Built Festival, Chi Town
A major new art Initiative; BUILT;festival, is a city being created out of shipping containers this summer in Chicago’s Wicker Park Neighborhood. The shipping containers will be given over to Chicago’s contemporary artists and curators to transform into alternative or ‘ guerrilla’ venues.
BUILT is designed as a dynamic space for creative thinking and action, bringing together artists and participants in a cultural activation open to the public.
Date:
Friday August 12th, 5:00pm-10:30pm
Saturday August 13th, 11:00am-10:30pm
Location:
1767 n Milwaukee avenue, Chicago IL 60647
Artists:
Over a hundred independent artists, projects, exhibitions, and performances, which expand on the festival’s themes of urban culture, will open inside and out of our shipping container venues.
Venues:
12 shipping container galleries
BUILT;festival is a grassroots operation located in Chicago Illinois. We hope you can attend the festival and see our efforts to build this second city.
Posted: August 2nd, 2011
at 9:26am by Black Ock
Tagged with chicago, built festival
Categories: art,architecture,design,contemporary,boredom killer
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Team Art! Will Be at Art Chicago’s Next Art Fair
More than an art fair, NEXT is a showcase for the world’s talents and an adventure in innovative culture. An opportunity to redefine the relationship between art and its public, NEXT is a platform for established and emerging galleries to promote the work of cutting-edge artists. NEXT is dedicated to the exhibition and advancement of today’s art. NEXT is the catalyst for the exchange of information and experimental ideas aimed at today’s educated collectors.
For the second year in a row we have made it happen we will be showing our art at one of the world’s largest art events. Last year we made our debut as Allen Vandevers Project space and had great success. The art world used to seem like this mystical place that was only found in fairy tales. Last year we discovered this land and it was as strange and bizarre but magical and beautiful. I hope you come visit us while we secure our foot hold and place in the art world.

Posted: April 5th, 2011
at 12:25pm by Koookiecrumbles
Tagged with art, allen vandever, NEXT, Art Chicago, chicago, art painting, Team Art, next art fair
Categories: art,contemporary,events
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Looking For The Dream Makers
Why is it so hard to find artist that are working hard to make their dreams come true. It seams like most artist I know feel it is too hard to become a successful artist so why try. To make it as an artist in the art world you have to fail over and over again but with time you will start to succeed. Once you start to have some successes that's when the hard work starts to maintain your space in the art world is no easy task. I am always looking for driven hard working artist to work with but this is no easy task. If you are hard working, Driven by your dreams, and refuse to take no for an answer you are the type of artist I am looking for.
Posted: January 6th, 2011
at 4:09pm by Koookiecrumbles
Tagged with art, allen vandever, chicago, dreams, opart, artist
Categories: life,art,contemporary,philosophy,art theory
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The Single Helix Produced by Armando
Electronic dance and breakbeat instrumentals from young Chicago composer, Armando Perez from Belmont Electric Studios on the DILLIGAF Label print. Eclectic, experimental and memorable. This album is the soundtrack to a house party or even an ambiant afternoon to yourself.
Feel free to the download the album here and leave feedback if you could….
If you dig it, please buy the album at CD Baby and look for it on iTunes in the near future!
Posted: January 2nd, 2010
at 10:07pm by Koookiecrumbles
Tagged with chicago, Armando Perez, The Single Helix, Belmont Electric Studios, electronic, breakbeat, instrumental, DILLIGAF Records
Comments: 2 comments
Allen Vandever art post "Cave to Corcovado"
Cave to Corcovado Acrylic by Allen Vandever
She became so worn down from the unrelenting struggle; she could no longer fight against her tormentors. She finally succumbed to their hundreds of tugging and clasping hands, though she still had the weight of the living. It seemed almost a relief when they took her away. But though her lids expressed serenity, her vacant eyes revealed only a shell, a vessel empty of its purpose. Her soul was taken to a multitude of directions, and I was left, lost to their route.
Images of my ex-wife’s breakdown still haunt me to this day. This is the first, of a series of three, about this time period of our lives, which I began about 8 years ago. Shedding One’s Skin, is the third, and is the subject of the last posting.
Posted: December 12th, 2009
at 11:27am by Koookiecrumbles
Tagged with art, allen vandever, chicago, painting, acrylic
Categories: art,contemporary
Comments: 1 comment
Allen Vandever art post "Shedding One’s Skin"
Shedding One’s Skin Acrylic by Allen Vandever
This strange being convulses violently until her release, but once in the air of the world outside its shell, it writhes and shrinks from the sun too hot mercilessly scorching its translucent skin, too bright for the pupils in their first exposure to its rays. She has wrenched apart her soft underside from the hardened, weatherworn shell once donning her beautiful face. She is not the worm becoming moth; she is a detestable carrion bird emerging from timber not yet lit. A scavenger of her own body left on a pyre not aflame for ashes. She is saturated in all the secretions of a gapping wound, her body raw, tender, and vulnerable. My lady must walk in darkness; she must walk alone in the black of her despair until she brings herself to walk in the light once more. In these shadows I cannot reach her, she does not see my hand, does not see my face or even hear my voice. She has foregone her shell and with it everything of her life, including myself. Her shell reclines in a posture of malaise- a haunting reminder of how easily she slipped away from me.
Posted: November 28th, 2009
at 6:13pm by Koookiecrumbles
Tagged with change, art, allen vandever, chicago, painting, acrylic
Categories: art,contemporary,philosophy,art theory
Comments: 1 comment
Allen Vandever art post "Weight of the City"
Weight of the City Acrylic, Epoxy Resin by Allen Vandever
She is bound and falling deeper into the chasm of her despair. The glow of the city lights illuminates this dark scene, making a display of her suffering as she falls deeper into the vast depths of loneliness. She goes down blind to the glorious vision of the world before her. She is stripped of control, but our heroine descends placidly, for she knows the entire city is underwater being pulled into the mouth of the same abyss.
Posted: November 21st, 2009
at 7:21pm by Koookiecrumbles
Tagged with culture, art, allen vandever, chicago, painting, acrylic, resin, city
Categories: art,design,contemporary,art theory
Comments: 3 comments
Allen Vandever Art Post "Disco"
Disco Acrylic, Epoxy Resin by Allen Vandever
I relinquish conscious control over my limbs, my mind drifts back into the periphery, allowing a primal call to create the motions of my body. The mind becomes quiet, and I behold the glorious interweaving patterns and colors breathing and colliding in vivid translucence. My skin ignites with burning energy, growing hotter and hotter until I burst into flames. My body extends out to the furthest reaches of the flames, where I burn even hotter, fueling the conflagration. Steadily, I become a pillar of flame, ascending higher and higher over the earth. And from this height, I have the vision of a million worlds.
When the mind and body ascend into another plane of sight and existence, the sensations are beyond what is conceivable in the existing material world, so the words fail me, and I can only describe it as ‘other-worldly.’ In my experience, I have been able to reach this lucidity through direct mental meditation-in a waking or dreaming state, indirect meditation-often brought upon by the trance-inducing power of sex or dance, and with the use of psychedelic drugs. All have played a profound role in weaving my transcendental experience, guiding me to realize the infinitely complex dimensions of the human mind and spirit.
Posted: November 14th, 2009
at 12:57pm by Koookiecrumbles
Tagged with design, culture, art, allen vandever, chicago, acrylic, erotic, dance, disco
Categories: art,contemporary,philosophy,art theory
Comments: 3 comments
Allen Vandever art post "Wind Dancer"
Wind Dancer Acrylic, Epoxy Resin by Allen Vandever
I have painted her in my presence many times before, but only through solitary reflection have I been able to capture the haunting mystery of my muse’s gaze. Only in quiet brushstrokes have I been able to capture the contours of her hips and the curvature of her waist, merging in the hypnosis of her dance. The rhythm pulls her this way, then that, the richness of sound is given form through the motions of her arms and the swaying of her shoulders. She flows like a willow tree in the wind, her body submitting to the elemental forces. But, as she manifests an image of the music, her face is languidly detached, unaware of the power of her loins and the art in her movement.
When she looks upon her reflection she does not see the vast countryside spanning unhindered over the plains of her neck, down her collarbone, through her sternum. She does not notice her amber-glowing skin stretched across the lines of her being, like a hide stretched across the body of a drum, stirring her into life. She has a strange fixation, a birthmark, as much a part of her as her nose and lips, but to her a curse confining her in isolation. Her body has the power to make even humdrum pieces of music profoundly brilliant, but I will forever contemplate her eyes, which have the power to express her lonely struggle and the quiet despair of her soul.
Posted: November 11th, 2009
at 12:10pm by Koookiecrumbles
Tagged with culture, art, allen vandever, chicago, painting, acrylic, muse, dance
Categories: art,contemporary,philosophy,art theory
Comments: 2 comments