Loft 3a [a ____ ]

So Long, Farewell, alvederzane.....

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:21:53 -0500

It’s been a fantastic run, thanks for all the support. Loft 3a, in it’s previous capacity, is no more. Thanks again, and best wishes to all!

Dan Mullens, tonight. 7-10pm. Open Bar. Awesome...

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:36:24 -0500

Dan Mullens, tonight. 7-10pm. Open Bar. Awesome paintings.

Interview with the artist soon!

March 26th, Queerer Park MOVED TO NEW LOCATION

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:02:00 -0600

Flopsy Tea House (entrance through alley)
2736 W. North Avenue
Bus: 72, 49
El: Blue to Western-O’hare

Artifice magazine’s lofty launch party… via Kathleen Rooney

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:39:15 -0600

Artifice magazine’s lofty launch party… via Kathleen Rooney

Even more photos from the Artifice Mag release party. The album...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:31:00 -0600

Even more photos from the Artifice Mag release party. The album by Adam Daniels can be found here.

Artifice Magazine Release party photos, are YOU in them? Check...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:01:00 -0600

Artifice Magazine Release party photos, are YOU in them?

Check out the album by Jacob here.

Artifice Issue #1 Release Party Saturday, February 27

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:53:00 -0600

7pm
10:30pm: DJ Bret Randle spins funk and soul
Free beer; $10 suggested donation

Spudnik Press recently completed an exciting collaboration with Artifice Magazine. Ten Spudnik Press printers were selected to illustrate ten stories from the first issue of this brand new non-profit Chicago-based literary magazine. We invite you to celebrate the release of this new magazine (and this new beautiful suite of screen prints). The party will include live readings, and editional artwork by the illustrators.

Featured artists: Liz Born, Lilli Carré, Sanya Glisic, Kim Heiney, Angee Lennard, CJ Mace, Michelle Mashon, Jeremy Lundquist, Colin Palombi, and Tom Wilder.

photos of the queerer party, without permission from bernard...

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:11:00 -0600

photos of the queerer party, without permission from bernard manning. more here

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:25:53 -0600

Queerer Park at The Loft: Fri Jan 29th 10-2am

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:16:00 -0600

DEC 11th After Party (BYOB 8-11pm) for Exhibition THE BOOK as...

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:08:00 -0600

DEC 11th After Party (BYOB 8-11pm) for Exhibition THE BOOK as its OWN ADDENDUM

Join us for the opening night of this exhibition at Marwen 5:00pm - 7:00pm 833 North Orleans Street, Chicago, IL AND THEN take the 11 bus over to the loft!!! to party!!! After Party DJ’d by “David Drake & Brett Randle”

Participating artists: Mitsuko Brooks,Morgan Cahn, Jen Cooney , Alfredo Garcia , Julia Hendrickson , Zach Huelsing , Regin Igloria , Edith Kollath , Matt Kuhlman , Zoe McCloskey , Shawn Sheehy
Jeremy Tinder

You can RSVP for the marwen opening on Facebook.
For more information, contact Arielle Bielak
312.944.2418 ext 206 abielak@marwen.org

Photo

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:25:24 -0500

NO SHOW OPENING I: Brooks Wingfield Girsch

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:49:00 -0500

NO SHOW OPENING I: Brooks Wingfield Girsch

Brooks was on her way from an artist in Residence at Oxbows Winter Session and on her way to one at the Vermont Studio Center. Luckily for us she passed by the Loft.

Zoe: I was trying to remember what you were explaining to me last night about why you don’t like to show your paintings…?

B: It’s not that I don’t like to show them, there is just that question of what the painting becomes after the process. For me it is so much about the decision making within a single painting and those relationships, so once I’ve resolved them,…it’s hard to say. It’s like I like to work on board so I can stack them when I’m done, so that they are filed away. I begin with no conception when I start which is probably more important than what I do when it’s done. But as you work on it, it becomes about the success and the failure, especially about the failures, about the inability to achieve. It’s hard for me to talk about my work without talking about how much I love painting and the discipline of painting.

This is tangential but Outsider Artists, that’s sort of a coveted identity now a days, in many cases, are peculiar because they are not achieving, [the work is about] the reaching that’s falling short, and I guess I love going into a small town museum and seeing,…because there is something new that is created in the world though the striving. Even if in conventional terms it’s a failure or a bad aesthetic, but it just makes something that’s so delicious for me. I think I’m a better draftsman than I am a painter. I don’t always set out to make a shitty painting. It’s not ironic. It literally comes out.

I wouldn’t mind showing [my work] but I just don’t like that it becomes an object, and has a border and is put on a wall and that becomes strange, because its very much a process and very much alive in my studio. And I think that’s a worry for a lot of artists; what happens to the work once it goes into the world. I have the constant feeling that I’m practicing for the next thing, it’s a journey without a goal, so that’s why I’m not concerned with the failure of anything because I’m so tightly involved in a learning process and seeing and a reaction to a decision I make, and one decision necessitates another choice, and yeah it’s like a painting having a conversation with its self and I’m following that. So my big hope is that you would be able to see that struggle in the painting and yeah I think that’s all part of the humor, like you said it was cheesy, but I don’t think cheesy is the right word necessarily, unless you mean a real seriousness that falls flat unintentionally. *

Loft3A was tragically without the internet for a WEEK. As a...

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:46:00 -0500

Loft3A was tragically without the internet for a WEEK. As a result some wonderful things happened: Jake performed and took prompts from the “audience” and came up with an amazing song in the key of G about a troublesome text messaging octopus, a tent/fort was built, exquisite corpse was played, and home made mad libs discovered the phrase “sweaty hung sticky”

pics from the show: palmyra, eric hall, orange drink.

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:58:08 -0500

pics from the show: palmyra, eric hall, orange drink.

SAT SEPT 26th 9PM: PALMYRA, Eric Hall, and ORANGE DRINK

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:33:00 -0500

PALMYRA from Brooklyn NY, Eric Hall from NOMO, and Chicago’s ORANGE DRINK perform at Loft3a (3036 n lincoln)

SEPT 26 DOORS OPEN 9PM (bring dollars for pbr tips and for donations to the band)

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As a treat, Palmyra from Brooklyn and Eric Hall are coming to LOFT3A. Erik Hall, from the band NOMO, is showcasing his new solo material.

Listen to Palmyra.

About Erik Hall.
Listen to NOMO.

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I had the joy of seeing Orange Drink of Hemlock Records just this month at the Hungry Brain. They are an intelligent and enjoyable team of “musicians?” !?!? A little nihilism, cute-ism and whatnot. You will not want to miss it.

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