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installation; work by Elvia Rodriguez- Skestos Gabriele 212 N. Peoria. Beverly Ochoa, through Sat 12/24. E Opens Fri Fishman, screen prints on vinyl, through 12/2, 6-10 PM. Sat noon-5. 773-344-1940 Sat 12/31. Tue-Fri 11-6, Sat noon-5. 312-243- 1112 Portals 742 N. Wells. Jorge Simes, paint- ings and works on paper, through Wed 3/1. South Side Community Art Center 3831 Tue-Fri 10-5, Sat 11-5. 312-642-1066 S. Michigan. Elizabeth Catlett, prints, through Sat 12/3 C . Wed noon-5, Sat 9-5, Practical Angle 161 E. Erie. Work by Vlado Sun 1-5. 773-373-1026 Ketch and Stuart Brent, through Fri 12/16. Mon-Fri 10-6, Sat 10-5. 312-280-8118 Steelelife 4655 S. King, 2nd fl. Max Sansing, paintings, through Sat 12/10. Tue- Printworks 311 W. Superior #105. “The Art Sat 1-8. 773-538-4773 of the Bookplate,” work by 72 artists, through Sat 2/4. E Opens Fri 12/2, 5-8 PM. Stutz Studiowerks 5303 N. Clark. Deanna Tue-Sat 11-5. 312-664-9407 Andrews, photos, through Mon 12/12. Wed, Fri & Sun 11-5, Thu 1-7. 773-907-8889 Byron Roche 750 N. Franklin. Rebecca Shore, Paul Hunter, Jiwon Son, paintings, 33 Collective 1029 W. 35th, 3rd fl. “Post through Sat 12/31. Tue-Sat 11-6. 312-654- Abstraction Figuration,” work by members 0144 of the Midwest Paint Group; Marivi Ortiz, photos, through Thu 12/22. E Opens Fri Rowland Contemporary 1118 W. Fulton. 12/2, 6-10 PM. Fri 3-6, Sat 1-5. 708-837- Amy Talluto, paintings and drawings, 4534 through Sat 12/3 C . Sat 11-5. 312-421 6275 3Arts Club 1300 N. Dearborn. Marva Pitchford Jolly, ceramic sculpture; Rhonda Judy A. Saslow 300 W. Superior. “Scene in Wheatley, paintings, through Thu 12/15. Chicago,” work by locals; work by members Mon-Fri 9-5. 312-944-6250 of the Chicago Furniture Designers Association, through Fri 12/30. Tue-Sat 10- Three Walls 119 N. Peoria #2A. Tessa 6. 312-943-0530 Windt, sculpture; Jenny Walter, photos of empty blankets, through Sat 12/17. Wed-Sat Schneider 230 W. Superior. Fred Cray, noon-6. 312-432-3972 Donna Hamil Talman, photos, through Sat 12/31. E Opens Fri 12/2, 5-7:30 PM. Tue-Fri Univ. of Illinois Art Lounge Student 10:30-5, Sat 11-5. 312-988-4033 Center West, 828 S. Wolcott. Work by George Stamp, through Fri 12/9. Mon-Fri 9- School of the Art Institute Gallery 2 847 5. 312-413-5180

Circle of Life, painting by Samuel Leopold, in a group show opening Friday at Lenz Studio

John David Mooney Foundation 114 W. Kathleen Vojta, paintings, through Sat Nicole 2 4653 S. King. Akinola Ebinezer, Kinzie. “Asylum,” photos and video by Mary 12/17. Sat noon-5. 312-738-1620 paintings, through Sat 1/14. E Opens Fri Kelly; “Fortitude,” photos and sculpture by 12/2, 5:30-8:30 PM. Tue-Sat 11-5:30. 773- Abigail O’Brien, through Sat 12/3 C . Tue-Fri Ann Nathan 212 W. Superior. Jim Zasoski, 373-4700 11-6. 312-822-0483 paintings; work by James Tyler, Tom McKee, and Tatiana Revskaya, Sat 12/3- G.R. N’Namdi 110 N. Peoria. Richard Morpho 5216 N. Damen. Work by Steven Sat 12/31. E Opens Sat 12/3, 11 AM-5 PM. Mayhew, paintings, through Fri 12/2 C . Tue- Hazard, Elke Claus, Alex Abajian, Danny Tue-Fri 10-5:30, Sat 11-5. 312-664-6622 Sat 11-6. 312-563-9240 Mansmith, and Bert Menco, through Thu 12/8. E Reception Sat 12/3, 6-11 PM. Fri 6- Nicole 230 W. Huron. Ifeyinwa Umeike, North Lakeside Cultural Center 6219 N. 11, Sat noon-11, Sun 11-4. 773-551-4850 paintings; work by gallery artists, Sheridan. Jan de Goede, paintings and through Sat 12/31. Tue-Sat 11-5:30. 312- watercolors, through Fri 1/13. Mon-Fri 3:15- Nab 1117 W. Lake. Susan Sensemann, 787-7716 6. 773-517-7619

Northern Illinois Univ. Art Gallery 215 W. Superior, 3rd fl. Work by Eduardo Kac, Rashid Johnson, and others, through Sat 12/17. Wed-Sat 11-5. 312-642-6010

Nova Project Space 840 W. Washington, 2nd fl. Moss Intermezzo: Part I—Bears, audio installation by Malin Lindelow, through Sun 12/11. Fernando David Orellana, paintings, through Sat 12/17. Thu- Sun noon-5. 312-421-2227

One Fine Art 209 W. Huron. Leslie Cohen, Jennifer Scott-McLaughlin, paintings, through Fri 12/30. Tue-Sat 10-5. 312-654- 8004

Aron Packer 118 N. Peoria. Michael Ferris, sculpture and drawings, through Sat 12/3 C . Tue-Sat 11-5:30. 312-226-8984 Photo by Tricia Sweeney, at Schopf

Palette and Chisel 1012 N. Dearborn. W. Jackson. “I Saw You,” art by SAIC stu- UIC Ward Gallery Student Center East, Andrea Vincent, paintings, through dents inspired by Reader personals; 750 S. Halsted. Work by Michael Young, Mon 12/12. E Reception Fri 12/2, 5-8 PM. “Knock Knock,” work from a class on through Fri 12/9. Mon-Thu 11-8, Fri 11-5. 312- Mon-Fri 1-6, Sat-Sun noon-4. 312-642- humor in art and photography; student 413-5070 4400 video installations; design and writing by MFAs, through Sat 12/3 C . E Reception Vespine 1907 S. Halsted. “Horst Janssen Parts Unknown 645 W. 18th. Ken Keirns, Fri 12/2, 6-9 PM. Tue-Sat 11-6. 312-563-5162 Tribute Show,” work by Elizabeth Ockwell, paintings, through Sat 12/3 C . Sat noon-5. Audrey Niffenegger, and Jay Ryan, 312-492-9058 SAIC Betty Rymer Gallery 280 S. through Sat 12/31. Fri 4-9, Sat 10-4. 312- Columbus. Work made by faculty members 962-5850 Perimeter 210 W. Superior. Neil Goodman, while on sabbatical, Wed 12/7-Fri 2/24. sculpture; Bill Zima, paintings and works E Opens Wed 12/7, 5-7 PM. Tue-Sat 10-5. Vonzweck 1626 N. Humboldt. on paper, through Wed 12/28. Tue-Sat 312-443-3703 “Ahbyezyana,” installation, described as a 10:30-5:30. 312-266-9473 “telekinetic haunting,” by Deborah Schopf 942 W. Lake. “Constructing Stratman and Rob Ray, through Thu 1/12. Maya Polsky 215 W. Superior. Jose Cobo, Gender,” photos by Tricia Moreau Sweeney; Thu 6-9. 773-208-7222 sculpture, through Sat 12/31. Tue-Fri 10-5, photos by Indiana Univ. MFAs, through Sat Sat 10:30-5. 312-440-0055 12/10. Tue-Sat 11-5. 312-432-1630 Walsh 118 N. Peoria. “Tattoo You,” digital photos and a video by Kim Joon; Polvo 1458 W. 18th. “Fumed,” work refer- Carrie Secrist 835 W. Washington. “Street Stories,” “unconventional views” Early-to-mid-20th-century Yoruba “shrine jar,” in “For Hearth and Altar,” a show encing graffiti by Jessica Aiken, Mike “Tiny/Huge,” group show, through Sat of Chicago by eight artists, through Fri of African ceramics starting Saturday at the Art Institute Genovese, Victor Lopez, and Nino 1/14. Tue-Fri 10:30-5:30, Sat 11-5. 312-491- 12/2 C . Tue-Sat 10:30-5:30. 312-829- Rodriguez; Marcela Chaidez de Nunez, 0917 3312 CHICAGO READER | DECEMBER 2,2005 | SECTION TWO 25

Linda Warren 1052 W. Fulton. “Cul de Sac,” paintings by Peter Drake, through Sat 1/7. Tue-Sat 11-5. 312-432-9500 Now Showing

Western Exhibitions 1648 W. Kinzie, 2nd fl. “Mixed Baggage,” images by Adriane Herman “re-creating found lists from anonymous writers”; John Parot, photos; Stan Shellabarger, photos and drawings documenting his projects, through Sat Found in Translation 12/17. Fri-Sat noon-6. 312-307-4685

Donald Young 933 W. Washington. Robert Mangold, works on paper, through Sat 12/3 C . Tue-Fri 10-5:30, Sat 11-5:30. 312- 455-0100

Zg 300 W. Superior. “Working Process,” group show, through Fri 12/30. E Reception Fri 12/2, 5:30-8 PM. Tue-Sat 10-5:30. 312-654-9900

Zolla Lieberman 325 W. Huron. John Buck, woodcuts, rubbings, and bronze and wood sculpture, through Sat 12/10. Tue-Fri 10- 5:30, Sat 11-5:30. 312-944-1990 Suburban

Art House 43 Harrison, Oak Park. “The Visual Word,” art inspired by local high schoolers’ poems, through Fri 1/13. TRAIT), FRED CAMPER E Opens Fri 12/2, 7-10 PM. Fri 5-9, Wed-Thu & Sat-Sun noon-5. 708-386-5261 Y (POR

Cafe Express 615 Dempster, Evanston. Rickey Lewis Jr., paintings of the Mississippi Kate McQuillen with Letter in Stars, Flower Letter JIM NEWBERR coast pre-Katrina, through Sat 12/31. E Opens Fri 12/2, 7-10 PM. 847-864-1868 ost of Kate McQuillen’s 13 watercolors, wall alphabet in an e-mail on a rising and falling line. ent size squares of different colors, one type for each College of DuPage Gahlberg Gallery installations, and silk screens at Caro d’Offay During a school trip to China a month later, she letter, and pinned the sheets to the wall to make M are “translations” of e-mails, letters, and voice McAninch Arts Center, Park & Fawell, Glen found she loved the different styles of calligraphy at words. The source was a handwritten letter from the Ellyn. Art by part-time studio faculty, mails she’s received. McQuillen used a different the Shanghai Museum. “They took words and gave shoe box, sent when her boyfriend was overseas, through Sat 1/7. Mon-Thu 11-3 (also Thu 6- method for each translation and reveals neither the them a physical form, but the mark making was which gave the work a personal, emotional quality. 8), Sat 11-3. 630-942-2321 encoding system nor the original message, creating a so careful, so expressive, and the calligraphy had For other pieces she punched holes in sheets of paper sense of hidden meaning that causes the viewer to wonderful rhythms. It reminded me of an Egyptian to represent letters, and she made watercolor draw- Lake Forest College Sonnenschein reflect on the mysteries of language. The watercolors’ exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston I ings in which colored shapes, each symbolizing a dif- Gallery Durand Art Institute, 555 N. pale, sensuous colors and elegant geometrical designs saw as a kid. They re-created a tomb, so you were ferent letter, were layered within squares to represent Sheridan, Lake Forest. “Durand are especially appealing. surrounded on all four sides by stone walls covered words. Pot o’ Guinness translates a Saint Patrick’s Day Amorphous Solid,” work by M.W. Burns, McQuillen’s dad is a painter, and she made car- with hieroglyphics. These words that someone wrote e-mail (whose subject line provided the title) into a Karen Reimer, Stephen Lapthisophon, toons and comics about her family as a child. She 4,000 years ago were still conveying an idea. I real- mysteriously symmetrical forest of triangles and Kathleen McCarthy, and Ben Nicholson, began college at NYU as an ized a word’s physical form could be as meaningful hexagons in pale primary colors. For the watercolor through Sun 12/11. Daily 2:30-5. 847-735- Kate McQuillen: English major in 1996 but as its dictionary definition.” She also admired the Dad’s Voicemail she used a different color for each 5194 Letters transferred after a year to the premodern art of China because it has “nothing to letter, creating a grid of squares and triangles whose WHEN Through Massachusetts College of Art. do with who the artist is as a person. They just shaky lines echo her father’s drawing style. Noyes 927 Noyes, Evanston. Michael Mon 12/19 There she was struck by how an want it to be a good painting—it’s often a copy “There’s already so much contemporary art that’s Paxton, paintings and drawings, through WHERE Caro e-mail has no physical form; of an old master.” all about individualism,” McQuillen says. “My work is Mon 1/9. Group show, through Wed 1/11. d’Offay, 2204 W. she contrasted “all these e-mails McQuillen started making translation pieces on a about things that I’ve experienced, but it doesn’t feel Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 10-6. 847-491-0266 North sitting on some server” to her computer but found they looked too mechanical. “I like a big outpouring of emotion. I’m trying to present INFO 773-235- boyfriend’s letters, which she’d wasn’t that happy with the flat surfaces, and I wanted a really large idea that’s present in everyone’s lives— Oakton Community College Koehnline 7400 saved in a shoe box. Reading something that reflected my hand. I figured that this language. If you only deal with the raw emotional side Gallery 1600 E. Golf, Des Plaines. about computers, she was fasci- isn’t just data, someone wrote these letters to me, so you’re leaving out a major aspect of our language, “Harbour,” paintings by Andrew Young, Thu nated by the ways they translate data into bits and by it’s appropriate to leave myself in. But at first I didn’t because it’s a system of 26 letters and 10 digits. In 12/8-Fri 1/27. E Opens Thu 12/8, 5-8 PM.... their dependence on “language,” or stored commands. know how to make them more expressive, so I did nature most things happen for a reason. A totally Faculty show, through Fri 12/2 C . Mon-Fri She began making drawings and prints that were some other things, including some very bad paint- beautiful flower is certain colors to attract certain 10-6, Sat 11-4. 847-635-2633 kind of technical looking, she says: “There was ings.” After moving to Chicago and finding studio insects. I’d like my work to be something that you imagery of lots of little particles.” She made her first space she set her computer aside. For the wall-size love to look at, but that also lets you know it’s that Open Studio Project 901 Sherman, translation piece in 2001, charting the letters of the Flower Letter she cut silk-screened paper into differ- way for a reason.” —Fred Camper Evanston. Cal Calvird, painted foil and tape sculpture; Jeff Strong, paintings based on photos of his sculpture, through Sun 12/11. Tue-Thu 10-3, Wed 7-9 also, Sat noon-5. through Fri 1/20. a Mon-Fri 11 AM-6 PM. courtroom sketches by Franklin McMahon 1945,” photos and artifacts, through Sat kids 6-13. Sundays free. 773-947-0600 847-475-0390 F 312-787-3997 from the 1955 trial of Emmett Till’s accused 12/31. a Fri 9:30-1:30, Sat-Sun 10-5. $2, $1 killers, through Sun 12/4 C . . .. “A students and seniors. 312-949-1000 Elmhurst Art Museum 150 Cottage Hill, Block Museum of Art Northwestern Univ., Compassionate Eye,” 1960s photos by Elmhurst. “Gardens of Earth and Water,” 40 Arts Circle Dr., Evanston. “Drawing the Declan Haun, through Sun 12/4 C . a Fri-Sat DuSable Museum of African American prints and watercolors by Keith Achepohl, Museums Form of Nature,” architectural and botani- 12/2-12/3, 9:30-4:30; Sun 12/4, noon-5. History 740 E. 56th Pl. exhibit, through Sun 1/15. E Gallery talk, Sun 12/4, cal drawings and landscape paintings by Closed for renovation starting Mon 12/5. $5 through Thu 1/5. ...“Bold Improvisation: 2 PM. a Tue, Thu & Sat 10-4, Wed 1-8, Fri & Adler Planetarium 1300 S. Lake Shore Dr. Marion Mahony Griffin, through Sun suggested admission; $3 students, seniors; 120 Years of African-American Quilts,” Sun 1-4. $4; $3 seniors; $2 students. 630- “Lost Spacecraft,” the Mercury 4 capsule 12/4 C . . .. “Paths to the Press: Printmaking $1 kids 6-12. 312-642-4600 through Sun 1/8. ...“100 Plus One,” photos 834-0202 (aka Liberty Bell 7) and related artifacts, and American Women Artists, 1910-1960,” and artifacts related to American recorded through Sun 1/8. a Mon-Fri 9:30-4:30, Sat- work by some 75 artists; Maybelle Stamper, Chinese-American Museum 238 W. 23rd. music, through Sun 4/2. a Tue-Sat 10-5, Field Museum 1400 S. Lake Shore Dr. Sun 9-4:30. $7; $6 seniors; $4 kids 4-17 (+ works on paper; Steina Vasulka, videos, “Paper Sons: Chinese in the Midwest 1870- Sun noon-5. $3; $2 students, seniors; $1 “Jungles,” color photos by Frans Lanting, $5 per sky show). Also open 4:30-10 the through Sun 12/11. a Tue 10-5, Wed-Fri 10- through Sun 1/1....“Pompeii: Stories From first Friday of each month ($15, $12 kids, 8, Sat-Sun noon-5. F 847-491-4000 an Eruption,” artifacts of Pompeii, includes sky shows). 312-922-7827 Herculaneum, and Oplontis, destroyed in Chicago Children’s Museum Navy Pier, 79 AD by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Michigan & 700 E. Grand. Daily 10-5, Thu & Sat till 8. through Sun 3/26 (see below for admission Adams. “For Hearth and Altar,” African $7; $6 seniors; kids under one free. Thu 5-8 surcharge)....“Dinosaur Dynasty,” fossils terra-cotta vessels, mostly 20th-century, free; first Monday of each month free. 312- and casts of fossils unearthed in China, from the collection of printmaker Keith 527-1000 through Sun 4/23 (see below for admission Achepohl, Sat 12/3-Mon 2/20. ...Michael surcharge). . .. “Transforming Tradition,” Asher, installation (Gallery 220), plus relat- 78 E. Washing- coiled ceramic vessels from Mexico’s pre- ed documents and photos (Ryerson ton. “Landscapes of the Mind,” paintings Columbian Casas Grandes culture and con- Reading Room), through Sun 1/1....“1945: by Curt Frankenstein, through Fri 12/30. ... temporary pots from the town of Mata Creativity and Crisis, Chicago Architecture Julio Gonzalez, metal sculpture, through Ortiz, through Sun 5/28....Ongoing: “Sue,” and Design of the World War II Era,” Sun 1/8. ...Shona Macdonald, abstract reconstructed T. rex skeleton; “Under- through Sun 1/8, Gallery 227....“On the landscapes, through Sun 1/15....Candida ground Adventure” (see below for admis- Scene,” photos by Chicagoans Jessica Höfer, photos; Enrique Romero Santana, sion surcharge). E “Children’s Holiday Rowe, Jason Salavon, and Brian Ulrich, paintings, through Sun 1/22....“Water Celebration,” with performances and craft through Sat 1/28....Elizabeth Catlett, Towers: The Chicago Prize,” entries from a activities, Thu 12/8, 4-6:30 PM. a Daily 9-5. prints, through Mon 2/6, gallery 141. competition for proposals for “preserva- $12; $7 students, seniors, kids 4-11; teach- E Artist Marva Jolly discusses Catlett’s tion and creative reuse of the city’s historic ers & toddlers free. General admission free work, Sat 12/3, noon, Price Auditorium. rooftop water tanks,” through Sun 1/29. Mondays and Tuesdays, through 12/20. a Mon-Fri 10:30-4:30, Thu till 8; Sat-Sun a Mon-Thu 10-7, Fri 10-6, Sat 10-5, Sun 11-5. (“Dinosaur Dynasty” or “Underground 10-5. $12 suggested admission; $7 stu- F 312-346-3278 Adventure”: add $7, $4 kids. “Pompeii”: dents, seniors, kids six and up. Tuesdays $19, $14 students and seniors, $9 kids.) free. 312-443-3600 Chicago Historical Society 1601 N. Clark. 312-922-9410 “Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography Artist and Model III, painting by Andrew Conklin, whose show at the Illinois Arts Club of Chicago 201 E. Ontario. in America,” photos and postcards pro- Illinois State Museum 100 W. Randolph Institute of Art has a Friday reception Francis Picabia, works on paper, 1903-’51, duced as souvenirs of mob murders, plus #2-100. “Art in the Abstract,” work by Judy