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Bridgeport
Bridgeport is one of Chicago’s “up-and-coming” neighborhoods. New foodie havens, a booming arts scene, and hopping nightlife beckon twenty-somethings and art types from across the city. While it is certifiably hip, Bridgeport feels strangely isolated from its surrounding communities in terms of geography and character, which gives it a quirky, organic hometown vibe. »
Home on the Range
Friday night’s opening of “Riders,” Co-Prosperity Sphere’s latest installation, felt a little bit like a family reunion for the family you probably never had. The exhibition focuses on how the beauty of Mexican ranch life can be simultaneously maintained and reinvented in new spaces—from Mexico to Indiana to the white walls of this Chicago... »
Mark My Words
Typeforce 2, which opened last Friday at Bridgeport’s Co-Prosperity Sphere, makes a strong case for Chicago’s place as the second city of typographic design. »
A magazine called desire
“Free whiskey’s over there, and the sex magazine is in the corner,” said the Alan-Rickman-as-Snape look-alike taking tickets, as we entered the Co-Prosperity Sphere for the release party of Lumpen’s ’95 sex magazine. »
Awkward Moments
Appearing in multiples, the bodies inhabit bizarre surrealistic landscapes. They seem to wander headless around the canvas, searching for something concrete. But the naked, often distorted figures don’t provide any answers. These topsy-turvy scenes are Tom Torluemke’s creations, now on display at the Co-Prosperity Sphere in Bridgeport. If you decide to see Torluemke’s exhibition,... »
Exploring Version Territory: The Co-Prosperity Sphere hosts Bridgeport’s annual art festival
“Every year we have the same intention. We want to widen the networks and nodes of various groups so we can grow a multiplicity of milieus in the art world,” explains Ed “Edmar” Marszewski. He’s talking about the Version Festival, an annual eleven-day arts festival that he founded and co-curates, which celebrates social and... »
In Dialogue: Artists from Denver and Iran collaborate across borders
In the United States, the prevailing notion of Iran is one of religious fundamentalism and political oppression. “Iran” conjures up images of veiled women, state-sponsored terrorism, and nuclear weapons; rarely is it connected with contemporary art. “Dialogue,” a new exhibition of collaborative U.S.-Iranian art, opens January 29 at the Co-Prosperity Sphere in Bridgeport. The... »
Where art meets life
Lines are being blurred in the Chicago art scene. As demonstrated by last Saturday’s Artist Run Spaces Tour, organized by the Hyde Park Art Center, the divisions between artist and curator, studio and gallery, office and home really aren’t so defined after all. The Artist Run Spaces Tour represents HPAC’s contribution to the year-long... »
