Around the Coyote Gallery, Caro d' Offay Gallery, David Leonardis Gallery, Gosia Koscielak Studio & Gallery, The Green Lantern Gallery, Johnsonese Gallery

Extended Gallery hours, special receptions and performances

Chicago, IL - The Wicker Park / Bucktown Gallery Association is holding a Second Saturday Gallery Walk on September 8th, 2007 from 6-10pm 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 W. North Ave.
2007 Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival Curator's Choice Exhibition
$10 or free with a Festival Pass
Exhibition closes October 27, 2007
aroundthecoyote.org, 773.342.6777

As part of the 18th annual Fall Around the Coyote Arts Festival, occurring all weekend long throughout Wicker Park and Bucktown, Shannon Stratton, director and chief curator of ThreeWalls, a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to emerging artists, has selected artworks for inclusion in the Curator's Choice Exhibition, a small group of work deemed "best of the fest" on view at the Around the Coyote Gallery October 11 until October 27. This artwork will be on silent auction throughout the festival weekend with 65% of all proceeds going to the artists and 35% of all proceeds going to support Around the Coyote's arts and education programming. Included in this year's Curator's Choice Exhibition are works by Lisa Lindvay, who, through her austere color photography portraits, explores the emotional and psychological currents and mythologies of family and domestic comfort. Stratton also chose work by Mara Baker. Baker recently relocated to Chicago after finishing her MFA at Cranbrook, but the strength of her process-oriented practice, which incorporates fibers, drawing, sculpture, and video will ensure a swift and solid transition into Chicago's emerging art scene. For the Curator's Choice Exhibition, Stratton chose Baker's Glycerin, black ink and pen on mylar drawing Precipitation, 2007.

Curator's Choice artists include: Craig Anderson, Agata Czeremuszkin, Mara Baker, Leah Hessler, Sophia Pichinos, Iwona Biederman, Lisa Lindvay, Austin Eddy, Sari Maxfield, and Robert Burnier. Don't miss these and other exciting up and coming artists, chosen by one of Chicago's most talented and respected curators!

2204 W North Avenue
The Colorist Chess: One Object. One Description. Many Interpretations
Opening Reception: October 13th, 2007 from 6-10pm
carodoffaygallery.com, 773.235.7400

Caro d'Offay Gallery will be converted into a platform for the live investigation of a specific text. Participants and institutions operating remotely from all over the globe (via the internet) will work to create a full spectrum of interpretations of this text. The project thrives on the interpretative successes and failures the participants have in expressing their point of view. Interpretations will only be as true to the original as the participants and their relationship to the text.

The Colorist Chess is an annual collaborative project at Caro d'Offay Gallery. This year's project will examine the physical manifestation of a mystery object concealed in a box. A written description of the object reduces it to basic attributes. Participants are invited to take a written description of the object and translate the mystery object back into a physical form. The Colorist Chess continues to invite venues and artists to participate up to the day of the construction of the object. Artists from all over the world are able to mail in objects and participate in an exhibit alongside the scaled up version of the object at the main platform. Work will be produced live and on-site for 3 days to a week. The exhibit closes December 8th.

1346 N Paulina St.
extended gallery hours October 13th, 2007 from 6-12am
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 land mark 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 October 13th 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. DLG River North will host a 2 person show for Mitchell Canoff and Steven Cerio on Friday October 5th from 6-midnight.

1646 N Bosworth Ave.
The Tools of Culture
Opening Reception: Friday, October 5th, 2007 from 5-10pm, with special appearance by Marcin Berdyszak
Extended gallery hours October 13, 2007 from 6-10pm
gosiakoscielak.com, 847.858.1540

This exhibition is a collaboration of three artists: Marcin Berdyszak (Poznan), Scott Kildall (San Francisco) and Patrick Lichty (Chicago/New Orleans) and is a part of the October Artists Month celebration Creative Alliances. These artists' work reflects on contemporary culture, technology, media, and its impact on how our identities are constructed. Views from different perspectives: European and American will create interesting dialogue of digital works, sculpture installations and objects examining the various ways we view our contemporary digital culture. The Tools of Culture is provoking questions of contemporary public and private space as well as of personal and national identity and location.

Marcin Berdyszak`s sculptural installation Constitution is created as a reconstruction of the room at his house in Poland filled with the United European symbols, creating space of contradictions between new and old realities in Europe. Scott Kildall's video/print installation, Uncertain Location, recreates a 1-minute segment from the original Apollo 11 moonwalk on Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Patrick Lichty, in Hacking Culture, tests technological culture's boundaries by looking for its "cracks", ironies, and taboos, meditating on its history, and playing in the liminal space between the physical and virtual worlds.

1511 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd Floor
At Six O'Clock We Eat
Opening reception: Friday, October 12, 2007 from 6:30-7:30pm
Listening Session: Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 1pm
Closing reception: Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 6pm
Extended gallery hours October 13, 2007 from 6-9pm
thegreenlantern.org, 773.266.4234

At Six O'Clock We Eat, curated by Jessica Maiorca, features selected works by patrons of Dignity Diner in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood, as well as oral history interviews with homeless men and women on Lower Wacker Drive. These homeless artists have attempted to document their unique perspectives on identity, urban life, and the creative process in tenuous, unstable, and often dangerous environments. The exhibit includes pieces by approximately 15 artists.

The artists involved in "At Six O'Clock We Eat" are, by their dint of extreme circumstances, solitary artists. Though the artists involved in At Six O'Clock We Eat live their lives in public, they have little space for community coordination on any matter beyond survival. In response, MGR Foundation volunteers and Dignity Diner artists have collaborated for the past year to develop works that reflect homeless artists' identities and the honest interactions between various elements of society normally beyond each other's purview. Jessica Maiorca is Director of CareTeam, a Chicago volunteer program whose mission is to create events that encourage interaction between their volunteers and the populations they serve. Jessica credits this exhibit to Kara Teeple of Dignity Diner, Hilary Marshall of StoryCorps, and everyone at MGRF who helped push this forward.

2149 W Armitage
Carl Corey: Habitat
Artist's reception: Saturday, October 27th from 7 to 9 pm
Extended gallery hours October 13, 2007 from 6-10pm
johnsonese.com, 773.252.8750

The Johnsonese Gallery is pleased to announce Carl Corey's Habitat from October 13th through November 17th, 2007. This solo photography show will feature images from both Corey's Habitat and Southeast Side series. His Southeast Side series holds particular interest for Chicagoans because of Corey's unique perspective on the city's aging industrial remnants.

Carl Corey is the recipient of over 100 awards from the advertising, design and photography communities, and is a veteran of assignment photography. Since 2000, Corey has directed his energy to more personal work, concentrating on social/aesthetic issues of the environment and landscape. Corey holds a BFA from Southern Illinois University. His monograph book, Rancher, was released earlier this year and features 64 of Corey's photographs over 112 pages.