Jason Foumberg

Eye Exam (2009-01-20)

Also by Jason Foumberg

Portrait of the Artist
Artist Young Sun Han placed a Craigslist ad for a stranger to engage in a twenty-four-hour sustained hug. After receiving several responses, Young invited Gerald O. Heller to participate. Though not an artist himself, Gerald was comfortable with endurance practices, having run thirteen marathon races. The two men began their embrace on December 30 at midnight, and after moving through several emotional phases of excitement, physical fatigue and mental boredom (they agreed to remain silent), comfort, and finally, impatience, Young and Gerald released on December 31 as a crowd counted down the last seconds of 2008
(2009-01-06)

Tip of the Week
The properties of flesh are the subject of Jim Lutes’ painting retrospective, spanning twenty-six years of the artist’s career
(2009-01-06)

Eye Exam
“He’s dead, and he’s dead, and he’s dead…” says Lynn Kearney with a little laughing sigh of disbelief as she flips through artist files spanning the whole sixty-year history of the Contemporary Art Workshop. The Lincoln Park exhibition space and artist studios will close to the public January 23. Kearney’s meticulous files of show cards, exhibition reviews and documentary photographs will soon join the Chicago History Museum’s archives, a testament to the CAW’s long-standing and deeply-entrenched relationship with the city’s emerging artist scene
(2008-12-16)

Eye Exam
Our eyes, so careful to speak the mind’s intelligence, can easily regress to bestial instincts. They slim to a predatory shape, scan and hone. The café-set call it people-watching, but really it’s just a form of animal intelligence. When you walk down a busy sidewalk and set your eyes on another, then look away, then look again, away, and eyes brush past each other, it’s like dogs tracking fear, sex, competitors. The optic nerve stabs through the brain’s pearly pith, darting straight for the primitive core. Yes, it’s base, but even the most refined prepared meal satisfies the gurgling stomach. It’s with these eyes that I went looking for art with my teeth bared, and found Michael Wolf
(2008-11-18)

Eye Exam
(2008-11-04)

Eye Exam
(2008-10-28)

Art Break
(2008-10-21)

Eye Exam
(2008-10-14)

After the Deluge
(2008-10-07)

Portrait of the Artist
(2008-10-07)

Portrait of the Artist
(2008-09-30)

Eye Exam
(2008-09-23)

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