NHQ VIDEO: Without Wax Promo No. 1
In this video: Derek Erdman in a gorilla suit, Derek Erdman on the telephone, Derek Erdman in a bed, Derek Erdman with a french fry, Derek Erdman as Rap Master Maurice, Derek Erdman makes a painting. Featuring NEW animated bumper by Gretta Johnson!
NHQ EVENT: Without Wax
WITHOUT WAX is Derek Erdman’s final solo exhibition in Chicago before relocating permanently to Austin, Texas on September 1, 2010. Erdman has lived in Chicago for 14 years. Over the course of the past decade he’s made more than 4,000 paintings, and sold more than 3,000 of them. In addition to painting, Erdman has successfully earned his living making and selling all manner of media, such as illustrations for web and print magazines, custom raps delivered via telephone, prank call CDs, self-published booklets and mail-order hamburgers.
COMING SOON: Man V. Candy Machine
New teaser trailer for our Interactive Internet Tele-Play MAN V. CANDY MACHINE, coming July 2010!
COMING SOON: Garden Apartment
We’ve got a new video in the works! Queer and sensual, conceived and created by the inextinguishable flame that is Gretta Johnson. It’s called GARDEN APARTMENT, a glimpse into the physical and psychological space of a strange and mysterious garden-dwelling creature, a “sluggy cocooned lady,” content with solitude and the companionship of her plants. She surrounds herself with collages of humans made to look like plants and plants that take on human characteristics.
INTERVIEW: Jaimie Warren
It’s a rare thing to be able to tread the line between popular and conceptual art period, much less with the kind of ease and playfulness the fabulous Ms. Jaimie Warren embodies. She’s vivacious and impulsive without being intimidating or oppressively hip. She’s got an openness about her that comes with the territory: born, raised, and schooled in the Midwest, away from the trappings of coastal art worldliness, and close to friends, family, and fans who lap her up like puppies to a puddle.
INTERVIEW: Ray “CRO” Noland
As much as I’d like to, I can’t pretend to know him well. But what little I do know is that Ray is making some of the most iconic and important art to come out of Chicago since Carl Sandburg wrote about a “City of the Big Shoulders.” CRO is currently in Asheville, North Carolina, fundraising for a new street art campaign combating the ignorance and idiocy that is the Tea Party Express. Can you dig it?
NHQ EVENT: Just Shake Ya Rump
Join us as we celebrate the birthdays of NHQ’s Angeline Gragasin and Daniel Postilnik this Saturday, March 13, 2010 at the Archer (formerly Texas) Ballroom. Featuring live entertainment by ANTIBODY DANCE, VALIS, and DJs BITFUNK and BODYWALLET! All we wanna do is zooma zoom zoom zoom and a boom boom, ya hurr?
INTERVIEW: Christian “Oyat” Doll
In Uganda, I lived with people from the Acholi tribe, who gave me this Acholi name. Most African names, particularly in Uganda, come from the condition of one’s birth, like their birth order or if they are born after twins or during a rainstorm, or if they have a birthmark. “Oyat” is usually given to people born under unusual circumstances. Few people aside from elders know the meanings of all the names, though. So, the student who gave it to me (a former child soldier who was also an amazing dancer and “footballer”) thought that it meant “an unusual person.”
EVENT: Sweet Tooth: A Charity Bake Sale and Art Exhibition
This Thursday, February 11 The Chicago Urban Art Society (formerly 32nd&urban gallery / space) presents SWEET TOOTH: A Charity Bake Sale and Art Exhibition. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS is a sponsor of this event, and a proud supporter of CUAS. We’re especially looking forward to seeing new work from Ray “CRO” Noland and Maria Gaspar, stuffing our faces with scrumptiousness from The Bleeding Heart Bakery, and hangin out with the folks from Bubbly Dyanamics, the Chicago Art Department…
EVENT: Masquerade, A Retrospective
On Friday, February 5th, DOVA gallery at the University of Chicago will be hosting a retrospective of the photography of Emma Bee Bernstein (1985 – 2008). Although we were in the same graduating class at the University of Chicago and frequently crossed social, curricular, and extracurricular paths, we weren’t really friends so much as acquaintances until after graduation. I barely knew her, but I knew of her, and what I did know was that she was talented, ambitious, precocious, and lived a very glamorous and dangerous lifestyle.
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