Hyde Park Art Center
Janurary 31-June 6, 2010
Chicago, IL
*Opening Reception Feb 14th *

In Stan Chisholm’s ThingsThatNeverReallyHappened,the artwork takes the form of a life-size diorama and operates under the artist’s principle that everything is up for grabs. Chisholm draws from a variety of sources to create a multi-perspective storyline swirling together American history, personal recollections and stories and images spewed from pop culture. Chisholm uses this unconventional narrative to address issues of falsehood, future, fiction, the beauty of ignorance and cold realizations.

ThingsThatNeverReallyHappened features a new series of invented land masses ranging in size from tiny floating islands to large, human-sized environments, all populated by cartoon mascots. Chisholm takes this “fake” imagery and provokes our curiosity by inserting them into the contexts of fine art and daily life. Each environment takes on the perspective of a different narrator to illustrate a memory, an inside joke, an imaginary history or an uncanny experience much like the sensation of déjà vu. The installation playfully encourages the viewer to question the accuracy of perception itself, and to recognize the artful fictions that make up every day experience. For the production of this exhibition Chisholm will be in residence at the Hyde Park Art Center during the month of January. Visitors are invited to drop in and see the project as it develops.

Stan Chisholm (a.k.a. 18andCounting) is an emerging interdisciplinary artist from St. Louis, Missouri who studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His collages, drawings, and mixed media installations reveal a growing cast of over 700 characters or mascots that serve as a visual lexicon for the moods, personal attributes or feelings explored in his work. Chisholm’s work has been exhibited at Laumeier Sculpture Park, City Museum (St. Louis), the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, and most recently at Art on Track, a one day exhibition on Chicago’s Loop elevated train, organized by SOLVO.

The Great Mundane & 18andCounting presents: COLOR ME TIMBERS!

Friday, November 20, 2009 - 9:00pm
Report Lounge
1101 E Burnside
Portland, OR

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You show up, we give you crayons, and together we color and groove all night. Choose your own adventure by filling in or adding on to images created by some of the most innovative artists in the world.

**SOUNDS**
Russ Liquid
The Great Mundane
Ate Bit
Cutter Filtoff

**VISUAL**
18andCounting (STL-CHI)
Andrew St. Lawrence (CHI)
Ashley Montague (PDX)
Brian Lindgren (NYC)
Carolyn Simon-Noon (EUGENE)
Chris Burch (SF)
Dolor (CHI)
The Fresh Classics (SF)
Iain Macarthur (ENGLAND)
Jackson Noon (EUGENE)
Jeff Pak (CHI)
Justin Tolentino (STL)
Kellyn Planteen (SF)
Killer Napkins (STL)
Lisa See Kim (CHI)
Lorn (WI)
Maia Chong (PDX)
Mark Brown (FLORENCE)
Mike Dupree (CHI)
Mitsu Okubo (SF)
Peat WOLLAEGER (STL)
Rob Pea (PDX)
Robert Gray (PDX)
Raskoe (PDX)
Swiv (CHI)
Tewz (CHI)
Vadim Gershman (STL)

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$5
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inspired by Mark Brown's chicago coloring party in 07

MoneyBags takes a shot at re-evauating wealth, worth and currency. It attempts to create unexpected reencounters with a familiar image/icon that has been popularly relegated to the realm of cartoons, illustrations, and the surreal. Ideas of ownership, abandonment, economy, luxury, generosity, legality, the ridiculous and any other matters of mind are also sprinkled into the project.

Originally, each bag was constructed, printed and stuffed with dollar bill sized prints of Stan Chisholm's (aka 18andCounting) poetic "One-Liner" phrases covering a gamut of topics about life, the abstract, and the humorous. The bags would then be left behind in unsanctioned public spaces, free for the taking or what have you.

Now headed by the duo of Chisholm and Lisa See Kim, MoneyBags is taking on an all-inclusive stance for anyone to participate in. Those who choose to take part are asked to construct their own MoneyBags, stuff them with any messages, items or creations of "value" then add them to Chisholm's & Kim's MoneyBags hoard to be distributed by the stack along with other bags. The donation of supplies, "valuables", empty self-made MoneyBags, and project space is also graciously encouraged.

The first MassiveMoneyBagsDrop will take place in October for the Art On Track show where we will fill a CTA train car! Aided by the Hyde Park Art Center, Chisholm and Kim will facilitate MoneyBags creation programs filled with screen printing, bag construction and the creation of "valuables." These will be hosted by HPAC throughout August and September 2009.

It is an ongoing project so you're help can never be too early or too late

For more info please contact Stan@18andCounting.com or LisaSeeKim@gmail.com

For project donations, please mail items to:
MoneyBags
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Ave

Chicago, IL 60615

18AC NEWS
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Spring Undergraduate BFA Exhibition 2009
Sullivan Galleries; Chicago, IL
March 21-April 3
Opening reception: Friday, March 20, 7-10pm

Wall Ball (SCOSAG Live Art Auction Fundraiser)
3rd Degree Glass Facroty; St. Louis, MO
April 4th 7pm-10pm

The Other Side of a Smile
OnSix Gallery; San Francisco, CA
Opening Reception - April 25th 6 p.m.-1:30

Rusty Spring 2
3rd Floor Gallery; St. Louis, MO
Showing til May 30

David Hasselhoff on Acid album art
Album release May 15th

School of the Art Institute of Chicago Graduation!
Pritzker Pavillion; Chicago, IL
May 16th

Kranzberg Exhibition Series
Laumeier Sculpture Park; St. Louis, MO
June 5 – September 6, 2009
Opening reception: June 5, 2009, 6–8 PM. (Free)
Museum hours: Tuesday-Friday 10:00 AM-5:00 PM and Saturday-Sunday 12:00 PM-5:00 PM (Free)

JAPAN!
June 10-Late June

A group show featuring:

Stan Chisholm
Lisa See Kim
Mitsu Okubo
Kellyn Planteen
Joy E A Spika
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In conjunction with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Spring 2009 Undergraduate Exhibition

Opening Reception March 20th, 7pm.
Sullivan Galleries
33 S.State 7th Fl.
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Gallery hours: Tue-Sat, 11am-6pm

I'm a featured artist in Carson Minow's documentary covering the exploding art scene in St. Louis. Grab some pop corn and follow the link.

The Renaissance of the River City-Carson Minow & KDHX

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New online store is up. check it out for stuff you can afford.

http://18andcounting.etsy.com/
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Check me at the RRCS. New merch and artworks that want to live with you.

Rock N Roll Craft Show is the original St. Louis alternative art, craft and music event! RRCS showcases unique items handcrafted from new and recycled materials by talented artisans and crafters, as well as locally and nationally acclaimed bands! Come by to shop the wares in our department store set up or rock out to the jams! RRCS5 promises be bigger and better than ever!!!

Third Degree Glass Factory, 5200 Delmar, St. Louis

Hours:
Friday November 28 11am-5pm ($10 entry)
Saturday November 29 11am-8pm ($2 entry)
Sunday November 30 11am-5pm ($2 entry)

Featured Artists on Metromix

Not Just Another Pretty Face @ Hyde Park Art Center
October 18 - January 11
5020 S. Cornell, Chicago, IL
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Artist Reception Oct.26
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The Newly-Matched Game/Panel , Oct 29, 6-8pm

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Art Attack!: Day of the Dead Art @ Koken Art Factory,
Saturday, November 1, 7:00 pm
2500 Ohio St, Saint Louis, MO $10

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Live Art w/ Rainbows Charity Group: Wine & Art
Nov 8, Chicago

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Art Fix: Silent Art Auction & Party
Nov 14, 7-10pm
Mad Art Gallery, 2727 S 12th st. , St. Louis
ArtFix08.com

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Live Art w/ The Super Heros Of Sound: Alive Hip Hop Series
Funky Buddha, Chicago
Nov 20, 9pm, $5

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20th Annual Holiday Art Sale @ MacLean Ballroom
112 S. Michigan
Nov. 20 | 5:30-8:30
Nov. 21 | 11-7
Nov. 22 | 10-5

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Rock-n-Roll Craft Show @ Third Degree Glass Factory
Thanksgiving weekend, November 28-30
5200 Delmar, St. Louis
http://www.rocknrollcraftshow.com/

70 artists show @ |TheHyde Park Art Center|http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2008/10/not_just_another_pretty_face_2.php|

NJAPF will feature works commissioned by Chicago art collectors.

October 18th at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

MIXED MEDIA
April 19th, 2008 | Elizabeth Hise

Conversations with Stan Chisholm are never dull. Intelligent and compassionate with a pleasant sense of humor, Chisholm will attract you with his impish grin, then endear himself to you with observant conversation and dreams broader than the canvases he paints. But Stan Chisholm’s dreams aren’t simply empty promises. His art is proof that he makes things happen—and those things are generally bold, usually detailed, and always thought-provoking.

A St. Louis native, Chisholm grew up in South St. Louis with nine brothers and sisters. His mother, he comments, is the hardest working woman he’s ever met. And clearly, with a mindset like this, she’s also raised her son right. Currently, he’s in his junior year at The School of the Art “Open Windows Part I,” Ryan Stanley “But One More,” Stan Chisholm Institute of Chicago, working as a resident advisor, and focusing on drawing and painting, printmaking and art therapy, with a little art education thrown in for good measure.

Chisholm categorizes his art as mixed media, but has lately worked specifically with latex and acrylic paints, paper, collaged magazine, and even paper plates. “There’s usually a lotta questions about media,” he responds, when asked which he favors. “I think it’s not about what you use, it’s how you use it.”

Each of Stan’s pieces warrants an extra glance, if not a complete double take. Literally and figuratively, all of them offer more than meets the eye.

“There are several layers to my work with different approaches. The collage elements are great because the process mimics how I walk through life,” he said. “It’s me hunting out people and seeing who’s good for what.”

So much of what Chisholm creates includes what he has dubbed mascots, vague characters within his pieces that represent an array of things and ideas. He sketches many of these on paper plates, amassing a collection of hundreds of characters (see this issue's cover photo). “I guess I’m most interested in observing how people function together while knowing we’re all really trapped in our own heads,” he explains. “My characters are usually alone and bearing some vague expression. It’s about their performance on the canvas and filling in the outcome of previous events. It’s nice because I never know how they are gonna turn out when I start them. It’s just a matter of what scraps I find to build them, or what character I’m into at the time.

” Chisholm’s work is what art is all about—each piece proffers a unique experience to everyone who takes the time to enjoy it. Look for him next as the featured artist in a Drive Agency exhibit beginning June 1, 2008. “I like to think that I don’t show art. It’s more like me introducing you to someone.
TasteMag.com

St. Louis American Interview (8/7/08)
Young artist Stan Chisholm mixes and mingles genres and expectations

By Kenya Vaughn Of the St. Louis American
Thursday, August 7, 2008

Although he is quick to deny it, Stan Chisholm is probably the oldest 21-year-old anyone will ever meet.

His thoughts are clear and concise. His art … not so much. But that’s part of the point of him creating in the first place.

“People have expectations, and people are comfortable when the work is straightforward and it addresses one topic,” Chisholm said. “But once there are all of these different things going on, people are forced to intermingle. They are all trying to figure out the same problem, I enjoy watching that.”

While he is talking about his art in general, Chisholm’s statement also applies to latest exhibit When Lands Expand, which opened last Friday at the Pistol Gallery. It is certainly a conversation piece.

Chisholm’s work is known for his chariactures, but he took a major risk with When Lands Expand by leaving them out of his latest work.

“I wanted to see, rather than putting characters in the setting to tell the story, if I could tell the story with just the setting,” Chisholm said. “It’s about awareness of where I am, what I need to do and who’s paying attention.”

In When Lands Expand Nature is infused with pop culture, as a pair of upside-down blue jeans and Adidas shoes seem to be sprouting out of a pile of boulders in the wilderness. The small space inside a framing store in the heart of Grand Center is maximized as the art pops off the canvas and onto the walls of the uniquely designed space.

He doesn’t even make it clear whether it is a series of paintings grouped together or single piece that extends throughout the confines of the small gallery.

“My work is multiple genres combined,” Chisholm said. “It’s a really bizarre combination of things, and that’s the whole point - to throw people off as to what it is supposed to represent and give people options on how they choose to relate to them.”

The piece illustrates more than a broadened horizon (both literally and figuratively), but an expansion of the concept of nature, art forms and even the confines of a canvas.

“I sort of make my work as a way of socializing - it’s my way of communicating with people,” Chisholm said. “That’s how I touch base with everyone to make sure that what I am doing is appropriate and what I am thinking is right.“

Even though his artistic journey is one of those common stories that translate into “I’ve been doing this as long as I can remember,” Chisholm has an interesting way of explaining the fact that he’s been an artist for his entire life.

“My ideas expand, so there’s changing, but I honestly feel like I’ve been in the same gear since kindergarten or first grade,” Chisholm said. “First grade was when I was big into it and organizing things.”

While he is preparing to enter his fourth year at the The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chisholm speaks with the confidence and assurance of any Ivy League modern art professor. He is serious and informed about what lies ahead for him as an artist and a person.

Although he made light of it, growing up poor in the Tower Grove East neighborhood - including a year of homelessness - was a major contributor to his maturity.


“That’s an unfortunate thing that happened, but those were the times that I’ve learned a whole lot,” Chisholm said.

“I did a lot of growing up. I figured out how I want to function, how I could help people out and how people are going to help me out. I realized that people are really willing to support me.”

An alumnus of the Nu-Art in the Neighborhood program at the Contemporary Art Museum, concern and encouragement have been a constant in his life as an artist. While some artists tell stories of being pulled to the side and coerced to pursue a more “sensible” career path, Chisholm said it was just the opposite for him. When he was torn between his art and playing it safe by pursuing a career as a graphic designer, one of his instructors told him to move forward as a visual artist.

Chisholm said, “No one has ever discouraged me from doing art - as a matter of fact, I don’t even allow it.”

Even if there is ever a hint of negativity, Chisholm is too focused (and busy) as an artist for it to soak in. From encouraging the experience of sharing - he calls it a sharing of energy - art between people, to the handful of exhibits that simultaneously display his work, Chisholm is working to collectively form an artistic and personal connection with as many individuals as possible.

“The more people come and hopefully enjoy it, the more I sort of realize that we are all kind of on the same page,” Chisholm said. “We are all experiencing the same things and trying to figure it out and sum it all up.”

http://www.stlamerican.com/art-St.Louis American

Screwed In : July 11th @ The Regional Arts Commission: St. Louis, MO


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WhenLandsExpand WhenLandsExpand (Solo): August 1st @ PSTL Window Gallery: St. Louis, MO


WhatMakesSense Solo Show & Curated Group Show: August 2nd @ Cranky Yellow: St. Louis, MO

Color U.S.
A Drawing Show Were You Color In Our Work
May 9th : Chicago,IL : Plaines Project-1860 S Des Plaines : 9pm-Late
Live Music By The Great Mundane and Dolor
featuring many of SAIC's best draftsmen - Curated by Mark Brown

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Live Painting @ Funky Buddha
May 15th : Chicago,IL : Funky Buddha Lounge-728 W. Grand : 9pm
Feat Music by Dirty Digital, Jyroscope, and Dude 'N Nem
Free before 10pm-$5 with the password "Super Heroes"

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The UpSet Art Show
Multi-Media Celebration for the launch of UpSet Magazine
May 16th : Chicago,IL : The Co-Prosperity Sphere-3219 S Morgan St. : 6pm-11pm
Free-BYOB-Open the following weekend as well as May 24th & 25th
http://www.upsetmag.blogspot.c

COVERBOY

Hey St. Louis.

18andCounting will adorn the cover of the first issue of TASTE magazine, a quarterly magazine published by the Post-Dispatch in partnership with ArtDimensions. Also featured inside is an interview with myself.

50,000 free copies will be scattered through out the city as an insert for those subscribed to the Post, or to be found in various restaurants, clubs, offices, etc.

The first issue drops this Friday March 28th. Be on the look out.

Indie Valentine Craft Fair-Cooper Ella Café-St. Louis (Feb 2008)

18aC Apparel-Clean Cut Tee Shirt Series Launch-World Wide (Feb/Mar 2008)

Wall Ball-Third Degree Glass Factory-St. Louis (April 2008)

Give In/Get In-Siragussa Gallery-Chicago (May 2008)

Screwed In-Regional Arts Commission-St.Louis, MO (July 2008)

Solo Show @ Cranky Yellow-St. Louis, MO (August 2008)
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Take a gander and vote for my tee shirt designs on Wooshka.com
RIGHT HERE

winning designs become limited edition tees of 500

mine are better! help me prove it

-18aC

18aC Apparel: Hand Picked & Worn in Series

These are thrift found tees that have been hand painted and screen printed. All one of a kind. What you see is what you get.

Found Object Fine Art/Fashion/Printmaking/Filth

**Commissioned Tees for $25**
I also will be doing commissioned tees. This means you provide the tee shirt. (that way you know it fits and it's your color choice) You then pick which mascot you would like to have printed. (of the four 4 that are currently available for printing)

Please email me to set up commissioned Tees. Stan@18andCounting.com

Shirts can be viewed here

Nov. 16th marks the date when paintings get destroyed and feelings get hurt. Come out and show your support for your favorite artist, 18andCounting! Only you can save my rauchy-grimey-ass-beautiful painting

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ART ATTACK!

32 local artists have donated paintings that will compete head-to-head in five rounds of competition in a real-life boxing ring! In each match the winning painting will be determined by audience response, measured by an Applause-O-Meter. The winning canvas will continue to the next round, and the losing artwork will then be put up for auction. Each successive round will have a minimum bid: $50, $75, $100, $200, and $300. The winning painting will be auctioned off for a minimum of $500. Proceeds from all auctioned paintings will benefit KDHX and South City Open Studio and Gallery.

If paintings don’t reach the minimum bid, “The Wheel of Misfortune” will determine their fate. Methods of destruction include but are not limited to chainsaw, graffiti, and ninjas. Yes, ninjas!

Art Attack! will also feature the gritty blues of Casey Reid and the bluegrass punk of The Monads in between rounds. The event will emceed by KDHX's own Dr. Jeff, and will feature The Underworld's Doug Morgan on the turntables.


*Art Attack!

Friday, November 16

South Broadway Athletic Club, located at 2301 South 7th Street.

Doors at 7 event at 8

Tickets are $10 and will be available at the door.

All proceeds will benefit your community radio station, KDHX and our friends at SCOSAG.*

Click Here For More Info

Artist Preview Tuesday July 17th
Join me at the Contemporary Art Museum on Tuesday, July 17 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM for the Open Studios Preview Party. This evening will be complete with an exhibition featuring samples of the the artists’ work, a DJ, and Schlafly beer. Take advantage of this opportunity to spend time with both the artists and their work.

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Open Studio & Live Art

Sunday July 22

Headlined by Peat Wollaeger; I along with Bryan Walsh and Justin Tolentino will be doing a Live Graffiti Wall Demo at the flood wall just South of the Arch.

Noon-4PM

I will also have work on display at peats studio located 2 blocks away from the wall at 219 Chouteau
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more info: Contemporary Open Studio Site

Group Show along with Fabio Rodriguez, Justin Tolentino, Victor Vigil, Bryan Walsh, and Davide Weaver
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Aug 3rd
6-11pm
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Third Floor Gallery
1214 Washington ave. (above mossa center)
Downtown St. Louis

20+ Artists
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2 night show
Aug 3- first friday free sneak preview
Aug 4- $5 donation
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Jefferson Arms Gallery
415 N. Tucker
Downtown St. Louis
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Music by DJ Mahf

TONS of local artist's works on uniform skateboard decks
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August 3rd, 2007
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Drive Agency
1617 Locust St. 1st floor
Downtown St. Louis, MO

STL Underground KingZ

Saturday June 9th

7pm - 3am

5300 Broadway off of Grand and highway 70

Live painting by 18andCounting, Justin Tolentino, Bryan Walsh, and Chris Sabitino

Plus a ton of music from local DJs and Emcees (my personal fave being DJ Mahf)

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thanks for peeping the new site. This one is much cleaner. hold out for a bit ill be adding new pieces through out the summer not to mention they can now be bought directly from the site. Shoot me a message on the contacts page to join the mailing list.