Opening Friday, April 20 at the Art Institute of Chicago is an exhibition of prints by Helen Frankenthaler, one of the most significant figures in the development of American abstraction. Best known for her monumental and boldly gestural canvases awash in vibrant hues, she also produced prints at the print workshop Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) over nearly two decades. Featuring over 50 prints from Frankenthaler’s time at ULAE, this exhibition reveals an artist enchanted with what she called “the romance of a new medium.”

Address brings together twenty sculptures by the Chicago-based artist Richard Rezac produced over the last two decades. Alongside a number of new works commissioned by the Renaissance Society, the exhibition features primarily recent sculptures and a small selection from earlier in his career. Presented together, they demonstrate the artist’s ongoing engagement with the sculptural logic of geometry and the elusive mechanisms of interpretation. Opening Saturday, April 21 

A very stylish fundraiser takes place this week April 20-22 at Intuit at their annual Closet Clearance Sale. Thousands of new, vintage and gently-used women’s clothing and accessory items donated from Chicago's best closets and designers are for sale, with 100% of the proceeds directly supporting Intuit’s exhibitions, programming and educational events that celebrate outsider art.

This Thursday, the Cleve Carney Art Gallery at the College of DuPage opens its annual Juried Student Exhibit showcase of student artwork. A reception takes place 5:00–7:00pm. 

For his fourth show at Western Exhibitions, opening Friday, April 13, Richard Hull presents a new series of abstracted portraits as both paintings and for the first time, sculpture. Repetitive shapes reverberate concentrically around Hull’s “heads”, shapes that he sees as inner mirrors where repetitive thinking and behaviors are events of self-discovery and learning.

Since the 1950s, Alex Katz's work has been the subject of more than 200 solo exhibitions and nearly 500 group exhibitions around the world. His work can be found in nearly 100 public collections worldwide. This Thursday, a show of new work by the 90 year artist opens at Gray Gallery Warehouse.