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June 7 to July 20, 2013

In Gallery 1+2 MARSHALL BROWN Center of the World, Chicago | info | images GALLERY TALK: Thursday, June 27, 6pm - Marshall Brown in discussion with Geof Oppenheimer | info

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Artist News:

Elijah BURGHER

• PUBLICATION: Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing. [hardcover]. Griffin, Jonathan (essay). Published by Phaidon.
• GROUP SHOW: Not only this, but 'New language beckons us.', Fales Library and Special Collections, NYU. Organized by Andrew Blackley for Visual AIDS. May 24—July 27, 2013
• SOLO BOOTH/ART FAIR: Volta NY, March 7-10. See here
• GROUP SHOW/Chicago, Drawer’s Drawing, curated by Carrie Gundersdorf and Eric Lebofsky, Julius Caesar and Peregrine Program, February 3 – March 3, 2013
• ARTICLE: Hyperallergic. Eler, Alicia. "Queer Art’s not Just About Gender — A Chicago Survey (Elijah Burgher)". November 15, 2012
• PUBLICATION: Elijah Burgher’s GAYHOUSE #5, Septembre éditions
• GROUP SHOW: All Good Things Become Wild and Free, Carthage College, Kenosha, Wis., Sept. 11-Nov. 17, 2012
• GROUP SHOW: The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics. Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL. August 25–November 10 | Review: New City.

Lilli CARRÉ

• FILM SCREENING, "Like a Lantern", Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan. March 19-24
• GROUP SHOW/Chicago, Drawer’s Drawing, curated by Carrie Gundersdorf and Eric Lebofsky, Julius Caesar and Peregrine Program, February 3 – March 3, 2013
• ARTICLE: Chicago Tribune. Borrelli, Christopher. "Pinning down Chicago artist Lilli Carre". December 10, 2012
• 2-PERSON SHOW , "Where'd I Leave the Thing Itself" featuring the work of Lilli Carré and Alexander Stewart, November 30, 2012 to January 5, 2013
• SOLO SHOW: Lips and Crumbs. Desert Island, Brooklyn, NY
• GROUP SHOW: "Twelve Galleries Project presents Quarterly Site #12: EPIC SOMETHING". Hyde Park Art Center. November 18, 2012 – February 24, 2013
• GROUP SHOW: Afterimage, Depaul Museum of Art, Chicago, September 13 – November 15, 2012

Ryan Travis CHRISTIAN

• MUSEUM SHOW (solo). "Ryan Travis Christian—Well, Here We Aren't Again". CAM Ralaeigh, North Carolina. February 22, 2013 – June 17, 2013
• REVIEW. Associated Press . Breed, Allen. "In Artist's Show, Creation Merges With Destruction." (Ryan Travis Christian). February 22, 201
• VIDEO. Associated Press. "Art, an Act of Creation, Can Involve Destruction.(video)" (Ryan Travis Christian). February 22, 2013
• REVIEW. Indy Week. Vitiello, Chris. "At CAM Raleigh, flattened raindrops and googly eyes" (Ryan Travis Christian). March 6, 2013
• ARTICLE: ION Magazine. Khan, Aleeza. "Ones to Watch | Ryan Travis Christian". December 28, 2012
• ARTICLE: New City. "Art 50: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists". September 19, 2012

Nicholas FRANK

• SOLO SHOW: ""Peregrine was great...", Peregrine Projects. Chicago, IL. May 5 to June 16, 2013
• GROUP SHOW: 19516 kilometers from Milwaukee or 12126 miles, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
• SOLO SHOW: The Secret Choreographer: For Lost Walls (After Brätsch & UB) with NICHOLAS FRANK. Western Exhibitions. October 27 to December 8, 2012
• LECTURE. Bodies of Work (A Comprehensive Overview), with Patricia Rose. Saturday, November 17 at 6pm
• SOLO SHOW: The Secret Choreographer: Atopical Bandaids (After Calabrese), The John Riepenhoff Experience at Pepin Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, 7 July – 11 August 2012
• INTERVIEW: MKE <-> LAX." Interview with Nicholas Frank". July 2012
• REVIEW, Third Coast Digest. Moriarity, Judith Ann. "We’re in this Together: “Spiraling Jete (Up)” at Green Gallery East". April 2, 2012
• SOLO SHOW: "Spiraling Jeté (Down)", Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
• REVIEW, Indyweek. White, Amy, "Nicholas Frank takes a flying leap into self-mythology at Lump". Durham, NC, March 14, 2012
• SOLO SHOW: "Spiraling Jeté (Up)" at The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, March 9 - April 15, 2012

Richard HULL

• SOLO SHOW/St. Louis, Bruno David Gallery, March 1 to 30, 2013
• PERFORMANCE: Richard Hull with Ken Vandermark quintet. DePaul Art Museum. October 10, 2012
• REVIEW: ArtSlant. Chester, Alicia. "Afterimage". September 18, 2012
• GROUP SHOW: Afterimage, Depaul Museum of Art, Chicago, September 13 – November 15, 2012
• PUBLICATION: New American Paintings, NAP #101 Midwest Competition

Dutes MILLER

• SOLO SHOW: "In the Garden". Western Exhibitions. December 14, 2012 to January 26, 2013
• REVIEW: artforum.com. Eler, Alicia. "Critic's Pick: Dutes Miller". January 14, 2103
• REVIEW: Huffington Post. "Artist Dutes Miller's 'In The Garden' Exhibition Imagines If Homosexuality Was The Norm". January 5, 2013
• ARTICLE: Chicago Reader. Nardi, Sarah. "It's a garden but that's no snake". (Dutes Miller). December 14, 2012

MILLER & SHELLABARGER

• PERFORMANCE: "Untitled (Crochet)", Polish Triangle (Ashland/Division/Milwaukee), Chicago. Rapid Pulse International Performance Festival.
• REVIEW: Orlando Weekly. Young, Jessica Bryce. "The Mysterious Content of Softness (Miller & Shellabarger)". October 31, 2012
• ARTICLE: Chicago Tribune Magazine. Daley, Bill. “The Art of Home”. Fall 2012
• GROUP SHOW:The Mysterious Content of Softness. Cornell Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL. September 15 - December 30, 2012
• INTERVIEW: Exploring Human Relationships: A Dialogue with Miller & Shellabarger, Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 by Danielle Jackson
• SOLO SHOW: "Miller & Shellabarger: Hiding in the Light", Institute of Visual Art, Milwaukee, WI, April 20-July 15, 2012. Images | Press: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | The Sherperd Express | Wisconsin Gazette

Rachel NIFFENEGGER

• SOLO SHOW: "Veiled Epigrams", CLUB MIDNIGHT, Berlin, April 25 - June 29, 2013
• MUSEUM SHOW (group): Physical and Virtual Bodies - ...in the name of any signification whatever Curated by Kris Dittel and Stephanie Seidel
  Museum for Modern Art in Arnhem, The Netherlands
• GROUP SHOW/Chicago: Psychosexual: An exploration of the abstracted gesture, curated by Scott Hunter, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, April 6 – May 25, 2013
• GROUP SHOW/NYC: Hoochie Coochie Man, Tracy Williams, LTD, New York, NY
• GROUP SHOW: Limbodrome. De Ateliers. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• GROUP SHOW: Power of Consumption. Club Midnight, Berlin, Sept. 16 to October 20, 2012 | images
• GROUP SHOW: Ground Floor, Hyde Park Art Center, August 19, 2012 – November 11, 2012 | Review: Chicago Tribune
• RESIDENCY: DE ATELIERS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. September 2012 to May 2013
• PUBLICATION: New American Paintings, NAP #101 Midwest Competition

Paul NUDD

• ARTICLE: Art in Print. Ishmael, Amelia. "Onsmith & Nudd". March-April 2013, Volume 2, Number 6
• LECTURE. "Artists Connect: Paul Nudd connects with Ivan Albright". Art Institute of Chicago. December 1, 2pm
• SOLO SHOW: Bourouina Gallery, Berlin, Germany, Fall 2012
• ARTICLE: Featured Artist, Proximity Magazine. Spring 2012. V.2, Number 009. Pages 102-109
• CURATORIAL: Curated show (with Onsmith), "Eat Before We Eat You", Moprho Pop-Up Gallery, Article, art ltd. Opening Reception: Saturday June 16, 6 – 8 PM
• ARTICLE: art ltd. Yood, James. "The Chicago Attitude". (Paul Nudd). Mar/Apr 2012

Stan SHELLABARGER

• GROUP SHOW: Falling Through Space Drawn by the Line, UB Galleries, University of Buffalo, New York, Sep 20 - Dec 8 2012
• ARTICLE: The Girl Who Knew Too Much. Coleman, Caryn. "Sinister walls: representation and repetition" (Stan Shellabarger). October 8, 2012
• GROUP SHOW: "Paper", the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Nice, France, June 30 to September 30, 2012
• ARTICLE: New American Paintings Blog. Smith, Matthew. "The Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair at BMA". May 2, 2012

Geoffrey Todd SMITH

• GROUP SHOW: Matt Irie and Geoffrey Todd Smith, Northeastern Illinois University Galleries, Chicago, IL  2013
• SOLO SHOW:LOOKER, Western Exhibitions, September 7 to October 20, 2012 | press: NAP | The Seen | Flavorpill | 60 Inches from Center
• GROUP SHOW: Afterimage, Depaul Museum of Art, Chicago, September 13 – November 15, 2012
• INTERVIEW: Make Space. Judd, Jason. "Other Investigations: Geoffrey Todd Smith". May 17, 2012
• GROUP SHOW:"The John Riepenhoff Experience presents RTC Collaborates". Pepin Moore. May 26 to June 30, 2012

Deb SOKOLOW

• PUBLICATION: Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing. [hardcover]. Published by Phaidon.
• MUSEUM SHOW (solo). MATRIX 166: Some concerns about the candidate. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. February 7 – June 30, 2013
• REVIEW: New York Times. Schwendener, Martha. "An Installation of Dirty Politics and Illusion" (review, Deb Sokolow). March 8, 2013
• REVIEW. Hartford Courant. Dunne, Susan. "Atheneum Showcases Art Of Politcal Paranoia: MATRIX Gallery Exhibits Deb Sokolow's Some Concerns About the Candidate." February 7, 2013
• SOLO SHOW/Chicago. Deb Sokolow. March 15 to April 20.
• ARTICLE: Art Ltd. Yood, James. "Critic's Picks: Chicago (Deb Sokolow)". March 2013
• INTERVIEW. Holland, Richard. Bad at Sports. March 15, 2013
• GROUP SHOW/NYC. How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man,’ Invisible-Exports. February 1 to March 10, 2013
• REVIEW. artforum.com. Lee, Nathaniel. "How I Wrote Elastic Man". March 7, 2013
• GRANT: ARTADIA: The Fund for Art and Dialogue| Article: Gallerist NY