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Newcity Sites *Newcity.com Best of Chicago Booze Muse Boutiqueville Newcity Design Newcity Film Newcity Lit Newcity Music Newcity Network Newcity Resto Newcity Stage “Battleship Bay” from Irrational Games, print, 39″ x 70″ Newcity Summer When Chaz Evans and Jonathan Kinkley met while studying art history at UIC a few years ago, they embarked on a dream to start a gallery project that celebrated the work of artists who create the Categories spectacular visual experiences in video games. On August 8, they will launch the new Video Game Art Art Fairs (34) Gallery, with their first exhibition hosted by Galerie F in Logan Square. This initial foray into a Art Schools (9) physical show of fine art prints is part of VGA’s work across their online platform as well as through exhibition programming. In an email, Evans explains, “We are working with this hybrid model as it Artist Profiles (108) fits well with the media we are showing: it exists both as live software but also as framed images.” Art 50 (2) http://art.newcity.com/2014/07/08/news-video-games-the-focus-of-new-gallery-in-chicago/[8/20/2014 10:29:39 PM] News: Video Game Art Gallery Opens in Chicago | Newcity Art

The gallery’s website is set up so that collectors can purchase prints that range in price from $75 to Breakout Artists (12) $400. Some of the games from which the inkjet prints have been drawn are widely popular, such as Gallerist profile (5) “BioShock: Infinite.” But Evans and Kinkley also hope to introduce audiences to visually stunning Curator Profiles (18) hidden gems like “MirrorMoon EP,” a first-person puzzler by Santa Ragione with concept art by Galleries & Museums (1,748) Gabriele Brombin. Playable demos of these and other games will complement the prints on view at Albany Park (4) Galerie F in August. Other future pop-up exhibitions are currently in the works. Andersonville (11) Bridgeport (43) Bronzeville (8) Edgewater (6) Evanston (24) Garfield Park (30) Glen Ellyn (2) Gold Coast/Old Town (25) Highland Park (1) Humboldt Park (27) Hyde Park (88) Lakeview (43) Lincoln Park (56) Lincoln Square (6) Little Village (1) Logan Square (28) Loop (139) Michigan Avenue (170) Milwaukee (8) Oak Park (12) Pilsen (80) Ravenswood (12) River Forest (4) River North (270) River West (43) Rogers Park (9) Roscoe Village (1) South Loop (41) Streeterville (9) Suburban (32) Ukrainian Village/East Village (74) Uptown (1) West Loop (362) Wicker Park/Bucktown (128) Media & Genres (1,882) Activist Art (8) Gabriele Brombin. “Mirrormoon, Day: The Pillars,” digital art print, 28″ x 20″ Architecture (21)

Evans earned an MFA in from UIC while also earning his MA in art history. His art Art Books (25) practice ranges across software programs, performance, writing and installation, and he teaches Ceramics (14) courses on programming, games web art at SAIC and DePauw University. Kinkley went on from his MA Collage (21) in art history at UIC to work in institutions like the MCA and the Renaissance Society, and is Comics (11) currently the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s manager of development. Craft Work (8)

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Design (13) Over the past year, VGA formed as an L3C, and built a network of relationships with their featured Digital Art (7) artists, many of whom have never presented work in a fine art gallery context. The two directors have been monitoring the ways video games have begun to receive increasing attention as a fine art Drawings (168) modality. Says Evans, “We are also very interested and informed by many ways that games and Installation (151) game-related work are being publicly experienced now: from institutional acquisitions at MoMA, to Multimedia (333) community-driven spaces like Babycastles in NYC, to the new barcades like Emporium and Logan (20) Arcade. It is hugely refreshing and exciting to see new public modes of experiencing games after the (493) arcade era ended and there was a shift in multiplayer game design that favored play over the Performance (37) Internet and no longer the couch. Now we have options in third spaces again. With a wider base Photography (579) comes a diversity of ideas that change what games mean upon creation and how they are received by Prints (89) an audience.” (Matt Morris) Public Art (28) VGA’s exhibition at Galerie F opens August 8, from 6pm-8pm, 2381 North Milwaukee. Sculpture (200) Street Art (29) Student Shows (6) Share this: Textiles (14) Video (86)  Facebook 215  Twitter 18  Email  More News etc. (240)

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