On Saturday this weekend we have a mix of exhibition openings and closings: in Hermosa and nearby in Logan Square. We also have a benefit gala for the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, and a dual artist exhibition in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

View the full calendar here.

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The Museum of I Love You So Much #3

May 30, 2026 - Jul 12, 2026

Opening: Saturday, May 30, 2026 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

SAWHORSE

• Hermosa

Sawhorse is thrilled to present the third iteration of The Museum of I Love You So Much, a curatorial project organized by Los Angeles-based artist and writer Hannah Tishkoff.

Exhibiting artists include Deen Babakhyi, Megan Lee, Jenna Beasley, Flannery McDonnell, Jerry Bleem, Tatiana Sky, Cookie Bunk, Amy Stober, Julia Yerger, and Jack Kearney

Closing Reception: Girl Talk by Lindsey Kircher

Saturday, May 30, 2026 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Oliva Gallery

• Logan Square

Join Oliva Gallery for the closing reception of Girl Talk, a solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Lindsey Kircher, presenting recent figurative paintings that stage psychologically charged scenes through dense composition, saturated color, and symbolic imagery, where figures, animals, and objects converge in layered interiors that move between intimacy and performance; the reception takes place Saturday, May 30 from 1–3 PM and offers a final opportunity to experience the work and meet the artist.

UIMA Annual Benefit Gala

Saturday, May 30, 2026 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA)

• Ukrainian Village

The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art marks its 55th anniversary with deep pride and gratitude. What began as a humble gallery has grown into a powerful cultural voice, recognized across the United States and around the world. For over five decades, UIMA has stood as a beacon—protecting, nurturing, and sharing the soul of Ukrainian artistic expression, and carrying forward a legacy that refuses to be silenced.

We are honored to announce that UIMA’s annual benefit gala will take place on May 30th. This year’s theme, “The Enduring Legacy of Ukrainian Art: Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future,” carries profound meaning in this moment of history. As Ukraine’s culture is being deliberately targeted and threatened, our responsibility to preserve it, to uplift it, and to ensure it lives on becomes ever more urgent. Because culture is not only memory—it is identity, resilience, and the heartbeat of a nation.

Guadalupe Maravilla with Emery Blagdon: The star exploding in the body

May 30, 2026 - Dec 6, 2026

The Art Preserve of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center

• Sheboygan, WI

At the Art Preserve: May 5, 2026–January 10, 2027

At the Arts Center: May 30, 2026–December 6, 2026

This exhibition will bring together for the first time the work of two artists who have both dedicated their lives, through their multifaceted artistic processes, to healing. After a life of rambling, Emery Blagdon (1907–1986) settled on his family’s homestead in Garfield Table, Nebraska. Many members of his family had been afflicted with cancer. Convinced of the healing potential of the unseen forces of the earth, Blagdon spent forty years constructing “The Healing Machine.” Using largely tin foil, masking tape, Christmas decorations, and wire, Blagdon sought to harness magnetism, electricity, and other energies to surround visitors with positive forces. JMKAC has owned “The Healing Machine” since 2004.

Guadalupe Maravilla migrated to the United States from El Salvador, unaccompanied, at age eight. At thirty-six, he was diagnosed with cancer, which he links to inherited trauma. During treatment, Maravilla connected with Indigenous healing practices, including sound baths—ceremonies that harness sonic vibrations from gongs, conch shells, and other instruments to restore calm and balance and release toxins in the body. He began making sculptures, paintings, performances, and large-scale installations that incorporate found objects related to his own migration story and various gongs and bowls, which he activates to conduct sound ceremonies. Blurring art, science, and medicine, he calls these activations “healing machines.”

At the Arts Center, central to the exhibition is Maravilla’s Mariposa Relámpago, a school bus that has been reimagined as a healing temple. Throughout the exhibition, the healing machines will be activated by Maravilla and various other healers, playing the sculptures to turn on and amplify the energy in the gallery—transforming the space into an immersive healing environment.