8.29.09
This is the final show for our Vega Estates project!
Group Show for Daniel Pink,
former chief speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore, inspired by his line in the December 1997 issue of Fast Company: "What's one thing that all free agents need? Copies!"
curated by Lane Relyea
featuring Curt Bozif and Matthew Metzger
with Amy Adler, Conrad Bakker, Vince Leo and Sharon Lockhart
Saturday, September 19, 2009
6pm-10pm
723 W. 16th Street
Chicago, Il 60616
See info page for more details.
8.6.09
ONE NIGHT ONLY: Joe Grimm and Ben Russell
Saturday, August 22nd, 6-10pm
See info page for more details!
7.11.09
Join us for the second installment of our summer season:
Saturday, July 18th, 6-10pm
Vega Estates pairs the work of artists Terence Hannum and Irena Knezevic.
In the basemsent, Terence Hannum presents CEREMONY, a two channel video entitled "As Dusk Gathers/Tenebrae" and an audio piece, "Knell".
In the garage, Irena Knezevic presents SWAN LAKE WITH A HAPPY ENDING: Program work for an American Garage (l282 bars).
6.15.09
Welcome Summer!!!
The third season of Vega Estates is here!
First up: Chelsea Culp and Ben Foch: Substance and Shadow
Saturday, June 27th, 6-10pm
Also see our Current page for this season's schedule.
6.14.09
Bunker Brew will be in the house this Summer!
4.11.09
Happy Spring!
The third season of Vega Estates is near!
(photo courtesy of Derek Chan)
8.30.08
Saturday, September 13th, 7-10pm
"Tomorrow"
New painting, sculpture, and video by Marco Kane Braunschweiler, Derek Chan, Paul Cowan, Martine Syms, and Maura Thompson, who explore hope and beauty in relation to our current surroundings.
8.30.08
NEWS!!!!!!!!!
Congrats to Danielle and family with the birth of her baby!
We are sorry Danielle will not be able to show in our October show.
7.31.08
Saturday, August 9th, 7-10pm
new work by David Moré and Ryan Fenchel
Ryan Fenchel
Master Ashler
"Eloquent in its silence, inspiring in its majesty, divine in its simplicity, the Great Pyramid is indeed a sermon in stone. Among the sands of time it stands as a fitting emblem of eternity itself. The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place. It is this significant fact, that Alchemy is a life's work, which provides our spagyric art with such an armor, and will be accepted by only those who have spent months and years behind books and retorts."
-Manly P Hall, Percy Shelly, Frater Albertus
and
David Moré
THIS MEANS SOMETHING!
Close encounters with Barbra Streisand
An installation exploring the connections, both actual and manufactured, between the Close Encounters of the Third Kind soundtrack, and a Barbra Streisand 8-Track.
7.15.08
Summer is alive!
Next show coming up is David Moré and Ryan Fenchel...be sure not to miss it!
7.4.08
Upcoming Show: Saturday July 12th 7-10pm
MURDERLATION performs at 8:30pm
Featuring San Antonio based artist John Mata's ""Conveyance Exercise #8: Transplanting water from the San Antonio River into Lake Michigan after individuals attending an art exhibition in Chicago stand in a small pool containing the San Antonio River water and record personal information through the use of a microphone and a reel to reel tape deck."
and
Claire Arctander presents "In Hybrid Moments" - an evening of 2, 3 and 4-dimensional artwork by Claire Arctander - featuring a performance by MURDERLATION, Misfits cover band extraordinaire.
6.02.08
The next show is coming up!
join us:
June 14th, 7pm-10pm
Honey Moon
sculpture, installation, fire,
swiss miss, and s'mores.
Work by Sarah Olmsted and Trevor Gainer
6.01.08
Thanks to everyone who came to the
Vega Caucus! Photos from the show will be up soon.
5.10.08
The Vega Caucus
Please join us for our first show of the season, The Vega Caucus, curated by Vega Estates organizers Roxane Hopper and Julie Rudder. The Vega Caucus responds to submissions from Chicago area artists by recontextualizing the works using story and external elements and also as a framework for social space. The space becomes a facilitator of conversation between interested parties, possibly erupting into a "raucous caucus".
with artworks from:
Lauren Anderson, Curt Bozif, Michael Corra, Chelsea Culp, Ryan Hays, Matthew Hilshorst, Matt Irie, Kirsten Leenaars, Michael Lehman, Caleb Lyons, Lisa Majer, Tim Mazurek, Jessie Mott, Rudy Montez, Cole Pierce, Katie Scanlan, Ryan Scheidt, LeRoy Stevens, Michael Thibault, Vanesa Zendejas.
May 17th 7pm-10pm