September 2008
3 posts
"Looks Like Freedom"
at DOVA Temporary Gallery
Time Out Chicago / Issue 185 : Sep 11–17, 2008
AfriCOBRA steals this show. Formed on the South Side in the 1960s to provide a visual manifestation of the Black Power movement, the black artists’ collective created brilliant, African-inspired graphic designs with militant messages. In one of Barbara Jones-Hogu’s vibrant silk-screened posters, a mother and her...
"Transfusion"
at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
Time Out Chicago / Issue 184 : Sep 4–10, 2008
Evanston’s Mitchell Museum of the American Indian touts itself as the only museum of its kind in Chicagoland. But you’ve seen exhibits like its permanent displays before: They isolate Native objects of the past—empty headdresses, teepee dioramas—under glass, diminishing their cultural, spiritual and...
Art Below the Radar
Parts and Labor Collective - Chicago, IL
Proximity Magazine #2 - Fall 2008
Fledgling artists are dishearteningly told that a mere 1 percent of their ranks will “make it” in the art world. Simultaneously, a stereotype persists of the troubled yet creative mind of the artist, good only for the production of masterpieces and occasional cryptic statements about their work. In 2006 the...