Description: Featuring:Boyko Asparuhov, Rudi Berlin, Kathleen Deasey, Chad Fabruada, Amanda Huber, Morgan Leavitt, Nando Leira, Corbett Lunsford, Joelle McTigue, James Negley, Robert Neureitner, Rachel Ourada, Amy Ross, Susan Russell, Richard Sperry, Melinda Williams, Casey Wise, Peter WyrobaOpening ReceptionThursday, August 27:00 – 9:00 PMNo RSVP or Admission

Description: Thomas Robertello Gallery is pleased to present Disco Ball in the Woods, a video by Chicago based artist Adam Ekberg August 4 – September 4, 2007.This window video installation will be screened 10:00am - 3:00am each day during the exhibit and is visible from the sidewalk outside the gallery. Adam Ekberg’s photographs and video work record the existential spiritual presence of the self through the thoughtful staging of ephemeral events. The work navigates secret wormholes of the universe, gathering mystical evidence that is reflected back to the viewer through the refraction of light, extraordinarily tenuous and illogical circumstances, and singularly concentrated imagery. This distillation produces a body of work comprised of formal compositions that are at once visionary and accessible. Ekberg’s simplicity of means allows each image to communicate the profound in the everyday. His imparted artistic ideals imbue each image with a gentle understanding that allows the viewer to experience the extraordinary in the ordinary, elevating perception and wisdom with the selflessness of an evolved yogi or spiritual being.Disco Ball in the Woods is a video created in 2006. It is a 4 ½ minute loop picturing an impishly magical scenario comprised of an out-of-place disco ball on a snowy mountaintop in Maine reflecting an artificial light source at dusk. Its illogical presence is hardly questionable given the sheer beauty of the sparkling light dancing on the snow. Ekberg’s video is mesmerizing and meditative, ultra-hip and timeless.Adam Ekberg received an MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute in 2006. His work has been exhibited in Chicago at the Contemporary Art Workshop, Bridge Art Fair, Fifty/50 Gallery, and Gallery 2 among other venues.

Description: Reception Time : 6pm-10pmPlease join 4Art and our Phase IV artists in celebration of month four. Our six month residency program is unique in that each month our dedicated and talented team of artists rotates new works every month which allows them to show an Evolution of work.4Art is also proud to welcome Guest artist Robert Chi,photography.NEWS:Our 2007 ANNUAL ARTWALK Dates : Friday Sept28th 6pm-10pm,Sat 29th & Sun30th noon-7pm. There will be over a hundred participants, galleries &artists studios.

Description: BAF07 is a multdisciplinary educational arts and cultural festival showcasing the work of Puerto Rican, Latino and Humboldt Part artist through the presentation of art exhibits, performances, workshops and demonstrations.

Description: Our summer group show featuring painters Joseph Innocenti, David Lozano and Joey Wozniak, photographer Cole Robertson, and sculptors Peter Gray and Russ White.

Description: Morpho Gallery presents a curated show by Sheryl Orlove that showcases work of six local Chicago-based printmakers: Judith Hladik-Voss, Janet Lefley, Shannon Lunkes, Sheryl Orlove, Jeremy Price, and Jen Thomas. The show displays a wide array of subject matter dealing with universal humanity and personal iconography.The show continues through September 4th, 2007.