Mrama

September 25, 2013

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September 25, 2013

Yeah, I would advise not taking the green/red either. That's just all I know, I've only been down to UofC like 2-3 times.

September 23, 2013

If you're in UofC, I don't know if you're going to be in the city THAT often. You're out in hyde park/south side area and you'll have to hop on a bus then green line for a 30 minute-ish train ride. UofC campus is gorgeous though and lots to do.

A list of some of my favorite spots in chicago

Wicker Park/West Town Area --------------

Food

- Filter Lounge Cafe (Down Milwaukee, pretty nice lounge area free wifi all that jazz)

- Rodan (Rodan is an asian fusion restaurant, has a nice vibe, they're always playing around with their menu sometimes for better/worse, but I've personally never had a bad meal there, I love the kimchee burger and the calimari)

- Cumin (modern nepalese food, very good in my opinion)

- Lovely Coffee Shop (Around division area, very nice feeling place, good coffee)

- Boiler Room (Logan Square area, Boiler room has amazing food, great deals such as if you use the atm you are given a free shot of jameson, try the jameson ice cream. It's beyond appetizing)

- Lula Cafe (Logan Square area, very nice place. Nice vibe and usually very nice art to look at, have bumped into the likes of Theaster Gates, and Hamza Walker at that place)

- D'Noche ( Logan Square, great contemporary latin food)

- Pueblas (Late night 24 hour, mexican food. Comes in the clutch at times that's for sure.)

Shopping

- Penelopes (Nice little place down W Division, love the staff there. Carry some nice pieces from APC, Our Legacy, etc.)

- Pavilion (Lovely store down damen ave, ran by Jennifer Brunner, an SAIC alumni great feeling in the store. She carries advant garde and 20th century furnishings with some accessorries. Just went down for the Elke Walter Pop-Up event. She carries anything from Rick Owens furniture to Fraser Taylor paintings, as well as Werkstatt Munchen jewelry)

-Buffalo Exchange/Crossroads Trading Co. (These places tend to be a necessity when shopping around wicker park area, I've picked up an obscur A/W 2010 jacket for $50, ATTACHMENT pants, Comme, Wings+Horns, Our Legacy, and many more items at these places for cheap.)

Art

- Dfbul8r (Great performance art gallery down Milwaukee, friends have shown here and it's an amazing place to go see when anything is being shown)

- Vintage Heaven (Excuse the ridiculously bland and offsetting name, they carry some vintage clothing but I mostly enjoy this place for the art that they showcase throughout the year)

- LVL3 (Interesting place, been here only a handful of times. Great pieces so far)

- The Parlor (More West Town area, but still an interesting place to check out if you have the chance)

In the Downtown area --------------------

Shopping

- Gallery Aesthete (It's hidden at 46 e. oak st, go into the building and go up to floor 4. My hands down favorite place to shop. They carry menswear selections the likes of Guidi, Julius, Ann D, Rick, Comme, Silent Damir Doma, Boris Bidjan, etc. they also have very nicely put together events from time to time)

- Ikram (for women, carries a great selection of designer clothing)

Art

- MCA

- AIC

- Sullivan Galleries (SAIC's gallery, amazing artwork is shown here throughout the year, just go to the 7th floor of the sullivan building, 36 S. Wabash)

- Thomas Masters Gallery (Great spot around old town area, Great art)

September 23, 2013

September 20, 2013

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August 18, 2013

Oliver Peoples

Arc'Teryx Veilance

Visvim

Dior Homme

Visvim

Bottega Veneta

You and Ian sharing Jackets? :-\

August 9, 2013

so indulge us, but it sound to me like you hiding behind thinking you able to justify your shit because you go to a good school or your work is liked by people who are apparently well known respected and liked in the "art community." chat bout, your work is a big inside joke?

simply put your paintings are 1 dimensional, uninteresting and lack depth. you don't even have a visual foundation to fall back on cuz shit's ugly. you can look at output from many painters ie twombly marden rauschenberg johns etc and how varied their work is. you can look back at an early work and appreciate/understand something you didn't before, and then maybe the canon as a whole. but at the same time this don't mean i like all of them or think they're good, cuz you actin like even they never been panned by people who are apparently well known respect and liked in the "art community."

Going to SAIC myself I strongly agree with this. Many people in the painting department correlate with artist such as Twombly but only adorn one aspect/aesthetic of his work. The thing is that painters such as Twombly show high volumes of dimensionality where as most of the students who try to follow these footsteps fail in doing so.