strongly about presenting Brazilian artist booklet raises crucial questions and serves as Ricardo Basbaum’s signature project, would you one of the art works in the exhibition. like to participate in an artistic experience. “It was Giordano’s essay stresses how this exhibition crucial [at the outset] to set an inquisitive challenges an often essential element of traditone,” explained Szewczyk – “and Basbaum’s tional exhibitions: “Wall texts explicate an artproject, which revolves around [a] loaded work’s historical trajectory…yet, what hapquestion does this beautifully. It also connects pens when the text on the wall is the art itself the program of Logan Center Exhibitions into and provides its own context through the use a global network of practice and inquiry.” of language? Does it change our relationship 22

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to images? Is the wall itself changed through language? Are there texts without language?”

Probing questions such as these are ones visitors will continue to encounter through the Logan Center’s roughly 10 exhibitions per year. The shows are curated by Szewczyk as well as guest curators, as in the case of Wall Text, and the Center will also present shows curated and including work by MFA students, whose studios are located in the building. “I am excited about this mix of very young artists with others who are veterans of documenta (international exhibition of Modern and Contemporary art in Kassel, Germany)” said Szewczyk.

In conjunction with the exhibitions, the Logan Center will present a variety of programs that will include visiting visual artists, dancers, musicians and partnerships with the Open Practice Committee Coordinator, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, the Arts + Public Life initiative, and others.

In 2007 the University of Chicago announced that David and Reva Logan and their sons and grandchildren made a record $35 million gift to support the building of a center dedicated to performance and creative arts.

Both UofC alumni, David and Reva were longtime supporters of the arts and generous philanthropists. They envisioned the Center as a means to improve the quality of life for students and faculty of the University as well as the community. Judging by the pace so far, it seems the Logans’ vision will not be compromised.

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Artists behind-the-scenes

A mystery in the art world

Art reveals itself in our day-to-day lives in surprising places. These three artists exhibiting this season draw inspiration for new work from everyday sources.

BY MARY DE YOE

Judith Geichman Carrie Secrist Gallery Artist Judith Geichman will exhibit new paintings and works on paper in a solo show at Carrie Secrist Gallery this February.

Geichman says, “I’ve been thinking a lot about the winter season, and the strong contrast of light and dark, as well as figure / ground relationships that can be seen in the landscape this time of Judith Geichman, Comic Landslide, 2012, acrylic, year. I’m also bringing to the enamelon canvas 60 x 60.” Courtesy the artist and work an abstract, and painterly Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago interpretation of winter’s phenomena, such as wind, snow and ice, which, like the weather, change from moment to moment both in nature and in the making of a painting.” secristgallery.com

Vera Klement - Zolla/Lieberman Gallery Vera Klement believes profoundly in the power of the painted image and its function as a vehicle to deduce meaning from many things.

Klement’s evocative, expansive canvases depict images and icons apart from their settings, resonant in isolation. She frequently employs diptychs as a means of tethering one main visual element to a sort of alternate, so that the differences are placed in relation to one another.

In the image pictured here, Vera Klement, Strandkorb, 2011, oil and pastel on canvas, 64" x 80" Klement points out that the left figure is a painstakingly repeated small gesture in pastel and oil, whereas the fish on the right are done in a freely spontaneous gesture. Klement’s hope is “that the two different icons will conjure up a third element, a poetic one, that will reverberate between the two.” Klement’s show at Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, opens January 11. zollaliebermangallery.com

Kostis Georgiou - Hilton | Asmus Contemporary Greece is coming to Chicago this season when artist Kostis Georgiou opens a show at Hilton | Asmus Contemporary in River North. Born in Thessalonica, Georgiou has studied a range of creative pursuits, such as stage scenery in Florence, painting + sculpture Athens and London. He has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and Asia in recent years. This February in Chicago his bronze sculptures and vivid oil paintings will fill up Hilton | Asmus Contemporary. In addition, the artist is also a musician. A track with electronic progressive music for the Chicago show is on YouTube. After you see the show visit the National Hellenic Museum, which marked its 1 year anniversary in Chicago this fall. hilton-asmus.com Bronze sculpture by Kostis Georgiou

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Laura Caldwell is an author, lawyer, and professor.

She has written 13 books, six of which center around the legal adventures of her sassy, red-headed character, attorney Izzy McNeil. All of the novels are based in Chicago, and in the latest installment Izzy finds herself embroiled in Chicago’s unique art scene. Unfamiliar with Chicago’s gallery culture, Caldwell set out to learn and steeped herself into this rich and exciting world.

CGN: All of your Izzy books are set in Chicago. What prompted you to set this one specifically in Chicago’s art world?

LC: One of the recurring characters in the series has a former girlfriend who works in a gallery. I knew I wanted to explore this character more, and as I started to do research I became more and more interested and surprised by the Chicago art scene, particularly how welcoming it is. This only made me want to learn more.

What were some of the most surprising things you learned while researching Chicago’s art scene?

Coming to this project with little knowledge about art, I was a little intimidated. But I was surprised to find how enthusiastic and eager everyone I spoke to was about sharing their love for art. People who love art really want other people to love it too. They are excited to teach you.

Two of the most helpful people while I was writing the book were artist Richard Hull and gallery owner Andrew Rafacz. Richard invited me to his studio and talked about his process and how he prepares for a show. Andrew was extremely helpful in introducing me to how galleries operate.

Will people reading the book recognize certain galleries, artists or other details specific to Chicago?

I did not use specific gallery or artist names, but one scene in the book is directly inspired by Jason Lazarus’s installation, The Search.

The work, which nearly filled Andrew Rafacz’s gallery, included a huge white step-pyramid and called for two strangers to climb to the top, then go down a ladder inside the pyramid. Andrew invited me to participate, and I was paired with a gallery owner. There were two chairs inside the pyramid, and we were encouraged to stay there and talk for one hour.

After an hour and fifteen minutes Andrew called down into the pyramid. We had completely lost track of time. I was so thrilled and inspired by this work, that I included a scene in the book in which Izzy finds herself part of a similar installation.

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Dealer updates

Cureeo - An online tool to discover and buy art you love

New to CGN The Cornelia Arts Building at 1800 W. Cornelia, established in 1986, is one of the largest all-artist-studio buildings on Chicago’s Northside. Over 40 local artists + artisans work in this former ice-house. HAUSER Gallery, new to River North at 230 W. Superior, features photographer Marc Hauser’s total archive, in conjunction with fresh contemporary work by artists of all mediums + expertise. The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago opened last fall in Hyde Park at 915 E. 60th St., offering contemporary art programming + projects. Patti Bartelstein brings The Project Room to Jennifer Norback Fine Art in River North. Programming will include exhibitions, lectures, intimate salon gatherings, concerts + workshops. The Rangefinder Gallery at Tamarkin Camera opened at 300 W. Superior. The gallery features unretouched digital + film photographs made with the legendary Leica M camera. Ugly Step Sister Gallery has reopened in Pilsen East at 1750 S. Union, partnering with Juhl Wind to build Chicago’s first all “green” gallery, powered 100% by wind and solar energy. Union Street Gallery, located south of the city in Chicago Heights, is a not-forprofit art center + contemporary gallery housed in a beautiful 3-story historical building. King Art Collective was founded

by Amy King in 2009. Open to the public, the collective’s various projects are exhibited around the city. King represents emerging + established artists + pop-up galleries bring the artists work to unexpected spaces throughout Chicago.

A screenshot of Cureeo.com, where visitors can casually browse online art according to their tastes

BY MARY DE YOE You can buy affordable original art if you know where to look for it.

Cureeo (cureeo.com), a new company based in the 1871 space in the Merchandise Mart, is designed to make the hunt for art easier as well as more fun.

Standing behind the creed that you should buy art that you love, Cureeo’s mission is to help new buyers and early stage collectors purchase original artwork with confidence. For some who find walking into a gallery or talking to an art dealer intimidating, Cureeo eliminates that factor and carefully selects affordably priced work (most work is $250-$2,000) by emerging and established artists, presenting images on their site alongside information to help buyers learn more about the artists and pieces. Cureeo also films some artists at work in their studio, giving buyers an insider look at the artists’ processes.

Anniversaries Congratulations to the following galleries: Richard Gray Gallery - 50 years • Thomas Masters Gallery - 20 years • Woman Made Gallery - 20 years.

It may seem outlandish to expect people to buy original art purely online, but as Maida Swenson-Fortune, Cureeo’s Founder and CEO, explains, now is precisely the time for this type of model: “I think that art is one of the last online frontiers. It wasn’t that long ago we heard, ‘people will never buy clothes online,’ and now people buy clothes online all the time. Thanks to sites like Etsy, people are becoming more familiar with buying unique objects directly from the creator.”

Moves + Updates + New Positions Yale Factor Gallery has moved to suite #309 in the Zhou B Art Center in Bridgeport.

KM Fine Arts announces the opening of a second location, KM Los Angeles on January 25.

Swenson-Fortune adds, “Many people feel more comfortable buying online than they do walking into a gallery – the beauty is that once they get more comfortable via online venues, it’s easier for them to imagine going to galleries and studios and being involved in the art world in a more traditional sense.”

The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago welcomes Solveig Øvstebø (‘Săl-vēg ōvst-‘ē-bō) as the organization’s first new Executive Director in nearly 40 years.

Coming to Chicago from Bergen Kunsthall, a premier avant garde contemporary art space in her native Norway, Øvstebø replaces longtime Executive Director Susanne Ghez.

In addition to connecting buyers with art, Cureeo provides guidance for budding collectors with education posts on their blog that explore topics such as, “why art costs what it costs,” “why you should buy art,” “tips for visiting a museum” and “exploring basic art terms.”

“Beyond being a place to buy art, Cureeo is a place to learn about the process of making art, the story behind an artist’s inspiration, and how to better understand and approach all forms of creative expression,” said Pepper Coate, Head Curator and Co-Founder.

Michelle Grabner, professor and department chair in the Department of Painting and Drawing at SAIC, is one of three curators for the 2014 Whitney Biennial, together with Stuart Comer, film curator at the Tate Modern, and Anthony Elms, formerly the assistant director at UIC’s Gallery 400.

Jeffrey Meeuwsen is Ragdale’s new Executive Director.

Meeuwsen led the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, MI. He also initiated and directed ArtPrize.

“More than anything,” said Swenson-Fortune, “we love finding a match between a collector and an artist’s work. Everybody ends up really happy – the collector loves finding something perfect for him or her and the artist loves knowing that their work went to a good home.”

Other moves and changes in the galleries:

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Kavi Gupta Gallery has a third location at 219 N. Elizabeth.

Alan Koppel Gallery relocated to 806 N. Dearborn.

Dubhe Carreño closed her space at 118 N. Peoria.

Mongerson Galleries moved to the 25th floor of the Hancock Donald Young Gallery closed its doors in September.

Artists in the News Barcelona-based conceptual artist Jaume Plensa, represented by Richard Gray Gallery, was awarded the 2012 National Plastic Arts Award of Spain. The award recognizes artists whose work represents outstanding and innovative contributions to the Spanish Cultural Heritage. The jury recognized Plensa's, "use of language as a means of reflection and his concern for the humanization of urban space." In December Plensa debuted his most recent public work Poets in Miami in Collins Park as part of Art Public | Art Basel Miami Beach.

Kavi Gupta Gallery artist Theaster Gates is one of 54 artists to receive The United States Artists annual USA Fellowships. Each artist receives an unrestricted grant of $50,000. Gates also received the inaugural New School Vera List Center Prize for Arts and Politics + was named Innovator of the Year by the Wall Street Journal in 2012.

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Jean Albano Gallery: Karl Wirsum will be included in Sinister Pop at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY) through March. John Torreano's Broadway Windows installation, on view through February 2, features five bays at the corner of Broadway and 10th St., NY, NY. Gladys Nilsson is included in The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, featuring works by over 150 female artists from a collection of 500 pieces donated to the academy by the Philadelphia collector, philanthropist + artist Linda Lee Alter. Through April 7.

Zygman Voss Gallery artist Ramon Vilanova has an upcoming exhibition, Instantes de Vida on view at the Coral Springs Museum of Art, FL, February 16-June 1. Moshe Rosenthalis recently had a major exhibition, Concerto in Second Movement: Love at First Sight, in Yaffo, Israel.

The Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, in its 23rd year of providing facilities for Chicago-area printmakers to pursue work in etching, lithography, relief + screen printing, will offer the public a new series of guest-curated exhibitions in its gallery. This spring Maggie Marlin curates a show of prints celebrating formalism. This will be the second series after last fall's hugely popular Danse Macabre show, curated by Maria Sanchez, which featured work by Carlos Cortez, Michael Thompson, and Catherine Jacobi among others.

Zolla/Lieberman Gallery: John Buck has a solo exhibition at the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana in Lafayette, John Buck: Ces’t Magnifique, January 19–May 11. He is part of two group exhibitions: Bellevue Arts Museum in WA through February, and Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI, Body Double: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture through January 6. Deborah Butterfield’s sculptures are on view at San Diego Museum of Natural History, San Diego, CA, The Horse through January 20, and at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Behold! America: Frontiers until February 10. Phyllis Bramson is participating in Virtue + Vice at the NIU Art Museum, Dekalb, IL January 8–February 23. The Chazen Museum of Art recently acquired a painting of hers for their collection. Erika Rothenberg’s work is currently included in Go Tell it on the Mountain at The California African American Museum LA through April 7.

ZIA|Gallery: Melissa Jay Craig was the subject of a Fine Book & Collection feature article, and Kathy Weaver’s soft-sculpture robot appeared in American Craft magazine’s Automatonic article. Weaver’s work was juried into the Quilt Visions Biennial, Brainstorms at Visions Art Museum in San Diego. San Francisco based mixed media painter Michael Cutlip has a new catalog. Five of Charles Gniech’s paintings were purchased for a corporate collection. Zoriah Miller was ranked one of the “Top Photojournalists of All Time” by Infinit Posterous, 2012.

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Antiques provide a bridge between yesterday + today Spring fever affects people in many ways, and one such outlet for your urge to clean house and start fresh for a new season should be hunting for antiques. Last spring at a rousing panel discussion at the Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair (April 26-29), experts Hollie Davis + Andrew Richmond from the Maine Antiques Digest, alongside Todd Schwebel, Chicago-based designer of The Schwebel Company, shared their An antique Welsh dresser base c. 1750 is paired with a pair of dramatic contemporary lamps. Antiques can pair with modern advice on why we should surroundings in surprising, unique ways. all buy antiques and resist the too common temptation to order everything in bulk from a big box store. As they all explained in their own way, many of the patient rewards of antiques are surprisingly current. Reprinted here is Hollie and Andrew’s witty top-ten list.

TOP TEN REASONS TO BUY ANTIQUES Courtesy of The Young Collectors, Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond, and Maine Antiques Digest www.youngantiquecollectors.com 1. Save Money. Really live better.

Antiques are often reasonably priced + can be found in any price range.

2. Buying local does not just apply to tomatoes and kohlrabi.

When you buy an antique, you support a small, locally owned business.

3. George Washington did not sit in your La-Z-Boy. Antiques are tangible pieces of history.

4. There is no such thing as a McBlanket Chest.

Antiques are unique and offer nearly endless variety.

5. 100% post-consumer content.

Antiques are the most environmentally responsible choice for home decorating.

6. There are enough 10-year-old futons on Craigslist.

Antiques retain significant resale value.

7. No allen wrench required.

Antiques offer solid, quality construction and durability.

8. Industrial cable spools + pilfered milk crates do not constitute a living room suite.

Antiques are stylish and can accomodate anyone’s decorating tastes.

9. Forty cents per hour was a fair wage in 1940, not today.

Antiques are socially responsible - they’re not made in sweatshops.

10. If it’s not Scottish, it’s crap!

Antiques can be a source of ancestral or regional pride.

Dinner and a painting: art tableside at Telegraph As Chicago’s reputation as a food capital continues to grow, there seems to be a natural overlap between gallery-goers and foodies. As restaurants and art world personalities collide, the link between food and art extends beyond just where to eat after a busy night at the galleries.

Telegraph partner Tom MacDonald likes the idea of supporting local talent because “it just makes sense and is good for all of us – we get to have beautiful art on our walls, enhancing our décor, while the artists get some good exposure.”

Work by artist EC Brown is currently on view at Telegraph. www.ecbrown.org

Displaying art was always part of the plan for Logan Square’s Telegraph restaurant.

Located on Chicago’s northwest side, the restaurant’s focus is on Europe’s leading wine producing regions and Chef John Anderes’s inventive seasonal menu. Alcoves in the dining room are perfect places to display work by local artists, in particular, those from the restaurant’s Logan Square neighborhood, home to a vibrant artist community.

phy, sculptural components. Staff members also get to know the artists on a personal level and feed off the creative energy and passion that goes into the art.

Currently on view at Telegraph is the work of EC Brown. His series of site-specific paintings on panels mix figurative characters When patrons comment on the art, it is with scenes of imagined machinery, based on generally positive and of interest, though sensory investigations and acoustic environinevitably, a few do dislike the work from time to time. More in-depth investigations of ments. Brown co-directs the Floor Length the artwork also tend to happen after several and Tux (FLAT) exhibition series with his glasses of wine. Telegraph’s team believes art- wife Catie Olson; he also organizes the ASCII exhibition series. work enhances patrons’ dining experiences.

They strive to perfectly combine thoughtful lighting, music, outstanding cuisine and local art that all intermix to create an ideal ambiance.

MacDonald and his wife Janan have collected a number of pieces by the artists who have exhibited at partner restaurants Webster’s Wine Bar and The Bluebird. He says several staff and family members have dabbled in the Telegraph arts, and working with artists provides a 2601 N. Milwaukee (60647) glimpse into various techniques and medi(773) 292-9463 ums, i.e. watercolor, printmaking, photograwww.telegraphchicago.com 26

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RAW Wednesdays 2nd Wednesday of each month 7–9pm • $5 suggested donation Ravenswood Corridor ravenswoodartwalk.org

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1st Friday Taking place monthly Flat Iron Arts Building: Wicker Park 6–10pm • Free 1579 N. Milwaukee flatironartists.org Lakeside Legacy Arts Park 5–7:30pm • Free/donations 401 Country Club Rd., Crystal Lake, IL lakesidelegacy.org Lillstreet Art Center 6:30-9pm • Free 4401 N. Ravenswood lillstreet.com Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) 6–10pm Visit website for ticket info 220 E. Chicago mcachicago.org

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2nd Saturday Taking place monthly LACUNA Artist Lofts + Studios 12–6pm • Free 2150 S. Canalport lacuna2150.com The Lost Artists Show The Art Colony Studio Building Check for times • Free 2630 W. Fletcher lostartistschicago.com

Chicago Arts District / Pilsen East 6–10pm • Free Free Saturday Tours S. Halsted + 18th St. Taking place weekly chicagoartsdistrict.org Fine Arts Building Open Studios 5–9pm • Free 410 S. Michigan fineartsbuilding.com

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Your guide to visiting galleries all around Chicago and beyond. Bring your map with you on opening nights, weekend gallery visits or to other special art events. Also use our online gallery Google Maps.

THE GALLERIES Chicago Gallery News is organized by geography, so you can easily plan your route and look up galleries in your area. We aim to make visiting galleries simple, but don’t restrict yourself to just one district or even to the city limits - spaces may be found in surprising spots and can be inspiration for taking longer drives or exploring new territory. Be sure to refer to our convenient pull-out maps on page 27.

Refer to these listings to see what shows are taking place, which artists are showing where, and in what areas galleries specialize. The art world has become increasingly international, yet Chicago’s local dealers and artists remain hospitable to veterans and neophytes alike.

All of the listings here in print may also be found at chicagogallerynews.com. Visit our online calendar of events for a guide to artist talks, lectures and special happenings in the galleries, and read our up-to-date art blog to check out our latest tips and recommendations.

Chicago Gallery News is the only resource of its kind. To be included in these listings, please contact us: 312-649-0064 • info@chicagogallerynews.com

Addington Gallery

River North Dozens of galleries radiate from the intersection of Superior + Franklin streets, making up the River North gallery district.

The area is the city’s densest gallery center.

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The Main Hall.

Photo by Steve Hall of Hedrich Blessing, 2008.

The meticulously restored, historic Driehaus Museum on Huron St. offers evening, “twilight” tours each month.

Happening in the area • January 11 + March 1: major area opening nights • Free Weekly Saturday Morning Gallery Tours, 11am-12:30pm chicagogallerynews.com • Driehaus Musuem Twilight Tours: 1st + 3rd Tuesday of each month: driehausmuseum.org Dining in the district • Boarding House: Wine-focused • Club Lago: Italian • Coco Pazzo: Italian • Farmhouse: Midwestern • Gene & Georgetti: Italian • Kiki’s Bistro: French • Prosecco: Italian • Union Sushi + BBQ: Asian

704 N. Wells (60654) Tel 312-664-3406 Tu-Sa 11-6 dan@addingtongallery.com www.addingtongallery.com Paintings and sculpture by American and European artists.

March 1-April 15: Solo Exhibition. Opening Reception March 1, 5-8pm April 19-June 1: Solo Exhibition. Opening Reception April 19, 5-8pm MEMBER CHICAGO ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION

January 11-February 29: Solo Exhibition. Opening Reception January 11, 5-8pm

Dan Addington, Lone Purpose of Wings, 9” x 9”, wax, tar, oil on wood.

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Jean Albano Gallery 215 W. Superior (60654) Tel 312-440-0770 Tu-F 10-5; Sa 11-5 + by appt. jeanalbano@aol.com www.jeanalbanogallery.com

January 11-March 2: “WILD” Life: Gallery artists group show.

Opening reception on Friday, January 11, 5:30-7:30pm

Contemporary paintings, drawings, and constructions.

March 8-April: TBD. Opening reception on Friday, March 8, 5:30-7:30pm

ArchiTech Gallery 730 N. Franklin 2nd Fl. (60654) Tel 312-475-1290 W-Sa 12-5 Dir. David Jameson architechgallery@earthlink.net www.architechgallery.com Chicago’s only gallery of architectural art. Design drawings, blueprints + photographs of building + industrial art.

Artists represented include Frank Lloyd Wright, Alfonso Iannelli + Daniel Burnham.

Please contact ArchiTech Gallery about a new book, written by gallery owner David Jameson, Alfonso Iannelli Modern by Design, with a foreward

by Tim Samuelson.

January 11-April 27: Architecture and Design 1810 - 1995

Carol Kaplan, Life in the Wild, photograph

Andrew Bae Gallery 300 W. Superior (60654) Tel 312-335-8601 Tu-Sa 10-6 info@andrewbaegallery.com www.andrewbaegallery.com Contemporary Asian art, primarily with ties to Korea, Japan and China.

Permanent gallery artists include: Kwang Jean Park, Young June Lew, Yongjin Han, Tetsuya Noda, Keysook Geum, Jungjin Lee, Jae Ko, Leeah Joo, Gapchul Lee. Please contact gallery or visit website for exhibition information and upcoming opening dates.

Russell Bowman Art Advisory 311 W. Superior Ste. 115 (60654) Tel 312-751-9500 Tu-W by appt.; Th-Sa 10-5:30 Opening receptions held 5:30-8 on starting date of exhibition. info@bowmanart.com www.bowmanart.com

Thru January 26: 10th Anniversary Exhibition: A cross section of works for a decade of exhibitions

Modern + Contemporary Masters.

February 1-March 30: Gallery Selections: Roger Brown, Ron Gorchov, Candida Höfer, Kerry James Marshall, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Kiki Smith, Joel Sternfeld, William Wegman

Folk, Naïve, + Outsider Art.

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Roy Boyd Gallery 739 N. Wells (60654) Tel 312-642-1606 Tu-Sa 10-5:30; M by appt. roy.boyd@sbcglobal.net www.royboydgallery.com Contemporary paintings + sculpture Opening receptions are held on the opening dates of the exhibitions, Fridays, 5-8pm, except where noted.

January 2-February 26: Andrew Graham. Opening reception on January 11.

March 1-April 16: Carlos Estrada Vega

Leeah Joo, 9 Dragons, 2012, oil on canvas, 32” x 34”

Ron Gorchov, Broadway, 1974, oil on linen, 38-1/2” x 40” x 10”

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River North Echt Gallery 222 W. Superior (60654) Tel 312-440-0288 Tu-Sa 11-5 or by appt. info@echtgallery.com www.echtgallery.com Specializing in the finest contemporary sculpture.

Artists represented include: Oben Abright, Martin Blank, Christina Bothwell, Dale Chihuly, Daniel Clayman, Pearl Dick, Matt Eskuche, Bella Feldman, Gregory Grenon, Philip Baldwin + Monica Guggisberg, Shayna Leib, Mira Maylor, Clifford Rainey, Joseph Rossano + others.

For a complete listing of artists + exhibitions please visit our website.

January 11-February 6: Exhibiting a new body of work by Wisconsin based artist Shayna Leib. Opening reception on Friday, January 11.

Catherine Edelman Gallery

Josef Glimer Gallery, Ltd.

300 W. Superior Lower Level (60654) Tel 312-266-2350 Tu-Sa 10-5:30 info@edelmangallery.com www.edelmangallery.com Twitter @edelmangallery

207 W. Superior (60654) Tel 312-787-4640 Tu-Sa 11-5; or by appt.

Dir. Josef Glimer Asst. Dir. April Behnke info@josefglimergallery.com www.josefglimergallery.com

Contemporary photography + mixed media photo-based art.

35 years of selling fine art.

January 11-March 2: Holly Roberts: As the Crow Flies.

Opening reception with the artist on Friday, January 11, 5-8pm.

March 8-May 4: Frieke Janssens: Smoking Kids.

Opening reception on Friday, March 8, 5-7pm.

Featuring contemporary artists Nancy Wolfe, Thom Kapheim, Mira Hermoni-Levine, Brian Divis + Sheila Finnigan.

Also featuring masterworks of the 19th + 20th Centuries, including works by Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Chagall, Picasso, Miró, Rivera, + Zuniga, among others.

The Golden Triangle 330 N. Clark (60654) Tel 312-755-1266 M-W, F 10-6; Th 10-7; Sa 10-5 info@goldentriangle.biz www.goldentriangle.biz The Golden Triangle’s block-long home in the historic Reid Murdoch Center features one of the largest collections of Asian + European antiques + home furnishings in the country.

A dramatic setting, complete with Asian courtyard, + exemplary customer service.

We also showcase tribal African ceramics, furniture + sculpture.

March 1: Peter Roth: Reverse Perspective Paintings April 19: Jeff Sippel: Abstract Florals; Mixed media on canvas

Karen Tribe, Bronze Rain Drum, Northern Thailand, mid 1800s, 21” W x 21” D x 16”

Frieke Janssens, Cigarillo, 2011

Carl Hammer Gallery January 11-February 9: Portfolio 2013: Group exhibition surveying gallery artists’ recent works + introducing artists new to Carl Hammer Gallery stable.

Opening reception on January 11, 5:30-8pm January 23-27: Participating in The Metro Show.

The Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY.

HAUSER Gallery 230 W. Superior (60654) Tel 773-709-7848 Tu-Sa 11-5; and by appt.

Dir. Claire Molek clairemolek@gmail.com www.hauser-gallery.com Newly opened HAUSER Gallery features Marc Hauser’s total archive in conjunction with fresh contemporary work by artists of all mediums and expertise.

January 31-February 3: Participating in The Outsider Art Fair. Former Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY

716 N. Wells (60654) Tel 312-475-1788 Tu-Sa 12-8 or by appt. info@hilton-asmus.com www.hilton-asmus.com Specializing in modern + contemporary paintings, limited edition graphics, glass art, sculpture + photography.

April 5-May 11: Aristotle Georgiades: Repurposed sculpture, new work.

Artist’s reception on Friday, April 19, 5:30-8pm.

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215 W. Huron (60654) Tel 312-337-0111 M-F 10-5; Weekends by appt. jendrastudio@yahoo.com International + regional photography: Chicago, global travel, wildlife, architectural, landscapes, nautical.

Featured artists + artworks.

January 11: Body & Soul: Arica Hilton, Tammy Kohl, Belgin Yucelen.

Part II, featuring paintings, sculptures, jewelry; in collaboration with Jennifer Norback Fine Art

April 19: Ani Afshar: Weaving Gardens and Casting Shadows, silk + mohair weavings

March 6-10: Participating in The Armory Show / Modern. Pier 92, New York, NY.

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Hilton | Asmus Robert Jendra Contemporary Studio +Gallery

February 15: Kostis Georgiou: Pixels, paintings + sculptures

February 15-March 30: Craig Norton: Dropping Mom Off At The Old Folks Home, mixed media three-dimensional wall art.

Artist’s reception on Friday, February 15, 5:30-8pm.

Craig Norton

In the heart of River North within 20,000 sq. ft., we house a large collection of contemporary American + European painting + sculpture.

January 11: Group show featuring gallery artists

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Representing American + international contemporary artists, as well as select examples/artists from the American “outsider” genre.

226 W. Superior (60654) Tel 312-337-6262 M-Sa 10-6; Su 11-5 Dir. Lisa Boron Event Dir. Michael Gerber MGerb123@gmail.com www.gruengalleries.com

Gallery available for special events.

March 1-April 13: Surface: A selection of gallery artists. Opening reception on Friday, March 1.

740 N. Wells (60654) Tel 312-266-8512 Tu-F 11-6; Sa 11-5 Opening receptions 6-8pm on first date of scheduled exhibitions.

Dir. Carl F. Hammer hammergall@aol.com www.hammergallery.com

Gruen Galleries

Studio + location commercial photographic + design services.

Framing + large format printing services up to 64” wide in any length.

January 11: Opening reception from 5-8pm March 1: Opening reception from 5-8pm April 19: Opening reception from 5-8pm

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River North Ann Nathan Gallery 212 W. Superior (60654) Tel 312-664-6622 Tu-F 10-5:30; Sa 11-5 Nathangall@aol.com www.annnathangallery.com Minimal steel furniture by renowned designer creator Jim Rose.

Established + well known painters + sculptors in all media.

Jennifer Norback Fine Art & The Project Room 217 W. Huron (60654) W-Sa 11-6; or by appt.

Jennifer Norback Fine Art: 773-671-5945 Jennifernorback@gmail.com www.jennifernorbackfineart.com The Project Room: 847-400-4626 info@theprojectroompb.com www.theprojectroompb.com

Selective African Art. Please contact the gallery for an up-to-date exhibition + opening schedule.

Jennifer Norback Fine Art + The Project Room’s strong commitment to a vibrant + comprehensive arts programming includes exhibitions, lectures, intimate salon gatherings, concerts + workshops. Check websites for events schedule.

Featured contemporary artists from Paris + Chicago include: Jean-Christophe Ballot, Patti Bartelstein, Michael Goro, Herbert Murrie, Stephen McClymont, Rene Romero Schuler, ellsworth snyder, Douglas Stapleton, Jeremy Tubbs, William Utermohlen, Vivian van Blerk.

January 11: Opening reception on Friday, January 11, 5-8pm; contact gallery for show details.

Perimeter Gallery features contemporary painting, sculpture, works on paper, + master works in ceramic + fiber arts.

Opening receptions are held the first day of exhibitions, 5-8pm.

January 11-February 22: Jeff Aeling: New landscape paintings. Opening reception on Friday, January 11, 5-8pm.

March 1: Jeffrey Forsythe: New sculpture and paintings from this local emerging artist. Opening reception on Friday, March 1, 5-8pm

January 11: Body & Soul: In collaboration with Hilton | Asmus Contemporary, featuring images of the body

by Patti Bartelstein, Cindy Bernhard, Ettore Greco, Rene Romero Schuler, William Utermohlen

March 1: The Project Room’s Out of Darkness Comes Light: photography, light boxes, mixed media by Patti Bartelstein + mixed media sculpture + installations by Jill King. Preview on March 1.

Receptions March 15 + April 19

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210 W. Superior (60654) Tel 312-266-9473 Tu-Sa 10:30-5:30 Dir. Frank Paluch perimeterchicago@ perimetergallery.com www.perimetergallery.com

Please check TPR's website for invitations to inspirational and educational programming led by outstanding leaders from a broad range of liberal arts studies.

February 8: Chicago in Paris: Gallery artists preview for June exhibition in Paris. Featuring Cindy Bernhard, Tony Fitzpatrick, Michael Goro, Rene Romero Schuler, Douglas Stapleton

March 1: Opening reception Friday, March 1, 5-8pm; contact gallery for show details.

Perimeter Gallery

The Project Room supports emerging + mid-career artists in all media whose work embodies well-executed conceptual depth.

Maya Polsky Gallery 215 W. Superior (60654) Tel 312-440-0055 Tu-F 10-5; Sa 10:30-5 mayapolsky@aol.com www.mayapolskygallery.com Works by contemporary American, European + Russian artists with special interest in figurative painting.

Please contact gallery for exhibition information.

Printworks

Richard Norton Gallery 612 Merchandise Mart Plaza (60654) Tel 312-644-8855 M-F 9-5 Richard P. Norton Dir. Susan Klein Bagdade info@richardnortongallery.com www.richardnortongallery.com Notable American + European Impressionist + Modern paintings, drawings + sculpture from the 19th + early 20th Centuries.

Offering a range of services including consultation, appraisal, consignment + purchase of artwork.

Artists include: Adam Albright, Ivan Albright, George Aldrich, Claude Bentley, Karl Buehr, Francis Chapin, Georges Maurice Cloud, Alexander Corazzo, Manierre Dawson, Werner Drewes, John Enneking, Frederick Fursman, Oliver Dennett Grover, Hananiah Harari, George Josimovich, Richard Koppe, Walter Krawiec, Albert Krehbiel, Jonas Lie, Jan Matulka, Edgar Miller, Pauline Palmer, Frank Peyraud, William S. Schwartz, Gerritt Sinclair, Anna Lee Stacey, John Storrs, Frederic Tellander, Morris Topchevsky, Vaclav Vytlacil, among others.

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The Rangefinder Gallery

311 W. Superior (60654) Tel 312-664-9407 Tu-Sa 11-5 and by appt.

Dirs. Sidney Block, Bob Hiebert info@printworkschicago.com www.printworkschicago.com

Tamarkin Camera 300 W. Superior, 2nd Fl. (60654) Tel 312-642-2255 M-F 9-5:30; Sa 10-2; or by appt. focus@rangefindergallery.com rangefindergallery.com

January: Lewis Kostiner: Choosing Fatherhood: America’s Second Chance, portraits of single fathers + their children. Opening reception Friday, January 11

Printworks is a works on paper gallery specializing in contemporary prints, drawings, photographs and artists’ books.

Featuring un-retouched digital + film photographs made with the legendary Leica M camera.

March: Fred Teifeld: The Convergence of Sight and Vision, recent photographs. Opening reception Friday, March 8

Opening receptions 5:30-7:30 on first date of scheduled exhibition.

Thru February 9: Special Group Exhibition: New Self-Portraits by 44 Artists.

Susanna Coffey, William Conger, Richard Haas, Kerry James Marshall, Audrey Niffenegger, Jim Nutt, Philip Pearlstein, Suellen Rocca, Franz Schulze, James Valerio + Frances Whitehead + many more. See online listing or visit website for full artist list.

Please contact The Rangefinder Gallery for up-to-date exhibition information + April reception date.

April: Bob Soltys: Paris - the Art of Living, recent photographs. Opening reception date TBD; contact gallery for details.

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February 15-March 16: Please contact gallery for information. Opening Friday, February 15, 5:30-7:30pm.

March 22-April 27: Arthur Lerner: New Drawings.

Opening reception Friday, March 22, 5:30-7:30pm.

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River North Judy A Saslow Gallery 300 W. Superior (60654) Tel 312-943-0530 Tu-F 11-6; Sa 11-5 jsaslow300@gmail.com www.jsaslowgallery.com Specializing in International Outsider Art as well as emerging + established Contemporary art.

Please contact the gallery for an up-to-date exhibition + openings schedule.

Artists include: Marc Boulier, Francois Burland, Gerard Cambon, Henry Darger, Edmond Engel, Tony Fitzpatrick, Lee Godie, Krista Harris, Matt Lamb, Henry Moore, Mr. Imagination, Michel Nedjar, Jordan Scott, Bill Traylor, Rusty Wolfe, Joseph Yoakum, Purvis Young, Carlo Zinelli MEMBER CHICAGO ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION

Ken Saunders Gallery 230 W. Superior (60654) Tel 312-573-1400 Tu-Sa 11-5 Ken Saunders gallery@kensaundersgallery.com www.kensaundersgallery.com Exhibiting the world’s most prominent + innovative artists creating glass sculpture.

January 11-February 28: HARD/SOFT Featuring: Rick Beck, Lene Bodker, Sidney Hutter, Jon Kuhn, Steven Weinberg, Richard Whiteley March 1-April 28: SOFT/HARD Featuring: José Chardiet, Seth Fairweather, Carmen Lozar, Dante Marioni, Jenny Pohlmann and Sabrina Knowles, Richard Royal MEMBER CHICAGO ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION

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Henry Darger, Ribbon Tailed Angel Winged Gagosian Poisonious, mixed media, 17” x 14”

Schneider Gallery 230 W. Superior (60654) Tel 312-988-4033 Tu-F 10:30-5; Sa 11-5 Dir. Martha Schneider schneidergalleryinfo@gmail.com Twitter @SchneiderCPG www.schneidergallerychicago.com Contemporary Photography January 11-February 23: Marc Hauser: Body Language.

Opening reception on Friday, January 11, 5-7pm.

March 1-April 27: Martina Lopez.

Opening reception on Friday, March 1, 5-7pm.

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Vale Craft Gallery

David Weinberg Photography

230 W. Superior (60654) Tel 312-337-3525 Tu-F 10:30-5:30; Sa 11-5 Dir. Peter Vale peter@valecraftgallery.com www.valecraftgallery.com

300 W. Superior, Ste. 203 (60654) Tel 312-529-5090 M-Sa 10-5 Studio Manager: Matt Avignone matt@d-weinberg.com www.d-weinberg.com Follow us on Facebook

An eclectic mix of affordable, contemporary American fine craft.

Ongoing display of ceramics, decorative fiber art, glass objects, metal sculpture, functional art + unique jewelry.

January 11-April 13: Winter Group Show. Opening reception Fri, January 11, 5-8pm.

April 19-June 1: For the Birds, group show.

Opening reception Friday, April 19, 5-8pm.

Contemporary photography, from emerging artists to the collection of David Weinberg.

Please contact the gallery for an up-to-date exhibition + opening schedule.

January 11-March 2: A Decade of Printmaking: Work by David Weinberg.

The first of a two-part exhibition highlighting the multifaceted works by David Weinberg, featuring his abstract series.

March 8-April 29: A Decade of Printmaking: Work by David Weinberg.

The second installment of a two-part exhibition highlighting the multifaceted works by David Weinberg, featuring his narrative series.

Erin Wilson, Square #118, hand-dyed and pieced cotton, 5” x 5” x 1/2”

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Zolla / Lieberman Gallery 325 W. Huron (60654) Tel 312-944-1990 Tu-F 10-5:30; Sa 11-5:30 zollalieberman@sbcglobal.net www.zollaliebermangallery.com January 11-February 23: • Vera Klement: Early and Late Style • William Conger: New Paintings Opening reception Friday, January 11, 5-8pm.

March 8-April 13: David Kroll: Recent Paintings Opening reception Friday, March 8, 5-8pm.

April 19-May 31: • Phyllis Bramson: Lovesick Maladies: Troubled Hearts, Fevered Dreams, (Sobs and Kisses!)

• Nick Ostoff + Mario Romano: Those Damn I Love Yous Opening reception Friday, April 19, 5-8pm.

Zygman Voss Gallery 222 W. Superior, #1E (60654) Tel 312-787-3300 Tu-Sa 10-5; Su and M by appt. art@zygmanvossgallery.com www.ZygmanVossGallery.com facebook.com/ZygmanVossGallery Twitter @ZygmanVoss For over 10 years Zygman Voss Gallery has been showcasing museum quality 17th to 20th century masters such as Rembrandt, Renoir, Picasso, + Miró. Additionally, we represent contemporary artists Moshe Rosenthalis, Leonardo Nierman, Aliza Nahor, Ramon Vilanova and emerging artist Elsa Muñoz.

Ongoing: Exhibitions of gallery artists

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Aliza Nahor, Echo to Echo, 1984, oil on canvas, 37” x 29”

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C33 Gallery

The Fashion Study Collection (8th floor)

Galleries in the Library

Chicago Curates Columbia II: Aspect Ratio + Film and Video January 28 – March 15

The Fashion Studies Exhibition Windows 2 600 S. MICHIGAN AVE

Museum of Contemporary Photography

The Fashion Studies Exhibition Windows 4 6 1 9 S . WA BA S H A V E

Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery The Almost Metal Collective January 10 – February 16

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Anchor Graphics

Embracing the FARB: Modes of Reenactment Through February 9

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Market Value: Examining Wealth and Worth February 28 – April 20

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Art in the Library February 21 - March 29

Victoria Sambunaris: Taxonomy of a Landscape January 11 – March 31

Marvelous Freedom/Vigilance of Desire, Revisited January 28 – March 15

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The Galleries of Columbia College Chicago, including project spaces, galleries and a museum, provide diverse perspectives on art, design, media, and culture from Chicago and beyond. This network of exhibition spaces serves students, the college community, and local, national, and international audiences.

Victoria Sambunaris: Taxonomy of a Landscape January 11 – March 31, 2013

Untitled (Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas), 2010

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600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605 312.663.5554 mocp@colum.edu

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West Loop + West Side The West Side includes the West Loop, West Town, Fulton Market, Randolph Street + more. Free Saturday tours run every 6 weeks: chicagogallerynews.com

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District design: • Unique area design + antique sources: Morlen Sinoway Atelier, Wright, Jan’s Antiques, Leslie Hindman, and Strand Design.

Frederick Baker, Inc. 1230 W. Jackson (60607) Tel 312-243-2980 M-F 10-5, and by appt.

President, Frederick Baker Dir. Scot Campbell frebak@aol.com Scot_fbi@hotmail.com www.frederickbakerinc.com Specializing in fine American + European prints, drawings + watercolors.

FM* Gallery

215 N. Aberdeen (60607) Tel 312-850-0924 Dir. Ewa Czeremuszkin info@ec-gallery.com www.ec-gallery.com

310 N. Peoria (60607) Tel 312-731-3362 M-Sa 10-6; and by appt. franklin@fultonmarketgallery.com www.fultonmarketgallery.com

EC Gallery’s primary focus is the introduction + representation of emerging + mid-career artists whose practices traverse painting, drawing, mixed media + photo media.

Please check website for full exhibition details.

Douglas Dawson Gallery

217 N. Carpenter (60607) Tel 312-491-8888 www.chicagoartistscoalition.org January 11-31: Two group exhibitions culminating from a Midwest Artist Exchange launched with Power House Productions in Detroit.

EXCHANGE (in Chicago) features work of Detroit artists.

Opening reception: January 11

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February 15-March 7: BOLT Resident Azadeh Gholizadeh’s solo exhibition + HATCH Projects three-person exhibition curated by one of HATCH Projects Curatorial Residents. Opening: February 15 March 15-April 4: BOLT Resident Jennifer Mills’ solo exhibition + HATCH Projects three-person exhibition curated by one of four HATCH Projects Curatorial Residents.

Opening reception: March 15

Ancient and historic ethnographic art from Africa, Asia + the Americas.

Thru January 12: Kiff Slemmons: The White Work March 15-April 25: African Ceramics: An exhibition celebrating 20 years of collecting Please check website for full exhibition details.

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April 12-May 2: CAC presents BOLT Resident Christopher Ottinger’s solo exhibition + HATCH Projects three-person exhibition curated by one of four HATCH Projects Curatorial Residents.

Opening reception: April 12

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King Art Collective

Mars Gallery

215 N. Aberdeen (60607) Tel 312-944-0408 W-Sa 11-5; Tu by appt. + by chance info@kasiakaygallery.com www.kasiakaygallery.com

Various locations. See website.

Tel 773-562-2054 Studio visits by appt.

Contact: Amy King www.kingartcollective.com facebook.com/kingartcollective

Showing painting, sculpture and mixed media by a talented group of local + national artists.

Established + mid-career international artists working in all media.

Studio sessions + art classes taught every Wednesday + Saturday.

Please contact gallery or check website or online CGN listing for additional show information.

Founded in 2009, King Art Collective represents emerging + established artists. Pop-Up Galleries bring the artists’ work to unexpected spaces around Chicago.

Please check website for full exhibition details.

400 N. Morgan (60642) Tel 312-226-7975 Tu-Sa 9:30-5:30 Dirs. Douglas Dawson, Wallace Bowling info@douglasdawson.com www.douglasdawson.com

Since 1983.

Featuring works by: Arms, Bellows, Benton, Buhot, Burchfield, Chagall, Chahine, Crawford, Degas, Hayter, Kent, Kloss, Lewis, Lipchitz, Miró, Pennell, Renoir, Rouault, Schlemmer, Seligman, Simon, Tanguy, Tissot, Villon, Whistler, Wood, Zorn, + many others.

Dining in the district • A few of Chicago’s hottest favorites: Publican, Next, Blackbird, Avec, Girl + the Goat, Maude’s Liquor Bar, Piccolo Sogno, Nellcôte, and Moto

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Thru March 15: Artwork by Ted Stanuga. 8 large scale paintings, some never exhibited, spanning 15 years. Reception to be announced. Installed at 300 S. Riverside Plaza (60606) + open to the public: M-F 8-5:30; after 5:30 West entrance only until 8pm; Sa + Su by West entrance only (sign in with attendant.)

Ted Stanuga

1139 W. Fulton Market (60607) Tel 312-226-7808 W 12-6; Th 12-7; F-S 12-6; Su + Tu by appt.

Dir. Barbara Gazdik marsgallery@aol.com www.marsgallery.com Specializing in contemporary fine, fun + sophisticated artwork.

Original paintings + limited edition prints.

Since 1988 Mars has been the must-see hot spot of the Chicago West Loop art scene.

For additional information regarding show schedule + openings please consult the gallery website.

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McCormick Gallery 835 W. Washington (60607) Tel 312-226-6800 Tu-F 10-5; Sa 11-5 gallery@thomasmccormick.com www.thomasmccormick.com McCormick Gallery features both Modern + Contemporary art, focusing primarily on painting, works on paper + sculpture.

We represent the estates of numerous mid-century American painters, with an emphasis on abstract expressionism.

West Loop / West Side PRIMITIVE

Packer Schopf Gallery 942 W. Lake (60607) Tel 312-226-8984 Tu-Sa 11-5:30 Dir. Aron Packer packer@packergallery.com www.packergallery.com

January 11-February 16, Cont.: • Bruce Riley: Psychedelic, mixed media painting • Lauren Levato: Wunderkammer, drawing • Deborah Baker: Zodiac, embroidery.

130 N. Jefferson (60661) Tel 312-575-9600 M-Sa 10-6 info@beprimitive.com www.beprimitive.com

Come + experience four floors of museum grade furniture, artifacts, textiles, jewelry + fashion from essentially the world over.

The collections are authentic + exclusive.

Contemporary art in all media.

Well-known for folk + outsider art.

January 11-February 16: Reception Jan 11, 5-8pm.

• Andréa Stanislav: Wilderness of Mirrors, sculpture, glitter constructions and video

The gallery also shows both established + emerging contemporary artists.

Conveniently located in the West Loop, PRIMITIVE’s 30,000 sq. ft. flagship store has become a true Chicago destination.

February 22-March 30: Reception Feb. 22, 5-8pm.

• Eleanor Spiess-Ferris: Fecundity, painting • Peter Karklin: Peter Karklins’ MOTHER EARTH, drawing • Don Di Sante: New Portraits, painting.

You’ll feel like you have just been around the world yourself!

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Please contact us for current exhibition + event schedules.

January 18-March 2: John Sabraw, new works, reception Jan. 18, 5-8pm April 5-May 18: John Wehmer, reception April 5, 5-8pm MEMBER CHICAGO ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION

Deborah Baker, Virgo, Embroidery on linen, 20” x 20”, 2012

Carrie Secrist Gallery 835 W. Washington (60607) Tel 312-491-0917 Tu-F 10:30-6; Sa 11-5 Dir. Stevie Greco info@secristgallery.com www.secristgallery.com Established + emerging contemporary artists in all media.

Linda Warren Projects 327 N. Aberdeen, Ste. 151 (60607) Tel 312-432-9500 Tu-Sa 11-5 or by appt.

Openings 1st day of show 6-9pm Dir. Linda Warren linda@lindawarrenprojects.com www.lindawarrenprojects.com

For additional information regarding the show schedule, please contact the gallery.

Emerging + mid-career contemporary artists in all media.

Additional focus on corporate collections + consulting.

Thru January 23: Carrie Secrist Gallery Celebrates 20 Years

Thru January 26: • Gallery Y: Shay Kun • Gallery X: Doug Fogelson

Woman Made Gallery

February 8-April 5: • Gallery Y: Ed Valentine • Gallery X: Michael Stillion Reception Feb. 8, 6-9pm April 12-May 31: • Gallery Y: Hollis Brown Thornton • Gallery X: Jon Waldo Reception April 12, 6-9pm MEMBER CHICAGO ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION

685 N. Milwaukee (60642) Tel 312-738-0400 W-F 12-7; Sa-Su 12-4 gallery@womanmade.org www.womanmade.org Find us on Facebook Artwork in all media in group and solo exhibitions.

January 18-February 21: • Group Exhibition: Public/Private Juror: Emily Green

January 18-February 21 Cont.: • Group Exhibition: Exquisite Uterus Project Curators: Alison Gates + Helen Klebesadel • Solo Exhibition: Julie Ris Reception Jan. 18, 6-9pm March 1-April 18: • Group Exhibition: 16th International Open Juror: Kelli Connell • Solo Exhibitions: Kathryn Gauthier + Allison Svoboda Reception Mar. 1, 6-9pm

February 1-March 9: Judith Geichman Reception February 1, 5-8pm MEMBER CHICAGO ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION

Shay Kun, All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers, 2012, oil on canvas, diameter 60”

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Hyde Park, Pilsen, S. Loop., Bridgeport South of the city center, gallery + artist communities are expanding in areas like Pilsen along 18th St., in the Chicago Arts District along Halsted, as well as in LACUNA Artist Lofts on Canalport. In Bridgeport you’ll find the Zhou B Art Center + Bridgeport Art Center, both home to dozens of studios + galleries. In Hyde Park there are three University of Chicago affiliated museums: the Smart Museum of Art, the Renaissance Society, + the newly opened Logan Center. Also nearby is the Hyde Park Art Center.

4Art Inc. Gallery Zhou B Art Center 1029 W. 35th St., Ste. 403 (60609) Tel 773-254-5100 Tu-Sa 10-6; Open for monthly 3rd Fridays artist receptions from 7-10pm Dir. Robin Rios RRios@4artinc.com www.4artinc.com Visit gallery website for exhibition schedule.

January 18, February 15, March 15, April 19: Visit the Zhou B Art Center for 3rd Fridays. Held monthly, 7-10pm

Zhou B Art Center 1029 W. 35th St., #309 (60609) Tel 815-762-5243 3rd Fridays 7-10pm, or by appt. yalefactor@gmail.com www.yalefactor.com www.yalefactorartgallery.com Contemporary Narrative Still-Life Paintings, Landscapes + Prints.

Ongoing exhibition: New Beginnings January 18, February 15, March 15, April 19: Visit the Zhou B Art Center for 3rd Fridays. Held monthly, 7-10pm

Yale Factor, Rock Lake #3, oil on canvas, 2.5’ x 3.5’

Upscale, trendy, loft work space in a growing artist community.

Located in what was once the world's largest macaroni factory + conveniently located in the Pilsen Arts District. Custom, stylish work + events space for established + upand-coming artists + professionals throughout Chicago. *NO pets.

Commercial only. We do not offer livein work space.

Jos-Cacciatore & Co. transformed LACUNA from raw, open space into an attraction that is now work lofts for artists, photographers, sculptors, clothing designers / showrooms / vendors / stylists, health / beauty specialists, event planners, interior decorators / designers, musicians / producers, + other various small businesses!

Coined Chicago's premier event space with rental accommodations for weddings, socials, meetings, networking, celebrity-focused events + more! LACUNA is a truly unique venue. Our spaces range from 1,200-20,000sf, as well as a 6,000sf roof-top deck.

This beautifully restored 500,000 sq. ft. former Spiegel Catalogue Warehouse provides studio + gallery exhibit space for a growing number of artists, fashion designers + creative professionals working in many different art forms + media.

The spectacular 5th floor 18,000 sq. ft. event space is set against the Chicago skyline + offers a unique setting for weddings, exhibitions, trade shows, fashion shows + corporate events.

January 5-31: First Annual Bridgeport Art Center Competition: Showcasing the exceptional talents of Chicago area artists, the exhibition includes artwork in multiple mediums. The awards ceremony for top winners is January 5th.

LACUNA Artist Lofts + Studios 2150 S. Canalport (60608) Tel 773-609-5638 info@lacuna2150.com www.lacuna2150.com

1200 W. 35th St. (60609) Tel 773-247-3000 M-Sa 8-6; Su by appt. natalya@bridgeportart.com www.bridgeportart.com

The latest addition to BAC is Chicago’s Premier Fashion Design Center created exclusively for fashion designers by offering affordable work studios + a huge cutting table in a common area.

Special ongoing district events: • 1st Thursdays, Hyde Park (Smart Museum) • 2nd Fridays, Chicago Arts District • 2nd Saturdays, Lacuna Artist Lofts • 3rd Fridays, Bridgeport (Zhou + BAC) Dining in the district • Nightwood, Nana’s, Acadia, Medici on 57th, Three Aces, Moon Palace, Nuevo León, Mundial Cocina Mestiza

Yale Factor Gallery

Bridgeport Art Center (BAC)

• Short/long term leases • Utilities included: heat, a/c, electric* (*some restrictions) • free wi-fi • community kitchen • gallery/exhibition area • exposed brick walls • original timber beams + hardwood floors, high ceilings • large open hallways • updated lighting + electric • 24-hour access • on-site security guard • secure coded entry • in-house management • two passenger elevators + one freight elevator • free + abundant on-site parking • roof-top deck: exquisite skyline view + custom-built bench seating January 12, February 9, March 9, April 13: 2nd Saturdays: 12-6pm. LACUNA opens its doors to the public each month for this building wide, openstudios event, featuring painters, sculptors, photographers, fashion designers/retailers/distributors + so much more. Also featuring YOGA classes (location weather permitting) hosted by Ouvre Corporation (ouvre.org) Visit lacuna2150.com for details!

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Logan Center at the University of Chicago 915 E. 60th St. (60637) Tu-Sa 9-9; Su 11-9 arts.uchicago.edu/logan/gallery Tel 773-702-ARTS Contemporary art programming at the Logan Center Gallery and throughout the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago.

Thru February 3: • Wall Text • Modest Livelihood: Brian Jungen + Duane Linklater. Artist talk + reception on January 21, 6pm February 15-March 31: David Schutter Reception March 1, 6pm Four exhibitions by UChicago’s 2013 MFA graduates: April 6-14 (reception April 5) April 20-28 (reception April 19) May 4-12 (reception May 3) May 18-26 (reception May 17)

Image from Brian Jungen + Duane Linklater's Modest Livelihood project, courtesy of the artists.

February 1-24: Collective Conversations in Clay: Chocolate Soiree: Featuring ceramic artists designing artworks in collaboration with their choice of gourmet hand-rolled chocolate truffles from local confectionery Cake Chicago.

March 15-April 12: Words and Gestures: The show will feature work by artists from Chicago, Iran, China, + Croatia, as well as the Abstract Expressionist movement that flourished in Chicago during the 1950’s–1960’s focusing on the close connection between texts and images.

April 19-May 10: Artists of Eastbank Spring Exhibition: Group show of works in a variety of art styles + media by resident artists at Bridgeport Art Center.

January 18, February 15, March 15, April 19: 3rd Friday Open Studios: Each month from 6-10pm. Artists of Eastbank host open studios + offer free demonstrations. *NOTE: Please check the BAC website for updates + times.

Liz Long Gallery at Chicago Urban Art Retreat Center 1957 S. Spaulding (60623) @ 21st St. Kedzie El stop on CTA Pink Line Tel 773-542-9126 Sa 11-4; + by appt. contact@urbanartretreat.com www.urbanartretreat.com Twitter @urbanartretreat Facebook.com/urbanartretreat Non-profit art gallery featuring under-represented artists.

Please contact gallery or visit website for exhibition information + full schedule.

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Museum of Contemporary Photography 2013 Benefit Auction T HU R S DA Y, FE B RUA RY 2 8, 2 01 3

195 East Delaware Place Co-chairs: Maggie Meiners and Jessica Nielsen

Museum of Contemporary Photography Columbia College 600 S. Michigan (60605) Tel 312-663-5554 mocp@colum.edu www.mocp.org January 11-March 31: Victoria Sambunaris: Taxonomy of a Landscape February 28: Darkroom | Museum of Contemporary Photography 2013 Benefit Auction. Details online.

Taking place at 195 E. Delaware.

Prospectus Art Gallery 1210 W. 18th St. (60608) Tel 312-733-6132 Dir. Israel Hernandez Showcasing Latin American + other contemporary Art. Representing: Montserrat Alsina, Tim Arroyo, Miguel Cortez, Roberto Ferreyra, Eric J. Garcia, Jeff Abbey Maldonado, Antonio Martinez, Mark Nelson, Eufemio Pulido.

Including the Chicago masters Mario Castillo, Walter A. Fydryck, Alejandro Romero + Ron Gordon.

Thru January 11: Walter Fydryck: Strange Relationships February 1-March 29: Tim Arroyo: Photosynthesis, photography. Opening reception Friday, February 8, 5-10pm April 12-May 10: Alejandro Romero: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, acrylic on canvas. Opening reception Friday, April 12, 5-10pm

The Renaissance Society

Ugly Step Sister Gallery

University of Chicago (60637) 5811 S. Ellis, Cobb Hall, #418 Tel 773-702-8670 Tu-F 10-5; Sa-Su 12-5; Closed Mondays info@renaissancesociety.org www.renaissancesociety.org Admission is always free.

1750 S. Union (60616) In the Pilsen East Arts District Tel 312-927-7546 Tanya@uglystepsisterartgallery.com www.uglystepsistergallery.com

1029 W. 35th St. (60609) Tel 773-523-0200 M-F 10-5; Sa 12-5 info@zbcenter.org www.zbcenter.org

Founded in 2008, we partnered with Juhl Wind in 2012 to build Chicago’s first all “green” gallery.

The gallery is powered 100% by wind and solar energy. While Ugly Step Sister exhibits works of its resident artists + associates, Juhl will be hosting informational exhibits on wind and solar power.

A vibrant mix of galleries, artist studios + event spaces, in addition to Zhou B Cafe + Art Lounge.

January 06-February 17: R. H. Quaytman - Passing Through The Opposite of What it Approaches, Chapter 25

Smart Museum of Art University of Chicago 5550 S. Greenwood (60637) Tel 773-702-0200 Tu/W/F/Sa/Su 10-5; Th 10-8; Closed Mondays Smart-musuem@uchicago.edu www.smartmuseum.uchicago.edu Admission is always free.

The “Green” Gallery

Ugly Step Sister focuses on innovative + unique artists + features a new exhibit monthly. The gallery is available for event space rental with on-site parking. We also feature photography + workshops.

See our website for details.

January 18, February 15, March 15, April 19: 3rd Fridays - Monthly eclectic + enthusiastic events featuring gallery openings + open studios for all our in-residence artists. 7-10pm.

January 18-February 9: Has Beens & Wannabes: retrospective of Chicago urban artists from the 80s + 90s February 15-March 10: From Motion Into Stillness: Group Exhibition curated by Sergio Gomez + Didi Menendez (Poets Artists Magazine) March 15-April 13: Being Paint: Works by Duk Ju L. Kim, Darrell Roberts + John Salhus. Curated by Sergio Gomez

Thru January 13: Goshka Macuga: Of what is, that it is; of what is not, that it is not, 2.

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Zhou B Art Center

Andrew Ek, Melinda Seated in Chair, oil on canvas, 50” x 36”

April 19-May 11: Adversity: Linc Thelen solo show.

Curated by Sergio Gomez

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Downtown: Michigan Avenue, The Loop, South Loop

The area includes the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), Spertus, the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), as well as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) + Columbia College Chicago. Navy Pier hosts two international art fairs: EXPO Chicago in September + SOFA in November

Oak St. (1000 N.)

Michigan Ave.

Over 20 galleries can be found along the “Magnificent Mile,” from Oak Street to the Chicago River, south near Millennium Park, + down past Congress Parkway. Galleries occupy spaces steps from Michigan Avenue, as well as in some of Chicago’s most iconic skyscrapers.

Grand Ave. (500 N.)

Madison St. (0 N.)

875 N. Michigan, Ste. 2510 John Hancock Center (60611) Tel 312-397-9990 M-F 10-5, Sa 11-5 Dir. Valerie Carberry Asst. Dir. Susan Beagley info@valeriecarberry.com www.valeriecarberry.com Modern + Postwar American art: painting, sculpture + works on paper from 1915-1965.

Blaine, Bolotowsky, Brooks, de Rivera, Diller, Drewes, Ferber, Ferren, Gallatin, Gordin, Gottlieb, Greene, Hofmann, Howard, Kelpe, Matulka, Merrild, Morris, Roszak, Rothschild, Shaw, Smith, Storrs, Survage, Tobey, Tworkov, Vytlacil, Walkowitz, and Xceron.

The Chicago Cultural Center 78 E. Washington (60602) Tel 312-744-6630 M-Th 8-7; F 8-6; Sa 9-6; Su 10-6.

Closed holidays. www.explorechicago.org Thru February 17: Industry of the Ordinary: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: a ten-year retrospective of the collaborative team of Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson whose work is a celebration of the everyday.

January 11-March 31: Claire Ashley: Ashley’s use of color applied to malleable substrata and mutable forms constructed from everyday materials create painterly objects, which give pause for thought about the nature of things.

Also representing contemporary artists of national stature: Judith Belzer, Susanna Coffey, Ellen Lanyon, Laura Letinsky, Jim Lutes, and Evelyn Statsinger Visit gallery website for details.

At the Art Institute of Chicago: Picasso and Chicago, February 20–May 12, 2013. The first major Picasso exhibition organized by AIC in almost 30 years.

Pablo Picasso, Nude under a Pine Tree, 1959, Oil on canvas (76 1/2 x 110 in.)

The Art Institute of Chicago, bequest of Grant J. Pick, 1965.687

February 15: Herbert Ferber: Paintings and Sculpture of the 1960s and 70s Congress Pkwy. (500 S.)

Colletti Gallery, Antique Posters • Fine Art 49 E. Oak (60611) Tel 312-664-6767 By appt. only Dir. Russell Colletti info@collettigallery.com www.collettigallery.com

Valerie Carberry Gallery

Colletti Gallery features a world class collection of antique posters from the 1890s Belle Epoque and Art Nouveau eras through the 1920s and 30s Art Deco and Modern eras.

Works by Mucha, Cherét, Cappiello, and Cassandre are among the master poster artists

included, plus an exceptional selection of the original prints and posters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Also featured are turn of the century ceramics by Amphora, Massier, and Zsolnay in addition to Art Nouveau and Art Deco furnishings.

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Richard Gray Gallery 875 N. Michigan John Hancock Center (60611) Tel 312-642-8877 M-F 10-5:30; Sa by appt.

Directors: Richard Gray; Paul Gray; Jennifer Rohr info@richardgraygallery.com www.richardgraygallery.com Founded in 1963, Richard Gray Gallery is one of the leading dealers in modern and contemporary American and European art, with locations in both Chicago and New York.

The gallery offers exceptional works by masters such as Picasso, Matisse and Miró and also represents some of the most exciting artists working today, including Jaume Plensa, David Hockney, Jim Dine, and Alex Katz.

Please contact gallery for up to date exhibition information.

MEMBER ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA MEMBER CHICAGO ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION

Examples of Leonetto Cappiello, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Jules Cherét

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Bert Green Fine Art 8 S. Michigan, Ste. 1220 (60603) Tel 312-434-7544 W-F 11-6; Sa 12-5; or by appt.

Dir. Bert Green inquiry@bgfa.us www.bgfa.us Twitter @bgfa Emerging + mid-career contemporary artists in various media.

January 12-February 23: • Raeleen Kao: New drawings • Jessica Curtaz: New drawings Artist’s reception Saturday, January 12, 5-8pm.

Closing reception Saturday, February 23, 5-8pm March 9-April 20: Rafael E. Vera: Nothing Concrete Artist’s reception Saturday, March 9, 5-8pm.

Closing reception Saturday, April 20, 5-8pm

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Michigan Ave., Oak St., S. Loop + Loop Hildt Galleries

Hilligoss Galleries

140 E. Walton Drake Hotel Arcade (60611) Tel 312-255-0005 Tu-Sa 11-5 Hildtg@ameritech.net www.hildtgalleries.com

520 N. Michigan (60611) Tel 312-755-0300 M-Sa 10-6; Su 11-6 info@hilligossgalleries.com www.hilligossgalleries.com Twitter @HilligossArt

Hildt Galleries showcases fine original 19th and 20th Century British, European and American oil paintings and watercolors.

Representing some of the world’s greatest contemporary oil painters; with master works by Monet, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir + Caravaggio.

Artists include: Montague Dawson Evert Pieters Bernard Pothast EJ Paprocki

Thru January: Matt Lamb: Widely regarded as a visionary artist + a champion of the global community of peace, Lamb’s work is exhibited in 70+ museums worldwide. Lamb’s first full exhibition at Hilligoss Galleries. Email us for e-catalog of works.

R.S. Johnson Fine Art

KM Fine Arts

645 N. Michigan (60611) Tel 312-943-1661 M-Sa 9-5:30 RS_Johnson@msn.com www.rsjohnsonfineart.com

875 N. Michigan, Ste. 2515 John Hancock Center (60611) Tel 312-255-1202 chicago@kmfinearts.com www.kmfinearts.com

Established in 1955, R.S. Johnson Fine Art specializes in museum quality works of art ranging from Old Master works on paper to 19th and 20th Century paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture.

Modern, Post War + Contemporary works by masters including: Baselitz, Bluhm, Botero, Brooks, Calder, Chagall, Chamberlain, Dine, Frankenthaler, Goldberg, Haring,

Hofmann, Indiana, Kahn, Marin, Mehretu, Miró, Motherwell, Picasso, Poons, Rauschenberg + Warhol.

Thru March 15: Francine Turk: 12.12.12 January 25: KM Los Angeles Inaugural Opening February 14-18: Art Wynwood Miami

Our clients include more than 50 museums worldwide.

Featured artists: Dürer, Rembrandt, Piranesi, Goya, Degas, Cassatt, Guillaumin, Raoul Dufy, Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse, Gleizes, Villon, Masson, De Chirico and Picasso.

MEMBER INTERNATIONAL FINE PRINT DEALERS ASSOCIATION

Above: Matt Lamb; Below: gallery view Top: Francine Turk, Man in Black, 2012, charcoal pigment and oil on gessoed Rives paper, 50" x 38.5" Bottom: Francine Turk, A Treasure Revealed, 2012, oil on polyester, 56" x 36"

Joel Oppenheimer, Inc.

Poster Plus

Washington College

410 N. Michigan, Ste. 1 The Wrigley Building (60611) Tel 312-642-5300 M-Sa 10-6 Joppen@audubonart.com www.audubonart.com

30 E. Adams, Ste. 1150 (60603) Tel 312-461-9277 M-Sa 10-6 and by appt.

Dir. David Gartler dgartler@posterplus.com www.posterplus.com

The nation’s premier gallery of art from the Golden Age of Exploration for four decades.

Since 1969, Poster Plus has offered an extensive selection of original posters from the 19th + 20th Centuries. Topics include advertising, art exhibitions, circus, Chicago festivals, literary, propaganda, + travel (airline, railroad, steamship).

Located in the historic Wrigley Building, the gallery specializes in rare antique natural history art + limited-edition fine art prints, with particular emphasis on the works of John James Audubon.

The gallery also is home to a wide variety of works by other notable Natural History Artists such as Pierre-Joseph Redouté, John Gould + Basilius Besler.

In addition to being an incredible art resource, the gallery provides custom archival framing + nationally recognized conservation + restoration services for works of art on paper, paintings on canvas + photographic materials. The facility services museums, collectors + dealers throughout the nation.

President’s Gallery, Harold

30 E. Lake Room 1105 (60601) Tel 312-553-5738 M-F 10-5 and by appt.

Vanessa Smith, Interim Curator vsmith50@ccc.edu pedestrianproject.org The President’s Gallery at Harold Washington College highlights artists from the Chicago area.

Contact gallery or visit our website for exhibition details + more information.

State Street Gallery at Robert Morris University (RMU) 401 S. State (60605) Tel 312-935-4088 M-Th 10-6, F 10-5 www.robertmorris.edu

oil + acrylic paint. Both mediums react very differently to light + using that effect in a painting is very powerful.

The State Street Gallery at Robert Morris University is an outlet for art education + cultural enrichment that maintains + promotes exposure to the fine arts for the students, employees + extended RMU community.

January 15-March 18: Virginio Ferrari: This internationally acclaimed contemporary sculptor has exhibited his work in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, + throughout the US. His current work has been described as lyrical, abstract sculpture in bronze, stainless steel, marble + granite.

Integrating sculpture into the architectural environment, often playfully in contrast to it, at other times fully participating in it.

Thru January 12: RMU Permanent Décor Collection Thru March 18: Matthew Sievers: Sievers brings out + exaggerates the beautiful colors all around us, so viewers will see the world in a new + exciting way. An unorthodox combination of side-by-side

Particularly noteworthy are Chicago railroad posters of the 1920s + World’s Fairs; The Columbian Exposition of 1893 + the Century of Progress 1933-34.

Though we have closed our familiar gift gallery on Michigan Ave., we continue to carry Chicago related posters, Giclées and gifts in our new location + on our website.

Over 40 years of experience providing poster conservation, restoration + framing services.

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Matthew Sievers

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March 19-May 20: RMU Permanent Décor Collection

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Alibi Fine Art

North Side The city’s north side is broadly comprised of a number of areas, including Lincoln Park, Old Town, Lincoln Square, Bucktown, Wicker Park, Lakeview, Andersonville, Ravenswood + Rogers Park.

Regular art events, hosted by neighborhood groups such as I AM Logan Square, the Flat Iron Artists Association (FIAA) + RAW Wednesdays in Ravenswood, take place monthly, since many artists live + work in studios on this side of the city. You can also explore alternative spaces + collectives in Humboldt Park + beyond.

Ongoing open studios, events + lectures: • Monthly 1st Fridays at the Flat Iron Arts Building, 6-10pm.

Flatironartists.org • RAW Wednesdays, 2nd Wednesday of each month, 6-10pm.

Ravenswoodartwalk.org • Complimentary seminars dealing with topics in Japanese art are offered at Floating World Gallery in Lincoln Park (pictured at right.)

See gallery listing or website for details (on opposite page.)

ArtDeTriumph + Artful Framer Studios

1966 W. Montrose (60613) Tel 773-454-1512 F-Sa 11-6; + by appt.

Adam Holtzman info@alibifineart.com www.alibifineart.com

2938 N. Clark (60657) Tel 773-832-4038 M-F 11-7; Sa 10-6; Su 12-5 Nancie King Mertz Nancie@NancieKingMertz.com www.NancieKingMertz.com

Alibi Fine Art is a contemporary gallery in the Ravenswood / Lincoln Square area.

This inviting Lakeview gallery is packed full of originals, Giclée prints + fine art cards of Chicago + the world by Nancie King Mertz.

Nancie’s husband Ron prints her sold work in sizes-to-order on canvas or paper. The 2938 N. Clark storefront is their gallery/frame studio. 33 years of expert framing makes this shop a most popular one for all your framing needs.

Our goal is to promote new, overlooked and mid-career artists.

The gallery’s primary focus is on photography, with other media represented as well.

Please visit CGN website for exhibition details.

Their south-connecting space at 2936 N. Clark is the new studio of Gregory Jennings Design, featuring newer paintings by Nancie in a residential setting, as Greg offers stunning art + mirrors combined with furniture + accessories. Greg’s history as a premier Chicago designer will make this showroom a one-stop destination for design, cabinetry, art + framing.

Commissioned paintings for corporate + private collections are scheduled with the artist/owner.

Please also view our framing listing in CGN’s Art Services section, p 49

Chicago Art Source Gallery 1871 N. Clybourn (60614) Tel 773-248-3100 M-F 10-6; Sa 10-5; and by appt.

Jackie Pernot art@chicagoartsource.com www.chicagoartsource.com facebook.com/ChicagoPrintmakers

Chicago Printmakers Collaborative

Chicago Art Source Gallery represents a wide array of local + national artists. We offer a vast inventory of contemporary art with a focus on painting, mixed media + photography.

4642 N. Western (60625) Tel 773-293-2070 F-Sa 12-5; + by appt.

Dir. Deborah Maris Lader info@chicagoprintmakers.com www.chicagoprintmakers.com

January 4-March 2: New Works by Gallery Artists

Featuring affordable fine art prints + works-on-paper by local + international artists.

Located in Chicago’s longest-running fine art printmaking workshop, where gallery visitors mingle with print artists as they create on the presses.

March 7-May 4: Please contact gallery for exhibition details.

Artists Incude: Hiroshi Ariyama, Christine Gendre-Bergere, Sanya Glisic, Misha Goro, Dan Grzeca, Phineas Jones, Ryan Kapp, Amos Kennedy Jr, Deborah Maris Lader, Kim Laurel, Ray Maseman, Artemio Rodriguez, Megan Sterling, Shawn Stucky, Scott Westgard + others.

Thru January 31: 23rd Annual International Small Print Show March 23-April 27: Purely Aesthetic: A new look at Formalism, curated by Maggie Marlin. Reception on Saturday, March 23, 5-8pm Amy Cannady, Not Wholly Foreign, mixed media on paper, 42” x 42”

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Cornelia Arts Building

Firecat Projects

Where art works 1800 W. Cornelia (60657) info@corneliaartsbuilding.com www.corneliaartsbuilding.com Twitter @CorneliaArts Facebook.com/CorneliaArtsBuilding Established in 1986, the Cornelia Arts Building is one of the largest all-artist-studio buildings on Chicago’s Northside.

Over 40 local artists and artisans work in this former ice-house, including painters, photographers, jewelry designers, sculptors, ceramic artists, and more.

Please visit our website for information about open studio events and exhibitions held throughout the year.

2124 N. Damen (60647) Tel 773-342-5381 M-Sa 10-4 Stan Klein info@firecatprojects.org www.firecatprojects.org www.tonyfitzpatrick.wordpress.com Opening receptions for the artist take place from 7-9pm on the first night of the exhibition.

December 28: William Test January 25: Renee Robbins February 22: Dowling Walsh Gallery of Rockland, Maine presents Cig Harvey March 29: Hatch Show Prints; Nashville, Tennessee April 26: David Tanimura

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North Side: Lincoln Park, Old Town, Lakeview, Bucktown, Wicker Park, Ravenswood Floating World Gallery 1925 N. Halsted (60614) Tel 312-587-7800 Tu-Sa 1-5; and by appt.

Dir. Elias Martin info@floatingworld.com www.floatingworld.com Specializing in Japanese fine art.

Please contact gallery or check website for additional details on exhibition openings and complimentary seminars.

Jackson Junge Gallery

The Leigh Gallery

February 9: Free Seminar: Bright Lights, Big City: The Art of Modernism in Japanese Woodblock Prints Saturday, February 9, 1-3pm

1389 N. Milwaukee (60622) Tel 773-227-7900 M-Sa 11-8; Su 12-5 support@J2gallery.com www.J2gallery.com

Paintings, sculpture + photography. Original art, limited edition reproductions + Giclées.

April 13: Free Seminar: Lyric: The Woodblock Prints of Koshiro Onchi Saturday, April 13, 1-3pm

Features the work of Laura Lee Junge + other contemporary Chicago artists.

January 18-February 24: ICONS, MYTHS and POEMS: New works by James Mesplé Opening reception Friday, January 18, 6-9pm

Custom framing on site.

March 15-May 5: DISTIRRBED NOT SHAKEN: New works by Laura Lee Junge.

Opening reception Friday, March 15, 6-9pm

3306 N. Halsted (60657) Tel 773-472-1865 Th-M 11-6 Jean Leigh theleighgallery@comcast.net www.theleighgallery.com Find us on Facebook + Twitter!

Representing over 80 artists.

The majority are local Chicago artists. Offering a diverse + innovative selection of original artwork in all media.

Oil, acrylic, watercolor, etching, pastel, sculpture, glass, jewelry, pottery, wood, marquetry, photography, encaustic + much more.

Gift certificates available.

Featuring: David Mayhew, Darren Jones, Armando Pedrosa, Mel Thompson, Michael McKee, Robert Koch, Roger Heide, Thom Bierdz, Joey Wozniak, Grace Cole, Jimmy Newton, Ann Powell, Sharon Stelter, DonEllen Glass Design, Barbara Pihos, Jean Leigh + many more.

Suharu Fukami (b. 1947) Time of Serenity, 2011 porcelain with celadon glaze 10 1/4” x 33 1/2”

Lillstreet Art Center 4401 N. Ravenswood (60640) Tel 773-769-4226 M-Th 10-7:30; F-Sa 10-6; Su 10-5 gallery@lillstreet.com www.lillstreet.com www.lillstreetgallery.com

James Mesplé, Gemini, 2012, egg tempera and oil on canvas, 40” x 30”

Thomas Masters Gallery 245 W. North Ave. (60610) Tel 312-440-2322 W-F 12-6; Sa 11-6; Su 12-5 Thomas@thomasmastersgallery.com www.thomasmastersgallery.com

January: Melody Saraniti April: • Eric Bellis (gallery one) • Tim Anderson (gallery two)

Contemporary artwork.

February 1-March 10: Neat: The Art of the Whiskey Vessel, featuring the work of 15-20 clay artists who make whiskey flasks, cups, bottles or jugs; curated by Doug Jeppesen. Reception on Friday, February 1 with whiskey tasting from Koval Distillery.

The gallery is celebrating 20 years in 2013. See p. 9 for details.

May: Meredith Sands MEMBER CHICAGO ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION

Please contact gallery or check website for exhibition + opening reception details.

March 15-April 23: Plane & Solid: The Geometries of Marc Digeros, Mark Pharis, Alison Reintjes, + Hans Peter Sundquist, featuring emerging + established artists whose work is heavily influenced by geometry.

Reception on Friday, March 15.

Josh Moulton Fine Art Gallery 2218 N. Clark (60614) Tel 773-592-3434 Open daily.

M 4-7; Tu 3-8; W 1-6; Th 11-5; F 4-7; Sa + Su 12-5 josh@joshmoulton.com www.joshmoulton.com Artist Josh Moulton’s stunning urban landscapes, familiar images of Chicago neighborhood + architectural scenes, + richly detailed rural vistas transport you from your urban environs. They reflect the city’s industrial roots, integral business district, skyscrapers, + waterways significant to Chicago’s iconic aesthetic.

Moulton produces commissioned works for clients. His paintings are in many corporate collections, including those of Deloitte & Touche, NMH Prentice Women’s Hospital, + many more.

The gallery receives new monthly shipments of large, matted and framed prints of paintings. Over 40 different images, all numbered + signed, plus over 120 framed prints to choose from all for $200 each.

March 29-May 19: 100 Acts of Sewing: The project of San Francisco based fiber artist Sonya Phillips, featuring 100 8”x10” photographs exhibited throughout the building, 25 dresses on dress forms + a workshop in the textiles department. Reception Friday, March 29.

Josh Moulton, Into Chicago, acrylic on canvas, 34” x 50”

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North Side: Lincoln Park, Old Town, Lakeview, Bucktown, Wicker Park, Ravenswood Pagoda Red 1714 N. Damen (60647) Tel 773-235-1188 M-Sa 10-6 info@pagodared.com www.pagodared.com Pagoda Red is the premier source for exemplary 18th + 19th c.

Chinese furniture + art with an expansive collection of Shanxi furniture, lanterns in the Ming manner, ancient limestone sculpture + tables, unexpected scholars’ objects, textiles, unusual blue + whites, Shanghai deco cabinets and chairs + Nickols + Central Asian carpets.

The gallery also represents emerging Chinese + Asian-inspired artists. To mark the gallery’s 15th anniversary, Pagoda Red cele-

Park Schreck Gallery brates the exciting wave of design emerging out of China today with a showcase of contemporary Chinese design.

A limited edition Lucite collection fashioned after traditional Ming examples by July Zhou is currently featured. The collection bridges the old with the new + communicates the beauty of the classical forms free + clear of traditional wood material.

Pagoda Red has galleries in Chicago + Winnetka + is an internationally recognized go-to source for collectors, designers + others with a taste for incredibly unusual + beautiful things. See also our suburban CGN listing for our Winnetka location, p 45.

1747 W. North (60622) Tel 773-309-1747 M, W, F-Sa 11-6; Th 11-8; Su 12-5 info@parkschreckgallery.com www.parkschreckgallery.com Twitter @ParkSchreck Facebook.com/parkschreckgallery

19th + 20th C. American paintings, fine prints + works on paper.

Visit Platt Fine art at the following art fairs this spring: February 21-24: Maryland Antiques Show of Hunt Valley April 26-29: Merchandise Mart Antiques Show, Chicago, IL MEMBER INTL. FINE PRINT DEALERS ASSOC. (IFPDA); CONFEDERATION INTL. DE NEGOCIANTS EN OEUVRES D’ART (CINOA); ANTIQUES COUNCIL

Please contact gallery or visit website for exhibition details.

Max Arthur Cohn (American, 1903-1998), Gowanis Canal, 1994, oil on canvas

Galleries Maurice Sternberg

Rotofugi Gallery

Quality work by both established + emerging artists in fields of modern pop, illustration art + character design.

561 W. Diversey, Ste. 213 (60614) Tel 773-281-2500 Tu-Sa 10-6 + by appt. info@plattfineart.com www.plattfineart.com

Park Schreck Gallery finds talented artists and connects them with buyers who are looking for original artwork.

July Zhou, Summer Palace Altar Table

2780 N. Lincoln (60614) Tel 773-868-3308 11-7 daily. Openings held 7-10pm on first day of new exhibition.

Dir: Kirby Kerr Curator: David van Alphen rotofugi@rotofugi.com www.gallery.rotofugi.com

Platt Fine Art

Partner/adjunct to Rotofugi Designer Toy Store. We show artists well-known in the designer toy community, but don’t limit ourselves to designer toy creators.

Please join our gallery preview email list: Previews.rotofugi.com for first opportunity to purchase pieces from most exhibits.

January 11-February 3: • Dan Grzeca: Paintings & Screenprints • Adam DeVarney: Drawings, Paintings & Collage February 8-March 3: Derek Hess: Paintings & Screenprints

3000 N. Sheridan (60657) Tel 312-642-1700 By appt. M-F, 10-5 hpool@galleriesmaurice sternberg.com susan@galleriesmaurice sternberg.com www.galleriesmauricesternberg.com A fine art dealer in Chicago since 1945, the galleries offer “Sternberg Traditional,” 19th/early 20th Century American + European paintings, + “Sternberg Contemporary,” which features the work of a distinguished list of contemporary artists from around the world.

Please contact the gallery for exhibition schedule.

March 8-31: Chicago Comic Artists vs. Star Wars Group Exhibit, curated

by Dave + Denise Dorman April 5-28: Ferg/Squadt Show: Vinyl figures + prints

Dan Grzeca, Don't Be Afraid, Mixed Media on Paper, 12” x 18”, 2012

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Studiofront 3013 W. Armitage (60647) Tel 773-965-1341 Call for appt.

Dennis Johnson dennis@johnson-studio.com www.johnson-studio.com Find us on Facebook Studiofront is a gallery + painting studio featuring urban landscapes paintings, drawings + works on metal by Dennis Johnson.

Rebecca Zemans Sculptural Designs in Jewelry Lillstreet Art Center 4401 N. Ravenswood, #304-C (60640) Tel 312-636-5557 Tu-Sa open by appt.

Dir. Rebecca Zemans raz@rebeccazemans.com www.rebeccazemans.com Find us on Facebook: Rebecca Zemans Jewlery Twitter @Jewelry_RZ Featuring sculptural jewelry using precious metals and stones.

Commissions welcome.

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Suburbs + Beyond Chicago Our vibrant art scene extends beyond the city + art destinations exist in all directions, including Indiana, Michigan + Wisconsin. Short trips offer chances to explore the western suburbs + the North Shore. Evanston, home to Northwestern, is just 5 miles from downtown. Traveling along Sheridan Rd. + Highway 41 you’ll encounter galleries all the way up to Wisconsin. Visit Oak Park on weekends to check out all the galleries on Harrison St., or take a tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright Home + Studio.

South of the city you’ll find arts non-profits as well as renowned sculpture parks.

The Art Center

Mary + Leigh Block Museum of Art (Evanston)

(Highland Park) 1957 Sheridan Rd. Highland Park (60035) Tel 847-432-1888 M-F 9-4:30 info@theartcenterhp.org www.theartcenterhp.org Classes + workshops in the visual arts, gallery exhibitions, + special events + performances.

January 11-26: • Art is Alive in Highland Park: Third annual contest + juried exhibit of local artistic talent, co-sponsored by the Highland Park Cultural Arts Commission.

• In View: Annual Member & Faculty Exhibition: Annual showcase of work by over 150 teachers + members of the Art Center community.

February 1-23: • February Youth Art Month: Students of North Shore School Districts 112 + 113 display work throughout TAC’s galleries.

March 1-April 1: • Beauty Imperfect: Ronit Wiener, Polina Reisman, + Joyce Marcus.

This exhibition explores the struggle of women in contemporary society in dealing with the pressure of conforming to the unattainable standards of beauty + youth.

• Moments: Call for entries open to photography. An exhibition of work capturing life’s fleeting moments - exquisite or intense.

Prospectus available online at theartcenterhp.org

Northwestern University 40 Arts Circle Dr. Evanston (60208) Tel 847-491-4000 Tu, Sa + Su 10-5; W, Th, F 10-8 block-museum@northwestern.edu blockmuseum.northwestern.edu facebook.com/nublockmuseum twitter.com/NUBlockMuseum The Mary + Leigh Block Museum of Art is the fine arts museum of Northwestern University, serving the academic + cultural needs of the Northwestern community + the Chicago area through thought-provoking exhibitions, a rich + diverse permanent collection, original scholarship, dynamic education + cultural programs, + highly regarded film series at the Block Cinema.

January 11-March 24: • Terry Adkins Recital • Shimon Attie: The Neighbor Next Door

Directional Key to Suburban Galleries: • North/Northwest • South/Southwest • West • Out of State (Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin) Polina Reisman, Lady in Red, acrylic on canvas, 2012, 24” x 24”

Brauer Museum of Art Valparaiso University (Valparaiso, IN) Valparaiso University 1709 Chapel Dr. Valparaiso, IN (46383) Tel 219-464-5365 Tu, Th, F 10-5; W 10-8:30; Sa + Su 12-5 CST Dir. Gregg Hertzlieb ghertzli@valpo.edu www.valpo.edu/artmuseum Special Hours + Academic Recess: March 5-17, 2013: 12pm-5pm The Museum aims to educate + inspire the campus + community with original works of American + international religious art + to bring distinction to Valparaiso University + Northwest Indiana through exhibitions of regional, national + international importance.

All Brauer Museum shows + events are free + open to the pubic, with donations welcome.

College of Lake County, Robert T. Wright Gallery (Grayslake)

Deer Path Art League (Lake Forest)

Thru March 17: • Su Kwak: Light Journey: An Odyssey in Paint • Michele Feder-Nadoff: ein sof [without end] • Two Legs, Four Legs, No Legs: Figures, Animals, and Ghosts from the Ruth A. Ruege Collection of Japanese Prints • The Influence of J.R.R. Tolkien and his Writings: Memorabilia from the Personal Collection of Dr. Brad Eden, Dean of Library Services, Valparaiso University

19351 W. Washington St. Grayslake (60030) Tel 847-543-2240 M-Th 9-9; F-Sa 9-4:30; Su 1-4:30; College break hrs vary Dir. Steven Jones sjones@clcillinois.edu gallery.clcillinois.edu

400 E. Illinois Rd. Lake Forest (60045) Tel 847-234-3743 M-F 10-4, Sa by appt.

Receptions take place the first night of new exhibitions, 5-8pm. info@deerpathartleague.org www.deerpathartleague.org

The Robert T. Wright Gallery is committed to displaying the works of Illinois artists + increasing the visibility of nationally known artists in Lake County.

Gallery hosts bimonthly thematic exhibits representing varied media by local as well as national artists, both established + emerging.

March 27-April 14: • Secondary School Showcase; Wehling + McGill Galleries

January 18-February 24: Members Exhibition: A diverse group show of fine art media by over 100 Lake County, IL artists.

Reception Fri, Jan 18, 7-9pm.

Gift Shop in the Gallery.

March 27-May 12: • Graduate Student and Faculty Art from Renmin University, Beijing; in the museum’s Gallery 1212.

• An Installation by Maral Hashemi; in the museum’s Education Room April 17-May 12: Valparaiso University Art Student Exhibition; Wehling + McGill Galleries.

March 1-April 7: FUSEDChicago: A Group Encaustic Exhibition: 14 contemporary Chicago area artists exhibit works exploring new methods + images employing the encaustic medium.

Reception Fri, March 1, 7-9pm April 12-May 18: College of Lake County Student Art Competition: Juried exhibit by current art students featuring: painting, drawing, computer graphics, photography, ceramics, jewelry, digital media + sculpture.

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Elmhurst Art Museum (EAM)

The nonprofit League also offers classes, workshops + outreach programming + hosts the Annual Art Fair on the Square, Labor Day Weekend in Historic Lake Forest Market Square.

150 Cottage Hill Ave. Elmhurst (60126) Tel 630-834-0202 Tu,W, Th, Sa 10-5; F 10-8 (free) www.elmhurstartmuseum.org January 19-April 20: Open House: Art about Home The exhibition focuses on artists’ representations of home.

Includes work by Alberto Aguilar, Gabrielle Garland, Martin Hyers + William Mebane, Alyssa Miserendino, Anne Toebbe, + Don Baum. Inspired by the museum’s McCormick House, a mid-century modern home designed by Mies van der Rohe, the exhibition considers experiences, contents, memories, + realities of home today.

Don Baum, For Ira and Janina, 1988

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Suburbs + Beyond The Elmhurst Artists’ Guild Gallery

Elaine Erickson Gallery (Milwaukee, WI)

Elmhurst Art Museum Building 150 Cottage Hill Ave. Elmhurst (60126) Tel 630-279-1009 Tu-Th, Sa 10-5; F 10-8 info@elmhurstartistsguild.org www.elmhurstartistsguild.org Featuring contemporary artworks by established + emerging local + invited artists in all media + styles.

Thru January 18: Winter Members Show Group show featuring artworks by 40+ local artists in various media and styles. Reception on Friday, January 4, 7-9pm

January 22-March 1: Paintings by Bruce Cascia Vibrant photorealistic paintings of iconic Chicago area hot dog stands and classic motorcycles.

Reception Fri, January 25, 7-9pm

207 E. Buffalo St. Milwaukee, WI (53202) Tel 414-221-0613 T-F 11-5; Sa 11-4; or by appt. info@eericksongallery.com ww.eericksongallery.com

March 5-April 26: National Art Premiere Juried annual competition drawing artists from around the United States + Canada.

Featured contemporary artworks include 2-D + 3-D artwork in a variety of media + styles.

Reception Fri., March 8, 7-9pm

Established in 1994 the gallery features contemporary art in all mediums + also regularly exhibits an exquisite collection of ethnographic art.

MEMBER MILWAUKEE ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION

Bruce Cascia, Sky Chief , 4’ x 5’, oil on canvas

Kamp Gallery

Krasl Art Center

(Winnetka)

(St. Joseph, MI)

996 Green Bay Rd. Winnetka (60093) Tel 847-441-7999 Tu-Sa 10-5:30; Su-M and evenings by appt.

Appts. recommended. kampgallery@gmail.com www.kampgallery.com To assure your optimal satisfaction, an appointment is recommended, even during regular business hours.

Fine American + European paintings from the 19th and 20th Centuries, particularly Regional Impressionists (1890-1930) and Contemporary American artists.

Located in the arts district of the Historic Third Ward near downtown Milwaukee.

707 Lake Blvd.

St. Joseph, MI (49085) Tel 269-983-0271 M-W, F, Sa 10-4; Th 10-9; Su 1-4.

Opening receptions 5:30-7:30pm.

Executive Dir. Julia Gourley www.krasl.org February 1-March 17: Nathan Margoni in the artlab: installations based on the human figure, comically grotesque + enthralling. artlab Artist Talk January 31.

March 22-June 2,: The Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints from the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art + artlab. Party March 22, 5:307:30pm. 50 ukiyo-e prints from Japan’s Edo Period; part of 3-year national tour + organized by The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, in Laurel, MS. Management + development by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services, an exhibition tour development company in Kansas City, MO. artlab Artist talk Mar 21, 7pm

Evanston Art Center 2603 Sheridan Rd. Evanston (60201) Tel 847-475-5300 M-Th 10-10; F-Sa 10-4; Su 1-4 Opening receptions held on first day of exhibition from 1-4pm Pdanoff@evanstonartcenter.org www.evanstonartcenter.org facebook.com/evanston.art twitter.com/evartcenter January 20-February 10: EAC Faculty Show: Over 70 works of art from EAC Faculty members.

February 24-April 7: Biennial and Vicinity Selection Exhibition. Juror Shannon Stratton selected 3 artists from our 2012 Exhibition for their own exhibition: Scott Carter, Stephen Cartwright, Emily Hermant

Stephen Cartwright, 2012, mixed media

Steve Lubahn, Windshield Version 7, graphite + mixed media on paper, 84” x 72”

Lakeside Legacy Arts Park Dole and Sage Galleries (Crystal Lake)

401 Country Club Rd. Crystal Lake (60014) Tel 815-455-8000 M-F 9-5 www.lakesidelegacy.org facebook.com/lakesidelegacy

January 1-24: No First Friday Dole + Sage: Double Vision, Frankie Johnson + Susan Ploughe. Art sales + view galleries M-F 9-5. susanploughe.com frankiejohnsonartstudio.com

Studio Rentals available for artists, musicians + writers.

February 1-22: First Friday 2/1 Dole + Sage: Midnight Fields by artists Connie Sonnenberg + Kendall Wallor; artbyconnie.com kendallwallor.moonfruit.com

CALL FOR ARTISTS! Accepting exhibition applications for Dole and Sage galleries + Installation space. Reviewing now for fall 2013 exhibits! Visit website to download an application.

First Fridays: Art, music, food + cash bar 5-7:30.

Free; donations appreciated.

Family-Friendly gallery openings.

March 1-29: First Friday 3/1 Dole + Sage: Art in Action, acrylic, watercolor, photo, illustration, + other mediums. Experience talents of resident artists of LLAP! Live art demos, studio tours, photo booth, crafts + live performances from resident musicians.

April 1-26: First Friday 4/5 • Dole: Joe + Kathleen Isacson: Inside the Box, mixed media.

Visit xculturearts.com • Shh... Announcing the Listening Room.

A new intimate performance venue at LLAP. Visit website for the 2013 Schedule.

Kendall Wallor, oils, Sage Gallery exhibition in February 2013

artlab artist Nathan Margoni

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InterContinental O’Hare, Art Museo (Rosemont) 5300 N. River Rd. Rosemont (60018) Tel 847-544-5300 Accessible 24 hrs, daily Patrick Cook: pcook@icohare.com icohare.com facebook.com/icohare twitter.com/icohotel An experience different from anything in the local hospitality industry. The ‘Art Museo’ showcases the hotel’s embrace of the arts – sculpture, canvas, architecture, photography, music – fueling its guests’ passion for culture.

Visitors are immersed in the artistic ambiance + encouraged to roam the hotel to admire original works, from local rising art stars to world-famous art masters, most available for sale. SAIC students will be featured in the new exhibit, Chicago: Rich Source of Young Artists.

Complimentary tours available.

Wesley Kimler painting at ICO Art Museo

Lubeznik Center for the Arts (Michigan City, IN) 101 W. 2nd St. Michigan City, IN (46360) Tel 219-874-4900 x204 M/W/F 10-5; Th 2-7; Sa-Su 11-4 CST artinfo@lubeznikcenter.org www.lubeznikcenter.org Thru February 24: • Iconoclastic! Iconography defines visual information, is often universally + easily recognized. Imagery is given new meaning—creating discourse through the artist’s vision.

• John Bower: The Common Good Contemporary black + white photographs invite you to turn back time as you rediscover Indiana’s past heritage + landscapes • Greg Gallagher: Ice Abstracts January 25-March 10: Lu & Ry Hook Exhibition: Glass, fiber + drawing February 9-10: Coastline Children’s Film Festival Featuring Girls Rock! + New York Film Festival Shorts selections.

March 2-May 12: • Line of Thought: contemporary drawings • Drawing to Conclusion: Work by 8 regional artists.

March 15-April 11: Michigan City Area Schools Teachers’ Exhibit, mixed media

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Suburbs + Beyond Northern Illinois University (NIU) Art Museum

Pagoda Red

(DeKalb)

(Winnetka)

Altgeld Hall, 1st Fl., West End Northern Illinois University DeKalb (60115) Tel 815-753-1936 Tu-F 10-5; Sa 12-4; Group tours by appt.

Dir. Jo Burke: jburke2@niu.edu www.niu.edu/artmuseum Balancing contemporary with traditional art to examine visual culture.

January 8-February 23: Reception January 24, 4:30-6pm Vice and Virtue: Focuses on dynamics of “deadly sins” + “heavenly virtues” seen through the eyes of artists across cultures + throughout history. Objects include items from popular culture to outsider art to a giant leather bound edition of Dante’s Inferno from our library’s rare book room.

Also included: works by Albrecht Dürer, William Hogarth, Otto Dix, Warrington Colescott, Phyllis Bramson + Tom Huck, among many others.

902 Green Bay Rd. Winnetka (60093) Tel 847-784-8881 Tu-Sa 10-5 www.pagodared.com

Perspective Group + Photography Ltd. (Evanston) See also our Northside listing for our Bucktown location on p. 42 Visit our website for information about exhibitions + special events.

Rare and unusual Chinese finds, plus a Chinese scholars’ garden not to be missed.

1310-1/2B Chicago Ave. Evanston (60201) Tel 224-200-1155 Th-Sa 12-6; Su 12-5 perspectivephotogallery@gmail.com www.perspectivegallery.org A not-for-profit, community-oriented cooperative.

Please visit our website for exhibition + event information.

March 19-May 24: April 4-May 24: Mapping (ART 656 Project.)

Reception April 4, 4:306pm. An exploration of the subjective nature of objective recording by several contemporary artists.

Museum Studies class ART 656 presents a concurrent exhibition: Mapping: Measuring Across Places and Period; Information, Navigation and Geography.

Warrington Colescott, The Last Judgement, 1979, color intaglio, 23-3/4 x 17-3/4”, NIU Art Museum 1980.7, gift of the artist.

Winnetka Storefront

Shot Images

Tall Grass Arts Association

ZIA | Gallery

(Niles)

Union Street Gallery

(Park Forest)

(Chicago Heights)

(Winnetka)

7430 N. Lehigh Ave. Niles (60714) Tel 847-507-9415 M-F 10-5; Sa by appt. simon@shot-images.com www.shot-images.com A unique new art space for contemporary photography.

Please see our website for exhibition information.

367 Artists Walk P.O. Box 776 Park Forest (60466) Tel 708-748-3377 Tu-Sa 11-4 Janet Muchnik tallgrass367@sbcglobal.net www.tallgrassarts.org

MISSION: To promote public education + appreciation of the arts; to encourage artists; + to support high quality art through exhibitions, sales, classes + special programs available to the public of all ages.

Tall Grass Arts Association is located in downtown Park Forest Cultural Center.

Visit our website for information on events, exhibitions, programs + artists.

Tall Grass Art School: Tel 708-283-1251

Thru January 13: An Artful Presence: Affordable holiday presents by Tall Grass Arts Association juried artists; curators Giselle Perreault + Michael Weis.

1527 Otto Blvd.

Chicago Heights (60411) Tel 708-754-2601 W, Th 12-5; F 12-6; Sa 11-4; Tu by appt.

Dir. Jessica Segal unionstreetart@gmail.com unionstreetgallery.org Find us on Facebook Twitter @unionstgallery Union Street Gallery is a not-for-profit art center + contemporary gallery housed in a beautiful 3-story historical building in Chicago Heights, IL. Please see online listing or visit our website for additional information + exhibitions.

548 Chestnut St. Winnetka (60093) Tel 847-446-3970 M-Sa 10-5 anne@ziagallery.net www.ziagallery.net Find us on Facebook!

Thru January 12: Melissa Jay Craig + Jonathan Ricci January 18-March 2: Michael Cutlip + Kathy Weaver March 9-April 13: Alex Devereux + Richard Laurent April 20-June 1: Mary Burke + Beverly Zawitkoski

January 25-March 24: Luis Renner Retrospective, curated by Richard Schmidt

Jazz Spurgeon

Luis Renner, Neighborhood

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Kathy Weaver, Fragile Vibrations

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Art Services + Resources Beyond the galleries, scores of professionals offer a variety of art-related services. Consult the following pages to find the many individuals + businesses that provide valuable resources for a range of art needs, such as:

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• How to manage an existing collection • How to sell art on the secondary market • How to evaluate + insure art • How to properly package, transport, frame or repair works in your collection • How to find a career in the art world • Where to tour the gallery districts + when to visit the latest art exposition

Appraisers Native American and Tribal Art Evaluation

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Auction Houses

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At New World, we suggest updates in insurance appraisals every five years. Ms. Huber has been active in following new discoveries in tribal art for over twenty years. In 1996 she became a candidate member of the American Society of Appraisers, Chicago chapter.

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers 1338 W. Lake (60607) Tel 312-280-1212 M-F 9-5 info@lesliehindman.com www.lesliehindman.com Leslie S. Hindman, President and CEO

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The firm offers complimentary auction estimates for single items or entire groups of property and is committed to excellent client services. For more information on selling or buying at auction and for information on upcoming auctions please call 312.280.1212.

UPCOMING AUCTIONS: • January 16-17: Marketplace • February 10-12: Fine Furniture + Decorative Arts • February 20-21: Marketplace • March 13-14: Marketplace • March 19: Vintage Couture + Accessories.

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Sotheby’s Chicago 188 E. Walton (60611) Tel 312-475-7900 www.sothebys.com • Helyn D. Goldenberg, Midwest Chairman • Gary Metzner, Senior Vice President Fine Arts • Cassie Spencer, Vice President Trust + Estates • Laura Jenkins, Assistant Vice President • Jennifer Dybsky, Administrator Fine Arts • Carrie Reyes, Administrative Assistant • Cathy Busch, Associate Sotheby’s, the world’s oldest international auction house, began as a book auction house in London in 1744 + today has 107 offices located in 41 countries, with principal salesrooms in New York + London.

Sotheby’s Chicago operates as an extension of New York with an experienced + dedicated staff of specialists ready to facilitate consigning + purchasing needs of Midwest clients. The Chicago office evaluates property in a wide range of fine + decorative arts, as well as jewelry, for sale at Sotheby’s international auction centers.

Sotheby’s Chicago maintains a vigorous presence in the Midwest market through unique exhibitions, seasonal lectures, special events + community projects.

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Auction Houses SUSANIN’S Auctions 900 S. Clinton (60607) Tel 312-832-9800 info@susanins.com www.susanins.com SUSANIN’S has become one of the largest auction companies in the United States, selling more than $100 million in fine art, antiques, decorative art, silver, Asian Art, rugs, collectibles, coins and fine jewelry.

Our 40,000 sq ft salesroom and galleries are located in downtown Chicago with free parking and convenient loading docks.

SUSANIN’S auctions are worldwide events, attracting global audiences who are willing to pay top prices. Live on-line bidding takes place during all auctions.

Telephone bids and absentee bids are also accepted and executed by SUSANIN’S. Catalogues are available on-line with full color illustrations and descriptions at www.susanins.com Public previews begin one week before an auction, M-F 10am-5pm

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Artist Residencies BOLT Residency at CAARP Chicago Artists’ Coalition Artist Residencies 217 N. Carpenter (60607) Tel 312-491-8888 chicagoartistscoalition.org BOLT Residency, an initiative of the Chicago Artists’ Coalition (CAC) is a highly competitive, juried, one-year artist studio residency program offering contemporary emerging artists the opportunity to engage the Chicago arts community + its public in critical dialogue about contemporary art.

www.caarpchicago.org Chicago Area Artists Residency Programs. Working together to support artists’ creativity.

CAARP consists of the following area artist residencies: • Anchor Graphics • BOLT Residency, Chicago Artists’ Coalition • Hyde Park Art Center • Lillstreet Art Center • The Ragdale Foundation The residency provides nine • Rebuild Foundation/Dorchester professional open-plan studios Projects + a 500 square foot gallery space • Spudnik Press dedicated to residents. BOLT func- • TRANSIT tions as an incubator program— taking a holistic approach to the development of residents’ artistic careers by providing: Studio Work Space, Exhibition Opportunities, Professional Development, + Creative Community BOLT is structured to provide artists with myriad resources + support to create, build upon + sustain a long-term career in the arts.

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Ragdale Foundation 1260 N. Green Bay Rd. Lake Forest (60045) Tel 847.234.1063 info@ragdale.org www.ragdale.org At Ragdale visual artists, writers, composers, + interdisciplinary artists find time + space to create important new work.

Throughout the year Ragdale offers readings, artist lectures, workshops, + events designed to connect artists + the community of Lake Forest, Chicago + beyond.

Lawyers for the Creative Arts 213 W. Institute Pl., Ste. 403 (60610-3125) Tel 312-649-4111 www.law-arts.org Lawyers for the Creative Arts is a not-for-profit, 501 (c)(3) tax exempt organization, which provides pro bono legal services to qualifying individuals and organizations in the arts, including the visual, literary and performing arts, and provides educational programs as well.

Since its inception in 1972, LCA has provided legal services The Ragdale House, designed as and educational programming to the summer home of Arts and tens of thousands of artists and Crafts architect Howard Van cultural organizations, including Doren Shaw, is one of the most many who are now among the most complete examples of a turn-of-the- prominent in the area. century retreat. Listed on the National Register of Historic LCA is the only pro bono provider Places it recently underwent a $3 of legal services in the Chicago million renovation in 2011. metropolitan area limited to, and expert in, the arts.

Through a competitive application process, Ragdale offers residencies to visual artists, writers, composers, + interdisciplinary artists. Those working in sound, performance, choreography, or combinations of disciplines may apply under the Interdisciplinary category.

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Conservation / Art Restoration DPR Art Rescue 2501 W. Armitage (60647) Tel 1-888-377-5669 info@dprartrescue.com www.dprartrescue.com DPR Art Rescue specializes in disaster planning and response services for artwork, sculpture, works on paper, objects, antiques, and fine furniture.

Our professional team provides immediate action to emergency situations including fire, flooding, or accidental damage, and ensures accurate inventory, safe evacuation, transportation, and storage while maintaining maximum security and climate control.

Broken Art Restoration, Inc. 1841 W. Chicago (60622) Tel 312-226-8200 or 815-472-3900 By appt. info@brokenartrestoration.com www.brokenartrestoration.com Chicago’s oldest established studio specializing in the professional restoration of porcelain, pottery, ceramics, wood, ivory, metal, + stone art objects. Museum-quality invisible repair; missing parts replaced.

The Conservation Center

Michelle + William Marhoefer, M.F.A., along with their personally trained staff, have restored well over 20,000 art objects since 1980 for art + antique dealers, collectors, 400 N. Wolcott (60622) Tel 312-944-5401 galleries, museums, + designers M-F 9-5 + by appt. nationwide.

Heather Becker, CEO info@theconservationcenter.com Free estimates. www.theconservationcenter.com Broken Art has been seen on ABC, CBS, WGN, HGTV; + seen in Chicago Home, Chicago Journal, Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune, Daily Journal, Lake + Victoria Magazine.

Broken Art Restoration was the featured restoration studio in Chicago magazine, October 2009.

DPR offers professional art conservation + disaster response planning. The company’s clients include insurance firms, museums, corporate + private collections, art dealers, + disaster response companies nationwide.

MEMBER CONSERVATION + DESIGN INTERNATIONAL (CDI) WWW.CONSERVATION-DESIGN.COM

As the largest private art conservation laboratory in the nation, The Center has provided care for some of the country’s most prestigious museums, galleries, corporations + private collectors since 1983.

With over twenty conservators on staff, The Center has nine areas of specialty and four service departments: paintings, murals, works of art on paper, photographs, rare books, textiles, sculpture, frames and gilded objects, antique + fine furniture, clocks, custom framing, transportation + installation, 35,000 square feet of climate controlled + specialized storage capabilities, + disaster response.

Examinations are offered at $20 per item. Please call to schedule an appointment.

Conservation / Art Restoration Scott K. Kellar Bookbinding + Conservation 2650 W. Montrose (60618) Tel 773-478-2825 skkellar@sbcglobal.net www.scottkkellar.com

Joel Oppenheimer, Inc. 410 N. Michigan (60611) Tel 312-642-5300 www.audubonart.com Restoration and conservation.

Full range of book + paper conservation; archival enclosures.

See complete Michigan Ave. Custom designed portfolio cases for listing on p. 39. photographs, prints, matted work, etc.

Die stamping available.

Poster Plus

Parma Conservation 1100 W. Cermak Ste. C-203 (60608) Tel 312-733-5178 info@parmaconservation.com www.parmaconservation.com

Photography + x-ray imaging available.

On-site services include conservation of murals + architectural artwork, consultation Parma is a full service conservation + assessments, disaster planning + laboratory that provides nationwide disaster response. services for both private + public art collections.

Director is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC).

Over 25 years experience.

Conservation services address cleaning + repair of damage caused by fire, water, mishandling, or the natural course of age of an artwork.

MEMBER CONSERVATION + DESIGN INTERNATIONAL (CDI) WWW.CONSERVATION-DESIGN.COM

When do you need a good conservator?

Ideally, never! We can all use touch-ups from time to time, but area conservators also do a lot of helpful work after major disasters, such as hurricanes, have struck Before After Louis Frederick Berneker (1876-1937); before and after cleaning of the painted surface

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30 E. Adams Ste. 1150 (60603) Tel 312-461-9277 www.posterplus.com Vintage poster restoration, conservation.

See complete Michigan Ave. listing on p. 39.

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Art Consultants + Private Dealers Art Advisory Ltd. Tel 773-671-8624 By appt. only Susan Blackman susan@artadvisoryltd.com www.artadvisoryltd.com

Chicago Art Source 1871 N. Clybourn (60614) Tel 773-248-3100 M-F 10-6; Sa 10-5; and by appt.

Felice Davis consulting@chicagoartsource.com www.chicagoartsource.com

Enrich Life, Collect Art. Contact Susan to schedule a consultation.

We are a comprehensive art consultation service established over a decade ago to better serve businesses, designers and homeowners in need of a sophisticated, full-service source for artwork.

We are the largest art and custom framing business in the country, yet we source personally from around the world.

Joy Horwich Tel 773-327-3366

Tel 312-664-8181 By appt.

Call for details.

Private art dealer and consultant.

After 25 years of directing a public gallery, Joy Horwich consults privately, curates exhibits, and conducts “Joyous Jaunts” within and outside of Chicago.

What does an art consultant do?

Consultants help you grow or manage a collection. They also assist businesses with corporate collections and exhibitions.

View details + job portfolios at chicagoartsource.com

Navy Pier, Festival Hall 600 E. Grand, Entrance 2 (60611) Dir. Tony Karman www.expochicago.com Leading International Contemporary, Modern + Design Galleries.

Visit website for full exhibitor list as well as dates, times + ticket information.

September 19-22, 2013

P.O. Box 267870 (60626) Tel 312-654-0144 byronroche@sbcglobal.net www.byronroche.com www.byronroche.com/MUSIC.html

Byron works as an art consultant, art advisor, curator + speaker. His public speaking experience includes presentations to private + corporate organizations about starting or building an art collection. He has served as juror of visual arts for various organizations + museums. He has advised arts professionals, organizations, art clubs, colleges + individuals about art collecting, navigating the gallery world, operating an art gallery + other art world issues.

Byron is also a singer + guitar player + performs in clubs, coffee houses, colleges, house concerts, art galleries + other venues. Please visit music website listed above for upcoming performances + booking information.

Framing

Fairs + Art Expositions Merchandise Mart Antiques Fair 2013

Byron Roche

With 16 years experience as the director and owner of Byron Roche Gallery (1994-2010) in Chicago, Byron is now available as a private art dealer. Please visit website for gallery history + artist information.

Member of Chicago Art Dealers Association from 1996-2010.

See also listing for Joyus Jaunts under Art Tours on p. 51

Whether you have a single room or an entire facility in need of artwork, each of our consulting professionals is uniquely equipped to execute your project seamlessly from concept to completion.

EXPO Chicago 2013

Isobel Neal

Randolph Street Market Festival 2013

1350 Block of W. Randolph The Merchandise Mart Sa: 10am-6pm; Su: 10am-5pm 8th Fl. (60654) www.merchandisemartantiques.com Visit website for additional dates + hours this season. www.randolphstreetmarket.com April 26-29, 2013 Thursday, April 25 opening night Art, fashion, vintage treasures, preview party, 8-10pm. food, live music, and more.

Friday: 11-7pm Now all year long!

Saturday: 11-7pm Sunday: 11-6pm February 2-3, March 23-24: Monday: 11-3pm Wonderful Winter Markets More than 120 of the world’s top April 27-28: dealers of antiques and fine art.

Modern Vintage Chicago (fashion only.) Spring jewelry + clothing explosion

SOFA Chicago 2013

Sculpture Objects + Functional Art

Artful Framer Studios + Art De Triumph 2938 N. Clark (60657) Tel 773-832-4038 M-F 11-7; Sa 10-6; Su 12-5 Nancie King Mertz Nancie@NancieKingMertz.com www.ArtDeTriumph.com www.NancieKingMertz.com This inviting Lakeview gallery is packed full of originals, Giclée prints + fine art cards of Chicago + the world by Nancie King Mertz.

Nancie’s husband Ron prints her sold work in sizes-to-order on canvas or paper. The storefront at 2938 N. Clark is their gallery/frame studio.

33 years of expert framing makes this shop a most popular one for all your framing needs.

Their south-connecting space at 2936 N. Clark, is the new studio of Gregory Jennings Design. The concept features newer paintings

by Nancie in a residential setting, as Greg offers stunning art + mirrors combined with furniture + accessories. His history as a premier designer makes this showroom a one-stop destination for design, cabinetry, art + framing.

Navy Pier, Festival Hall 600 E. Grand, Entrance 2 (60611) Tel 800-563-7632 info@sofaexpo.com www.sofaexpo.com Sculpture Objects and Functional Art. Celebrating 20 years in 2013.

November 1-3, 2013 Opening Preview Party, October 31

Commissions for corporate + private collections scheduled with the artist.

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Please also view our gallery listing in CGN’s North Side section, p. 40

Artists Frame Service 1867 N. Clybourn (60614) Tel 773-248-2800 M, Th 9-8; Tu, W, F 9-6; Sa 10-5; Su 11-5 sales@artistsframe.com www.artistsframe.com Also in Highland Park: 225 Skokie Valley Road Crossroads Shopping Center Highland Park (60035) Tel 847-831-0003 M, Th 9-8; Tu, W, F 9-6; Sa 10-5; Closed Sunday Selected Chicago’s Best Framer by Chicago magazine, we are proud to be called a Chicago institution and endorsed by artists, designers, curators, galleries and long time customers.

We passionately and personally source thousands of exclusive picture frames from around the world.

Because we have over a million feet of moulding in stock, we can return your artwork to you in one week, and we’ll deliver and install it!

Our team of over 50 talented framing professionals is dedicated to nothing but picture framing. Read all about them, and our broad range of serves, at artistsframe.com

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Framing The Great Frame Up

Creativo Framing 750 N. Franklin Ste. 208 (60654) Tel 312-255-1100 M-Th 10-6; F 9-3; Sa 10-2pm; Su by appt.

Rudy Avina rudy@creativoframing.com www.creativoframing.com Serving Chicago artists + collectors for over 18 years, Creativo Framing seeks to uphold the long standing tradition of custom framing by utilizing old world techniques + craftsmanship. Over the years, we have built a solid reputation for excellence + value. Owner operated for over 18 years, we offer service with a personal consultation + a smile.

Visit us in our new location (above Starbucks) at the corner of Chicago Ave. and Franklin St., footsteps away from our old space + the Chicago Brown Line El stop.

2905 N. Broadway (60657) Tel 773-549-3927 M-F 10-7; Sa 10-6; Su 12-5 mklitzky@lifeissimplyart.com www.lifeissimplyart.com

Creativo Framing offers custom, museum, corporate + personal picture framing. Matting, mounting, + canvas stretching also available.

Locally owned + operated since 1971, The Great Frame Up believes that when a customer is part of the art, it enhances not only their buying experience but also increases appreciation for each finished piece.

The Great Frame Up was the first art + picture framing store to offer Do-It-Yourself framing to customers, enabling us to offer same-day service. We continue to offer this "fast, fun + frugal" service at all 5 of our locations, as well as our quality-guaranteed custom work, all completed on our stores' premises.

Industry-certified professionals offer creative solutions for all your framing needs, evolving with industry technology + customer expectations. We manufacture our own hand-crafted moulding + offer a selection of imported Italian + metal frames.

We offer dry mounting up to 4' x 8', canvas stretching, pick-up + delivery of art, custom-designed shadowbox + multiple-object presentations, ready-made frames, framed + unframed artwork, + preservation-quality materials.

Evanston (Wilmette) (60201) 2814 Central St. Tel 847-869-9130 M-F 10-7; Sa 10-6; Su 12-5 Northbrook (Highland Park, Glencoe) (60062) 601 Skokie Blvd.

Tel 847-480-0400 M-F 10-7; Sa 10-6; Su 12-5

Arlington Heights (Prospect Heights) (60004) 1310 Rand Rd. 41 years of quality, service, Tel 847-398-8238 selection + expert design await you. M-F 10-7; Sa 10-6; Su 12-5

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Chicago (Gold Coast) (60610) 21 W. Elm St. Tel 312-482-8811 M-F 10-7:30, Sa 10-7, Su 11-5

Corporate framing services are available in addition to The Sign Shop for trade graphics + signage.

Framing 5061 N. Clark (Gallery Location) (60640) Tel 773-506-8300 M-Th 11-7, F-Sa 10-6, Su 11-5 foursided2939@gmail.com www.foursided.com Twitter.com/foursided Facebook.com/foursided

Other Locations:

Foursided has one of the largest moulding selections in Chicago, currently over 5,000 available.

Our professional consultants have art degrees and over 20 years of experience. Services include museum quality materials, acid-free mat boards, all glass types, and all mounting and hinging techniques that best protect artwork.

Frame Factory’s Framing Design Center 1809 W. Webster (60614) Tel 773-862-1010 Tu-F 10:30-7; Sa 9-5:30; Su 12-5 www.framefactory.com

Seaberg Picture Framing, Inc. 831 N. Lessing* (60642) Tel 312-666-3880

Questions for the CGN Office Have a question for CGN? Please email info@chicagogallerynews.com

*Note location: from Chicago Ave., Q: Are there art groups devoted we are two blocks west of Halsted to galleries or collecting that I The Frame Factory on Webster, (turn north under the viaduct onto may join? in West Lincoln Park, is your N. Lessing) A: Art appreciation + collecting source for custom framing. With are very personal, individual purover 40 years of experience, our suits, but there are groups in staff of artisans are there to help Chicago that can introduce you to you create a perfectly framed piece. galleries you may not know, hold Foursided shows artists monthly informative lectures + programs Also: in Foursided Custom Framing related to art, or directly work to Frame Factory on Pulaski galleries, featuring oil paintings, support a particular institution. drawings, assemblage, photography 3400 N. Pulaski (60641) Tel 773-427-1010 and textiles.

Many area museums have at least a M-F 9-5:30 couple of boards or committees that The Frame Factory on Pulaski houses our production facilities.

Both of our locations are just off of the Kennedy Expressway and offer parking, pick-up and delivery, and installation services.

Incentives are available for designers, architects, artists and galleries.

get together regularly to support the museum as well as to stay up to date on the contemporary art world. These groups may have a specific focus or mission and meet often, or they may be less formal associate boards. Your favorite institution’s website should tell you how to get involved.

The Chicago Artists Coalition’s Collector’s Circle offers programming + events for new + potential collectors. In addition to regular programming, members may tour private collections. For details visit: chicagoartistscoalition.org

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Gallery Guides + Tours Art Encounter 927 Noyes St. Evanston (60201) Tel 847-328-9222 Joanna Pinsky, Artistic Director artencounter@yahoo.com www.artencounter.org Let us guide you through the Chicago art scene with in-depth artist-led tours of exclusive private collections, artists’ studios and galleries.

Joy Horwich / Joyus Jaunts Tel 773-327-3366 joyusjaunts@gmail.com After 25 years of directing a public gallery, Joy Horwich consults privately, curates exhibits, and conducts “Joyus Jaunts” within and outside of Chicago.

Contact Joy for specific details and upcoming tours and events.

Free CGN Saturday Gallery Tours Tel 312-649-0064 info@chicagogallerynews.com www.chicagogallerynews.com Free weekend gallery tours organized by Chicago Gallery News.

A gallery representative leads a guided tour of 4 galleries. The gallery roster + tour leader change weekly + conversation centers on the exhibits + artists on view.

River North Tours: Every Saturday 11am-12:30pm Meet at 750 N. Franklin, inside Chicago Ave. corner Starbucks.

We feature personalized international travel programs that explore contemporary art and culture.

Create customized art programs for your business, organization, school or senior facility.

West Loop/Fulton Market Tours: Every Six Weeks on a Saturday 1:30-3pm. Important: Meet by 1:30 at the first gallery on tour. If you miss the group, catch-up at the 2nd gallery listed, etc. See online schedule for details.

Join us for exciting trips to Cuba in March 2013 and South Africa in Fall 2013.

Please contact us or visit our website for more information: www.artencounter.org/travel.html

Tours are free + run rain or shine every weekend of the year, except on major holiday weekends.

All programs help support our outreach for Chicago area schoolchildren, the elderly and individuals with disabilities.

No reservations are required. For private group or corporate tours, please call CGN at 312-649-0064.

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549 Spring Rd., Elmhurst (60126) Tel 630-461-4525 M-F 9-5; Sa by appt.

Adam Brown info@osiobrown.com www.osiobrown.com

1234 Sherman Ave., Ste. 105 Evanston (60202) Tel 847-864-4560 By appt.

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Reproduction of fine art, photography, graphic art + architectural drawings.

Osio-Brown Editions is Chicagoland’s top art reproduction studio, specializing in the Giclée process.

Photo Source offers Fine Art Giclée printing, prepress digital enhancement and related services.

• Photo Reproduction of Fine Art • Head Shots and Portraits • Authentic Giclée print processing • Digital scans from original art to file/CD • Wide format scanning up to 43” • Large format printing up to 44” • Prints can be produced on stretched canvas, presentation matte + premium photo

We are a group of artists who understand the time constraints, marketing challenges + costs other artists face in reproducing their work.

Our state-of-the-art imaging equipment ensures the highest quality from capture to print + enables us to provide you with Giclée prints that will far exceed your expectations, with customer service + pricing that cannot be beat.

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By combining 40 years of experience in producing exhibition quality prints with one-on-one artist/craftsman collaboration + the finest digital museum type setup for photographing art, we can guarantee a superb product.

We price our services to client needs and budgets + offer the lowest quantity order pricing in the area.

All files are stored off site with master files given to clients for archiving. We will prep your files for web, show + publication use upon request.

Come in and see our samples + some beautiful artwork.

Call for appointment.

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DeWitt Stern Group, Inc. With offices in New York, New Jersey, Chicago and Los Angeles, DeWitt Stern specializes in hardto-place risks. Each DeWitt Stern fine art team member has a clear understanding of what collectors, museums, dealers, auction houses, From its inception in 1899, DeWitt conservators and fine art packers Stern has held fast to its philosophy and shippers require in their insurance placement. of bringing exemplary service to individuals and businesses.

Access to specialized fine art insurance markets and our commitment DeWitt Stern has, for decades, developed innovative approaches to to the fine art community set us insuring risk. Whether it is a cost- apart from other brokers. sensitive program for international corporations, gallery owners or the Please contact us for all of your most discerning fine art collectors, fine art insurance needs. We can also advise on property and our brokers consistently design insurance solutions to fit the client. casualty business insurance and employee benefits coverage.

150 N. Wacker Ste. 2120 (60606) Tel 312-819-6821 Valerie A. Smith, Vice President VSmith@dewittstern.com www.dewittstern.com

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Insurance

Art Supplies

Willis Fine Art, Jewelry & Specie, Willis of Illinois, Inc. Willis Tower 233 S. Wacker, Ste. 2000 (60606) Tel 312-288-7297 Sandra R. Berlin, Senior Vice President Sandra.Berlin@willis.com www.willis.com Willis Fine Art, Jewelry & Specie division, Willis of Illinois, Inc. has a preeminent position in the insurance of fine art, jewelry + collectibles.

Willis’ fine art specialists possess expertise needed for unique + often complex insurance demands covering everything from Han Dynasty terra cotta figures to late 20th Century installation art; from Dutch Old Masters to paintings by Abstract Expressionists.

Willis provides coverage for some of the largest private art + museum collections in the world. Each policy is especially designed to cover actual needs of clients, thus avoiding unnecessary expenditure of premium.

Coverage + advice can be provided for auctioneers, fine art packers + shippers, dealers, galleries, private + corporate collec- “Our expertise + level of commitment in the world of fine art is tions, museums + exhibitions. unrivaled anywhere in the insurance market.”

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Coupon for Blick!

Turn to page 47 for a coupon to Blick Art Materials good at area stores for 30% off any single item through April 1.

Lincoln Park Custom Framing Design Center 1574 N. Kingsbury (Red line North/Clybourn stop) Tel 312-573-0110

Evanston 1755 Maple Ave. (Purple line Davis stop) Tel 847-425-9100 Schaumburg 1975 E. Golf Rd. (near Woodfield Mall & Hwy 53) Tel 847-619-1115 Wheaton 79 Danada Square E. (near Naperville & Butterfield Rds) Tel 630-653-0569

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P.O. Box 477029 (60647) Office: 773-278-1111 Studio: 773-533-1111 www.callahanartandassociates.com

2747 W. Taylor (60612) Tel 773-533-1800 info@icongroup.us www.icongroup.us

40 years of pragmatic packing and worldwide shipping. We developed the world’s first state of the art packaging software, resulting in uncompromising methods of packing to ensure safe arrival of your precious artwork, artifacts and antiquities.

Celebrating our 25th year, Callahan Art & Associates is the only fine art services resource in Chicago which provides all the services and products you need.

We serve museums, galleries + collectors.

Since 1980 The Icon Group has provided quality fine art services to museums, collectors, galleries, artists and auction houses.

Pro-Pak is the exclusive retailer of the Art Carton Series™, a specialized container kit for shipping 2-D artwork. The strength, steel stitching, professional packing material enclosed are superior to any other system on the market!

Exclusive services: • White glove pick up/delivery • Exhibition logistics support • Collection relocation • Estate distribution • Climate controlled storage • Packaging distributor • Spray foam • Armed security • GPS tracking

• Delivery • Installation • Rigging • Packing • Crating • Shipping • Storage • Restoration • Pedestals • Mounts • Catastrophe Rescue • Collection Maintenance • Appraisals • Collection Catalogue Service

ICON provides air-ride climatecontrol transportation serving the Chicago, Midwest + Northeast regions; we offer a semi-monthly shuttle service to New York + points-in-between, as well as exclusive use transport to any destination.

Secure climate + temperature controlled storage available as well as collection management, private viewing + photography services.

Other services include custom crating, packing as well as installation, rigging + freight forwarding.

Please call us for a free estimate.

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Reli-On, Inc.

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Reli-On is a family-owned business with 30 years experience providing local repeat-delivery service to the Chicagoland area.

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In addition, Reli-On has become the courier of choice for providing the safe, on-time transport + long-distance delivery of fine art, antiques, collectibles, and artifacts to over 35 art + antique shows held annually nationwide.

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Our crating methods have been informed by the research of the Canadian Conservation Institute, + in turn our standards have served as a guide for many institutions.

For an estimate, please contact Reli-On via email, fax or telephone. Our clients, including many of the most prestigious museums, private collectors + corporations in the world, For our travel schedule, click on regularly contract us for the collecthe Where We Will Be link on our tion, crating, storage + transport of website. individual loans or entire exhibits.

Our full service facilities in both Chicago + Denver offer fully climate controlled storage with state of the art security, a fleet of air-ride, climate controlled vehicles + a project management staff that make informed packing + installation decisions based on years of experience.