Second Stories
Artists Making Do and Fixing Things Ups

Opening Friday, June 19, 2009 from 5-9pm
Show runs until Aug 20th

Curated by Brian Gillham and Rachel Kalom

Artwork by:
Sarah and Joseph Belknap
Tom Berenz
Michael Cheatwood
Garrett Durant
Lucia Fabio & Robert Andrew Mueller
Shannon Godd
Nadia Hotait
Natalia Ivancevich
Sam Jaffe
Mark Khaisman
Austin Knierim
Jessica Labatte
Jesus Mejia
Phillip Orr
Vijay V. Paniker
Miriam SLager
Deb Sokolow
Katherine Webb
Jake Wells

Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
325 W. Huron
Chicago, IL
312.944.1990
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I'm donating a drawing to:

Red Door Animal Shelter
Have a Heart Art Auction
February 12, 2009 from 6 - 9 p.m.

Join us at Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, for a wonderful art show. The work is bound to make your heart beat faster! Auction of art work ends the evening--with all proceeds going to the animals at Red Door. Admission is free. Cash bar for wine, soda, and heart-healthy pomegranite martinis--with proceeds going to the shelter animals.

Participating artists include: Kate Walpole, Renee Prisble Una, Caitlin Peters, Lucia Fabio, Irene Perez, Edra Soto Fernandez, Dawn Reed, Catie Olson, Vivien Park, Carl Warnick, Marlene Russum Scott, Robin Richards, Liz Rench, Maren Prophit, Cheryl Darnell, Millicent Wilbert, Mia Santiago, Meredith Grant, Dan Gunn, Karolina Gnatowski, Peter Bullock, Matt Hanner, Jacqueline Kotz
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Currently on display as part of the Milwaukee Art Walk, it is in the front window of what used to be the Grace’s Furniture building at 2618 N. Milwaukee Ave. The organizer of the event, Lynn Stevens, writes a blog focusing on issues and points of interest around the Logan Square neighborhood. From October 17th through November 13th a number of storefronts on Milwaukee Ave. between Kedize and Kimball will be featuring work by artists from the neighborhood and artists whos work deals with Logan Square as a subject.

Also, there is a new website for mattress bunny. Enjoy all of the pics, and check in to see where the mattress bunny will hop to next!

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I was interviewed by Britton Bertran for the Chicago Artists Resource. It dealt with my position of director at mini dutch gallery. It gives some insight on why I opened it, and how I'm running it. You can read all about it here.

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Robert Andrew Mueller and myself are working on our first collaborative piece entitled

mattress bunny

We have a blog documenting our progress with the project.

It will be shownd at artXposium— a 3-day multimedia art experience with more than 60 participating artist. It runs from September 19th-21st in the former home of Grobe’s True Value, located at 103 W. Washington Street in West Chicago, (IL 60185), artXposium events and exhibitions will also take place at the West Chicago City Museum, Gallery 200 and the West Chicago Public Library.
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Gallery Aferro
June 14-July 26, 2008
Opening Reception June 14, 7-10 PM
Curated by Emma Wilcox
Main Gallery and New Media Room


Gallery Aferro
73 Market Street
Newark, N.J. 07102

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KUNSTHALLE CHICAGO

Time Out Chicago did an article about this show- though I'm not mentioned, you can see my painting in the installation shot.
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check out some new work of mine at:

DOLLAR STORE – A GROUP SHOW


Kunsthalle Chicago is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by many compelling new and established artists working in the Chicago area. This will mark the inaugural exhibition of Kunsthalle Chicago, a new roving arts space as organized by curator Jean Kang.

On April 19th, 2008, Kunsthalle Chicago will formally open its doors at the site of an old "Dollar Store." On view until April 27th are works by artists Andrea Slavik, Lisa Kutsukake, Michael Milano, Erin Washington, Madeleine Bailey, Yvette Marie Dostatni, Esteban Schimpf, Samia Mirza, Michael Hunter, Marly Freeman, Alexander Ferrando, Indy Wood, Melody Saraniti, Lucia Fabio, Robert Mueller, Yogi Proctor, Alice Tippit, Leila Cartier, and Brookhart Jonquil as well as performances by kate and paul, Naufús Figueroa, Irene Loughlin, Justin Cabrillos and Emily Siefken.

Enjoy works by Lisa Kutsukake, whose concrete covered tulips can be seen from through the window; as well as work by Andrea Slavik, whose video installation explores the marketing of middle class lifestyles through the selling of model homes. Madeleine Bailey will broadcast signals from the storefront in morse code; and Erin Washington's wax-resin apples will slowly deteriorate over the course of the show.

As well, are Samia Mirza's papier mache sculptures alongside works by Esteban Schimpf and Lucia Fabio's minimally rendered large-and-small scale bunnies.

A closing reception will be held on April 26th following the 8 pm performance of Emily Siefken, a military veteran of two wars in the Middle East. In a past performance, she has dressed in her military uniform and acted out the ritual of grieving she witnessed by the people of Afghanistan.

Brookhart Jonquil's stereoscopic installation will be on view from April 27th until the 30th.

Please join us.

Opening day Saturday April 19 --- 10am - 8 pm
Tuesday-Saturday 10-6
Sunday 12- 5 pm
or by appointment call 773 946 1098

April 19 -- 3 pm performance by kate and paul followed by a small reception.
April 26 -- 12 – 5 pm Naufús Figueroa will be fortune telling with cigar smoke alongside a performance by Irene Loughlin;
8 pm Performances by Justin Cabrillos and Emily Siefken followed by the Opening/Closing reception 9 - midnight

April 27 - 30 --Stereoscopic display by Brookhart Jonquil


Kunsthalle Chicago is located on the NW corner of Chicago Avenue and Damen Avenue in Chicago's Ukrainian Village. The site is accessible through the Damen stop of the CTA Blue Line (Take the 50 Damen bus south to Chicago Avenue) or the Chicago stop of the blue line (Take the 66 Chicago bus west to Damen Avenue).

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I am donating artwork- if anyone is in Chicago, you should stop by and support!

Co-Sponsored by ThreeWalls Gallery and Roots and Culture
Friday, February 22, 2008 / 2000 W. Fulton, *310
Art Preview: Free Entrance and Buy-It-Now Options, 6–8pm / Auction ends at 10:30pm
$5 Suggested Donation after 8pm / Dancing from 10pm

Donated Artwork For Sale includes work by Patty Chang, Walead Beshty, Harrell Fletcher, Michelle Grabner, Joseph Grigley, Marco Poloni, Barbara DeGenevieve, Robert Clarke Davis, Brian Ulrich, Peter Hopkins Miller, Julia Hechtman, Eiko Grimberg, Viktoria Binschtok, Matt Davis, Mathew Paul Jinks, John Gitelson, Justin Berry, Peter Bergman, Lucia Fabio, Gary Noland, Cayetano Ferrer, Neil Infalvi, George Monteleone, Amanda Franko, Zak Prekop, Kotama Bouabane, Brad Farwell, Sean Kuruneru, Davida Nemenoff, Justin Schaefer, Johanna Warwick, Alice Wells, Heather Guertin, Erica Gannett, Timothy Ridlen, Tara White, Todd Simeone and Daniel Cosentino.

Live music by All the Creatures of the Sea and The Joshua Abrams & David Boykin Duo, Live PA by Garo, Records Provided by Beau Wanzer & Chris Pappas and Late Night Dance Offerings by DJ Mr. E.

All proceeds from Layover will directly support Three Hours Between Planes, an artist-produced exhibition featuring emerging artists from Chicago and Leipzig, opening April 25, 2008 at the Chicago Cultural Center, and May 16, 2008 at the Werkschauhalle Gallery, Leipzig, Germany. The exhibition is co-curated by Marco Poloni and Eiko Grimberg, and is supported by The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Office of Development and Alumni Affairs, The Chicago Cultural Center, The Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Kulturstiftung Sachsen, The Consulate of the United States, Sachsen LB and Culturtraeger Leipzig.

Please come partake of the LAYOVER bar offerings and musical profusion, and ENJOY A CHILLED GROLSCH SWINGTOP!

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I will be participating in Stitching Deluxe -- a group show featuring work that incorporates some sort of stitching in the art making process.

Opening Reception January 19, from 6-9pm
Show runs January 19 to March 15, 2008

Orleans Street Gallery
Pheasant Run Resort
4051 E Main Street
Saint Charles, IL 60174
www.orleansstreetgallery.com
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*mini dutch *

www.minidutchgallery.org

another apartment gallery located @
3111 w. diversey first floor
chicago, il 60647

This is my latest project- I am the director of mini dutch.
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The Undergraduate Exhibition happened @:

Gallery 2
847 W. Jackson
Chicago, IL
april 1- april 13


For those who took pictures at the BFA show, please email them to me. They will not be reproduced in anyway- only for my viewing. If you would like me to use them in either my website or in presentations of my work, please note so. thanks!