Andrea Carlson (b. 1979) is a visual artist currently living in Chicago, Illinois. Through painting and drawing, Carlson cites entangled cultural narratives and institutional authority relating to objects based on the merit of possession and display. Current research activities include Indigenous Futurism and assimilation metaphors in film. Her work has been acquired by institutions such as the British Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the National Gallery of Canada. Carlson was a 2008 McKnight Fellow and a 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors grant recipient. Carlson is represented by the Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Website:
www.mikinaak.com/
Residency Period:
May 2019–Jun 2019
Project Statement:
Carlson has been working in the studio to create a series of screenprints during her residency at Spudnik. The content of Carlson’s work intimately relates to her Indigenous identity. “I’m an Ojibwe person, and have long worked in Indigenous language revitalization efforts. Although I use language and titles in my work, I’ve never shared my ancestral language in my work before….There is also a secret joy when Native people see our languages represented widely.”
Chimera Creative Co.
Austin Winstead and his wife Sarah run a small graphic design business in the Ukrainian Village called Chimera Creative Co. They take on a variety of work including branding, illustration, and print design.
Services Offered:
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
Website:
chimeracreative.co
Experimental Graphic designer. Specializing in logo, branding, book design, posters. Secondary interest in screen printing/book making.
Services Offered:
- Exhibition Opportunities
- Graphic Design
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
kianijee.com/work
Hope Wang is a Chicago-based artist working in painting, print, photography, and weaving. In her work, she examines how the dissonance of representation of architecture and its illusion gesture toward displacement in the same way bodies wander through and occupy space. She received her BFA (2018) from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has shown in group exhibitions including Chicago Art Department, Gallery No One, Womanmade Gallery, Sullivan Galleries, and LVL3 Gallery.
Recent Shows:
Where We Meet is a group exhibition featuring Hope Wang, Sydnie Jimenez and Frederique Jean who will explore the expansion of craft and sculpture through themes of abstraction, representation and materiality. The show is meant to disrupt space to investigate what does it mean to enter space, or interacts with one another in spaces? How does art interact with culture and memory? How do we understand the spaces between these interactions? What happens when space and people meet? Can agency exist within art that centers marginalized narratives, their perception of the world, and themselves?
Friend is an interdisciplinary artist-run space that exists to provide affordable studio space and to remove barriers to accessing art programming. Where We Meet is their inaugural exhibition. The show will be up through September 22, 2019.
Images: Detail of face prostrate, temples kissing the baked facade by Hope Wang; Detail of a bloated sky flickers like the lazy fan by Hope Wang; Installation photograph of the exhibition
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Ignition Project Space’s window gallery features
throwing a short glance in the sliver between the glass barred against the warm air, a series of hand-woven illusions by Hope Wang. She draws from imagery surrounding store fronts that have a provisional quality – whether from business turnover, rental transition, or construction. These weavings depict reflections of pedestrians and shuttered spaces, suggested through motifs like blue tape, brown paper, plastic sheets, and spray painted plywood that bar the viewer’s access to the realities that exist beyond the surface. Traversing the line between image and object, the works question an initial understanding of material and perception.
Image: throwing a short glance in the sliver between the glass barred against the warm air by Hope Wang
Services Offered:
- Exhibition Opportunities
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
www.hopewang.com/
Products by this Artist:
Abigail M. is a Chicago-based graphic designer, writer, and printmaker. She holds a BFA in graphic design from Columbia College Chicago. She had a haiku published in Columbia Poetry Review no. 26. In 2018, AIGA Chicago awarded her the What’s Next Grant to fund her project Does Cement Make a Sound?; a mixed media print series which aims to highlight the reality of living with mental illness and disability. Regardless of medium, Abigail M.’s work exists to answer the constant and varied questions that typically arise somewhere between a memory and the conscious awareness of a feeling.
Services Offered:
- Graphic Design
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
abigailm.com
I create illustrations/ visual stories that uplift and empower the feminine.
Services Offered:
- Exhibition Opportunities
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Printmaking Commissions
M Kellman Art
M Kellman is an emerging Chicago-based artist and printmaker working across various media and methods. After receiving a BA in History from Scripps College in 2014 and working for a few years with a creative nonprofit in Southern California, M moved to Chicago to study printmaking and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Trained as a historian, M uses their art practice to explore the personal and subjective experience of history and cultural identity.
Services Offered:
- Illustration
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
www.mbkellman.com
Zerobird Studio
Zerobird is a screen printing and design studio located in the historic Feather Loft building in Chicago’s West Town Industrial Corridor. Run by the husband and wife team of Jennifer Burak and Dan Spielman. We make extremely efficient use of the 18’ x 18’ space where we do all our designing, file prep, screen exposure, printing, sewing and packaging. All prints ( paper, tshirt and fabric ) are hand pulled using water based inks and soy based solvents. Our equipment is mostly handmade using salvaged materials – the tables were even built from torn down walls in our old studio. We also enjoy embracing traditional printing methods whenever possible, including Rubylithe transfers.
Dan is originally from Brookfield, IL. He started out college as a Fine Arts and Business major and wound up in the corporate world for many years before finding his way back to art. An expert with Adobe Illustrator and an xacto blade, he started back with Graphic Design and production work. In 2012, he met Jennifer and quickly fell for the ( traditional, meticulous ) process of screen printing. Dan relocated to Chicago and began working at a commercial t-shirt printing shop. On the side he was designing and screen printing t-shirts and posters for his own band and soon had requests to create art for some of his favorite bands in the city. Everything from logos to album artwork. Dan is the Zerobird Studio resident t-shirt expert and guitar picker. When not creating art, he can be found playing bluegrass at the studio and all over the city.
Services Offered:
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
www.zerobirdstudio.com/
