Thursday April 24, 2008

PROXIMITY Magazine Launch at NEXT ART FAIR
AFTER JAM AT Rodan


7pm @ The Merchandise Mart
Hours: 7pm - 10pm (preview show for NEXT) • by invitation

The producers of Version festival release a new art magazine, Proximity, at NEXT: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art.
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About Proximity:
Proximity is a Chicago-based magazine dedicated to contemporary art and culture. Our mission is to amplify discourse on local and global art ecologies. We hope to serve as a map - of artists, collectives and alternative spaces, as well as commercial galleries, museums and universities - connecting and cultivating sustainable creative communities. The magazine will be distributed at the fair. Complementary copies will be given away at the Friday, April 25, release party at Sonotheque.

About Next
NEXT, a new invitational art fair installed in 150,000 square feet of space on the 7th floor of the Merchandise Mart, Chicago, April 25-28, 2008, to complement Art Chicago 2008, will offer focused curatorial visions of some of the most important developments in contemporary art. www.nextartfair.com

We regret to announce that there will be no Version (Reuben Kincaid projects) at NEXT
Our friends at Reuben Kincaid Artist Management will not be hosting a booth showing works by Michael T Rea, Seripop, Aron Gent, JJ Stratford and others during the fair

Work shown at the Reuben Kincaid booth includes:

Aron Gent
The last hand of the night, 2006

Michael T Rea
Sleeping Beauty, Subtitled Self-Portrait In Carbonite, 2008
wood, pink-foam, graphite

Seripop
Untitled, 2008
paper sculpture made of paper and scylic paint

NEXT after Jam

10 pm @ Rodan 1530 N Milwaukee Ave
Hours: 10pm-2am

Join Proximity magazine staff and Version cholos for some food and drinks after the preview party at NEXT. Please come and meet us or joins us Friday night at Sonotheque.

with live performance by Italian pop group TROUBLE VS. GLUE
http://www.myspace.com/troublevsglue