Weekly Events Calendar: 01.24.07

Art & Design Events...

Kara Walker Prints

"Widely known for her silhouetted wall installations, Kara Walker conveys a highly personal vision of race in America. Drawing from 19th century silhouette portraits, historical prints and other sources, Walker presents a violent and sexualized world where no one is spared the pain of racial conflict. This exhibition surveys her important work in a range of print media from the beginning of her career in the 1990s to the present."
Russell Bowman Fine Art, 311 W. Superior, Suite 115
Through Feb. 10

David A. Parker: On and Off the Grid

"David A. Parker uses humor, pathos and satire to comment on daily life and to raise a call for alternative thinking. In his newest “Escape Strategy Series” of large-scale photographs, Parker plays a character who strives to leave behind the sameness of tract housing and featureless landscape."
Kasia Kay Art Projects Gallery, 1044 W. Fulton Market St.
Through Feb. 17

Kim Dorland: The Edge of Town

"Kim Dorland's paintings push the boundaries of representation while thematically exploring memory, nostalgia, and the psychology of the outsider."
Kasia Kay Art Projects Gallery, 1044 W. Fulton Market St.
Through Jan. 28

IDSA Design Loop Pub Night

"We've reserved the upstairs party room and IDSA Chicago will be providing some light hor'deurves for which to nosh upon... come prepared to imbibe the finest in imported Belgian ales and locally microbrewed beers."
Hopleaf, 5148 N. Clark St.
Thursday, Jan. 25, 7-9:30 pm

The Art of Richard Tuttle

"The Art of Richard Tuttle presents the artist’s work in depth through fifteen bodies of work that encompass a full range of categories from sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, and artist’s books to installation and furniture."
MCA, 220 E. Chicago Ave.
Through Feb. 4

Louis Sullivan

"The final work of Louis Sullivan, A System of Architectural Ornament, was produced by the impoverished architect in 1922 and 1923 at the request of the Art Institute. These brilliant large-scale plates depict Sullivan's conception of ornament as the bridge between nature and science, the practical and the decorative, and the organic and the inorganic."
The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
Through Feb. 18