Michael T Rea at HPAC

Michael T Rea installed Suit for Stephen Hawking as part of the Artists Run Chicago exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center.

Exhibition Reception
Sunday, May 10, 3 – 5pm
Runs through July 5, 2009.

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Rachael Marszewski at NFO XPO

Reueben Kincaid client, Rachael Marszewski, will be presenting work at the Version Festival's NFO XPO on Saturday April 25 and Sunday April 26, 2009. Her piece " How to learn Finnish in 48 hours will be conducted over the two days of the art fair.

No really, I only can spend 10 minutes in your studio before It creeps me out.

Studio of Sylvia B

Next 2009 "Welcome To My Walled, Multicultural Military City"

Michael T Rea “Your Lust Will Hold You Up, Float on the Dragons Breath”2009


Reuben Kincaid is back from Switzerland and has decided to pull together his top artist, so get ready!

Michael T Rea
Mike Genovese
Matthew Hoffman
Aron Gent
Hale Ekinci
Anna Shteynshleyger
and more if we get a bigger space....



Aron Gent "Untitled Outpost", 2008

Field trip to the Netherlands

Reuben is going to The Netherlands to conduct business.

While there he will be checking out: http://trendbeheer.com/artrotterdam/ where he is checking up on works exhibited by Juan Chavez, Cody Hudson, Sighn, Aron Gent, Jason Lazerus, Brian Ulrich and Michael T Rea.

Talking to MFA students at http://www.akvstjoost.nl/eng

He will be resenting at AKI, ArtEZ academy of Visual Arts Enschede re: Artist run culture in the US.

And he will also be going to http://www.extrapool.nl to freak out.

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Image Splimage: Recent Paintings by Brad Biancardi

January 15 - February 17, 2009
Opening reception: January 15, 6-9 pm

EASTERN EXPANSION
244 W 31st Street Chicago Illinois, 60616

773.837.0145



About the work
Brad Biancardi's work begins with direct, observational drawings of specific spaces or objects that carry personal importance. Working from observation is the most important mode of informing his work. Though they begin from observational drawings, they eventually abandon their dependence on them and enter an area that exists somewhere between invention and representation. For this reason Brad describes his studio practice as “referential.” Sometimes he begins with a space, sometimes he attempts to subvert a pop-cultural icon in order to transform them into something more personal and elusive, i.e. bikes, the spacecraft from the Star Wars films, governmental buildings, etc.

The mathematical system of linear perspective is one formal tool within which Brad's explorations occur; color is another. He composes his imagery based on a symmetrical model with full knowledge that asymmetrical nuances are inevitable and will bring life to the work.

Brad also desires to retain a direct connection to art history by utterly consuming the potential of basic formal tools. As contemporary culture inevitably permeates his working process, he attempts to consume it, contemplate it and eventually either abandon it or use it. It is an ever-present concern of his to be equally aware of both contemporary culture and historical knowledge. Brad finds fault in the painter who feels embedded in twentieth century theoretical matters. At the same time he thinks that contemporary art is becoming more concerned with ideas of market and fashion, while moving further away from an artistic utopia.


Biography:

Brad Biancardi received his MFA from the University of Washington. From 2005 – 2007 he was a member the Seattle based artist collective Crawl Space: Artist-Run-Gallery. He has exhibited his paintings and drawings in Seattle at Platform Gallery, the Lawrimore Project, Soil, and was an artist-member of the Crawl Space gallery from 2005 through 2007. He has exhibited in Chicago at the Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Zhou Brothers Art Center. He teaches at Gallery 37, was a visiting artist at Harold Washington College, and has taught at the University of Washington, Pratt School of Fine Art in Seattle, the Northern Indiana Artists Association and at the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago. His studio is currently rejecting him like a virus.