THE MISSION

1. Wild Life Sanctuary at The Mission

Work by Jenny Kindler.
The Mission is located at 1431 W. Chicago Ave. Reception Friday, 6-9pm.
2. Fathom and Fray at Schneider Gallery
Work by Caleb Charland.
Schneider Gallery is located at 230 Superior St. Reception Friday, 5-7:30pm.
3. Multiplices at Threewalls

Work by Marissa Lee Benedict.
Threewalls is located at 119 N. Peoria St. #2C. Reception Friday, 6-9pm.
4. Domestica… [more]

OAK PARK, Illinois — You’re driving to a suburb that you don’t know well, and you whip out your iPhone to quickly punch an address into Google Maps. In this case, that address is 704 Highland Avenue, home of Sabina Ott and John Paulett, who run Terrain Exhibitions, a once-a-month-ish, home-turned-cozy gallery experience. Every artist who shows work here must wrap it around the concept of the artist-writer couple’s home.[more]

Half a decade in, the Dallas Art Fair is evolving into something fresh, fun and unique to the art fair world. Balancing the best of local talent (Artspace 111, Barry Whistler, Conduit Gallery, Cris Worley, Kirk Hopper, Talley Dunn, Galleri Urbane and Valley House) with more than 80 up-and-coming and established galleries from New York, Chicago, Paris, London, San Francisco, Korea and Japan, there’s an “art for everyone” approach that… [more]

1. Slit Me a River at Julius Caeser
Work by Christine Negu.
Julius Caeser is located at 3311 W. Carroll Ave. Reception Sunday, 1-4pm.

2. What You Get and What You See at THE MISSION
Work by Adam Gondek.
THE MISSION is located at 1431 W. Chicago Ave. Reception Friday, 6-9pm.

3. Thinking of You, Doppelganger at The Octagon Gallery
Work by Morgan Sims and Jeffrey Prokash.
The… [more]

Designed to complement EXPO CHICAGO, EXPO ART WEEK is a citywide showcase of Chicago’s art and cultural community.

Coordinated in collaboration with Chicago’s museums, cultural institutions, theatres, galleries, restaurants and retail establishments, EXPO ART WEEK will highlight numerous special events, exhibitions, performances and openings during the week of September 16 – 22, 2013. This focus will continue to establish Chicago as a preeminent international cultural destination.

EXPO ART… [more]

Joseph Beuys once declared that Holland’s unique light had lost its radiance around the 1950s, thus ending a signature period of visual culture immortalized in the artworks of Vermeer and Rembrandt. It’s debatable whether Beuys’ comment was a sociopolitical allegory (Holland drastically modified its landscape at the time) or he seriously contended that a change in the chemical content of the Dutch atmosphere had adversely affected the quality of Dutch… [more]

Returning to the Cave is open until Saturday, February 23, 2012

by Robin Dluzen

Last Thursday, the DePaul Art Museum unveiled its environmentally-conscious exhibition, “Climate of Uncertainty”, a glorious coincidence for the unseasonably warm opening gallery weekend in Chicago. At 56 degrees in the middle of January, global warming was responsible for two major components of Friday’s bustling openings: endless chattering about the temperature outside, and crowds that rivaled the masses of the September season openers.

“I had planned… [more]

1. Studio Audience (WEATHER PATTERNS) at Johalla Projects
Work by Andrew Mausert-Mooney.
Johalla Projects is located at 1821 W. Hubbard St. Reception Friday, 8-10pm.

2. Returning to the Cave at The Mission
Work by Jeroen Nelemans.
The Mission is located at 1431 W. Chicago Ave. Reception Friday, 6-9pm.

3. The Unreliable Narrator at threewalls
Work by Matthew Paul Jinks.
threewalls is located at 119 N. Peoria St. Reception… [more]

Among the numerous excellent shows opening this weekend I saw several that were truly outstanding. At The Mission, Jeroen Nelemans, a somewhat recent transplant from Holland to Chicago, is presenting, fresh, intelligent, proud work. Working with historically Dutch content, like maps, tulip fields and Vermeer, he's reinterpreting his heritage, digitizing it, throwing in a little ambiguity, layering its meaning and delivering it. The colored neon tubes show us Dutch tulip… [more]

The Mission is pleased to present Returning to the Cave, an exhibition of recent works by Jeroen Nelemans. In his first solo exhibition at The Mission, Nelemans’ multidisciplinary work investigates the construct of an image, specifically how the digital image can be manipulated to contemporary notions of sight and seeing. Four new series involving light boxes, light fixtures and photography investigate the “lifespan” of an image, the origin of an… [more]

Continuing our series looking back at the highlights of 2012 and thinking ahead to some reasons to be cheerful in 2013, as chosen by frieze editors and contributors.

Jason Foumberg is a contributing culture critic at Chicago magazine, art editor and columnist at Newcity, and contributes art criticism to Photograph and Sculpture magazines.

Chicago picks of 2012 and ones to watch in 2013


Alberto Aguilar, Photo… [more]

Composite Structures brings together artists who combine architectonics drawn from a range of art and architectural sources to create singular works of art. The exhibition comprises two subtitled parts: Mending Fences, curated by Charlotte Street Curator-In-Residence Jamilee Polson Lacy, which showcases Midwestern artists who apply multiple layers and manipulations—some conceptual, some formal—to the ideas of Modernist architects which feature prominently within the Midwestern urban landscape; and Low Accumulations, curated by… [more]

Nothing Stops whats now in Motion de Jeroen Nelemans (Pays-Bas/USA, 2009) 1’38
The title is taken from a line of narration in the documentary film Microcosmos: le peuple de l'herbe (1996). This is one of the first films known for its poetic and dramatic use of close-ups of insects, with amplified sound effects. The subtle narrative of the film is de-stabilized, by separating each close-up as an individual clip and… [more]

It's astonishing to discover that the hard-edged, mathematical forms and grids of Michelle Prazak's paintings are hand-painted; looking carefully, a knowing viewer can see that there are indeed none of the telltale glops and ridges of a taped line, and the tracks of the brush's bristles barely visible. In her first US solo exhibition, "Movements in Time and Space," the Peruvian artist uses her steady hand and the fixed medium… [more]

I wanted to write more about this. I had intended to apply so many words to this experience in the hopes that they would provide more context. I had hoped that a dense, academic text with quotes and footnotes could amplify the richness of this experience. I had hoped that it would translate it, somehow. Round it out so that it could be better understood, or something. But I have… [more]

Tempestt Hazel-Sixty Inches From Center


It is not everyday that we are confronted by work that stops us in our tracks, works at our psyche and leaves us wanting more. When I first laid eyes on the work of Argentinian-born artist Marcelo Grosman, I couldn’t help but wonder who the artist was and who were the people in these spellbinding and unsettling images. Guilty!, the most recent show… [more]

CHICAGO, IL.- In its second year of planning, Gallery Weekend Chicago announced the appointment of Mayor Rahm Emanuel as Honorary Chair of Gallery Weekend Chicago, taking place September 21-23, 2012. Gallery Weekend Chicago also welcomes the city’s cultural commissioner Michelle Boone as a member of the initiative’s Host Committee, which is comprised of over 20 top collectors and supporters of contemporary art in Chicago. Gallery Weekend Chicago, which strives to… [more]

By Diana Buendía

There is a muted quality to the storefront of The Mission Projects on Chicago Avenue. Amidst the identifiable exteriors of a funeral home, a Puerto Rican cafe and a popular night spot, the prominence of the gray facade makes the gallery appear inert, contrary to the range of artists that are shown inside.

Established in 2011, The Mission Projects delves into the convoluted conversation of… [more]