Art Chicago 2009

May 1-4, 2009

The Merchandise Mart
222 Merchandise Mart Plaza
Chicago IL 60654
tel.: 312.527.3701
hours: Friday, May 1, 11 am - 7 pm
Saturday, May 2, 11 am - 7 pm
Sunday, May 3, 11 am - 6 pm
Monday, May 4, 11 am - 3 pm
http://www.artchicago.com

Part II

If you haven't yet been to Art Chicago '09 -- go! This year is a strong showing and a second day yielded further pleasures.

Photography has become firmly established as a presence in Art Chicago. Two suggestions for individual photography-oriented galleries with strong offerings throughout are HackelBury Fine Art Ltd. (London) and Robert Koch Gallery. At HackelBury Fine Art, see the large-scale prints of Stephen Inggs, whose gelatin silver emulsions on rag paper are reminiscent of an Edward Weston sensibility; the atmospheric gelatin silver prints of nature by Calmen & Bech; the digital nature closeups of Doug & Mike Starn; and more.

Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco) has further photographs by Michael Wolf (also featured at Stephen Daiter Gallery (Chicago) - see Part I) including one from his body of photography in China. Also of interest are Nadav Kandar's photographs of China; Brian Ulrich, recent and evocative work of abandoned big box retailers from the series Dark Stores, 08-09; and the photographs of Amy Stein. Robert Koch Gallery is also showing a number of 20th century masters including work by Josef Sudek, Josef Ehm, Frantisek Drtikol, Lucien herve, Elliott Erwitt and Helen Levitt.

Carl Solway Gallery (Cincinnati) has organized its booth as a mini-exhibit on American inventor Buckminster Fuller and fellow artists. Buckminster Fuller and his friends at Black Mountain features works by Buckminster Fuller, Josef Albers, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg and Merce Cunningham. At Carl Solway Gallery's booth are a variety of Fuller materials, including Fuller sketches from the 1920s, a tempting premise for those who were enchanted by Fuller's drawings at the MCA exhibition. The series Inventions: Twelve Around One features a portfolio of signed screen prints of Fuller blueprints and diagrams. There's also a three-dimensional Fuller model, Duo-Tet Star Polyhedra (1980), one of a signed edition of 10.

The offerings complement the Fuller prototype 24-Foot Fly's Eye Dome on display in the Merchandise Mart's South Lobby, and the MCA's extensive exhibition Buckminster Fuller: Starting With The Universe, running through June 21.

Further items to entice and delight:

German artist Michael Triegel is at Worthington Gallery (Chicago). Triegel's small oil painting, Still Life with Fall (2007) is a highlight with its delicate yet intense realism and allegorical content. Etchings by Triegel and two early watercolors are also featured.

William Bailey at Peter Findlay Gallery (New York). Bailey's still life of ceramic vessels is quiet, pleasing, suffused with an inner presence.

Stephen Assael's Alex, Nathan and Morgan (2008) at Forum Gallery (New York).

Seung Wook Sim at Carl Hammer Gallery (Chicago). Sim's large black blocks are sensual, dramatic, graphite-dark accretions reflecting a dense reality of flow and stasis.

Shigeno Ichimura's sensual monochromatic abstractions in the cool silver of industrial paint at Base Gallery (Tokyo) (visual in Part I).

International Sculpture Center, publisher of Sculpture Magazine, has on display two signed lithographic prints by sculptor Richard Hunt.

Tom Huck's large-scale woodcuts at Philip Slein Gallery (Saint Louis), also at Landfall Press, Inc. (Santa Fe). Huck's profane, tumultuous riot of human folly can be an acquired taste. His mastery of crisp woodcut on a monumental scale is amazing.

Partisan, one of the many special exhibitions at Art Chicago 2009, includes several works by Leon Golub, including the chilling reality expressed in This Could Be You #13 (2001), courtesy Rhona Hoffman Gallery.

'Lounge' areas scattered throughout the show provide far more opportunity to sit back and relax periodically than in prior years. These spaces are also hung with art from the surrounding gallery booths, a perfect touch allowing one to stay for a while with some of these compelling images.

In the end, there's always some corner to turn, always some new vista, a sudden glimpse of something one simply must go over to see. That's the beauty of Art Chicago.

A color catalogue accompanies and is available at the show for $20. Aside from being a general take-with-you reference it also assists in cross-referencing the artists with the several galleries who may represent them.

More information on Art Chicago and its accompanying fairs may be found at:
Art Chicago, www.artchicago.com.
NEXT, the invitational exhibition of emerging art, www.nextartfair.com.
The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair, the Midwest's premiere exhibition of antiques and fine art, www.merchandisemartantiques.com.

Return to Part I.

--Katherine R. Lieber

Katherine R. Lieber has edited ArtScope.net's Visual Arts reviews since 1998. Ms. Lieber is Editor and Associate Producer for ArtScope.net.

Art Chicago 2009

May 1-4, 2009

The Merchandise Mart
222 Merchandise Mart Plaza
Chicago IL 60654
tel.: 312.527.3701
hours: Friday, May 1, 11 am - 7 pm
Saturday, May 2, 11 am - 7 pm
Sunday, May 3, 11 am - 6 pm
Monday, May 4, 11 am - 3 pm
http://www.artchicago.com

Part II

If you haven't yet been to Art Chicago '09 -- go! This year is a strong showing and a second day yielded further pleasures.

Photography has become firmly established as a presence in Art Chicago. Two suggestions for individual photography-oriented galleries with strong offerings throughout are HackelBury Fine Art Ltd. (London) and Robert Koch Gallery. At HackelBury Fine Art, see the large-scale prints of Stephen Inggs, whose gelatin silver emulsions on rag paper are reminiscent of an Edward Weston sensibility; the atmospheric gelatin silver prints of nature by Calmen & Bech; the digital nature closeups of Doug & Mike Starn; and more.

Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco) has further photographs by Michael Wolf (also featured at Stephen Daiter Gallery (Chicago) - see Part I) including one from his body of photography in China. Also of interest are Nadav Kandar's photographs of China; Brian Ulrich, recent and evocative work of abandoned big box retailers from the series Dark Stores, 08-09; and the photographs of Amy Stein. Robert Koch Gallery is also showing a number of 20th century masters including work by Josef Sudek, Josef Ehm, Frantisek Drtikol, Lucien herve, Elliott Erwitt and Helen Levitt.

Carl Solway Gallery (Cincinnati) has organized its booth as a mini-exhibit on American inventor Buckminster Fuller and fellow artists. Buckminster Fuller and his friends at Black Mountain features works by Buckminster Fuller, Josef Albers, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg and Merce Cunningham. At Carl Solway Gallery's booth are a variety of Fuller materials, including Fuller sketches from the 1920s, a tempting premise for those who were enchanted by Fuller's drawings at the MCA exhibition. The series Inventions: Twelve Around One features a portfolio of signed screen prints of Fuller blueprints and diagrams. There's also a three-dimensional Fuller model, Duo-Tet Star Polyhedra (1980), one of a signed edition of 10.

The offerings complement the Fuller prototype 24-Foot Fly's Eye Dome on display in the Merchandise Mart's South Lobby, and the MCA's extensive exhibition Buckminster Fuller: Starting With The Universe, running through June 21.

Further items to entice and delight:

German artist Michael Triegel is at Worthington Gallery (Chicago). Triegel's small oil painting, Still Life with Fall (2007) is a highlight with its delicate yet intense realism and allegorical content. Etchings by Triegel and two early watercolors are also featured.

William Bailey at Peter Findlay Gallery (New York). Bailey's still life of ceramic vessels is quiet, pleasing, suffused with an inner presence.

Stephen Assael's Alex, Nathan and Morgan (2008) at Forum Gallery (New York).

Seung Wook Sim at Carl Hammer Gallery (Chicago). Sim's large black blocks are sensual, dramatic, graphite-dark accretions reflecting a dense reality of flow and stasis.

Shigeno Ichimura's sensual monochromatic abstractions in the cool silver of industrial paint at Base Gallery (Tokyo) (visual in Part I).

International Sculpture Center, publisher of Sculpture Magazine, has on display two signed lithographic prints by sculptor Richard Hunt.

Tom Huck's large-scale woodcuts at Philip Slein Gallery (Saint Louis), also at Landfall Press, Inc. (Santa Fe). Huck's profane, tumultuous riot of human folly can be an acquired taste. His mastery of crisp woodcut on a monumental scale is amazing.

Partisan, one of the many special exhibitions at Art Chicago 2009, includes several works by Leon Golub, including the chilling reality expressed in This Could Be You #13 (2001), courtesy Rhona Hoffman Gallery.

'Lounge' areas scattered throughout the show provide far more opportunity to sit back and relax periodically than in prior years. These spaces are also hung with art from the surrounding gallery booths, a perfect touch allowing one to stay for a while with some of these compelling images.

In the end, there's always some corner to turn, always some new vista, a sudden glimpse of something one simply must go over to see. That's the beauty of Art Chicago.

A color catalogue accompanies and is available at the show for $20. Aside from being a general take-with-you reference it also assists in cross-referencing the artists with the several galleries who may represent them.

More information on Art Chicago and its accompanying fairs may be found at:
Art Chicago, www.artchicago.com.
NEXT, the invitational exhibition of emerging art, www.nextartfair.com.
The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair, the Midwest's premiere exhibition of antiques and fine art, www.merchandisemartantiques.com.

Return to Part I.

--Katherine R. Lieber

Katherine R. Lieber has edited ArtScope.net's Visual Arts reviews since 1998. Ms. Lieber is Editor and Associate Producer for ArtScope.net.

[an error occurred while processing this directive]

[an error occurred while processing this directive] Marlow Moss White, Red and Grey, 1935 Oil on canvas Courtesy The Mayor Gallery, London Art Chicago 2009 May 1-4, 2009 The Merchandise Mart 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza Chicago IL 60654 tel.: 312.527.3701 hours: Friday, May 1, 11 am - 7 pm Saturday, May 2, 11 am - 7 pm Sunday, May 3, 11 am - 6 pm Monday, May 4, 11 am - 3 pm http://www.artchicago.com Part II If you haven't yet been to Art Chicago '09 -- go! This year is a strong showing and a second day yielded further pleasures. Photography has become firmly established as a presence in Art Chicago. Two suggestions for individual photography-oriented galleries with strong offerings throughout are HackelBury Fine Art Ltd. (London) and Robert Koch Gallery. At HackelBury Fine Art, see the large-scale prints of Stephen Inggs, whose gelatin silver emulsions on rag paper are reminiscent of an Edward Weston sensibility; the atmospheric gelatin silver prints of nature by Calmen & Bech; the digital nature closeups of Doug & Mike Starn; and more. Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco) has further photographs by Michael Wolf (also featured at Stephen Daiter Gallery (Chicago) - see Part I) including one from his body of photography in China. Also of interest are Nadav Kandar's photographs of China; Brian Ulrich, recent and evocative work of abandoned big box retailers from the series Dark Stores, 08-09; and the photographs of Amy Stein. Robert Koch Gallery is also showing a number of 20th century masters including work by Josef Sudek, Josef Ehm, Frantisek Drtikol, Lucien herve, Elliott Erwitt and Helen Levitt. Carl Solway Gallery (Cincinnati) has organized its booth as a mini-exhibit on American inventor Buckminster Fuller and fellow artists. Buckminster Fuller and his friends at Black Mountain features works by Buckminster Fuller, Josef Albers, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg and Merce Cunningham. At Carl Solway Gallery's booth are a variety of Fuller materials, including Fuller sketches from the 1920s, a tempting premise for those who were enchanted by Fuller's drawings at the MCA exhibition. The series Inventions: Twelve Around One features a portfolio of signed screen prints of Fuller blueprints and diagrams. There's also a three-dimensional Fuller model, Duo-Tet Star Polyhedra (1980), one of a signed edition of 10. The offerings complement the Fuller prototype 24-Foot Fly's Eye Dome on display in the Merchandise Mart's South Lobby, and the MCA's extensive exhibition Buckminster Fuller: Starting With The Universe, running through June 21. Further items to entice and delight: German artist Michael Triegel is at Worthington Gallery (Chicago). Triegel's small oil painting, Still Life with Fall (2007) is a highlight with its delicate yet intense realism and allegorical content. Etchings by Triegel and two early watercolors are also featured. William Bailey at Peter Findlay Gallery (New York). Bailey's still life of ceramic vessels is quiet, pleasing, suffused with an inner presence. Stephen Assael's Alex, Nathan and Morgan (2008) at Forum Gallery (New York). Seung Wook Sim at Carl Hammer Gallery (Chicago). Sim's large black blocks are sensual, dramatic, graphite-dark accretions reflecting a dense reality of flow and stasis. Shigeno Ichimura's sensual monochromatic abstractions in the cool silver of industrial paint at Base Gallery (Tokyo) (visual in Part I). Bo Bartlett The Cruel Fair, 2007 Oil on linen Courtesy P.P.O.W., New York International Sculpture Center, publisher of Sculpture Magazine, has on display two signed lithographic prints by sculptor Richard Hunt. Tom Huck's large-scale woodcuts at Philip Slein Gallery (Saint Louis), also at Landfall Press, Inc. (Santa Fe). Huck's profane, tumultuous riot of human folly can be an acquired taste. His mastery of crisp woodcut on a monumental scale is amazing. Partisan, one of the many special exhibitions at Art Chicago 2009, includes several works by Leon Golub, including the chilling reality expressed in This Could Be You #13 (2001), courtesy Rhona Hoffman Gallery. 'Lounge' areas scattered throughout the show provide far more opportunity to sit back and relax periodically than in prior years. These spaces are also hung with art from the surrounding gallery booths, a perfect touch allowing one to stay for a while with some of these compelling images. In the end, there's always some corner to turn, always some new vista, a sudden glimpse of something one simply must go over to see. That's the beauty of Art Chicago. A color catalogue accompanies and is available at the show for $20. Aside from being a general take-with-you reference it also assists in cross-referencing the artists with the several galleries who may represent them. More information on Art Chicago and its accompanying fairs may be found at: Art Chicago, www.artchicago.com. NEXT, the invitational exhibition of emerging art, www.nextartfair.com. The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair, the Midwest's premiere exhibition of antiques and fine art, www.merchandisemartantiques.com. Return to Part I. --Katherine R. Lieber Katherine R. Lieber has edited ArtScope.net's Visual Arts reviews since 1998. Ms. Lieber is Editor and Associate Producer for ArtScope.net.

Article Tools
 Print | Tell A Friend | Send Link

[an error occurred while processing this directive]

[an error occurred while processing this directive] Marlow Moss White, Red and Grey, 1935 Oil on canvas Courtesy The Mayor Gallery, London Art Chicago 2009 May 1-4, 2009 The Merchandise Mart 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza Chicago IL 60654 tel.: 312.527.3701 hours: Friday, May 1, 11 am - 7 pm Saturday, May 2, 11 am - 7 pm Sunday, May 3, 11 am - 6 pm Monday, May 4, 11 am - 3 pm http://www.artchicago.com Part II If you haven't yet been to Art Chicago '09 -- go! This year is a strong showing and a second day yielded further pleasures. Photography has become firmly established as a presence in Art Chicago. Two suggestions for individual photography-oriented galleries with strong offerings throughout are HackelBury Fine Art Ltd. (London) and Robert Koch Gallery. At HackelBury Fine Art, see the large-scale prints of Stephen Inggs, whose gelatin silver emulsions on rag paper are reminiscent of an Edward Weston sensibility; the atmospheric gelatin silver prints of nature by Calmen & Bech; the digital nature closeups of Doug & Mike Starn; and more. Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco) has further photographs by Michael Wolf (also featured at Stephen Daiter Gallery (Chicago) - see Part I) including one from his body of photography in China. Also of interest are Nadav Kandar's photographs of China; Brian Ulrich, recent and evocative work of abandoned big box retailers from the series Dark Stores, 08-09; and the photographs of Amy Stein. Robert Koch Gallery is also showing a number of 20th century masters including work by Josef Sudek, Josef Ehm, Frantisek Drtikol, Lucien herve, Elliott Erwitt and Helen Levitt. Carl Solway Gallery (Cincinnati) has organized its booth as a mini-exhibit on American inventor Buckminster Fuller and fellow artists. Buckminster Fuller and his friends at Black Mountain features works by Buckminster Fuller, Josef Albers, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg and Merce Cunningham. At Carl Solway Gallery's booth are a variety of Fuller materials, including Fuller sketches from the 1920s, a tempting premise for those who were enchanted by Fuller's drawings at the MCA exhibition. The series Inventions: Twelve Around One features a portfolio of signed screen prints of Fuller blueprints and diagrams. There's also a three-dimensional Fuller model, Duo-Tet Star Polyhedra (1980), one of a signed edition of 10. The offerings complement the Fuller prototype 24-Foot Fly's Eye Dome on display in the Merchandise Mart's South Lobby, and the MCA's extensive exhibition Buckminster Fuller: Starting With The Universe, running through June 21. Further items to entice and delight: German artist Michael Triegel is at Worthington Gallery (Chicago). Triegel's small oil painting, Still Life with Fall (2007) is a highlight with its delicate yet intense realism and allegorical content. Etchings by Triegel and two early watercolors are also featured. William Bailey at Peter Findlay Gallery (New York). Bailey's still life of ceramic vessels is quiet, pleasing, suffused with an inner presence. Stephen Assael's Alex, Nathan and Morgan (2008) at Forum Gallery (New York). Seung Wook Sim at Carl Hammer Gallery (Chicago). Sim's large black blocks are sensual, dramatic, graphite-dark accretions reflecting a dense reality of flow and stasis. Shigeno Ichimura's sensual monochromatic abstractions in the cool silver of industrial paint at Base Gallery (Tokyo) (visual in Part I). Bo Bartlett The Cruel Fair, 2007 Oil on linen Courtesy P.P.O.W., New York International Sculpture Center, publisher of Sculpture Magazine, has on display two signed lithographic prints by sculptor Richard Hunt. Tom Huck's large-scale woodcuts at Philip Slein Gallery (Saint Louis), also at Landfall Press, Inc. (Santa Fe). Huck's profane, tumultuous riot of human folly can be an acquired taste. His mastery of crisp woodcut on a monumental scale is amazing. Partisan, one of the many special exhibitions at Art Chicago 2009, includes several works by Leon Golub, including the chilling reality expressed in This Could Be You #13 (2001), courtesy Rhona Hoffman Gallery. 'Lounge' areas scattered throughout the show provide far more opportunity to sit back and relax periodically than in prior years. These spaces are also hung with art from the surrounding gallery booths, a perfect touch allowing one to stay for a while with some of these compelling images. In the end, there's always some corner to turn, always some new vista, a sudden glimpse of something one simply must go over to see. That's the beauty of Art Chicago. A color catalogue accompanies and is available at the show for $20. Aside from being a general take-with-you reference it also assists in cross-referencing the artists with the several galleries who may represent them. More information on Art Chicago and its accompanying fairs may be found at: Art Chicago, www.artchicago.com. NEXT, the invitational exhibition of emerging art, www.nextartfair.com. The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair, the Midwest's premiere exhibition of antiques and fine art, www.merchandisemartantiques.com. Return to Part I. --Katherine R. Lieber Katherine R. Lieber has edited ArtScope.net's Visual Arts reviews since 1998. Ms. Lieber is Editor and Associate Producer for ArtScope.net.

Article Tools
 Print | Tell A Friend | Send Link

Art Chicago 2009

May 1-4, 2009

The Merchandise Mart
222 Merchandise Mart Plaza
Chicago IL 60654
tel.: 312.527.3701
hours: Friday, May 1, 11 am - 7 pm
Saturday, May 2, 11 am - 7 pm
Sunday, May 3, 11 am - 6 pm
Monday, May 4, 11 am - 3 pm
http://www.artchicago.com

Part II

If you haven't yet been to Art Chicago '09 -- go! This year is a strong showing and a second day yielded further pleasures.

Photography has become firmly established as a presence in Art Chicago. Two suggestions for individual photography-oriented galleries with strong offerings throughout are HackelBury Fine Art Ltd. (London) and Robert Koch Gallery. At HackelBury Fine Art, see the large-scale prints of Stephen Inggs, whose gelatin silver emulsions on rag paper are reminiscent of an Edward Weston sensibility; the atmospheric gelatin silver prints of nature by Calmen & Bech; the digital nature closeups of Doug & Mike Starn; and more.

Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco) has further photographs by Michael Wolf (also featured at Stephen Daiter Gallery (Chicago) - see Part I) including one from his body of photography in China. Also of interest are Nadav Kandar's photographs of China; Brian Ulrich, recent and evocative work of abandoned big box retailers from the series Dark Stores, 08-09; and the photographs of Amy Stein. Robert Koch Gallery is also showing a number of 20th century masters including work by Josef Sudek, Josef Ehm, Frantisek Drtikol, Lucien herve, Elliott Erwitt and Helen Levitt.

Carl Solway Gallery (Cincinnati) has organized its booth as a mini-exhibit on American inventor Buckminster Fuller and fellow artists. Buckminster Fuller and his friends at Black Mountain features works by Buckminster Fuller, Josef Albers, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg and Merce Cunningham. At Carl Solway Gallery's booth are a variety of Fuller materials, including Fuller sketches from the 1920s, a tempting premise for those who were enchanted by Fuller's drawings at the MCA exhibition. The series Inventions: Twelve Around One features a portfolio of signed screen prints of Fuller blueprints and diagrams. There's also a three-dimensional Fuller model, Duo-Tet Star Polyhedra (1980), one of a signed edition of 10.

The offerings complement the Fuller prototype 24-Foot Fly's Eye Dome on display in the Merchandise Mart's South Lobby, and the MCA's extensive exhibition Buckminster Fuller: Starting With The Universe, running through June 21.

Further items to entice and delight:

German artist Michael Triegel is at Worthington Gallery (Chicago). Triegel's small oil painting, Still Life with Fall (2007) is a highlight with its delicate yet intense realism and allegorical content. Etchings by Triegel and two early watercolors are also featured.

William Bailey at Peter Findlay Gallery (New York). Bailey's still life of ceramic vessels is quiet, pleasing, suffused with an inner presence.

Stephen Assael's Alex, Nathan and Morgan (2008) at Forum Gallery (New York).

Seung Wook Sim at Carl Hammer Gallery (Chicago). Sim's large black blocks are sensual, dramatic, graphite-dark accretions reflecting a dense reality of flow and stasis.

Shigeno Ichimura's sensual monochromatic abstractions in the cool silver of industrial paint at Base Gallery (Tokyo) (visual in Part I).

International Sculpture Center, publisher of Sculpture Magazine, has on display two signed lithographic prints by sculptor Richard Hunt.

Tom Huck's large-scale woodcuts at Philip Slein Gallery (Saint Louis), also at Landfall Press, Inc. (Santa Fe). Huck's profane, tumultuous riot of human folly can be an acquired taste. His mastery of crisp woodcut on a monumental scale is amazing.

Partisan, one of the many special exhibitions at Art Chicago 2009, includes several works by Leon Golub, including the chilling reality expressed in This Could Be You #13 (2001), courtesy Rhona Hoffman Gallery.

'Lounge' areas scattered throughout the show provide far more opportunity to sit back and relax periodically than in prior years. These spaces are also hung with art from the surrounding gallery booths, a perfect touch allowing one to stay for a while with some of these compelling images.

In the end, there's always some corner to turn, always some new vista, a sudden glimpse of something one simply must go over to see. That's the beauty of Art Chicago.

A color catalogue accompanies and is available at the show for $20. Aside from being a general take-with-you reference it also assists in cross-referencing the artists with the several galleries who may represent them.

More information on Art Chicago and its accompanying fairs may be found at:
Art Chicago, www.artchicago.com.
NEXT, the invitational exhibition of emerging art, www.nextartfair.com.
The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair, the Midwest's premiere exhibition of antiques and fine art, www.merchandisemartantiques.com.

Return to Part I.

--Katherine R. Lieber

Katherine R. Lieber has edited ArtScope.net's Visual Arts reviews since 1998. Ms. Lieber is Editor and Associate Producer for ArtScope.net.

Art Chicago 2009

May 1-4, 2009

The Merchandise Mart
222 Merchandise Mart Plaza
Chicago IL 60654
tel.: 312.527.3701
hours: Friday, May 1, 11 am - 7 pm
Saturday, May 2, 11 am - 7 pm
Sunday, May 3, 11 am - 6 pm
Monday, May 4, 11 am - 3 pm
http://www.artchicago.com

Part II

If you haven't yet been to Art Chicago '09 -- go! This year is a strong showing and a second day yielded further pleasures.

Photography has become firmly established as a presence in Art Chicago. Two suggestions for individual photography-oriented galleries with strong offerings throughout are HackelBury Fine Art Ltd. (London) and Robert Koch Gallery. At HackelBury Fine Art, see the large-scale prints of Stephen Inggs, whose gelatin silver emulsions on rag paper are reminiscent of an Edward Weston sensibility; the atmospheric gelatin silver prints of nature by Calmen & Bech; the digital nature closeups of Doug & Mike Starn; and more.

Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco) has further photographs by Michael Wolf (also featured at Stephen Daiter Gallery (Chicago) - see Part I) including one from his body of photography in China. Also of interest are Nadav Kandar's photographs of China; Brian Ulrich, recent and evocative work of abandoned big box retailers from the series Dark Stores, 08-09; and the photographs of Amy Stein. Robert Koch Gallery is also showing a number of 20th century masters including work by Josef Sudek, Josef Ehm, Frantisek Drtikol, Lucien herve, Elliott Erwitt and Helen Levitt.

Carl Solway Gallery (Cincinnati) has organized its booth as a mini-exhibit on American inventor Buckminster Fuller and fellow artists. Buckminster Fuller and his friends at Black Mountain features works by Buckminster Fuller, Josef Albers, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg and Merce Cunningham. At Carl Solway Gallery's booth are a variety of Fuller materials, including Fuller sketches from the 1920s, a tempting premise for those who were enchanted by Fuller's drawings at the MCA exhibition. The series Inventions: Twelve Around One features a portfolio of signed screen prints of Fuller blueprints and diagrams. There's also a three-dimensional Fuller model, Duo-Tet Star Polyhedra (1980), one of a signed edition of 10.

The offerings complement the Fuller prototype 24-Foot Fly's Eye Dome on display in the Merchandise Mart's South Lobby, and the MCA's extensive exhibition Buckminster Fuller: Starting With The Universe, running through June 21.

Further items to entice and delight:

German artist Michael Triegel is at Worthington Gallery (Chicago). Triegel's small oil painting, Still Life with Fall (2007) is a highlight with its delicate yet intense realism and allegorical content. Etchings by Triegel and two early watercolors are also featured.

William Bailey at Peter Findlay Gallery (New York). Bailey's still life of ceramic vessels is quiet, pleasing, suffused with an inner presence.

Stephen Assael's Alex, Nathan and Morgan (2008) at Forum Gallery (New York).

Seung Wook Sim at Carl Hammer Gallery (Chicago). Sim's large black blocks are sensual, dramatic, graphite-dark accretions reflecting a dense reality of flow and stasis.

Shigeno Ichimura's sensual monochromatic abstractions in the cool silver of industrial paint at Base Gallery (Tokyo) (visual in Part I).

International Sculpture Center, publisher of Sculpture Magazine, has on display two signed lithographic prints by sculptor Richard Hunt.

Tom Huck's large-scale woodcuts at Philip Slein Gallery (Saint Louis), also at Landfall Press, Inc. (Santa Fe). Huck's profane, tumultuous riot of human folly can be an acquired taste. His mastery of crisp woodcut on a monumental scale is amazing.

Partisan, one of the many special exhibitions at Art Chicago 2009, includes several works by Leon Golub, including the chilling reality expressed in This Could Be You #13 (2001), courtesy Rhona Hoffman Gallery.

'Lounge' areas scattered throughout the show provide far more opportunity to sit back and relax periodically than in prior years. These spaces are also hung with art from the surrounding gallery booths, a perfect touch allowing one to stay for a while with some of these compelling images.

In the end, there's always some corner to turn, always some new vista, a sudden glimpse of something one simply must go over to see. That's the beauty of Art Chicago.

A color catalogue accompanies and is available at the show for $20. Aside from being a general take-with-you reference it also assists in cross-referencing the artists with the several galleries who may represent them.

More information on Art Chicago and its accompanying fairs may be found at:
Art Chicago, www.artchicago.com.
NEXT, the invitational exhibition of emerging art, www.nextartfair.com.
The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair, the Midwest's premiere exhibition of antiques and fine art, www.merchandisemartantiques.com.

Return to Part I.

--Katherine R. Lieber

Katherine R. Lieber has edited ArtScope.net's Visual Arts reviews since 1998. Ms. Lieber is Editor and Associate Producer for ArtScope.net.