If Nature Could Talk | Grant W. Ray

Exhibition:  July 23-25
Opening Reception:  July 23, 6-9pm
Open Hours:  July 25, 10-6pm
If Nature Could Talk is an interactive event that explores the uncanny relationship between art, science, and nature. Based on the investigation of Human/Nature dynamics through marks, traces and symbols of pseudo- scientific experiments, the work suggests what nature might be thinking and feeling in an evidentiary context. Chicago based artist, Grant W. Ray has photographed these strange attempts at communicating with nature. He will be presenting this historic archive and five extraordinary inventions for two nights only at Spoke Gallery. Participants will be invited to interact with ordinary objects that have extraordinary functions such as, “Ronald Johnson’s Talking Plants,” which reportedly translates the thoughts of domesticated houseplants into a language you can understand.


Closing and Prizes | So, You Think You Can Paint?

Below is the list (in no particular order) of excepted artists in to the So You Think You Can Paint? The Chicago Edition.  Our Judging panel was pleased with much of the work, and the So, You Think You Can Paint? video will be playing at the reception.
Congratulations!  Thank you for participating and I hope to see you all at the reception Friday night from 6pm to 9pm, with Prizes awarded at 8:00pm!
Sincerely,
Vincent Kral
Claudia Smalley
Matthew Schlagbuam
Christine Parisi
Vernetta Edwards
Steve Ruiz
Steven Frost
Jui Desai
Lauren La Rose
Margaret Clay
Betsy Zacsek
Michael Reynolds
Mike Lenkwoski
Rex Flodstrom
Allen Vandever
Kristina Gosh

CALL FOR ENTRIES: So You Think You Can Paint...


Call for entries/ Drop off dates:
3pm-5pm
SUNDAY, July 11
MONDAY, July 12
TUESDAY, July 13
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Exhibition dates:
11am-5pm
WEDNESDAY, July 14
THURSDAY, July 15
FRIDAY, July 16
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Closing Reception/ Awards Ceremony:
6pm-9pm
FRIDAY, July 16
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Pick Up Entries:
FRIDAY, July 16 After 9pm
or 
SATURDAY, July 17 10am -Noon
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So, You Think You Can Paint? is at once a project to take the anthropological pulse of the city of Chicago where artists, hobbyists, enthusiasts, professionals, and naysayers have a leveled playing field to exhibit their work; and second an irreverent look at the competitive framework network television promotes. The entire project is a timely reinterpretation of the reality judging show So You Think You Can Dance (Fox July 20, 2005 – present)  mixed with a dash of Art Star (Gallery HD June 1, 2006 – July 19, 2006)  and a pinch of Work of Art (Bravo 2010 - present).  Just like those unscripted displays of genius, hidden talent, and atrocity on television, what happens next is entirely up to the participants with paintings, the judges, the camera...and only at Spoke can you be involved.

Anyone can bring in up to three paintings - any subject, size, or format accepted.
Fill out an entry form (download now, or pick up a copy at Spoke).
A panel of guest judges will critique your work, the entire event will be filmed, and the best will be hung in the show.
Award winners will have the opportunity to have the work travel to compete in “So You Think You Can Paint? Tampa Bay Season Two!”
Pick up work at designated times.





Spoke:
119 N Peoria #3D
Chicago, Il 60607

Organizer:
Vincent Kral









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I’ll Be Your Mirror

Reception:  Friday, June 11, from 5-8pm  
Gallery Hours: Tuesday (6/15), Wednesday (6/16), Fridays (6/11 & 18) & Saturdays (6/12 & 19) 11-5pm and by appointment.


Like any city, Chicago is composed of a complex set of relationships that work in concert to cultivate a unique identity. Connections between neighbors, friends, acquaintances and strangers create unique opportunities whose scope is beyond calculation and influence exceeds territorial boundaries. 
From June 11 -  June 19, 2010 Lise Haller Baggesen (Chicago, USA), Gitte Bog (Mexico City, MEX), Gudrun Hasle (Copenhagen, DK), Anni Holm (Chicago, USA) and Berit Nørgaard (Copenhagen, DK) will focus their energy on exploring the possibilities of mutually beneficial relationships rooted in conversation, exchange and sincerity. 
Baggesen looks at her relationship with America through her experience as a recent immigrant, while Bog invites visitors to form relations with residents of Mexico City. Hasle examines a break up, while Holm brings people together through personalized songs and Nørgaard explores the kindness of strangers. 

2 re[public] in/decency events

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WHAT: re[public] in/decency animates empty storefront on the edge of Jeweller's Row as part of Pop-Up Art Loop Gallery Walk presented by Chicago Loop Alliance in association with Chicago Artists' Coalition
WHEN: Thursday, May 6th 2010 5:00 - 8:00 PM
WHERE: 220 S. Wabash (south of Adams)
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WHAT: re[public] in/decency will speak about their research as inaugural Artists-in-Residency at Spoke
WHEN: Saturday, May 15th, 2010 6:00 - 8:00 PM
WHERE: Spoke, 119 N. Peoria Street #3D, Chicago, IL
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KEY INFORMATION: re[public] in/decency (co-founded by Erica Mott and Coman Poon) is an inter-artsactivist initiative and creative think tank that explores the trans-national intersections between live art, social justice activism and arts-informed pedagogy.


In collaboration with dress-maker and fabric-based artist Kristin Mariani, re[public] in/decency are the inaugural artists-in-residence at Spoke from April 26-May 23, 2010.
Our cross-disciplinary and community-engaged research envisioning the creation of embodied and large-scale installation of community-interactive “palimpsests” to unearth hidden cultural memory and promote dialogue amongst and between diverse “diasporas”.  The Palimpsest Project (phase one) will employ the creation of an environmental and performative chalkcloth "palimpsest" to trace the intricate relationships between the physical body, transgenerational memory and landscapes of belonging.  We view the chalkboard and chalk cloth as metaphoric contemporary incarnations of the historical palimpsest, a manuscript on parchment which has been effaced to make room for later writing, but of which antecedent traces remain. It is our hope that enlarging and collectively engaging in the rite of inscribing and re-inscribing personal narrative will create unique and powerful (individual and collective) connections whist engaging in an accessibly expressive and socio-cultural dialogue.



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