In conjunction with the 25th Anniversary of Ukraine&rsquo;s independence, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) celebrates with a new exhibition.&nbsp;Reality Check: Directions in Contemporary Art Since Ukrainian Independence&nbsp;is on view August 26-November 27, 2016.

The exhibition presents the work of eight contemporary artists affected by the country&rsquo;s 1991 independence. Reality Check examines the strictures imposed during the Soviet Union with installations, sculptures, and paintings by artists working in the United States, Canada, and Ukraine.&nbsp;For Ukrainian professional artists, the collapse of the Soviet Union created an opportunity to learn and engage with current artistic developments occurring in the west, as well as delve into those of the past from which they had been excluded.

<img alt="" data-caption="Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak Bear T(hugs), 2015 Felted bear, 5 painted wooden nesting dolls 10 x 14 x 6 in." data-rich-file-id="1412" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/1412/original/bears-web.jpg" />

The exhibition is curated by Adrienne Kochm, one of North America&rsquo;s foremost scholars of contemporary art of Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora,&nbsp;and includes artists: Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak, Anna Bogatin, Yhelena &amp; Michael Hall, Roman Hrab, Natalka Husar, Yulia Pinkusevich, and Valya.&nbsp;

<a href="http://uima-chicago.org">uima-chicago.org</a>

<img alt="" data-caption="Valya, BABA, Merino wool fleece, felt, silk gauze; 109” x 79”" data-rich-file-id="1380" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/1380/original/uima-ed.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Anna Bogatin Aurora, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 48 x 48 in. Courtesy of Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia PA" data-rich-file-id="1413" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/1413/original/uimablue.jpg" />

Top image: Natalka Husar, Why They Behave Like Russians, 2005, Oil on book cover, 8.5 x 12 in.

In conjunction with the 25th Anniversary of Ukraine’s independence, UIMA presents Reality Check.

Artists Mark an Anniversary – Reality Check: Directions in Contemporary Art Since Ukrainian Independence at UIMA

August can be a slow month in the art world, gallerists go on vacation or wrap up group shows, museums are filled with tourists but save their blockbusters for later in the year, and art fairs take a brief break. &nbsp;Well, that doesn&#39;t mean that things are quiet at all. This month in particular there&#39;s been quite a bit of buzz on a variety of topics. Highlights are listed below.&nbsp;

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<h4>&bull; The Bizarre Peter Doig Trial Involving a Chicago Art Dealer</h4>

Yes, this really happened - a Chicago dealer and a former corrections officer from Canada&nbsp;tried to say a Scottish&nbsp;artist&#39;s work was actually his, even though he said, over and over and over, that it wasn&#39;t... Read the details here from the <a href="http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/kapos-judge-says-painting-isnt-a-doig-and-no-ones-happy/">Chicago Sun Times</a>&nbsp;and <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/peter-doig-trial-verdict-618932">Artnet.com</a>

<img alt="" data-caption="The painting that was in question, Bartlow Gallery Ltd. via AP" data-rich-file-id="1420" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/1420/original/cqllufgwiaa9d-l.jpg" />

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<h4>&bull; The Bizarre Case of an Art Switcheroo and Alec Baldwin</h4>

Alec Baldwin fell in love with a &#39;90s painting by Ross Bleckner, so famed dealer Mary Boone got him what he wanted&nbsp;- or as it turns out, not quite. Read the NYTimes story <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/arts/paint-and-switch-did-alec-baldwin-pay-190000-for-the-wrong-picture.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0">here</a>.&nbsp;

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<h4>&bull; Leslie Hindman has Real Estate Fever</h4>

Haven&#39;t you heard that the West Loop is on fire? Everyone, from meat packers to fish markets to parking lot owners, is selling space for big bucks as developers take whatever they can find to build highrise condos and rentals. Hindman may get to build a new state of the art facility if the sale&nbsp;nets a high result. Read the Crain&#39;s story <a href="http://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestate/20160823/CRED03/160829967">here</a>.

<img alt="" data-caption="Leslie Hindman Auctioneers at Lake and Ada Streets in the West Loop" data-rich-file-id="1422" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/1422/original/proxy-1.jpg" />

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<h4>&bull; Cleveland Gets a Triennial</h4>

Art will be hot in Cleveland in 2018 when&nbsp;&ldquo;An American City,&rdquo; will take place July 7 through Sept. 30, 2018.&nbsp;Over 50 international artists are expected to participate, under the dual leadership of Chicago&nbsp;artist Michelle Grabner and Jens Hoffmann of New York&#39;s&nbsp;Jewish Museum&nbsp;and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Read the NYTimes story <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/arts/design/cleveland-gets-an-art-triennial.html">here</a>.&nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption=" Claes Oldenburg, Coosje Van Bruggen 1991 'Free Stamp'" data-rich-file-id="1421" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/1421/original/3826601457-f4f35c0eeb-b.jpg" />

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News snippets in August from around the art world

August Art World News

CGN is thrilled to announce that our fall issue will be released this week.&nbsp;The new issue features interviews with EXPO&#39;s Tony Karman and SAIC&#39;s Lisa Wainwright, profiles of designer and collector Jason Pickleman and&nbsp;gallerists Emanuel Aguilar and Julia Fishbach of PATRON, along with much more. Below you will find&nbsp;previews of our news stories that will be published soon.

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CONCRETE TRAFFIC GETS MOVING AGAIN 
What happens when a 1957 Cadillac de Ville is encased in 16 tons of concrete? In short, it doesn&rsquo;t go anywhere.

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ROGER BROWN GOES POP! AT KAVI GUPTA 
This September, Kavi Gupta presents an exhibition of Roger Brown&#39;s work in conversation with Andy Warhol.

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EXPO CHICAGO: FIVE YEARS AND COUNTING 
&nbsp;EXPO President &amp; Director Tony Karman reflects on the&nbsp;fifth edition of EXPO Chicago.

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SAIC&rsquo;S LISA WAINWRIGHT: A NATIVE TRANSPLANT 
&nbsp;CGN Publisher Ginny Van Alyea sits down with art historian and dean&nbsp;Lisa Wainwright,&nbsp;a fountain of knowledge on&nbsp;the local art scene.

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COLLECTOR JASON PICKLEMAN&#39;S CREATIVE LIFE 
Jason Pickleman offers insight into his&nbsp;collection that he now displays at his storefront gallery, Lawrence &amp; Clark.

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ANIA JAWORSKA: RELOCATING THE CANON 
Designer and architect Ania Jaworska works across disciplines to thoughtfully engage the public in her work.

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PATRON: COMMITTED TO CHICAGO 
CGN chats with&nbsp;gallerists Emanuel Aguilar and Julia Fischbach one year after the opening of PATRON.

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STONY ISLAND ARTS BANK: ONE YEAR LATER 
October 3 marks one year since the Stony Island Arts Bank, one of the most remarkable&nbsp;projects on Chicago&rsquo;s South Side, opened.

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CGN's fall issue is packed with interviews, profiles, features and the latest news about the arts in Chicago.

Preview: CGN's Fall Issue

This June, the Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival celebrates its fifth year, a large feat for the non-profit organization that has been deemed &ldquo;a small festival with a big heart.&rdquo; The year&#39;s iteration will be packed with twenty-five performances over the course of five days (June 1-5), in honor of the anniversary. The multi-day event includes live performances in the main gallery at Defibrillator, durational performance installations in the storefront window, and performances&nbsp;outside in the surrounding neighborhood near Eckhart Park. The festival will also feature a video series, curated by assistant director&nbsp;Giana Gambino&nbsp;and Julia Laffin, and a new&nbsp;nightly experimental food series that hopes to foster discourse about the day&#39;s&nbsp;performances.

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Rapid Pulse began as a partnership between Gambino and Joseph Ravens, who met in 2011 and conceptualized the idea of a multi-day festival that would bring esteemed performance artists from around the world to Chicago. Ravens, the director of Defibrillator, has co-organized the festival with Gambino for the past five years. While the festival has scaled back from its original 10-day marathon of performances, this year is certain to bring an impressive range of work from artists including Linda Mary Montano, Sarah &amp; Joseph Belknap, Sarah Trouche and Edra Soto.

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Montano is an impressive veteran of the performance art scene. She famously spent a year tied by a length of rope to Taiwanese artist Teching Hsieh for his performance Art/Life: One Year Performance, 1983-84. Some of her&nbsp;other artistic undertakings&nbsp;include wearing monochromatic garments for seven-year intervals, singing in a scissor lift&nbsp;for seven hours and being blindfolded for seven days. Montano will close the Rapid Pulse festival with an overnight workshop titled Sleepathon, in which she has invited the public to spend the night with her in the gallery space. &nbsp;

For a schedule of performances and to purchase tickets&nbsp;visit: <a href="http://rapidpulse.org">rapidpulse.org</a>

Top Image: Martine Vitale, photograph by Nabeela Vega. All images&nbsp;courtesy Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival.

The Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival celebrates its fifth anniversary with five days of live performances at Defibrillator Gallery.

Rapid Pulse: Celebrating Five Years of Performance Art

Self-taught artist Tony Fitzpatrick is a living, breathing embodiment of Chicago toughness, yet his latest exhibition, The Secret Birds,&nbsp;on view at DePaul Art Museum is filled with the peace and music of hundreds of birds flitting amongst poetry. Fitzpatrick has also published a new book, which accompanies the exhibition.&nbsp;

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Chicago artist Barbara Rossi, once a Catholic nun, and part of the famous Imagists group of artists, is exhibiting key works from the 1960s and 70s, drawings as well as paintings on Plexiglass,&nbsp;which were pivitol to her artistic evolution and help reveal&nbsp;the artist&#39;s significant role in&nbsp;our own local art history. Poor Traits is Rossi&#39;s first solo show in Chicago in a quarter century.&nbsp;

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Both artists are Chicago treasures, and their parallel shows on view at DePaul should not be missed.&nbsp;

On view through August 21, 2016 at DePaul Art Museum&nbsp;

Tony Fitzpatrick and Barbara Rossi on view at DePaul Art Museum Summer 2016

Tony Fitzpatrick and Barbara Rossi: Dual Artistic Forces on View at DePaul Art Museum 

Chicago is proud to claim international artist Dzine/Carlos Rolon as its own, and for the first time in 12 years, the artist&#39;s work is on view here at home at the Chicago Cultural Center for a solo exhibition.&nbsp;

Dzine&#39;s style is distinct - bright colors, sparkles, bold shapes, designs and vignettes - and&nbsp;there is always much to behold, contemplate and admire in the artist&#39;s work. And though it is often mesmerizingly&nbsp;beautiful, there is much more to it than just looks, proving that the artist defies stereotypes and categorization.&nbsp;Rolon&#39;s current show highlights his social explorations and the immersive environments he creates in order to put viewers in a certain state of mind. By getting viewers to stop and look, he can also make them think (sometimes even looking in the mirror.)&nbsp;

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At the Cultural Center,&nbsp;multiple works are&nbsp;placed throughout three rooms on the second floor. Viewers first encounter a Caribbean courtyard, then move past pieces composed of crushed glass, as well as gold leaf and painstakingly painted flowers.&nbsp;A large-scale installation is devoted to&nbsp;boxing sport and culture. A neon pink afrocomb towers in the final room, not far from&nbsp;Nomadic Habitat (Hustleman) Cart, a collaboration with Chicago street vendor Garland Gantt (pictured at top of page). Originally created for the Chicago Architecture Biennial in connection with the Arts Incubator / Arts + Public Life program at the University of Chicago.

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Everything is bigger, and certainly more sparkly in Dzine&#39;s world. He manages to make the everyday stop you in your tracks. This show is no exception.&nbsp;

Carlos Rol&oacute;n/Dzine: I Tell You This Sincerely&hellip; runs through July 31, 2016 at the <a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/institutions/chicago-cultural-center--2">Chicago Cultural Center</a>

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Dzine Carlos Rolon at Chicago Cultural Center 2016

Dzine at the Chicago Cultural Center

By ALISON REILLY

This Sunday May 15, the Arts Incubator at the University of Chicago will be hosting an event celebrating the collaboration between Fatima Traore, a Malian-American professional hair braider, and Sarah Beth Woods, a Chicago-based sculptor. The two met at a hair braider&rsquo;s summit in 2013 and quickly developed a friendship, which eventually lead to their current project BRAID/WORK.

Woods approached Traore at the summit and asked to braid her hair, and Traore happily agreed. Woods, a Caucasian woman, was hesitant about wearing cornrows because of the implied cultural appropriation, she noted on a <a href="https://soundcloud.com/vocalos-barber-shop-show/bss-262-braidwork">recent episode of the Barber Shop Show</a>, hosted by Richard Steele. However, she greatly admired Traore&rsquo;s techniques, and eventually, it provided both artists the opportunity to explore and celebrate the complexity of hair braiding traditions.

Traore immigrated to New York City to become an architect, but she said in the interview, &ldquo;Life brought my talent out.&rdquo; She moved to Harlem and began learning American style hair braiding techniques, which differed from what she had been taught in Mali. She recalled that, &ldquo;One client came to the salon, she wanted one big braid. It was so funny to my eyes, I went to the shop owner and said, &lsquo;One big braid, most of the time [in Mali] we do it on dead people, but she&rsquo;s alive and she&rsquo;s requesting it!&rsquo; She said, &lsquo;Well, this is America, just do it!&rsquo; It was very frightening. It was eye-opening for me.&rdquo; Traore remarked that in Mali hair braiding often designates social and economic status, while in the United States any style can be used at any time.

Woods, on the other hand, is a sculptor interested in the relationship between artifice and nature. She spent two years teaching at a school in Ashburn, where she was intrigued by the visual landscape of barbershops and beauty salons on every other corner. She now spends hours looking through dollar stores and beauty supply stores incorporating hair weaves, hair buns, and nail tips into her work.

<img alt="" data-caption="Sarah Beth Woods | Hair weave, chain, door knocker earrings | 13&quot; x 4&quot; x 9&quot; | 2014" data-rich-file-id="1152" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/1152/original/sarahbethwoods.jpg" />

Traore and Woods are currently artists-in-residence for the Crossing Boundaries program sponsored by the University of Chicago. The opportunity to continue their collaboration has resulted in an exhibition that will be opening on July 8 at RootWork Gallery, a new gallery space in Pilsen.

Tracie D. Hall, Deputy Commissioner for DCASE who curated the exhibition, writes:

<blockquote class="pull-right">When I first heard about Sarah Beth Woods&#39; and Fatima Traore&#39;s collaboration across culturally distinct but somehow resonant personal narratives of being born into lines of &ldquo;hairdresser&rdquo; and craftswomen of German-American homesteader and Malian medicine-maker heritage, I championed their union long before I saw even one piece of work. By the time I viewed their portfolio I knew that they were still in the beginning stages of what they could potentially do together. The potential for their art practices (one studio-centered and the other based in a braiding salon) to influence each other and indeed to create a cross-dialogue between artists that work in hair and those that work in fiber--is extremely exciting and is in my opinion, a primary goal for this work.</blockquote>

Hall also hopes that through supporting the partnership between Traore and Woods, she can foster further collaboration between artists who come from fine arts backgrounds with those who have not have formal artistic education. These types of collaboration initiate meaningful engagement between diverse cultural communities in Chicago, who may have similar interests but often do not find opportunities to engage with each other.

For more information about the collaboration visit: <a href="http://braidwork.weebly.com/about.html">BRAID/WORK</a>.

Listen to the Barber Shop Show&rsquo;s interview with Traore and Woods <a href="http://soundcloud.com/vocalos-barber-shop-show/bss-262-braidwork">here</a>.

Top image:&nbsp;BRAID/WORK | Sarah Beth Woods and Fatima Traore | Photo documentation: Cecil McDonald Jr. |&nbsp;2016

Note: The opening reception for BRAID/WORK will take place on Friday,&nbsp;July 8 from 6:30-9pm. The date has changed from June 10.

On May 15, the Arts Incubator at the University of Chicago will be hosting an event celebrating the collaboration between Fatima Traore, a Malian-American professional hair braider, and Sarah Beth Woods, a Chicago-based sculptor. 

BRAID/WORK: Fatima Traore and Sarah Beth Woods

On Friday May 13, the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago hosts their annual Fashion Show. The event usually takes place under a big tent in Millennium Park, but this year, the walk and an accompanying exhibition will be held at the Garfield Park Conservatory. While the Fashion Show features&nbsp;the work of graduating seniors, the new exhibition component showcases 230 designs from nearly 100 sophomore, junior and senior students with the conservatory.&nbsp;The Fashion Show is an invite-only event but the exhibition will be open to the public Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 9am to 5pm. This is a great opportunity to see the work of these dedicated students, many of whom go on to successful careers within the fashion industry.&nbsp;

Below you&#39;ll find photos of the installation in the Fern Room:

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SAIC Fashion 2016 at the Garfield Park Conservatory. Free and open to the public May 13-15,&nbsp;9am-5pm.&nbsp;

The Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) hosts their annual fashion show at the Garfield Park Conservatory.

From Flora to Fashion: SAIC at the Garfield Park Conservatory

Each summer the&nbsp;Associate Board of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago hosts an event and exhibition to benefit its renowned art therapy program. This year,&nbsp;the 14th Annual Art in Motion opening celebration will take place on Thursday, May 5 from 5:30-9pm at Northwestern University&#39;s Lurie Center, Ryan Family Atrium at 303 East Superior (60611) in Streeterville.&nbsp;

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Art in Motion&nbsp;is an important fundraiser and unique art exhibition hosted by the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago&rsquo;s Associate Board that brings the thriving art community and philanthropy community of Chicago together to support the very important cause of art therapy. James Rondeau, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Art Institute of Chicago (at the time he did the jurying)&nbsp;designates the most outstanding works submitted by hundreds of artists from around the country. This festive evening&nbsp;embodies the generosity of both professional &amp; patient artists who donate artwork sales proceeds to the RIC Art Therapy program.

<img alt="" data-caption="Miriam Pare" data-rich-file-id="1037" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/1037/original/7168.jpg" />

RIC&rsquo;s Art Therapy program is funded solely through philanthropic support, and is one of the key elements that make RIC the #1 rehabilitation hospital in the world. In addition to traditional physical, speech, and occupational therapy, art therapy is an integral part of a patient&rsquo;s care at RIC. Art Therapy not only allows patients to relearn motor skills and coordination, but also helps them express the emotions they feel as they adjust to a new, challenging way of life. Some patients even discover previously untapped artistic talent, which they often continue to enjoy for the rest of their lives after they leave RIC.

Here is one moving story about an artist and RIC patient.&nbsp;Antonio Davis&rsquo; passion has always been art. He loved drawing and painting ever since he was young and studied graphic design in high school.

In 1994, he sustained a gunshot wound to the chest that left&nbsp;him a&nbsp;quadriplegic.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Now, Antonio&rsquo;s paintings have received worldwide recognition and the MFPA has reproduced many of his paintings. Through art he has found a purpose.&nbsp;During his rehabilitation at RIC he was first introduced to mouth painting. Antonio&#39;s work will be on view at Art in Motion.&nbsp;

Here are just a few more things that your support as an Art in Motion guest will make possible:

&bull; Resident Art Therapist on site 24 hours-a-week to initiate and lead programs; 
&bull;&nbsp;Over 700 hours of art therapy services provided, to both individuals and groups of patients; 
&bull;&nbsp;One year of twice-weekly movement therapy classes at RIC&rsquo;s Health and Fitness Center.

For more information and tickets visit:&nbsp;<a href="http://donate.ric.org/artinmotion">donate.ric.org/artinmotion</a>

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An evening of art and music to benefit RIC Art Therapy

May 5 is Art in Motion to Benefit RIC Art Therapy

We love a good antiques show, and last month the&nbsp;Antiques, Garden &amp; Design Show at the Chicago Botanic Garden in suburban Glencoe offered a festive preview party, a wealth of design and art,&nbsp;and a welcome start to spring. &nbsp;The show has been taking place each spring for over a decade and a half now, at a time when there is no other&nbsp;antiques show taking place in the city. This show brings truth to the adage &quot;what&#39;s old is new&quot; as it makes the case for incorporating a dynamic mix of objects into a real life home environment, both indoors and out. Wandering the show floor and perusing the many beautiful&nbsp;booths, and chatting up expert dealers, makes the case that one doesn&#39;t have to fill a home with standard issue pieces&nbsp;from a big box store. Instead, examples about of how a&nbsp;unique piece of furniture with a history behind it,&nbsp;or a small decorative item can&nbsp;lend much needed life to&nbsp;a room at a time when so much out there seems the same.&nbsp;

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At the preview night on April 14, over 650 party goers&nbsp;raised more than $200,000. Celebrating its 16th&nbsp;year, the Show inspires stylish living and presents beautiful gardens and objects together in a new way, making antiques fresh and appropriately vibrant. Held on the early spring grounds of the Chicago Botanic Garden, one of the most visited botanic gardens in the United States, the Antiques, Garden &amp; Design Show is the &ldquo;ribbon cutting&rdquo; to spring, inspiring attendees to brighten up their homes and gardens.

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More than 90 exhibitors of&nbsp;antiques, garden antiques,&nbsp;midcentury modern pieces, and art and design from around the United States and Europe created incredible tableaus in their booths for guests to shop. Martyn Lawrence Bullard was keynote speaker and honorary co-chair. Other featured speakers, Timothy Whealon, Mario Nievera and Jeff Ross, also attended the preview evening and delighted attendees during the weekend.&nbsp;

Proceeds from the Show benefited the Chicago Botanic Garden&rsquo;s conservation, education and research programs.

Also on view at the Garden was Laurie Tennent&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2016/4/the-artistic-intimacy-of-flowers">Botanicals: Intimate Portraits</a>, which continues&nbsp;through September 25.

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Antiques are New at Antiques, Garden & Design Show at the Chicago Botanic Garden

By GINNY VAN ALYEA

To anyone with at least a basic knowledge of European art history, the works of Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck will be familiar; they may also strike one as traditional in style. Most of us do not know just how radical and definitive van Dyck&rsquo;s artistic visions were at the time. Today many blue chip portraits on the contemporary market have roots in 17th century Europe, thanks in large part to Van Dyck&rsquo;s depictions, which influenced his contemporaries as well as future generations.&nbsp;

An exhibition on view at the Art Institute of Chicago, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and the Portrait Print, offers an opportunity to learn about the work of this artist and his significant role in the history of fine art portraiture.&nbsp;

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Known primarily as a painter, Van Dyck also worked in etching and printmaking. In the last decade of his life the artist personally produced 15 etchings that would become part of a more than 100-piece key portrait series known as the Iconography. These etchings, some of which boldly depict artists in the same manner as, and even alongside, top members of the court and society, are on view for the first time in nearly 90 years. Together with works by various artists from the 16th through the 20th century, they help explain Van Dyck&rsquo;s lasting influence on the evolution of the portrait print and its significance as a distinct genre. It was Van Dyck&rsquo;s novel manner of faithfully depicting faces and their unique features and expressions that led to portraits as we know them today.&nbsp;

Visitors to the show are presented with approximately 140 works spanning five centuries. Featured are artists who preceded Van Dyck, such as Albrecht D&uuml;rer, as well those who followed soon after&mdash;Rembrandt van Rijn&mdash;and then centuries later, from Francisco de Goya, Edgar Degas, and K&auml;the Kollwitz to Chuck Close.&nbsp;

Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and the Portrait Print runs thru August 7 at the Art Institute of Chicago. Exhibition curated by Victoria Sancho Lobis, Prince Trust Assoc. Curator, Dept. of Prints and Drawings, Art Institute of Chicago &nbsp;<a href="http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/van-dyck-rembrandt-and-portrait-print">artic.edu</a>

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Top image:&nbsp;Anthony van Dyck.&nbsp;Self-Portrait, 1630/33. Clarence Buckingham Collection.

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Van Dyck exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago

Anthony Van Dyke: Radical Portrait Artist

By ALISON REILLY

In a 2012 interview with curator Dieter Roelstraete, Kerry James Marshall recalled that his kindergarten teacher rewarded well-behaved students with the opportunity to look through her scrapbook full of photos, cartoons, and cards. Marshall noted that decades later he had amassed his own archive of thousands of images, which continue to inspire his paintings, collage and photography.

The interview was published in a catalogue accompanying Marshall&rsquo;s exhibition Painting and Other Stuff, which toured four European institutions. Four years later, Marshall is sharing his impressive oeuvre, spanning 35 years, with American audiences. The retrospective, Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, now on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), will travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.&nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption="Kerry James Marshall, The Lost Boys, 1993. Collection of Rick Hunting and Jolanda Hunting. Photo: Dominique Provost, © MCA Chicago." data-rich-file-id="1093" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/1093/original/kjm-dp-marshall-1993-thelostboys.jpg" />

Mastry, which focuses primarily on painting, reaches back to Marshall&rsquo;s beginnings as a recent graduate from the Otis Institute of Art in Los Angeles. There he began exploring issues of identity and visibility as black male artist. Marshall grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and moved to Los Angeles in 1963, just before the Watts riots. An avid drawer as a child, Marshall was encouraged to attend the Otis Institute by a high school teacher, who introduced him to his future mentor and close friend, social-realist painter Charles White.&nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption="Kerry James Marshall,&nbsp;Bang, 1994. The Progressive Corporation. Photo courtesy of the Progressive Corporation." data-rich-file-id="1092" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/1092/original/kjm-bang-1994.jpg" />

Marshall, a devoted technical master in his own right, confronts the Western art historical canon with large-scale portraits, landscapes and interiors that depict the complex vibrancy of black middle-class life. Using both narratives from African American history and his deep understanding of the history of art, Marshall questions aspirations of the middle-class and complicates aesthetic and social interpretations of blackness. The exhibition also includes a wall installation, commissioned by the MCA, featuring characters from Marshall&rsquo;s comic Rythm Mastr.

Kerry James Marshall: Mastry at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago thru September 25, 2016. <a href="http://mcachicago.com">mcachicago.com</a>

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Pictured at top:&nbsp;Kerry James Marshall,&nbsp;School of Beauty, School of Culture, 2012. Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art; Museum purchase with funds provided by Elizabeth (Bibby) Smith, the Collectors Circle for Contemporary Art, Jane Comer, the Sankofa Society, and general acquisition funds. Photo: Sean Pathasema.

Kerry James Marshall exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago April 2016

Kerry James Marshall: Mastry at the MCA

By JULIA KERSHAW

For the first time, a trio of depictions of Vincent van Gogh&rsquo;s bedroom come together at the Art Institute of Chicago as part of exhibition examining the artist&rsquo;s exploration of home. A record number of visitors has already been coming to see the works and&nbsp;to&nbsp;experience the making of and meaning behind van Gogh&rsquo;s famous portrayals through illustrated letters, a digital bedroom reconstruction, and some of the artist&rsquo;s personal possessions and books. The exhibition shows&nbsp;36 works tracing the development of van Gogh&rsquo;s ever-changing notions of home, from his iconic Yellow House in Arles, France to an asylum in Saint-Remy to his final residence in Auvers-sur-Oise.

Van Gogh&rsquo;s Bedrooms will expose distinctive details between the paintings, but together the works reflect van Gogh&rsquo;s changing, emotional notion of home, from refuge to a creative outlet. Visitors will contemplate how they might depict their own home.

Van Gogh&rsquo;s Bedrooms, Feb 14-May 8, Art Institute of Chicago&nbsp;&nbsp; &bull;&nbsp;<a href="http://An Overnight with van Gogh"> artic.edu</a>

<img alt="" data-caption="Vincent van Gogh. &lt;i&gt;Eugène Boch&lt;/i&gt;. 1888. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, legacy of Mr. Eugène Boch, 1941." data-rich-file-id="895" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/895/original/van-gogh-eugene-boch-1888.jpg" />

Top image: Vincent van Gogh.&nbsp;The Bedroom. 1889. The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection.

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The new Van Gogh exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago

An Overnight with van Gogh

By&nbsp;ALISON REILLY

This weekend is the last opportunity to see&nbsp;Homegrown: The School of the Art Institute in the Permanent Collection&nbsp;at the Art Institute of Chicago. In honor of SAIC&#39;s 150th anniversary, the Print &amp; Drawings Department curated a selection of works by alumni of the art and design school. The prints and works on paper are organized loosely by&nbsp;themes such as the Monster Roster,&nbsp;Chicago Imagists and the&nbsp;Hairy-Who and includes many recognizable names such as Sanford Biggers, Claes Oldenburg, Nancy Spero,&nbsp;Judy Legerwood, and Ed Pashke (Jerry Saltz even makes an appearance). The exhibition also&nbsp;delves deep into&nbsp;the early twentieth century to much success.

German &eacute;migr&eacute;&nbsp;Gustave Baumann&#39;s woodblock prints are a delight. Of note is <a href="http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/96248?search_no=20&amp;index=8">Apple Blossoms</a>, which is accompanied by seven carved&nbsp;woodblocks, illustrating the layers of color needed to achieve the impressive effect in the final print. Todros Geller&#39;s series of <a href="http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork-search/results/yiddish+motifs?filters=object_type_s%3APrint+artist_name_s%3A%22Geller%2C+Todros%22">Yiddish Motifs</a>&nbsp;are also impressive. The artist was working about a decade after Baumann, and in this series&nbsp;he layers woodcuts on Japanese wood veneer paper. Geller&#39;s depictions of working class life&nbsp;centered around Maxwell Street in Chicago contrasts his choice of a&nbsp;decorative Japanese paper.

Homegrown&nbsp;makes a point to focus&nbsp;on Regionalism as it was expressed in Chicago in the thirties and forties. Many of these prints were commissioned by the Works Progress Adminsitration, which reiterates the importance of the organization in the development of modern art in the United States. Adrian Troy&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/40237?search_no=22&amp;index=1">The Produce Market </a>and Bernece Berkman&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/127212?search_no=23&amp;index=0">Gobbers, Git a Bag!!!</a> pulse&nbsp;with life and tune viewers into a vibrant city despite the setbacks of the Depression.&nbsp;

Margaret Burroughs&#39; linocut print&nbsp;<a href="http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/204625">Family</a>&nbsp;depicts a striking portrait of a couple.&nbsp;Burroughs first began involved at SAIC in the 1930s and eventually earned a masters in arts education from the school. She had a profound influence on the arts in Chicago; she was a dedicated arts activist as&nbsp;one of the founding artists of the South Side Community Arts Center in 1938. Decades later, in 1961,&nbsp;she cofounded, along with her husband, the DuSable Museum of African American History.&nbsp;

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<a href="http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/homegrown-school-art-institute-permanent-collection">Homegrown: The School of the Art Institute in the Permanent Collection</a> is on display at the Art Institute of Chicago until Sunday February 14, 2016.

For more information about SAIC&#39;s 150 Anniversary visit:<a href="http://www.saic.edu/150/"> saic.edu/150</a>

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This weekend is the last opportunity to see Homegrown: The School of the Art Institute in the Permanent Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Homegrown: A History in Print

2016 marks the Museum of Contemporary Photography&#39;s (MoCP)&nbsp;40th anniversary. In celebration, the spring exhibition&nbsp;MoCP at 40&nbsp;will draw from the museum&rsquo;s permanent collection of over 13,000 works to explore the institution&rsquo;s role as a hub of photographic research and education.

Arranged chronologically from the late 19th century to today, the opening installation will span major developments in the photographic medium as it intersects with historical moments in politics, culture, and art. Works by renowned artists including Diane Arbus, Roy DeCarava, Walker Evans, Sally Mann, and Andy Warhol will be on view along with over one hundred others. In an adjacent gallery, rarely seen correspondence and ephemera from the past four decades will give insight into individual artists&rsquo; photographs and collaborations with the museum. MoCP at 40 is organized collaboratively by MoCP staff members with assistance from graduate and undergraduate interns studying at Columbia College Chicago.

MoCP at 40 will highlight the breadth of photographic processes represented in the collection, from analogue methods dating back to the invention of the medium, to contemporary cutting edge techniques. Also on view will be a selection of works from the Midwest Photographer&rsquo;s Project (MPP), including a site-specific installation by Chicago-based artist Aim&eacute;e Beaubien. Inaugurated in 1982 MPP is a rotating collection of portfolios loaned to the MoCP for a three year period by prominent and emerging artists from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin.

The MoCP is committed to broadening the visual arts by constantly searching for new national and international talent to exhibit. To this end, the museum&rsquo;s programming guides the public to a greater understanding of thought-provoking contemporary photography as well as an appreciation for traditional work that has not yet received critical acclaim. &nbsp;

MoCP at 40 runs January 28 &ndash; April 10, 2016.&nbsp;Exhibition details and event information available at <a href="http://mocp.org">mocp.org</a>

The annual winter gala to benefit the museum, DARKROOM, takes place Thursday, February 25 at Morgan Manufacturing. Details <a href="http://www.mocp.org/events/event?id=584691">here</a>.&nbsp;

Pictured above: Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled #2451, 1990

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The Museum of Contemporary Photography's 40th anniversary

MoCP Marks 40 Years

Tucked into the&nbsp;corner of the fourth floor of the MCA is Ania Jaworska&#39;s&nbsp;installation of screen prints featuring her playful&nbsp;interpretations of architectural columns. The&nbsp;tongue-in-cheek prints question the history of architecture while providing viewers with a moment to relax and smile.&nbsp;The opening of the exhibition at the end of August&nbsp;coincided with the Chicago Architecture Biennial but the screen prints, along with a sculptural installation in the adjacent gallery,&nbsp;are on view until January 31.&nbsp;

Top image:&nbsp;Installation view, BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Ania Jaworska, MCA Chicago, Aug 25, 2015&ndash;Jan 31, 2016.&nbsp;Photo: Nathan Keay.&nbsp;&copy; MCA Chicago

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<img alt="" data-caption="Ania Jaworska, 2447 N Lakewood Ave, Chicago, IL 60618, 2015. Screen print on folio paper. Courtesy of the Artist. © MCA Chicago" data-rich-file-id="986" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/986/original/aniajaworska-lakewoodavenue.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Ania Jaworska, Wooden Column on Fire (It Was Always Burning), 2015. Screen print on folio paper Courtesy of the Artist. © MCA Chicago" data-rich-file-id="987" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/987/original/aniajaworska-fire.jpg" />

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Closing Soon: Ania Jaworska at the MCA

A new year of art is here, and we can&#39;t wait for all the openings taking place this Friday evening and througout the month of January. &nbsp;Despite the cold weather, the winter openings have long been a popular go-to in the art world because of the opportunities for inspiration, as well as the socilization,&nbsp;they offer after a hectic holiday season. Dozens of new exhibitions open in galleries, studios and art centers from the south side to the suburbs. We are excited to see what&#39;s new from exhibiting artists, and we hope you are too. &nbsp;

We hope you&#39;ll use our Openings&nbsp;<a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar?tag=opening-receptions">calendar</a> to plan ahead for an art-filled weekend and year.&nbsp;

Cheers! See you in the galleries.&nbsp;

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A New Year of Art

By ALISON REILLY

This past weekend the Art Institute of Chicago reopened their contemporary galleries with a new layout that&nbsp;incorporates&nbsp;Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson&#39;s donation of 44 major works. The gift, estimated at $400 million, is the largest in the museum&#39;s history and showcases artists like Damien Hirst, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons,&nbsp;Roy Lichtenstein,&nbsp;Robert Rauschenberg,&nbsp;Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol.&nbsp;

Warhol&#39;s iconic&nbsp;Mao&nbsp;is no longer&nbsp;on display but instead are nine new additions to the collection including Twelve Jackies,&nbsp;Liz #3 [Early-Colored Liz]&nbsp;(the face of the&nbsp;New Contemporary&nbsp;campaign),&nbsp;two self-portraits and a red and green electric chair. Other favorites like Gerhard Richter&#39;s&nbsp;Woman Descending the Staircase&nbsp;are certainly missed in the reinstallation (it&#39;s on loan through next year), but the removal of these works offers an&nbsp;opportunity to see a number of early sixties works not previously on display including Yayoi Kusama&#39;s&nbsp;No. IZ, Lygia Clark&#39;s&nbsp;Bicho - Monumento a Todas as Situa&ccedil;&otilde;es, and Gutai artist Shiraga Kazuo&#39;s&nbsp;Chikatsusei Maunkinshi (Golden Wings Brushing the Clouds Incarnated from Earthly Wide Star).

Damien Hirst&#39;s Still is another compelling addition to the collection. An array of surgical instruments are meticulously installed in an enormous glass cabinet prompting viewers to question if and how these instruments were actually used in medical practice.

For more information&nbsp;visit: <a href="http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/new-contemporary">The New Contemporary</a>.

Top image:&nbsp;Andy Warhol.&nbsp;Twelve Jackies,&nbsp;1964. The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Edlis/Neeson Collection. &copy; 2015 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

<img alt="" data-caption="Roy Lichtenstein. &lt;i&gt;Woman III&lt;/i&gt;, 1982. The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Edlis/Neeson Collection. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein" data-rich-file-id="896" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/896/original/lichtenstein-womaniii-1982.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Jeff Koons. &lt;i&gt;Bourgeois Bust – Jeff and Ilona&lt;/i&gt;, 1991. The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Edlis/Neeson Collection. © Jeff Koons" data-rich-file-id="897" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/897/original/jeff-koons-bourgeois-bust-jeff-and-ilona.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Richard Prince. &lt;i&gt;Untitled (fashion)&lt;/i&gt;, 1982-84. The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Edlis/Neeson Collection. © Richard Prince" data-rich-file-id="898" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/898/original/prince-untitled-fashion-1982-84.jpg" />

The New Contemporary

BY GINNY VAN ALYEA

I took a weekend trip to Rockford recently, to visit family and to see the new Phyllis Bramson Retrospective at the Rockford Art Museum. My family had quite an adventure exploring the area, including the beautiful and serene Anderson Japanese Gardens, and making it out to the museum for this show really was a treat for all. &nbsp;

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Phyllis Bramson is well-known in the Chicago art community (and beyond) as she has been producing her distinctive work for decades. Seeing so many of her large paintings and unique constructions together in the elegant RAM space was a rare experience, and an enlightening one.&nbsp;The museum&#39;s main exhibition space, devoted to Bramson&#39;s work for Phyllis Bramson: In Praise of Folly &ndash; A Retrospective, 1985&ndash;2015, was larger than I expected, and the dark gray walls showed Bramson&#39;s paintings well, highlighting her bold use of color and the varied use of found materials.&nbsp;

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The works in the show are from the second half of Bramson&#39;s career and they demonstrate her signature use of imagery - female images, Asian references and environments, and plenty of eroticisim and surreal scenes. The viewer takes a different trip with each work of art, following Bramson&#39;s use of collage, saturated colors, fantastic landscapes and juxtaposed childhood and fairytale references. &nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption="Stories Before Bedtimes (tales of love), 2015 Sculpture/Objects: 21&quot; × 21&quot; × 12&quot; Scroll: 53&quot; × 21&quot; Mixed media" data-rich-file-id="849" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/849/original/img-4523.jpg" />

Bramson&#39;s sculptures, or scroll drawings, incorporate ceramic figures and teapots with more found materials and often Asian emboridery, as well as delicate paper materials. The images applied to the scrolls that bellow from below the teapots and characters lead viewers into another immersive experience. I wanted to know more about what each piece meant and what stories were told from one work to the next. My two year old daughter desperately wanted to touch each piece and have a tea party... For both of us Bramson&#39;s work is a complete experience that asks more questions than can be answered.

<img alt="" data-caption="Female-Lovemaking at the end of Springtime, 2006 Sculpture/Objects: 21&quot; × 18&quot; × 10&quot; Scroll: 82&quot; × 10&quot; Mixed media" data-rich-file-id="848" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/848/original/img-4522.jpg" />

In the lower level of the museum, many works from the permanent collection were on view, but a highlight was a collection of prints by Warrington Colescott. The artist&#39;s History of Printmaking series tells a tounge-in-cheek story about the art world through&nbsp;Colescott&#39;s active figures, suspended in conversation with one another while sending messages off the page to the viewer. Warrington Colescott: Collective Follies&nbsp;closed Oct. 18 but many other works are still on view at the museum this fall.&nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption="Warrington Colescott, (American, b. 1921) The History of Printmaking: Picasso at the Zoo, 1978" data-rich-file-id="853" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/853/original/img-4526.jpg" />

<a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/phyllis-bramson-retrospective">Phyllis Bramson: In Praise of Folly &ndash; A Retrospective, 1985&ndash;2015</a> in on view at the <a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/institutions/rockford-art-museum">Rockford Art Museum</a> through January 31, 2016, The exhibition is&nbsp;organized by Rockford Art Museum, curated by RAM Curator Carrie Johnson. This exhibition and its related educational programming are sponsored by BMO Private Bank, and partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency and by the Armer Ahlstrand Charitable Foundation. All education programs are sponsored in part by Women&rsquo;s Art Board

Key image at top of page: Phyllis Bramson,&nbsp;Shipwrecked,&nbsp;1987,&nbsp;72&quot; &times; 96&quot; oil on canvas

Phyllis Bramson at the Rockford Art Museum and Warrington Colescott

Phyllis Bramson Retrospective at Rockford Art Museum

BY ERIN CULLEN

In case there was any doubt that fall is the season for art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is bringing back one of their most highly-anticipated and spectacular events on October 23. After a five year hiatus, the 17th iteration of the museum&rsquo;s Benefit Art Auction returns and seems to be bigger and better than ever.

Boasting both a silent and live auction led by Sotheby&rsquo;s Deputy Chairman Oliver Barker, the auctions together will feature more than 100 spectacular works of art by artists from all over the world including renowned and distinguished contemporary artists Takashi Murakami, Sterling Ruby, Alfredo Jarr, Doris Salcedo and Hugh Scott-Douglas, among others.&nbsp; Highlighting the auction, and in advance of his spring exhibition at the MCA, celebrated artist Kerry James Marshall is creating a special piece specifically for the live auction. Artist Nick Cave will also create a custom piece for the auction. From hanging installations to sculptures the event will have something for everyone.&nbsp;

One of the very special parts of the benefit is MCA&rsquo;s support for Chicago based artists. Theaster Gates, Jessica Labatte, Jose Lerma, Cody Hudson and Jennifer Reeder are among the talented group of Chicago artists who will have work featured in this year&rsquo;s Benefit Art Auction.

Each piece auctioned off supports the MCA&rsquo;s exhibits and public programs. A special preview will be held on Wednesday, October 21 at 6pm. A public online preview is currently available through Paddle8 and will be open to bidders through October 23. To purchase tickets or for more information on the Benefit Art Auction, visit <a href="http://www2.mcachicago.org/exhibition/benefit-art-auction/">mcachicago.org</a>

A preview of the upcoming Museum of Contemporary Art auction featuring work for sale by big-name artists

Paddles Ready – MCA Benefit Art Auction is Back!

BY FRANCK MERCURIO

The fourth annual EXPO Chicago kicked-off Thursday at Navy Pier&rsquo;s Festival Hall. Billed as Chicago&rsquo;s International Exposition of Contemporary &amp; Modern Art, the fair includes an astonishing variety of works presented by some 140 galleries. The majority of these are well-established enterprises, often representing big-name artists and catering to serious collectors with deep wallets, though this year in particular we easily&nbsp;found many appealing works priced affordably&nbsp;as well.&nbsp;EXPO also promotes a selection of 30 younger galleries representing less-established artists. The &ldquo;EXPOSURE&rdquo; galleries feature a range of compelling works that suggest the future direction of contemporary art. The following are three &ldquo;must-sees.&quot;

<a href="http://www.aspectratioprojects.com/desire-holman#">Aspect/Ratio, Chicago</a> 
Booth 613

<img alt="" data-caption="Desirée Holman" data-rich-file-id="831" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/831/original/4c8121c9dcbbc96b-ardesireeholmansophont.jpg" />

Despite the ubiquitousness of video art in museum exhibitions, not many galleries present video. Aspect/Ratio is bucking the trend. Established by Jefferson Godard in 2012, the West Loop gallery features works by well-known and up-and-coming video artists. For EXPO, Aspect/Ratio presents Desir&eacute;e Holman&rsquo;s&nbsp;Sophont&nbsp;(2013), a visually rich work featuring costumed performers set against California landscapes. In the video, the Oakland-based artist explores modern-day society&rsquo;s willingness to accept &ldquo;fringe fantasies&rdquo; as fact&mdash;in this case, &ldquo;sophonts&rdquo; or fictional beings defined by their greater capacity for reasoning than humans. Complimenting the main work are drawings by Holman of the characters represented in the video. 
 
<a href="http://11rgallery.com/ARTISTS_new/Marsha%20Cottrell.html/">11R Eleven Rivington, New York</a><b\> 
Booth 614</b\>

<img alt="" data-caption="Marsha Cottrell" data-rich-file-id="832" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/832/original/unnamed-20copy-2.jpg" />

At first glance, the striking black and white works of Marsha Cottrell appear to be prints&mdash;but each is actually a unique piece. Represented by Eleven Rivington in New York, the Brooklyn-based artist designs her works on a computer using a series of layered images. She then runs a single sheet of paper through an electrostatic laser printer&mdash;over and over again&mdash;layering one image on top of another to create the final piece. It&rsquo;s a time consuming process that incorporates both digital and manual technologies, but the results are both ephemeral and haunting. In&nbsp;Interior 9&nbsp;(2015) the artist&rsquo;s layered gradations of printer toner capture an imagined &ldquo;view&rdquo; from a dark interior out to a light-filled exterior. 
 
<a href="http://www.louisbjames.com/?cat=22">Louis B. James, New York</a> 
Booth 732

<img alt="" data-caption="Matthew Kirk" data-rich-file-id="833" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/833/original/lbj-20expo-20copy.jpg" />

Who says painting is dead? New York-based Louis B. James gallery presents a vibrant selection of works by artists Nora Griffin and Matthew Kirk. But it is Kirk&rsquo;s large-scale &ldquo;drawing&rdquo;&nbsp;Absolute Calm&nbsp;(2011) that commands the most attention. Painting-like in its execution, the work features a complex composition of lines and symbols set against a dramatic black background. The variety of markings made by Kirk&mdash;using chalk, gouache, India ink, and pencil&mdash; allude to the Brooklyn-based artist&rsquo;s upbringing on a Navajo reservation in Arizona as well as to his adult life in New York City. Do the stepped lines that stretch across the paper represent an urban skyline or southwestern mesas? The formal ambiguity allows the viewer to decide.

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More info on EXPO may be found at <a href="http://expochicago.com">expo.com</a>, and additional images from CGN from EXPO weekend may be viewed on <a href="https://instagram.com/chigallerynews/">Instagram</a>.

EXPO 2015: a few must-sees

BY MIA DIMEO

<a href="http://www.expochicago.com/art-after-hours">Art After Hours</a><a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/art-after-hours--3">,</a> happening Friday evening, September 18,&nbsp;lets Chicago galleries show their best stuff to those riding EXPO CHICAGO&rsquo;s art week wave. Exhibition and performance spaces around the city will have special events and extended hours from 6-9 pm, with free shuttles running between Navy Pier and multiple gallery districts. Listed below&nbsp;are a few highlights, from Michigan Avenue to Rogers Park,&nbsp;to&nbsp;try to catch while out and about in search of great art.&nbsp;

<img alt="" data-rich-file-id="828" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/828/original/art-after-hours-expo-chicago.jpg" />

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<h4>&bull; Far Out Females: Mid-Century Chicago Surrealism &nbsp;</h4>

<a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/far-out-females-mid-century-chicago-surrealism">Mongerson Gallery</a>

<img alt="" data-caption="Gertrude Abercrombie, &quot;Countess Nerona on Chaise&quot; (1953, Oil on Masonite, 7 3/4 x 10 inches)" data-rich-file-id="829" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/829/original/abercrombie-countessnaroneonchaise-crop.jpg" />

Not far from the action on Navy Pier, the first in a series of exhibitions on Chicago-area 20th century artists, Far Out Females celebrates the work of Gertrude Abercrombie, Macena Barton and Julia Thecla, who created dreamy images in Chicago between the 1930s and the 1960s. Expect stark interiors, cats and other creatures and uncanny portraits.

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<h4>&bull; Shana Moulton: My life as an INFJ</h4>

<a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/institutions/julius-caesar">Julius Caesar</a>

For more contemporary surrealism, go to Garfield Park&rsquo;s Julius Caesar. &nbsp;Shana Moulton, best known for her long-running performance and video series featuring her alter ego, &ldquo;Cynthia,&rdquo; will exhibit new work, confronting a range of anxieties with droll, psychedelic imagery.

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<h4>&bull; Theory of Forms</h4>

<a href="http://http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/theory-of-forms">Patron</a>

The inaugural show for this highly anticipated new space grapples with the Platonic philosophy of the same name through the voices of eleven artists working in sculpture, painting and installation.

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<h4>&bull; Nathaniel Mary Quinn: Back and Forth</h4>

<a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/nathaniel-mary-quinn-imagining-space">Rhona Hoffman Gallery</a>

<img alt="" data-caption="Nathaniel Mary Quinn, June Bug" data-rich-file-id="744" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/744/original/junebug.jpg" />

Nathaniel Mary Quinn uses a clever illusion of collage, playing with style and proportion in his faces and figures in an effect that recalls the work of Hannah H&ouml;ch and Frances Bacon. In addition to a range of historic imagery and source materials, Quinn&rsquo;s upbringing at a Chicago public housing facility informs these intimate works. &nbsp;

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<h4>&bull; The Annual</h4>

<a href="http://www.chicagoartistscoalition.org/programs/annual">Chicago Artists Coalition</a>

Revamping and renaming its affordable art satellite exhibition, CAC&rsquo;s aptly named annual aims to connect emerging collectors with local artists. Claudine&nbsp;Is&eacute;&nbsp;and Alexandria Eregbu will curate works by Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Susy Bielak, Alejandro Figueredo Diaz-Perera, Chelsea Culp, Danny Giles, Esau McGhee and many more in CAC&rsquo;s West Loop gallery space.

<img alt="" data-caption="Susannah Bielak Ventifact: Breath Drawing 1, 2013 Blown pigment on watercolor paper 30&quot; x 20&quot;" data-rich-file-id="826" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/826/original/ventifactdrawing.jpg" /> &nbsp;<img alt="" data-caption="Macon Reed Incantation, 2015 Digital photographic print 41 in x 61 in" data-rich-file-id="823" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/823/original/02-incantation-1-.jpg" />

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<h4>&bull; La Palette: The Chicago Palette</h4>

<a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/institutions/ed-paschke-art-center">Ed Paschke Art Center</a>

Connecting the head to the hand, neurobiologist Dr. Stephen Sheldon photographed the palettes of prominent Chicago painters for five years, gaining insight on the creative process. Photos of the palettes of Roger Brown, Michelle Grabner and Ed Paschke and other artists sit alongside their finished pieces, near the recreation of Ed Paschke&rsquo;s studio, on permanent display at EPAC.

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<h4>&bull; Joseph E. Yoakum: 1886 - 1972 Spiritual Unfoldments</h4>

<a href="http://www.carlhammergallery.com/exhibitions/joseph-e-yoakum">Carl Hammer Gallery</a>

Driven to recall scenes from his past (both real and imagined) by a voice in his dreams, self-taught landscape artist Joseph Yoakum&rsquo;s prolific catalogue was created only a decade before his death, beginning at age 76. These expressionistic vistas, or &ldquo;spiritual unfoldments,&rdquo; as he called them, continue to reverberate a curious and powerful energy. Tired of the art world? Enter here.

<img alt="" data-caption="Joseph Yoakum" data-rich-file-id="824" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/824/original/yokum.jpg" />

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More info on Art After Hours, including shuttle schedules and a list of participating art venues may be found <a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/art-after-hours--3">here</a>.

Info on EXPO Chicago and EXPO ART WEEK may be found <a href="http://www.expochicago.com">here</a>.&nbsp;

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Image at top of page:&nbsp;Kiam Marcelo Junio, detail of&nbsp;Dona Nobis Pacem III (Kleshas), 2015,&nbsp;Archival inkjet print,&nbsp;24 in. x 36 in.

TGIF: Art After Hours During EXPO 

<img alt="" data-caption="From left to right, works by: Michiko Itatani, Indira Freitas Johnson, Vera Klement" data-rich-file-id="795" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/795/original/13.jpg" />

10 years have flown by. Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) opened at 820 N. Michigan Ave. in 2005 with a mission to explore the spiritual in art of all faiths and cultures and to present the work of artists advocating for social justice. LUMA celebrates its tenth anniversary this fall with LUMA at 10: Greatest Hits, on view through October 11, a reprisal of its most successful and innovative exhibitions.&nbsp;

<img alt="" data-rich-file-id="773" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/773/original/luma-.png" />

More than 50 artists will have works on display, including Edward Gorey, Georges Rouault, and Andy Warhol. Warhol&rsquo;s popular The Silver Clouds, comprised of floating helium-filled, pillow-like forms, will fill LUMA&rsquo;s largest gallery. Greatest Hits will also showcase 10 years of gifts to the museum, many of which are works by Chicago artists.

&ldquo;In 10 years, we have built strong roots in the community,&rdquo; said Pam Ambrose, LUMA founding director. &ldquo;We mount exhibitions visitors will not see at any other Chicago museum or gallery.&rdquo;&nbsp;

Warhol&#39;s Silver Clouds will certainly once again be a big draw. Made from Mylar, helium and fans, the work was first exhibited in a small room at Leo Castelli&#39;s eponymous gallery in NYC in 1966. Viewers then, and now, embraced the chance to interact with art. It&#39;s noted that &quot;many people have interpreted The Silver Clouds as a walk through Heaven. Warhol was a devout Catholic, so there is deep spiritual meaning&quot;&nbsp;imbued in the work for sure.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rZs-iW0PMrk" width="560"></iframe>.&nbsp;

&bull; October 9: Divine Decade: A Benefit Celebrating LUMA&rsquo;s 10th Anniversary

Exhibition and event details at <a href="http://www.luc.edu/luma">www.luc.edu/luma</a>

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Following is a selection of images from the anniversary exhibition.&nbsp;

<img alt="" data-caption="Pictured in foreground: Pemaron, 2014, by Andra Samelson, compact discs" data-rich-file-id="792" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/792/original/8.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Lewis Desoto, &quot;Paranirvana, Self-Portrait,&quot; Mixed media with painted cloth and helium, Edition 1/3" data-rich-file-id="793" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/793/original/9.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Rene Romero Schüler, &quot;Crimson, 2012&quot;, acrylic on canvas; sculpture also shown: &quot;Shadow&quot;, 2012" data-rich-file-id="786" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/786/original/4.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Dan Gunn" data-rich-file-id="789" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/789/original/5.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Georges Rouault, &quot;Les Ruines Elles - Memes Ont Peri,&quot; 1926" data-rich-file-id="791" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/791/original/7.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Theodore Gilbert Haupt, &quot;Mexico&quot;, 1952, oil on canvas" data-rich-file-id="794" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/794/original/12.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="The LUMA collection of Neolithic Idols consists of more than 100 Kiliya-type, Thessalonian, and Vinča (modern-day Turkey, northern Greece, and Macedonia, respectively) sculptural objects and fragments. " data-rich-file-id="796" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/796/original/neolithics.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Janet McKenzie, &quot;Madonna and Child - Boundless Love,&quot; 1999, Oil on canvas" data-rich-file-id="788" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/788/original/2.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Creches from LUMA's collection" data-rich-file-id="790" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/790/original/6.jpg" />

LUMA at 10

The fall art seas

on got started this past Friday, September 11,&nbsp;around the city - many new exhibitions opened in area galleries and art spaces.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar?tag=opening-receptions">More openings</a>&nbsp;are coming up this weekend when EXPO begins, and especially as part of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/art-after-hours--3">Art After Hours</a>, when dozens of galleries are open late around the city and free shuttles are operating between several districts. &nbsp;

We hit River North last weekend but are looking forward to getting out into the West Loop, Bridgeport and other neighbhorhoods this coming week.

Keep up with&nbsp;CGN&nbsp;on our website as well as on&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/ChiGalleryNews">Twitter</a>&nbsp;this week to plan your next art adventure. Please share your own openings images with us via Twitter and&nbsp;<a href="https://instagram.com/chigallerynews/">Instagram</a>.

<img alt="" data-rich-file-id="809" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/809/original/14.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Field Study at David Weinberg" data-rich-file-id="815" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/815/original/19.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Amy Casey at Zg" data-rich-file-id="811" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/811/original/15.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Amy Casey at Zg" data-rich-file-id="799" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/799/original/2.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Kate Breakey at Catherine Edelman" data-rich-file-id="798" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/798/original/3.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Kate Breakey at Catherine Edelman" data-rich-file-id="800" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/800/original/6.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Floriane de Lassée: How Much Can You Carry?" data-rich-file-id="807" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/807/original/11.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Young June Lew at Andrew Bae" data-rich-file-id="810" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/810/original/12.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Young June Lew at Andrew Bae" data-rich-file-id="812" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/812/original/16.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Andrew Bae (right) talking to a client" data-rich-file-id="804" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/804/original/8.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Zg Gallery" data-rich-file-id="803" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/803/original/5.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Kanako Togawa at Ken Saunders" data-rich-file-id="808" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/808/original/13.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Kanako Togawa at Ken Saunders" data-rich-file-id="805" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/805/original/10.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Thomas Scoon at Ken Saunders" data-rich-file-id="813" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/813/original/17.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Crowds at Berlanga Photography" data-rich-file-id="814" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/814/original/18.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Berlanga Photography" data-rich-file-id="802" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/802/original/4.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Steve Shapiro at Berlanga" data-rich-file-id="797" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/797/original/1.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-caption="Zolla/Lieberman Gallery" data-rich-file-id="801" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/801/original/7.jpg" />

<img alt="" data-rich-file-id="806" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/chigal/rich/rich_files/rich_files/806/original/9.jpg" />

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