Up Next-Christa Donner

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!

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!

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

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

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

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

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