Helping write their storylines to freedom (for a generous fee, of course) is lawyer extraordinaire Billy Flynn, played by – surprise! – former football star Eddie George who – less surprise! – paled in comparison to his more-seasoned stage performers. So no, definitely nothing relevant to today. The two duke it out for the most salacious headlines in an era of reporters getting spun like tops, insta-celebrities, fake news and putting reads above all else. Unfortunately, that’s everyone’s plan in Cook County Jail – namely the vampy Velma Kelly (Terra C. After starry-eyed seductress Roxie Hart (Dylis Croman) gets locked up for shooting her sleazy man on the side, she turns her internment into the trial of the young century – and essentially an audition for vaudeville stardom. Whether a fan of past performances or its Oscar-winning film adaptation, the plot is exactly how you remember it. ![]() It’s fun, but no flimflam flummox that’ll fool and fracture ‘em. The Chicago prison and courtroom were decorated with dangerous femmes fatales, but the actual danger was out on bail.Ī musical with this many legendary showstoppers – not to mention Bob Fosse’s signature style – can’t help but be entertaining, but this rendition was more broad than biting, almost kitsch rather than crackle. The skin and slinky costumes were all dressed up, but the sly sexiness stayed on the rack. ![]() She is included in numerous private and public collections."Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to see a story of murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery and treachery," beckons the opening line of "Chicago." All of that was most certainly present and accounted for as the famed Fosse-fueled musical started its week-long run at the Marcus Center on Tuesday night.īut for a show in which sin is near and dear to its heart, there wasn’t much sinful about the evening’s performance – and for "Chicago," that feels like a sin in its own right. Her work has been exhibited at art fairs in Miami, Mexico City, and Chicago. She has been included in recent group exhibitions at Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL and Paris London Hong Kong, Chicago, IL. She had a recent solo exhibition, Soft Counting, at Greenpoint Terminal, Brooklyn, NY. Bittman also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004 and her M.F.A. ![]() These paintings add another scintillant layer to the otherwise optically charged installation. Her use of color remains limited to bright splashes of primary blues, yellows, and reds. Another painting exists in a liminal space, half-concealed within the installed environment, neither fully contrasting or conforming.īittman presents a number of bold, black and white works in the exhibition. Crafted entirely from the artist’s previously woven patterns, the wallpaper holds a different relationship to each painting, with some works blending in and others contrasting with their background. By flattening the three-dimensional surface through the wallpaper’s bold two-dimensional designs, the artist creates a space that inundates the viewer and renders it difficult to make immediate and precise visual estimations. Bold prints overlap the corners of the gallery, distorting the viewer’s perception of space and erasing any traditional relationship with the space’s architecture. ![]() Referencing the dazzle camouflage technique used on World War I naval ships, the exhibition incorporates bold patterns to confuse, not conceal, throwing texture to the viewer as a distraction from the underlying patterns in the woven surface below.Īdding another layer to her paintings, the artist has installed a site-specific wallpaper that draws attention to itself while dually matching and contrasting the patterns found in the paintings-interlocking the works’ patterns while simultaneously disrupting the synchronicity. It continues through Saturday, November 8, 2014.Ĭreating loom-woven textiles with painted surfaces, Samantha Bittman simultaneously camouflages her patterns as she highlights their structure with thick acrylic-often revealing new patterns through the semi-masked surface. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. ANDREW RAFACZ is pleased to announce Razzle Dazzle, new works by Samantha Bittman in Gallery Two.Ĭhicago, IL, September 19, 2014- ANDREW RAFACZ begins fall 2014 with Razzle Dazzle, new works by Samantha Bittman.
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