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Thanks to Chicago Artists Month, there are more than 150 Art & Design events happening this weekend. Our slide show (above) offers a preview of this weekend’s new shows, but you’ll have to check the Art & Design listings for the complete schedule. The following events didn’t make it into print. Unless otherwise noted, they’re FREE.
Tonight (Friday 23), ebersmoore (formerly ebersb9) opens its new West Loop gallery space at 213 N Morgan St, no. 3C (312-772-3021, ebersmoore.com), with a closing reception for its “Group Painting Show” from 6–9pm. The show includes works by Amy Mayfield, Howard Fonda, Tyson Reeder, Sebastian Vallejo and Paul Wackers. A few blocks away, Brooklyn artist John Delk returns to Thomas Robertello Gallery with “Stream,” opening 5–8pm.
In West Town, Noble & Superior Projects opens “Double Fantasy,” featuring recent work by Ivan Lozano and Kate Brock, tonight from 6–10pm. At the Nightingale, Nicholas O’Brien and jonCates curate “Screen.Grab2,” a showcase of artists’ video and new-media work, and performances involving digital and analog computers and electronics, which starts at 8pm. ($5 suggested donation.)
On Saturday 24, the University of Chicago’s Humanities Day includes two art-related lectures by Christine Mehring and W.J.T. Mitchell. Stick around Hyde Park for Home Gallery’s new exhibition “Deedee Davis and Casey Roberts” from 6–9pm.
Albany Park’s Swimming Pool Project Space unveils photographs by San Francisco artists John Chiara and Sean McFarland Saturday 24, 6–10pm.
On the edge of Wicker Park and Humboldt Park, barbara&barbara gallery host “Trunk Show” Saturday 24, 7–10pm. Musical performances by Anna Vogelzang, Vintage Gramma, and Julia V. Hendrickson & Marie Barker (accompanied by Chris Gingrich) accompany 19 young artists’ responses to the themes “luggage, travel and place.”
On Sunday 25, there should be lots of great stuff to see from noon–7pm at the East Garfield Park Art Walk and Open Studios, which encompass the Switching Station Artist Lofts, Albany Carroll Artist Studios, West Carroll Artist Studios, 3311 Carroll Artist Building and Arthur Swirgon, Ltd.
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