Two Conservative and One Craaaaaaazy

The group I was with made our way over to Superior Street in the River North to check out a few galleries. I really enjoyed the work of Valery Koshliakov at Maya Polsky Gallery. He used paint and charcoal and other media on giant paper that was assembled from many different materials and he made it all seem very Russian. Beautiful work-able to be loose like a sketch yet they were complete, ready to be sold off the wall.

Then we checkout out Ann Nathan gallery which was a group showing of mostly representational, mostly figural work. Great showing of the many different approaches that exist within the same context of the figure and really how broad that topic is.

Finally, we hopped a few buses and did some trekking over to the gallery Roots and Culture (which is a fantastic space by the way) to see Carol Jackson's new work. Incredible show. The scene there is vibrant and youthful, young hipsters and dreamers and screw ups all drunk and looking at art together and it felt like home. No smell of a dealer or a collector. Very outsider. Had a kitchen in the back for baking treats and of course serving TONS of alcohol. Awesome.