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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Artists and those interested in the arts gathering for fun, mutual inspiration and support. Thanks to Olya for the invite and see you next month… Featuring curated playlist and video by Nubes substack.com/profile/1488...

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Olya Salimova leading the latest of her monthly 15th Element arts gatherings, this time at WellRounded vintage shop in Pilsen, Chicago, Sep 15th. www.instagram.com/fifteenth_el... www.olyasalimova.com www.instagram.com/shopwellroun...

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Opening of latest show at Sawhorse Gallery in Hermosa, Chicago, Sep 13th: “Secondary Purpose,“ a selection of fifty works from the CURAYTOR collection. Amassed over decades by Chicago-based photographer and innkeeper Ray Reiss, the collection spans more than 3,000 objects...

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Opening of latest show at Sawhorse Gallery in Hermosa, Chicago: “Secondary Purpose,“ a selection of fifty works from the CURAYTOR collection. Amassed over decades by Chicago-based photographer and in...

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

where the traditional practices of literate communication are noteworthy now only in the absurdity they embody.

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Although in the show’s notes curator Alex Wilson claims emphasis on diversity and broadness of concept in his choices, he has (diversity notwithstanding) hit on a consensus of artistic reaction to the current moment — depiction of a post-legibility era...

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

...of artists setting aside brightness, bombast and carefully crafted pop-culture idiocy; shuffling away from the class show-off toward the one in the back passing around tightly folded-up notes written in smudgy pencil.

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

My notes on the opening of the group show "Abstract Concepts" at Agitator Gallery in Chicago on September 6 Fast-forwarding through meaning, leaving only traces of the expected gestures of communication, this show is additional confirmation of a trend I’ve noted...

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Scrolling and Scrawling

"Abstract Concepts," an exhibition of conceptual abstract art at Agitator Gallery in Chicago, show opening Sep. 6

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Also got to see the exhibition on display there, "Sacred Containers: Capsules, Conduits and Other Stories." chicagoartistscoalition.org/events/sacre... Art by: Cecilia Beaven FÁTIMA bex ya yolk

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Fun and stimulating evening Wednesday the 3rd at Chicago Artist's Coalition for Speed Networking Night. Everybody had a good story to tell. Made it a lot easier to feel optimistic about this city. chicagoartistscoalition.org

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

4/ and if you don’t mind them you might find yourself down flat.

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

3/ but were they participating in the conversation? Did we have an understanding? They seemed to be operating from a different principal of gravity from us, but who among those gathered were the ones leaning at a dangerous angle? Point of view and scale are important...

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

2/ To “understand” in old English meant you stood among people who shared certain knowledge (because “under” and “among” were interchangeable concepts back then). Alex Adkinson’s industrial/organic steel sculptures stood among the guests at the show closing at Sawhorse on Saturday...

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

My notes on the closing of the two-artist exhibition "Far Down the Phantom Air" at Sawhorse Gallery in Chicago, August 23

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Far Down the Phantom Air

On the threshold at show closing, Sawhorse Gallery, August 23

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

For a while now I've been slowly teaching myself the skills to refurbish relatively low-quality digital images of modern art works and print life-size faithful reproductions of the original works on my high-resolution printer. My latest work is a reproduction of an intriguing Cezanne watercolor.

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Cezanne on Paper, Then and Now

For a while now I've been slowly teaching myself the skills to refurbish relatively low-quality digital images of modern art works from the internet and print life-size faithful reproductions of the o...

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Haven't been able to find a satisfactory name for a midcentury modern casting of cyberpunk. Not dieselpunk, not atompunk. Somewhere between Connery-Bond punk and Down-With-Love punk.

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I don't get the blanket resistance to AI art by many artists and art scholars. As if obsession and choice haven't been acknowledged as valid facets of art practice for at least a century.

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I don't get the blanket resistance to AI art. As if obsession and choice haven't been acknowledged as valid facets of art practice for at least a century.

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Take me down to Parapluie City where the grass is green 'cause it's always raining

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

My notes at the exhibition of Japanese prints and traditional culture at College of DuPage's Cleve Carney Museum of Art in Glen Ellyn -- “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World” forwardfolio.substack.com/p/the-brush-...

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The Brush Runs Away with Itself

“Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World” at Cleve Carney Museum of Art

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

My notes on Third Friday art exhibition openings in Bridgeport, Chicago, July 18. Bridgeport Art Center Zhou B Art Center Heritage Museum of Asian Art Oliva Gallery forwardfolio.substack.com/p/mark-makin...

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Mark-making and Memory-making

Third Friday in Bridgeport, Chicago, July 18

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

July 18th, the Zhou B Art Center in Bridgeport, Chicago, opening of “We Built This: Making Through Migration,” a show that endeavors to illustrate how artists reflect the experience and perception of immigrant culture and other hybrid outsider identities. www.ohartfoundation.org/webuiltthism...

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

“The Ocean Between VIII: Luminosity” exhibition opening at Oliva Gallery, Logan Square, Chicago, July 18 www.olivagallery.com

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

“Chinese Lotus Shoes: Exploring the Cultural Prestige of Footbinding in Imperial China” at the Heritage Museum of Asian Art, Bridgeport, Chicago. www.heritageasianart.org

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Exhibition opening, "The Landscape is Changing", Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, July 18 www.bridgeportart.com/the-landscap... #chicago #chicagoart

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The plight of the art commentator… Drawing by Temo artbytemo.com

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Rough night as an art commentator when you run into this at a gallery… Weaving by Kira Dominguez Hultgren www.kiradominguezhultgren.com

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

School of the Art Institute Low-Residency MFA Thesis Exhibition public reception, July 12. www.saic.edu/events/low-r... #chicago #chicagoart

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

6/ A green silk Balenciaga evening dress from 1963, and a child’s silk dress and hat from c. 1885:

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

5/ Ready for these accessories to come back into style (late 19th century):

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

4/ Two modern outfits, an ensemble by Chicago designer Maria Pinto from 2015, and the “Poliakoff” dress by Yves Saint-Laurent, 1965:

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

3/ A silk dress, French, dated to 1866, an early example of brightly-colored fabric thanks to recently-invented chemical dyes:

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

2/ Link to exhibition page: www.chicagohistory.org/exhibition/d... Including: a fantastic purple leather coat and hat by Chanel, 1925:

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The Chicago History Museum has one of the biggest fashion and textile collections in the world, reportedly over fifty thousand items. The exhibition they have up now, "Dressed in History" is a small but fun sampling of the collection’s highlights. More at: forwardfolio.substack.com/p/dressed-in...

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

5/ A green silk Balenciaga evening dress from 1963, and a child’s silk dress and hat from c. 1885:

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

4/ Ready for these accessories to come back into style (late 19th century):

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

3/ Two modern outfits, an ensemble by Chicago designer Maria Pinto from 2015, and the “Poliakoff” dress by Yves Saint-Laurent, 1965:

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

2/ A silk dress, French, dated to 1866, an early example of brightly-colored fabric thanks to recently-invented chemical dyes:

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The Chicago History Museum has one of the biggest fashion and textile collections in the world, reportedly over fifty thousand items. The exhibition they have up now is a small but fun sampling of the collection’s highlights. A fantastic purple leather coat and hat by Chanel, 1925:

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

3/ ...the same size as the originals and printed on similar paper. The high resolution and wide color palette of modern printers can result in a reproduction that produces a feeling similar to the experience of owning and displaying the original.

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

2/ ...at one of a selection of standard sizes, with a very wide choice of art works from famous to obscure. But recent advances in technology make a third option possible: high-quality reproductions of art works originally made on paper (watercolors, lithographs, photos, etc.)...

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

ko-fi.com/post/Modern-... On one hand you can spend hundreds or thousands of dollars for exquisite, precise 3D-rendered reproductions of oil paintings on canvas by the most famous artists. Or you can spend a hundred or less for a low-quality poster print on cheap paper...

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New possibilities for fine art reproduction

Forward Folio published a post on Ko-fi

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The Weimar-era collage art of Hannah Höch incorporated and recontextualized the content of industrial-age print media.

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forwardfolio.bsky.social @forwardfolio.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Congratulations to Kimberly Oliva at Oliva Gallery (olivagallery.com) for hosting a successful seminar “Leverage Your Art Career,” w/ Nancy Pirri (Pirri Art & Design), Claireasa Golden (Golden Arts Communication) & Melissa Stanley (real estate broker, ArtHouse Chicago, Baird & Warner) #chicagoart