2015: Recent History, News & Gossip @ Opening Weekend

--> Aged 67, SAIC photography Professor Barbara DeGenevieve died on August 9, 2014: ((http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/ct-obit-degenevieve-20140825-story.html))

This month it's possible to see two shows which address Barbara DeGenevieve's legacy. The first exhibition opens at Iceberg Projects on September 12, 2015: ((http://www.thevisualist.org/2015/09/barbara-degenevieve-medusas-cave/)) The second exhibition opens at Defibrillator Gallery on September 26, 2015: ((http://www.thevisualist.org/2015/09/what-would-barbara-do/))

--> Born 1936, living Chicago photographer Barbara Kasten, Professor Emeritus at Columbia College Chicago, has an exhibition upcoming at the Graham Foundation. The show opens in three weeks, on October 1, 2015: ((http://www.grahamfoundation.org/public_exhibitions/5399-barbara-kasten-stages))

Organized by Curator Alex Klein, "Stages," which is the first comprehensive survey of Barbara Kasten's work, closed on August 16, 2015, at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia: ((http://icaphila.org/exhibitions/6474/barbara-kasten-stages))

--> Anthony Elms, who worked at UIC's Gallery 400 and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, joined the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia as Associate Curator in 2011. On July 22, 2015, Anthony Elms was named Chief Curator of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia: ((http://artforum.com/news/id=53890))

Anthony Elms, Stuart Comer, and SAIC painting and drawing Professor Michelle Grabner were the three curators of the 2014 Whitney Biennial.

--> Recently, in an interview with the Journal Sentinel's Mary Louise Schumacher on May 8, 2015, Michelle Grabner confirmed her decision to leave Chicago and return to Milwaukee, Wisconsin: ((http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/arts/michelle-grabner-marries-midwest-pragmatism-to-high-art-b99487928z1-303101401.html))

It's still possible to purchase the (former) site of Michelle Grabner's The Suburban gallery, along with the family residence on the same lot, at 125 N. Harvey Ave. in Oak Park, Illinois: ((http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/125-N-Harvey-Ave-Oak-Park-IL-60302/3807022_zpid/))

The price for Michelle Grabner's home has been reduced to $496,000. Contact Bad at Sports' commentator Richard Holland for additional details: ((http://www.beyondpropertiesrealty.com/team/richard-holland/))

--> Bad at Sports' blog has been updated only 4 times in the past month; three of those updates took the form of Stephanie Burke's "Top Pick" lists: ((http://badatsports.com/)) And Stephanie Burke's own "Art Talk Chicago" blog, which once contained the most comprehensive listing of visual art openings and events in the city, has been updated only 3 times since May 14, 2015: ((http://www.chicagonow.com/art-talk-chicago))

Do you recall a time when Bad at Sports' blog was updated--by a different author--every day? Do you recall a time when Chicago enjoyed at least six different on-line listing services, each of which was updated weekly? Kelly Reaves at Gapers Block? Karly Wildenhaus at On the Make?

--> Who HAS posted a list of gallery openings scheduled for September 11-13, 2015, the first weekend of the season in Chicago? Shockingly, it's Visual Art Source: ((http://www.visualartsource.com/index2.php/calendar/index/openings/_/_/IL/Chicago/2015-09-09/2015-09-12))

Listings are also provided by Chicago Gallery News: ((http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar?tag=opening-receptions)) and The Visualist: ((http://www.thevisualist.org/)) and Chicago Artists Resource: ((http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/events)) and ArtSlant Chicago: ((http://www.artslant.com/chi/events/list?listtype=openings))

I miss Stephanie Burke's "Art Talk Chicago" list. And I miss seeing Stephanie Burke and Jeriah Hildwine, together, at gallery openings.

--> Paul Klein hasn't updated his "Art Letter" in a year, since the last edition of Expo on September 17, 2014: ((http://www.artletter.com/))

--> Wesley Kimler's "sharkforum.org" appears to have disappeared from the web.

--> The Chicago Artist Writers on-line platform (read: website) received a $6000 grant from Propeller Fund in 2013: ((http://www.propellerfund.org/projects/2013-awardees)) And Chicago Artist Writers has published only seven articles in 2015. Its founders and directors, Jason Lazarus and Sofia Leiby, have both left Chicago: ((http://www.chicagoartistwriters.com/))

--> October 9, 2014, Matt Morris reported in Newcity that Roy Boyd Gallery would close its doors after forty-two years of operation, following the passing of Ann Boyd: ((http://art.newcity.com/2014/10/09/news-venerable-roy-boyd-gallery-closes-after-forty-two-years/))

That announcement, published nearly a year ago, didn't stop Expo's official preview partner Artspace from recommending Roy Boyd Gallery ("this gallery has serious Chicago art cred") on September 8, 2015: ((https://twitter.com/expochicago/status/641801422409977856)) ((http://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/artful_traveler/artful_traveler_guide_to_chicago-51630?fair_id=2))

--> Matt Morris announced his own departure from Newcity on July 16, 2015, having served as its assistant art editor since May 27, 2014: ((http://art.newcity.com/2015/07/16/eye-exam-leaving-saturns-return/))

Matt Morris was replaced by Elliot Reichert, formerly the Curator of Special Projects at the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University: ((http://newcitynetwork.com/2015/07/06/elliot-reichert-appointed-art-editor-of-newcity/))

The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University has hired Janet Dees to work as its curator: ((http://www.artforum.com/news/id=54670))

--> September 3, 2015, Newcity broke the news that on October 9, 2015, Anthony Hirschel will step down from his position as Director of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago: ((http://art.newcity.com/2015/09/03/breaking-news-smart-museum-director-to-step-down/))

Stephanie Smith left her position, as the Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, in 2014: ((http://badatsports.com/2014/exit-interview-stephanie-smith/)) More recently she's finished her work editing a text which treats socially engaged art in Chicago. It's entitled "Institutions and Imaginaries," and was published by the University of Chicago Press this past summer: ((http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo19455096.html))

--> Through November 22, 2015, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago has on display "The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now," as curated by Naomi Beckwith and Dieter Roelstraete: ((http://www2.mcachicago.org/exhibition/the-freedom-principle-experiments-in-art-and-music-1965-to-now/)) See coverage of the exhibition as provided by Robert Loerzel: ((http://www.undergroundbee.com/2015/08/09/the-freedom-principle-at-the-mca/))

--> Johalla Projects' Assistant Director of Exhibitions Tyler Blackwell is now Assistant to James Rondeau: the Chair and Curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago: ((https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerdblackwell)) James Rondeau is the co-curator of "Charles Ray: Sculpture, 1997–2014," which runs through October 4 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Nina Litoff and Erik Wenzel discuss "Charles Ray: Sculpture, 1997–2014," in the August 4, 2014, edition of "I Don't Hate This," their podcast: ((https://soundcloud.com/i-dont-hate-this/ray-charles-ray)) James Yood treats the exhibition in text, in art ltd.: ((http://www.artltdmag.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1436491458&archive=&start_from=&ucat=43&))

--> August 11, 2015, Christie Chu reported in artnet that Sam Lipp and Luis Miguel Bendaña had reopened Queer Thoughts in New York City, after abandoning Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood: ((https://news.artnet.com/people/queer-thoughts-gallery-opens-in-nyc-323006))

--> Roxaboxen Exhibitions was operational in Pilsen from 2009-2013: ((http://southsideweekly.com/roxaboxen-an-obituary/)) Its founder and director, Liz McCarthy, has now enrolled in UIC's MFA program. She's also launched a new space: Slow Pony Project: ((http://www.thevisualist.org/2015/09/local-honey-their-their/))

--> In August of 2015, Filter Photo Festival announced that James Pepper Kelly was stepping down from his position as Managing Director. He's now enrolled in the Visual And Critical Studies graduate program at SAIC, while continuing his work with the nonprofit, digital print lab Latitude: ((http://us3.campaign-archive2.com/?u=bfde257352999ade2e60afaec&id=5c15e53ed8))

--> SAIC's Britton Bertran, proprietor of 40000 gallery from 2005-2008, left his position at United States Artists to become Associate Director at Carrie Secrist Gallery in July of 2015: ((https://www.facebook.com/109671369142593/photos/a.113410878768642.17791.109671369142593/724992824277108/?type=1)) The first show which he's curated, "Appropinquation," features Leslie Baum, Shannon Finley, Jamisen Ogg, Min Song and Dannielle Tegeder, and opens on September 12: ((http://www.secristgallery.com/exhibitions/2015/appropinquation/))

--> UIC's Claudine Isé has left her position as Executive Director of Woman Made Gallery: ((http://womanmade.org/thank-you-claudine-ise/)) And she reappears as Lead Curator, alongside her Assistant Curator Alexandria Eregbu, at the Chicago Artists Coalition for "The Annual," which opens September 18, 2015: ((http://www.chicagoartistscoalition.org/programs/annual))

--> Having left Rhona Hoffman Gallery for Galerie Laurent Godin in Paris, Sibylle Friche returns to Chicago in 2015 as Director of Aron Gent's commercial gallery Document: ((http://documentspace.com/))

--> Ed Marszewski, the personality behind Versionfest, Co-Prosperity Sphere, MARZ Brewing, Public Media Institute, Lumpen, and Maria's, now has a a low-power radio station in Chicago: WLPN 105.5 FM: ((http://www.lumpenradio.com/))

--> Chicago collector and graphic designer Jason Pickleman has opened a not-for-sale gallery, "Lawrence & Clark," for the purpose of showcasing what he owns: ((http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150721/uptown/avid-art-collector-opens-uptown-gallery-where-pieces-arent-for-sale))

--> Rumor has it that both Bill Gross of 65GRAND, at 1369 W. Grand Ave., and Mickey Pomfrey of CourtneyBlades, at 1324 W. Grand Ave., have been forced to discontinue programming and relocate as a result of real estate development in the area they share: ((http://www.65grand.com/)) ((http://courtneyblades.com/))

--> Archiving material since September of 2009, The Visualist is an on-line calendar of select visual art events in Chicago, created and operated by Jenny Kendler, Chad Kouri, and Steve Ruiz: ((http://www.thevisualist.org/)) Steve Ruiz has left Chicago and moved to Cambridge, England: ((http://chicagoartworld.blogspot.com/2015/05/2015-steve-ruiz-on-leaving-chicago.html)) Steve Ruiz and Alex Bradley Cohen currently share a two-person show at Roots & Culture; it's up through October 10, 2015: ((http://rootsandculturecac.org/show/?id=109))

--> Three years ago, in September of 2012, a fire destroyed the studios of four Chicago artists: William J. O’Brien, Erik DeBat, Kate Ruggeri and McKeever Donovan. And Time Out critic Lauren Weinberg reported on that event and the benefit auction which followed: ((http://www.timeout.com/chicago/art/blood-and-fire-benefits-four-artists-who-lost-their-studios)) On June 1, 2013, Ebersmoore, the gallery which hosted Kate Ruggeri's post-fire show, closed: ((https://twitter.com/ebersmoore/status/331062743241211905))

Two months ago, in July of 2015, a fire destroyed the studios of four Chicago artists: Mike Kloss, Leo Kaplan, Ron Ewert and Caleb Willitz. And Tina Sfondeles reported on that event for the Sun-Times: ((http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/837774/garfield-park-artists-lose-extra-alarm-fire)) A successful "GoFundMe" campaign was initiated by Dana Bassett, three days after the fire: ((http://www.gofundme.com/d56xd6pspw))

Rumor has it that Leo Kaplan will open a new gallery, "Boyfriends," in partnership with New Capital's Ben Foch, in the very space at 3311 W. Carroll Ave. which was vacated by Edmund Chia's Peregrine Program. And New Capital, after a three-year hiatus, will again offer a regular exhibition program beginning November 1, 2015.

I'll continue to update this article throughout the weekend. Feel free to leave a comment below.

2014: Expo Chicago Vernissage @ Navy Pier

Above: Michael Rakowitz's installation "The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist," in Expo Chicago's IN/SITU, September 18, 2014, which was familiar to Chicagoans from curator Dieter Roelstraete's "The Way of the Shovel: On the Archeological Imaginary in Art" exhibition in 2013.

Expo Chicago
September 18-21, 2014
Festival Hall
Navy Pier
600 E. Grand Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611

http://www.expochicago.com/

Today, much of the most interesting and relevant artwork produced in Chicago, particularly, is informed by ideology hostile to the market. And, flogging a dead horse, an art fair is a marketplace--which nevertheless depends upon seeming to be "interesting and relevant" in order to attract the attention of dealers, collectors, and critics, not to mention members of the general public.

It's a difficult situation which has made for uneasy bedfellows: (a) those parties involved in the leftist politicization of the art world (e.g., advocates for social practice, identity-based awards, activist criticism, and the operation of not-for-profit galleries) who at the risk being dupes or hypocrites choose to co-operate with a high-value commercial enterprise; and, (b) those art fair administrators who struggle to include some of the more challenging and less predictable elements of the "avant-garde" in their convocations, consequently jeopardizing the comfort, and maybe even security, of those monied individuals upon whom the traffic in fine art depends.

Having acknowledged the dilemma, it was, in a manifold sense, a good year for Michael Rakowitz. For if the artist himself had a "good year" in Chicago, inasmuch as he'd figured prominently in important local exhibitions, it was too a "good year" for Expo Chicago to have had Rakowitz participate in the art fair which it produced, as his presence was some evidence of the event's cachet. Of course, he wasn't alone.

Above: Michael Rakowitz at Expo Chicago after "Every Weapon Is A Tool If You Hold It Right," on September 21, 2014.

Being near to the entrance of Festival Hall, which great room housed the whole affair, the works not only of Michael Rakowitz but also of Jenny Kendler were very difficult to miss. And it's especially interesting that, in the city's big art fair of 2014, the two artists who best enjoyed their placement were found to have shown built structures as artwork. Architecture is a matter of consequence in Chicago--whether Expo is wholly complemented by its own physical location.

Above: Michael Rakowitz's installation "May the Arrogant Not Prevail," in Expo Chicago's IN/SITU, September 18, 2014.

In fact, though it was constructed from various paper products, Rakowitz's facsimile of the Babylonian Ishtar Gate, which the artist entitled "May the Arrogant Not Prevail," proved itself to be a functional threshold through which many fair attendees passed. And here that act of egress connected Rakowitz to Kendler yet more strongly.

Above: A fair patron about to enter Jenny Kendler's "Tell It To The Birds," on September 21, 2014, as seen from the installation's interior, lit with on-camera flash, while looking outwards. Apologies to Kendler for the low quality of the photograph.

Near to Rakowitz, Kendler presented a diminutive but accessible sort-of lodge, “Tell It To The Birds,” which was set before wall-mounted avian statuary en masse. While not intended to be an exclusive interpretation of Kendler's work, one was reminded of those Native American cultures in which some circular enclosure defined a feminine space, emblematic of Mother Earth, wherefrom the cycle of departure and return recalled birth and too death. Really, the same sort of statement might be made in relation to any number of early, Irish low-relief sculptures of a Sheela Na Gig figure--especially when such were found set near doorways.

Above: Jenny Kendler with "Tell It To The Birds," on September 21, 2014, as seen from the fair's aisle. Apologies to Kendler for the low quality of the photograph.

Above: Outside of the context of the Expo Chicago, see a "paraSITE" structure created by Michael Rakowitz, from a series of such projects running over a two decade (?) period of time; and, compare it to Kendler's "Tell It To The Birds," shown previously.

To the extent that there was a "story" about art to be found at Expo, I think that it involved the relationship between Rakowitz and Kendler, and the negotiation between the fair and the two artists. In addition to the aforementioned points of formal contact, both artists were representative of causes with contemporary importance--causes which might have inflamed the passions of fair attendees. What are we doing in the Middle East? What will become of our environment?

Did the fair co-opt or enhance such dialogue as might have originated in the experience of Rakowitz and Kendler's respective works? Realistically, it was a very difficult task for the managers of Expo to satisfy the demographic which I represented: I neither bought nor sold contemporary art; rather, I sought novel and "authentic" experiences within the arts. And, by their very nature, art fairs almost always frustrate the visual pleasure necessary to sustain a patron's interest: exposure to too much similar material, all of it packed densely in a confined space, numbs rather than excites viewers, in most cases.

It's a well-known problem, in response to which Lori Waxman had suggested a move towards something like Documenta in Kassel, even as Tony Fitzpatrick championed the Prospect Biennials of New Orleans. In Chicago, we didn't get Documenta or Prospect. We got the third iteration of the renewed Expo--featuring Shaquille O'Neal and attended by George Lucas--at the very moment when our Museum of Contemporary Art was given over to David Bowie. The fanfare heralding the "celebrities" was more than embarrassing; it was a finger in the eye of everyone laboring in anonymity to build the city's cultural capital. And one wonders when will Chicago cease to be imitative--in its planning, funding and promotion--choosing rather to foster those peculiar talents native to itself. Whether native, the selection of Rakowitz and Kendler, both having demonstrable long-term investments in the city, was a step in the right direction.

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If at Expo the feminine was present metaphorically, then the masculine was present graphically. In a booth devoted to Raymond Pettibon, The Renaissance Society from The University of Chicago recycled the vitrines which were used to house Haris Epaminonda and Daniel Gustav Cramer's "The Infinite Library" within Hamza Walker's "Suicide Narcissus" exhibition from 2013. Like Epaminonda and Cramer, Pettibon's work within the vitrines consisted of artist books with interventions. Unlike Epaminonda and Cramer, Pettibon's intervention consisted of penis drawings.

Above: Raymond Pettibon's "Thinking of You" in The Renaissance Society's booth at Expo Chicago on September 18, 2014.

More, Pettibon had work on display in David Zwirner's booth at Expo Chicago, wherein an upright bat could be read as having phallic implications. "Phallic implications" might also have been drawn from Terry Adkins' work at Salon 94. Hanging out into the aisle, the phallus itself returned as a part of Aime Mpane's anatomically correct sculpture at Haines Gallery. Luis De Jesus Los Angeles' artist Ken Gonzales-Day's IN/SITU banner too implicated the cultural taboo of male nudity. And someone from Expo Chicago made the decision to serve hot dogs to its vernissage attendees.

Above: At left, Raymond Pettibon's work on paper in David Zwirner's booth at Expo Chicago on September 18, 2014.

Above: At top, Terry Adkins' work in Salon 94's booth at Expo Chicago on September 18, 2014.

Above: At right, Aime Mpane's sculpture in Haines Gallery's booth at Expo Chicago on September 21, 2014.

Above: At top, Ken Gonzales-Day of Luis De Jesus Los Angeles in Expo Chicago's IN/SITU program on September 21, 2014.

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With apologies for omissions, what follows is an incomplete 42 image "who's who" of local art world attendees of Expo Chicago. Most, if not all, photographs were taken within a single hour (I'd never before received so much unsolicited advice on the operation of the camera as I did within that hour) at the fair's Vernissage on September 18, 2014.

Above: Contributor to Artforum, University of Chicago Department of Visual Arts' Zachary Cahill.

Above: The University of Chicago Logan Center's Kate Barutha, Ria Roberts of Medium Cool, and Tenspeed Hero's Aleia Murawski.

Above: The Mission artist and Aspect/Ratio collaborator Jeroen Nelemans

Above: Monique Meloche Gallery artist Heidi Norton.

Above: Galerie Laurent Godin director Sibylle Friche (formerly of Rhona Hoffman Gallery) with contributor to Artforum, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago's Dr. Dan Quiles.

Above: Mickey Pomfrey of Courtney Blades, foreground, with Diamond Stingily, background.

Above: Chicago Artists' Coalition's Stacia Yeapanis, Jenny Kendler, and Brent E. Fogt.

Above: Linda Warren Projects' Linda Dorman, Robin Dluzen, and Tom Torluemke.

Above: Artist Mika Horibuchi with ArtSlant's Joel Kuennen.

Above: Bill Beach and Carrie Secrist of Carrie Secrist Gallery with a painting by Andrew Holmquist.

Above: Newcity's Assistant Art Editor Matt Morris (has no clue who I am) framed by Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger.

Above: Linda Warren Projects' artist Eric Edward Esper with Linda Warren and director Chris Smith.

Above: Western Exhibitions' artist Geoffrey Todd Smith with Jaime DeGroot

Above: Artists Connor Creagan and Tim Mann

Above: Artist Tara Hills with ACRE's Emily Green.

Above: ACRE, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, and Bad at Sports' Dana Bassett.

Above: Scott Speh of Western Exhibitions.

Above: Photographer Barbara Kasten with Monique Meloche of Monique Meloche Gallery.

Above: Western Exhibitions' artist Stan Shellabarger.

Above: Columbia College's Sabina Ott with Dutes Miller.

Above: Expo Chicago's President and Director Tony Karman at far right, with Sondra Karman at center right.

Above: Kavi Gupta Gallery artist Scott Reeder at left, with Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit director Elysia Borowy-Reeder at center.

Above: Still photographer and cinematographer Chuck Przybyl.

Above: Video and installation artist Edyta Stepien.

Above: The University of Chicago's Dr. Scott Hunter.

Above: DePaul University's Dr. Richard Renfro.

Above: Terriah Proechel and T.J. Proechel with Museum of Contemporary Photography and ACRE's Kate Bowen.

Above: LVL3's Assistant Director Anna Mort working the Chicago Design Museum booth.

Above: Wes Charles, a/k/a Mr. Vibe, quite possibly the rowdiest guest at Expo Chicago.

Above: Antena's Miguel Cortez, Out of Site's Carron Little, and artist Saul Aguirre.

Above: Artists Tish Noel and Liz McCarthy.

Above: Critic Erik Wenzel with artist Matthew Lane.

Above: ArtSlant and Expo Chicago's Stephanie Cristello.

Above: Street photographer Oscar Arriola, The Art Institute of Chicago's Anna Simonovic, and Juan Alvarez.

Above Gallerista's Joshua Herrington at center with Linda Warren director Chris Smith at right.

Above: Queer Thought's Luis Miguel Bendaña and Sam Lipp at left.

Above: Monique Meloche Gallery artist Cheryl Pope.

Above: Corbett vs. Dempsey's John Corbett.

Above: Artist and creative producer Cristy C. Corso.

Above: The Hills Esthetic Center's Ron Ewert

Above: LATITUDE, Filter Photo, and ArtSlant's James Pepper Kelly.

Above: The official Expo Chicago after party on the Mystic Blue, docked at Navy Pier.

The end.

Above:
Images (1-5) and (7-54) September 18-21, 2014;
Copyright Paul E. Germanos.
Image (6)
Copyright Michael Rakowitz, reproduced for the purpose of making a comparison in a work of criticism.

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Sixteen links to additional coverage of Expo Chicago in 2014:

(1) http://art.newcity.com/2014/09/17/preview-site-specific-and-social-artworks-at-expo-chicago/

(2) http://art.newcity.com/2014/09/19/expo-dispatches-stick-to-the-perimeter/

(3) http://art.newcity.com/2014/09/19/expo-dispatches-inclusions-in-expo-and-edition-and-champagne-bubbles/

(4) http://art.newcity.com/2014/09/21/expo-dispatches-figures-that-stand-their-ground/

(5) http://artfcity.com/2014/09/21/palpable-momentum-felt-at-expo-chicago/

(6) http://www.artforum.com/diary/id=48407

(7) http://www.artnews.com/2014/09/18/a-tour-of-expo-chicago-2014/

(8) http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/403553-britt-julious?tab=REVIEWS

(9) http://badatsports.com/2014/edition-37/

(10) http://www.badatsports.com/2014/what-you-should-have-notice-in-september/

(11) http://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2014/10/01/expo-chicago-sees-uptick-in-attendance-as-its.html

(12) http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1054773/highlights-from-expo-chicago

(13) http://hyperallergic.com/151212/expo-chicago-2014-fails-to-inspire/

(14) http://neotericart.com/2014/09/23/expo-chicago-deja-vu/

(15) http://tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2014/09/expo-chicago-2014.html

(16) http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/out-at-expo-chicago-2014/3046