The Children of Syria

Art Works Projects & 625 AT 625

Tara Todras-Whitehill

625 AT 625, a series of conversations addressing art and human rights in Chicago and beyond, will be hosting a new print exhibition exploring the impact of the Syrian conflict on the country's youngest citizens in terms of health, security and education. Featured photographers include Lyndsey Addario, Kate Brooks, Bassam Khabieh, Javier Manzano, Ayman Oghanna and Tara Todras-Whitehill. 

The opening reception will be held at 625 N. Kingsbury on Wednesday April 19th with opening remarks by Ian Hurd (Northwestern University) and Shelly Pitterman (UNHCR) beginning at 6:25 PM.

Click here to learn more. RSVP by 03/18 to rsvp@artworksprojects.org.   

Raison d'Etre

André Kertész @ Stephen Daiter

Martinique, 1972

The Heron, 1969

Raison d'Etre is comprised of scores of actual photographs André Kertész originally displayed in the historic group exhibition, The Concerned Photographer at the Riverside Museum in New York City in 1967. The show ranges through many of the classic works from the artist's three great periods, centered on Budapest, Paris and New York.

The Show opens April 4th with a reception from 5-8PM. Click here to visit the Stephen Daiter website.

My Florence

Art Shay @ MoCP

Columbia College Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) and Library present My Florence, a photographic project by renowned Chicago artist Art Shay. 

The nearly seventy photographs presented in My Florence are primarily candid moments beginning with the first photograph Art took of Florence the day they met in 1942 as 20 year-old camp counselors in the Catskills. Photographs of raising their family during the mid-20^th century are combined with portraits of Florence with their culturally influential friends, such as Chicago writer Nelson Algren, rock musician Billy Corgan and playwright David Mamet. The final photographs in the exhibition were taken immediately after his beloved wife's funeral in August 2012 when both Art and Florence were 90 years old.

The My Florence exhibition is located on the second floor of the Columbia College Chicago Library, 624 S. Michigan Avenue. Click here for more info.

Ineffable Mundane

Casey Sills and Lilach Schrag 

@ Beverly Arts Center

Untitled#189, Casey Sills

Cloak Diptych, Lilach Schrag

Through their large photographs, paintings and sculptures, Lilach Schrag and Casey Sills seek the marvelous in the mundane, the extraordinary in the commonplace, and the indefinable in the everyday. Theirs is an art of chance encounter and fortuitous confluence.

Ineffable Mundane is up from Feb. 14th to March 8th, opening reception on Feb. 16th from 2-4 PM.

Click here to visit the Art Center's website. Click here for Sills' website and click here for Schrag's website.

Tableware and Some Pictures

Laura Letinsky @ Paris London Hong Kong

Tableware and Some Pictures will be open to the public at Paris London Hong Kong until March 8th. For this exhibition, Letinsky has installed new small scale photographs accompanied by new tableware ceramics. 

Laura Letinsky was born in Winnipeg, Canada and received her B.F.A. from the University of Manitoba, 1986, and her M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art, 1991. Past exhibitions include the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography; Casino Luxembourg; Galerie m Bochum, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Nederlands Foto Institute; and The Renaissance Society, Chicago.

Click here for more information.

to Threptikon

Heidi Norton @ Moniqie Meloche

Radiation Jungle, 2014, pigment print.

Aristotle postured that plants have a vegetative soul called “to threptikon”. Centuries later, Charles Darwin hypothesized that plants are cognitive organisms with a “root-brain” acting as a control center. These ideas are still hotly debated, but recent studies prove that plants are not just passive, immobile organisms; they’re endowed with sophisticated abilities to communicate, signal, and detect danger- above ground and below.

In her first solo exhibition at moniquemeloche, to Threptikon, Heidi Norton employs the parallels between plant and human cognition in order to explore ideas of unseen and invisible systems at work in the natural world.

Click here to read more. The show opens tonight from 6-8 PM.

Anne Collier

@ MCA

Woman with a camera (Candice Bergen/Minolta #2), 2008

Anne Collier is the photographer’s first major exhibition, tracing her career from 2002 to the present. Encompassing around forty works, the exhibition presents several themes that have dominated Collier’s (American, b. 1970) practice during the past decade, including pop psychology, the clichés and conventions of commercial photography, autobiography, and the act of looking or seeing. Collier’s cool and detached photographic style, manifested in large-scale color prints, eliminates any unnecessary artifice between viewers and the material she finds so fascinating.

Click here to learn more and visit the MCA website.