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Visual Art

Christine Baczek at Nox

Photographs document obscure processes

By Ehren Clark
POSTED // Jan 30,2012 - For artist Christine Baczek, when it comes to her exhibition of photographs at Nox Contemporary, it’s personal.

Visual Art

Anna West: My Dead Friends

The lost art of household crafts

By Brian Staker
POSTED // Jan 26,2012 - In the digital age, there’s been a backlash in the arts by artists striving to hold on to older forms, genres and media, whether it’s film photography, live theater or the spoken word.

Visual Art

New Art Year

Upcoming gallery shows in 2012

By Brian Staker
POSTED // Jan 2,2012 - The start of a new year brings with it new possibilities for life as well as art, and among those are the visions of artists on display at local galleries.

Visual Art

Dave Thomas at House Gallery

Abstraction through color and gesture

By Ehren Clark
POSTED // Dec 19,2011 - Art can imitate life, and life can imitate art—and in the aggressive and vibrant abstract paintings by Dave Thomas ...

Visual Art

Tony Fitzpatrick @ Kayo

Etched symbols & icons of childhood

By Brian Staker
POSTED // Dec 12,2011 - Personal and public history often maintain a curious, even distant relationship in an artist’s work. But in the work of some truly visionary artists, the two fuse and illuminate each other, and possibly create a third entity that is something different entirely. The work of Chicago mixed-media artist Tony Fitzpatrick uses the iconography of early comics and other symbols from his childhood to create a panoramic picture of Chicago—and America as a whole.

Visual Art

Art Access' Sheryl Gillilan

Talking with new Art Access director

By Ehren Clark
POSTED // Nov 29,2011 - Too often, dreams and aspirations must be set aside for practicality and security, or practicality and security are sacrificed for the pursuit of dreams and aspirations.

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Kim Schoenstadt

Combining inspiration with location

By Brian Staker
POSTED // Nov 14,2011 - Site-specific artworks have developed in different ways since the term originated in the 1970s, but rarely has it taken a new view on location itself as in the works of Kim Schoenstadt.

Visual Art

Tyler Spurgeon: Deficient

Humans and meat objectified

By Brian Staker
POSTED // Oct 25,2011 - Our society has made seemingly everything into an object, but nothing more so than the human being itself.

Visual Art

Ruth Lubbers' Farewell

Art Access executive director retires

By Brian Staker
POSTED // Sep 12,2011 - It’s the end of an era for local nonprofit arts organization Arts Access. Executive director Ruth Lubbers is retiring this month ...

Visual Art

Kimball Art Center: Relevant

Students find the spotlight

By Austen Diamond
POSTED // Aug 30,2011 - Smiling and full of charm, Ricardo de Sousa Costa hardly shows the weariness of barely sleeping the nights preceding the Park City Kimball Arts Festival Gala.
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