This Fall in Chicago
Don’t Fret
Sean Dove
Meet your cover stars
These are the artists who created not one but two very special covers for this issue of Time Out Chicago. By Lisa White
When we decided to bring you this momentous issue, we knew not just any old cover would do. So we teamed up with two of the city’s most buzzed- about artists, Don’t Fret and Sean Dove, to create bespoke artwork. You’re holding the efforts from one of these artists in your hands right now, but where’s the other one? Out there on the streets, Chicago! Go find it and tweet us when you’ve found both (@timeoutchicago). Before you leap into action, here’s a little more about the artists.
Don’t Fret
Watch Don’t Fret work at
timeout.com/chicago
“It’s fun to do little challenges, to see how much I can push my world into a tangible part of Chicago,” says Don’t Fret, the anonymous artist who’s been tagging since his teens and whose work, like his Fulton Market mural, is instantly recognizable. He spent 10 hours painting this cover onto a Wicker Park wall before final touches were made, including a dose of Don’t Fret wit. “You have to have a sense of humor to live in Chicago,” he says. “The politicians are corrupt idiots, it’s cold as shit half the year. You have to be able to make fun of yourself.” We shot the cover before the artist painted over it (a cool, bittersweet moment), the wall ready for a new piece of work.
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TIMEOUT.COM/CHICAGO September–November 2015 Sean Dove
“I haven’t done a lot of Chicago- centric work. It’s something I’ve pulled away from because there is so much good Chicago art,” says illustrator Sean Dove, who’s crafted packaging, comics, screen prints and art for everyone from Marvel to McDonald’s, as well as released The Last Days of Danger, a book of reviews and illustrations of 23 spy films. For our cover, Dove focused on a cityscape with fall delights hidden in plain sight—a bowl of warm and gooey mac and cheese, a glass of wine, a brisk walk on an autumn day. “I really wanted to play with contrast, so I gave it a warm and cool palette, contrasting the curvy trees and the geometry of the buildings.”
PHOTOGRAPHS: JACLYN RIVAS
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