3:08 pm on May 10th, 2009
For more than three decades, this Brooklyn artist has made demonic black- and- white (or black -and -silver) enamel paintings of cartoon characters. In her Easter Island-meets-Disney-de Kooning-and-Warhol portraits of Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and others, Pensato combines the gesturalism of action painting, the painterliness of Abstract Expressionism, the blatancy of Pop and the wild style of graffiti.
-Jerry Saltz, 2008
SubCity Projects is pleased to present Donald in the Closet, a new wall drawing by Joyce Pensato. For more info on the artist, please visit www.petzel.com/
We are located in the Fine Arts Building, Chicago at 410 S Michigan Avenue (three blocks south of The Art Institute) on the 10th floor, in Room 1036. This project can be viewed from the public hallway Mon-Friday 8am-10pm, Sat 8am-9pm and Sun 10am-4pm through August 1, 2009. This is our inaugural project in our new space.
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Categories: Projects.
9:01 am on April 28th, 2009
SubCity Projects Booth at the Dark Fair
In German, the word Hellsehen is composed of two words. The first word “hell” means clear, bright light. The second word “sehen” which means to see, as in “seeing the light.” It refers to seeing things that others might not see, like a clairvoyant. This insight was clearly expressed by my longtime friend and artist Ingrid Roscheck at the opening night.
Performing live inside the booth was the liquid alter ego/5 star psychic Cherry “its not my real name” Daiquiri aka Kim Mitseff who was available for private readings. Booth design and paintings were the work of alter ego Lava Caramel aka Candida Alvarez with a special edition art comic book created by alter ego Nar Duell aka Lynne Heller. This was the inaugural launching of www.PsychedelicChick.com a webscape project conceived and directed by artist, Kim Mitseff (current Ringleader of TrackHouse Land Share, Marble Colorado) in collaboration with web designer/artist Lynne Heller (Toronto, Canada).
This is the first international venue for SubCity Projects, an independent artist project space conceptualized by artist Candida Alvarez. It currently lives inside her studio within an adjacent small room and is only viewable through the window of room 1036 at The Fine Arts Building, 410 S Michigan Avenue. It is open daily 7am-10pm, Sat 9am-9pm and Sun 10am-4pm. Please send all inquiries to subcityprojects@gmail.com.
http://vernissage.tv/blog/2009/04/24/dark-fair-cologne-2009
Kim Mitseff aka Cherry Daiquiri, the psychic
With flash!
Melting pot
Table talk
Floating speech
Input/output
Brain speed
Invisible vision
Brain transformer
Fluently influenced
Un-nervous breakdown
Crushing synapses
Hysterical patience
I would like to thank my dear friend and fellow artist Rainer Barzen of Cologne for indulging my request at the Dark Fair for a list of words that spoke about his engagement with our project when my brain only saw white light.
http://vernissage.tv/blog/2009/04/24/dark-fair-cologne-2009
Categories: Projects.
11:32 pm on April 20th, 2009
to the Dark Fair!! We board the plane tomorrow at 6pm…towards Cologne. Our very first international exhibition!!
Categories: Projects.
8:14 pm on April 15th, 2009
SubCity Projects at The Dark Fair presents:
The launching of www.PsychedelicChick.com a webscape project conceived and directed by artist, Kim Mitseff (current Ringleader of TrackHouse Land Share, Marble Colorado) in collaboration with web designer/artist Lynne Heller (Toronto, Canada).
Performing live inside the booth will be the liquid alter ego/5 star psychic Cherry “its not my real name” Daiquiri who will be available for private readings. Also featured in the booth will be paintings by alter ego LavaCaramel and a comic book created by alter ego Nar Duell.
SubCity Projects is an independent artist project space founded in the Spring of 2004 by artist Candida Alvarez. It was originally located in a retired, ornate 1898 lift permanently parked on the 8th floor of the landmark Fine Arts Building in Chicago until June of 2005. As of May of 2009, its new site will share a portion of the former studio of Lorado Taft, sculptor, author and lecturer. It will only be viewable through a window into the space from the public hallway. Please contact subcityprojects@gmail.com for further info.
April 23-26, 6pm-midnight
Opening: April 22, 2008, 9:30pm-midnight
Kolnischer Kunstverein
Die Brucke
Hahnenstasse 6
D-50667 Koln
www.milwaukeeinternationalart.com
Categories: Projects.
6:11 pm on April 15th, 2009
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