Shows

Karena Karras
will be one of the 14 women whose work will be shown in
Fata Morgana: The New Female Fantasists
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 14th, 2009 from 8-11pm,
On view March 14th-April 12th, 2009
Dabora gallery , 1080 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY.

Fata Morgana:
The New Female Fantasists
is presented byDabora Gallery, NYandPhantasmaphileDabora Gallery and Phantasmaphile's Pam Grossman are proud to usher in the spring
season with the group show "Fata Morgana: The New Female Fantasists," on view from March 14th through April 12th, 2009. It features fourteen of the most
vital and visionary women artists working in the US today.

A collaboration between Chicago
artists Fletcher Hayes and Kim Laurel, is part of
the Finestra Art Space 2009 installation series,
"Integration = Form + Context + Concept".

Opening reception: Friday, March 13, 5-9 p.m.
Finestra Art Space
The Fine Arts Building
410 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 516,
Chicago, Illinois 60605
Tel: (847) 977-0526
http://www.finestraartspace.com/
Hours: 2-6 p.m. Friday - Saturday, and by appointment
Integrant Element Lab
Integration:
To make whole by joining a system of parts
Element:
An individually considered portion of a whole:
article, detail, item, particular, point.
The Lab:
Two individual artists contribute to an
experimental installation using individual
image/forms through a shared use of space.
Scale and function are used in building unique works
from diverse components to create an environmental dialog.
The unique voices of each artist simultaneous combine
and yet assert independence.
Components from preliminary stages of final works
are paired with finished works, temporal states
of finished works are tested through scale.
Fun Galore!
There is no admission charge.
Contact: Glenn Doering and Deborah Adams Doering
Tel: (847) 977-0526

Beth Kamhi's Secret Life of... Travel was awarded by Judge Jeremy Biles* Award of Merit. National Art Premiere 2009 showing at The Elmhurst Art Muesum,

Elmhurst, Illinois. 150 Cottage Hill, Elmhurst, IL 60126

The show runs from Friday Feburary 14th through March 18th, 2009

Jeremy Biles writes "Beth R. Kamhi's Secret Life of... Travel is like a discovery within a discovery, masterfully exploiting the tension between what's hidden and what's revealed, and playing with the audience's sense of visual desire. A hand-crafted ceramic log enfolds a decaled map; one can't help but imagine encountering such a fantastic log along a walk; the discovery is not only in the destination suggested by the map, but in the revalation of the map itself. In this sense, it's an uncanny object, both exotic and familiar, and suggests travel through physical and imagined, secret spaces. The melding of techniques is nicely matched by the level of handiwork.

*Jeremy Biles' Bio includes; a PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School. He resides in Chicago, where he has taught at institutions including the University of Chicago and DePaul University. He currently teaches philosophy at the Illinois Institute of Art, and is the editor of Chicago Artists' News. He is also the author of the book Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form (Fordham University Press, 2007).Instructor, Fiber and Material Studies (2008). BA, 1994, Capital University, Columbus OH; MA, 1997, PhD, 2004, University of Chicago (Religion and Literature). Exhibitions: Gallery 350. Publications: Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form (author); Formless: Ways In and Out of Form (contributor); Religion and Material Culture: The Matter of Belief (contributor); Re-Enchantment (contributor); Chicago Review, LVNG, Janus Head, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, Material Religion, Journal of Religion, Chicago Art Journal, Chicago Artists' News, F Newsmagazine. Awards: Martin Marty Center Fellowship, Henry Luce Fellowship, Macleish Scholarship in Religion and Literature.

Victoria Fuller is part of a three person show at

the Sears Tower Lobby at 233 S. Wacker Dr.

2 other artists featured: Gordon Powell, and Robert Hudson

Curated by Nixon Art Associates, sponsored by U.S. Equities Asset Management.

show runs Jan. 26 - April 15.

Eleanor Spiess-Ferris has the first of three upcoming exhibits"SORROW OF SWANS"
This exhibit at Elmhurst College is a Survey of Works from 1980 to 2006
The show runs form February 26-April 1, 2009
Elmhurst college is at190 Prospect Ave.Elmhurst, IL 60126

"Helicopter, Volk Field, Wisconsin," a photograph by GEORGE C. CLARK, will be shown in FREEZE, a juried photography exhibit at The Art Center, 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, Illinois, from March 6 to 29, 2009.

Everyone is invited to the opening reception on Friday, March 6, from 6:30 to 9:00pm.

Maria Pappas Cook County Treasurer invites you to
"Lincoln Lives"His legacy and the Man
Paintings by Chicago Society of Artists
Feb. 3 to March 16
Cook County Guilding, 118 N. Clark St. Suite 112
Julia Oehmke, Catherine Cajandig, Kaathryn Gauthier, Rita Dianni-Kaleel, Sandra Halubow, Karena Karras, Gregory Mejia, James Mesple, Jacqueline Moses, Didier Nolet, Sandra Reibscheid, Pauline Silberman, Jill Specks, Eric Steele, Michelle Stone.

A linocut print by Catherine Cajandig part of the portfolio
Bestiary y Nahuales
exhibited at the El Paso Museum of Artl Arts Festival
Plaza El Paso, TX.
from March to September of 2009

Bonnie Peterson, Kim Laurel, James Meslpe and Shelley Gilchrist are part of
The Collaborative Vision - The Poetic Dialogue Projectincludes works by 31 visual artists paired with 31 poets in collaborative works. Many thanks to Beth Shadur for all her fabulous work and great vision.