Cobalt Studio

LOCAL BRILLIANCE A group show featuring a variety of styles...

Sun, 05 May 2013 20:39:37 -0500

LOCAL BRILLIANCE

A group show featuring a variety of styles and mediums. The common thread these artists share is their dedication and tenacity to continue developing their artistic practice. They also work simultaneously in close proximity. Selected by guest curator Mike Pocius, this group of artist are going to show their recent work. The show will be an eclectic blend with many unique points of view. You won’t want to miss this experience. We have added viewing times in anticipation.

Reception June 15, 6pm-11pm

Featuring:
Katherine Perryman
Duk Ju L. Kim
Hector Duarte
Ken Hirte
Walter Fydryck
Steve Leavitt
Michael Hernandez de Luna
Antonio Martinez

Additional viewing hours. Sunday: June 16, 1pm-4pm Saturday: June 22, 1pm-4pm
All other viewing by appointment. Contact Antonio Martinez via email at cobaltartstudio@gmail.com

Blink Mob Studios release of Art Tank...

Sun, 05 May 2013 16:05:16 -0500

Blink Mob Studios release of Art Tank Toys…EXTENDED

Thanks to everyone who attended our reception Friday and our Saturday extended hours. We will be available by appointment the rest of the week. [Inbox me for an appointment.]

Plus we are happy to announce an additional Saturday May 11, 1-4pm extension to this event.

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We encourage our Chicago artists to participate in this...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:32:12 -0500

We encourage our Chicago artists to participate in this International Post Card Show. Create a postcard. Include your name and city. Give us your vision of Europe. There will be no jury, no fee and NO RETURNS!
Mail it to:
Brandstifter
Kaiser Strasse 43
55116 Mainz
Germany

In September all the work will be exhibited at Rinckenhof Zwiebrucken and www.kunstzwerg.net
Located near the Austrian, French and German border, this show will consist of a great blend of artists. If you want to contribute be sure to mail your post card soon.

Deadline is August 20, 2013.

Cobalt Studio will share the photos of the exhibition in September.

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Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:41:12 -0600

The Bird House Museum of Bridgeport Annual Card Board Show This...

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 14:34:36 -0600

The Bird House Museum of Bridgeport Annual Card Board Show

This show consists of art works made by tremendous witty local artists. Challenged to create art work priced under $100 using cardboard. The fun unique pieces will be sold at affordable prices, just in time for the gift giving season.

OPENS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15th @ 5pm -11pm

MUSIC & REFRESHMENTS
Extended Hours: SUNDAY, December 16th 1pm-8pm

We encourage those attending to use public transportation as parking is limited.

Artists Participating Requirements:All work must be labled (artist name, sale price, contact info)

All work must be original
All work must be for sale
All work must be made of/on card board
Maximum price per piece can NOT EXCEED $100
Unframed Small Art Work preferred
Limit of 3 pieces per artist
Limit of 11”x14” dimension…(14”x11”)
50% of Sales will be given to the artist
50% of Sales will be given to the Bird House Museum

Drop off times can be arranged prior to the exhibition, Dead line for drop off is December 13th 8pm at Cobalt Studio 1950 W. 21st Street, 1st FL.

Works will be accepted December 12th & 13th from Noon-8pm

Questions? email: cobaltartstudio@gmail.com (SUBJECT: CARDBOARD SHOW)

COLLAGE COLLAB for COBALT Fundraiser Friday, May 25th...

Mon, 07 May 2012 15:07:00 -0500

COLLAGE COLLAB for COBALT

Fundraiser

Friday, May 25th / 6-9pm

Cobalt Studio

1950 W. 21st St, Storefront

Chicago IL

Cobalt Studio needs your help to keep our doors open. We’d like to keep things Going, Growing and Evolving at Cobalt with shows and events that engage and stimulate the Pilsen community. The theme for the night will be on Collaboration & Collage works paper.

What to expect:

Art, Music, Drinks & tons of fun
Support us by getting raffle tickets to win original artwork by talented Chicago artists / Raffle tickets: $2 or (3/$5)
Have a blast making your own collage work. Materials will be provided but you are welcome to bring your own

Artists:Contact us if you’d like to make a donation of artwork for the raffle or in any other way!cobaltartstudio@gmail.com Deadline to submit is 5/18/12

THANKS!

In our continued support of Proyecto Latina and in celebration...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:29:50 -0500

In our continued support of Proyecto Latina

and in celebration of Poetry month

we will host a special PL event this month!

Along with the regularly scheduled open mic poetry you are invited to chime-in on the collaborative poem that will be created in response to the work of Proyecto Latina’s featured artist Victoria Martinez, who is currently exhibiting a new body of work at Cobalt Studio.

Excited to integrate poetry into her work, Victoria is providing pieces of cloth for this activity that will be pieced together to create an exquisite corpse

Cobalt Studio

1950 W. 21st St., Storefront

Monday, April 16

7 - 9pm

Other Side Breathing //Join us tomorrow//Friday, 4/13...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:21:00 -0500

Other Side Breathing //Join us tomorrow//Friday, 4/13 @cobaltstudio 6pm-9pm

Other Side Breathing: New works by Victoria Martinez

Installation/Collage work by Victoria Martinez, April 2012

Other Side Breathing will present a body of work inspired by various sites around Pilsen. They include alleyways, the abandoned mini mall on Cermak, the late La Unica taco shack, a flower shop and convenient stores. Upon the completion of exhibit, installations will be planted at designated sites and left to rest, live or disappear.

Other Side Breathing: New works by Victoria Martinez Soft...

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:25:00 -0500

Other Side Breathing: New works by Victoria Martinez

Soft sculpture/Installation/Collage work by Victoria Martinez, April 2012

Reception

Friday, April 13th

6pm-9pm

Cobalt Studio

1950 W. 21st St.

Storefront

Chicago, IL

My artwork explores the ephemeral, I am drawn to memories and events I cannot completely comprehend. Through soft sculpture installation and collage I assemble nostalgic, festive and curious work utilizing materials that are given to me, found or purchased at local stores, depending on my location. The key factor that activates my work are the sensations received from the past be it death, passion, innocence or mystery. -Victoria Martinez

Victoria Martinez is an interdisciplinary artist from Pilsen who received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is also a teaching artist who will be collaborating with youth from Yollocalli Arts Reach to create a soft sculpture installation to be exhibited at The Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University this summer.

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Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:52:47 -0600

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Prima Sakuntabhai 3/2/12-3/18/12 Reception Friday, March 2,...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:06:18 -0600

Prima Sakuntabhai
3/2/12-3/18/12

Reception
Friday, March 2, 2012
6:00pm to 9:00pm

Cobalt Studio
1950 W. 21st St/Storefront
Chicago 60608

The Mayan temple of Chichen Itza in Mexico is one of the examples of ancient constructions which strove to render a perceptive experience. During the spring and the autumn solstice, the sun casts a form of a serpent on the steps leading to the top of the pyramid. Mathematics and engineering serve the religious purpose of
provoking awe.

21st century Chicago, a widely-spread urban architecture of parking lots also becomes a field of experimentations with perception. The Traders Self Park on Wells Street, facing the Willis Tower, is composed of two identical buildings linked on the 4th floor by a bridge. The particular location offers, not the view of the landmark tower but a construction site that marks the end of the Loop. It is scaled, not to
human but to vehicles, an uninhabited space whose function is only at the service of technology. It epitomizes the metropolis culture that has developed since the urbanization imposing a structural similitude between major cities.

The locations or sites, whether actual or imaginative offer parallel constructions which distort a former view of the space. I either borrow the architectural vocabulary or create an incision into the space of what is balanced, ordered, constructed by subverting objects such as tires or mirrors. My concern for rational, scientific questionings, rendered physical through art forms may relate to the fact that having no homeland, drifting between Thailand, England, France and now the United States of America, I seek not diversity but
unity that holds Mankind, a common drive of humanity. In the mental construction of geometrical space, Man appropriates it for himself and takes profit to build spaces for his own purposes. At the same time, vehicles, from cars to trains are the expression of a profound desire to breach the distance in a territory that do not match his scale. They say that the 20th century has been about the conquest of space and the 21st century concerns itself with time.

PRIMA (Primsuda Sakuntabhai) 13th March 1989, Bangkok. Studies at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

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Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:57:08 -0600

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Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:19:37 -0600

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Proyecto Latina Reading Series//Feb.20, 7pm //Christina Elizabeth Rodriguez//

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:51:14 -0600

Join us for a conversation with diabetes activist Christina Elizabeth Rodriguez. Guests are encouraged you to bring any diabetes themed stories, poems, essays and share your story during the open mic or simply come to connect and learn from Christina’s inspiring story of how she combats diabetes.

Proyecto Latino Reading Series – Free

Monday, February 20, 7PM - 9PM

Cobalt Studio

1950 West 21st Street – Storefront

Chicago, IL 60608

CTA: Damen Pink Line Stop / #50 Damen Bus

Arrive early to sign up for the open mic and remember the Chisme Box is ready to be fed!

Christina Elizabeth Rodriguez is the editorial director at Extra Bilingual Newspaper and has been living with Type 1 diabetes for the past 20 years of her life. Developing a need to educate her peers and those around her about the long-lasting and lethal effects of unhealthy living especially within the Latino community, Christina started blogging for ChicagoNOW on her blog titled Check Yo’ Self, which delves into the complications, nutritional insight, stresses and successes of living with diabetes. In addition, she is also the Communications and Social Media committee chair for the American Diabetes Association Young Professional’s Board. Christina has been a featured guest on Poco A Poco radio as a diabetes activist, is a monthly guest blogger for Latinos in Social Media’s Salud Saturdays and also talks to high school health classes when asked. To get more of her musings and diabetes insights, follow her on Twitter at @kiki416 and @kikisbetes.

Proyecto Latina is a multi-media project that amplifies the success and impact of Latinas in our community. Our initiatives include a reading series and a website that allow us to: create a culture of self-empowerment, spotlight emerging and established Latina talent, create safe spaces in under served communities, and provide a virtual platform to chronicle stories, share resources and start dialogue.

Anthony Marcos Rea / The Ones I Remember Reception/Saturday Feb...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:08:08 -0600

Anthony Marcos Rea / The Ones I Remember

Reception/Saturday Feb 11th 6-9pm

Cobalt Studio/1950 W. 21st St. Storefront, Chicago Il

My artwork extends itself from an internal investigation of memories, male role models and the location of men in both urban and rural spaces that influenced how I perceived what it means to be a man. Through photographic portraiture I have attempted to catalogue the locations where I witnessed these men (together) in working-class, cultural and queer groups. By merging these sites of contention I am attempting to recreate the ongoing tension between my desires in men as a queer man of color and the vulnerabilities within my identity developed by these early constructions of masculinity.

Anthony Marcos Rea
2011

One night reception Friday, December 9, 2011 Cobalt...

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:24:05 -0600

One night reception

Friday, December 9, 2011

Cobalt Studio, 1950 W. 21st St// Storefront Space, Chicago

Skill Party is the result of a series of workshops exploring the space between the artist, teacher, and student, and the interaction between these modes.

It is a participatory project in which the process is as much the work as is the outcome. We are artists learning to become teachers, education researchers, and socially engaged activists working in public schools.

Collaboration, participation, and social engagement are core values in guiding our explorations. The work in the show includes collaborative art works, documentation from workshops, individual art work, and classroom work with young students.

//Mapping, Food, Fiber art, DIY, Ceramics & more//
—
Tess Hwang; Shanna Griffus; Kyle Busse; Krystal Korth; Lucy Saldana; Louie Raymo; Kelsea Cadore; Alana Wynes; Paulina Camacho; Rayshawn Nowlin; Devan Picard; Sarah Lesser; Lindsay Abramo; Jessica Rosenbaum

Questions? cobaltartstudio@gmail.com

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Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:49:24 -0600

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Mike Pocius: Mike’s Kind of Town,One Town That Won’t...

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:55:28 -0500

Mike Pocius: Mike’s Kind of Town,One Town That Won’t Let You Down!
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 12, 2011
6pm-10pm
Selected photographic work of Southside Chicago Artist Mike Pocius

Mike Pocius is a constantly wandering urban explorer taking notes on the state of our metropolis by way of his Nikon film camera and of late, shooting color digital images; People, places, things, the mundane, the minute, the glorious, the profane, the real in reality. At times, the camera focused on grim realities our eyes would rather glance around. Mike calls his visual studies a kind of ”Urban Archaeology” where by all this graphic evidence when stitched together paints a capacious picture of one artist subjective view of our urban enviornment.

On view at the studio is an overview of the artist past and newest work. The artist states, “My work is pretty much street photography built on the foundations of the great ones, such as Robert Frank and Andre Kertex. I try to bring this tradition into the twenty first century.

Slideshow of the Action Figures opening weekend

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:52:29 -0500

Slideshow of the Action Figures opening weekend