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Dear Friends of Next Art Chicago, Through our commitment to developing a citywide event which engages and celebrates the diverse visuals arts community of Chicago, we are pleased to announce our new 2012 Host Committee and Curatorial Committee. Members of both include leaders and curators from our primary cultural partners alongside collectors and civic leaders whose support will help shape Chicago’s international fair of contemporary art. While our city has come to associate the art fair in Chicago with the iconic Merchandise Mart, we are excited to be working with architects Alex Lehnerer and Paul Preissner to re-imagine the fair design for the 2012 edition of Next Art Chicago. The two innovative architects, both professors at UIC, are collaborating on a fresh layout as well a cohesive and striking aesthetic identity for the fair floor. This month we will host our third Collectors' Colloquium session at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers featuring a discussion on art buying at auction – please join us. Visit nextartchicago.com for session details and registration. Stay warm! |
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Staci Boris Executive Director Next Art Chicago |
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January 20 Global Cities, Model Worlds Global Cities, Model Worlds, is an exhibition that explores the spatial and social impacts of “mega events,” such as the Olympics and World’s Fairs. |
January 26 Ceci n’est pas une reverie: Ceci n’est pas une reverie(This is not a dream) is both a retrospective and a reexamination of Stanley Tigerman's architectural concepts. Throughout the exhibition his work is organized in relation to nine themes, which single out certain leitmotifs of his thought since 1960: Utopia, Allegory, Humor, Death, Division, (Dis)Order, Identity, Yaleiana, and Drift. This exhibition builds on the playful, oneiric, and surrealist undercurrents apparent in this work. |
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January 22 Cathy Wilkes: I Give You All My Money Over the past five years, Irish artist Cathy Wilkes |
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January 10 Culture Catalysts: Stephanie Izard was born in the Chicago suburb of Evanston but grew up in Stamford, Connecticut. After graduating from the Le Cordon Bleu program at the Scottsdale Culinary Institute, she worked at several restaurants before making the decision to return to Chicago in 2001. Stephanie is the winner of season four of Bravo’s Top Chef, owner and executive chef at The Girl and the Goat, author of her first cookbook, girl in the kitchen: how a top chef cooks, thinks, shops, eats, and drinks, to be released in October. Book signing follows talk at 7:30 pm. |
January 26 Joseph Grigely Lecture: "No Good (Except Historical)": A talk about the beauty of failure Joseph Grigely will lecture on a topic from his forthcoming book Textualterity 2. As he describes, “Our culture is obsessed with perfection, it loves the masterpiece, it adores virtuosity, but perfection and masterpieces and virtuosity all evolve at the expense of failure--things that go wrong and create in the process opportunities from which beauty emerges, sometimes in the most impossible of ways.” Examples discussed in the talk will include poems and paintings, as well as perfumes, diamonds, and trout flies, and the complex place of failure in the making of art forms like these. |
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January 26 How To Do Things In Public Spaces Tricia Van Eck, former curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art and founder of 6018 North and the Happiness Project, talks about concepts and logistics with a panel of artists and performers who have organized festivals, happenings, installations and performances in public spaces. This forum is part of the At Work Forums series, sponsored by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, in partnership with the Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture. |
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January 20 Opening Reception: In collaboration with CAC’s Hatch Projects, Twelve Galleries Project presents Quarterly Site #9: Support curated by female design collective Quite Strong. The exhibition showcases two communities of visual creatives-HATCH Projects artists and Quite Strong Lust List designers. |
January 26 Opening Reception: Contributing artists Randy Hayes and Vera Klement will kick Limits of Photography off with an artist talk in the MoCP’s main gallery at 4 pm. The opening reception, which is free and open to the public, begins at 5 pm. The Limits of Photography explores the area where the viewer loses faith in the veracity of photography. |
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..... January 22 Curator Tour: Join Matthew Jesse Jackson, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Arts at the University of Chicago, and Kimberly Mims, PhD candidate at the University of Chicago, for tours of the exhibitions "Vision and Communism" and "Process and Artistry in the Soviet Vanguard." |
.... January 27 Opening Reception: Morbid Curiosity: Morbid Curiosity showcases collector Richard Harris’ nearly 1,000 works, including creations by many of the greatest artists of our time, which explore the iconography of death across a variety of artistic, cultural and spiritual practices from 2000 B.C.E. to the present day. Visit the Cultural Center for a gallery talk with artists Jodie Carey and Guerra de la Paz on Saturday, January 28 at 3 pm. |
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