tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22030077933391256752024-03-13T14:10:11.383-07:00Eastern ExpansionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2203007793339125675.post-25740513514120313382011-10-05T19:20:00.000-07:002011-10-13T14:16:19.567-07:00Thad Kellstadt: This House Ain’t a Home<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7kSpcjw7y6Q/TpdUhTlwFTI/AAAAAAAABMo/IXKhbjXZFvE/s1600/thad.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 391px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7kSpcjw7y6Q/TpdUhTlwFTI/AAAAAAAABMo/IXKhbjXZFvE/s400/thad.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663087987612718386" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br />Thad Kellstadt: This House Ain’t a Home</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Opening October 21, 6-9pm</span><br />244 W 31st Street<br />through December 1, 2011<br /><br /><br />Behind the wall, up in the ceiling and under the floor is an absurd landscape. Silent and out of view, this hidden support network waits, slowly transforming banal materiality into new substances.<br /><br />The multimedia installation, <span style="font-weight: bold;">This House Ain’t a Home</span>, imagines possible interior<br />lives of objects and materials.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Kellstadt was born in rural Ohio in 1977.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">He works in a variety of mediums from painting to video. His influences range</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> from custom van culture to psychedelia to science fiction.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Kellstadt has shown nationally and internationally at Space 1026 in Philadelphia,</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> Lump Gallery in Raleigh, Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago, Alice Gallery in</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> Brussels, Cell Project Space in London and PDX Film Festival in Portland, OR.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Kellstadt lives and works in Chicago, IL. He has exhibited at various locations</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> such as Lump Gallery in Raleigh, Art Brussels, Space 1026 in Philadelphia and</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> Cell Project Space in London.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2203007793339125675.post-65613292578206830632011-08-09T12:05:00.000-07:002011-08-09T12:17:54.803-07:00Jolt: Janice Trecker<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TxjpJ65rexs/TkGHqJzZrQI/AAAAAAAAA9E/glQA2o_6zCU/s1600/Picture%2B3.png"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 305px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TxjpJ65rexs/TkGHqJzZrQI/AAAAAAAAA9E/glQA2o_6zCU/s400/Picture%2B3.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638937366700338434" border="0" /></a>
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<br />Eastern Expansion is pleased to present paintings by Janice Trecker.
<br />August 12- September 12, 2011
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<br />Opening reception Friday, August 12, 7-9pm
<br />Complementary beverages and snacks served.
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<br />"Most of my paintings reflect people and things I have seen. Although they are rarely painted from life, they are almost always collected from life, via the sketchbooks that I carry, especially to sporting events with my husband, Jerry, a sportswriter.
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<br />As a result, I produce a wide range of images, from portraits to fans at sports venues to museum puppets, that all have one thing in common: each emerged out of the daily flux of images to form a picture that suggested some of the radiance, energy and mystery of everyday life. To capture those things is my sole ambition.
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<br />My work is representational but very far from photographic, and the paintings are often exaggerated in both form and color in an attempt to capture the rhythms of the subject. I am especially fond of festive occasions and people in costume, especially children who see the wonderful weirdness of life, as well as musicians and theater people at work."
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2203007793339125675.post-35191378070488469392011-04-28T12:34:00.000-07:002011-04-28T12:37:12.208-07:00Bill Talsma : Things That Are Longing To Appear<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dOJWcl5KSfU/TbnBlKXKsII/AAAAAAAAAvM/DHyRcW_3PNg/s1600/talsma-longing2-533x400.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dOJWcl5KSfU/TbnBlKXKsII/AAAAAAAAAvM/DHyRcW_3PNg/s400/talsma-longing2-533x400.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600720455792767106" border="0" /></a><br /><p class="style46"><strong><span class="style54"><br />Things That Are Longing To Appear</span><em><br />Eastern Expansion (244 W 31st St.)<br />Opening May 1, 2011<br />6-9pm </em></strong><br /><strong><br />Admission: Free<br /></strong></p> <p class="style46">“Things That Are Longing To Appear” is a storefront installation / window display by artist Bill Talsma that consists of six modified ‘open & closed’ signs presented at 244 W. 31st Street in Chicago. These signs—the kind usually displayed at small businesses—have been redesigned, rewritten and combined together to form a master sentence that spans the 6 objects. Subsequently, thoughts about the reappearance of things as reproduction are simultaneously woven across the signs (and through the master sentence) with smaller, prefabricated marquee-style letters.</p><p class="style46"><br /></p><p class="style46">As part of <a href="http://www.versionfest.org">Version 11: The Community</a><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2203007793339125675.post-71990479172574553502011-02-16T11:10:00.000-08:002011-02-16T11:12:25.782-08:00Jordan Martins Strange Attractions<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tg76AzZMqMA/TVwhj043wgI/AAAAAAAAAvA/uvSNWPXXJPI/s1600/studioPosters%2B004WEB.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 239px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tg76AzZMqMA/TVwhj043wgI/AAAAAAAAAvA/uvSNWPXXJPI/s400/studioPosters%2B004WEB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574367338154148354" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Opening February 18, 2011 6-9pm<br /><br /><strong><span class="il">Jordan</span> Martins<br />Strange Attractions</strong><br />Eastern Expansion<br />244 W 31st Street<br /><br />Strange Attractions is a window installation that continues to explore <span class="il">Jordan</span>'s interest in Chicago-specific tradition of hand-painted, block-letter grocery signs which have come to be associated with Hispanic markets. As in previous installations with this source material, <span class="il">Jordan</span> constructs patterns that simultaneously attract (through expressive gestures and fluorescent colors) and conceal (by extracting the rhythmic patterns from any content). In this sense he see's them relating both to natural camouflage and bright plumage used by animals to attract mates, or broader notions of visual stimuli to affect or sculpt behaviour.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2203007793339125675.post-7319239948641315722010-12-05T22:34:00.000-08:002010-12-05T22:50:12.471-08:00Emily Clayton @ Eastern Expansion<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/TPyGxGWNHrI/AAAAAAAAAuo/FHDAsQpT2lU/s1600/162962_10150093924780943_641755942_7760768_1220708_n.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/TPyGxGWNHrI/AAAAAAAAAuo/FHDAsQpT2lU/s400/162962_10150093924780943_641755942_7760768_1220708_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547457019089067698" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://emilyclayton.com/">Emily Clayton</a> is a Chicago based artist whose sculptural works interpret ghostly forms. </span><p style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Sad Cycle</strong> includes works that are inspired by death rituals. The exhibition is part of a larger series that seeks to examine ways in which people grieve through a lens of palpably dramatic forms and performance. The pieces shown at Eastern Expansion were created in the past three months and reflect an intimate focus on material and a process-driven sculptural practice.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Eastern Expansion<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">244 W 31st Street, Chicago, IL</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">10 December 6:00-9:00pm</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2203007793339125675.post-72242815499891956462010-10-14T11:13:00.001-07:002010-10-14T11:13:56.598-07:00Michael Kloss @ Eastern Expansion<p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-928" title="Kloss_Poster-test" src="http://coprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Kloss_Poster-test-685x1024.jpg" alt="Kloss_Poster-test" height="1024" width="685" /></p> <p style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">All Black Everything<br />new works by Michael Kloss</p> <p><span style="font-style: italic;">All black everything</span> is a new series of drawings exploring slightly outdated pop culture figures. Mainly men from Edward Furlong to<br />Jim Brewer.</p> <p>eastern expansion<br />244 W 31st street<br />chicago, IL<br />Oct 15th 7-10 pm<br />Appointment only after the 15th<br />up till Nov 13th</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2203007793339125675.post-23905819785471690002010-09-16T00:20:00.000-07:002010-09-16T00:24:42.193-07:00Never Surrender / Timo Vaittinen<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/TJHGBI60INI/AAAAAAAAAuI/xBW8CUzM75o/s1600/Timo_Vaittinen_never_Surrender_web02.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 327px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/TJHGBI60INI/AAAAAAAAAuI/xBW8CUzM75o/s400/Timo_Vaittinen_never_Surrender_web02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517408741381906642" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><b>Never Surrender / </b><i><b><span class="il">Timo</span> Vaittinen</b></i><br /><b><br />Eastern Expansion / 244 W 31st Street<br />Opening reception September 17, 2010 7-10pm Through October 12, 2010<br />After jam at maria's (960 W 31st Street)<br /><br /><br /></b><i><b><span class="il">Timo</span> Vaittinen</b> (b.1976), lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. The intense aesthetics of <span class="il">Timo</span> Vaittinen reflect not only the artist himself, but also the generation he grew up in and around. Vaittinen works with various mediums from video to painting to spatial installations. His imagery is rooted in the popular culture that so many of us, in one way or another, have been part of.<br /><br /></i></div> <div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/TJHF65bk-TI/AAAAAAAAAuA/eQOxBZLShzA/s1600/Timo_Vaittinen_Never+Surrender_web01.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 325px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/TJHF65bk-TI/AAAAAAAAAuA/eQOxBZLShzA/s400/Timo_Vaittinen_Never+Surrender_web01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517408634145143090" border="0" /></a><br /><i><br /><br /></i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2203007793339125675.post-23586287398387737372010-08-20T01:03:00.001-07:002010-08-20T01:03:48.292-07:00Corinne D’Agustino and Thomas I’Anson @ Eastern Expansion<h2><br /></h2> <p><a href="http://proximitymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/CorrineDAgostinoThomasIAnson.jpg"><img title="CorrineD'Agostino&ThomasI'Anson" src="http://proximitymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/CorrineDAgostinoThomasIAnson-1024x774.jpg" alt="" height="442" width="586" /></a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2203007793339125675.post-41142504048892726522010-07-19T09:49:00.000-07:002010-07-19T09:51:49.258-07:00Paul Rizzuto: Carny @ Eastern Expansion<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/TESCk8IU6nI/AAAAAAAAAtY/wVN2nUYaTTM/s1600/9_womanandwheel2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/TESCk8IU6nI/AAAAAAAAAtY/wVN2nUYaTTM/s400/9_womanandwheel2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495661016426801778" border="0" /></a><br /><h2 style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">Carny</span></h2> <div style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;"> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">New Photographs by Paul Rizzuto </span></div> </div> <div style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div> <div style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Carny is a salon installation of 75 plus photographs captured during Paul’s recent observations while working for traveling carnivals around the midwest.</span></div> <div style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div> <div style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.paulrizzuto.com/" target="_blank">www.paulrizzuto.com</a></span></div> <div style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://easternexpansion.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">easternexpansion.blogspot.com</a></span></div> <div style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div> <div style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Opening Reception July 23rd, 6-10pm</span></div> <div style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">July 23rd – August 18th</span></div> <div style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div> <div style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Eastern Expansion </span></div> <div style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">244 W 31st Street</span></div> <div style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Chicago, IL</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2203007793339125675.post-70279536508698829752010-06-08T11:43:00.000-07:002010-06-12T14:19:50.315-07:00My Funhouse opens June 18<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/TA6QT7fXF2I/AAAAAAAAArQ/l1_cEHQZJKU/s1600/my_funhouse_flyer.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/TA6QT7fXF2I/AAAAAAAAArQ/l1_cEHQZJKU/s400/my_funhouse_flyer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480476468617615202" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/TA6QI9KIN7I/AAAAAAAAArI/f_oPZD74iGc/s1600/andy_resek_image3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/TA6QI9KIN7I/AAAAAAAAArI/f_oPZD74iGc/s400/andy_resek_image3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480476280086869938" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Johanna Wawro/Andy Resek<br /></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">My Funhouse<br />A photo & video installation about the Juggalo Family<br /><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2203007793339125675.post-37717478655339345082010-05-11T10:28:00.000-07:002010-05-11T10:33:56.519-07:00Scott Cowen Opening shotsImages from the opening of New Photography by Scott Cowen<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/S-mUq3nrOMI/AAAAAAAAAqs/WV-PNOHQAT4/s1600/P1040288.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/S-mUq3nrOMI/AAAAAAAAAqs/WV-PNOHQAT4/s400/P1040288.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470066686623955138" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/S-mUeKCZDpI/AAAAAAAAAqc/W16wzDLqi9k/s1600/P1040289.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/S-mUeKCZDpI/AAAAAAAAAqc/W16wzDLqi9k/s400/P1040289.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470066468229549714" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/S-mUYgVd8pI/AAAAAAAAAqU/5CQVfMcOFdE/s1600/P1040290.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/S-mUYgVd8pI/AAAAAAAAAqU/5CQVfMcOFdE/s400/P1040290.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470066371135926930" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/S-mUSzcSboI/AAAAAAAAAqM/UI8fUIi8yUo/s1600/P1040293.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/S-mUDIDr3dI/AAAAAAAAAp0/LZM7otJrHQ8/s400/P1040301.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470066003841637842" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/S-mT9dho9oI/AAAAAAAAAps/kYS_cyCSEms/s1600/P1040305.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9NXPpcBQTyw/S-mT9dho9oI/AAAAAAAAAps/kYS_cyCSEms/s400/P1040305.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470065906525206146" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2203007793339125675.post-75714563911258429632010-05-11T10:25:00.001-07:002010-05-11T10:26:06.310-07:00New blog for Eastern ExpasionReuben Kincaid made us create a new blog for the Eastern Expansion gallery.<br />here it is!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0