+medicine cabinet

up next! HANDSFREE double decker onslaught!

2010-06-19T12:14:00.000-07:00

HANDSFREE PRESENTS

DR.LUNCH

Peeing is private but those flaming hot cheetos are for the public. INDULGE! Light a match!

Opening: Saturday,June 26th, 7-11pm

Up Next-Philip von Zweck

2010-04-22T13:55:00.000-07:00

+medicine cabinet presents Philip von Zweck's medicine cabinet

by Philip von Zweck

No metaphors, no similes.

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 15, 7-11pm

UP NEXT-CLARE BRITT

2010-03-15T20:11:00.001-07:00

THE LONGER YOUR INSTRUMENT IS THE MORE POWER IT HAS

by Clare Britt

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 10th, 7-11pm

Taking it's title from countless spam email subject lines, for +medicine cabinet Britt has decided to pay homage to the male anatomy. Incorporating imagery of dicks, balls, roosters, sausages and more, Britt addresses her personal psyche and sexual frustration with the tools (heh heh!) of play, humor, and crudeness. Playing with different slang vocabulary she will construct a layering of pictures from magazines and books based on cocks and balls. Finally, a dick joke show!!! Just in time for spring.

Up Next-Christa Donner

2010-01-16T17:56:00.000-08:00

Non-Prescription
by
Christa Donner

This time around in the cabinet, we are very lucky to have Christa Donner grace us with her representations of viscera as they flicker between organs and ornament while blurring what is anatomically correct with the imagined. Join us for this most non didactic (and less awkward) lesson in human anatomy since your 8th grade sex ed class!

Mining the language of folding medical charts and pop-up books, Christa Donner creates alternative anatomies based on sensation and imagination. Her work has been exhibited internationally and across the US, including major projects for the Museum Bellerive (Zurich, Switzerland), Kravets-Wehby Gallery (New York, NY), POST (Los Angeles, CA), the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (Cleveland, OH), the ANTI Festival (Kuopio, Finland), and the Centro Columbo Americano (Medellin, Colombia), and is interwoven with a wide variety of community-based projects, including zines, audio interviews and public workshops investigating body image, art and activism.

Opening Reception: Friday, February 12, 7-11 pm

Chicago's #1 Bathroom Gallery!

2010-01-06T18:08:00.002-08:00

The competition was fierce this year but we still managed to come out on top according to NewCity.
Recently the bathroom has acquired a new edition. I got an electric toothbrush! After not being to the dentist in 10 years I realized it's time to take action. I fucking hate dentists.

October 24th-Jesse Mclean!

2009-09-22T08:46:00.001-07:00

Side Effects
by
Jesse Mclean
Saturday, October 24th, 7-11pm
Pharmaceutical marketing strategies and scenic nature photography combine to serve up a warning: Don’t get too comfortable on that plateau. While the view is spectacular there are other forces at work, just out of earshot and bubbling their way toward the placid peaks.

Jesse McLean is an artist working primarily with video. She was born in Philadelphia, studied art at Oberlin College and received her MFA in Moving Image from University of Illinois at Chicago. She has shown her work most recently at threewalls, Migrating Forms at Anthology Film Archives, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Director’s Lounge in Berlin, FLEX, Lump Gallery and Space 1026.

Up Next-Michaela Calhoun

2009-07-19T20:42:00.001-07:00

Michaela Calhoun

Thalia: Lower Lid Blepharoplasty

oil on Canvas

9x12

2009

+Medicine Cabinet+ is extremely excited to present a diorama by artist Michaela Calhoun. Michaela's work in fabric, sculpture, and painting explores the intersection of her practice as a fabricator of facial prosthetics with her interest in folklore (specifically the superstitions attached to magpies). Like a Cabinet of Curiosities traditionally showcasing medical oddities (even though back in the day the "cabinets" were actually small rooms), the faux wood parameters of the +Medicine Cabinet+ will host a proposal for the rectification of a wound which derived from a direct blow of fairytale violence.

SATURDAY,AUGUST 15th, 7-11pm

UP NEXT-NICHOLAS PETERSON

2009-06-25T10:33:00.000-07:00

Nicholas Peterson
Opening-Friday, July 17th, 7-11pm

Nicholas Peterson incorporates his drawings and paintings into found objects, most of which he uncovered while at work in a local greenhouse. Similar to the greenhouse in a bustling metropolis, Nicholas' work explores the infrequent and mostly futile attempts of pre-industrial plant and animal life's re-entry into the post-industrial urban landscape. A coyote in the freezer of a downtown QuizNo's sandwich shop, a miniature gallery in the +Medicine Cabinet+ of a small two bedroom apartment in Bridgeport, a beer, a Smith's mix tape, skateboarding, and mid July heat and humidity. Join Us!

UP NEXT-Kevin Robinson

2009-06-03T10:38:00.000-07:00

Kevin Robinson
Opening Reception: June 19, 7-11pm

The connection between our childhood sense of mirth and wonder and our adult desires for stability and a sense of security are explored in the Medicine Cabinet by Kevin Robinson. His installation, "The Magic Medicine Cabinet" looks back at the games of our childhood and the insecurity of adulthood. By channeling the power of the Magic Eight Ball into the Medicine Cabinet, Robinson hopes to inspire participants, rekindling a sense of wonder into day to day life. He invites participants to concentrate and ask the Magic Medicine Cabinet a yes or no question, open the door and receive the answer.

NEXT UP-BEN RUSSELL

2009-05-08T21:44:00.001-07:00

BEN RUSSELL IS MEDICINE CABINET
I used to say "I" and "me"
Now it's "us", now it's "we"
A veritable cabinet of curiosities himself, occasionally Chicago-based media artist/performer/curator Ben Russell brings his heretofore unacknowledged skills of video camouflage and virtual mimicry to a one-night only engagement at the fabled Medicine Cabinet. Watch in slack-jawed disbelief as he transmutes the world into his image in reverse, utilizing a battery of tricks and tools in the service of ALWAYS BECOMING that include (but are not limited to): live video performance, light-sensitive electronics, Michael Jackson at age 13, and a makeshift cloak of invisibility.

OPENING RECEPTION
FRIDAY,MAY 22, 7-11pm
RUNS TILL JUNE 12

Next up Burtonwood and Holmes!!!

2009-03-24T19:44:00.001-07:00

Burtonwood and Holmes
at
Medicine Cabinet
Saturday, April 18th, 7-11pm

The link between consumption and war are made most apparent in Burtonwood and Holmes' large scale sculptures, paintings, installations and urban interventions. Combining throw away coupon print media with the instruments of the battlefield, Burtonwood and Holmes have been fighting the good fight for quite some time now. Come and witness Saturday, April 18th, how these big builders can operate within the modest parameters of the Medicine Cabinet!

UP NEXT- JT Rogstad

2009-02-28T12:13:00.000-08:00

FRIDAY,MARCH 20th, 7-11pm,

3216 s. Morgan St.
Apt 4r
Chicago, IL, 60608

Up next at +Medicine Cabinet+ is artist JT Rogstad. Simply put: a memorial will be constructed. He has created a document of the process to lead up to the final display of his diorama here. You can see previous work by JT, and former Cabinet Member; Noah Furman, here.

From the artist:

Stark Trek::A nervous ensign rebuilds a poor facsimile of the island city of a fallen street racer using the plastic sex tools of a sexless society. A memorial in miniature for a legless wonder and a good friend.

February 20th-RYAN MURRAY

2009-01-17T10:17:00.000-08:00

Friday February 20, 7-11 PM,
3216 S. Morgan st. apt 4r
Chicago, Il, 60608

Ryan Murray, a self described "practitioner of both rigorous academic inquiry and deviant epistemic methods" will be next in the Cabinet. However, it is not just the modest interior of the cabinet that will be the site for this abutment of science, mysticism, and psychedelia. A correaliting site, the refrigerator door, will also serve as host to this alchemical interplay. Magnets may be involved.

DIORAMA BY NOAH FURMAN- DECEMBER 19th

2008-12-10T07:38:00.000-08:00

Next up, drawer and painter Noah Furman is trying his hand at a diorama within the faux wood parameters of the Medicine Cabinet. It will be the only way for a healthy transition into the holidays. You can check out more of his stuff here. This opening will be one for the history books because it will coincide with the Ping Pong of Gods event in the Second Bedroom. Mark it on your calenders.

Friday, December 19th, 7-11pm
3216 s. Morgan st.
Apt 4r
Chicago, Il, 60608

Opening pushed to November 8th

2008-10-25T10:48:00.000-07:00

We had to push back the opening date to the 8th.

Up Next-TIMOTHY PIGOTT!

2008-09-23T20:13:00.000-07:00

TIMOTHY PIGOTT Opening Reception Saturday November 8, 7-11pm
Timothy Pigott is a collector or archivist of sorts. He catalogs his experiences at the Wilson Skateboard park religiously. You can experience this in explicit detail at his site SUCH LUCK and perhaps live vicariously through the video and photographs that describe so well the experience of skateboarding at Wilson Skatepark. Lucky for the curratorial board here at Medicine Cabinet,Timothy is also a producer of incredibly detailed and poignant portraits of dead people and friends. In regards to his outstanding track record, we here at the M.C. are confident that the fruit of Tim's labor will be greatly tempting, perfectly ripe, and most importantly nutritional! I hope you can come and see whatever the hell he is going to put in the cabinet. This show is the same night as Ann Campbells' Getting Strong Now, in the Second Bedroom. Radness!

A DIORAMA BY ROLLIN HUNT OPENING SEPTEMBER 13

2008-08-08T16:58:00.000-07:00

This is a drawing by Rollin Hunt who happens to be an all around righteous fellow. He makes amazing paintings, drawings, comics and music. He will be the first in the cabinet. The opening is September 13 starting at 8 pm. You can check out Rollins art and music here . Keep in mind that the opening will coincide with that of Mathew Paul Jinks installation titled Because It All Shifts, in the Second Bedroom Project Space, so the night should be exponentially spectacular. Peace!

The Cabinet

2008-08-04T19:40:00.001-07:00