Peanut Gallery

Here’s a link to some info on it, and here’s a map. Check it out, starts tomorrow night.

FORM OVER FUNCTION
NEW, NON-FUNCTIONAL WORK BY FURNITURE DESIGNERS
Curated by Nick Lippert

Peanut Gallery
1000 N. California Ave., Chicago
February 4 – February 28, 2012
Opening reception: Sunday February 5, 5-9pm

Seth Deysach
Chris Bach
Bryan Boline
Dan Sullivan
Doug Thome
Zak Rose
Scott Patterson
Andrew Kephart
Aaron Pahmier
Nick Lippert
Craig Hamilton & Kate Votava

FORM OVER FUNCTION is a multimedia group exhibition opening Sunday, February 5 featuring non-functional new work by twelve furniture makers. The premise of the show is to challenge the designer to break the mindset of functionality and explore materials for their aesthetic value; to simply to create an object that has no function other than visual interest. FOF gives the artists the impetus to create settings and objects that are not constrained by the human form.

WIPE OUT got a review in Newcity!

Peanut Gallery is pleased to present:

WIPE OUT
a multimedia group exhibition featuring:
Andrea Jablonski
Chris Hodge
Erik Peterson
Mary Porterfield
Otto Splotch
Merje Veski

Peanut Gallery
1000 N. California Ave, Chicago
January 8 – January 24, 2012
Opening reception: Sunday January 8, 5 – 9pm
otherwise open by appointment

WIPE OUT features six artists’ imaginings and perceptions of annihilation. As we begin 2012, the year that some believe will be our last on earth, The End is in the air.

The artists in WIPE OUT were selected because of their ability to imagine, digest and embrace the possibility of humanity’s demise. If we are doomed, at least we should enjoy it. Consider the opening reception Peanut Gallery’s answer to Sunday School – the work in WIPEOUT conveys the essence of a Baptist preacher’s apocalyptic vision filtered through the hyperactive, slightly deranged and certainly dangerous mind of a visionary anarchist.

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Peanut Gallery is a space for creative collaboration, experimentation, exhibition and good, old-fashioned mingling. Their goal is to connect creative people with one another and nurture a vibrant, inclusive community of artists and intellectuals.