ARTISTS RUN CHICAGO
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL : May 10 - July 5, 2009

http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2009/05/artists_run_chicago.php

"The participating artist-run venues have transformed storefronts, sheds, apartments, lofts, industrial spaces, garages and roving spaces into contemporary art galleries testing the notion of exhibition while complicating the definition of art".

Featuring: 1/Quarterly, 65 GRAND, Alogon, Antena, artLedge, Butchershop, Co-Prosperity, devening projects + editions, Deluxe Projects, Fraction Workspace, Fucking Good Art (FGA), Green Lantern, He Said-She Said, Hungry Man, Joymore, Julius Caesar, Law Office, LiveBox, Margin Gallery, Medicine Cabinet/Second Bedroom Project Space, Mini Dutch, Modest Contemporary Art Projects, NFA Space, Normal Projects, Old Gold, Polvo, Roots & Culture, Scott Projects, Standard, Suitable, Swimming Pool Projects, Teti, The Suburban, VONZWECK

Artists Run Chicago is an exhibition showcasing the energy and audacity of some of the most noteworthy artist-run spaces that have influenced the Chicago contemporary art scene over the past decade. Chicago has long been known for cultivating a strong entrepreneurial/Do-It-Yourself spirit in business and the arts. The participating artist-run venues have transformed storefronts, sheds, apartments, lofts, industrial spaces, garages and roving spaces into contemporary art galleries testing the notion of exhibition while complicating the definition of art. Coinciding with the Hyde Park Art Center’s 70th anniversary, Artists Run Chicago reconnects the Art Center to its beginnings as an artist-run space by bringing much deserved attention to those outstanding spaces that continue to reinvent the mold unique to Chicago.

Artists Run Chicago will include installations, performances, video, art objects and ephemera provided by artist-run galleries both currently in operation and those dearly departed. Venues include 1/Quarterly, 65 GRAND, Alogon, Antena, artLedge, Butchershop, Co-Prosperity, Dan Devening, Deluxe Projects, Fraction Workspace, Fucking Good Art (FGA), Green Lantern, He Said-She Said, Hungry Man, Joymore, Julius Caesar, Law Office, LiveBox, Margin, Medicine Cabinet/Second Bedroom Project Space, Mini Dutch, Modest Contemporary Art Projects, NFA Space, Normal Projects, Old Gold, Polvo, Roots & Culture, Scott Projects, Standard, Suitable, Swimming Pool Projects, Teti, The Suburban, VONZWECK and many more. This exhibition is curated by Britton Bertran and Allison Peters Quinn with assistance from Jacob C. Hammes and Francesca Wilmott.

A program of events related to the exhibition will coincide with the Hyde Park Art Center’s 70 days for 70 years programming series commemorating the Center’s anniversary. Programs will range from tours to artist-run spaces, panel discussions and public performances to reenactments of memorable happenings from the participating galleries. In addition to the exhibition and events, the Center plans to build and house a permanent and public archive documenting Chicago’s past and present artist run spaces through the gathering of materials for Artists Run Chicago. A publication documenting the exhibition will be produced by Threewalls/Green Lantern Press.

Advertising and publicity for Artists Run Chicago is sponsored by Proximity Magazine.

60 SECONDS OF PLAY
Curated by Avantika Bawa and Drain Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture: Multiple Venues

March 19 - April 25, 2009: Spruill Center, Atlanta, GA
April 28, 2007: 2 Car Garage/ Aqua Space, Savannah. GA
January 2007: Tilt Gallery, Portland, OR
April - May, 2006: Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA
May 2006: Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook, MI
July - August, 2006: Indie Showcase of Cox Communications, Atlanta, GA
December 2006: Sarai Media Lab, New Delhi, India

LINGO @ ONI Gallery, Boston MA, April 27- May 25, 2002
Curated by Jennifer Schmidt and Matthew Nash

ONI Gallery is proud to present LINGO. Curated by Jennifer Schmidt and Mathew Nash, Visiting Faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, LINGO is an exhibition featuring artists who are investigating the contextual significance of language through the use of printed media, photography, sculpture, and video. Artists exhibited in LINGO take signs, sounds, gestures, and marks appropriated from conversations, advertisements, literature, music, or personal history and inscribe them with new meaning by manipulating the conditions/rules that determine how language becomes intelligible. Through the suggestion of the incomprehensibility of language, each artist creates his own lingo, unique to her special interest in particular images and words, and the ideas they imply.

Artists:
Matthew Christensen (Boston, MA)
Jason Dean (Brooklyn, NY)
Erik Geschke (Minneapolis, MN)
Emily Gibson (Boston, MA)
Lisa Hecht (Montreal, Canada)
Jay Heikes (Minneapolis, MN)
Michael Hutcherson (Boston, MA)
Terry Nauheim (Baltimore, MD)
Matthew Nash (Boston, MA)
Stefano Pasquini (Bologna, Italy)
Jennifer Ramsey (Chicago, IL)
Meg Rotzel (Boston, MA)
Jennifer Schmidt (Boston, MA)
Scott Speh (Brooklyn, NY)
Susannah Kite Strang (Chicago, IL)
Jeff Teuton (Boston, MA)
Pedro Velez (Chicago, IL)