MIDWESTERN BLAB!
Midwestern Contributors to BLAB! Exhibit / Chicago
Opens this Thursday, June 18, 5-8 pm

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Midwestern BLAB!, curated by Monte Beauchamp, the Chicago-based creator of the art anthology BLAB!, has included the works of five Midwestern artists who have contributed significantly to BLAB! and are exemplars of the periodical’s core values. Anchor Graphics at Columbia College Chicago is the co-curator of this exhibition.

“Though BLAB!’s scope is international,” writes Bill North, Senior Curator of the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University, in the exhibition’s catalog essay. “The underpinning of its cornucopian visual feast is resolutely Midwestern. BLAB!, a product of the Midwest, boldly affirms the positive view of Midwestern culture. And, in the face of BLAB!, claims of the region’s cultural inferiority ring hollow.”

EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Don Colley, Tom Huck, Teresa James, CJ Pyle, and Fred Stonehouse

WHEN: June 18 – July 22, 2009

OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, June 18, 5-8 pm

WHERE: Columbia College Chicago’s Leviton A+D Gallery
619 S. Wabash Avenue

GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 5pm, Thursday 11 am – 8 pm

MORE INFO: Gallery Coordinator: 312.369.8668 // Press Inquiries: 312.369.8695