PHANTOM GALLERY CALL FOR CURATORS FOR CHICAGO ARTISTS MONTH 2010

"The City as Studio"
This year’s theme explores the impact of the urban environment on Chicago artists and their work, as well as the contributions artists make to the vitality of our city. The place where art is imagined and made, whether in a physical or virtual space, affects the idea, the process, and the final product. And the art, once created, leaves a mark on the place it occupies. Chicago Artists Month 2010 examines how the city influences art and artists, and how artists transform the city by contributing to civic dialogue and the quality of life.

The Phantom Gallery seeks to provide a model situation for emerging curators to gain practical curating experience and to critically reflect on the issues involved.

The aim of the Phantom Galleries during Chicago Artists Month is to examine changes in current curatorial production and to develop innovative displays in relation to these physical storefronts or virtual spaces.

BRIEF description of the proposed program: Transforming Urban...

Curating means creating innovative structures for presenting cultural artifacts through interdisciplinary collaboration. In this field, art, digital media, and design relate to one another in new ways. The last few years have seen curators working in increasingly close collaboration with artists, designers, and educationalists on the development of exhibitions, projects in the public sphere, the design of museum spaces, and the presentation of collections. Contemporary exhibitions are changing, with new interpretative strategies complementing the integration into exhibitions of innovative display structures, lounge areas, archives, reading rooms, and new media interfaces.

This project will be sponsored by Lauren G Lowery, Vice President

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POP UP Art in the LOOP

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Gallery/Exhibit Name: Cleveland Dean, Less Than a Hero

Gallery Dates: Now Running

Gallery Address: 23 E. Madison

This gallery is presented in association with Chicago Artists' Coalition

“My work is that which bridges the unconscious and conscious, painted in depictions abstracted from my psyche. This can only be done by stepping outside my self-sanctuary and embracing that which exists deep within my soul. Many times when I paint, I black out, go into a trance, and awake to realize I have just given birth to expression. I do not know the individual within me who paints. My physical frame is simply the vessel that expresses my mentality in form. I wish not to know this entity. I do not wish for my physical existence to influence this metaphysical being. I allow it to create movement within a still depiction, letting my soul dance on canvas."

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Chicago Urban Art Society "Sweet Tea & American Values

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Date: Friday, June 11th, 2010

Time: 6:00PM - 11:00PM

Location: 2229 South Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60608

Sounds by Deejay Sadie Woods

Exhibition Runs Through July 30th, 2010

Gallery Hours: Thursday + Friday 6-9pm and Saturday 1-5pm

The Sweet Tea & American Values exhibition is a glimpse into the absurd and, at times, distressing reality of our social experiment called the United States. The show is primarily comprised of meticulously hand-cut stencil work on canvas. Some of the work entitled No Race Creme references vintage skin-whitening advertisements from the early 1940s - '50s, with contemporary 'new' and 'improved' enhancements. 

While other works such as, The Oath Keepers engage conservative Christians and their historical commingling with war, violence and terror in America. A few works humorously highlight pop icons and political figures, including Michael Jackson, Thriller Zombie, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (Shoe Shine Blago, Run, Blago, Run w/ balloon, and Jailhouse Elvis Blago). 

The show also envisions a possible future of a dream realized in works like People Party and Everyman. The result is a candid perspective, at times bittersweet yet always sincere.

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Gallery Guichard at DuSable Museum: COMMON BONDS

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Chicago artists currently engaged in contemporary art practice reflect the atmosphere heralding the next fine art renaissance. These artists from the African Diaspora create works that offer a breathtaking glimpse into global creativity, with Midwestern sensibilities, and a reach that extends nationally and internationally.

The current President of the DuSable Museum, Dr. Carol Adams, is committed to excellence and connecting with the contemporary fine art experience by collaborating with the Gallery Guichard Fine Art Gallery.

The Common Bonds exhibition  featured works by:

Reginald Baylor, Brad Bernard, Sabrina Brooks, Robert Lewis Clark, Jeanette Wright-Claus, Calvin Coleman, Robert Dillworth, Daryl Harris, Dayo Layoe, Ted Ellis, Rhonda Gray, Gerald Griffin, Adam Guichard, Andre Guichard, Sharon Kerry-Harlan, Bruce Jefferson, Nolan McCants, Kudzai Mutasa, Joyce Owens, Tia Richardson, Ernani Silva, Tony Smith, Patricia Stewart, Marcel Taylor, Nathan Jalani Taylor, Pearlie Taylor, Dana Todd, Bryan Keith Thomas, Raymond Thomas, Buchi Upjohn and Lee White.

This exhibition opened with a reception featuring the presentation of five (5) paintings by nationally renowned Houston-based artist Ted Ellis. The paintings are a gift to the DuSable Museum collection from philanthropist Mr. Allen M. Turner. Mr. Allen M. Turner is chairman of the board of Columbia College Chicago’s Board of Trustees. He is a partner of the Pritzker Organization, a family investment firm. Turner is Chairman of the Visiting Committee on Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. He also serves on the committee on Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago; as a founding trustee of the Pritzker Architecture Prize; as a trustee of the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa; as a trustee of Columbia College; and as a trustee of the Newberry Library.

The Common Bonds exhibition opening was held on May 12, 2010, from 6pm until 9pm, with a presentation of Ted Ellis’s paintings at 7pm. The event was held at the DuSable Museum, which is located at 740 E. 56th Place in Chicago, IL. The exhibition will run through June 30, 2010.

Chicago Artists Month 2010: The City as Studio

PHANTOM GALLERY CHICAGO NETWORK CALL FOR CURATORS FOR
Theme: Chicago Artists Month 2010: The City as Studio
http://www.chicagoartistsmonth.org/

DEADLINE: Friday, May 19, 2010 for artists interested in exhibiting with the Phantom Gallery.

CRITERIA FOR PARTICIPATION
Chicago Artists Month (CAM) is a non-juried, citywide event coordinated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. CAM welcomes program submissions from organizations and individuals that meet the following criteria:

• Programs must feature one or more professional Chicago-based visual artists;

• Programs must take place in October at a public venue.

Note: Individual artist studios are not considered public venues unless they are part of a neighborhood art walk, studio building tour, or otherwise used as a public venue

This year’s theme, The City as Studio, explores the impact of the urban environment on Chicago artists and their work, and the contributions that artists make to the vitality of our city. The place where art is imagined and made, whether in a physical or virtual space, affects the idea, the process and the final product. And the art, once created, leaves a mark on the place it occupies. Chicago Artists Month 2010 looks at how the city influences art and artists, and how artists transform the city by contributing to civic dialogue and quality of life.

You are encouraged (though not required) to use this theme as you plan your October program.

To participate, visit www.chicagoartistsmonth.org for "Intent to Particpate Form"

DEADLINE: Friday, May 21 for Phantom Gallery to submit to CAM.