Some really nice work from new friend and long time reader Cristian Ordóñez. Pictured are images from a series he calls Discovery Walks.

We at The Family have been huge fans of Alex Lukas ever since meeting him while doing a studio tour of Space1026 in Philadelphia way back in '09. Since then, Lukas has moved on and has become a strong voice in the contemporary art landscape with back to back solo shows at Guerrero Gallery in 2010 and 2011, a recently released artist zine published by Megawords and many group exhibitions around the U.S. But by far my favorite work of his (other than this beauty from a past Guerrero show) is his new 8 color Offset Lithograph. Mimicking his process from past one-of-a-kind works featuring screenprinted book pages depicting flooded and decaying American cities, this piece is a straight up jaw-dropper, with tons of documentation photos to boot. If you are the kind of person that buys a bunch of little art throughout the year, I would highly recommend picking up one of these prints before they are gone and passing up a few other smaller acquisitions this year. It will be worth it, I promise.    

I'm out of town so if someone could go to my buddy Tom Torluemke's show tonight (Friday April 27th, 2012 from 6-9p) at Linda Warren in Chicago and give him a hug for me that would be wicked. Thanks. 

Make sure to hit Saki here in Chicago on Friday, May 4th, 2012 from 6 – 9pm for the release of Free Jazz Bitmap Vol. 1 by Nick Butcher. Live music by Nick along with Katherine Young, Jenna Lyle & Joann Cho. It's a free event! Also, make sure to hit Pitch Design Union for a give-away of this poster for the release.

A nice little 3 part feature on color from Canada's CBCradio. Give it a listen. 

Check out Peculiar Bliss's 9th issue (created by Vaughn Fender) featuring Margot Harrington. My favorite part is the cover design, done by Harrington, which was inspired by the issue's theme of rituals, pulling inspiration from her process of crossing off items on a hand written to-do list which she does pretty much every day. This issue also includes a long interview with Margot commenting on how she got into blogging, past collaborations and the integral part that research plays in her process. All of which is sandwiched between some great portraits and work photographed by Julia Stotz.

Time To Make the Doughnuts is Ryan Duggan's new show which opens tonight (Friday April 6th, 2012) at Saki Records. Now in his 8th year of running his print shop, The Drug Factory, Duggan has a ton of stuff to show for his hard work over the years including gig posters, mono prints and some "other fun stuff" as well. Don't miss the chance to support one of Chicago's supreme talents and all around good dudes.