Exhibition
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Interviews · Multimedia · School
Cut In Cut Out
Works by Nazafarin Lotfi & Shirin Mozaffari
February 4 - February 26, 2010
LG Space, SAIC
March 15th, 2010
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Film/Video · Lecture
Noteworthy in March
In its usual ahead-of-the-pack form, The Renaissance Society is presenting Chicago with Matt Saunders’ first solo museum show. This and other news
March 5th, 2010
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Student Art
Art for Your Living Room
Featured among the designed showrooms and collectible room decorations were a variety of original pieces by SAIC students, also for sale.
March 4th, 2010
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Student Art
Storefront Art
“Usefulness: Construction, De-construction, Reconstruction,” the first exhibition to occupy the ambiguous Sharp building window space
March 4th, 2010
Alumni · Arts & Culture · Exhibition
A Celebration of Imagination
Albert Einstein once said, “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” Recent SAIC graduate Aspen Mays puts that maxim to the test
March 4th, 2010
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Museum
Studios on Display
The complex and poetic role of the studio in an artist’s life and work is explored in “Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out,” which opened February 6 at the Museum of Contemporary Art
March 4th, 2010
Exhibition · Interviews · Multimedia · School
Usefulness
USEFULNESS. Construction, De-construction, Reconstruction
January 28 - February 26, 2010
Exhibition curated by Cecilia Vargas. Participant artists: Chris Bradley, Jesse Butcher, Scott Carter, Anthony Creeden, Scott Jarrett, Brookhart Jonquil, Benjamin Lipkin, Ben Stagl, Allison Wade, Georgia Wall and Sean Ward.
SAIC, MacLean Center, 112 South Michigan Avenue / Sharp Building, 37 South Wabash Avenue
February 25th, 2010
Home sweet home
Chunks of plaster melt and drip as they climb and curl their way into corners and onto the floor of the gallery
February 7th, 2010
Support through art
“In search of new adventures,” said Nicole Smith, who immigrated to the United States from Haiti in 1973. “At that time, many people were leaving Haiti,” Smith said. “I came because I wanted to come.”
February 7th, 2010
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Interviews · Multimedia
MFA Open Studio Night 2009
MFA Open Studio Night 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Fnewsmagazine visits Open Studio Night and talks to students featuring work. A time to tour each others’ studios and take a look at all of the work that is being made at SAIC.
More than 300 students with studios from Art and Technology; Film, Video, and New Media; Performance; [...]
January 6th, 2010
Eclipsed Histories
“I’m a curator, not an art historian…and the two things are completely different.” Francesco Bonami’s comment on his latest blockbuster exhibition at the MCA is the first indicator of the surprisingly personal, intimate nature of what might otherwise have been a typical encyclopedic show.
December 8th, 2009
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Interviews · Multimedia · School
2009 Fall BFA show
2009 FALL UNDERGRADUATE EXHIBITION
Nearly fifty talented SAIC students completing undergraduate degrees this Fall exhibit their innovative work. F Newsmagazine talks with three students about the BFA show and sees the results showcased in the exhibition.
December 5th, 2009
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Interviews · Multimedia
SAIC at Art on Track ‘09
Art on Track, the largest mobile art exhibition in the world, transformed an eight-car CTA train into an alternative space for galleries and artists all over Chicago.
Allison Glenn from the Office of Exhibition Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago collaborated with the Fiber and Material Studies course “Installation: Material and Context”, taught by SAIC faculty Amy Honchell, to produce the 2009 Art on Track SAIC car, an installation that challenged the notion of the traditional exhibition and audience engagement within momentary space and time.
November 15th, 2009
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Interviews
An Interview with Esam Pasha
The idea of being at risk didn’t resonate with Esam Pasha when I interviewed him a week later. On the contrary, he was earnest and positive about his involvement in Deller’s exhibition…
October 30th, 2009
War Talk
The setting is supposed to be as casual as a friend’s living room; the only minor difference being that we’re in the Museum of Contemporary Art…
October 30th, 2009
A Very Short Scenario
A skateboard deck sits upside down in a waist-level display case with its wheels and trucks removed. A brief message is written on the wood in aloof Helvetica lettering, “Southbank Skatepark 1987. A perfectly good…
October 30th, 2009
Arts & Culture · Exhibition · Interviews · Multimedia · School
Anatomy is Destiny
Anatomy is Destiny is both installation and choreographed performance piece, as the artist uses a human-scale game of chess to investigate the relational issues between audience and objects.
October 24th, 2009
As We Live and Breathe
As We Live and Breathe, going on through November 7 at the Carrie Secrist Gallery, addresses, from multifarious positions, what it means to exist in our awkward, complex, and contradictory…
October 21st, 2009
It Is What It Is: Dan Flavin at Donald Young Gallery
“It is what it is, and it ain’t nothin’ else… Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered…It’s in a sense a ‘get-in-get-out’ situation,” said Dan Flavin in a 1987 article appearing in Art International…
October 21st, 2009
Vintage Ambiguity
“Cutting the emulsion of the photograph is always something that I’ve found rather traumatic,” said British artist John Stezaker. “It’s something I’d like to get over very quickly, because—in a way—it’s very much like cutting the surface of the eye.” …
October 19th, 2009
