Past shows
The Chicago Photography Collective, in conjunction with the Chicago Loop Alliance and
Pop-Up Art Chicago is featuring work by many of its photographers.
The show will feature the work of many of our photographers, headlined by Marc PoKempner, Michael Jackson and Paul Natkin and will feature work under the title “Blues with a Feeling.” So if you are going down to the Blues Fest or just hanging out downtown, come and see our work!
The opening reception will be held on Thursday June 3rd from 6 to 8 PM at the gallery at 29 E. Madison.
The exhibit will run for one month.
CHICAGO PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTIVE HOSTS SEPTEMBER SALON SHOW
Special Offer:
City’s Top Photographers on Display at 29 E. Madison
September 2 – October 2, 2010
The Chicago Photography Collective (CPC) is hosting a member’s salon show throughout the month of September. The CPC is group of over 25 established photographers whose methods and subject matter run the photographic gamut – digital and film, inkjet and silver prints, black + white and color, portraits and street photography, abstracts and documentary. This salon show will consist of approximately 50 photographs from twenty of the group’s members.
This exhibit is the eighth of ten scheduled exhibits by the CPC this year.
Opening reception:
Thursday, September 2, 2010
5-8pm
29 E. Madison
Free Admission
Show runs Thursday, September 2 – Saturday, October 2, 2010
Gallery Hours: 11:30 am to 5:30pm, Monday through Saturday
Free admission
The Chicago Photography Collective gallery at 29 E. Madison is part of the Pop-Up Art Loop initiative of the Chicago Loop Alliance. Admission is always free.
Chicago Photography Collective
The Chicago Photography Collective is a group of professional photographers who have come together to build a sense of community among photographers. It started out as a group of four people having lunch once a month, and now has more than twenty five members.
www.chicagophotographycollective.com
Pop-Up Art Loop
Pop-Up Art Loop™ transforms empty storefronts in the Loop into a moveable feast of public art galleries, exhibits and studios. A new initiative of Chicago Loop Alliance, Pop-Up Art Loop™ creates partnerships between artists and property owners, creating temporary gallery space at no cost to the artist in prime Loop locations. Enjoy photography, sculpture, 2D art, video and new media, installations and more.
www.popupartloop.com / www.chicagoloopalliance.com
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The Chicago Photography Collective (CPC) is hosting a new show entitled Elsewhere throughout the month of May. The CPC is a group of 30 established photographers whose methods and subject matter run the photographic gamut: digital and film, inkjet and silver prints, black & white and color, portraits, street photography, abstracts and documentary. Elsewhere will feature photographs from fifteen of the group’s members with two, Jon Randolph and Peter Ha, getting special consideration.
Jon Randolph came to photography as an errant English major gone wrong. He was a staff photographer for WTTW for over ten years — receiving a New York Art Director’s Club award for a photographic essay on Cook County Jail and an Emmy nomination for late-night slide/sound essays produced for Nightwatch, hosted by Gene Siskel. Since then he has been a free-lance photographer specializing in editorial and location work. His work has appeared regularly in The Chicago Reader, Chicago Enterprise Magazine, Down Beat, Illinois Issues, The Illinois Times, Rolling Stone and The New York Times, among others. Randolph’s work appears every Friday as Randolph Street on the blog thethirdcity.org. Visitors can view archives of photo essays he has produced, including records of significant Chicago and national historical/political events such as the last election of Richard J. Daley and the entire archive of The Highway 61 Project.
Jon’s work in the Elsewhere show is from a ten year project on Highway 61 in the 1970s and 1980s. Highway 61 runs 1700 miles from New Orleans to Thunder Bay, Ontario roughly along the Mississippi to Minneapolis and then along Lake Superior up to Thunder Bay. His photos represent a personal documentary of life in mid-America in the late twentieth century. For Jon, Elsewhere represents the exploration of common things with the sharpness that comes with seeing something a fresh eye. It can be a place, a way of looking or whatever it may mean to you.
Peter Ha was born in San Diego, California but spent the majority of his formative years in Brazoria County just south of Houston, Texas. He attended college at Sam Houston State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Photography. In 2007 and 2008, he was awarded the CAAP Grant by the Department of Cultural Affairs for his family themed body of work. His first solo exhibition featured a series of photographs dealing with the theme of family titled Affinities, selections of which can be viewed at peterha.com.
Photographs included in Elsewhere feature images from his Brazoria series, shot between 2007-2010 during yearly visits to this family. For Peter, Elsewhere conjures up images of his hometown and the family and friends he left behind.
On Display at 108 N. State Street, May 5–27, 2011
(just inside the Block 37 building entrance, adjacent to the Disney Store)
Opening reception:
May 5, 2011 5-8pm
Show runs Thursday, May 5 – Saturday, May 27, 2011
Gallery Hours: 11:30am to 5:30pm, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays
The Chicago Photography Collective gallery at 108 N. State Street is part of the Pop-Up Art Loop initiative of the Chicago Loop Alliance. Admission is always free.
CHICAGO PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTIVE HOSTS
OCTOBER GROUP SHOW: THE ENVIRONMENT
On Display at 29 E. Madison, October 7 – 30, 2010
The Chicago Photography Collective (CPC) is hosting a group show, The Environment, throughout the month of October. This exhibit is the ninth of ten scheduled exhibits by the CPC this year. The CPC is group of over 25 established photographers whose methods and subject matter run the photographic gamut – digital and film, inkjet and silver prints, black + white and color, portraits and street photography, abstracts and documentary. This group show will feature photographs from ten of the group’s members with two members, Lloyd DeGrane and Alan Teller, getting special consideration.
About Lloyd DeGrane:
Lloyd DeGrane is a Chicago-based freelance photographer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, the Paris Match and other national and international publications. DeGrane’s black & white documentary work has been exhibited at the Chicago Cultural Center, the Chicago History Museum, and the Corcoran Gallery among others. He specializes in location photography and portraiture, serving a variety of clients. He has documented the Illinois Prison System extensively with photos appearing in international publications and academic journals. His current documentary projects revolve around the themes of sustainable energy, the environmental impact of conventional energy sources as well as water use in the Great Lakes. In the course of working on these projects, DeGrane has hiked over 50 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline and nearby land in Illinois, Indiana and Michigan and continually tries to find the human impact on those areas. He admits that some of his best photos have been made when he was cold, wet and afraid.
About Alan Teller:
Alan Teller is a second generation photographer who studied photography with Henry Holmes Smith at Indiana University, later founding the Inner-City Photo Workshop, a store-front photography center for high-school drop-outs on Chicago’s west side. He directed several photography-in-the-schools projects for the Illinois Arts Council that resulted in the book “Photography in the Classroom.” Teller was photographic researcher for the Field Museum, then started Teller Madsen, a museum exhibit planning and design company. His business, ‘The Collected Image,’ provides fine arts photographs to collectors and museums. He has taught photography at Columbia College, Purdue University and the School of the Art Institute and is an adjunct faculty member at Lake Forest College. Most recently, he served as Executive Director of the Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy. Many of the works shown in this exhibit are from the Adlai’s Woods series. Teller has been observing the changes in this landscape over the seasons, witnessing both the subtle and the obvious, producing images that are more abstract, more in keeping both with the subject and with Teller’s own understanding of photography.
Opening reception:
Thursday, October 7, 2010
5-8pm
29 E. Madison
Show runs Thursday, October 7 – Saturday, October 30, 2010
Gallery Hours: 11:30 am to 5:30pm, Monday through Saturday
Free admission
The Chicago Photography Collective gallery at 29 E. Madison is part of the Pop-Up Art Loop initiative of the Chicago Loop Alliance. Admission is always free.
Chicago Photography Collective
The Chicago Photography Collective is a group of professional photographers who have come together to build a sense of community among photographers. It started out as a group of four people having lunch once a month, and now has more than twenty five members.
www.chicagophotographycollective.com
Pop-Up Art Loop
Pop-Up Art Loop™ transforms empty storefronts in the Loop into a moveable feast of public art galleries, exhibits and studios. A new initiative of Chicago Loop Alliance, Pop-Up Art Loop™ creates partnerships between artists and property owners, creating temporary gallery space at no cost to the artist in prime Loop locations. Enjoy photography, sculpture, 2D art, video and new media, installations and more.
www.popupartloop.com / www.chicagoloopalliance.com
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