Philadelphia Gallery Recap

Here are some spaces of interest in Philly:

SINErgy Project Space + Gallery (sinergyspace.com): This is where my piece is for the show Lets Play Nice. It is a great open warehouse space that is huge! Reminded me so much of our Chestnut shows. It used to be a lamp factory and then was an underground marijuana growing factory and now is this art space. They owners also use it for musical endevours kind of like our after parties. From what I can tell they are interested in interactive, installation type exhibits. But may be a good space to pitch a show. There website is new so hopefully more info will come soon but I took some pictures of the space I can show on Sunday.

Painted Bride Art Space (http://www.paintedbride.org): Also very large space. Downstairs they had an exhibit of alternative process photography of the body which was okay. In a nook under the stairs they had a crazy video installation complete with a small shrine and a hammock within the video part so people could lay amongst the video. Upstairs they had a exhibit of drawings and paintings by a local graffiti artist named Le Josh. You were supposed to wear 3d glasses or these weird kaleidoscope glasses to view the work.  This space also has cultural music performances and modern dance and is really close to center city.

Space 1026 (space1026.com): Located in Chinatown. We were late for this opening and missed it but my friend was explaining it as a co-op space. The interesting thing is they've been having different groups and guest artists come in and curator the shows. I definitely think we should send them a proposal.

Vox Populi (http://www.voxpopuligallery.org): This was my favorite! This gallery is in this large older building (on the outside of Chinatown, I think?) that has many different spaces. They were showing 4 exhibits in their space, drawings, sculptural installation, digital photography and video. On their website they have a submission process and if you are selected they will award you $500 to get there. So if we pitched a show as a collective that could at least cover getting our work there maybe? It was a very clean space and also seemed to get a lot of press from the local media.

Finally, went to NY but didn't really see that much work. Kind of arted out by then. Did get over to the New Museum for a somewhat disappointing exhibit by Lynda Benglas. Just not exactly what I expected.

Figured out how to post under separate names, someone has to go to the settings and invite authors, I invited myself as I was not sure of everyone current email. But each of us could use amanda's login, and invite their self

Chicago Gallery Info

Here are a few galleries that I visited when I was in Chicago recently.  the first group is in the more commercial area, but seemed like our various work had a potential fit.

PRINTWORKS GALLERY  311 W. SUPERIOR ST., SUITE 105 CHICAGO, IL 60654 312-664-9407 FAX 312-664-8823 http://www.printworkschicago.com

This is a nice little gallery, specializing in works on paper. Very small intimate space, nicely organized.

Gruen Galleries
226 W. Superior (60654) 
Tel 312-337-6262 
M-F 11-5; Sa 10-6; Su and evenings by appt. 
Dir. Lisa Boron 
Event Dir. Samantha Kaplan 
eMail: gruenevents@gmail.com 
www.gruengalleries.com 

Very large open space, high ceilings with  really interesting variety of primitive to contemporary. Seemed like this one was open to renting the space

Stephne Daiter Gallery
230 W. Superior
4th Fl. (60654) 
Tel 312-787-3350 
W-Sa 11-5 and by appt. 
Paul Berlanga, Michael Welch 
eMail: info@stephendaitergallery.com 
www.stephendaitergallery.com 

Beautiful space, specialized in b&w photography. exhibition history varied from popular main stream to contemporary

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

Beautiful space, specialized in high craft, ceramics, fiber, paper

Echt Gallery
222 W. Superior (60654) 
Tel 312-440-0288 
Tu-Sa 11-5 or by appt. 
eMail: info@echtgallery.com 
www.echtgallery.com 


Some of the most amazing high craft/art glass works. Very beautiful from all over the world. This is one to see, just to see the work, not that any of our work would fit here

These next three were on the west side and were more along the lines of the Secret Show Series, The Fugitive, Zeitgeist and could be the most promising for some sort of group exhibit

Ebersmoore gallery
213 N. Morgan
#3C (60607) 
Tel 312-772-3021 
W-Sa 12-6, or by appt. 
Sara Ebers, Dominic Paul Moore 
www.ebersmoore.com 

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

Carrie Secrist Gallery
835 W. Washington (60607) 
Tel 312-491-0917 
Tu-F 10:30-6; Sa 11-5 
Natalie Schuh, Gallery Manager 
eMail: info@secristgallery.com 
www.secristgallery.com 

More is More

Another show at the Lexington Art League with no entry fee... Jason aren't you in a show there now? Actually they have an open call for proposals too! Maybe we should try to send our images for a group show.

More is More examines a common tendency towards multiples and repetition in contemporary art. Our love and worship of multiples takes on many forms, including both repeating objects and images. Are we responding to an influence from industry, technology, materialism and consumerism? Or is this exponential growth from a more abstract desire or compulsion? Regardless where the pattern originated, these serial acts have profound implications about the society that created them. This national juried exhibition offers artists’ exploring the concept of multiples, repetition or abundance, in any media, a chance to exhibit the results. LAL invites artists to openly and creatively interpret this theme.

http://www.lexingtonartleague.org/calltoartist.htm 

Pattern Play

Here's the link for the Pattern Play exhibit at the Living Art & Science Center in Lexington, KY. I've looked and I think there is no entry fee. Entry deadline is February 25th!

www.lasclex.org/artworks/Pattern%20Play%20at%20the%20LASC.pdf

First Post

I made it happen.... and established a blog for our group. Feel free to post show opportunities, interesting articles, questions, sketches, etc.

Also, if anyone wants to change the layout/background I just chose the first one basically. Not exactly sure how to control all this jazz.