Just finished this crazy new piece, i’m about to wrap it up and take it down to Bridgeport for the Version Fest 2010 fundraiser.

The party is taking place on Sat 3rd April @ the Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219 S. Morgan, Chicago, IL

Art works will be offered for silent auction.
Art works and services can also be won via raffle.

Many of the works may be purchased at “Buy it Now” prices!
And raffle tickets are priced one for $5 and three for $10

Winners will be announced at 11am. You can wait for the results or be text messaged after raffle tickets have been drawn.

The work is fantastic. Don’t miss this opportunity to get something awesome while helping fund the greatest little art festival in ORD.

WORKS BY:

Lora Fosberg
Anna Shteynshleyger
Tom Torluemke
Tyson Reeder
Cody Hudson
Aron Gent
Stephen Eichhorn
Juan Chavez
Mathew Hoffman
Dayton Castleman
Jeff Zimmerman
Jordan Martins
Peter Skvara
Seripop
Le Dernier Cri
Gunsho
Chris Roberson
Emily Clayton
Rod Hunting
Chad Kouri
Se Young
Nathan Baker
Scott Cowan
Caitlin Arnold
Ian Whitmore
Scott Fortino
Nick Wylie
Tom Burtonwood
Nate Lee
Zachary Abubeker
Aaron Delehanty
+ others

Services:
A Pocket Guide to Hell Tour by Paul Durica
A Chicago Pedway Tour by Hui-Min Tsen
NFO XPO Booth for Version
Reuben Kincaid Project Window Installation for one month
Advertisement in Lumpen
Advertisement in Proximity
A Set of Bridgeport WPA posters

ALSO PART OF THE EVENING:

Performances by: MR 666 and Deep Earth.

The Hornswagglers will be slinging their specialty drinks.

$10 Admission please. (you will also get two raffle tickets)

I posted a bunch of photos of my studio to flickr a few days ago, with some of the work in progress due for the show at Fountain Studios. Right now i’m trying to finish up the drawing components to pair with the sculptures. Will update soon. Keep this frequency clear!

first draft of the new animation for threewalls screening on friday, i’m really happy with some bits of this, other bits need to be tweaked, but i’ve got like 3-4 more sequences ready to plug in and a few more that haven’t been made in maya yet, but i’m liking the retro, glitchy feel to the visuals and loving the unfolding cubes….. now if only i could make these in real life… if you wanna see this finished and projected on a wall with awesome musical accompaniment hustle on over to threewalls on friday.

Holly and I have new pieces in a show opening at a new space called — The (Con)Temporary Art Space –  in the Loop tomorrow (thursday the 18th) night. “An Evening with your Contemporaries” features art works from artists including Ed Marszewski, Rachel Marszewski, Emily Clayton, Theordore Darst, Henry James Glover, Serena Himmlefarb, Sara Louden, Chris Roberson, Andrew Rigsby, Douglas Burns and Holly Holmes. Opening is from 4.30 – 8.30pm. (C)TAS is located at 208 South Wabash, Chicago, IL. For a sneak peak of the show / space check out my flickr set.

(C)TAS is brought to you by the folks who produce Proximity, Lumpen, Version Vest and the Co-Prosperity Sphere, The (Con)Temporary Art Space is a an avenue for discussion, research and action. The former retail space will be used as a working studio by cultural workers, producers, artists and designers for projects they are working on collectively and individually. The Public will be able to absorb these presentations as well as share their ideas about contemporary art. The (Con)Temporary Art Space will function as a information center and a place to learn about Chicago’s diverse art ecology.

Holly has some work in UnCommon Territories, opening Friday night (the 19th) at Heaven Gallery too! So we’re pretty crazed this week, but if you’re out and about stop by and say hi.

Holly Holmes, Grow Club. Seeds, Vacuum Formed Plastic. Dims var. 2009

Half way thru uploading some new drawings to flickr produced this last month. I’m really happy with the direction the work is taking. it’s certainly giving me some pause as i circle around almost fifteen years in terms of interest and output, back to the humble cube and all the variants and possibilities it offers. Look out for new installations, animations, sculpture, video and drawings in the months to come.

The focus of these drawings has been two fold (ha! pun). first to make some schematics for custom sections akin to tetris blocks for new sculpture i’m planning, cut first on laser cutter and then assembled spore like in the studio and painted. second to continue to try and solve the problem of making a cube flatten completely to a square a conundrum i;d like to realize in both sculpture and time based medium > which gave rise to a good number of drawings riffing off tetris like patterning and then finally some drawings taking the square as building block rather than the cube per se and of course comnig bakc around to make patterns based on the square too.

stay tuned. all will be revealed!

wow…. this last 3 weeks has been insane. and tomorrow we have an opening at What It Is…. i’ve been teaching a class at UIC and another at SAIC… plus doing renovations… and Holly is a grad student at SAIC which means she is at school 13 hours a day… so all things considered there has been no time for retrospective scannings and postings. i came across this piece cleaning the office so i went ahead and posted it for good measure. created at pearl one afternoon it depicts an Interactive Art Lab behemoth. IAL was a web design / hosting / start up Jeremiah aka Piko Piko (aka small and round) and I worked on together for a few years. this was a stab i had at “branding” … needless to say we didn;’t use it in our marketing campaign but i still like it…. it reminds me of lego star ships i would make as a kid, (minus the penis protrusions and nipples of course….)

Pattern Recognition, 2009

Drawing (above) featured in artXposium 2009 (details below) being held today in West Chicago.

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Contact Person: Anni Holm, Co-Founder & Curator
Company Name: People Made Visible, Inc.
Telephone Number: 847.436.2664
Email: artxposium@gmail.com
Website: http://artxposium.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
West Chicago (IL 60185), September, 2009

artXposium 2009

On September 19, 2009, the West Chicago City Museum, located at 132 Main Street in West Chicago, will open its doors to the third annual artXposium, a multimedia art experience, in collaboration with People Made Visible, Inc. Local, national and international artists will come together to display a variety of art work ranging from traditional media, to interactive and multimedia installations.

In addition to the West Chicago City Museum, artXposium events and exhibitions will take place in Gallery 200, Main Street Storefronts, the 19th century CB&Q Depot, the West Chicago City Museum and the West Chicago Public Library District. Saturday, September 19th the exhibition opens at 11am, and features a guided tour at 2pm. Saturday evening from 5 to 10 pm will feature a closing reception with an artist talk by Danish Artist in Residence, Berit Nørgaard, performances by Alison Rhoades, Core Project, Kathryn Born and John & Mandy Rakow, along with food, drinks, and a silent auction. (Full program available at artxposium.org.)

New to the program this year are the Meet the Artists Potluck on Friday, September 18 at 7pm and an 8pm screening of Reach the Rock written by the late John Hughes and filmed in West Chicago in the 1990s.

Featured artists and performers include:
Lise Haller Baggesen, Kathryn Born, Jessica Bruah, Tom Burtonwood, Andrew Coppersmith, Core Project, Stephanie Dean, Adam Farcus, Benjamin Funke, Valerie J. Gordon, Annie Heckman, Anni Holm, Holly Holmes, Nate Mathews, Sara Peak, Irene Pérez, John Rakow, Mandy Rakow, Brian Reis, Alison Rhoades, Rachel Weaver Rivera, Ingrida Slajuvienne, Christopher Smith, Ted Strandt, Allison Yasukawa, Colin & Emily York

artXposium is curated by Anni Holm and Irene Pérez and organized in conjunction with the West Chicago International Artist in Residency Program featuring Berit Nørgaard’s project: If I Can Do It – You Can Do It Too.

artXposium Hours: Friday 7-10pm & Saturday 11am-10pm. This event is open to the public and free (suggested donation $2).

One of the first frames of the new animation, not much to see here – yet, but i wanted to post it to remind myself mostly how much i love the line quality — just a simple stabilo pastel pencil drawn across somerset paper — very exciting!

Doom Bear Havoc, drawing, 2002

Between October 2001 and August 2002 i worked at Pearl Paint in Chicago along with many. many other fine, young, crazy, displaced, deranged, artists and art students too many to name…. each day was a constant fight whether the vampires (certain managers) who were trying to steal our souls, the lincoln park trixies casting their intricate wedding invitation faux vellum curses on the hapless paper dpeartment, or the general suck that is retail…. to all of you artists who suffered and suffer still in retail hell  i post this image, of Doom Bear Havoc remember him at 4pm on a rainy afternoon with 2 hours to go, no more breaks, no caffiene to be had, no sonic youth on the stereo and a line of zombies assaulting your counter…..