Recently released 4 new hand pulled screen prints with the friends at Louis Buhl. For more details go HERE.
Tropical Shit
Andrew Rafacz at Untitled Art Miami 2018
UNTITLED. Miami Beach 2018 Dec 5-9, 2018 with Andrew Rafacz Gallery.
Artists included Abdolreza Aminlari, Julia Bland, Caroline Wells Chandler, Cody Hudson
Sonos Studio Visit
After wrapping up designs for a series of holiday wrapping paper for Sonos, they stopped by the studio in Chicago to talk a bit. Old friend Clayton Hauck was there as well and shot some photos while we chatted. You can check out the interview and more photos HERE.
Merge Records Benefit Auction for 350.org
Merge Records and its flagship band Superchunk are presenting their third special vinyl 7” release to benefit charity. Along with the original art, auction winners receive an exclusive clear-black-green swirl vinyl edition of “Our Work Is Done” b/w “Total Eclipse” signed by Superchunk. All auction proceeds benefit Bill McKibben’s 350.org and their initiatives to solve the climate crisis. To bid go HERE.
Bottom Up (Life and Death), 2018
Acrylic on paper
7 x 14 in (17.78 x 35.56 cm)
Courtesy of artist and Andrew Rafacz Gallery
Signed on verso
Chicago Characters Poster
Poster design for the Society of Typographical Arts “Chicago Character” show. They asked 30 chicago folks to do a poster for a letter in the alphabet that corresponds with the name of a person, company or idea from Chicago’s design history. I got the @ so mine was not about a specific person but about the role of social media in today’s design world. So lets try not to get sucked down the digital rabbit hole so much and let’s try to stay as human as possible.
The Jaunt
I recently had the opportunity to go on an amazing trip with The Jaunt to Finca Bellavista tree house community in Costa Rica. I’m back now and am starting to work on some screen prints inspired by the trip. To see more about my trip check HERE and to read more about The Jaunt and the trips they send artists on go HERE.
Photo: Jared Eberhardt
Chicago Characters Reception
A Brief & Incomplete History of Design in Chicago
Thursday, Nov 15, 6-8pm
theMART
222 West Merchandise Mart Plaza
2nd Floor, next to Marshall's Landing
FREE Admission, RSVP
Join us as we reveal a public art project with a focus on Chicago, design, and typography!
Posters by 30 talented Chicago designers, covering topics from A-Z and beyond, installed at Merchandise Mart!
Featuring work by:
Adé Hogue
Alicia Marquez
Bart Crosby
Ben Blount
Bud Rodecker
Carlos Segura
Cody Hudson
Dana Arnett
David Lee Csicsko
David Sieren
Eileen Tjan
Jackson Cavanaugh
Jenna Blazevich
Justin Ahrens
Kira Crugnale
Kyle Letendre
Lisa Armstrong
Liz Kanter
Marcia Lausen
Maria Grillo
Matthew Hoffman
Nick Adam
Renata Graw
Rick Valicenti
Shannon Downey
Sharon Oiga
Shelby Rodeffer
Tanner Woodford
Vida Sačić
Whitney Colley
Vote
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Quiet Life
Home of the Brave for Slowdown Studio
For more info go HERE.
Local Comfort
LVL3 is proud to present Local Comfort. Local Comfort is a group show featuring over 40 of Chicago’s key local players helping make the community what it is. Kicking off the gallery season highlighting the idea of home Local Comfort brings together work of many mediums to celebrate the diverse range of the makers who call Chicago home.
Featured Artists:
Leslie Baum | Joseph Belknap | Sarah Belknap | Robert Burnier | Jessica Campbell | Alex Chitty | Nora Chin | Diane Christiansen | Alex Bradley Cohen | Mel Cook | Dan Devening | Oscar I. Gonzalez Diaz | Stephen Eichhorn | Hope Esser | Whit Forrester | Alejandro Jimenez Flores | Joseph Grigely | Magalie Guerin | Molly Hewitt | Daniel Hojnacki | Zachary Hutchinson | Cody Hudson | Sam Jaffe | Annie Kielman | Dave Kruger | Anna Kunz | Chad Kouri | Tony Lewis | Ben Marcus | Jordan Martins | Liz McCarthy | Jeffly Gabriela Molina | Noel Morical | Christopher Meerdo | Roni Packer | Josue Pellot | Jason Pickelman | Cole Pierce | Dan Rizzo-Orr | Soo Shin | Adam Scott | Jenn Smith | Geoffrey Todd Smith | Edra Soto | Sabina Ott | Susan Pasowicz | Frances Roberts | Alex Scott | Tim Stone | Marcela Torres | Allison Wade | Cody Tumblin | Erin Washington | Derrick Woods-Morrow | Brittney Leeanne Williams
Opening Reception
Saturday 22 September 2018
6-10pm
Mixtapes for the Next Millennium
The ANNUAL: An Exhibition of New Chicago Art
Mixtapes for the Next Millennium
Curated by Jordan Martins
September 18 - 28, 2018
The ANNUAL is a yearly sales exhibition celebrating cutting-edge Chicago-based artists. Arranged by a guest curator, The ANNUAL creates an accessible forum for collectors to discover affordable new work and engage directly with its creators.
CAC is pleased to announce that Jordan Martins will curate this year's edition of The ANNUAL. His exhibition, Mixtapes for the Next Millennium, brings together a wide variety of studio practices and backgrounds into proximity with one another to encourage surprising synchronicities or points of overlap between them. The exhibition operates with two notions of the term “mixtape” in mind: 1) an informal compilation of songs that reflect different backgrounds and trans-genre jumps, and 2) the hip-hop use of the term to refer to more raw conjunctions of artists that allow for playful, experimental collaborations or tangents sprouting out of an artist’s more formal output. The freedom and spontaneity of the “mixtape” is embraced here in what kind of work is shown and how it is displayed, eschewing polite spacing between works on white walls for playful molecular combinations that explore how the works of different artists can more directly speak to one another.
Featuring:
Marzena Abrahamik
Kellie Romany
Cameron Harvey
ASMA (Matias Armendaris and Hanya Belia)
Jessica Labatte
Sonnenzimmer [Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher]
Marianne Fairbanks
Soo Shin
Brittney Leeanne Williams
John Opera
Claire Ashley
Deborah Handler
Dan Devening
Kaveri Raina
Cathy Hsiao
Daniel Hojnaki
Marissa Neumann
Damon Locks
Gina Hunt
Cody Hudson
Rodrigo Lara
Public Events
Opening Reception, Friday, September 21, 5-8pm
The ANNUAL Breakfast, Friday, September 28, 9-11am RSVP
All events take place at CAC, 2130 W. Fulton St.
15 Artists 30 Works at Mini Galerie
Mini Galerie is back after a long summer break with a large group exhibition featuring 15 Artists 30 Works. Among the fifteen artists will be a selection of those we have already worked with in the past, and artists whose work we very much appreciate at this moment. This eclectic exhibition – covering the walls of the gallery – will open on Friday the 7th of September, 18.00-21.00 h.
The line-up includes Thomas Trum, Janine van Oene, Olivier Vrancken, Matthew Allen, Jean Nagai, Cody Hudson, Stephen Smith, Jordy van den Nieuwendijk, Pablo Tomek, Louis Reith, Wasted Rita, Graphic Surgery, Michael Bennett, Kim David Bots and Koen Taselaar.
Would you like to request the preview catalogue? Please send an email to info@minigalerie.nl.
Quiet Life x Lonesome Rose
Worked on a little collection of goods with Drew Ryan at the Land and Sea Art Department for the Quiet Life x Lonesome Rose collection.
Library Street Collective at Ritz Carleton
Some recent works of mine placed in the Ritz Carleton Cleveland by Library Street Collective. The private collection includes work by Scott Reeder, Beverly Fishman, Paul Kremer, Holton Rower, Kelsey Brookes, Russell Tyler, Cody Hudson, and Adrian Falkner.
No. 808
New T-Shirt designs for the homies at No. 808 in Hawaii.
Louis Buhl & Co.
Louis Buhl added an artist page to the website. Excited to be in good company with the folks over there. check it out HERE.
more late night studies...
Seoul
Thinking back on the fun trip to Seoul to work on the RYSE hotel installation. Below is a photo by Chris Da Canha shot on film for Maekan.
