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Artists: David Krueger & Ben Marcus Year: 2015 Media: Marker on Paper Dimensions: 14" x 11"   Drawing inspiration from graphic art, David Krueger employs bright colors and symbols in his paintings. His geometric style is characterized by horizontal bands drawn across the canvas which break up the frame into narrative sections, reminiscent of a comic book. Between these lines, he uses decorative elements including stars, zigzags, squares, crosses, and X’s. This abstract approach to Pop Art is bold and dynamic, just like the man himself. Selected exhibitions include In Good Company at the Chicago Cultural Center, Pantheon and All Well and Good at Circle Contemporary, and Cordially Invited IV at Make Studio in Baltimore. He has an ongoing collaborative practice with artist Ben Marcus, creating comics about the character Love Man.   Ben Marcus is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Chicago, Illinois. His work explores illustrations, comics, sculptures and murals. He started Good-Bye Press to publish his own work, curated anthologies and collaborations. He also is a Dj and party thrower :)
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Artist: George Porteus Year: 2020 Media: Ink & Crayon on Paper Dimensions: 14" x 12"   George Porteus is an artist, illustrator, and experimental cartoonist. He has published an array of zInes, pamphlets, mini comics, and other printed ephemera. He lives with his partner and their cat in Chicago, IL.
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Artist: Grant Reynolds Year: 2021 Media: Color Markers, Ink, Bristol on Paper Dimensions: 6" x 4.5"   Grant Reynolds is a cartoonist in Chicago. His comic Radio Silence was selected for Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Comics 2017. He's a regular contributor to Lumpen magazine.
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Artist: Latham Zearfoss Year: 2021 Media: Screenprint on Hand-dyed Paper Dimensions: 16" x 20"   Latham Zearfoss works in Chicago, where they produce time-based images, objects and experiences about selfhood and otherness. Outside of the studio, they contribute to collective motions toward joy and reflection through social projects such as a queer dance party (Chances Dances), a critical space for white allyship (Make Yourself Useful), and an itinerant conference on socially-engaged art (Open Engagement). Latham graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in 2008 and the University of Illinois at Chicago with an MFA in 2011. They have exhibited their work, screened their videos, and DJed internationally and all over the U.S.
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Artist: Sir Charles, Almighty & Insane Books Year: 2019 Media: Risograph Print on Paper Dimensions: 16" x 20"   Sir Charles is a pseudonym born from the gang violence that began to plague not only the streets in his own neighborhood of Brighton Park, but also many other neighborhoods in Chicago. A drive-by shooting that occurred in 2015 at Shields Elementary School fueled his mission to combine Chicago gang lettering and culture with a personal twist of empowerment, forgiveness, and growth. This mission simultaneously documents personal struggles and battles with alcoholism and drug abuse as Sir Charles, or Life of a Busy Dad as he’s also known, started a new chapter as a sober father for his daughter that continues to this day. In this publication Sir Charles’s letters are paired with mid 20th century photographs from the archives of Chicago’s Urban Renewal Department. Documenting the process of identifying “blighted” buildings/neighborhoods, and targeting them for destruction/replacement, these photos preserve images of bygone structures in the oldest parts of the city. This initiative displaced many from their homes for the sake of municipal infrastructure projects, a new university campus, public housing, and private real estate developments. With a mind to contemporary parallels, Sir Charles’s letters, symbols, and messages float through this history as a disembodied voice while demonstrating a new lettering mode combining calligraphy with graffiti handstyles that is both deeply indebted to, and an integral product of, his native city of Chicago.
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Artist: Zachary Hutchinson Year: 2021 Media: Digital Print on Matte Paper Dimensions: 22" x 12"   Zachary Hutchinson (b. 1991) is an artist living and working in Chicago IL. Hutchinson came to Chicago in 2010 to attend school at the School of the Art Institute Chicago where she earned her BFA in interdisciplinary arts in 2015. Hutchinson continued her education at the University of Illinois - Chicago earning a MFA in moving image in 2017. She has shown work globally in places like Montreal, Mexico City, San Francisco CA, NYC, Los Angeles CA, Portland OR, Austin TX, Berlin Germany, Athens Greece, Glasgow United Kingdom, Iceland, Venice, and extensively in Chicago IL. She is currently an adjunct professor at UIC and was recently listed as one of the Chicago Film 50 for the 2020.   Instagram.com/zachary_hutchinson   
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Artist: Lauren Sudbrink Year: 2020-21 Media: Music box with endless loop    Lauren Sudbrink is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Chicago, Illinois. She received her BFA from the University of Minnesota in 2009 and her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2015.   Her works deal with the transactional nature of experience, examining the potentials and difficulties inherent in participation and play, as evidenced by her on-going series on 19th Century composer, Erik Satie’s “Vexations,” titled “840 Variations on Vexations.” This question of participation and experience is woven into this project which presents conceptual, poetic responses to duration, endurance, labor, and artistic interpretation, providing possibilities and inspirations for artists and musicians considering their own roles in labor and the re-inscription of the creative process. 
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Artist: Charles Long Year: 2018 Media: Ink-Jet Print on Handmade, Chicago Grown Tithonia Paper   Charles Ryan Long is a Chicago based multi-disciplinary artist, activist and Black liberationist. He explores issues of representation, legacy, and loss through paper making, print, performance and other mediums that lend themselves to the principles of the democratic multiple. His work seeks out the audience and hopes to stir within them a push towards the future where we center the needs of those with the least amongst us.
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Artist: Paul Nudd Year: 2018-2021 Media:  Ink, Acrylic Ink, and Colored Pencil on Paper Dimensions: 18" x 24"   Paul Nudd was born in Harpenden, England in 1976. He received his MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2001. Nudd currently divides his time between Chicago and Cicero, IL and he “teaches” at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Artist: Claire Pentecost Year: 2019 Media: Chalk and Oil on Board Dimensions: 8" x 10"   Claire Pentecost is an American artist, a writer, and Professor in the Department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. Her interdisciplinary practice interrogates the imaginative and institutional structures that organize divisions of knowledge, often focusing on nature and artificiality. Her work positions artistic practice as a research practice, advocating for the role of the amateur in the collection, interpretation, and mobilization of information. Her current projects focus on industrial and bioengineered agriculture, and the hidden costs of the global corporate food system.
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Artist: Nicole Marroquin Year: 2019 Media: Stoneware, Opalescent Luster Dimensions: 8" x 11" x 7"   Nicole Marroquin is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and teacher educator whose current research looks at Chicago school uprisings between 1967-74. She has recently been an artist in-residence at the Chicago Cultural Center, with the Propeller Fund at Mana Contemporary, at Watershed, Ragdale, ACRE and Oxbow. In 2017 she presented her art and research at the Hull House Museum, Northwestern University and the Museum of Contemporary Art.  In 2015, Marroquin was invited to present research at the University of Chicago in conjunction with the exhibit The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980 and at the Art Institute of Chicago for the symposium The Wall of Respect and People’s Art Since 1967.  Her essays are included in the Chicago Social Practice History Series, Revista Contratiempo and AREA Chicago Magazine, and her work is in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Mexican Art.  In 2012 her work was featured in the 1ro Bienial Continental de Arte Indigenas Contemporaria at the Museo Nacional De Culturas Populares in Mexico City. She was a Joan Mitchell Fellow at the Center for Racial Justice Innovation in 2014, and she received the Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz Women of Excellence Award in 2011 for her work in her community.  She received an MFA from the University of Michigan in 2008 and she is Associate Professor in the Department of Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Artist: Lise Baggesen Year: 2018 Media: Oil on Canvas  Dimensions: 8" x 10"    Lise Haller Baggesen (1969) is a Danish-born, Amsterdam-raised, Chicago-based, interdisciplinary artist. Her hybrid practice includes writing, installation, performative, sartorial, and textile-based work.
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Artist: Cody Hudson Year: 2018 Media: Powder Coated Steel Dimensions: 20.5" x 9.5" x 9"   Cody Hudson is a Chicago based artist, also known for his graphic design contributions under the name Struggle Inc.
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Artist: Jim Duignan Year: 1991-1992 Media: Photograph Dimensions: 12" x 12" each      Jim Duignan lives and works in Chicago. Duignan builds work that uses sculpture and story, producing various incantations regularly marked by drawings, writings, photographs, object building, and memory about and within Chicago neighborhoods.   The works of Jim Duignan and his pedagogical practice in Chicago, Stockyard Institute have been exhibited in the U.S. and Europe including Allgirls Gallery in Berlin, Germany, rum46, Aarhus, Denmark, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland, Hull House Museum, Galeria de la Escuela de Artes Plasticas, Puerto Rico, P74, Llubljiana, Slovenia, Mess Hall, Chicago, and published in the New Art Examiner, Chicago Social Practice History Series, Artforum, Chicago Reader, Whitewalls, Proximity Magazine, Prestel, Chicago Tribune, Palm Press, AREA Chicago, New City, Green Lantern Press, Set Up Tolerance, and The New York Times.   Duignan works as a Professor of Visual Art and Education in the College of Education at DePaul University. Duignan started the Stockyard Institute as a grassroots artist project occupied from an abandoned school in the Back of the Yards community of south Chicago in 1995. Stockyard Institute considers radical pedagogy from an artist perspective, built on relationships and collective deliberations.
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Artist: Noel Morical Year: 2021 Media: Paracord Dimensions: 7" x 5"   Noël Morical (American, b. 1989) lives and works in Chicago IL. She received her BFA from the The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Currently curating a traveling exhibition “Pocket Object”, a keychain themed exhibition. Solo exhibitions include Andrew Rafacz Gallery,Chicago; 57W57 Arts, New York; Fiberspace Gallery,Stockholm. Group and two-person exhibitions include MCA, Chicago; Weinburg-Newton Gallery, Chicago; 99¢ Plus Gallery, Brooklyn; Athen B. Gallery;Oakland, Chicago Artist Coalition;Chicago, Slow Gallery;Chicago, LVL3; Chicago.
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Artist: Cathy Hsiao Year: 2020 Media: Architectural building materials (white cement, Ultracal gypsum plaster), indigo dye, avocado dye, sumi ink, drywall mesh, mica, UV ecopoxy Dimensions: 4 ft x 3 ft x 3/4 in   Cathy Hsiao is a multi-disciplinary artist growing up between the US, Taiwan, and HK. Hsiao’s practice is one of material and conceptual diaspora, with installations interweaving sculpture, painting, and sound. Through the use of common architectural building materials such as cement and gypsum plaster with indigo and other natural dyes, she explores the intersection between ecological, cultural, and political space within deeply personal narratives of memory and materiality. She was the 2014-2017 New Artist Society Merit Fellow at SAIC, a 2018-19 BOLT resident at the Chicago Artists Coalition, a 2019 ACRE resident, a 2019 Newcity Magazine Breakout Artist, and a 2020 Graham Foundation Artist Grantee. Hsiao’s work has been exhibited at the DePaul Art Museum, the Chicago Cultural Center, Mana Contemporary (CHI), SoundPedro (LA), Essex Flowers (NY) as well as Chicago artist-run spaces such as Roots & Culture, Adds Donna, and Goldfinch. She teaches CPS students in SAIC’s College Arts Access program and will be a 2022 Fountainhead Artist-in-Residence in Climate and Environmental Sustainability.
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Artist: Mairead Case Year: 2015-2020 Media: Two hardcover books with Pantone high-gloss covers, signed by the author   Mairead Case is a writer, editor, and teacher. She's been a Buddy since 2006.
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A 2022 Season Subscription to the Garbage Hill Farm Community Supported Art & Agriculture produced by Jen Delos Reyes. It is sponsored by the Co-Prosperity Programming Council member Anthony Stepter.  Garbage Hill Farm runs a small scale CSAA for eight to ten members. All proceeds from the annual 18 week Community Supported Art/Agriculture program go to support SIDE by SIDE, a residency in development for BIPOC arts and culture leaders and artists to rest and rejuvenate. What you get: Seasonal greens! Squash! Vegetables! Herbs! Occasional Eggs, flowers and preserves/pantry staples! The 18 week share begins in Late June and runs through October. 
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Artist: David Nasca Year: 2020 Media: Kiln cast and cold worked uranium glass, blacklight illuminated epoxy base Dimensions: Over all 10" x 10" x 5.5", glass element 6" x 6" x 2"   David Nasca makes sculptures that draw upon themes of queer futurism, reimagined biology, and personal fantasy. Animal life informs his work, and he uses deep sea organisms, fishing lures, and invertebrate reproductive strategies as a metaphors for queer sexuality and attraction. David contrasts materials and methods, playing the organic off the synthetic and the industrial off the crafted. Material exploration is central to his work and he uses everything from leather and feathers, to ceramics and cast plastics. Through his art, David strives to create a world populated by human/object hybrids, futuristic organisms, and post-op gender unassigneds with bespoke genitalia. 
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Arists: Joshua Rios Year: 2018-Present Media: Collage Dimensions: 8" x 10"   Josh Rios is faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he teaches courses in visual critical studies and research-based practice. As a media artist, writer, and educator his projects deal with the histories, archives, and futurities of Latinx subjectivity and US/Mexico relations as understood through globalization and neocoloniality. Recent projects and presentations have been featured at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), the Blue Star Contemporary (San Antonio), Konsthall C (Stockholm), The School of Visual Art (New York), DiverseWorks (Houston), The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park), The Luminary (St. Louis), the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Biennial (Calgary, Canada), The ICA at MECA (Portland), and the Sullivan Galleries at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago). Upcoming work will be featured at The Vincent Price Art Museum (Los Angeles). Additionally, Rios has recently chaired two College Art Association panels, one in 2019 titled, “Latinx Sounds: Auditory Technologies of Resistance and Aural Practices of Transformation,” and another in 2020 titled, “Re-Working Labor: Art, Work, and Working Art,” which examined the changing nature of labor and its relationship to creativity. In 2019 Rios was a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute for the Truth and Reconciliation Residency. In 2020 Rios was a cohort member of an international artist exchange program with Brazil for the residency, Close the There. Rios was a cohort member of the year-long residency program, Re:place, sponsored by Co-prosperity (Chicago). Upcoming solo and group exhibitions are scheduled for Locust Projects (Miami) and the Vincent Price Art Museum (Los Angeles).
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Arists: Joshua Rios Year: 2018-Present Media: Collage Dimensions: 8" x 10"   Josh Rios is faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he teaches courses in visual critical studies and research-based practice. As a media artist, writer, and educator his projects deal with the histories, archives, and futurities of Latinx subjectivity and US/Mexico relations as understood through globalization and neocoloniality. Recent projects and presentations have been featured at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), the Blue Star Contemporary (San Antonio), Konsthall C (Stockholm), The School of Visual Art (New York), DiverseWorks (Houston), The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park), The Luminary (St. Louis), the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Biennial (Calgary, Canada), The ICA at MECA (Portland), and the Sullivan Galleries at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago). Upcoming work will be featured at The Vincent Price Art Museum (Los Angeles). Additionally, Rios has recently chaired two College Art Association panels, one in 2019 titled, “Latinx Sounds: Auditory Technologies of Resistance and Aural Practices of Transformation,” and another in 2020 titled, “Re-Working Labor: Art, Work, and Working Art,” which examined the changing nature of labor and its relationship to creativity. In 2019 Rios was a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute for the Truth and Reconciliation Residency. In 2020 Rios was a cohort member of an international artist exchange program with Brazil for the residency, Close the There. Rios was a cohort member of the year-long residency program, Re:place, sponsored by Co-prosperity (Chicago). Upcoming solo and group exhibitions are scheduled for Locust Projects (Miami) and the Vincent Price Art Museum (Los Angeles).
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Arists: Joshua Rios Year: 2018-Present Media: Collage Dimensions: 8" x 10"   Josh Rios is faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he teaches courses in visual critical studies and research-based practice. As a media artist, writer, and educator his projects deal with the histories, archives, and futurities of Latinx subjectivity and US/Mexico relations as understood through globalization and neocoloniality. Recent projects and presentations have been featured at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), the Blue Star Contemporary (San Antonio), Konsthall C (Stockholm), The School of Visual Art (New York), DiverseWorks (Houston), The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park), The Luminary (St. Louis), the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Biennial (Calgary, Canada), The ICA at MECA (Portland), and the Sullivan Galleries at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago). Upcoming work will be featured at The Vincent Price Art Museum (Los Angeles). Additionally, Rios has recently chaired two College Art Association panels, one in 2019 titled, “Latinx Sounds: Auditory Technologies of Resistance and Aural Practices of Transformation,” and another in 2020 titled, “Re-Working Labor: Art, Work, and Working Art,” which examined the changing nature of labor and its relationship to creativity. In 2019 Rios was a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute for the Truth and Reconciliation Residency. In 2020 Rios was a cohort member of an international artist exchange program with Brazil for the residency, Close the There. Rios was a cohort member of the year-long residency program, Re:place, sponsored by Co-prosperity (Chicago). Upcoming solo and group exhibitions are scheduled for Locust Projects (Miami) and the Vincent Price Art Museum (Los Angeles).
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Arists: Joshua Rios Year: 2018-Present Media: Collage Dimensions: 8" x 10"   Josh Rios is faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he teaches courses in visual critical studies and research-based practice. As a media artist, writer, and educator his projects deal with the histories, archives, and futurities of Latinx subjectivity and US/Mexico relations as understood through globalization and neocoloniality. Recent projects and presentations have been featured at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), the Blue Star Contemporary (San Antonio), Konsthall C (Stockholm), The School of Visual Art (New York), DiverseWorks (Houston), The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park), The Luminary (St. Louis), the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Biennial (Calgary, Canada), The ICA at MECA (Portland), and the Sullivan Galleries at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago). Upcoming work will be featured at The Vincent Price Art Museum (Los Angeles). Additionally, Rios has recently chaired two College Art Association panels, one in 2019 titled, “Latinx Sounds: Auditory Technologies of Resistance and Aural Practices of Transformation,” and another in 2020 titled, “Re-Working Labor: Art, Work, and Working Art,” which examined the changing nature of labor and its relationship to creativity. In 2019 Rios was a resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute for the Truth and Reconciliation Residency. In 2020 Rios was a cohort member of an international artist exchange program with Brazil for the residency, Close the There. Rios was a cohort member of the year-long residency program, Re:place, sponsored by Co-prosperity (Chicago). Upcoming solo and group exhibitions are scheduled for Locust Projects (Miami) and the Vincent Price Art Museum (Los Angeles).
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Artist: Sofia Moreno  Year: 2021 Media: Color Pencil on Paper Dimensions: 19.2" x 26.7"   Sofia Moreno is a multimedia artist whose subjects include expressions of the sacred and profane, the body, sexuality, religion and socio-political issues within contemporary culture. She is currently working on the follow-up to her six-year project, P o r n A g a i n, which has been shown at s+s project in San Francisco, LaGrotta Art Gallery in Queens and at Defibrillator in Chicago. She has participated in multiple group exhibitions across the world, including in Berlin, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and across the US. Moreno, born and raised in Coahuila, Mexico, immigrated to the United States in 1994. She was educated at El Centro College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently she lives and works in Mexico City.
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Artist: Roland Knowlden Year: 2020 Media: Ink and Charcoal on Paper, Artist Made Walnut Frame Dimensions: 32" x 24"   Roland Knowlden is a Liberian American Artist and Architectural Designer. As an architect, he is interested in our physical environment, and the cultural and social implications of materials as they map and construct space. As an Artist, Roland aims to articulate a visual language for a more invisible experience of space. His work questions notions of race, origin, belonging, boundaries, and power. Mapping, whether visualized through film or drawing, becomes a tool for Roland to illustrate spatial experience. His work aims to not only reproduce our spatial environment and experience, but to produce new spatial realities.
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Artist: Jesse Malmed Year: 2021 Media: Ink & Water on Paper Dimensions: 8.5" x 11" (13" x 17" framed)   Jesse Malmed is an artist and curator working in video, performance, text, occasional objects and their gaps and laps over and under. Various pre-occupations include: Infinite Gesticulator, Disorganizer, Paranoiac Research Assistant, Choir Conductor, Cosmic Concierge, Junk Shop Salesman, Re-Titler, Poet-Comedian, Traffic Caller, Obstinate-Minded Professor, Bootlegger, Idiot's Idiot, Pro Bono Closed Captioner and Imaginary Television Host. He has performed, screened and exhibited widely at museums, cinemae, galleries, bars and barns. His platformist and curatorial projects include directing the Live to Tape Artist Television Festival, programming at the Nightingale Cinema, instigating Western Pole, co-driving the mobile exhibition space and artist bumper sticker project Trunk Show (with Raven Falquez Munsell), programming through ACRE TV and organizing exhibitions, screenings and performance events both independently and institutionally. Originally from Santa Fe, he earned his BA from Bard College and his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He teaches at UIC, UWM and in the Chicago Public Schools through CAPE; sings in The Fucs (a Fugs cover band); was profiled recently in Newcity's Film 50 and the Chicago Tribune.
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Artist: Gabe Hoare Year: 2019 Media: Lithograph and Screenprint on Cotton Paper Dimensions: 22" x 28"   Gabe Hoare is an artist and printer specializing in lithography. He is the co-founder of Hoofprint Editions, a printshop in Chicago's McKinley Park neighborhood.
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Artist: Brandon Alvendia Year: 2011 Media: Gold Alloy and Ink on Blotter Paper Dimensions: 7" x 6" (17" x 13" Framed)   Brandon Alvendia is an artist, independent curator, and educator.   Brandon researches and regularly collaborates with artist-run initiatives around North America to develop site-specific community-driven exhibitions, events, and publications that create space for experimentation, discussion, and collaboration. He is the founder of Chicago alternative spaces artLedge (2004-2007 w/ Caleb Lyons), BEN RUSSELL (2009-2011 w/Ben Russell), The Storefront (2010-2014), and Silver Galleon Press (2008-present).   In 2020, Brandon was Saturday editor and livestream producer/host for The Quarantine Times (published by Public Media Institute), organized the Zoom happenings OFFICE PARTY 1&2 for the 6th edition of the Common Field Convening, and closed the year out with an internet performance series for public intimacies, curated by Abigail Satinsky at Tufts University Art Galleries, Boston titled The Love Bug (Fwd:LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU). He is currently an Independent Curators International Research Fellow supported by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and the Hartfield Foundation. The area of focus is on artist-run alternative spaces operating within the Mississippi River Basin region of the United States.   Brandon has taught at the School of The Art Institute, University of Illinois, and Columbia College, all in Chicago, and Maine College of Art (MECA) in Portland, ME. He is an alum of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA ‘03), the University of Illinois at Chicago (MFA ‘07), Copycat Academy (Toronto, 2014), and Independent Curators International Curatorial Intensive (New Orleans, 2015).
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Artist: Stephen Eichhorn Year: 2020 Media: Hand-pulled Screen Print Dimensions: 28" x 21" (Unframed)   Stephen Eichhorn (b. 1984, United States) lives and works in Chicago. He has had solo exhibitions at the Franklin Park Conservatory, Elmhurst Art Museum and the Chicago Athletic Association. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Tower Hill Botanic Gardens, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, NEIU Fine Arts Center Gallery, Illinois State Museum Lockport Gallery and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Stephen Eichhorn is represented by Carrie Secrist Gallery.
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Krista Kane and her buddies created this get away for folks to find some quite, create, and connect with nature. The house sits on 6 acres of private woods, is minuets from several state parks, and the house has plenty of space to work in.
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Artist: William Estrada Year: 2021 Media: Screenprint and Ink on French Paper Dimensions: 9" x 12.5"   William Estrada is an arts educator and multidisciplinary artist. His art and teaching are a collaborative discourse that critically re-examines public and private spaces with people to engage in radical imagination. He has presented in various panels regarding community programming, arts integration, and social justice curricula. He is currently a faculty member at the UIC School of Art and Art History and a teaching artist at Telpochcalli Elementary School. William is engaging in collaborative work with the Mobilize Creative Collaborative, Chicago ACT Collective, and Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative. His current research is focused on developing community based and culturally relevant projects that center power structures of race, economy, and cultural access in contested spaces that provide a space to collectively imagine just futures.
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Artist: Danielle Chenette Year: 2021 Media: Gouache   Danielle Chenette is an illustrator/animator/painter who currently lives and works in Western Massachusetts.
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Artist: Aron Gent Year: 2021 Media: Epson Ink on Watercolor Paper Dimensions: 11" x 15"   Aron Gent (Born 1985) is an artist, gallerist and professional print maker residing in Chicago, IL. He received a degree from Columbia College Chicago and has been a lecturer and educator at the Art Institute of Chicago, Milwaukee institute of Art and Design, the Hyde Park Art Center and Columbia College Chicago. Gent is a co-proprietor of Paris London Hong Kong and founder of the printing/exhibition space DOCUMENT. He serves on the board of the New Art Dealers Association(NADA), the Society for Contemporary Art(SCA) and is a founding/current board member of the ACRE Residency Program.
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Artist: Alex Belardo Kostiw Year: 2016 Media: Screen Print on Paper, Variable Edition of 5 Dimensions: 25" x 15"   Alex Belardo Kostiw is a graphic designer, artist, and educator. Her print work deals in poetic and iterative elements, visual structures of comics, and conceptually driven forms. It invites interactive, intuitive reading—even as it resists full unraveling. By exploring the ambiguities of language and expression, her publications and prints forms a liminal space for feeling out complicated realities of identity and human intimacy. Alex received an MFA in Visual Communication Design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in English literature from the University of Chicago.
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Artist: Piotr Szyhalski Year: 2020 Media: Digital Press with Liquid Ink Technology Dimensions: 20" x 29" 80lb Mohawk Superfine Eggshell White Text stock   Polish-born, U.S.-based multimedia artist Piotr Szyhalski has in the past decade established the Labor Camp—an ongoing art project that includes interactive components (digital and physical), original music, performances, videos, printed ephemera, texts, a blog, and an archive of online resources.   Moving between fine arts (painting, photography, drawing, installation), sound, media art, and design, Szyhalski’s multilayered works often explore communication/exchange, extreme historical phenomena, and relationships between the individual and society/history/time. His work has been exhibited worldwide at such venues as the International Center of Photography, the New York Expo Film Festival, Siggraph, ISEA Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the San Jose Museum of Art, and Experimenta Design in Lisbon, Portugal, and featured in a variety of catalogues and publications. Pieces are in the collections of the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and others.   In addition to his own performance-based projects, he was commissioned to develop large-scale interactive, live projections for Wim Mertens quartet in Brussels (1998), the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (2001), and VocalEssence (2004). He recently released two CDs as Labor Camp Orchestra for the multimedia installations Theater of Operations (2007, 2009).
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Linglin Yan Highest Bidder
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Artist: Piotr Szyhalski Year: 2020 Media: Digital Press with Liquid Ink Technology Dimensions: 20" x 29" 80lb Mohawk Superfine Eggshell White Text stock   Polish-born, U.S.-based multimedia artist Piotr Szyhalski has in the past decade established the Labor Camp—an ongoing art project that includes interactive components (digital and physical), original music, performances, videos, printed ephemera, texts, a blog, and an archive of online resources.   Moving between fine arts (painting, photography, drawing, installation), sound, media art, and design, Szyhalski’s multilayered works often explore communication/exchange, extreme historical phenomena, and relationships between the individual and society/history/time. His work has been exhibited worldwide at such venues as the International Center of Photography, the New York Expo Film Festival, Siggraph, ISEA Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the San Jose Museum of Art, and Experimenta Design in Lisbon, Portugal, and featured in a variety of catalogues and publications. Pieces are in the collections of the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and others.   In addition to his own performance-based projects, he was commissioned to develop large-scale interactive, live projections for Wim Mertens quartet in Brussels (1998), the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (2001), and VocalEssence (2004). He recently released two CDs as Labor Camp Orchestra for the multimedia installations Theater of Operations (2007, 2009).
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James Adam Highest Bidder
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Artist: Piotr Szyhalski Year: 2020 Media: Digital Press with Liquid Ink Technology Dimensions: 20" x 29" 80lb Mohawk Superfine Eggshell White Text stock   Polish-born, U.S.-based multimedia artist Piotr Szyhalski has in the past decade established the Labor Camp—an ongoing art project that includes interactive components (digital and physical), original music, performances, videos, printed ephemera, texts, a blog, and an archive of online resources.   Moving between fine arts (painting, photography, drawing, installation), sound, media art, and design, Szyhalski’s multilayered works often explore communication/exchange, extreme historical phenomena, and relationships between the individual and society/history/time. His work has been exhibited worldwide at such venues as the International Center of Photography, the New York Expo Film Festival, Siggraph, ISEA Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the San Jose Museum of Art, and Experimenta Design in Lisbon, Portugal, and featured in a variety of catalogues and publications. Pieces are in the collections of the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and others.   In addition to his own performance-based projects, he was commissioned to develop large-scale interactive, live projections for Wim Mertens quartet in Brussels (1998), the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (2001), and VocalEssence (2004). He recently released two CDs as Labor Camp Orchestra for the multimedia installations Theater of Operations (2007, 2009).
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Laura Williams Highest Bidder
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Artist: Piotr Szyhalski Year: 2020 Media: Digital Press with Liquid Ink Technology Dimensions: 20" x 29" 80lb Mohawk Superfine Eggshell White Text stock   Polish-born, U.S.-based multimedia artist Piotr Szyhalski has in the past decade established the Labor Camp—an ongoing art project that includes interactive components (digital and physical), original music, performances, videos, printed ephemera, texts, a blog, and an archive of online resources.   Moving between fine arts (painting, photography, drawing, installation), sound, media art, and design, Szyhalski’s multilayered works often explore communication/exchange, extreme historical phenomena, and relationships between the individual and society/history/time. His work has been exhibited worldwide at such venues as the International Center of Photography, the New York Expo Film Festival, Siggraph, ISEA Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the San Jose Museum of Art, and Experimenta Design in Lisbon, Portugal, and featured in a variety of catalogues and publications. Pieces are in the collections of the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and others.   In addition to his own performance-based projects, he was commissioned to develop large-scale interactive, live projections for Wim Mertens quartet in Brussels (1998), the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (2001), and VocalEssence (2004). He recently released two CDs as Labor Camp Orchestra for the multimedia installations Theater of Operations (2007, 2009).
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Claire OBrien Highest Bidder
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Artist: Piotr Szyhalski Year: 2020 Media: Digital Press with Liquid Ink Technology Dimensions: 20" x 29" 80lb Mohawk Superfine Eggshell White Text stock   Polish-born, U.S.-based multimedia artist Piotr Szyhalski has in the past decade established the Labor Camp—an ongoing art project that includes interactive components (digital and physical), original music, performances, videos, printed ephemera, texts, a blog, and an archive of online resources.   Moving between fine arts (painting, photography, drawing, installation), sound, media art, and design, Szyhalski’s multilayered works often explore communication/exchange, extreme historical phenomena, and relationships between the individual and society/history/time. His work has been exhibited worldwide at such venues as the International Center of Photography, the New York Expo Film Festival, Siggraph, ISEA Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the San Jose Museum of Art, and Experimenta Design in Lisbon, Portugal, and featured in a variety of catalogues and publications. Pieces are in the collections of the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and others.   In addition to his own performance-based projects, he was commissioned to develop large-scale interactive, live projections for Wim Mertens quartet in Brussels (1998), the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (2001), and VocalEssence (2004). He recently released two CDs as Labor Camp Orchestra for the multimedia installations Theater of Operations (2007, 2009).
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Courtney Kelledes Highest Bidder
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It is sponsored by Marz Community Brewing Co. Holihaze, our beer and wine hybrid holiday juice. We made this sweet gift pack to share with your friends, family and loved ones.   We took our base NE IPA and fermented it with Sauvignon Blanc must and juice. We then gave this beer a massive Dry Hopping of Nelson Sauvin, Hallertau Blanc, Amarillo, and Citra Hops. The Sauvignon Blanc contributes nice notes of gooseberry and apple, while the hops bring some lemongrass, pineapple, and a little peach lingering on the back end. This beer has a bright mouthfeel and finishes slightly dry as well. Cheers to you all this holiday season. Brighter days are ahead for us all!   Holihaze is a Northeast Style IPA with Sauvignon Blanc at 6.5% ABV. #juicy #wineandbeer #holidayale   The Holihaze Gift Pack includes: 2 Holihaze Rastal Glasses 4 pack of Holihaze The Holihaze Puzzle The Holihaze Scarf
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It is sponsored by Marz Community Brewing Co. Krampusnacht is the night an eponymous goat-demon devil figure stalks from house to house punishing naughty children, swatting them with ruten and stuffing them into his bag to carry them back to hell.   To escape his clutches and throw him off our scent, we created this light, smooth and fruity wale suffused with raspberry and cranberry. Its cranberry notes and flaked-oat mouthfeel compels him to skip our house and move on to the next. Sure, after a cuppa two or tree ox horns we might be half in the bag, but at least we won’t be in Krampus’ bag–he doesn’t even have pretzels in there!   This is our commemorative gift pack for those willing to greet Krampus and the holidays in style.   The Krampbiscus Gift Pack contains: 4 pack of Krampbiscus 2 Krampbiscus Rastal Glasses The Krampbiscus Puzzle The Krampbiscus Scarf A pair of Krampbiscus Socks
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Nick Adam Highest Bidder
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Artist: CHema Skandal Year: 2016 Dimensions: 16" x 20"   CHema Skandal is a graphic artist, born in Mexico City, Mexico. He went to Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas (National Arts School), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (National University of Mexico) in Mexico City, where he obtained the degree in Visual Communications. Since he is very fond of Carribiean and Jamaican tunes, the artist fuses together art and music. His interests include fanzines, illustrations, apocalypse and ancient civilizations.   CHema has an international fan base. He painted a lively mural in Chicago and had an exhibition with screen printers in Rogers Park. His work combines his rich cultural heritage and corner-store Pop ephemera, graphics and sound.
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Artist: CHema Skandal Year: 2016 Dimensions: 15.5" x 21"   CHema Skandal is a graphic artist, born in Mexico City, Mexico. He went to Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas (National Arts School), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (National University of Mexico) in Mexico City, where he obtained the degree in Visual Communications. Since he is very fond of Carribiean and Jamaican tunes, the artist fuses together art and music. His interests include fanzines, illustrations, apocalypse and ancient civilizations.   CHema has an international fan base. He painted a lively mural in Chicago and had an exhibition with screen printers in Rogers Park. His work combines his rich cultural heritage and corner-store Pop ephemera, graphics and sound.
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Artist:  Santana  Villanueva-Uribe Year: 2021 Media:  Acrylic Latex, Spray Paint on Canvas Dimensions: 64" x 28.5"   Born in California, Santana Villanueva-Uribe is a self taught visual outsider artist focusing on a chaotic style from an existentialist point of view.
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Artist: Juan Angel Chavez Year: 2021 Dimensions: 14" x 22"   Juan was born in La Junta, Chihuahua, Mexico, where he lived until 1985.  At the age of thirteen, he immigrated with his family to Chicago, where he lives and works to day.   Juan focuses in larger then life sculptures and installations made of found materials, light and sound. His work has been exhibited in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Mexican Fine Art Center Museum, and the Hyde Park Art Center.  Nationally and abroad, his work has recently been exhibited at venues in Los Angeles, California; Burlington, Vermont, Columbus Ohio, Boston, Massachusetts; and Copenhagen, Denmark. He has been recognized with the prestigious Richard H. Driehaus Individual Artist Award and the Louis Comfort Tiffany award in NY City.   Juan, also, has been an active participant in Chicago’s arts community, and has served as an Arts Representative on the City of Chicago’s Public Art Committee and currently holds a Faculty position in the sculpture department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Artist: Juan Angel Chavez Year: 2021 Dimensions: 14" x 22"   Juan was born in La Junta, Chihuahua, Mexico, where he lived until 1985.  At the age of thirteen, he immigrated with his family to Chicago, where he lives and works to day.   Juan focuses in larger then life sculptures and installations made of found materials, light and sound. His work has been exhibited in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Mexican Fine Art Center Museum, and the Hyde Park Art Center.  Nationally and abroad, his work has recently been exhibited at venues in Los Angeles, California; Burlington, Vermont, Columbus Ohio, Boston, Massachusetts; and Copenhagen, Denmark. He has been recognized with the prestigious Richard H. Driehaus Individual Artist Award and the Louis Comfort Tiffany award in NY City.   Juan, also, has been an active participant in Chicago’s arts community, and has served as an Arts Representative on the City of Chicago’s Public Art Committee and currently holds a Faculty position in the sculpture department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Artist: Tim Wood Year: 2021 Media: Wood
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Michael Lynch Highest Bidder
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