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Caroline Picard is working a new novel entitled “Happy Endings.” This work-in-progress is about a group of hipsters living in Philadelphia and the events which led them to their current position in life. Entangling shallow personalities are complicated with transparent glimmers of childhood. The past becomes present, f...lattening out through night-time banter and its invariable avoidance of grief. The present has to lead somewhere.

To accompany “Happy Endings,” Picard will show a series of “portraits” based on peripheral characters in the book. She combines aspects of drawing, gouache, and collage into beautifully delicate compositions. These abstract works serve as intuitive meditations of the characters she has constructed. A fleshy pallet with spikes of black, hot pink, blue and gold mix together to form intricate pattern work; in each painting, specific aesthetics of each individual are recomposed into an ornate and impenetrable surface. The gouache mingles with swatches of dollhouse wallpaper, connecting the character’s present personas to their early years.

Fifty hand bound copies of the book will be available for purchase for $20.


Caroline Picard is the Founding Director of The Green Lantern Gallery & Press and a Co-Editor for the literary podcast The Parlor. Her writing has been published in a handful of publications including Featherproof’s mini books, NewCity, the Chicago Art Journal Review and Proximity Magazine. Her artwork has been shown at an array of alternative venues, not limited to COMA, artXposium and a solo show at Around the Coyote.Read More

Presented by the resourceful, Jennifer Breckner

Menu includes:
Tuscan kale chips
Cucumber Onion Salad
White beans with tomato ragu
Garlic broth with lavender
Brownies with flambéed bananas
Bread
*vegetarian menu with some vegan items

$3 suggested donation
BYOB

Enjoy the last presentation of Cooking on the Cheap, we will be moving... on to mini dutch grill outs and fresh local foods for the summer. Come and enjoy really amazing foods as we talk about what is the cheapest food you can cook (and delightfully consume).

In conjunction with the food, we will be hosting a clothing swap. With the anticipation of summer, empty out your wardrobe of clothes that you just aren't too into or have "grown out of" and let them have a second life with someone else. Make sure that the clothes are still at a wearable stage, and this will be a co-ed swap (you can try on clothes in the bathroom).
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mini fair
Opening: Saturday May 9th from 7-10pm
Runs until Saturday, May 23rd
Closing on Saturday, May 23rd @ 6pm with a bring your own food BBQ: in conjunction with Hyde Park’s Artist Run Chicago bike tour.



Indulging in the world of the small and petite, mini dutch brings you a mini fair. Four Chicago alternative galleri...es present their space in miniature form with minature artwork.

1:12 scale models of participating galleries include:

The Swimming Pool Project Space
Installation by Mican Morgan
Model built by Liz Nielsen

mini dutch
Installation by Chris Millar
Model built by Robert Andrew Mueller

Floor Length and Tux (FLAT)
Installation includes EC Brown, Catie Olson, Meg Duguid, Paul Nudd, and Mindy Rose Schwartz
Model built by EC Brown and Catie Olson
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Third reception: Group Show

Runs until April 19th
On the fifth weekend, the space will be reserved for a group exhibition that will include Fabio, Brown and nine artist friends who also run apartment/domestic gallery spaces. As this event precedes the upcoming “Artists Run Chicago” exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center,... the exhibition is intended as a visual continuation of the conversations engendered by the HPAC's invites. Participants will be encouraged to create works that use the first two incarnations of the show as a springboard, but works are not expected to directly address the topic of apartment/domestic art-spaces.

Participating:
EC Brown & Catie Olson- FLAT
Miguel Cortez: Antena
Lucia Fabio- mini dutch
Vicki Fowler- Mutherland
Eric May- Roots & Culture
Liz Nielson & Josh Kozuh- Swimming Pool Project Space
Irene Pérez & Chris Smith- Second Bedroom Project Space
Caroline Picard- Green Lantern

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