“Can’t Grow Up!”
Saturday March 3rd from 7-11pm
@ the Co-Prosperity Sphere 3219 S Morgan St
Ever since So-Cal artist Wes Humpston started drawing on skate decks back in the 70’s, skateboarding and art have become inseparable. Wes Humpston helped create an aesthetic that skateboarders and adolescents could identify with. Since then, nearly every skateboard has been printed with art that varies in both content and style. From designers and printmakers to videographers and painters, skateboarding has attracted a variety of young and creative minds that push boundaries and create new things with raw and unfiltered enthusiasm.
“Can’t Grow Up!” is a ‘zine release exhibition of artists that are involved in skate culture.
Artists:
Wes Humpston
Michael Sieben
Jimbo Phillips
Dennis McNett
Bart Saric
Chris Silva
Jourdon Gulett
Darin Bendall
Bryan De La Garza
Luke Pelletier
Carson Cornett
Bryan Peterson
Ben Jensen
Nathan Friedman
Tim Pigot
Dan Ezra Lang
Ryan Ady Putra
Ican Harem
Alex Cohen
Curated by:
Luke Pelletier
The show will only be up for one night.
Press Inquiries: lukepelletier@live.com “Can’t Grow Up!”
“Can’t Grow Up!”
Saturday March 3rd from 7-11pm
@ the Co-Prosperity Sphere 3219 S Morgan St
Ever since So-Cal artist Wes Humpston started drawing on skate decks back in the 70’s, skateboarding and art have become inseparable. Wes Humpston helped create an aesthetic that skateboarders and adolescents could identify with. Since then, nearly every skateboard has been printed with art that varies in both content and style. From designers and printmakers to videographers and painters, skateboarding has attracted a variety of young and creative minds that push boundaries and create new things with raw and unfiltered enthusiasm.
“Can’t Grow Up!” is a ‘zine release exhibition of artists that are involved in skate culture.
Artists:
Wes Humpston
Michael Sieben
Jimbo Phillips
Dennis McNett
Bart Saric
Chris Silva
Jourdon Gulett
Darin Bendall
Bryan De La Garza
Luke Pelletier
Carson Cornett
Bryan Peterson
Ben Jensen
Nathan Friedman
Tim Pigot
Dan Ezra Lang
Ryan Ady Putra
Ican Harem
Alex Cohen
Curated by:
Luke Pelletier
The show will only be up for one night.
Press Inquiries: lukepelletier@live.com Watie White
February 3 – 17, 2012
Opening Friday, February 3rd 6-8pm
Survey
The Chicago Project is highlighting the work of artist Watie White. An intermediary, whose traditional selection of mediums, printmaking, painting and drawing, benefits White’s exquisite skill in interpreting our fundamental experiences. A catalog of the Chicago Project will be available at the Teachers Lounge Project Space at DePaul University. The Chicago Project is curated by Jim Duignan. Metal On Morgan
We are very pleased to announce a evening of heavy and weird Chicago music at The Co-Prosperity Sphere on Saturday, January 28th 2012. Sun Splitter has the honor to perform along with Rabid Rabbit, André Foisy and ONO.
Details and links to artist info below:
Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/339151212764601/
Cost: $7
Time: 8pm
Location: 3219 S. Morgan Street, Chicago IL 60608
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ONO
Classic Chicago art-rock/no-wave pioneers
"Seeing this band live, it's like they change the lighting in a room without any kind of special effects. It's less a performance and more an exhibition of raw, soulful splendor, unmiterated by any gimmickry, appeasement, or fake bad boy attitudes. A wall of sound and song will delineate into an instrumental industrial ballad; organ, guitar, lap steel, electric drill, and sheet metal will interlace, sparks will fly, and just when you might think there may not have been a plan, a ghostly sort of crooning that could fit into a David Lynch movie might emerge from out of the fog, and you will find that you've just seen a triumphant epic sewn together in front of your very eyes, yet no secrets have been revealed" -Delirious Insomniac
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ANDRÉ FOISY
Guitarist and co-founder of deconstructionist black metal group Locrian
http://lndofdecay.blogspot.com/
Foisy's solo work has been described, by The Inarguable, as "layers of soft strong flowing beauty, building and eventually falling through peace and climax into a moment when he seems to look back with regret. His anticipations never quite find resolution, and his screams tell of the sort of self-hating dismissal that comes so potently after complete surrender to beauty".
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SUN SPLITTER
Chicago psychedelic metal trio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2blwp_QClw “For one, the group is more melodic than your typical doom band. Their songs tend to wander, but their meditative passages are punctuated by cascading riffs that follow unusually active chord progressions. Their massive sound is flavored with noise and industrial music, in part because of the drum machine, but the rhythms aren't sterile and
mechanical…Sun Splitter are also more aggressive than most other doom acts—sometimes it sounds like they're trying to tear their songs apart from the inside.” Miles Raymer, Chicago Reader
“Their drum-machine and loop-fueled excursions through noise, droning doom metal, harsh metal grooves, and early 80s "no wave" has earned them a special place in my heart as one of the absolute weirdest and original bands in these recent years.” Jon Rosenthal, The Inarguable
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RABID RABBIT
http://rabidrabbitmusic.blogspot.com/
Chicago-based, female-fronted, doom outfit
""Czarny Sen" is the latest from Chicago doom terrorists Rabid Rabbit, who've been supplying the city with sonic attacks for years now and they've teamed up with local label BloodLust! to unveil this stellar new soundtrack of uneasy vibes and heavy funeral dirge molasses. With 2 bass players, huge drums and psychedelic/metallic guitar, Rabid Rabbit pummel your ears with gloom filled heavy repetition only tempered by bassist/vocalist Andrea Jablonski's ethereal vocal croon tempting the listener to travel further towards inevitable disaster. If seasonal depression is your bag then this is the soundtrack to get you through these frozen months" - Permanent Records
“Society of the Spectacular” Reception
"Society of the Spectacular"
Friday January 27th from 7-11pm
@ the Coprosperity Sphere 3221 S Morgan St
Simulated realities, virtual landscapes and digital social networks strongly shape
our daily experiences and what we perceive as reality.
"Society of the Spectacular" is an exhibition about our constant connection with the hyperreal.
Visual Simulcra:
Eric Fleischauer
Jesse McLean
Steve Ruiz
Doug Smithenry
Theo Darst
Todd Mattei
Morgan Sims
Aaron Orsini
&
Adam Rux
Musical Stimuli:
Volcano
American Draft
Turntable.fm
Curated by:
Jake Myers & The Octagon Gallery
This combination of fabricated sounds and eye candy will surely leave you in
skeptical awe of our spectacular society.
If you can't make it on Friday the 27th, the exhibit will be up from January 14- 28th.
Please contact Jake Myers @ 6302157125 to set up an appointment."
Co-Prosperity School with Jeriah Hildwine & Stephanie Burke
Jeriah Hildwine & Stephanie Burke are everywhere on the Chicago Art Scene. They are artists (Painter and Photographer respectively), curators, academics, and writers. For Bad-at-Sports Stephanie writes the weekly top-5 while Jeriah writes articles. You will also see their columns on ArtTalk Chicago, Monday Morning Quarterback, and other websites. This husband and wife pair are steel-toe booted socialites who are always pulsing on the heartbeat of the local scene
Co-Prosperity School Louise Lincoln
As director of the DePaul Art Museum Louise Lincoln oversees the efforts of the only local museum collecting art from Chicago in a systematic way. The museum is dedicated to collecting and supported our local community.
Co-Prosperity School with Michael Workman
Michael Workman is Director of Bridge, an arts publishing and programming organization. Workman writes a column on visual art, Eye Exam, for the Chicago alternative weekly newspaper, NewCity. He is also the Chicago correspondent for the bi-monthly Italian art publication, Flash Art and works as an arts critic and commentator for Chicago's NPR affiliate, WBEZ-FM.
Interview with Michael
Co-Prosperity School with Wesley Kimler
Wesley Kimler's studio is invariably notable given its mammoth scale, reptiles, parrots and over sized paintings. Kimler is known for his iconoclastic view of the artworld and his paintings are frequently exhibited in Museums across the globe.

