AllRise Gallery, Around the Coyote Gallery, Caro d' Offay Gallery, David Leonardis Gallery, Johnsonese Gallery, Rotofugi

Extended Gallery hours, special receptions and performances

Chicago, IL - The Wicker Park / Bucktown Gallery Association is holding a Second Saturday Gallery Walk on December 8, 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. This month, iGo shuttle cars will pick-up at the Around the Coyote Gallery (1935-1/2 W. North Avenue) at 6, 7, 8 and 9 pm then rotate to all other galleries. The final drop-off at Around the Coyote Gallery will be 10 pm. The drivers will announce themselves at each gallery, making it easy to jump on the shuttle!

Look for our ads in New City and the Chicago Life insert in the New York Times!
Also featured in Crain's 10 things to do this weekend

1542 N. Milwaukee Ave 3rd Floor
The Return of Something Not So Vague
allrisegallery.com, 773.292.9255

A group show with screenprinter JASON CANTORO (montreal), graphic artist MATTHEW HOFFMAN (chicago) illustrator IAN ETTER (chicago), and visual artist SEBASTIEN LAPOINTE (montreal). This exhibition closes December 23, 2007.

1935 1/2 W. North Ave.
Multiples & Miniatures: Mapping
Exhibition closes December 22, 2007
aroundthecoyote.org, 773.342.6777

Around the Coyote is pleased to present its annual Multiples & Miniatures art exhibition of small and manifold artwork by artists working in a variety of media. This year, as part of the city-wide Festival of Maps, the Multiple & Miniatures exhibition will focus on artists working with maps and themes of mapping. This is the art of fine details and the art found in the complexity of a thing changing over time: the art of series, of late nights with the magnifying glass, the art of subtle variation. This is the art of memories kept in a locket and worn around the neck: art that may be easy to miss, but should not be overlooked. All work in this exhibition deals with concepts of mapping the self, memory, and personal geography.

Exhibiting artists include: Malic Amalya (Chicago), Tobias Becker (Champaign), Hope Dector (Brooklyn), Tatiana Flis (Chicago), Janice Hobson (Chicago), Lindsey Hook (Chicago), Bettina Johae (Brooklyn), Chido Johnson (Detroit), Judith Mullen (Chicago), Janel Rouge (Chicago), Michael x. Ryan (Chicago), Gina Rymarcsuk (Milwaukee), Mark A. Smith (Chicago).

In conjunction with the Multiples & Miniatures exhibition, Around the Coyote presents Naughty or Vice, a series of original monologues exploring the darker side of the winter holidays December 7-9 at 7pm. Written and performed by Margot Bordelon, Kim Morris, J. Adams Oaks, and Will Rogers, monologues range from the adventures of holiday car theft, to a desperate search for a turkey dinner while in Spain. These delightfully acerbic pieces take an unapologetic look at the year's most magnified holiday.

2204 W North Avenue
Textaport: Teleportation Through Text
Closing party from 6-10pm
carodoffaygallery.com, 773.235.7400

Textaportation is a process by which an object is described by any person using his or her facilities of observation and explanation [the object is dissolved into text], followed by a material rendering of the description by an artist using his or her facilities to interpret and fabricate [the object is reconstituted into material]. The described objects may be works of art themselves, or objects of everyday use, for example a bottle of soap or a painting by Manet. The objects created based on the descriptions may be drawings, paintings or sculptures. A bi-weekly series of textaportations took place in the fall of 2007 at Caro D'Offay Gallery and will conclude on December 8. Both texts and resulting artworks will be on display. Textaportation is a highly individual process that disrupts habits of perception in the hope to engage the mind and the senses in fresh and surprising ways.

On December 8, 2007, between 6-10pm Textaportation comes to an end highlighting 4 artists. Text writer and painter Johanna Silva (MFA School of the Art Institute) whose work will be on display in gallery B, which are accompanied by paintings produced by her texts, Fiber artist Danny Mansmith's Textaported gloves in gallery A and 2 guest artists who interpret this year's process. Adelheid Mers and Keith Brown will close the Textaportation exhibition at Caro d'Offay Gallery with an engaging spatial interpretation/discussion of this year's textaported objects. They will join with curator Caro d'Offay, to discuss, define and diagram the galleries relationships to the world around it.

1346 N Paulina St.
extended gallery hours D 13th, 2007 from 6-12am
www.DLG-gallery.com, 773.278.3058

Howard Finster - Folk Art - paintings and serigraphs-Georgia
Chris Peldo - Pop Art blended with Abstract Expressionism-Paintings - Chicago
Marc Hauser - Celebrity and Fine Art Photography - Chicago
Walter Fydryck - Portraits using paint infused into plexi glass - Chicago
Andy Kane - Very artistic statements on today's society - Painter - NYC
Michel Balasis - Pop paintings with an attitude -Chicago
Miro - New POP paintings - Czech Republic
Herb Nolan - The 1970-s best Rock, Jazz and Blues photos - Chicago
Christopher Makos - Andy Warhol's most sensitive photo shoot - NYC
Bill Eaton - Painterly Space ships - Chicago
Kristen Thiele - Classical paintings with Dogs and Cats - Florida
Mitch Canoff - Fantastic celebrity and Rock and Roll Photos - Chicago
Lea Pinsky - Awesome Paintings on wood of Wonder Woman - Chicago
David DeRosa - West Coast Pop Art - Chicago
Steven Cerio - The Residents psychedelic artist- NYC
Rita Akao - Pop Art - Nevada
Mike Winn - Cool robot Paintings - Chicago

2149 W Armitage
David Kupferman Takes Chicago
Artists reception December 8, 2007 from 6-10pm
johnsonese.com, 773.252.8750

The Johnsonese Gallery is pleased to announce "David Kupferman Takes Chicago": November 23 - December 29, 2007. This event will be the first Chicago solo show for nationally recognized abstract expressionist painter David Kupferman.

Kupferman's work is included in a dozen museum collections and numerous private and corporate collections. Corporate collections in Chicago include the Federal Reserve Bank and Harris Bank. He has had over 25 solo shows and is the recipient of grants from several foundations, including Pollack-Krasner, Adolph & Ester Gottlieb and Robert Rauschenberg's Change. Kupferman's work is a unique fusion of Eastern and Western aesthetics, of luminous landscapes and lyrical abstracts that deal with transcendence and light. An artist's reception for David Kupferman will be held Saturday December 8th from 6 to 10 pm.

1952 W. Chicago
Fantasy Cryland: New Works by Travis Lampe
Opening Friday, December 7, 7-10pm
Extended Gallery Hours Saturday, December 8, 6-10pm
Free snacks and sodas.
rotofugi.com, 312.491.9501

Hot off his successful showings in the Blab! group shows and his inclusion in "American Illustration #26," Chicago-based artist Travis Lampe hits our little gallery with a solo show exploring the sadder side of dreams. For those unfamiliar with Travis' work, think whimsical 1930's style cartoon illustration, but with a slightly sinister twist and a beautiful muted color palette. Exhibit ends December 29.