RECOMMENDED Several artists try to convey our ever-changing world by mixing historical and fictional events. Walls are labeled with titles “Climax Crisis” “Ice Caps Melt,” and “Tomorrow the World” as red tape links the different “periods” creating a sort of timeline or channel from each artist’s work. Absorbing history, science and religion, artists try to define the past and future. In “Tower of Tongues,” sketched photos of children are mutated, playing with gender roles. Carla Gannis’ “The Intelligent Design Circus” constructs a blown-up photo of people watching a circus while a man holds a cord attached to a mechanical naked woman. Michael Zansky uses real maps of military infantry and puts grotesque images over them. Visual art is omnipresent beginning with Kristin Anderson’s “You are What You Do.” Occupational titles displayed underneath photos of a prosaic man and woman change every few seconds. Gerhard Mentz, Ellen Sandor and Chris Kemp produce trance-inducing hologram spheres and scenic scenes of palm trees on an untainted island. Catherine Forster’s puts filmed footage of nature in boxes with sound effects and blurs magnified photos of tree leaves. Impossible to describe, “Intelligent Design” is cerebral and challenging filled with many details and observations. (Garin Pirnia) Through November 24 at KASIA KAY
For Us: A Review of "Something from Something" at Engage Projects Kushala Vora and Adia Sykes’ collaboration "Something from Something" tells us as viewers that knowledge, art, creation, inspiration, love—really anything you can think of—has a place of origin.
Women Behind the Lens: A Review of "From Her to Eternity" Courtney Love curates on the street. Just west of Wabash on the corner of Eighth Street, there is a wall of stellar rock star images that includes a special collection made by women photographers over the years.
Looking Down: A Review of Bob Tanner at Perspective After the loss of his wife, Bob Tanner made two photography series, “At Ocean’s Edge” and “At Winter’s Edge,” that are shown in this meditative show filled with graceful visual poetry.
