#Johalla Projects

[impermanent-art]

Work by Jason Botkin in Denver, with support from Johalla Projects.

[skowhegan]

Open 24 Hours

by Edra Soto (00)

curated by Johalla Projects

October 29 to November 27, 2018

Chicago Athletic Association Hotel 12 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60603

http://chicagoathleticevents.com/edra-soto-open-24-hours/

[visioncomunsubjetiva]

PointerMyth from Todd Mattei on Vimeo.

PointerMyth is a short journey through a virtual realm, a realm where the mind of its creator meets with the mind of the viewer. This realm is a place where somewhat silly video games and commercial graphics meet evocative dreams and ancient mythologies.

PointerMyth is not so much a story, but rather an immersive experience of vision and sound. The images are humorous and beautiful by turns, inducing a playfully poetic experience of things strange and familiar.

__Todd Mattei__ toddmatteiart.com/ Selected Projects, Exhibitions, and Screenings 2015 Chicago Underground Film Festival, festival selection screening at the Logan Theater, May 2015. Fim and Videos Curated, the Joan of Arc Hideout Residency, Chicago, March 2015. Ashleigh Dye and Todd Mattei, Rainbo Club, March 2015. Palace Film Festival, Hosted by Johalla Projects. Fine Arts Building, Chicago, January 2015. 2014 Dedications_Calibrations, hardback edition by photographer Joe Costa. I wrote the insert essayhttp://www.silentface.org/shop/calibrationsdedications Territories: Work of Todd Mattei, solo screening of collected video works, Roots and Culture, Chicago. Directed and produced music video for the band Owls, featured on Spin.com: spin.com/articles/owls-im- surprised-video/ 2013 Virtually Physically Speaking, A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago. Recorded and performed music/multi-media project under the name Litesalive. Casette release and tour: barorecords.bandcamp.com/album/action-glass-chambers 2012 Pillow Talk Group show, Peregrine Program, Chicago. Video Chicago Group video screening at Sober and Lonely, Johannesburg, South Africa. Society of the Spectacular Group show, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago. Modern H eroism, Suffering in Public large-scale collaborative performance at H edrich Blessing, Chicago. With Joe Jeffers, Shannon Stratton, and others. 2011 Mouthing (The Sentient Limb) H yde Park Art Center, Chicago. H ealing, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago. File Type Collaboration with Wes Kline. Gallery 400, Chicago. 2010 Eruption Group screening. Green Lantern Gallery, Chicago. Stay in Your Lane Swimming Pool Gallery, Chicago. Volu screening, Nightingale, Chicago. 2009 Light Behind the Eyes Group screening. The Nightingale, Chicago. Curated by myself. Ill Communication Group show. H arold Arts in conjunction with H eaven Gallery; Chicago Illinois. Rick Gribenas and Todd Mattei: New Works Filmmakers Gallery, Pittsburgh Filmmakers 2008 Mirror Group screening, Paci"c Film Archives. Dazzling Group Group show, Totalspace, Brooklyn N Y. COMA #17 Group show, Feb. 2008, California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago. Red Rover Experiment #17 A night of work dedicated to the late poet H annah Weiner. Onion City Film Festival Chicago Filmmakes, Chicago. 2007 H eaven Gallery Picnic Remains Collaborative video installation with the artist Wes Kline. Green Lantern with Swedish artist Mathias Kristersson. Rowland Contemporary Anniversary Show with Robert Macdonald at Rowland Contemporary, Chicago. 2006 COMA # 5 Group show, Chicago Occidental Museum of Art. Drive of Eyes Two-person show with Kelly Kaczynski. Rowland Contemporary, Chicago. Again Group show, Publico Gallery. Cincinnati. 2005 Moles not Molars #3. Talk and video screening. In association with the poetry program at Temple University. War at a Distance New Videos from the American H eartland Milwaukee Art Museum. Gallery 400 MFA Thesis Show.. N OV A Young Art Fair. Onion City Film Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago.

Music Discography J oan of Arc: So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness (Jade Tree Records), In Rape Fantasy and Terror Sex We Trust (Perishable Records), Presents Guitar Duets(Polyvinyl Records), Boo! H uman (Polyvinyl Records). Flowers (Polyninyl Records). Live in Chcago, 1999 (Jade Tree Records), The Gap (Jade Tree Records), Male: All Are Welcome (Other Electricites Records). Litesalive: Action Glass Chambers (Baro Records) Animals of Stars (Breathing and Receiving Oxygen Records) The Margin Suites A set of compositions created with sound artist and musician Rick Gribenas for the book Participatory Autonomy. The book/record is available through Autonomedia as a set. Friend/Enemy: Friend/Enemy (Perishable Records) An improvisational and free form record with members of Joan of Arc and other Chicago bands including Azita and Euphone. Sharks and Seals: : It Used to be Knobs and Machines Now it’s Numbers and Light (Brillianted Records) and It’s H ard Not to Mean Anything (Is Collage Collective

Education University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. MFA in Film/Video/Animation, 2005. Graduated with Honors. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. BA in English Literature/Philosophy, 1998. With Honors.

[lakeviewchamber]

Coming Soon to the Low-Line Mural Walls: New Artwork by Caroline Liu

Keep an eye on the Southport Plaza over the next several days, as artist Caroline Liu becomes the second artist to exhibit her work on the Low-Line Mural Walls. According to her artist statement:

Caroline Liu is a visual artist who creates paintings that visually navigate the inner workings of her concussed mind. In 2012, a solid wood door fell several feet straight onto her head and her short term memory never fully recovered. Her work became a therapeutic practice for holding onto memories she’d otherwise forget, as well as a vehicle for self-exploration and documentation of her everyday struggles as a person with irreparable memory loss. Her current body of work focuses on her body, self, and mind with overlying themes of vulnerability and loss. Through her usage of repetitious colors and patterns, she both camouflages and exposes the many facets of her identity.

Funded by Special Service Area 27, the new art installation is part of the Low-Line project, which envisions a one-of-a-kind landmark destination connecting Southport and Lincoln avenues with a continuous, half-mile long art walk and garden beneath the CTA ‘L’ tracks. Each of the four Mural Walls measure nearly ten feet tall, providing artists with a massive canvas and the community with an ever-changing outdoor art gallery in Lakeview’s own backyard. The art panels were installed last fall, and for the past six months, have hosted original artwork by Chicago-based artist Sentrock celebrating Southport.

Be sure to follow Caroline Liu on instagram as she completes the installation of her artwork, and see it for yourself at opening day of the Low-Line Market on June 7. Special thanks to Johalla Projects for curating Caroline Liu’s artwork at the Southport Plaza.

Here’s a shot of Sentrock’s artwork, “Southport Style,” on the art panels last fall:

[nofomoartworld]

TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (4/27-5/3)

1. A Matter of Conscience

April 27, 2017, 6-8PM Work by: Siah Armajani, Margaret Burroughs, Alan Cohen, Paul D’Amato, Ester Hernandez, Michael Hernandez de Luna, Max King Cap, Rudzani Nemasetoni, Betye Saar, Andy Warhol, and Garry Winogrand (Curated by Mia Lopez) DePaul Art Museum: 935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614

  2. Blackbox: An Afrofuturist Opus

April 28, 2017, 9PM-1AM Work by: D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem, R.J. Eldridge, Viktor le. Givens, Kamau Patton, Renluka Maharaj, Nick Mahshie, Amanda McLin, Darryl Terrel, Sadie Woods, Kiara Lanier, and The Participatory Music Coalition (Curated by Sabrina Greig and Courtney Cintron) Student Union Galleries | SUGs: 37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603

  3. Radical Modernist

April 28, 2017, 5:30-9PM Work by: Dan Friedman Chicago Design Museum: 108 N State St, Fl 3rd, Chicago, IL 60602

  4. Girl Play

April 28, 2017, 7-10PM Work by: Marzena Abrahamik Johalla Projects: 1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 209, Chicago, IL 60622

  5. Here

April 29, 2017, 2-4PM Work by: Candida Alvarez Chicago Cultural Center: 78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602

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Stephen Eichhorn at Johalla Projects

Alright Alright (Cactus Cluster Ultramarine), 2014 Collage on synthetic PVC, framed 64 x 42 inches

[sequencestudies]

Reuben Wu, Volcan from Atacama series

Reuben Wu's solo photography show (I wrote the text for it) at Rational Park opens tonight from 7-11pm in Chicago. He's also Johalla Projects' next Damen Blue Line Station artist. 

[pienoy]

Johalla Projects

TODD DIEDERICH: LUMINOUS FLUX

[stepheneichhorn]

STEPHEN EICHHORN VARIOUS FADES

A SOLO EXHIBITION

SEPTEMBER 5 — OCTOBER 12, 2014

Opening Reception: Friday, September 5 from 7-10pm

Johalla Projects is very pleased to present VARIOUS FADES, an exhibition of new works by Chicago-based artist Stephen Eichhorn. In his first solo presentation since 2012, Eichhorn reexamines his practice, producing collages that further complicate the dimensionality of the picture plane. The exhibition will run from SEPTEMBER 5 to OCTOBER 12.  An opening reception will be held on Friday, September 5 from 7-10pm.   Stephen Eichhorn’s method to making is at once quiet and intense. By working to establish new constants in his practice, Eichhorn manages to arrive at the unexplored — a middle ground that is overgrown and elegantly exotic. Here, the environment where Eichhorn’s current work resides is formal in its clustered stratification, hearkening to both gestural painting and the constructed photographic image. In this sense, spatial ambiguity becomes a steady, invigorating force that pulses through the exhibition.

More so now than ever, the works in VARIOUS FADES exemplify Eichhorn’s keen sense of cultivation and compositional play – they seductively writhe, bloom, and swell, all while achieving an unnerving constancy. Moreover, the artworks range in size and include many large-scale pieces, which in turn has enabled the artist to erect his signature plant forms with a hyperconscious sense of balance between broader imagery and smaller, more intricately cut paper plant parts. For the exhibition, Eichhorn will install his works in simultaneous response to the gallery’s architecture and to the specificity of his materials, thus endeavoring to create a viewing experience that calls for an extended look at the vivid plantscapes.    Stephen Eichhorn (b. 1984) lives and works in Chicago, IL. In 2006, Eichhorn received his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been included in numerous national solo and group exhibitions, with highlights including CES Contemporary, Los Angeles (2014); Ebersmoore, Chicago (2012, 2011); the Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL (2012); Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (2012); Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago (2008); Josée Bienvenu Gallery, NY (2008); and Cairo, Seattle (2008). His work is included in the new Zioxla publication Strange Plants, which was released in July 2014 to critical acclaim.

[artslantstreet]

public art for the common good in #Chicago. Check it out: http://bit.ly/12yu8EZ

[chicagourbanartsociety-blog]

Last-Minute Plans: Chicago Urban Art Society's "The Daley Show" Closing Reception

When the Chicago Urban Art Society were in the process of curating opened their current exhibition "The Daley Show" in September, it was under the assumption that His Elective Majesty would run again, and the exhibit would be a look at the ruling dynasty that's informed Chicago to its foundation for nearly half a century.  Read Here. 

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[mattislearning]

If you missed my solo show last weekend,

Here are some install shots:

Wall text with Newsprint stacks,

Leaving through the back door (first photograph of the trip), 6x9" Silver Gelatin Print,

School Window, 16x20" Archival Digital Inkjet Print,

"Boner", 16x22" Archival Digital Inkjet Print,

"K", 10x12" Archival Digital Inkjet Print (above)

Kristy from Fargo, 16x22" Archival Digital Inkjet Print (below),

Civil War Photograph, 32x40" Archival Digital Inkjet Print,

"Cruz is gay", 40x32" Archival Digital Inkjet Print,

Tattoo, 16x24" Archival Digital Inkjet Print,

Writing on the classroom wall (Heart, "Fuck"), 12x18" Silver Gelatin Print,

Mark's Sentence ("Kindns is being nice to other pepul."), 12x18" Silver Gelatin Print,

"XOXOX", 20x25" Archival Digital Inkjet Print,

Matches, 20x24" Archival Digital Inkjet Print,

Dictionary, 20x24" Archival Digital Inkjet Print,

Self Portrait as an Artist that could Die Tomorrow, 30x40" Archival Digital Inkjet Print,

Take One: a stack of every photo from this trip

Bedroom wall: paper/collected objects and a recreation of my bedroom wall

Desert Music: a video loop of myself, my brother, and Graham Hogan playing music in the desert until the camera battery dies after one minute of recording.

[josephrynkiewicz]

Show this Friday

Hey tumblrs, come on over.