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Western Exhibitions 1648 W. Kinzie, 2nd Tue-Fri 10-5:30, Sat 11-5:30. 312-455-0100 Natalie Blake, Michael Adcock, and Hinsdale Center for the Arts 5903 S. Riverside Arts Center 32 E. Quincy, fl. “Godfuck,” work by Pedro Velez; Christine Adcock, and work by other County Line. “Something Old/Something Riverside. “Jazz,” abstract work by Michael Matthew Norridge, collages of aerial pho- Zg 300 W. Superior. Martina Nehrling, artists, through Sat 6/17. E Opens Fri 5/19, New,” work by Dan Addington, Meltem Wille, Robert Davis, and Jason Shelby, Sat tos; Carroll & Gaydos, collaborative draw- paintings “distinguished by a euphoric, 5-8 PM. Tue-Wed & Sat 10-6, Thu 10-8, Fri Aktas, Steven Carrelli, and Michael Paxton, 5/20-Sat 6/17. E Opens Sat 5/20, 3-6 PM. ings, through Sat 5/27. Wed-Sat noon-6. almost manic use of primary and spectral noon-8. 708-445-9793 through Sat 6/3. Mon-Fri 9-7, Sat 9-4. 630- Tue-Sat 11-5. 708-442-6400 312-307-4685 colors,” through Sat 6/3. Tue-Sat 10-5:30. 887-0203 312-654-9900 College of DuPage Gahlberg Gallery Woman Made 685 N. Milwaukee. “Here McAninch Arts Center, Park & Fawell, Northwestern Univ. Dittmar Gallery Comes the Bride,” art by 59 women; Suburban Glen Ellyn. “Parameters of 1999 Campus, Evanston. Work by graduat- Museums “Visions of Beauty,” photos of women Preciousness,” group show, through Sat ing art majors, through Sun 6/18. “working to change their outward appear- Art House 43 Harrison, Oak Park. Work 5/27. Mon-Thu 11-3 (also Thu 6-8), Sat 11- E Reception Fri 5/19, 6-8 PM. Daily 10-10. 1300 S. Lake Shore Dr. ance,” by Judy Cooperman; group show of concerning what “music looks like,” through 3. 630-942-2321 847-491-2348 Exhibits on astronomy and space explo- glass works, through Thu 6/15. E Opens Fri Fri 6/16. This is the gallery’s last show at ration. Sky shows start on the half hour, 5/19, 6-9 PM. Wed-Fri noon-7, Sat-Sun this location. E Opens Fri 5/19, 6-10 PM. Fri Harrison Works 17 Harrison, Oak Park. Noyes Cultural Arts Center 927 Noyes, virtual reality presentations every 90 min- noon-4. 312-738-0400 5-9, Thu & Sat-Sun noon-5. 708-386-5261 Annual group show of “art of and about Evanston. Bill Woolf, paintings that “record utes. a Daily 9:30-4:30. $7; $6 seniors; $4 baseball,” through Sun 8/27. E Opens Fri [Woolf’s] history and life influences,” kids 4-17 (+ $5 per sky show). Also open Donald Young 933 W. Washington. James At the Gallery 135 N. Oak Park Ave., Oak 5/19, 6-10 PM. Thu-Fri 1-6, Sat-Sun noon-6. through Thu 7/13. E Reception Sun 5/21, 3- 4:30-10 the first Friday of each month ($15, Welling, photograms, through Sat 5/27. Park. “From Here to Eternity,” ceramics by 708-807-0133 5 PM. Daily 10-6. 847-491-0266 $12 kids, includes sky shows). 312-922-7827

That Which Moths and Rust Consume, photo by Salome Jaffe, part of “All That Is Solid Melts Into Air,” opening Friday at the School of the Art Institute Gallery 2

Sabotage,stones, paper, and ink sculpture by Alice Pixley Young, at Vespine Crossing (Rome No. 69), work on paper by Michael Wille, part of “Jazz,” opening Saturday at Riverside Arts Center (Suburban) CHICAGO READER | MAY 19, 2006 | SECTION T WO 27

Art Institute of Chicago Michigan & Adams. Maureen Gallace, “intimate” paint- ings of rural New England, Thu 5/25-Sun Now Showing 9/3. E Gallace discusses her work Thu 5/25, 6 PM, in the Morton Auditorium. . .. “The Concerned Photographer,” images by Walker Evans, Susan Meiselas, and others “motivated by the need to expose, as only photography can, the abuses and atrocities of the twentieth century,” through Sun 6/11. HowHeSees the City E Cocurator Gregory Harris talks about the show, Fri 5/19, 2 PM. . .. “Architectural Abstractions,” large-scale photos with cropped views of ceilings and other sur- abert Farrar’s seven densely layered, faces by Todd Eberle, Sat 5/20-Sun 8/13. . .. labyrinthine paintings at Monique Meloche G are inspired by his feelings about cities. “Casas Grandes and the Ceramic Art of the Ancient Southwest,” vessels dating to “Anybody walking down the city street sees a jumble before 1400 AD, from what is now the of cars and buildings and street lamps,”he says. “The southwest U.S. and northwest Mexico, spatial relationships in this jumble can become through Sun 8/13. a Mon-Fri 10:30-4:30, unclear, and you don’t know if you’re looking at Thu till 8; Sat-Sun 10-5. $12 suggested backgrounds or foregrounds.” Jagged, brightly col- admission; $7 students, seniors, kids six ored shapes are intended to approximate this confu- and up. Tuesdays free. 312-443-3600 sion—augmented by barely legible text fragments that also encourage you to try to resolve the image. Arts Club of Chicago 201 E. Ontario. After a “pretty bucolic” childhood in Richmond, Installation of hot pink, orange, blue, and Kentucky, Farrar says, he was stunned to see his first yellow stripes painted on Plexiglas, by big city, Toronto, at nine or ten. Two of the classes he Daniel Buren, through Fri 7/21. a Mon-Fri took while at the University of Michigan also had a 11-6. F 312-787-3997 major influence on him. A course on art and archi- tecture of the ancient Near East exposed him to the Block Museum of Art Northwestern Univ., idea that the forms in art might express a culture’s 40 Arts Circle Dr., Evanston. “Some ethos. He came to think of the geometrical designs Drawings,” works on paper by Jim Dine, produced by early urban civilizations, for instance, as through Sun 6/18. E Education director “a way of exerting psychological control over inhu- Amy Brandolino talks about Dine’s sculp- man elements like a river or a plant or an ox.” A tural drawings Thu 5/25, 5 PM. Exhibit drawing course taught him that art is “really about how you perceive and describe things—how does tours, 2 PM Saturdays and Sundays, NI

through Sun 6/18. a Tue 10-5, Wed-Fri 10- something sit on a table, how do two planes meet? TAT 8, Sat-Sun noon-5. F 847-491-4000 It’s a way of understanding the world.” Farrar graduated in 1994 and two years later Chicago Children’s Museum Navy Pier, moved to Chicago, where he found himself fascinat- ed by the city’s infrastructure—the bridges, he says, TE MARIE DOS 700 E. Grand. “Miffy and Friends,” a pup- ET

pet theater, smaller-scale house and gar- and “how the subway connects one part of town to YV Gabert Farrar with his untitled grid den, and other sites for hands-on activities another.” He first made stylized paintings inspired based on the book series, Sat 5/20-Mon by the cityscape, then in 2000 began more diagram- 9/4. E Miffy makes an appearance at the matic representations. “But I would break up the emotion into work that couldn’t sustain it: “How Repent ..., comes from Alan Moore’s comic book show’s opening, Sat 5/20, 11 AM-1 PM. ... lines in arbitrary ways can you put all of your worries into a painting Watchmen. The words, mostly in blue, turn red “My Museum,” evolving exhibit incorporat- Gabert Farrar and allow the fore- of a lamppost?” Casting around for ideas, he wherever tan lines cross them. In He Would Be ..., ing art by museum visitors, through Mon WHEN Through 6/3 ground to bleed into the began painting noirish scenes, World War II thick green letters spell out “he would be transfig- 9/4. a Daily 10-5, Thu & Sat till 8. $8; $7 WHERE Monique background or vice scenes, and “zombies and mummies and ghosts” ured. Weakness and timidity and inexperience seniors; kids under one free. Thu 5-8 free. Meloche, 118 N. Peoria versa,” he says. Later he influenced by movies like Night of the Living would fall from him”—a quote from James Joyce’s 312-527-1000 INFO 312-455-0299 started depicting “some Dead. “I felt these monsters and masked people A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. It’s half- of the most random and and detectives were precisely the types that thrived obscured by geometrical designs and cloudy white 78 E. Washing- confused areas,” like some intersections on South in the nondescript spaces I’d been painting,” he blobs, which arguably contradict the text’s predic- ton. “Re:Pair and Imperfection,” jewelry by Western, industrial areas, and train yards. explains. Eventually he installed these in an untitled tion. The line in This Is ..., “This is My First Time Kiff Slemmons incorporating “imperfect, “I live in Pilsen near a junkyard, a coal-burning grid, included in this show. Within the grid he Ever,” is Farrar’s paraphrase of a Buddhist text he broken, or no longer usable” fragments power plant, and barbed-wire fences penning in lots juxtaposed these representational images with read years ago about the newness of each being. collected from other metalsmiths and jew- where trailers and Dumpsters are stored,” Farrar small, abstract paintings, writing out words in “All living creatures live bewildered,” he says. Here elers, through Sun 5/28. . .. “Humans says. “I was feeling this anxiety about living in an cursive and mixing text with abstract designs. it’s almost impossible to distinguish the words from Being: Disability in ,” area that I felt was very cold and inhuman and These led to the other paintings displayed here. the fragmentary other marks—and Farrar says he work by 20-some artists examining “ill- didn’t want me around.” But most of his attempts at Farrar takes his texts from things he’s read that intended his prominent yellow brushstrokes to ness, impairment, discrimination, alien- depicting these spaces left him dissatisfied. He have affected him. The most legible passage, “cancel” the layers underneath and “scramble” how ation, sexuality, community, identity, and sometimes felt he was trying to inject too much “Repent the end of the world is upon us” in the work would be read. —Fred Camper the political aspects of disability,” through Sun 6/4. . .. “Impressions of Nature,” prints by Catherine Cajandig, through Sun 6/25. . .. “Study After Untitled,” landscape, century African-American artists from 1-8, Fri & Sun 1-4. $4; $3 seniors; $2 stu- through Sun 6/4. . .. Ongoing: “Sue,” Common Struggles, Common Ground,” portrait, and still-life photos and video the collection of onetime Chicago Bull dents. 630-834-0202 reconstructed T. rex skeleton; “Under- interactive exhibit focusing on black- works by Jeanne Dunning, through Sun 7/2. Darrell Walker, through Sun 8/13. Tue-Sat ground Adventure” (see below for admis- Mexican relations in Chicago, through Sun E Gregory Knight discusses the show Thu 10-5, Sun noon-5. $3; $2 students, sen- Field Museum 1400 S. Lake Shore Dr. sion surcharge); “Evolving Planet,” on the 9/3. . .. Ongoing: “Mexicanidad,” Mexican 5/25, 12:15 PM. ... “Soundsuits,” garments iors; $1 kids 6-13. Sundays free. 773-947- “Transforming Tradition,” coiled ceramic development of life on earth. E Museum and Mexican-American art and crafts; by Nick Cave “designed to rattle and res- 0600 vessels from Mexico’s pre-Columbian Casas tours, Sat 11 AM, Mon-Fri 11 AM & 2 PM. For “Mexican Chicago,” photos. a Tue-Sun 10- onate with the movement of the wearer,” Grandes culture and contemporary pots info on other events, call 312-665-7400. 5. F 312-738-1503 through Sun 7/9. a Mon-Thu 8-7, Fri 8-6, Elmhurst Art Museum 150 Cottage Hill, from the town of Mata Ortiz, inspired by a Daily 9-5. $12; $7 students, seniors, kids Sat 9-6, Sun 10-6. F 312-346-3278 Elmhurst. Annual juried exhibit from the their 1950s rediscovery, through Wed 5/31. 4-11; teachers & toddlers free. (“Dinosaur Mitchell Museum of the American Transparent Watercolor Society of ... “The Auschwitz Album,” photos taken Dynasty” or “Underground Adventure”: Indian Kendall College, 2600 Central Park, DuSable Museum of African American America, through Sun 7/2. E Gallery talk in May 1944 by SS officers at the add $7, $4 kids.) 312-922-9410 Evanston. Rugs, dolls, baskets, beadwork, History 740 E. 56th Pl. Work by 20th- Sun 5/21, 2 PM. a Tue, Thu & Sat 10-4, Wed Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and other objects from the collection of International Museum of Surgical museum founder John Mitchell (1906-’85), Science 1524 N. Lake Shore Dr. Lee Tracy, through Sun 7/30. . .. Ongoing: historical CT scans of the artist’s brain with personal and contemporary craft objects. a Tue-Sat thoughts written on them; “We Will Rebuild 10-5, Thu till 8; Sun noon-4. $5 suggested You,” prototypes and ads for fictional med- admission; $2.50 kids, students, seniors; ical devices by Alison Hiltner, through Thu $10 max per family. 847-475-1030 7/20. Museum tours, 2 PM Saturdays (reservations 312-642-6502, ext. 3130). Museum of Contemporary Art 220 E. a Tue-Sun 10-4. $6; $3 students, seniors. Chicago. Wolfgang Tillmans, retrospective Tuesdays free. 312-642-6502 of photos, videos, and installation-based work, including “his new, purely abstract Loyola Univ. Museum of Art 820 N. works, which are created without the use Michigan. “Land and Sea,” photos by DoDo of a camera, through the direct manipula- Jin Ming, through Sun 5/28. . .. “Living tion of light on paper”. . .. “Shangri-La,” Drawings,” photos of drawings made with video by Patty Chang documenting her trip bioluminescent bacteria and other work to the Chinese city (so-named in 1997), and by biologist Hunter O’Reilly, through Sun a sculpture Chang describes as “kind of a 6/4. . .. “The Gods as We Shape Them,” giant sacred mountain prayer wheel objects from ancient and contemporary crossed with a disco ball,” Sat 5/20-Sun cultures throughout the world, through 8/13. E Changdiscusses the show and a Sun 9/10. a Tue 10-8, Wed-Sun 10-5. $6 source of inspiration, Lost Horizon, the suggested admission; $5 seniors; students 1933 novel by James Hilton, Fri 5/19, 7 PM. and kids under 12 free. Tuesdays free. 312- ... Catherine Opie, black-and-white night 915-7600 photos of Chicago buildings and seasonal color shots of Lake Michigan, Sat 5/20-Sun Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum 1852 10/15. . .. “Intricate, web-like sculptures” W. 19th. “The African Presence in Mexico: and neon-colored yarn figures, by Mike From Yanga to the Present,” colonial to Andrews, through Sun 5/28. . .. “Stars, contemporary art; “Who Are We Now? Deaths, and Disasters, 1962-1964,” work by Roots, Resistance & Recognition,” photos, Andy Warhol from the period in which he prints, and paintings illustrating ties started screen-printing his paintings, Still from Mess, video installation by Anne Wilson and Shawn Decker, at the Hyde Park Arts Center (talk Wednesday) between African-Americans and Mexicans through Sun 6/18. . .. Sculpture by in the U.S. and Mexico; “Common Goals, Eduardo Kac and scratch drawings by his