July 12 - August 18
IF YOU LIVED HERE YOU'D BE HOME BY NOW
A three-part series at rowlandcontemporary.
2006
June 9
NEW WORK
JEREMY BOYLE, solo exhibition.
May 5
ENDO GAINER
J. PATRICK WALSH III, solo exhibition.
April / May
GROUP GROUP SHOW and NFO XPO at Version Fest ‘06 Parallel Cities.
April 7
COVERS
OLI WATT, solo exhibition.
April 2
WILD TALENTS
A talent show organized by ALINE CAUTIS.
March 3
ALL EYEZ ON ME
JUSTIN SCHAEFER, solo exhibition..
February 18
SILENT AUCTION. To benefit Booster and Seven.
January 14
AROUND IT. A screening of the work of 11 contemporary film and video artists.
2005
November 18
GROUP EXHIBITION.
WILLIAM J. O'BRIEN, CHRIS UPHUES,
DAVID ROTHENBERG, &c.
October 14
CrystalMythFantasyMeth.
KELLY BRESLIN, solo exhibition.
September 9
KALEIDOSCOPIC
AMY MAYFIELD + ANDREA MEYERS, group exhibition.
June 10
ADVENTURES IN DECADENCE
RYAN SWANSON, solo exhibition.
May 27
READING
With Chicago writers Adam Novy + Daniel Borzutzky.
May 13
GEOTROPISM
COREY ANTIS, solo exhibition.
April 22
MY OTHER CAR IS A BROOM
JOSH FAUGHT, solo exhibition..
April 11
MICRO-CINEMA VIDEO SCREENING.
Curated by MIKE MILES + DAVID LEWIS.
March 18
WE'RE ALL FOR FORGETTING
TIM RIDLEN, solo exhibition.
March 3
SEXUAL POLITICS TODAY
Lecture + Discussion with GREGG BORDOWITZ.
February 20
A performance by GRIZZLY BEAR.
Justin Schaefer
All Eyez On Me is the first official exhibition of Booster and Seven’s spring 2006 season. Justin Schaefer will be showing the results of a project that circumvents the gestural notions of portraiture.
A central component to this exhibition is a collection of portraits, which Schaefer requested from both Chicago based artists and non-artists, familiar and non-familiar sources. Schaefer’s interest in the range of perception and how it can manifest itself during the creation of a portrait has been integral to his project. In an attempt to amass a dynamic range of portrait studies, Schaefer went to a variety of sources. One example is a collaboration with artist Caleb Lyons at an all girls’ catholic school, where Schaefer posed as a figure in a drawing class with the intention of including a selection of their drawings in his exhibition. The final overall collection of portraits, realized through a variety of approaches and media, will be presented in the exhibition as a component of his new body of work and as an integral part of his current practice. Also on view are four new abstract paintings. Personal family photographs are also presented and maintain a referential relationship with the paintings.
