06.22.06 – 06.24.06 As part of the one-year anniversary, <i> The Girl in the Bathroom</i> will be evicted June 22nd. Collection date. The portrait of Marie Valigorsky will be removed from the Green Lantern bathroom, where she sits on the wall staring into the shower. She will be re-printed and framed in found frames of an as-yet undetermined number. All prints will be hung at once in the space on June 22nd, 23rd and 24th, before being released and hung at various undisclosed locations around the city. You are invited to take her home if you see her. She is … Read more

04.28.06 – 05.28.06 Brooke Barnett w/ The Girlie-Q Variety Hour In this body of work Barnett is exploring the range and significance of the different roles she plays in her life. Those roles exude their own respective ambiguities and these are given the chance to play out; the viewer can sit with a piece, as one might a stranger, and settle into the awkward humor of sex, gender, orientation, and familial roles. In doing so, we ferret out the core of Barnett’s identity. The names and baggage associated with her many roles seem plastic and constricting until we step in … Read more

10.06.06-11.04.06 Carmen Price As part of CHICAGO ARTIST MONTH <i>Old Saw</i> is comprised by very small humble pieces; in keeping with the found materials and tramp aesthetic that Price observes, <i>Old Saw</i> is an old tradition revisited, in which, formalist questions of composition are explored through the interplay of materials, obscure abstraction and small portraits of strange figurines. The result is a linear landscape that leads the eye through a cryptic and sculptural narrative. Carmen Price takes wood found in Chicago dumpsters, applies his own images on the surface, and transforms this found wood into fine art. Individual boards are … Read more

05.25.06 – 05.27.06 A mixed media installation about eternal youth and abandonment. Including four sculptures of old men in stiff kimonos: Earnest, Fred, Meyer and Timothy, four umbrellas, appropriated images and three hanging canvases. Also at the Big Horse, and The Green Lantern.

There is economy at play here. As one becomes more aware of what economy entails, one realizes the truth of that statement. Economy is at play here in this room, in your home, at work, in your bed. We invited economy into this space, but who ascribed it omniscience? In order to answer this question, we must first find out what is meant by ‘economy.’ In order to find out what is meant by ‘economy,’ we invited it into this room. Economy can mean thrift, but it is not equivalent to thrift. Economy can mean a delicate balance between individuals … Read more

08.15.06* – 08.26.06 Albany Park Refugee Children *ONE-TIME PERFORMANCE at 7pm on August 15th with an exhibit of work by the same group of students treating the same themes up until August 26th, 2006. Video documentation of the performance will be available. A community of Chicago’s Albany Park Refugee children is going to perform an original one-act play about the twilight before sunrise when dreams go to sleep and birds begin to sing. This intuitive collaboration is the product of six weeks worth of work including set design, costume design, character development and serves as an opportunity for the children … Read more

09.08.06 – 09.30.06 Matthew Tetzloff As per <i>Around the Coyote</i>, Wicker Park’s Annual Fall Arts Festival M Tetzloff 1SWM, 31 6″ 1902, non-smoker, recovering Catholic, finds pleasure in making forms above all things. 3 Enjoys reading, going to the theater, and live performances of such things as music, but also enjoys a quiet night at home watching movies or playing winning 11 on the play station 2.4. Has terrible pun-based sense of humor that grows on you after a while, but only because he is otherwise fairly pleasant in disposition. Very much enjoys hanging out at bars and restaurants, and … Read more

07.07.06 – 08.11.06 Abby Coe & John Bissonette TN artists Abby Coe and John Bissonette collaborate to bring a home to Chicago. Through the guise of kittens and pabst, this couple creates an exhibition to complement the faux interiors of Bed, Bath and Beyond. While mall bedrooms and window homes are stripped of all personal affects, Coe and Bissonette create an environment where home furnishings are supplanted by tokens of sentimentality and American culture. Cats are drawn and painted in glam-pinks on found materials. Markers and paper and crayons and glue deliberately stray from other mediums that bear the authority … Read more