AND the show "JUSTIN SWINBURNE presents..." just opened on Tuesday Nov. 27th.
There are performances by collaborators tomorrow, next Wed. Dec 5th and then
Thurs. Dec 13th all at 4pm in Gallery X, the SAIC Columbus Bldg. Room 113. I'll
put up images from that show after all the performances have occurred, but here
is the downloadable press release we wrote and designed.

Download file

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So the show "Techne" that I wrote about in "installation rigors" is up and looks great. The artists have been working on their pieces for months and after painting and prepping the gallery with an all nighter or two in the between they not only got it up, but they made it practically perfect. We had an opening a little while before the T-day break. We served mediterranean food and lime seltzer. Nice touch. So I posted a few a pics of the show poster, the collaborative piece and the two artists with their masterpiece.

The installation is quality (excellent in fact, no one would have a clue this was a student run space), the dialogue and relationships between all the artworks is both absolute and rhetorical and the work is uniquely relevant to everyone. I'll post some of the individual works as soon as I have those images. OR you can check out the artists' and their very nice websites yourself:

Robert Andrade
robandrade.com

Daniel G. Baird
danielgbaird.com

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Over the last few weeks there has been quite a few exhibitions. Select Media Festival happened once again this year. Lumpen a local chicago art/culture magazine hosts in their space (the co-prosperity sphere) a series of bands as well as art work. The bands were great and they had an awesome homemade space ship, complete with control panel. (pictures to be posted soon).

The same space hosted a 101 painting show that happened around a month ago where they had an open call for painters in chicago to submit a piece of work, in the end they had 100 different painters showing at the space.

If you're interested in either of these projects you should check out www.lumpen.com

The fall BFA undergrad thesis show also went up two weeks ago. The show looked great, and there was some great work there, as well as the best tuna salad hor d'oeuvre sandwiches ever.

This upcoming week there will be a closing show at a local space called the Plaines Project . The show is by an SAIC Senior, Alex Ferrando, and is titled Looking for Love. It turned out great!

Its spaces like the plaines projects and Lumpen that allow showing experiences to students still in undergrad, something unique to Chicago. There is a school panel of the alternative art space being hosted at SAIC tomorrow by Michelle Grabner, I'm going to try to get there and report back.

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So right now we have 2 shows in production. One a 2 person exhibition called "Techne" and the other is called "Justin Swinburne presents..." and it concerns some curatorial practices and social maintenance including a performance series.

Techne is sculpture work by Rob Andrade and Daniel Baird. Rob is a senior who'll be graduating this semester, check out his installation room in the upcoming fall BFA show. Daniel graduated last spring with his BFA from SAIC, and Daniel says "Watch out!". Each artist is contributing two individual pieces and then they have constructed this massive collaborative piece that is a huge parthenon (columns and all) made out of mostly wood, i think, that sits upside down on a 3' x 6' pedestal. All in all the work is pretty streamlined and technically well done too. Should be a pretty great show when we finish working through the installation stage. After priming and painting the walls, which is a relatively fast process, this show is proving to be a pretty in-depth install because alot of the work is pretty huge and has to be assembled in the gallery. Also, there is one installation that our floating wall had to be moved to accommodate. Fortunately, Rob and Daniel are very apt and things are going smoothly. The show opens on Thurs. Nov. 15th in the LG Space of the 2nd floor in Sharp. Hope to see you there.

As far as "Justin Swinburne presents..." goes, we have just began organizing and producing the show. We're still in the early stages, but that's actually alot of work because we are making all the big decisions and doing the designing of publicity and text materials which really is how you figure out what the show will be about. Things like show postcards and posters and paint colors are really important because they force us to figure out what we want you guys to think. That show opens after Thankgiving on Tues. Nov. 27th at 4 in Gallery X of the first floor Columbus bldg. and then other performance dates I'll give you soon.

So thats the jist of the galleries this week. Later gators.

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Hello,
My name is Elizabeth and I am a Junior at SAIC. Currently in school I spend most of my time in the painting department. I have a strong interest in modernist literature and love taking english classes. I also have a job in the newly established Exhibition Curricula office, led by Michael Ryan. Me and two other students are currently organizing an office that is not attached to a department and addresses the exhibition needs of the student body.
Other than that I enjoy cooking, cheese, and fountain pens. I generally dislike bananas.

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So, the facts. My name is Jamilee. Yes, thats one whole word, pronounced like the actress yet spelled like ... my name. I'm a 5th year senior. I'm in the Bachelor of Fine Art Art History degree program, which is fantastic and possibly fatal for me. Aaah, that thesis, its a killer! Other than that, I am the Administrative Director of the Student Union Galleries (or SUGs). SUGs has two spaces on campus and they are both entirely student run.....by myself, 2 installation directors and 1 design director. And of course we treasure the guidance and experience of working with the one and only Michael x Ryan, our faculty advisor and exhibition expert extraordinaire. So, we produce 6 exhibitions per semester, that we and the SUGs volunteers committee select and produce. Its pretty awesome. More than awesome.

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