andrew breen // blog //

2011-03-17T16:56:00.000-05:00

2011-02-28T18:37:00.000-06:00

Just finished my Studio Photography winter workshop at the Evanston Art Center. We made mini web photo galleries on the last day of class: http://andrewbreen.com/eacwinter2011

I will also be teaching the 6-week workshop this Summer: http://www.evanstonartcenter.org/school/studio-photography

"Pace" (silent)

2010-09-15T22:19:00.002-05:00

Who's the Boss Color Study (silent)

2010-08-26T19:41:00.001-05:00

2010-06-13T14:11:00.002-05:00

2010-06-12T12:18:00.002-05:00

"Return to Home" (Cont.)

2010-06-05T10:02:00.007-05:00

Here are some new pieces I've been working on for my "Return to Home" series. More soon to follow.

Long Exposure Study #2

2010-03-01T20:40:00.003-06:00

EAC Fall 2009 Photo Workshop

2009-11-12T18:58:00.004-06:00

Just finished another successful Digital Photography Workshop at the Evanston Art Center. This semester my kids made photo galleries using the embedded web gallery program in Photoshop.

So proud of them!

http://andrewbreen.com/fall09
http://andrewbreen.com/winter2010
http://andrewbreen.com/March2010

Long Exposure Study #1

2009-10-09T21:39:00.002-05:00

2009-09-22T21:51:00.001-05:00

2009-09-08T20:37:00.000-05:00

2009-05-29T12:35:00.003-05:00

“You Have No Choice” / Unframed Photocopy Paper / 2009 / 40” x 16”

“Fade Out/Game Over” / Unframed Vinyl / 2009 / 34” x 48”

falling in love (with these artists)

2009-02-21T21:20:00.001-06:00

Semiconductor, Video: "Brilliant Noise"

Juana Molina

Torbjørn Rødland, from photo series "White Planet, Black Heart", 2006

E.V. Day, 'Bombshell', reproduction of Marilyn Monroe's white dress from The Seven Year Itch at 200% scale suspended with monofilament and turnbuckles, dimensions variable

Fever Ray

Bettina Hoffmann, "La Ronde", 3 sequences, projection, 12 min, looped, 2004

Candice Breitz, still from "Father", 6 Channel Installation, 11 minutes, 2005

2009-02-21T20:07:00.000-06:00

2009-02-15T21:47:00.001-06:00

Evanston Art Center On Tour - Exhibition Pics

2009-02-13T17:29:00.000-06:00

800 Elgin, Evanston, IL, Sept 2008

900 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL, January 2009

2009-01-05T18:06:00.000-06:00

"Science in Art" at University of Chicago

2008-10-19T17:41:00.000-05:00

I have a piece included in Science in Art at the University of Chicago (as part of Chicago Artist Month and Science Chicago). More info below...

"Science in Art" - juried by Kate Lorenz, Theaster Gates, Dr. Heinrich Jaeger, Dr. Sidney Nagel, Rebecca Ayers
October 10 - December 13, 2008
The University of Chicago, Gordon Center for Integrative Science
929 East 57th St, Chicago, IL
http://www.uchisciart.org

Return to Home

2008-09-10T20:48:00.001-05:00

My first solo show! I'll have new images from a project I started this spring. More info below.

WHERE: Optima Horizons, 800 Elgin, Evanston, IL

CTA: Davis

WHEN: August 26th - September 30th

RETURN TO HOME press release:

Evanston Art Center On Tour, a program which brings exhibitions of faculty and student work to off-site locations throughout the community, presents Return to Home, new photographic work by EAC faculty member Andrew Breen at the 800 Elgin building in downtown Evanston. Return to Home is a series of reconfigured and reimagined domestic spaces from classic television sitcoms and dramas. The exhibition opens Tuesday, August 26th, and continues through September 31st.

Breen uses screenshots salvaged from shows as diverse as "The Honeymooners," "Charles in Charge," and "Dynasty" to create photomontages that look beyond the intended rigid, time-based TV narrative; Return to Home places the constructed and sublimated spaces of production sets in focus, renewing the potential of stagnant imagined places.

Andrew Breen received a BFA in photography with a minor in Art History from Columbia College Chicago. He was awarded the Weisman Memorial Scholarship twice and was a finalist in the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation’s Visual Arts Competition. His work has been shown at the various galleries including Hokin Gallery, Ben Shahn Gallery, and Pierro Gallery. He lives and works in Chicago, IL and currently teaches at the Evanston Art Center.

2008-08-17T21:15:00.000-05:00

2008-08-16T15:39:00.000-05:00

2008-07-19T14:31:00.000-05:00

"Please Ring Bell" at Photographic Center Northwest, Juried by Rod Slemmons

2008-06-28T17:49:00.000-05:00

If you're in the Seattle area in July or August, make sure to visit the Photographic Center Northwest gallery on 12th Ave & Marion. I'll have work from Invisible Seas! Also work by Chase Browder, a Columbia and SAIC alum.

Please Ring Bell, Juried by Rod Slemmons
Photographic Center Northwest Gallery
900 12th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122

2008-06-28T17:44:00.000-05:00

19th Evanston + Vicinity Biennial

2008-05-22T03:36:00.000-05:00

Make sure to check out the Evanston Biennial this June! Two pieces from Invisible Seas will be on display...

June 1 - July 6, 2008 Opening Reception: June 1, 2008 1 - 4 pm
Award Ceremony: 1:30pm
Juried by curators Barbara Wiesen and Lanny Silverman

2008-05-11T22:27:00.000-05:00

Pierre Huyghe's "One Million Kingdoms"

2008-05-11T18:07:00.000-05:00

Still from "One Million Kingdoms":

"In Pierre Huyghe's "One Million Kingdoms", a voice maps out unexplored lunar terrain. The voice belongs to a Japanese Manga character named AnnLee, for which Huyghe, along with artists Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Philippe Parreno, purchased the copyright in 1999. Featured in previous works by the three artists, here this brooding young girl speaks in a voice that is an electronically altered version of the astronaut Neil Armstrong's communiqués from the first moon landing; the text she recites conflates Armstrong's historic utterances with excerpts from Jules Verne's 1895 novel Journey to the Center of the Earth. Armstrong's words prompt AnnLee as she moves from place to place on a constantly fluctuating landscape, in which mountains, craters, ridges, and outcroppings rise and fall according to the sound waves of his (her) voice."

2008-05-07T15:47:00.000-05:00

Something Curious

2008-05-06T13:39:00.000-05:00

2008-05-01T15:35:00.000-05:00

Chicago's NEXT Fair

2008-05-01T13:04:00.000-05:00

I have a pulse. My eyes, brain, social functions have recovered from last weekend's Artropolis; I spent most of my time on the NEXT floor with my partner Nick, who wrote some blogs for the Cue Foundation. I heard many were disappointed, overwhelmed -- but the key is to: 1) take several breaks 2) drink 3) spread out your visit by going back a second day.

Anyway, I compiled a list of compelling artists and galleries from the NEXT floor...

Artists:
Marina Gadonneix from Remote Control series:

Todd Simeone

Tim Roda:

Rafal Bujnowski, Cave Exit:

Carl Suddath:

Adam Humphries, from Cartoon Debris series:

Jonathan Schipper, The Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle:

Brian McNearney and my friend Maria Perkovic had an installation (a meditiation on the spectacle of the Hidenburg disaster) at Three Walls:

Henrik Stromberg, from Source:

Erik Benson, Goner:

Julian Montague from Stray Shopping Cart Project:

Galleries:
Galerie 5213 - Berlin
Meguimi Ogita - Tokyo
Samson Projects - Boston
Jiri Svestka - Czech Republic
Swarm - CA
Nathan Laramendy - CA
Art Agents - Hamburg
Kaune Sudendorf - Cologne
Roebling Hall - NY
Cue Foundation - NY
Light & Sie - TX

Cabinet of Curiosities: Images From Disparate Worlds

2008-04-29T15:20:00.000-05:00

Opening Reception this Friday (May 2nd, 6-11pm)!! I will have some new pieces from my bioform project...show also includes works by Amelia Kieras, Matt Kelly, and Anders Johnson.

Where: TOJO Gallery at 1418 West Division (Division Blue Line)

[ Tojo Website ]

[ Press Release ]

2008-04-29T15:04:00.000-05:00

2008-04-29T14:29:00.000-05:00

Two Shows in New Jersey this Spring

2008-04-22T18:00:00.000-05:00

Is it possible to make a photograph of New Jersey regardless of where you are in the world? at Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ

4/6-5/20/08

from my statement for the pieces I made...

Charles in Charge obviously focused on Charles and his words. The show claimed geography of New Brunswick, New Jersey. It sacrificed questions of location in service of its rigid sitcom narrative. “Beyond Kitchen Sink” and “Far Right”, a pair of screengrab collages, seeks to salvage and place the sublimated and constructed New Jersey in focus. download the catalog here

AND...

Currents at Court Gallery of the Ben Shahn Galleries at William Paterson University
3/24-4/24/08
An annual group exhibition by Studio Montclair

futurescape showings

2006-09-18T21:54:00.000-05:00

promo2, originally uploaded by ilovetoloveyourlove.

2 exhibitions this October for Night on Land. Silver gelatin images look different on computer screens -- come see them in person!

Albert P. Weisman Memorial Exhibition
Oct 9 – Nov 17
Reception Oct 26, 5-7pm
Hokin Annex Gallery: 623 S. Wabash, First Floor

Chicago Art Open
Oct 17 – Nov 3
Reception Oct
Zhou B. Art Center: 1029 W. 35th St

Photos from Italy!

2006-09-18T21:47:00.000-05:00

italy_exhibition, originally uploaded by ilovetoloveyourlove.

Upcoming group exhibition with some of my new work....

2006 Florence: Body Space Time
Oct 5 - Oct 23
Reception: Oct 13, 5:30 - 7:00pm
10th Floor Art + Design Fine Arts Gallery: 623 S. Wabash Ave

Yutaka Sone

2006-02-24T10:06:00.000-06:00

Yutaka Sone, originally uploaded by ilovetoloveyourlove.

I just went to see this artist at The Renaissance Society, a gallery at the University of Chicago. It's a multimedia installation with the general theme of snowflakes (design, architectural models, paintings and sketches, snowman on skiis...). A truly wonderful, unusual experience!

Weisman Exhibition

2006-01-18T21:32:00.000-06:00

Weisman Exhibition, originally uploaded by ilovetoloveyourlove.

Part of my series from "Have a Nice Day" will be at the Hokin Gallery 1/23-2/24. Check it.

2006-01-15T01:03:00.000-06:00

"Logan and Jane"Logan and Jane.

2006-01-15T01:02:00.000-06:00

"600 Feet"600 Feet

Holga Fun!

2006-01-15T00:57:00.000-06:00

holga1, originally uploaded by ilovetoloveyourlove.

I got a Holga last month and went to Goose Island to try it out...I was not used to having less control over my shooting, but I quite like the happy accidents I got out of my first rolls.