26 READER | FEBRUARY 17, 2006 | SEC TION TWO Galleries & Museums

Vespine 1907 S. Halsted. Cynthia Weiss, paintings and prints, through Sun 2/26. Fri Now Showing 4-9, Sat 10-4. 312-962-5850

Vonzweck 1626 N. Humboldt. Anthony Elms, drawings, through Thu 2/23 C . Thu 6-9. 773-208-7222

Walsh 118 N. Peoria. Group show of instal- Patching Things Up lations and photos addressing architecture and urbanity, through Sat 2/25. Tue-Sat 10:30-5:30. 312-829-3312

arol Ann Carter’s three-month stay in Nigeria in Linda Warren 1052 W. Fulton. “Hope,” 1984 was the first great influence on her art, she work by Elijah Burgher, Teena McClelland, C Nathaniel Robinson, and others, through says, but not in ways she’d expected. She already knew that her prints of geometrical designs uninten- Sat 2/18 C . E McClelland screens a film tionally resembled African textiles, and while in and Academy Records performs Fri 2/17, 6- Nigeria she visited a number of museums. But she 9 PM. Tue-Sat 11-5. 312-432-9500 was most entranced by the “street wanderers” of Lagos. “They traveled with their shelter,” she says, Western Exhibitions 1648 W. Kinzie, “sometimes under umbrellas, with piles of fabric. 2nd fl. Amy Hauber, sculpture and other They would wear rags that were fragments of tradi- work; Melissa Oresky, paintings; artists’ tional Nigerian textiles. I might see someone who had books by the NY collective Brooklyn, rigged a ladderlike structure on his head with some of through Sat 2/18 C . Fri-Sat noon-6. his belongings hanging from it, or someone who 312-307-4685 would carry a ladder with possessions on his neck. They were exquisite assemblages.” Observing the Woman Made 685 N. Milwaukee. Karen wanderers from the safety of a car, she began to ques- Hanmer, artist’s books and installation; tion the comparative orderliness of her art. When she Jody Magrady, photos; “Click Art,” returned to the States, she started tearing her prints photos by women; work by Nancy into pieces, dyeing them different colors, and stitch- Maguire; group mask show, through ing, gluing, and taping them together. Later she Thu 2/23 C . Wed-Fri noon-7, Sat-Sun worked with torn fabrics, collaging them in layers and noon-4. 312-738-0400 adding paint, marks, and objects. The street people of Nigeria still influence Carter’s Donald Young 933 W. Washington. Gary work. X’d Bundle—one of several mixed-media pieces Hill, video installations, through Fri 4/14. at G.R. N’Namdi, along with digital prints and a E Opens Fri 2/17, 5-7:30 PM. Tue-Fri 10- video—is what she calls a “bundle painting.” Behind 5:30, Sat 11-5:30. 312-455-0100 the distressed, stitched, painted, and collaged canvas, she says, “I placed notes, lists, photographs, objects— Zg 300 W. Superior. Beth Reitmeyer, things I’d collected but couldn’t throw away.” The paintings and an evolving installation, variety of her surfaces suggests long histories. The through Sat 3/11. Tue-Sat 10-5:30. 312- rough-looking, almost skinlike orange-tan canvas in 654-9900 Storage Unit #7 has many round holes in it colored black or red (showing through from a second canvas Zolla/Lieberman 325 W. Huron. Stephen underneath), fragments of handwriting, painted geo- DeStaebler, ceramic sculpture; Cheonae metrical shapes like those in construction barriers, Kim, paintings, through Sat 3/25. E Opens and a few small rectangles of filigreed lines. Chest List Fri 2/17, 5-7:30 PM. Tue-Fri 10-5:30, Sat 11- looks like a handbag with a 5:30. 312-944-1990 Carol Ann Carter ripped bottom; peeking out WHEN Through there and at the top are numer- Suburban Fri 3/3 ous handwritten pages— WHERE G.R. Carter’s old “to do” lists. College of DuPage Gahlberg Gallery N’Namdi, 110 N. After a decade of making McAninch Arts Center, Park & Fawell, Peoria work inspired by her visit to Glen Ellyn. Simulated archaeological dig INFO 312-563-9240 Nigeria, Carter made a second by the collective Simparch and psychia- important trip: to Scandinavia, trist Paul Cekan, through Sat 3/18. Mon- because she liked its design aesthetic and functional Thu 11-3 (also Thu 6-8), Sat 11-3. 630- furniture. “Having found my parallel in Africa, I went 942-2321 looking for my complement. I’m earthy, their culture

is cool and lean and functional.” After the trip to FRED CAMPER Harrison Works 17 Harrison, Oak Park. Scandinavia she started using more muted colors, Work by Elizabeth Gaylord Schutt and even off-whites and flesh tones. Land Skin, which is Chest List Kevin Kintner, through Sat 4/15. E Opens less detailed and colorful than the other pieces here, Fri 2/17, 6-10 PM. Thu-Fri 1-6, Sat noon-6, has a filigreed pattern and tiny handbag painted on Sun noon-5. 708-308-4602 its stained and painted off-white surface. The work’s home damaged or unwanted objects—gifts from “psychologically violent trauma” at 19, she says, “I rec- many small punctured holes, she says, remind her of clients—and pieces he purchased cheaply. “I grew up ognize the universal need to heal, to connect broken Sonnenschein “nipples and breasts and skin” because after she with these beautiful things,” Carter says. “Navajo rugs skin through touch and through tracks crossing the Gallery Durand Art Institute, 555 N. began Land Skin she photographed the scars of two and Asian-influenced English ceramics, carved landscape of skin.” Holes and burns mark the surface Sheridan, Lake Forest. Matthew Girson, friends following their breast-cancer surgeries. chests, figurines, statuary. I remember being seven of her work, and track and stitch marks reflect both paintings, Tue 2/21-Sun 4/2. E Opens Carter lives in Lawrence, where she teaches at the years old and being transfixed by a ginger jar from wounding and healing. The wish to heal also under- Tue 2/21, 7:30-9 PM. Daily 2:30-5. 847- University of Kansas. When she was growing up in China with a white flower pattern on a blue ground.” lies the way she assembles works out of many parts. 735-5194 Indianapolis, her dad had a delivery business for Arabesques and filigrees are part of her work today, “The fragments I use are reflective of how I felt about high-end design shops and would sometimes bring but other influences are less benign. Because of a myself. I need to mend them.” —Fred Camper Morava Studios 11 Harrison, Oak Park. Joe Barabe, photos, through Sun 3/12. E Opens Fri 2/17, 6-9 PM. Wed-Fri noon-7, Sat noon- 5, Sun 1-5. 773-622-0324 Polvo 1458 W. 18th. Ritual, installation Photographers, through Fri 3/10. Mon-Fri Harrigan, photos, through Fri 3/3. Fri 3/3. E Opens Fri 2/17, 6-10 PM. Mon 11- by Maria Gaspar; Edra Soto, DVD projec- 9-6. 312-341-6458 E Opens Fri 2/17, 7-10 PM. Sat 1-4. 708- 6. 312-285-4533 Northwestern Univ. Dittmar Gallery tion; “True Love,” collaborative work 337-4534 1999 Campus, Evanston. “Jazz on Canvas,” by Rachel Hewitt and Vanessa Sanchez, Rowland Contemporary 1118 W. Fulton. Three Walls 119 N. Peoria #2A. Work by paintings by Terry Dixon, through Sun 3/19. through Sat 2/25. Sat noon-5. 773- Kelly Kaczynski and Todd Matei, collaborative Three Seasons 648 W. Randolph. Work by Jaime Snyder, through Sat 2/25. Tue-Sat E Reception Thu 2/23, 6-8 PM. Daily 10-10. 344-1940 work, through Sat 3/11. Sat 11-5. 312-421-6275 Peter Gustav Lofstrom and Ender, through noon-6. 312-432-3972 847-491-2348

Portals 742 N. Wells. Jorge Simes, paint- Saint Xavier Univ. 3700 W. 103rd. Patrick ings and works on paper, through Wed 3/1. Miceli, installations of toys and fast-food Tue-Fri 10-5, Sat 11-5. 312-642-1066 packaging, through Mon 3/6. Mon-Fri 10-5, Sat 10-3. 773-298-3081 Prospectus 1210 W. 18th. Work by Ed Paschke, Roger Brown, and Harold Allen, Judy A. Saslow 300 W. Superior. Work by and others, through Fri 4/28. E Opens Fri Paul Duhem, Madge Gill, and others, from 2/17, 5-10 PM. Wed-Sun noon-5, Fri till 6. ’s art brut collection, through 312-733-6132 Sat 4/1. E Opens Fri 2/17, 5-8 PM. Tue-Sat 10-6. 312-943-0530 Printworks 311 W. Superior #105. Bruce Thayer, works on paper, through Sat 3/11. Schneider 230 W. Superior. Luis Gonzalez Tue-Sat 11-5. 312-664-9407 Palma, painted and collaged photos, through Sat 2/25. Tue-Fri 10:30-5, Sat 11-5. 312-988-4033 Reversible Eye 1103 N. California. “Winter Bike Art Show,” annual exhibit of “anti-car, Skestos Gabriele 212 N. Peoria. Melissa pro-bike” art, through Fri 2/24. Sat 1-5. McGill, photos and sculpture, through Sat 773-862-1232 3/11. Tue-Fri 11-6, Sat noon-5. 312-243-1112

Byron Roche 750 N. Franklin. Sandra Steelelife 4655 S. King, 2nd fl. “The Short Dawson, paintings, through Fri 2/24. Tue- List: African American Artists in Chicago,” Sat 11-6. 312-654-0144 group show, through Sun 3/5. E Opens Fri 2/17, 5:30-9 PM. Tue-Sat noon-7. 773-538-4773 Roosevelt Univ. Gage Gallery 18 S. Michigan. Work by members of the Chicago 33 Collective 1029 W. 35th, 3rd fl. Cheng- Alliance of African American Yung Kuo,Jennifer Moore, Megan Scarface, Bugsy & Lucky, painting on wood by Luckystar Studio, in a group show at DvA CHICAGO READER | FEBRUARY 17, 2006 | SECTION TWO 27

and documents related to the work of Martin Museums Luther King Jr., through Fri 3/31. a Mon-Fri 9-8, Sat-Sun 9-4. F 773-638-6450 1300 S. Lake Shore Dr. Daily 9:30-4:30. $7; $6 seniors; $4 kids 4-17 Univ. of (+ $5 per sky show). Also open 4:30-10 the R Chicago, 5811 S. Ellis, 4th fl. “Forecast first Friday of each month ($15, $12 kids, Snow,” plaster and marble sculptures of includes sky shows). 312-922-7827 snowflakes, mountainscapes, and a ski lift by Yutaka Sone, plus related paintings and Michigan & Adams. drawings, installed in a maze of faux snow R “For Hearth and Altar,” African terra- banks and real pine trees, through Sun 4/9. cotta vessels, mostly 20th-century, from E Concerts in the gallery by koto player the collection of printmaker Keith Yoko Nishi, electronic musician Carl Stone, Achepohl, through Mon 2/20C , Rice Bldg.... and bass clarinetist Gene Coleman, Mon- “Double White Venus,” paintings based on a Tue 2/20-2/21, 8 PM. a Tue-Fri 10-5, Sat- classical sculpture of the love goddess by Sun noon-5. F 773-702-8670 Cecilia Edefalk, through Sun 4/23, Gallery 139. E Gallery talk by curator James Rondeau, Fri Shedd Aquarium 1200 S. Lake Shore Dr. 2/17, noon....Elizabeth Catlett, prints, through Displays on invasive species in the Great Sun 4/23, gallery 141....“Honoring Heroes in Lakes, the Amazon basin, Caribbean reefs, History,” illustrations from recent Coretta and the Philippines’ Apo Island reef sys- Scott King Award-winning children’s books, tem. Oceanarium: northeast Pacific flora through Sun 4/23....“Girodet: Romantic and fauna (see below for admission sur- Rebel,” paintings and drawings by Anne-Louis charge). a Mon-Fri 9-5, Sat-Sun 9-6. Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767-1824), a Aquarium $8, $6 seniors and kids 3-11; with “rebellious pupil” of the neoclassicist David, oceanarium $23/$16. 312-939-2438 through Sun 4/30. a Mon-Fri 10:30-4:30, Thu till 8; Sat-Sun 10-5. $12 suggested admission; Univ. of Chicago, $7 students, seniors, kids six and up. 5550 S. Greenwood. “Collecting for the Tuesdays free. 312-443-3600 Cause: Activist Art in the 1960s and ’70s,” through Sun 3/12....“Whose Land? 201 E. Ontario. Small Pencil Box by Floyd Gompf, in a show opening Friday at Function + Art European and American Landscapes, 1600- Sculpture by Swiss-born artist Not Vital, 1900,” through Sun 4/23....“One/Many,” plus a film documenting a three-story 3/26. E Jackson discusses his work Thu 2/23, ground Adventure”: add $7, $4 kids. tion, through Sat 3/4. a Mon-Fri 10-5, Thu till photos from 1860s and ’70s surveys of the house he built in Niger specifically to watch 12:15 PM....“Architecture in Clay,” ceramic “Pompeii”: $19, $14 students and seniors, $9 8; Sat noon-5. F 312-663-5554, 312-344-7104 American west by William Bell and Timothy Sahara sunsets, through Fri 4/7. a Mon-Fri sculpture by Vladimir Donchik, through Sun kids.) 312-922-9410 O’Sullivan, through Sun 5/7. a Tue-Fri 10-4, 11-6. F 312-787-3997 3/26. . .. “Inventing the World,” sculpture, Museum of Science and Industry 57th & Thu till 8; Sat-Sun 11-5. F 773-702-0200 paintings, and drawings by the Cuban collec- Hellenic Museum 801 W. Adams, 4th fl. Lake Shore Dr. “Architecture: Pyramids to Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture tive Los Carpinteros, through Sun 4/2.... Tue-Fri 10-4, Sat 11-4. $5. 312-655-1234 Skyscrapers,” MSI’s annual Black Creativity Spertus Museum Spertus Institute of 6500 S. Pulaski. Daily 10-4. 773-582-6500 “Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art,” exhibit, through Tue 2/28. ...“Game On Jewish Studies, 618 S. Michigan. “Anne work by Tom Friedman, Erwin Wurm, State Museum 100 W. Randolph 2.0,” revised version of last year’s video Frank: A History for Today,” photos and Block Museum of Art Northwestern Univ., Stephanie Brooks, David Shrigley, and oth- #2-100. “Art in the Abstract,” work by Judy game exhibit, through Sun 4/30 (see below related documents, through Sun 5/28.... 40 Arts Circle Dr., Evanston. “Comic Art: The ers, through Sun 4/9. E “Comedy” curators Chicago, Julia Fish, and other Illinois artists for admission surcharge). a Mon-Sat 9:30- “The Other Promised Land: Vacationing, Paris Salon in Caricature,” “Philipon’s La Dominic Molon and Michael Rooks discuss from 1913 on, through Fri 2/17 C . a Mon- 4, Sun 11-4. $11, $9.50 seniors, $7 kids 3-11. Identity, and the Jewish American Dream,” Caricature (1830-1835) and the Street,” and the show with three of the artists Wed 2/22, Fri 9-5. F 312-814-5322 (“Game On” costs an extra $5; U-505 sub- home movies, souvenirs, travel togs, more, “Political Currents Across the Channel: 6 PM. a Mon-Thu 10-7, Fri 10-6, Sat 10-5, Sun marine tours, $5.) 773-684-1414 through Sun 6/4. a Fri 10-3, Sun-Wed 10-5, James Gillray’s Caricatures of France,” three 11-5. F 312-346-3278 International Museum of Surgical Thu 10-7. $5; $3 children, students, seniors; Science 1524 N. Lake Shore Dr. Ruth National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum $10 max per family. Fridays free; Thursdays Chambers, installations of backlit porcelain 1801 S. Indiana. “Purple Hearts,” photos by 5-8free. 312-322-1747 vessels, in the form of human organs in Nina Berman of soldiers wounded in Iraq, Beneath the Skin and of “Renaissance through Sat 4/29. ...“Things We Carried,” 5211 N. apothecary jars imprinted with the leaves of combat artifacts, through Mon 5/29. a Tue- Clark. “Uniquely Swedish,” survey of medicinal plants” in Materia Medica, Fri 11-6, Sat 10-5. $10; $7 students, seniors. Swedish furniture design, through Sat through Fri 4/21. a Tue-Sun 10-4. $6; $3 stu- 312-326-0270 3/18. a Tue-Fri 10-4, Sat-Sun 11-4. $4; $3 dents, seniors. Tuesdays free. 312-642-6502 kids, students, seniors; $10 max per fami- 60 W. Walton. Work by ly. Second Tuesday of each month free. Loyola Univ. Museum of Art 820 N. members of the Chicago Calligraphy 773-728-8111 Michigan. Carlos Saura, black-and-white photos of flamenco dancers and musicians, through Sun 3/26. E Opens Fri 2/17, 6-8 PM. Reception and performance by Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater, Wed 2/22, 6 PM, $20, 312-915-7630. a Tue 10-8, Wed-Sun 10-5. $6 suggested admis- sion, $5 seniors, students and kids under 12 free. Tuesdays free. 312-915-7600

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum 1852 W. 19th. “The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present,” colonial to contempo- Camel, installation by Not Vital of 16 nine-inch silver spheres enclosing “the sun- rary art; “Who Are We Now? Roots, Resistance dried remains of a desert camel,” at the Arts Club of Chicago (Museums) & Recognition,” photos, prints, and paintings illustrating ties between African-Americans looks at 19th-century visual lampoonery, Chinese-American Museum 238 W. 23rd. and Mexicans in the U.S. and Mexico; through Sun 3/12. E “Caricature in the Fri 9:30-1:30, Sat-Sun 10-5. $2, $1 students “Common Goals, Common Struggles, Common Modern World, 1700-1900,” related sympo- and seniors. 312-949-1000 Ground,” exhibit focusing on black-Mexican sium, Sat 2/18, 10 AM-5 PM....Making Boys relations in Chicago, through Sun 9/3. a Tue- and Girls, video installation by Jeanne DePaul Univ. Museum 2350 N. Kenmore. Sun 10-5. F 312-738-1503 Dunning; “The Anatomy of Gender: Arts of Derek Webster, found-object sculpture; the Body in Early Modern Europe,” 16th- to “Look and Leave,” photos shot by Jane Mitchell Museum of the American 18th-century illustrations and models, Fulton Alt while working as a counselor in Indian Kendall College, 2600 Central Park, through Sun 3/12. a Tue 10-5, Wed-Fri 10-8, New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Evanston. Ongoing: historical and contem- Sat-Sun noon-5. F 847-491-4000 through Sun 3/12. a Mon-Thu 11-5, Fri 11-7, porary craft objects. E “A Swedish Sat-Sun noon-5. F 773-325-7506 Photographer Among the Sioux,” talk by Chicago Architecture Foundation photo historian Claes Jacobson on the work ArchiCenter 224 S. Michigan. Photos of DuSable Museum of African American of John A. Anderson around the turn of the buildings by Holabird & Root, through Sun History 740 E. 56th Pl. Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 20th century, Thu 2/23, 7 PM. a Tue-Sat 4/30. ... “Open: New Designs for Public noon-5. $3; $2 students, seniors; $1 kids 6- 10-5, Thu till 8; Sun noon-4. $5 suggested Space,” photos, models, and renderings of 13. Sundays free. 773-947-0600 admission; $2.50 kids, students, seniors; local projects, through Sun 5/7. E Gallery $10 max per family. 847-475-1030 talk by curator Ned Cramer, Wed 2/22, 11 Field Museum 1400 S. Lake Shore Dr. The Twin Towers, part of an installation by Simparch and Paul Cekan, AM. a Daily 9:30-6. F 312-922-3432 “Jungles,” photos by Frans Lanting, through Museum of 220 E. at College of DuPage Gahlberg Gallery (Suburban) Sun 3/5....“Pompeii: Stories From an Chicago. Dianna Frid, installation, through Chicago Children’s Museum Navy Pier, Eruption,” artifacts of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Sun 2/26. ...“The Fluidity of Time,” work Collective, through Sat 4/1. a Galleries Ukrainian Institute of 2320 700 E. Grand. “Robots,” through Mon 3/6. and Oplontis, destroyed in 79 AD by an erup- from the MCA collection, through Sun 3/5. open Mon & Fri-Sat 8:15-5:30, Tue-Thu 8:15- W. Chicago. “Artists Respond: Ukrainian Art ...“Monkey King: A Journey to China,” tion of Mount Vesuvius, through Sun 3/26 ...“Figures in the Field: Figurative 7:30. F 312-255-3691 and the Orange Revolution,” work made and through Sun 5/7. E Mardi Gras party, Sat (see below for admission surcharge).... Sculpture and Abstract Painting From shown at Kiev’s Center for Contemporary Art 2/18, 2-4 PM; “free admission for all Gulf “Dinosaur Dynasty,” fossils and casts of fossils ,” through Sun 4/23.... Notebaert Nature Museum 2430 N. during the demonstrations surrounding the Coast hurricane evacuees.” a Daily 10-5, unearthed in China, through Sun 4/23 (see Jim Isermann, plastic-tile mural, through Cannon. “Climate Chaos,” exhibit on cli- December 2004 elections in Ukraine, Thu & Sat till 8. $7; $6 seniors; kids under below for admission surcharge).... Sun 7/30. ..., sculpture, mate change and the weather, through Sun through Sun 2/26. E Party for filmmaker one free. Thu 5-8 free; first Monday of each “Transforming Tradition,” coiled ceramic ves- through Sun 8/27. a Tue 10-8, Wed-Sun 10- 4/23. a Mon-Fri 9-4:30, Sat-Sun 10-5. $7; Lee Kazimir, who plans to shoot a documen- month free. 312-527-1000 sels from Mexico’s pre-Columbian Casas 5. $10 suggested admission; $6 students, $5 students, seniors; $4 kids 3-12. tary while walking from Madrid to Kiev, Thu Grandes culture and contemporary pots from seniors; kids 12 and under free. Tuesdays Thursdays free. 773-755-5100 2/23, 7-9 PM, www.madridtokiev.com. 78 E. Washington. the town of Mata Ortiz, through Sun 5/28.... free. 312-280-2660; box office 312-397-4010 a Wed noon-4, Thu-Fri noon-7, Sat-Sun 11-5. “Building Dreams in the Bookbinder’s “The Auschwitz Album,” photos taken by SS Oriental Institute Museum Univ. of $5. 773-227-5522 Room,” photos by Jan Theun van Rees of hid- officers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, through Sun Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, 1155 E. 58th. Artifacts from the den areas of public buildings, through Sun 6/4.... Ongoing: “Sue,” reconstructed T. rex Columbia College, 600 S. Michigan. “Made in ancient Near East. a Tue-Sat 10-6, Wed till Harold Washington Library Center 400 S. 3/19. A companion exhibit runs concurrently skeleton; “Underground Adventure” (see China,” photos and videos by Polly Braden, 8:30; Sun noon-6. F 773-702-9514 State. “Chicago Sports,” exhibit on amateur at Unity Temple, 875 Lake, Oak Park.... below for admission surcharge). a Daily 9-5. Danwen Xing, Jun Yang, and others focusing athletics from the 19th century on, through “Fresh From Julieanne’s Garden,” bronze $12; $7 students, seniors, kids 4-11; teachers & especially on changes in China resulting from Peace Museum 100 N. Central Park. “Until August. a Mon-Thu 9-7, Fri-Sat 9-5, Sun 1-5. sculpture by Preston Jackson, through Sun toddlers free. (“Dinosaur Dynasty” or “Under- Western companies’ outsourcing of produc- Justice Rolls Down Like Waters,” photos, art, F 312-747-4300; exhibits 312-747-4875