The Pentagon Saves The World

Opening: May 29th, 2010 from 7pm-11pm featuring works by:

Deborah Stratman
Jim Zimpel
Jesse Avina
Daniel Baird
Jake Myers
and
The Pentagon Education Collective

The artwork featured in this exhibition examines the effectiveness and importance of heroics in contemporary American culture. Images and stories of heroic athletes, soldiers, astronauts, cowboys and other saviors are transformed to expose the idiosyncratic, dangerous, sincere and sometimes necessary efforts of American heroes. The Pentagon Saves the World will feature video, photography, sculpture and film. Come early for soup and beverages.

Palimpsest

April is a great month for us. We are having our first solo show with Jorge Mujica. Pentagon is proud to present Palimpsest and hope to see you there.

Jorge Mujica presents Palimpsest at The Pentagon Gallery

In Palimpsest, Jorge Mujica looks critically at painting and sculpture to create hybrid objects that examine the use of painterly materials and the interaction of space. The hybrid objects are created with hand crafted stretcher bars and commercially bought materials to compose a contemporary perspective examining the architecture of the pentagon gallery. The result is a conceptual intersection between minimalist sculptor Donald Judd and the assemblage work of Jessica Stockholder. Like a palimpsest, the work shows the art historical context he is dealing with and makes room to insert his perspective.

Human curiosity can be described as an internal pursuit to understand the environment one encounters; artists just so happen to examine the dichotomies involved in the process of making and reflect the curiosities they see in the world.

Opening will be April 17th, 2010 from 7pm to 11pm at
961 West 19th street Chicago, Il 60608
Our gallery is open for appointment only. We will be having a closing reception May 15th from 7pm to 10pm

Radical Semantics

Two shows at the pentagon gallery in one month!? well don't worry Kate and Sara's show Music From Big Pink is still up for the month and still can be viewed. Pentagon is presenting its first ever (not last) film screening, by 5 amazing artists.

Radical Semantics is a survey of 16mm films by film-makers whose methods stand in opposition to the algorithmic and computer assisted processes that define many contemporary media works. Often working with home-made optics and developing their film in sinks and buckets, these filmmakers create short works that emphasize the expressive and opt for complexity rather than reproducibility and homogeneity. Featuring Eric Stewart, Alex Lake, Ross McFessell, Adam Neese and Randy Sterling Hunter.

There will be a Bolex shaped Cake!

Date:
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Time:
8:10pm - 10:10pm

Location:
PENTAGON Gallery

Street:
961 W. 19th St.
Chicago, IL

Music from Big Pink

Sara Condo
Kate Ruggeri

Chicago, March 20, 2010 -- Pentagon presents Sara Condo and Kate Ruggeri
in “Music from Big Pink.” Showing photographs, paintings, and sculptures, Condo
and Ruggeri explore ways of discussing the romanticizing of personal
experience. Interested in the pathetic, the mundane, and the beautiful, Ruggeri's
sculptures and paintings immerse the viewer in a world of uncomfortable
familiarity. Condo's photographs work with both found and staged imagery, that
are vivid in light, color, and imagination. Using both sincerity and humor, the
artists create celebratory emotive works while allowing the viewer to explore their
own experience.

Opening Reception on Saturday March 20th, 2010 from 7pm – 11pm at
PENTAGON gallery, 961 West 19th street Chicago, il 60608. Gallery Hours email
Pentagon961@gmail.com for appointment only.

Submission Opening

Jake and Mike from the Pentagon would like to thank everyone who made it out to the exhibition. If you missed it, send us an email or call Jake at 630.215.7125 to make an appointment.

February 26th- Submission

The Pentagon Gallery is proud to present its third exhibition entitled “Submission”. The show opens on Friday, February 26th from 8pm to 11pm.

The artwork shown is themed around repressed sexual discourses, power dynamics, and untold narratives. The lack of information and open conversation about sexuality often creates ironic, humorous, confusing and sometimes painful situations for those participating. Artists in this show display these manifestations in pop culture, industrial design, sports, the outdoors and the privacy of a bathroom.

Submission will feature painting, mixed media, photography and video by: Maria Jönsson, Jolie Flink, Aaron Ross, Laura Boban and Jake Myers .

Pentagon Gallery
961 w 19th Street
First Floor
Pentagon961@gmail.com
630.215.7125

January Opening

PENTAGON Gallery is proud to present its second opening. We have open our doors to the Twelve Galleries project and are looking forward to this January 23rd opening.

Quarterly #1: MinimumixaM

A group Exhibition curated by:

Nicholas Cueva
Dan Gunn
Heather Mekkelson

Twelve Galleries Project began as a roving exhibition series featuring the work of emerging artists over the coarse of one year. With each new month, a new location was selected and a new gallery was formed. For its next venture, Twelve Galleries Project will focus its attention on twelve curators. Every quarter of the next year, with an existing Chicago gallery, three curators will collectively organize a themed exhibition as part of the Quarterly Site Series.


Artist to be announced soon!!!