Darrell Roberts, a Marwen artist-teacher, is in a show. See details below!


"how did I get here" Ten Artist
Opening Saturday, March 18th 6-8pm
2830 N. Milwaukee 2nd floor
comments on hereness by ten artist
karin patzke brenda moore rima grybauskas brian curtis aviva alter janeil englestast leah schreiber darrell roberts allan winkler alan lerner

Jeremy Tinder has a new book out, its called Cry Yourself to Sleep.

You should also stop by the Steve and Susan Berkowitz Gallery at Marwen to check out the mini-comic made by students in his winter 2006 course, Comic Creations.

Check out Cry Yourself to Sleep at Amazon.

Review Ripped from Amazon:
Cry Yourself to Sleep explores the disappointments of early adulthood by following the lives of three unique characters: Jim, a minimum wage rabbit struggling to pay his rent; Andy, an aspiring novelist dealing with rejection; and The Robot, a machine who just wants to be a better man. In this stellar debut, Jeremy Tinder mixes sadness, sweetness and humor to tell a quirky little story of pride-swallowing, fake moustaches, car crashes and friendship.

jon.satrom has a low-fi installation called SUBTXT up @ 65GRAND

jon.satrom: SUBTXT
rebekah levine: COLONEL PANIC
February 24 - March 31, 2006
Opening Reception: February 24, 2006 (7 - 10pm)

"Satrom has essentially translated the architecture of the space with a program used for translating images into text. Using the artificial light taken from nighttime photographs of the walls of Gross's apartment as his map, Satrom translated the light-and-shadow pattern into text. His program output as standard keyboard characters the various light gradients in his source photos. The capital letter "X," for instance, produces a higher density of dark ink on the page than the rows of small-letter "c." These pages were then output onto rolls of paper that stretch floor to ceiling, perfectly matching the existing light in the room. Two intense spotlights from ceiling tracks are positioned right in the middle of the center rolls, producing an odd layering effect of light and light reproduced as text-based work on paper. I sat down with Satrom and Gross to discuss the work, scheduled to open this coming weekend."

Eye Exam: Wall Text
by Michael Workman
New City Chicago

Marwen Artist-teacher Jon Gittelson has a solo show; Gitelson rawks the "The Car Project" at Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago Illinois
One Man Show, March 17-April 22

Jon Gitelson presents his "Car Project" at Peter Miller Gallery
East Gallery: Jonathan Gitelson — Photographs: The Car Project Jonathan's photographs and sculpture offer a wry commentary on nightclubs and mass
advertising. He collected 1000s of flyers (the kind you find stuck under your windshield
wipers) and sewed a car cover with them. He then photographed his car wearing this
cover while it was parked in front of various dance clubs in Chicago. The obsessive nature of this activity, the compulsion to catalog, index and organize is spun away from sobriety into
the comical and the absurd.

Subject: visual mashup
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http://www.tomatopatch.com/films/sleepless.htm
http://www.ps260.com/molly/SHINING%20FINAL.mov
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A rudimentary article about visual mashups.

so, i've wanted to do this for a bit. there are so many interconnections that happen between work + art + life. i hope this blog can act as both an idea-base + a resource for ppl in/around marwen.

we come across things every day that could be useful tools for educators, students, and ppl. we'll see how this goes... thnx for stopping by!