Pencil This In
By Chuck Sudo on Mar 28, 2008 4:00PM
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Art
Bridgeport artist Jodi Bova's paintings convey a narrative through the use of low-relief figurative sculptures (usually made of solder and painted over in a silver wash) and symbolize the delicate relationship between man and artificial engineering. Her color palette is influenced by the tone and emotion of the message of her pieces. This evening Bova further explores this theme with her latest exhibit, "The 444 Exhibit," showcasing a series of newer paintings.
444 W. 38th St., 5-9 p.m.
Music
After years of being penned in by his career with the Jayhawks, Gary Louris has finally launched his solo career in earnest. His newest album, Vagabonds, is an exquisitely melancholy collection of tunes exploring the theme of finding a soulmate, with all the wanderlust, heartbreak, hope and tenacity that entails. This evening Louris will headline an 18-and-over show at Metro. Vetiver and Chris Stills open.
8 p.m., $22
Joshua Redman's career has always been informed by the post-young lion movement of Wynton Marsalis and the considerable shadow of his late father Dewey; sometimes his music showed the strain of living up to those expectations. With his newest record Back East Redman finally sheds that baggage, in the process making the best album of his career. A stripped down affair inspired in large part by Sonny Rollins' Way Out West Redman sounds - and feels - comfortable in his own skin for the first time in his career. Redman plays Symphony Center this evening with a trio comprising of Reuben Rogers on Bass and the amazing Brian Blade on drums. Wynton Marsalis' older brother Brandon will guest on second saxophone.
Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan, 8 p.m., $25-$98.
Film
Douglas Fairbanks' 1926 film The Black Pirate was the first feature film to use the two-strip Technicolor process where red orange and blue green exposures of the same action were fused into a single length of celluloid. Fairbanks plays a Spanish nobleman who swears a blood oath on the pirates who killed his father (a foreshadowing of Inigo Montoya). Fairbanks, one of the original founders of United Artists, was a one-man show. He also directed the film, wrote the screenplay and did his own stunts, including a classic where he sits perched atop a sail, then uses a knife to slide down the length of the fabric to join the battle on the deck below.
LaSalle Bank Cinema, 4901 W. Irving Park Road, 8 p.m. Saturday, $5