Storm Thorgerson: Computers Have A Lot To Answer For at Public Works Gallery

Storm Thorgerson: Computers Have A Lot To Answer For

September 7-November 2

Public Works Gallery

1539 N. Damen Ave.

Chicago, IL  60622

Opening 

Friday, September 7, 2012 | 7-10pm

Make sure you set aside time to attend the opening of Computers Have A Lot To Answer For at Public Works Gallery on September 7th. Storm Thorgerson's artwork is immediately recognizable as iconic. The show is a 40-year retrospective of an artist who produced many of the defining images of music culture, including album covers for Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon, Animals), Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, Black Sabbath, Def Leppard, Paul McCartney, and many more. Thorgerson is a strategist and production mastermind, whose intricate work he's always produced without digital technology remains unsurpassed.

Look through his vast collection of work, learn more about his intricate processes, or even ask him yourself (Storm will be in attendance). Read more about the exhibition HERE. Computers Have A Lot To Answer For will be in the Public Works Gallery from September 7 until November 2.

saki Gallery June Opening: Shawn Stucky

The Sun Will Rise With Me: An Exhibition by Shawn Stucky, a set on Flickr.

The Sun Will Rise With Me: An Exhibition by Shawn Stucky

Opening Reception Saturday, June 2nd, 6-9pm at saki. Free.

Hors d'oeuvres provided by saki 

Whiskey & Spirits tasting from Koval Distillery 

Beverages from Cellar Rat

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.

Please join us Saturday, June 2nd from 6 - 9pm for the opening of The Sun Will Rise With Me: An Exhibition by Shawn Stucky. Enjoy a tasting table of whiskey and spirits from Koval Distillery, cool beverages from Cellar Rat, and food provided by saki. This event is FREE.

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Everyone Loves Doughnuts!

It's lookin like all our favorite Chicago weeklies are getting excited about this Friday's art show at saki "Time to Make the Doughnuts: The Gigposters of Ryan Duggan." Check out the editor and critics' picks from Time Out Chicago, Chicago Reader, AV Club, and Flavorpill.  Thanks for your love and support! saki looks pretty kickass with all of Ryan's posters up.

Opening reception: Friday, April 6, 7-10pm
Tunes Spun By: Matt Hord of Heavy Times
Drinks: Cellar Rat
Food: Pepperoni King & Dill Pickle Co-Op

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Dmitry Samarov: All Over Chicago

Dmitry Samarov (Chicago's favorite artist-cabbie-author-blogger) is all over the Chicago Reader these days. He's listed as their top literary-pick for the fall, plus they talk with him in the latest issue, just in time for the release of his new book Hack: Stories From a Chicago Cab.

There are two upcoming events celebrating its release!

October 1st: Samarov reads at Rainbo Club from 4-8pm!

October 7th: saki event: Dmitry Samarov: Music & Baseball Opening from 6-9pm! 

In the recent Reader article, Samarov talks about the art he draws at concerts, "'When you're looking at something, it's changing all the time,' he says. 'I'm trying to incorporate some of that--an acknowledgement that you can't freeze moments.'" His work will be up at the one and only saki for the month of October with the themes Music & Baseball. Please come see it, and especially try to make it out for the October 7th opening! 

It will be great for many reasons that I will now list. The art we'll be displaying is different from what is usually displayed...as the opening suggests, it is focused on music and baseball-- radical! Samarov will be doing a reading from his new book Hack: Stories From a Chicago Cab, and there will be signed copies for sale at the opening! Also, we're kinda into music over here at saki, so we lined up a pretty kickass musical guest, Chris Brokaw from Codeine & Pullman! We're so excited to have a coupla heroes of ours in the store and to celebrate their work. Please join us! Beverages and hors d'oeuvres provided for you by saki!! 

To sum things up: Samarov's art, book reading, signed books, Chris Brokaw, lovely people, food, free event. If you missed the other two links to the facebook event, here it is again...RSVP if you're so inclined!

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=210211692374661

saki love

Early and hopeful words are starting to appear about our horribly kept secret project...

Time Out Chicago
--I don't see us chipping away at anybody else. I think there's more than enough to go around if we do this right, and I expect us to fill a slightly different niche than anybody else in town, or else we would be going to a lot of trouble to cut off our own noses. Yes, the market has shrunk, but ten years ago everybody and their pickup was selling music. Now it's left to the people who are both passionate about it and have it together to serve the customers who really care.