Check Out New York’s Art House Co-op and the Sketchbook Project at Home Gallery

No, this event is not at Quimby’s, but it is awesome and you should totally go to tonight’s opening reception at the Home Gallery, an ongoing experimental exhibition space run by Laura Shaeffer out of her home in Hyde Park, on Chicago’s South Side.

The Sketchbook Project and Artists’ Books,
featuring Anders Nilsen, Michael Brehm, Amanda Vähämäki, Michelangelo Setola, and Doug Shaeffer
PRESENTED BY: Home Gallery 1407 E. 54th Place, Chicago, IL
Opening reception: Saturda,y May 8t, 6:00 – 9:00 pm

Home Gallery is proud to host Brooklyn, New York’s Art House Co-op and the Sketchbook Project, a library of sketchbooks collected from artists around the world. In addition, Home Gallery will be featuring drawings, sketchbooks, and artist’s books from Anders Nilsen (Big Questions, Dogs and Water), Michael Brehm, Amanda Vähämäki & Michelangelo Setola (Souvlaki Circus), and Doug Shaeffer. For more info: and  http://thelarch.org

The Op Shop

The Op Shop

And then also, check out the Op Shop. The Opportunity Shop, that is. It’s a transitory, experimental project space for contemporary art in Hyde Park, and they’ve got stuff goin’ on, extended for the next few weeks. For more info: http://www.theopshop.org/about.php