Review: Mark Steinmetz/Alibi Fine Art
RECOMMENDED Cats are cute. That goes without saying. A lot of photographers are partial to shooting them, another no-brainer. The felines are decidedly cute under Mark Steinmetz’ lens, but only to a...
View ArticleReview: Justin Thomas Leonard/Alibi Fine Art
RECOMMENDED It’s tornado season hereabouts and Justin Thomas Leonard just goes gaga over those thunderheads that incubate and generate the twisters, so much so that he goes out into the roiling...
View ArticleReview: Charles H. Traub/Alibi Fine Art
RECOMMENDED Chicagoans know how to get down and dirty, at least they did in the 1970s when Charles Traub shot them in black and white on the sweet city’s beaches. It was summer and it was hot, and we...
View ArticleReview: Joseph Sterling/Alibi Fine Art
RECOMMENDED If you’ve never been to Taste of Chicago, don’t worry; you’ll be right there in the thick of it when you see Joe Sterling’s black-and-white photographs of the gustatory...
View ArticleRenaissance Man of the Underground: The Life and End Times of Fred Burkhart
By Bill Hillmann Seventy-one-year-old photographer Fred Burkhart is a photo-documentary artist who has focused on various marginalized groups over his forty-five-year career. He has documented the...
View ArticleReview: David Gremp/Alibi Fine Art
RECOMMENDED David Gremp’s black-and-white, full-frontal street portraits of Chicagoans in the late 1970s, formal shots of storefronts from that time, and sometimes—in the best work in the show—both at...
View ArticleReview: Ron Cowie/Alibi Fine Art
RECOMMENDED A dyed-in-the-wool poetic photographer of the northern New England landscape, Ron Cowie shoots muted, middle-distance, black-and-white studies of the seashore (“Oceanhead Meditations”...
View ArticleReview: Adam Holtzman/Alibi Fine Art
RECOMMENDED What happens when you layer commercial pornographic images (shot off a computer screen) over plates from a fifty-year-old sex-education manual, and then print the composites as cyanotypes?...
View ArticleArt World’s Big Weekend 2014: Comprehensive Listing of Gallery Openings for...
Thursday, September 4 LOOP Dan Ramirez, painting Union League Club of Chicago, 65 West Jackson Opening reception: 5:30pm-7pm, through September 30 (Members only opening, viewing by appointment only)...
View ArticleNews: Memorial Celebration Planned After Death of Photographer Fred Burkhart
Well-loved artist Fred Burkhart died on Saturday, August 30, after a fight with cancer over the past three years. The seventy-two year old photographer spent the last three decades of his life in...
View ArticleReview: David Akiba/Alibi Fine Art
RECOMMENDED In David Akiba’s homage to the celebrated late-modernist photographer Harry Callahan, he takes up the tradition of the straight black-and-white abstraction that defined the frontiers of art...
View ArticleReview: Dan Farnum/Alibi Fine Art
RECOMMENDED It’s all about social class in Dan Farnum’s color street portraits of mainly youth in his hometown of Saginaw, Michigan and the outskirts of Detroit. Farnum is middle class and in his...
View ArticleReview: Iterations/Alibi Fine Art
RECOMMENDED Approaching photographic art as a philosophy of life, curator Adam Holtzman brings together three self-portraitists: Allison Barnes, a twenty-something; Rachel Hulin, who is in her thirties...
View ArticleNewcity’s Top 5 of Everything 2015: Art
Top 5 Art Anniversaries School of the Art Institute of Chicago (150th) The Renaissance Society (100th) Arts Club of Chicago (99th) Smart Museum (40th) Loyola University Art Museum (10th) –Elliot...
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