The Sun Will Rise With Me: An Exhibition by Shawn Stucky at saki
Saturday, June 2, 6-9pm
Taste whiskey and spirits from KOVAL Distillery, enjoy cool beverages from Cellar Rat, and food provided by saki.
This event is FREE.
Shawn Stucky began his early work by taking the intangible passions and feelings that people share in music and translating them into physical form. This has progressed to reproducing what he calls his “silent film animations” that appear in his head on the verge of sleep. When looking for new sources of inspiration, Stucky later found it in the most personal of places. It was quietly lurking in that mysterious space between waking-life and dreams, hidden in plain sight. In these “silent film animations,” he sees films vividly playing in stop-motion. The imagery ranges from children on swing sets to odd-looking elderly men spinning chairs above their heads. Through these waking dreams, Stucky consciously collects the imagery to reproduce in his art.
Stucky was born red/green colorblind and moved from McPherson, Kansas to Chicago in 2002. He created his first screen print in 2006 and identifies that moment as the first time he was able to put his artistic visions onto paper. His process is based on simultaneously engaging his conscious and unconscious mind to express an intense emotion or complex thought based on personal experience. He utilizes the challenge of being red/green colorblind in his work by relying on value more than color.
Shawn Stucky has shown his work nationally and internationally in New York, London, Pescara, Italy, the recording studio of Sigur Rós in Mosfellsbær Iceland, Keflavík, Iceland, and Chicago.
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Sonnenzimmer Presents: Free Jazz Bit Maps Vol. 1, a set on Flickr.
Take a look at the collaborative images from Sonnenzimmer that will be adorning saki's walls starting tomorrow. Come celebrate Free Jazz Bitmaps exhibit and record release show this Friday, May 4th at saki.
Sonnenzimmer Presents: Free Jazz Bit Maps Vol. 1
Opening Reception Friday, May 4th, 6-9pm at saki. Free.
Time To Make The Donuts: The Gigposters of Ryan Duggan
Opening Reception Friday, May 4th, 6-9pm at saki. Free.
saki is excited to present the release of Sonnenzimmer's process-based music publication, Free Jazz Bitmaps Vol. 1. The night will include live performances and an exhibition of large-scale scores based on the album, created by the musicians involved in the recording and Sonnenzimmer (Nadine Nakanishi & Nick Butcher). The exhibit will run through the month of May.
Free Jazz Bitmaps Vol. 1 (a collaborative release with Hometapes) consists of 6 original songs by Nick Butcher and reinterpretations of those songs by local jazz musicians Jason Adasiewicz, Tim Daisy, Keefe Jackson, Mike Reed, Jason Roekbe, Jason Stein. The musicians involved in the record have created musical notations or scores of their interpretations, which Nadine & Nick have turned into large-scale screen prints with artistic additions of their own.
Nick Butcher (Sonnenzimmer) will start off the musical set of the night with a brief introduction and will be followed by group led by Katherine Young. Young, along with Jenna Lyle and Joann Cho, will perform music based on the scores created by Sonnenzimmer and the musicians involved in Free Jazz Bitmaps Vol. 1. Katherine Young is a composer and bassoonist who creates acoustic and electro-acoustic music that uses curious timbres and kinetic structures to explore suspended time.
Sonnenzimmer’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with a recent exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and an exhibit in Thessaloniki, Greece. Their work has been published in books by Gestalten, Princeton Architectural Press, Gingko Press, The Pepin Press, and Rockport Publishers.
Please join us Friday, May 4th from 6 - 9pm to view Sonnenzimmer’s new printed works, enjoy music by Nick Butcher, Katherine Young, Jenna Lyle, & Joann Cho at 6.30pm, and pick up a copy of the album Free Jazz Bitmaps Vol. 1. Enjoy cool beverages from Cellar Rat and food provided by saki. This event is FREE.
Time To Make The Donuts: The Gigposters of Ryan Duggan
Opening Reception Friday, April 6th, 7-10pm at saki. Free.
Hors d'oeuvres provided Dill Pickle Co-Op and PEPPERONI KING
Beverages from Cellar Rat
The influence of punk rock, skateboarding, the Wisconsin Dells, and beer intersect in Duggan’s humorous prints with a slacker edge. His prints feature hand-drawn typography, as well as mutated and molested pop culture fragments. Humor is the main ingredient in Ryan’s work, but rarely does the laugh lie on the surface; most of the prints require the viewer to finish the ‘story’ themselves.
Ryan Duggan works as an artist, designer, and screen printer and is based in Chicago. The work has gained notoriety locally and nationally in recent years--of the 130+ prints Duggan has made so far, he counts Henry Rollins, Maps & Atlases, and Joan of Arc among his recent clients. He has exhibited locally at Johalla Projects, The Chicago Tourism Center, and The Co-Prosperity Sphere, and has shown prints in Toronto, Berlin, France, and The Netherlands.
Please join us Friday, April 6th from 7-10pm to view Ryan Duggan’s gigposters and enjoy tunes spun by Matt Hord of Heavy Times. Enjoy food from our friends at Dill Pickle Food Co-Op & PEPPERONI KING and drink cool beverages from Cellar Rat. This event is FREE.
BLOOD: New Work by Chris Hefner & Andy Hefner
Opening Reception Saturday, March 3rd, 7-10pm at saki
Opening Reception Saturday, March 3rd, 7-10pm at saki
Hors d'oeuvres provided by Provenance Food & Wine Beverages from Cellar Rat
Filmmaking, drawing, multimedia installation, screen printing, tattooing, playing musical saw, DJing on gramophones--Chris & Andy Hefner have tackled many artistic mediums. For this exhibition, the brothers have produced work that has shifted mediums during their artistic development.
Chris Hefner has spent the past nine years living and working in Chicago in various artistic capacities. Chris completed and premiered his first feature-length film, The Pink Hotel, in 2010 and is now in production on his follow-up feature, The Poisoner.
Inspired by turn of the century and early American (Western) styles of tattooing, Andy Hefner was compelled to pursue his own work. His technique reflects a trade that has been passed from generation to generation, and he works to uphold the integrity.
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Roots: Recent silkscreen prints and original illustrations by Sarah Santi//Yellowlion
Opening Reception Friday, February 3rd, 7-10pm at saki
Hors d'oeuvres provided by Provenance Food & Wine//Beverages provided by 312 Urban Wheat Ale & Cellar Rat
Yearning for a creative outlet post-art school, Chicago area native Sarah Santi began screen printing in 2007. Roots marks a return for Yellowlion to her reason for creative art-- a simplistic appreciation for all that she finds inspiration in around her. It is her homage to the escapism found in a love of the outdoors and the west. Inspired by feminine Americana, antique folk arts and crafts, and Native American art, Yellowlion has been a Renegade Craft Fair regular, featured in ReadyMade Magazine and most recently on Fab.com.
Dead Space: Photography by Noah Vaughn
Opening Reception Friday, January 6th, 6-9pm at saki
Vaughn documents man-made spaces in transition. He races to document Chicago’s rich architectural and industrial history before the bulldozers come in the name of urban renewal and gentrification. Shooting in primarily abandoned and soon to be demolished schools, factories, and hospitals around Chicagoland, Vaughn’s photographic work highlights the architectural and historical significance of many of these stately but crumbling edifices.
Vaughn graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in Painting and Drawing in 1993 and started taking photographs of Chicago in 2004.
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VISUAL RECORD: RECENT SILKSCREEN PRINTS AND POSTER ART BY CROSSHAIR
Opening Reception Friday, December 2nd, 7-10pm at saki
Beer provided by Goose Island’s 312 Urban Wheat Ale//Hors d'oeuvres provided by saki
Dan MacAdam has been producing screen-printed concert posters and fine art prints in Chicago since 1995, operating under the nom-de-guerre, Crosshair. Since its founding as a band that would make posters in place of songs, Crosshair has worked with musicians ranging from international superstars to the hopelessly and deliberately obscure, always pursuing an association between the textures and rhythms of music, and those of landscape and structure.
Beginning in 2005, Dan turned to the camera as a primary means of creating his images. The resulting body of work is Crosshair’s most recognizable, and stands apart from the vast bulk of contemporary rock poster art both in its reference points and its technical envelope-pushing. In a world of images competing with one another to jump off the wall at passersby, MacAdam’s intricately detailed prints get their claws in the viewer by subtler means. The images transport the viewer into three-dimensional space where the stigma attached to decay and isolation is rejected, and new symbols of resilience and transcendence are proposed.
Work of Rrap Kryeziu at saki
Opening Saturday November 12 6-9pm
Hors d'oeuvres and beverages provided by saki
An 18 year old ethnic-Albanian Kosovar, Rrap Kryeziu lived most of his life in Prishtina, Kosovo. He moved from Kosovo to Oak Park, Illinois in 2010 and is currently a senior at Oak Park River Forest High School. Growing up in a war-torn land, Kryeziu did not receive formal training in painting and was self-taught until 2011. Kryeziu paints primarily with oils because of the variety of color he can achieve, and uses large canvasses which help him to feel closer to his art and to himself. His most recent works are abstracts that depict emotions more than the overtly tangible; he is trying to capture both internal and external movement, rather than the “subject” itself. In 2009, Kryeziu's work was featured in a solo exhibit at the National Theater of Kosovo and was supported by the Ministry of Culture after he won an international painting prize in Montmartre, Macedonia titled "Golden Palette." Rrap’s art will appear at saki from November 5th to November 30th.
Homeroom Chicago Emerging and Established Artist Exchange. Homeroom is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to encourage and facilitate new creative programming in Chicago. One way they do this is through the Emerging and Established Artist Exchange. The program involves high school juniors and seniors who are seriously engaged in a specific artistic discipline and work one-on-one with a Chicago artist already established in that field. The emerging and established artists work together to develop and execute a single project, in this case an exhibition. Unlike other youth arts programs that focus specifically on creative work, EEE puts an emphasis on the more practical elements of an active artistic practice: networking, promotion, booking, budgeting, and writing artist statements. By having students focus mostly on the process beyond creation, Homeroom hopes to give these young artists unique access to valuable things: A realistic experience of the often daunting process of presenting one’s art to the world, and an actual foot-in-the-door to the Chicago arts scene.
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