October 8th - 29th, 2011

On view at

William H. Cooper Mfg.
816 N. Spaulding (at Chicago Ave)
Open to the public: Monday-Saturday, 7am-5pm
Street parking available / Accessible by bus (#66, #52)

Featuring new works by
Mara Baker | Sara Black | Laura Davis | Mike Schuh

Two Histories of the World is an experimental exhibition in West Humboldt Park at a former factory — an immense structure in partial disrepair that is now home to a large resale business. Over the summer, four artists conceived and produced new works for this site, using objects and materials culled from a vast stockpile inside the building itself.

With artworks installed throughout the space, this exhibition embodies four distinct responses to the context and the materials on hand. And yet it also marks out the beginning of a larger scenario that remains unresolved. After this show closes at the end of October, the works will be disbanded or left to their fate. A full year later, the artists will produce the exhibition all over again at the Hyde Park Art Center, in the fall of 2012, with revisions or evolutions we can hardly anticipate.

Please note: This is a raw space, with puddles on the ground and glass in certain spots. Visitors are encouraged to wear appropriate shoes and should be aware they enter at their own risk, since the owners cannot be held responsible for us within the building. (Overall though it's quite safe.)

More information about the exhibition and the artists at TwoHistoriesoftheWorld.com

Curated by Karsten Lund

July 16 - August 28, 2011
Opening Night: Saturday, July 16, 2011, 7 - 10 pm
1714 Holmes Street, Kansas City, Missouri, 64108

Cara and Cabezas Contemporary is pleased to present Double Tangent: Collaborative Work by Mara Baker and Rafael E. Vera. For their first exhibition in Kansas City, Chicago-based artists, Baker and Vera will create a site-specific installation that responds instinctively to the gallery space. Past installations created by the duo have incorporated materials such as wood, string, Plexiglas, paint, vinyl, and other insulation materials. Both artists’ individual studio practices respond to space. Baker explores the role of deterioration through a study of residue, while Vera addresses the contrary nature of borders—what boundaries reveal and conceal.

More info at Cara and Cabezas website.

Featuring artists, Mara Baker, Scott Jarrett, Robin Juan and Brian McNearney.

This multi-media exhibition, which employs sculpture, photography, painting and installation, invokes childhood memories of summer time, lazy days, carefree attitudes and endless exploration. Through divergent visual strategies and combinations of color, texture and form, artists Baker, Jarrett, Juan and McNearney make apparent how ones use of imagination and curiosity enables the endless re-invention of materials as well as their surroundings.

July 14, 2011 6-9 pm
Cocktails, refreshments & music
650 W. Randolph St., 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60661
$20 Tickets available online at www.azimuthchicago.com & at the door

I will be showing some new books hot off the press with ACRE Projects (Booth # 24) at NEXT: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art.

Hours:
Friday, April 29, 11am- 7pm
Saturday, April 30, 11am- 7pm
Sunday, May 1, 11am- 6pm
Monday, May 2, 11am- 4pm

The Merchandise Mart
222 Merchandise Mart Plaza
Chicago, IL

NEXT art fair

new works by Mara Baker

March 21-26, 2011

Closing Reception March 26, 6-10 PM
Open by appointment March 21-26.

Happy Collaborationists Exhibition Space
1254 N. Noble, Chicago IL 60642


“Blue Glue and Other Explorations” is a new body of work consisting of drawings, photographs and a site-specific installation that grew directly out of a residency this past summer with ACRE located in rural Southwest Wisconsin. The installation will feature a collection of piled drawings and sculptural constructions that morph and respond to the unique exhibition space at Happy Collaborationists. Materials crucial to the project include; Blue Glue (aka blue painters tape) as a means to draw, pile, adhere and bind and 6 years of accumulated studio detritus (precious, abandoned, minuscule and substantial). The work explores the mental and physical act of collection and how drawing can simultaneously reveal and bury a material history.


Happy Collaborationists website

E-mail: info@happycollaborationists.com

A Site Specific Installation by Mara Baker & Rafael E. Vera
Opening reception Saturday November 13th, 5pm – 9pm
Exhibition continues through 12/11/10 by appointment.

WHAT IT IS website

Opening reception:
Saturday, November 6th 7-10pm
On exhibit November 6th-27th.

3248 N Troy St
#1
Chicago, IL 60618

View exhibit at reception, or set up an appointment by emailing backroomprojects@gmail.com.

Back Room Projects Website

Opening on Friday, November 12th from 6-9pm, Forecast brings together five artists focused around the themes of prediction, anxiety about the future and the ways we use science and technology to manage and approximate these perceived futures. Forecast is the final exhibition in our 2010 Answer Factory series focusing on how information is shaping our contemporary culture. The artists included are working in a wide range of media from video and sound pieces to fabricated neon and dice games.

Forecast will remain on view through December 17th Wed-Sat each week from 12-6pm.

Luminary Arts Center
4900 Reber Place
Saint Louis MO 63139

Opening: 7 - 11 pm Saturday, June 5 // Exhibition Runs: Jun 5 - Jul 25, 2010

This show examines art as material culture. It is the by-product of human activity, traces of time spent and messages from the living to their many possible futures. When an artist is finished with their work, what remains?

http://www.soapfactory.org/exh

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