3-D 12 presents "Sculpture Where It's At!

INFORMATION:
Contact Peter N. Gray, peter@metal-i-genics.com,312-925-4905, www.3d12sculptors.org

Where It's At WithSculpture  

An Exhibition by 3-D 12 Sculptors

"Tear Up, Tear Down"

3-D 12 Sculptors present "Sculpture, Where It's At!", a big-impact exhibition of innovative work including performance, sculpture, painting and drawing relating to the design culture of three-dimensional art.  This collective body of work revolves around Material, the show's theme.  By design, pieces with a natural or industrial context happily co-mingle with vibrant reconfigured plastic and paper works. 

DATES: October 1^st through October 15^th

LOCATION:  4161 N. Damen Avenue Chicago, IL 60613   Phantom Gallery, 773-501-7730

RECEPTION & PERFORMANCE: Saturday, October 13       7-11pm with performance at 8:30pm

GALLERY HOURS: Monday - Friday 6-8pm; Saturday & Sunday 1-5pm; Saturday October 13^th continuous 5-11pm, reception starting at 7pm & performance at 8:30pm.

RECEPTION & PERFORMANCE:

Saturday, October 13, 2012 - 7:00pm  Live Performance at 8:30pm

Through a variety of sculpture 3-D 12 offers a full range of color, texture, and style to its audience. Following a successful series of collaborations (2008-2012), artists Peter N. Gray, Alan Emerson Hicks, Mimi Peterson, and Eric Steele continue to explore the metaphysical process of recycling found materials and objects. Shelley Gilchrist, Ruyell Ho, Beth Kamhi, Jim MacRoberts, and Michelle Stone offer a softer interpretation of the theme in personal landscape. The works of 3-D 12 make a clear statement that sculpture can be a way of interfacing between language, lifestyle and emotion in order to join the socially conscious dialog between community and art as prompted by the 2012 Chicago Artist Month theme "Art, Block by Block". 

GALLERY HOURS: Monday - Friday 6-8pm; Saturday & Sunday 1-5pm; Saturday October 13^th continuous 5-11pm, reception starting at 7pm & performance at 8:30pm.

 

 

http://artsmeet.artsusa.org/index.php?eID=3042

Featured Artist - Liz Tuckwell

 Liz Tuckwell is a painter currently living in Chicago, Illinois.

Bio and Artist Statement 2012
 

  Shortly after graduating with a BA in Spanish from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, she relocated to Amsterdam, The Netherlands where she dedicated herself to her artwork and her love of travel. After nearly ten years of creating art abroad, she returned to her hometown of Chicago in 2005.

 

Tuckwell, Liz

Trio of Green Part III

Oil on Panel

495.

 

The main focus of her work is painting, which can most accurately be described as Abstract Expressionism.

 

“My work is a visual collage of colors. Marrying the color elements and the composition of the painting I am effectively able to translate my inner dialogues with an outside audience. I believe that art is an investigation into being, and that my art is an investigation into my own being. Through the examination of colors, forms, composition, and textures in oil painting I am able to deconstruct emotional concepts and present them visually. My work explores the fragility of the internal condition and strives to create a visual conversation and connection with my viewers.”

 

"Cocoon Revealing Itself"

 

 

Recent exhibitions include the Chicago Art Department in May of 2012. She currently lives, works and teaches in Chicago, Illinois. She is available for studio visits by appointment. She can be contacted either by email at info@liztuckwell.com, or by telephone at 773 480 5669.

 

Her work can be viewed online at www.liztuckwell.com and information on private classes can be seen at create.liztuckwell.com.

Network Partnerships 2012 - 2013

Phantom Galleries Alternative Exhibition Spaces

Phantom Gallery Chicago Network

Afro-Latino Historical Society, B1E Gallery, DigiWorld, The Chicago Modern Orchestra Project, Spiral Visions, Borderbend Arts Collective, DayDreamProject, Chicago Project Management, and the Pink Gun Project, 47th Ward Streetscape, Lawrence/Clark to Western.

B1E Gallery, 6902 N. Glenwood

Art Block by Block- Phantom Gallery Chicago is currently networking with Andrew DelaRosa, owner and director of B1E Gallery. B1E is a notable art gallery in the Glenwood Avenue Arts District. They have a very vibrant "sculpture garden" you can view on Glenwood Avenue from the Red Line Morse train stop. Andrew has called upon artists in his inner circle to work as preparers for upcoming installations for the Phantom Gallery in the South Shore Arts District.

He has a sculpture garden in a fenced yard at the gallery, and sculptures are also distributed along the arts corridor. His group has executed some pretty cool murals in Rogers Park. He currently has an installation at a PopUp in the Loop that will be installed in the Phantom space in November/December. You can use Google Earth maps to see photos of the sculpture garden. B1E has been a very positive influence on that area for the past seven years.




AnySquared Projects at Anywhere Space Studio

2328 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL, United States, +1 773-862-9609

The Phantom Gallery Chicago Network will be presenting
"Creative Currency Words to Live By" at the Squared! Art Block by Block, during Chicago Artists Month on October 13, from 12 noon - 10 PM. Projections will be on the wall across the street from the storefront beginning at dusk.



Threads Etc., Consignment Store, Logan Square

    Projection Wall Rant-A-Thon Location N. Milwaukee 2400 block



 

 



 

    

BAC Installation Day

"Art is Business"  Berlin Art Club Installation Day--- September 3rd, 2012, this hall is a wonderful venue. Artist arrived throughout the morning focused on setting up their wall space in the most productive way. The hall is lit by natural sunlight, can't wait to see how it looks in the evening. I am so honored to be amongst the caliber of artists that joined the Berlin Art Club in its 1st bac honoring 100 artists. The publication is top notice, and the organizers have worked tirelessly to pull off such a venture on a grassroots level.

 

I worked on recreating a 30" x 36 painting of the AACM Tribute to Fletcher Henderson just for this exhibition. The main image in the painting is featuring Kahir B a Chicago land poet, who is the current president of the AACM of Chicago.  He has relocated to the New York spoken word scene and perhaps in the years to come will check out the Berlin spoken word scene. When I first saw KaHir B in concert at MP  Amphitheater he was on "Fire", I had to capture his pen to paper, as I did Nicole Mitchell, Dee Alexander, and Anne Ward on keyboards.

 

 

Susan Fox is the owner of the 1st color study and uses the images to brand her "Intersections Series", held at Elastic Arts. It has been suggested over the last five years that I turn some of my 16" x 12" acrylics on watercolor paper into murals or larger paintings after this residency in Berlin, I think I shall take their advice.

 

Tonight is the opening, and I am on my way out the door to flag a taxi for the ride over, I won't be on public transportation tonight.

Snap Shot Series

Susanne Quadt- opened her studio to Alpha Bruton, Renee Baker, and Alan Emerson Hicks while they were in Berlin for the International Art Adventure's "Wanderlust Chicago Berlin 2012. She also opened her studio so that we could complete our self directed residency and prepare for the Berlin Art Club's 1st BAC Exhibition. I asked Susanne to share  short snap shot stories of her life and how she began her own journey as an artist fifteen years ago.

 

 

Part 1

 

 

 

 

Part 2-

 Susanne purchased a home in Turkey sixteen years ago, and spends six months of the year there, and the other six months here in Berlin. She describes her home one that still uses a wood burning stove to heat the house, and she takes her tea out on the porch. She often takes her sketch so she can capture  her surroundings, and explore form and texture.

BERLIN ART CLUB bac 1st

"Art is Business"

Revitalizing the Soul and the Neighborhood through Art

"Art is Business" repost for Theaster Gates Art Place, written by Tim Halbur

"..The project is part of a larger intervention in the community by visual artist and urban planner Theaster Gates, whose art has been included in the Whitney Biennial, the New York Armory Show, and the Inax Ceramic Museum of Japan. In addition to his arts pedigree, Gates has a master’s degree in urban planning and a passion for revitalizing neighborhoods like Grand Crossing."

http://urbanland.uli.org/Articles/2012/June/ul/HalburArt#.UD5EdEiuUY5.mailto

 

 

Built in 1888, this once-vacant house
on the South Side of Chicago
has been renovated inside and out
to serve as the Library and Archive
House, holding a collection of art and
architectural books.
Credit: Propellerfund

 

http://urbanland.uli.org/Articles/2012/June/ul/HalburArt#.UD5EdEiuUY5.mailto

Two-story building on South
Dorchester Street is being renovated
to serve as the Black Cinema House.
All rights reserved Rebuild Foundation

Artproject-Chicago-Syke-Berlin 2012

"Art is Business" by Marianna Buchwald

Pressetext:


Eine Künstlergruppe aus Chicago kommt dieses Wochenende nach Syke. Es ist schon lange geplant, in Syke neue Werke entstehen zu lassen – in gewissem Sinne ein Symposion.

Kurzfristig hat sich ergeben, daß diese Künstlerbegegnung auf der Hofstelle von Elsa Töbelmann und Henning Greve in Schnepke stattfinden soll.

Die Initiative kommt von Marianna Buchwald, die in Syke durch die Aufführung des Scharniertheaters schon bekannt ist. Sie hatte letztes Jahr und dieses Jahr die Regie bei den Aufführungen im Kreismuseum geleitet.

Renée Baker "Letting Go" 2012 Self-Directed Residence

 

Dieses Mal geht es bei ihrer Initiative um den Austausch zwischen amerikanischen und deutschen Künstlern, die sich zum Abschluss in Berlin treffen werden.

Bei dem Schnepker-Künstlertreffen wird Marianna Buchwald malen, genauso wie Alpha Bruton, die expressiv, mit kräftigen Farben arbeitet. Alan Emerson Hicks ist bekannt für seine durchlässigen Gebilde, fein modellierte Objekte, die alle aus Plastikabfällen entstehen. Als Vierte der Gruppe aus Chicago ist die Violinistin Renée Baker mitgekommen. Sie ist nicht nur Musikerin und Komponistin, sondern auch Schriftstellerin und Malerin.

Weitere Informationen sind unter folgender der Webadresse zu finden:

Marianna Buchwald and Henning Greve, our host in Skye

 

Aus diesem Anlass sind Besucher herzlich eingeladen, am Sonntag, den 19. August, von 15:00 bis 18:00 Uhr, den Künstlern bei der Arbeit zuzusehen und sich mit ihnen zu unterhalten. Außerdem besteht dabei die Möglichkeit sich den großen Ausstellungsgarten von Elsa Töbelmann und Henning Greve, mit den Wind - und Bewegungsobjekten an der Schnepker Str. 9  (Syke - Schnepke) anzusehen und durch das Gelände zu spazieren.



Alpha Bruton, in Hannover, Germany, "VSN" 2012
finden.

Weitere Informationen zu Alpha Bruton finden sich unter www.artwanted.com.

Eigene Aufnahme für die Presse

Weitere Informationen zu den Künstlern lassen sich unter der Webadresse:

Alan Emerson Hicks, "Bird In Flight" Wanderlust Sculpture

Über Alan Emerson Hicks habe ich folgenden Text aus dem Netz heraus kopiert:
Alan Emerson Hicks was born in 1964. He was born and raised in the Chicago area. Alan's work focuses on a social commentary through and about the disposal of trash today.

"My artwork is about transformation. I collect plastic commonplace objects and societal detritus, bottles, grocery bags, caps, hangers, videotape, and use them to make sculpture. I want the viewer to see the objects of their everyday lives anew, hopefully changing the way they dispose of these items…My work is a commentary on what our society views as important and unimportant," says Hicks.

He attended Lindblom Technical High School and received a Bachelor's of Fine Arts Degree from Illinois State University. While Alan was in school, he studied sculpture, multimedia formats, woodworking, metalworking, drawing, and printmaking. Once he graduated, Hicks began his career as an artist and worked with a variety of media until he found a passion for turning trash into social commentary on society's views of what is important and what's unimportant.

 

Mariana Buchwald, in Hannover, Germany, 2012

 

 

Elsa Töbelmann und Henning Greve in Syke

 

(http://chicagoartmagazine.com and http://2006.chicagocalling.org/index.html#artists )

FEATURED ARTIST ALPHA BRUTON- Self Directed Residency

Self
I am exploring Germany by way of the Euro-rail, my journey started on July 23rd, where I boarded the  train from Frankfurt, to Ramstein. Since 2009 I have visited the Rheinland-Pfalz, Center for Documentation and Exhibition of the History of the US Americans in the Rhinelnad Palatinate www.dc-ramstein.de, this years exhibition focus is on Mein Ami, 60 ea of U.S. Air Force in Rheinland Pfalz, 1952 to 2012.

African American performers touring Germany 1960's Archie Bell

The installation gave me some ideas on how to present a research project I am working on for the African American Historical and Cultural Museum in Fresno California, and Fresno Public Library Genealogical Society. Several desk are stationed around the museum for visitors to journal, and record their voice to history.

 I also visited the garden dedicated to President John F. Kennedy, before boarding the city bus to Kaiserslautern where I stopped in on an art gallery, to chat with a couple of artists. While working in my studio in the village of Meinabach I finished art I started in 2011, which concludes my series.

On Sunday September 19th I will be making my way to Sype to the studio of Rolf Schuetzez, ATelier ARtefact, to join Marianna, Renee, and Alan for a intensive self directed residency, creating artwork for exhibition in Pankow, and for Chicago Artists Month 2012. I am also commissioned to create four works of art for the Chicago Modern Orchestra Project by Renee Baker,images I sketched during 2011 Create Fest, at the Brown Rice in Chicago.

2011 VSN

Joining the Wanderlust Chicago-Berlin 2012 project for an installation in Pankow,

Aug 23. 7pm at a public library in Wilhelmsruhe * in East Berlin

Aug. 24 - 25 afternoon and evening exhibition and presentations at Flotte Lotte, these events are organized by our artist friend and curator Renate Brummer in Wilhelmsruhe

The Berlin Art Club is aimed to be a "house of art" a home for all artists, visual artists and performance artists, a place for art lovers of all genres.

BAC is planning to have individual exhibitions of renowned artists and galleries from the Art-space of planet earth to come to Berlin. The BAC is the current front of a number of activities concerning the presentation of art and artists.

Extraordinary situations require extraordinary measures!

Berlin Art Club 2012 will happen in September 3 - 11th, 2012. I will be displaying artwork created as part of my Vibrational Sound Narratives, representing the Phantom Gallery Chicago Network's first participation in the Berlin Art Club's annual exhibition featuring 100 international artists.

Dee Alexander, and Nicole Mitchell, AACM Tribute 2007

AACM Tribute to Fletcher Henderson 2007

Smaller work will be on sale in the bac store, and a PowerPoint presentation which will show all 139 pieces which are for sale on www.Artwanted.com/alphabruton

Pipelines and Borderline​s Fotios Fzemenides

"Art is Business" by Fotios Fzemenides

Howdy y’all, I certainly hope summer has been treating everyone well. If anyone feels like seeing some art, I will have work at the following exhibitions:

Atra Mors, by artist Fotios Fzemenides

My new print “Atra Mors” will be shown for the first time as part of the touring print exhibition: Pipelines and Borderlines: People can’t drink oil! From August 17th until August26th at Expressions Graphics in Oak Park with an opening reception this Friday from 6-9:30 pm. On Saturday the 18th at 2pm, one of the participating artists, Rene Arceo, will give a talk about the history of political printmaking in Mexico.

 Expressions Graphics

29 Harrison
Oak Park, IL  60304
www.peoplecantdrinkoil.blogspot.com

There is also a Kickstarter campaign to help expand the reach of the project:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/425338208/people-cant-drink-oil-print-portfolio-project

My new print from the Heroes/Villains series titled “Tirelessly Toiling Towards Truth” which just showed at Santa  Cruz’s Art League’s Prints Galore!, will be showing in two more exhibitions:

 It is currently showing at Axis Gallery’s 7thNational Juried Exhibition which is running now through August 26th.

 Axis Gallery

1517 19th St
Sacramento, CA95811

 It will also be at the Alexandria Museum of Art’s 25^th September Juried Competition that runs from September 21 through November 24with an opening reception Friday, September 21 from 6-9 pm and a gallery talk led by the juror Linda Stein on Thursday, September 27 from 6-8 pm.

Alexandria Museum of Art
933 Second Street
Alexandria, Louisiana71301

Four of my prints will be part of the West Tampa Center for the Arts’ sociopolitical art event called "Common Sense" which is taking place during the Republican National Convention from Monday August 27th through Thursday August 30th.

West Tampa Center for the Arts
1906 N Armenia Avenue
Tampa, FL 33607

My print “Beta Conflagration” will be showing at the St. Louis Artist Guild’s exhibition:

Lay of the Landform August 24th through October 21st with an opening reception Friday, August 24th from 6-9pm.

 St. Louis Artist’s Guild

Two Oak Knoll Park
Clayton, MO63105

Also this upcoming fall three of my prints from the series: “The Four” will be part of Prescott College’s Popular Campaigns and Political Culture exhibition that runs from November 2 through December 7.

Prescott College Art Gallery

220 Grove Avenue
Prescott, AZ    86301

As a note, the prints “Atra Mors” and the series “Heroes/Villains” were made possible by a Community Arts Assistance Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

Links:
www.peoplecantdrinkoil.blogspot.com
http://www.axisgallery.org/Axis/Home.html
http://www.themuseum.org/ExhibitsCollections/UpcomingExhibits.aspx
http://www.wtca-art.org/
http://www.stlouisartistsguild.org/new/
http://prescott.edu/gallery/

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"Art is Business"

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At Any Squared in Logan Square 2012

 

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When I design a website, (blog interface) I’m constantly considering how the site will be built and how it will function. This way, you can be sure that both design and usability will be considered along every step of the way.

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Artist/Art Consultant

FEATURED ARTIST AUGUST 2012

Curator Piotr ask Greg what is your art about? Tell me how you began your quest to be an artist?
Greg responds:

BIO: Greg Giesking  It was about a girl!

Poetry is like a good woman

i crave to lust-

carelessly loving large.

As a young boy

trying to find a muse

with a deep ambition to change

the world with words.

Words change with age

as i be get'n older-  

imagination leaks.  As i stubble

upon painting with a vengeance.

Within love, support

of family and friends-

that choose to understand

with no regret,  i continue my approach

to find the light in the darkness (love). 

Only than we have nothing to fear.

Cause i will always be a boy

kick'n in the gutter

an empty pop can-

trying to find the, bleached out

pastels of a road home.

Only to kick in a dent.

Not trying to change society

but only to direct  it

towards humanity. 

Love is chaos

love hurts.

Yet love is a constant- 

like breathing.  

It's  everything we need.

So love large and carelessly.

Life is unexplainable, yet we are here. 

As all of us can take a bad turn.

Do a 180-

and realize again-

we be alive.

-g.Lyle

Piotr Wolodkowicz Curator of Summer Love

Exhibition dates are July 28, 2012 to August 28, 2012 with an opening on 08/10/2012 at International Arts Group Phantom Gallery 4161 N Damen Ave, Chicago Ill 60619.

The International Art Gallery space is a collaboration project between International Arts Group and the Phantom Gallery Chicago Network. This project was created to promote up and coming artists and expose them to curatorial practices in an international gallery setting.

Gallery curators are Piotr Wolodkowicz, Lewis Rice and Alan Emerson Hicks.

For more information please call Piotr Wolodkowicz, at 773- 592- 3442

phantomgallerychicago@gmail.com.