Around the Coyote Gallery, Blake Palmer Gallery, Caro d'Offay Gallery, David Leonardis Gallery Wicker Park, Gosia Koscielak Studio & Gallery, Johnsonese Gallery, Lloyd Dobler Gallery, The Splat Flats and Th!nkArt

Extended Gallery hours, special receptions and performances

Chicago, IL - The Wicker Park / Bucktown Gallery Association is holding a Second Saturday Gallery Walk on June 9, 2007 from 6-10 pm at multiple venues throughout Wicker Park and Bucktown. The WPBGA is an organization of galleries in the Wicker Park and Bucktown neighborhood (roughly defined with the southern border at Division, the northern border at Fullerton, the western border at Western, and the eastern border at the Chicago River).

The WPBGA works to promote Wicker Park and Bucktown as a visual arts destination for collectors and art world professionals, while actively working to attract new galleries to the neighborhood. WPBGA promotes the artists and programs of its members through advertising, public programs, and collaborative events.

WPBGA will have a free shuttle service provided by our sponsor iGo Car Sharing for all those not into the "walking" part of the Gallery Walk or for those who just don't have a lot of time, but want to see all the galleries. Two cars will stop approximately every 15 minutes at each of the galleries participating in the Gallery Walk offering to shuttle patrons on to the next gallery. The drivers will announce themselves at each gallery, making it easy to jump on the shuttle!

1935 ½ W. North Ave.
Reading the Remains
Extended hours June 9, 2007 from 6-10pm
aroundthecoyote.org, 773.342.6777

Around the Coyote and the School of the Art Institute are pleased to announce Reading the Remains, the first ever exhibition of graduates from the School of the Art Institute's Visual and Critical Studies Department. SAIC's new Masters program is designed for students interested in the scholarly and creative investigation of the production, dissemination, and impact of visual images, objects, experiences, and practices.

For this exhibition each artist weaves processes of making, seeing, writing, criticism, theory, history, and politics into his or her own hybrid practice. These explorations work to achieve recuperative analyses of how past and future remains fall apart and reform. By experiencing these disintegrating pieces transformed into images, language and feeling, there is hope that we become present and attentive -- even if only for a moment -- to the potential for change. Exhibiting artists are Dakota Brown, Ismiaji Cahyono, Mayi Carles, Sarah Jane Mallin, Julia Marsh, Kelly Mullendore, Ann Pandjiris, Michelle Sciumbato, and Garland Taylor.

1656 N. Bosworth Ave.
Fandango
Extended hours June 9 from 6-10pm
blakepalmergallery.com, 773.384.4142

Blake Palmer Gallery presents artists Chadwick, William Alexander, Navarro Tadeo and other Chicago area artists and sculptors in our group show Fandango.

2204 W North Avenue
Kelan Phil Cohran: Music Event
Performance June 9, 2007 from 7-8pm and 9-10pm
carodoffaygallery.com, 773.235.7400

Caro d'Offay Gallery and Sol Cyrans Innernational present enlightening performances by legendary jazz musician, Kelan Phil Cohran. During his performance the audience will find themselves surrounded by two current exhibits at the gallery. Though they are three distinctly separate voices, all three artists' works (Music, Painting and Drawing) share the common desire to capture the honesty of the moment. Music, overhead projector images and words by Kelan Phil Cohran, paintings by Katy Keefe, and drawings by Benjamin Marcus.

Doors will lock promptly on the hour as each set begins. Please come early. Tickets are non-refundable. Any extra tickets will be sold at the door. Tickets are $20 at Gallery.

1346 N Paulina St.
June Group Show
Extended hours June 9, 2007 from 6-12pm
www.DLG-gallery.com, 773.278.3058

David Leonardis Gallery has been a leader in the Wicker Park Bucktown Gallery District for fifteen years and a landmark for Contemporary, POP, Folk Art, and Photography. DLG Wicker Park will be presenting an exciting group show for the WPBGA Second Saturday Gallery Walk on June 9 including works by: Howard Finster, Miro, Christopher Makos, Joe Pellegrini, Rita Akao, Mike Winn, Michel Balasis, Herb Nolan, Marc Hauser, Andy Kane, Bill Eaton, Mitch Canoff and Chris Peldo.

With the September 2006 addition of DLG River North, the David Leonardis Gallery has been able to reach an even broader demographic of art lovers. Please stop by and see us at 217 W. Huron St. #5, Mon - Fri 12-5:30pm and Sat 12-4pm. Or give us a call at 312-863-9045.

1646 N Bosworth Ave.
In/Out of Context: New Paintings by Fern Valfer
Extended hours June 9, 2007 from 6-10pm
gosiakoscielak.com, 847.858.1540

Fern Valfer: In/Out of Context is a part of TRANSCULTURAL, an ongoing curatorial project initially conceived of by Gosia Koscielak in 2000. TRANSCULTURAL focuses on perceptions of identity and culture, and how shifts in historical perspectives affect such perceptions.

For this solo exhibition, In/Out of Context, Fern Valfer created a series of paintings that operate around vibrating rhythmical areas of color and which speak to the movement of time and space through a dynamic composition of shapes, patterns and lines. Valfer's references to landscape, sign and symbol are very intimate and spiritual and speak to her personal and familial voyage from Europe to America. Most specifically, paintings such as Script, Origin and Back to Barcelona convey the artist's relationship with her unique, private history back to her family roots in Spain.

2149 W Armitage
Craftsmanly Conceptualism
Closing Reception hours June 9, 2007 from 6-10pm
johnsonese.com, 773.252.8750

Our group show Craftsmanly Conceptualism features the work of artists who push the borders of conceptualism while still demonstrating professional technique.

This amazing group of artists includes Thomas Schmidt who is featured as an emerging artist in this month's 'Ceramics Monthly', Shencheng Xu whose sculptures have been selected for the 'Lincoln Park Community Art Initiative' for four years running, Kariann Fuqua who recently completed a major public commission for the expansion of McCormick Place, Stephanie Dean whose photographs were selected for the Cook County Treasurer's 2007 Women's History Month exhibit, Jeremy Ehly whose photographs have recently been added to corporate collections both in Chicago and Boston, Carl Corey whose first book of photographs was just published and David Kupferman who has work in the permanent collections of a dozen art museums.

1545 W Division, 2nd Floor
While Here In This Place
Extended hours June 9, 2007 from 6-10pm
lloyddoblergallery.com, 312.961.8706

Lloyd Dobler Gallery continuing group show is While Here In This Place. The artists included are Justin Berry, Natalia Ivancevich, and Cynthia Muir and are all working with the medium of paper as sculpture. Justin Berry is in the first year of the MFA program at the School of the Art Institute. He takes a first hand approach in his studio practice with paper installations made specifically for individual spaces. He will be creating a unique piece that will cease to exist after the show concludes.

Natalia Ivancevich works with large paper installations, using back lighting as means for definition. She layers the paper cut outs to create depth, and will be embarking on a large installation that continues through the wall at Lloyd Dobler. Transition plays a large part in Cynthia Muir's work. Her piece is the most interactive of the three. In her work, she creates what she calls a "garden". The viewers are allowed to walk through the garden, changing the path as they go, making their own choices as the loose paper will move around, and changing the next people's paths that they will then take.

1815 W Division
LumbArt
Summer arts festival June 9, 2007 from 3-10pm
thesplatflats.com

The artists of The Splat Flats will be showing off their works and wares at their second annual summer arts festival, LumbArt. This free event will take place outside in L. Miller & Son's lumber yard and inside Miller's lumber warehouse, at 1815-25 W. Division Street; entrance will be through the gate on Honoree.

LumbArt will feature visual art by Jeremiah Ketner, Nadine Nakanishi, Aliza Morell, Chelsea Wagner, Sarah Houle, Kathryn Rodrigues, Danya Elbaridi, Robert McDade, Natalia Ivancevich, Alysia Kaplan, Annie Stone, Rebecca Beachy, Nicolette Bond, Susan Tusa, Kathleen Bolin, Ben Murphy, Jeremy Thompson, Michelle Graves, Cassie Stadnicki, and Annie Siffermann. The visual art is curated by Valerie Pell and Chelsea Wagner. LumbArt will also feature live music curated by Ben Murphy, poetry and fiction readings curated by Dave Snyder and Valerie Pell, and film screenings curated by Angela Mobley and Chris Royalty.

1530 North Paulina, Suite F
7even
An Aparte June 9, 2007 from 5-9 pm
773.252.8672

7even is an Aparte featuring works on paper by Emmanuelle Renard, David Gista, Fred Kleinberg, Michael Haas, James Coignard, Thomas Masters, and Pierre Marie Brisson. Special guest artists Emmanuelle Renard and Fred Kleinberg will be attending Aparte. ThinkArt is an international art salon featuring famous and emerging artists both locally and from around the world.