1806 W. Cuyler Ave / 2nd Floor / Chicago IL / 60613
www.peterjonesgallery.com
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Located one block north the the Irving Park brown line stop and just west of the Ravenswood metra tracks, Peter Jones Studios, Gallery & Theater is dedicated to providing a comfortable home for the production and enjoyment of arts in Chicago.
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+ This Weekend:: 365plays/365days & Etcetera Festival + Next Weekend:: PuppetBike! End of season party. + Coming Soon:: "Studio Nude" figurative works by Antonow & Nemtseva. + Ongoing Workshops |
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[Feb 1/2/3]
The Mill presents its sixth annual festival of short experimental, progressive, and interdisciplinary performance featuring the 9th week of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays, beginning FEBRUARY 1, 8PM at THE PETER JONES GALLERY, 1806 West Cuyler, 2nd Floor . www.theMillTheatre.org
Dates and Times: February 1st- February 3rd (Th/Fr/Sa) at 8pm.
There is a suggested donation of $15 for Et Cetera VI
All performances of the 365 Days/365 Plays Festival are free.
365 DAYS/ 365 PLAYS www.365chicago.org
On November 13, 2002, Pulitzer-prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks got an idea to write a play a day for a year. She began that very day, finishing one year later. The resulting play cycle, called 365 Days/365Plays, is a daily meditation on an artistic life. Some plays are very short, less than a page. Others last forever.
This week’s installment of the festival features 8 plays performed simultaneously and continuously in the Peter Jones Gallery. Audience members will be able to walk freely about the gallery and view the performances starting at 8pm. Immediately following the 365 plays the rest of the Etcetera program will take place in the black box space.
Etcetera Festival VI
ETCETERA is a program of short experimental performances by local artists. The show takes place in a festival like atmosphere, with the participants encouraged to watch the other shows after they perform and the audience encouraged to feel comfortable to move around during the short breaks between pieces.
Et Cetera VI is comprised of Jason Adams’ toy theatre piece: UNTITLED, A parade of teeny tiny dancing girls, each performing for an audience of one. Brian Ruby: LAST MINUTE (DROWNING 1943), a disjointed psychological examination of someone drowning in the Atlantic Ocean during WWII; Curious Theatre Branch: TENACITY, A destroyed body and destroyed mind prepare for “the fight,” stuck in a loop of ritual and regret; Sandbox Theatre Project: UNTITLED, a non-narrative cross-disciplinary performance piece mixing the forms of the haiku, descriptive prose, poetry, dialogue, and physical clowning; Bob Fisher and Don Hall: SAMMY AND THE CRICKETMAN, a short exploration of the shades of gray between evil and good, pedophilia and intimacy; THE HAUNTING OF YURI GAGARIN by Matt Test, a sound and performance piece incorporating the Russian space program, fantasy sports, Oliver Cromwell's head-piking, and emotional infidelity, which together poses the question, 'who gets left behind'? Mustang Productions: HE PULLED MY STRINGS, an abusive relationship personified by a doll and her puppeteer. Jillian Erickson’s LOST BY FATE, a meditation on memory and loss.
You are invited to a ¡°Chicago Tea Party¡±
Saturday Feb3rd, 3-6pm
reception and fundraiser to kick off a speaking tour:
Mission of a Generation: Stop the War Now! Drive Out the Bush Regime!
THE WORLD CAN¡¯T WAIT
is launching a speaking tour to campuses and military bases across the country. In the wake of Bush¡¯s January 10th announcement of troop escalation, the campuses are appallingly quiet, but it is an intense calm. This tour aims to lift the lid by bringing the truth, including an eyewitness report on the debacle in Iraq from recently returned Marine, Liam Madden.
Tour Speakers
Liam Madden: 22-year-old Marine Corps Sgt., recently returned from Iraq and a co-founder of the Appeal for Redress - a call for immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq signed by over 1200 active-duty soldiers. Madden has appeared on 60 Minutes, MSNBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, National Public Radio, Newsweek, LA Times, Salon, and Washington Post. www.appealforredress.org
Sunsara Taylor: Co-founder of the World Can¡¯t Wait¡ªDrive Out the Bush Regime, and a writer for Revolution newspaper, contributor to Counterpunch.org, Truthdig.com, Truthout.org, ZNet.org. She has appeared on the O'Reilly Factor, CNN's Showbiz Tonight, Hannity & Colmes, NY1, Fox & Friends, Alan Colmes radio, Air America radio, and countless college radio programs. She has spoken on over 50 campuses and on the opening day of Congress she debated Bill O¡¯Reilly on national TV on the war and torture. www.worldcantwait.org
Expenses to take these dynamic young leaders to all the campuses where their perspective is wanted and needed are estimated at $30,000. Your contribution is urgently needed, and donations of $100 or more may be tax deductible.
Join us for discussion and refreshments and a chance to meet these amazing speakers in the intimate setting of an art gallery.
Puppetbike End of Season Party
"A Night with the Puppets"
Saturday, 10th of February 2007
When it's too cold to puppet anymore, the puppetbike winters in a studio space at the Peter Jones Gallery where it receives much needed repairs and renovation.
The fun starts at 4pm for the younger crowd. There'll be puppet shows, music, as well as arts and crafts.
About 7pm, the activities for more mature puppet fans begin with live music performances, theater, and puppets! Refreshments provided.
This is your chance to meet some of the puppeteers and take a peek inside the box to see how it all works.
Environmental Encroachment / Music
Elefant Foot / Theater
FEB 17th - MARCH 31st **Opening Saturday Feb 17th 6-10pm**
Gallery hours: Sat/Sun 3-6pm, during performances (see schedule here), and by appointment.
contact Rebecca at 773-263-4981
While this show deals mostly with relatively traditional Studio Nude poses, the overall approach is anything but traditional. Even though Antonow's works themselves are not intended to invoke any additional literary content or specific message, they do draw the viewer into the world of mixed paint, invoking miles of depth created within no more than quarter of an inch thickness of the acrylic or oil on board.
Nemtseva’s charcoals immediately evoke analogies to renaissance and baroque painters, and in fairness, few working artists are able to realize the type of layered, three dimensional curves the way she does. But when you look further, you will ultimately notice an underlying modernity in how she uses the human figure as a pretext to unfold sophisticated composition, and how her lines have their own meaning, leading your eye around the picture separately from the mere object that the image is portraying.
And this is how Nemtseva and Antonow have found themselves in one show together: with the common denominator of searching for abstract composition in a superficially traditional picture, the Studio Nude.
+++Ongoing Workshops+++
Figure drawing from 11am - 2pm every Sunday in the gallery. Enjoy life drawing in the gallery. Pleasant atmosphere. Plenty of natural light. $10. Bring your own materials. Easels, drawing horses, boards and tables available. Non-instructed. No registration necessary.
Photography Discussion Group meeting. Bring your recent work to show and tell at the lively and informative photography meetings every first Tuesday of the month from 7:30 - 9:30 . Regular participants to the group include experts with digital as well as 19 th century techniques. Show off your latest work. Get your questions answered. (Next meeting FEB 6th.)
"Sunday Go in the Gallery" Come play the ancient game of Go in the quiet, plant-filled, environment of the Peter Jones Gallery every Sunday afternoon from 3-6pm. All levels of players are welcome to come, including absolute beginners. We'll provide the tables, chairs, tea and coffee. [cancelled until Feb 18th.] See the Lakeview Go Club¡¯s website for more information. www.lakeviewgoclub.org.