Art, Inspired by Your Day Job: Chicago

Before reading further, please take stock of your past and current employment situation. If you an obnoxiously rich heiress whose most taxing chore will be deciding on your outfit for the after-party (or the after-after party), or anyone else fortunate enough to have avoided a 9-to-5 job, skip to the next post. Now, for all of the rest of us poor bastards seeking relief from the tedium that is our daily lives, Chicago’s Three Walls has an upcoming exhibition inspired by the infamous day job that may do the trick. Three Walls is a nonprofit organization focused on providing education, workspace, and exhibition opportunities, to emerging artists — and fans of same — within contemporary art. The upcoming show, “Day Jobs”, will feature photography, drawings, mixed media, and sculpture by artists Tim Best, Kyle Brumfield, and Japeth Mennes, some of which directly references the soul-crushing world of watching the clock for a living. You can also take comfort in that fact that the three artists featured in the exhibition, like us, have to grind it out during the week to support their true passions.