count down to art on track, the world's largest mobile exhibition of art, nears launch.saturday morning, nearly 80 artists will converge on the chicago transit authority's midway terminus and commence converting an 8-car transit train into a moveable feast of visual, performance, fashion and sound art. upon completion of their tasks, the art and artists are to be piloted around downtown chicago's loop.
the accidental gallery welcomes some of chicago's best artists to train car #2. ray noland, slang jones and cta artist, joe nelson have graciously lent us their talents and produced some superb art for the advertising spaces and the ceiling of our car. isabella ng and carrie wong will engage riders and explore transit travel with a sound installation and performance art designed to simultaneously render time and space. artist rodney wade has consented to allow us to install two of his sculptural pieces and carolina i. reyes, ivan garcia and karen gagich will display traditional art media in a non traditional gallery sense. we also have some impressive window graphics provided by pieces of peace artist, misha esterkin and karen gagich. it promises to an art experience like none other.
tag would also like to acknowledge some of the organizations that have helped bring this piece of art history to fruition. blacksheep roar, llc and nic semanta have kindly provided their time and resources to production and wise counsel-- slangism.com blacksheeproar.com thank you, also to allen vandever for window graphics and insight sign company for our overhead graphics, and lastly sam hall's generous donation to itinerate artist brother.
the show is saturday, august 7 from 5 to 10 pm. boarding will be at the adams and wabash platform. admission is $10, however tag has a limited number of advanced sale tickets for $5.
hop onboard the art train.
