Posts Categorized: Exhibitions

In Clipping Signal

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Curators:

Luke Daly, Spudnik Press Cooperative
April Sheridan,  Columbia College’s Center for Book and Paper Arts

Featured Artists:

Rosmarie Waldrop
Keith Waldrop
Gustave Morin
Michael Carr
Brandon Downing
Jen Bervin
Eric Unger
Norma Cole
Bailey Romaine
David Baptiste Chirot
Lewis Freedman
Barrett Gordon
Tom Ahern
Krista Franklin
Brett Brady
Kyle Schlesinger

Dates:

05/17/2014 – 06/28/2014

Location:

The Annex @ Spudnik Press

Opening Reception:

Saturday May 17, 2014
6:00-9:00pm

Press Release:

In Clipping Signal is an exhibition of new and selected works by poets involved in the dual practices of writing and making visual collage. The show explores the connections between the practice of collage and its role in the formal, semantic and imaginative landscapes of contemporary poetic practice. The materials in the exhibition will consist of visual works as well as a publication consisting of images and writings exploring the intersections of poetry and visual art.

 

Good Vibrations

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Curator:

Tara Zanzig

Featured Artists:

Joey Potts, Austra, and Chema Skandal

Dates:

03/08/2014 – 03/30/2014

Location:

The Printshop @ Spudnik Press

Opening Reception:

Saturday March 8, 2014
6:00-9:00pm

Press Release:

Brutal winter, right?! Break out of the winter doldrums and get some Good Vibrations going over at Spudnik with the March show in the print shop featuring a few of Chicago’s best: Joey Potts, Austra, and Chema Skandal! Each artist’s work uniquely uses character in bright color palettes creating an environment of good good good…good vibrations.

This opening is a very special one as each artist has donated a one color design that you can print right there at the show! Try your hand at screen printing, support Chicago’s artists, hang out and have some fun. We hope to see you there!

Joey Potts works with a wide variety of media to create illustrations, animations, graphic prints, paintings and collage.  His influences include classic cartoons and animation, skateboarding, renaissance art, toys, religious iconography, abstract art, science fiction, movies, psychedelic art, music, and natural phenomena.

Austra is a painter, both street and studio. It’s not always smiles, but it’s all good. Austra’s characters showcase her distinct cartoon style. While cool and playful on the surface, her work explores a wide range of experience, the yin and the yang, and what it is to be.

Chema Skandal is a graphic artist, painter, and screen printer. His enthusiasm for popular music and images of the last century are evident in his body of work ranging from gig posters to outdoor murals.

 

Adaptation Arrangement Microsoft Word Document

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Featured Artist:

Daniel Luedtke

Dates:

03/08/2014 – 04/18/2014

Location:

The Annex @ Spudnik Press

Opening Reception:

Saturday March 8, 2014
6:00-9:00pm

Press Release:

Adaptation Arrangement Microsoft Word Document is an exhibition of primary materials, aesthetic research and development for an upcoming experimental narrative film tentatively titled All Over – Now. Within the film, 3 interwoven narratives explore how aging, illness and self-documentation inherently create dilemmas of authenticity. As a means to aestheticize this research, the works in this exhibition consist of normally veiled aspects of film pre-production including props, set pieces, soundtrack notation paintings, screen printed storyboards and an artist book/screen play. The exhibition will close with a casting audition to be held within the space on April 18th of 2014.

Hannah Ireland: Walking Driftward

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Featured Artists:

Hannah Ireland

Dates:

01/18/2014 – 02/22/2014

Location:

The Annex @ Spudnik Press

Opening Reception:

Saturday January 18, 2014
6:00-9:00pm

Press Release:

Walking Driftward is a solo exhibition of monoprints and cut paper constructions made while Hannah Ireland was Artist in Residence at Spudnik Press from September to November 2013. Ireland’s work at Spudnik Press was based on exploring and creating around a hiking trip in Spain and Portugal in the summer of 2013 – specifically walking portions of the long distance hiking track the GR11, which follows the peak of the Pyrenees, and El Camino de Santiago del Norte, a pilgrimage route along the northern coast of Spain to Santiago de Compostela. The work combines recognizable imagery from the landscapes visited – which are tangible, real, and lasting – with abstracted imagery from the subjective memory of her experience there – which is enigmatic and changes with the passing of time. Sketches, writing, postcards, and photographs from her trip are the reference material for the series of mixed media prints. Layered with ink, watercolor, and monotype, her work to mimic the way memory and experience influence and overgrow factual geographies. Walking Driftward moves beyond the documentation of a journey into an examination of the fluidity of memory, intertwined with a spirit of wanderlust.

The Holes Is How We Got Through: New work by Veronica Siehl

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Featured Artists:

Veronica Siehl

Dates:

11/02/2013 – 11/29/2013

Location:

The Annex @ Spudnik Press

Opening Reception:

Saturday November 2, 2013 6:00-9:00pm

Press Release:

The Holes is How We Got Through is a solo exhibition of cyanotypes and letterpress broadsides made while Veronica Siehl was Artist In Residence at Spudnik Press from June to August, 2013. Drawing influence from daily life and observation, Siehl’s handset poems are a nod to life’s transient moments. Her narrative writing unravels to reveal themes of transformation, potential, longing and transference. Homage is paid to the emotions that transcend our daily lives to take on a life of their own. Through pairing the repetitive process of letterpress with the fluidity of cyanotype, the broadsides are at once ethereal and palpable. Shadow is used as both metaphor and a means to capture, transfer and record, thus becoming a stand-in for memory. The Holes is How We Got Through is pause and breath, glimpse and invitation.

Site and Source

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Featured Artists:

Jaclyn Jacunski

Dates:

10/4/2013 – 10/25/2013

Location:

The Annex @ Spudnik Press

Opening Reception:

Friday, October 4, 2013, 6-9pm
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Press Release:

Site and Source is a solo exhibition including many works that were made while Jaclyn was Artist In Residence at Spudnik Press Cooperative in Chicago from March through May 2013. Beginning with the plastic fencing and other found objects taken from an abandoned lot near her home, Jacunski uses the impression of these materials to create new work. At times it is a physical impression, resulting in a sculptural artwork. Other times, it is an impression left on her mind, resulting in a hand-written artwork that takes the form of a chain link fence. Jacunski sees Chicago vacant lots as a common part of life on the west and south side. The lots are clear visual makers that stand out from other parts the city. The physical expressions in these locations reflect the social, political, and financial networks that bind the community or divide us from one another. These urban spaces hold many implications in everyday life – in the actions one takes, in the decisions one makes, and in the crisis we weather.

Jaclyn Jacunski lives and works in Chicago. She received her M.F.A. in Printmedia from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and a B.F. A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, trained at Tandem Press. She has taught at SAIC and Harrington College of Design. Her artwork explores protests and acts of resistance in local communities, examining how they manifest in signs, in the landscape, and media.

Charlie Megna: Lost Tribes of Renni

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Featured Artists:

Charlie Megna

Dates:

6/15/2013 – 8/02/2013

Location:

The Annex @ Spudnik Press

Opening Reception:

Saturday, June 15, 2013, 6-9pm

Press Release:

Heavily influenced by Eastern philosophy, Native American rituals and American skate culture, Charlie Megna’s colorful gouache and gold-leaf paintings combine loaded, symbolic motifs with the banal, the humorous and the commonplace. In these tribe paintings, we recognize glimpses of sacred ceremonies that feel familiar, but that expand with closer inspection into mystery and secrecy. In addition to the paintings, Megna creates costumes and physical relics to further realize the world of his tribes, and is preparing a small-run artist’s book of myths and alphabets to accompany this show. When exhibited along with the paintings, these surrounding materials combine to take the shape of an anthropological exhibition comprised of the real artifacts of an imaginary society.

Neanderthal Planet

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Featured Artists:

Liz Born
Gabe Hoare
Caleb Plattner
Luke Daly
Brandy Barker
Veronica Siehl

Dates:

8/10/2013 – 9/13/2013

Location:

The Annex @ Spudnik Press

Opening Reception:

Saturday, August 10, 2013, 6-9pm

Press Release:

Attn: SalvageCore; Science Division A.Centauri

The remains of an ancient research vessel have been intercepted in orbit of 51 Pegasi C. Our records indicate that this privately chartered, pre-ansible ship was launched 30 centuries ago on a colony mission during the Terran Diaspora. Preliminary scans indicate prodigious flora of an unknown classification. Prepare for Bio-quarantine Protocol 6. Recovery of the vessel is immanent; status of crew: unknown. Report for debriefing at SpaceHUB1821

Neanderthal Planet is a print-based installation, time capsule, and anthropological anomaly. Travel there firsthand at the Annex. Refreshments will be served.

New Work from Liz Born, Gabe Hoare, Caleb Plattner, Luke Daly, Brandy Barker & Veronica Siehl

Long-Arm Stapler First Aid Exhibition: Self-Care In Zines and Mini Comics

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Curated by:

Liz Mason and Neil Brideau

Featured Artists:

Edie Fake, Rinko Endo, Kathleen McIntyre, Ramsey Beyer, Liz Prince, Dina Kelberman, Sara McHenry, and more.

Dates:

4/20/13 – 5/31/13

Location:

The Annex at Spudnik Press

Opening Reception:

April 20, 2013, 6:00 – 9:00pm

Press Release:

Care is a disquieted state of mixed uncertainty, apprehension, and responsibility; a suffering of the mind; painstaking and watchful attention, maintenance, charge, and supervision. Self-care and first aid places these concerns towards oneself with a DIY mentality. Long-Arm Stapler First Aid brings together an assortment of zines and comics that address health-related issues ranging from mental to physical, personal to societal, and preventative to regenerative. These largely self-published works address, at times, incredibly personal experiences, usually with a large dose of wit.

Unlike a film or a painting, readers of zines and comics are able to engage with these works at their own pace, choosing when they are ready to confront the next page. Perhaps this is what allows authors to broach difficult, and often very personal, topics with great breadth of emotion, honesty, and clarity. Through the combination of words and images, artists are able to rely on multiple modes of communication to bring together the tangible and the cerebral. Often the very act of making a zine is considered a therapeutic caring action.

This exhibition of largely self-published works tackles self-care from many angles: health, grooming, food preparation, self-defense, coping strategies, defense mechanisms, mental or spiritual development and even soul enrichment. At their core these pieces suggest we must be our own advocates for our own health and well being.

Long Arm Stapler First Aid will also include a limited edition exhibition zine, compiled by Liz Mason, encompassing relevant self-care themes in zines and mini-comics such as: heal- ing, grief, fitness, and medical issues, and a limited edition screenprint by Ramsey Beyer, published by Spudnik Press.

In honor of self-publishing as a means to foster well-being, Spudnik Press is proud to host this exhibition featuring dozens of zine makers from across the country, including Edie Fake, Rinko Endo, Kathleen McIntyre, Ramsey Beyer, Liz Prince, Dina Kelberman, Sara McHenry, and more.

Liz Mason is the manager of Quimby’s, as well as the editor and publisher for Caboose.
Neil Brideau is comics artist and comics sommelier at Quimby’s, as well as an organizer of CAKE, Chicago’s Alternative Comics Expo.

*Image Credit to Dina Kelbermann

Growth / Street Puzzles Exhibition

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Curated by:

Juried by Jeannette Tremblay and Alison Kleiman

Featured Artists:

Victoria Martinez with Catherine Sollman, Courtney Sennish, Inah Choe, Julie Cowan, Malikah Fernandez, Peter Lutz, Elizabeth Kennedy, and a collaborative piece by Sean McKay and Pablo Philipps.

Dates:

March 9 – April 10, 2013

Location:

The Annex at Spudnik Press

Opening Reception:

Saturday, March 16, 6 – 9 pm

Press Release:

On view in The Annex, Spudnik’s newly opened gallery and collaborative workspace, will be a juried exhibition entitled “Growth” as well as new work from Spudnik’s recent Artist in Residence, Victoria Martinez.

In honor of their recent addition of The Annex (the third expansion in as many years!) Spudnik released an open call on the theme of growth. This exhibition takes a close look at the idea of metamorphosis in all its forms and celebrates exceptional work in the field of printmedia.

The nine artists represented in this exhibition speak to the theme of growth in many ways, literally and figuratively – a change in size, number, significance, maturation, development, or identity. Growth artists include: Catherine Sollman (Chicago), Courtney Sennish (Providence, RI) , Inah Choe (Chicago), Julie Cowan (Evanston), Malikah Fernandez (Chicago), Elizabeth Kennedy (Chicago), Peter Lutz (Providence, RI), and a collaborative piece by Sean McKay (Chicago) and Pablo Philipps (St. Louis).

Growth was juried by Jeannette Tremblay, of the Hyde Park Art Center, and Alison Kleiman, of the DePaul Art Museum. Kleiman also serves as the Vice President of the Spudnik Press Board of Directors.

Simultaneously on view is work produced by Spudnik Artist in Residence, Victoria Martinez. Martinez, who lives and works in Chicago, has created an edition of vibrant screenprints on paper. During her residency she created work based on the trips between her Pilsen apartment and Spudnik Press in the Ukrainian Village. Inspired by text, found objects and urban detritus, Martinez created ephemeral collages that give a second life and greater meaning to previously discarded materials.

Daniel Mellis – Artist’s Books

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Featured Artists:

Daniel Mellis

Dates:

January 12 – February 23, 2013

Location:

The Annex

Opening Reception:

Saturday, January 12, 2013
6:00 – 9:00pm

Press Release:

Daniel Mellis’s work explores the instability of language and the poetics of the philosophical fragment; the relationship between memory, photography, historical documents, and the inaccessibility of the past; the physical remnants of things now absent; and the combinatorial potential of letterforms through prints and artist’s books. His constant experimentation in a wide variety of print media including letterpress, offset lithography, and digital printing results in unified expressions of content and form.

The show consists of four of his larger projects, some smaller works, and a print triptych created especially for the show at Spudnik Press.

The Gig Poster Project Exhibition

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Harold Washington and Spudnik Press Cooperative proudly presents:

The Gig Poster Project

January 24 – February 1, 2013

City Colleges of Chicago
Harold Washington
Room 102

Public Reception: Thursday, January 24th, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Live Printing at 4:30
Awards at 6:30

Featuring posters by students from:
Chicago Talent Development High School
Farragut Career Academy
Perspectives Math and Science Academy Charter School

The Gig Poster Project is a multi-faceted arts program engaging students with their communities through music and design.

This fall, Teaching Artist Phil Parcellano and Poster Designer Johnny Sampson led a series of workshops in three Chicago secondary schools, guiding students through the process of designing a poster.

On exhibition is the culminating artwork from all three campuses. From this astounding selection of work, 18 students will be awarded a screen printing apprenticeship at Spudnik Press Cooperative. One grand prize winner will be commissioned to design and print a gig poster for Mucca Pazza, the marching band that thinks it’s a rock ‘n roll band. Please join us on January 24th for a hands-on printing demonstration, food, and celebration.

Please contact Vanessa Smith at vsmith50@ccc.edu with any questions. Gallery hours are Mon-Fri 12 to 6 p.m.