#devening projects

[acehotel]

Martin Kippenberger’s Hotel Drawings — the inspiration for painting professor Dan Devening’s curation of Blue Notes, 159 works by SAIC students on Ace Chicago’s hotel stationary. On view at The Gallery at Ace Hotel Chicago until the end of August. 

[stilllifestyleleaf]

Conrad Bakker Untitled Project: Still Life / Style Leaf Oil on carved wood, 2016

@ Devening Projects + Editions

[gildedbeast]

solo show "Tell Tale" coming up at Devening Projects March 15th! 

[printx3]

Artist: Leslie Baum and Allison Wade  Title: Drunken Geometry, 2015 Medium: 2 color risograph Size: 11x17 Edition: ? Publisher: Devening Projects Printer: ? Printed In: Chicago, IL Published in conjunction with the exhibition Drunken Geometry: Leslie Baum and Allison Wade at Devening Projects, January 31st – March 7th, 2015

[sequencestudies]

Peter Fagundo at Devening Projects tonight. 

[jmjammy]

Nancy Ford

Untitled (2008)

latex, acrylic and enamel on papier mache, 16 × 26 × 13 inches

[gildedbeast]

Gary Stephan

Untitled, AC/Muslin, 40” x 60”, 2009

  Kearsarge, AC/Canvas, 72" x 81", 2010

Untitled, AC/Canvas, 40” x 48”, 2006

Untitled, A/C on paper, 20" x 14" , 2011.

Untitled, A/C on Paper, 17" x 14" , 2011.

Untitled, A/C on Paper, 20" x 15" , 2011.

Some of Gary Stephan's works on paper will be in I Surrender at Devening Projects, Chicago, opening March 11.

[gildedbeast]

Alex Valentine

Alex Valentine is a printmedia artist who received his MFA from and teaches at my school, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Primarily using an offset machine to produce his work, he experiments with a wide variety of drawn and constructed forms that conduct elements of reality as well as imaginary into temporary moments– sometimes humorous. His compositions have a sort of experimental playfulness that feel collage-like, elements overlapping and filtering into one another to create absurd narratives or portraits of glyph like androids.

Alex turns to the use of digitally manipulated forms and lines to create many of his drawings, giving them a plastic, unnatural flatness. It reminds me of computer games in the 90s, as well as software like "Kid Pix" that were some of the earlier drawing programs for PCs. Tampering with shapes, lines, and effects, you were able to construct your own sort of image that became as much about exploring the tools as it was about creating what you had in mind. It's these kinds of artificial spaces that Alex Valentine has created, but he's revisited these tools and moments with a renewed interest and care. They become nostalgic scenes, blips in a cyber sphere of memory.

Alex's work (including all of these works) are currently showing at Devening Projects in Chicago, IL. Also- some of his recent work under a series title "Transparent Dream Bucket" is a print collaboration with the infamous Sonnenzimmer.