Eric Fensler @ Eastern Expansion

May 30, 2009
6-9pm

Eric Fensler will create an installation for Eastern Expansion Gallery.
Eric will be hosting the opening so stop by and have a Groslch with him.

Afterwards go to the Co-Prosperity Sphere for the Cardboard Show.

The installation will run through June 17, 2009.

Opening @ Second Bedroom

Ben Brandt
Warm/Cool Decorator
Opening Reception: Friday, May 22, 7-11pm

The role and criteria of the interior designer is uprooted and then rerouted to accommodate a bedroom bathed in urgent blue police light. In doing this, the boundary between the body and architecture is blurred with floral arrangements, flannel, site-specific paintings and sculpture. Ben Brandt received a B.F.A from the University of Illinois at Chicago and has shown at Contemporary Art Work Shop, Caro d’Offay Gallery, Estudiotres Gallery and others. Ben lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.

Coming up at Second Bedroom

The High Mayors of Chicago

works by Kevin Jennings
April 18 – May 15, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday April 18th, 7-11pm

Second Bedroom Project Space presents The High Mayors of Chicago, a group of works by artist Kevin Jennings conflating the powerful Irish mayors from Bridgeport and the High Kings of Ireland. The artist will explore the link between the history of the Irish mayors form Bridgeport and the mythology surrounding the High Kings of Ireland and their coronation process, which, according to Irish legend, occurred when the Stone of Destiny on the Hill of Tara would give a roar that could be heard all over the island when touched by the true High King.

Kevin Jennings lives and works in Chicago. He received his MFA from UIC in 2004. Locally, he has shown at places like Experimental Station, C.O.M.A., VONZWECK, Old Gold, 312, and 1/Quarterly. Kevin currently works for the University of Illinois and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Version Festival Fundraiser

March 21, 2009, 8pm

Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St

There are way too many good reasons to come by Co-Prosperity Sphere this Saturday, March 21.

We are launching two new publications: Matériel and Pr.

They are awesome. And HUGE! Download this link for a sneak peak at Matériel:
http://lumpen.com/materielmag/Matériel_Mag_Issue_001.pdf

We are also raising funds for Version>09 Immodest Proposals our annual international art freak out. This is our only fundraiser that will pay for 10 days and nights of projects by over 350 people from around the world.

Bobby Conn is playing along with Casual Encounter, and a super secret internet famous band.


Matériel is an oversized broadside newsprint publication that’s a collection of the best/brightest designers/illustrators/photographers work we can find – creating a showcase for their submitted work. It’s a sister magazine to Proximity providing a ‘design’ counterpoint to Prox’s ‘art’ focus.

Pr is Proximty’s in-between issues poster letter featuring reviews, interview, a calendar and a sweet recipe for a healthy art ecology.

Both of these oversized publications are beautiful. Come and get one, and fund our soon to be epic festival.

issues are complementary with a $10 Suggested donation.

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March 20th Edra Soto at Second Bedroom!

LESSON PLAN
by Edra Soto with special guests Dawn and Carl!
@ Second Bedroom Project Space
Opening: March 20th, 7-11pm
3216 s. Morgan St. Apt 4R
Chicago, IL, 60608
For the next installation at the SBPS, Edra Soto; a high school art teacher, had her students develop cardboard skyscrapers that reference the forms from notable architectural works across the world while considering the personas of the studied architects. Soto will then use the SBPS as a site to connect her student's work with her own. If that does not sound radical enough for you, Carl Warnick and Dawn Reed will "mix and mash" the students top 5 songs with some favorites of Edra's to create an audial parallel to the sculptural installation. Boing!
P.S.
The aforementioned artists have all exhibited at institutions and spaces much cooler than this one and have ample street cred!
toodles.

'viva la RESIDENCE'

February 20, 2009
6-10pm

Benton House
3052 S Gratten
Chicago 773.927.6420

'viva la RESIDENCE'
For the first time in 30+ years, the Benton House is being occupied by live-in staff who collaborate to direct the programming at this historic community center in Bridgeport. Artists-in-residence Angela Rojas, Ben Noetzel, Manuel Saucedo, Simeon Nikolov and Olivia May will display their wares and information about our new arts-based after school program. We are revamping our space and our commitment to the community; come see why things are getting better all the time.

Live music: The Additivies
complimentary drinks

FEB 20th! @ S.B.

HUNGRY

a project by Rapheal Barontini

February 20th-March 13th

Opening Reception

February 20th, 7-11pm

@ SECOND BEDROOM PROJECT SPACE

3216 s. Morgan St. Apt 4r

Rapheal Barontin explores the complexity of simple pleasures.  Late night milk and cookies, temporary allainces as a product of inebreation, juice boxes perhaps, as well as other reworked signifiers of our fleeting pleasures.