Gallery Swarm is proud to announce its newest groundbreaking brainchild, Doors to a Better World! On Friday December 16, 2011, one year to the day since the Northsides newest art haven opened its doors, Gallery Swarm will host one of its trademark offbeat art shows. With a philanthropic twist.
Doors to a Better World 2011, is the inaugural event of the innovative show to save the world. Each year, the Swarm will host a doors show that benefits a different organization. As with everything else Swarm, Doors was conceived from found creativity. One night Artist in Residence, Jim Schneider, showed up to paint and brought some doors with him. Hed procured them for $2 a piece and thought theyd make fun canvases. While painting their doors, the artists started talking and an idea was born.
In true Gallery Swarm style, artists include budding, accomplished and celebrity artists from across many disciplines, ranging from Mr. Imagination, Peter Mars and 10 year-old Gabriel Morua to Chicago Art Center artists participating in WBEZs Whats Your Art? event. Each artist is donating their time to create a working hinge-able door, recycled and donated by Lucky 29 Design Build and The Strypp Joint.
The doors will be set up as an installation at the event, with every door up for auction that evening. Winners of the auction will walk out with a real working door that can be either a novel art piece in their home or office or a one-of-a-kind actual working door with an original piece of art. Gillis comments, the artists were only given one guideline to create their door. It has to be a working door.
And taking that as their one guiding principle, each door is as innovative as their artists. One featured door has a peephole drilled into it, with a video iPod installed behind it. When the viewer looks through the peephole, they see images that make it seem as if theyre looking outside. Another artist created hand-painted Luan doors and another a door made of New Yorker covers.
This years event will benefit Center on Halsted, the most comprehensive LGBT community center in the Midwest. The evening will feature a a "make your own instant T-shirt" workshop, a henna tattoo artist, auction, live entertainment, local cuisine and luscious libations.
Event Details
Date: Friday, December 16, 2011
Time: 7 10 p.m.
Location: Gallery Swarm
2902 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60657
p: 708-583-1255
w: galleryswarm.com
DOORS 411
Who
Doors to a Better World 2011, is the inaugural event of the innovative show to save the world hosted by Gallery Swarm. This years event will benefit Center on Halsted, the most comprehensive LGBT community center in the Midwest dedicated to building and strengthening the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community. More than 1,000 community members of all ages walk through their doors every day. Diverse public programs and social services offered range from volleyball, dance performances and cooking classes to rapid HIV testing, job training classes and group therapy. For every dollar donated to Center on Halsted, 77¢ is spent directly on providing programs and services. Each year, Doors to a Better World will benefit a different organization.
Artists include Peter Mars, Errol Ortiz, Michael Angelo Gagliardi, Samuel Gillis, 10 year-old Gabriel Morua and Chicago Art Center artists participating in WBEZs Whats Your Art? event. Each artist is donating their time to create a working hinge-able door, donated by Lucky 29 Design Build and The Stripp Joint.
What
The Doors installation features creative innovations including a door that has a peephole drilled into it, with a video iPod installed behind it. When the viewer looks through the peephole, they see images that make it seem as if theyre looking outside. As well, a hand-painted Luan door and a door made of New Yorker covers. Winners of the auction will walk out with a real working door that can be either a novel art piece in their home or office or a one-of-a-kind actual working door with an original piece of art.The evening will feature a a "make your own instant T-shirt" workshop, a henna tattoo artist, auction, live entertainment, local cuisine and luscious libations.
Future
Doors to a Better World will be an annual event, every holiday season, that benefits a different organization. As well, the event will be pitched to the city of Chicago as a citywide art installation to be featured like the Cows on Parade. And as always a portion of those proceeds would benefit a philanthropic organization.
