There are lots of people attending Chicago gallery openings with a camera in hand these days, and lucky you, you can get your fill of gallery-hopper eye candy on ChicagoNow's various art blogs. Chicago Gallery News is adding to the mix now too, sharing some wish-you-were-there shots from openings and tours each month. See the end of this post about how you can share your own pictures and get photo credit.
Taking pictures of other people looking at art (or talking over plastic cups of wine) is kind of odd, when you think about it, but people love to see the energy of the scene and who was there, and the pictures can be souvenirs from an otherwise blurry evening - blurry because of the number of galleries to visit in a short time, and maybe also blurry thanks to too much wine and not enough food between 5-9pm.
The photos in this slide show are from opening of the winter gallery season on Friday, January 8th. Lots of galleries in River North & the West Loop held opening receptions for their first exhibitions of the year (West Loop pics to come next week.) Even though the biggest opening night this month is over there are more openings and events continuing throughout January.
I'd love to get CGN blog followers in on the action, since we're also always looking for great opening night shots to use in our magazine, on our website and for this blog. If you have images you'd like to share, send us an email or leave a comment, and we'll try to publish some now and then. For photo credit, please make sure to include your name, the name of the gallery where the photo was taken, the date, and the name of any artists whose work shows up in the photo, if possible.)
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Tags: gallery hopping, gallery openings, January openings, River North
