John Neff Prints Robert Blanchon at Golden Gallery
Top 5 Exhibitions of 2011 John Neff, Golden Gallery Jeff Carter at Crown Hall Mark Booth, ADDS DONNA Dianna Frid, Devening Projects + Editions Crime Unseen, Museum of Contemporary Photography —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Painting Exhibitions of 2011 Andrew Holmquist, Carrie Secrist Gallery Michelle Bolinger, Northeastern Illinois University Art Gallery Elsa Muñoz, National Museum of Mexican Art John Henley, Slow gallery Luminous Ground: Artists With Histories, Illinois State Museum —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Photography Shows E•CO, Instituto Cervantes Sabina Cosic, Chicago Photography Center Jessie Seib, Alibi Fine Art Cornelia Hediger, Schneider Gallery Steven Bernas, ARC —Michael Weinstein
Top 5 Reinventions DePaul Art Museum Museum of Contemporary Art National Hellenic Museum Chicago Artists’ Coalition Linda Warren Gallery —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Art Windows The Whistler Art on Armitage Chris Garofalo’s studio on Ashland Monique Meloche gallery 202 South State Pop-up gallery —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 People and Places We’ll Miss He Said She Said Lanny Silverman as curator at the Chicago Cultural Center The MCA’s 12×12 emerging artist series Golden Age Matt Hanner —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 State-of-the-Art Exhibitions Twice Removed: A Survey of Take Away Work, Golden Age This is Paul Halupka, C33 Gallery The Happiness Project Blaque Lyte, Hyde Park Art Center BYOB, Kunsthalle New —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Chicago Art Scene Innovations The Dialogue at the MCA Community-Supported Art program by Three Walls Southside Hub of Production (SHoP), Hyde Park Good News Only Propeller Fund —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Hopes for Chicago’s Art World Dieter Roelstraete, Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Lisa Corrin, Director of the Block Museum Tony Karman’s new Exposition Chicago The newly merged Next Art Fair The Gray Center at the University of Chicago —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Art Debuts Vivian Maier MDW fair Noah Furman at Roxaboxen Exhibitions Dana Carter at Iceberg Projects Chris Bradley at Shane Campbell Gallery —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Art and Design Crossovers Write Now, Cultural Center Object Design League Dock 6 collective Calculated Aesthetic, Alderman We Are Here: Art and Design Out of Context, MCA —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Collaborations Barbara Kasten and Lucky Dragons ED JR Temporary Services at the Block Museum Jason Lazarus, “The Search” The Soviet Experience, a citywide collaboration —Jason Foumberg
