<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/real-estate/elite-street/ct-re-elite-street-driehaus-mansion-sells-lake-geneva-20220117-ky43w3nd7re5dnpit3lcnct34m-story.html?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daywatch&amp;utm_content=911642513817#nws=true">Lake Geneva mansion owned by late investment manager Richard Driehaus sells for $36M, a Wisconsin state record</a>The 12-bedroom pillared Georgian-style mansion late investment manager Richard Driehaus owned on 40 acres in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, sold Friday for $36 million.The sale price, to a buyer whose identity could not yet be determined, is the highest on record in Lake Geneva and the highest in the history of the state of Wisconsin for a single-family home.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://news.yahoo.com/masterpiece-recieve-frame-chicagos-art-011038901.html">Masterpiece will recieve new frame at Chicago's Art Institute</a>"A Sunday Afternoon On the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat is one of the most recognizable paintings in the world. The Art Institute of Chicago now has the daunting task of replacing the painting's frame.Via CBS News&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/new-maya-angelou-quarter-designer-2060027">Maya Angelou Is the First Black Woman to Appear on the U.S. Quarter.</a>The poet, writer, and activist Maya Angelou has become the first Black woman to appear on a U.S. quarter.The U.S. Mint released a coin featuring her likeness into circulation earlier this week; the coin was created as part of the American Women Quarters Program, through which a series of special-edition coins honoring American women will be minted over the next four years.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/arts/design/nazis-antiquities-looted.html">New Research Tracks Ancient Artifacts Looted by the Nazis</a>When the Nazis invaded Greece in 1941, Julius Ringel, a major general in the German army, took an active role in initiating illegal excavations on the island of Crete, where Minoan culture had flourished more than 3,000 years earlier.Though the cinematic exploits of Indiana Jones in the 1980s provided a popular, fictional view of a Nazi lust for antiquities, the art world has, understandably, focused considerably more attention on the seizure of art from Jews.But the topic of the Nazi role in antiquities looting is increasingly drawing attention, in part through the work of scholars who are peeling back the mysteries of what happened to the objects that were excavated or seized eight decades ago.Via the New York Times&nbsp;&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 1/18/21

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419006/riln5qcbfszzjmdbuqmk.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/photos-at-zoom-american-epidemic-themes-in-the-mocp-collection">Photos at Zoom: American Epidemic Themes in the MoCP collection</a>Friday, January 21, 12 – 1&nbsp;pmMuseum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP)Get to know the museum's collection with this series of public virtual print viewings. Curatorial Assistant Erica McKeehen will lead a discussion on works in the permanent collection that relate to themes in the current exhibition,&nbsp;American Epidemic: Guns in the United States.&nbsp;Drawing on techniques of photojournalism, documentary, landscape, and forensic photography, the artists presented in this session address guns in American culture either directly or indirectly, by questioning the roles of photography pertaining to memory, the media, and evidence in instances of violence.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419007/erzkeusttzn8iravs0x7.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/nate-young-cameron-downey-in-conversation">Nate Young &amp; Cameron Downey in Conversation</a>Friday, January 21, 6 – 7&nbsp;pmENGAGE ProjectsLearn how Cameron came into her artistic practice through her interactions and mentoring from Nate. Cameron Downey is a part of our current two person exhibition&nbsp;Intersections&nbsp;which is on view through Saturday, January 22, 2022.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419007/d8hxmpgacdxmgpketnnn.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/artist-lecture-frances-lightbound-virtual-program">Artist Lecture: Frances Lightbound (Virtual Program)</a>Friday, January 21, 7 – 8&nbsp;pmBianca Bova GalleryFrances Lightbound’s work addresses the architectural condition through abstraction.The artist will be joined in conversation by Bianca Bova, with an audience Q &amp; A to follow.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419008/vlj7uof3x08rnqarphmi.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/exhibition-curator-gina-costa">Exhibition Curator: Gina Costa</a>Sunday, January 23, 2 – 3&nbsp;pmPerspective Photo GalleryThis exhibition provides a small glimpse to how a mobile device is not only a convenient device in one’s pocket, but also a powerful creative tool harnessed by these artists to redefine how we understand picture-making. The question before us now is: What is the next technical advancement mobile photography is paving the way for?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419009/x0jo4dmwdp644fdnjhsg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/tony-fitzpatrick-in-conversation-with-steven-conrad">Tony Fitzpatrick In Conversation with Steven Conrad</a>Sunday, January 23, 3 – 4&nbsp;pmThe Cleve Carney Museum of ArtThe conversation, moderated by Conrad, will take place on the McAninch Arts Center’s Belushi Performance Hall stage. Topics will include and Fitzpatrick’s connection to Chicago, his current CCMA exhibition Jesus of Western Avenue, his social and political concerns and our shared changing reality.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Talks This Weekend: January 21 - 23

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/art-mental-health-11641387911">Is Looking at Art a Path to Mental Well-Being?</a>During a dark period in his youth, Bill Murray thought about killing himself while wandering the streets of Chicago. “I was ready to die,” the actor said at a press conference several years ago. That day he decided to visit the Art Institute and found himself in front of Jules Breton’s 1884 painting The Song of the Lark, which depicts a young woman looking skyward, sickle in hand, a violent orange sunrise behind her. Suddenly, Murray felt hope. “I just thought, Well, there’s a girl who doesn’t have a whole lot of prospects, but the sun’s coming up anyway and she’s got another chance at it,” he said. “That gave me some sort of feeling that I too am a person, and get another chance every day the sun comes up.” Murray credits the painting with saving his life.Via WSJ&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/italian-collectors-instagram-fakes-2057952">Four Italian Collectors on Instagram Have Been Unmasked as Catfish Accounts. Was It a Scheme to Pump Emerging Artists?&nbsp;</a>“It all starts at a fair, or by word of mouth from collector friends, or wandering around Instagram,” the collector Carlo Alberto Ferri&nbsp;<a href="https://it.reafair.com/post/collector-s-view-collezione-carlo-alberto-ferri">recently told</a>&nbsp;an Italian art blog. “Then, I get in touch with the gallery before I buy.”It sounds like a typical response. What’s unusual is that Ferri is not actually a collector, or even a real person. And there are others like him, prowling the internet purporting to be Italian collectors, according to a&nbsp;report published in the newspaper Il Sole 24 Oreyesterday.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-visual-art-chicago-winter-2022-preview-20220106-k6q7ncoz2vc3jg5fv45ze6oq3y-story.html">Top 10 for Visual Art in Chicago: Big shows, big messages in the first months of 2022</a>As museums carry on showing pandemic holdovers too good to cancel, the embarrassment of riches continues. So many great shows, so little space to mention them all!By Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://news.wttw.com/2022/01/08/showcase-african-and-african-american-artists-comes-prudential-plaza">Showcase of African and African American Artists Comes to Prudential Plaza</a>A unique collaboration is bringing Black art to a popular Chicago building.It’s a first of its kind exhibit happening now at <a href="http://onetwopru.com/gallery-guichard-exhibition/">One Two Pru, also known as Prudential Plaza</a>, located in the Loop. It’s not unusual to see art in downtown lobbies, but most of the pieces in this art exhibit are from <a href="https://www.galleryguichard.com/">Gallery Guichard</a>, a Black-owned art gallery in Bronzeville.Via WTTW&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 1/11/21

CAC Announces the 2022-23&nbsp;BOLT Artist Residents<a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-cdybkd-dlvzir-y/">Michael Cuadrado</a> <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-cdybkd-dlvzir-j/">Tulika Ladsariya</a> <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-cdybkd-dlvzir-t/">Sal Moreno</a> <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-cdybkd-dlvzir-i/">Laleh Motlagh</a> <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-cdybkd-dlvzir-d/">Lola Ayisha Ogbara</a> <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-cdybkd-dlvzir-h/">R. Treshawn Williamson</a>BOLT is a one-year juried residency program for emerging and mid-career Chicago artists offers onsite studio space and monthly visits by influential artists and art professionals.⁠Learn more about CAC's current community of artists&nbsp;<a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-cdybkd-dlvzir-k/">here</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://news.wttw.com/2021/12/28/new-book-reveals-secrets-chicago-nanny-who-was-world-class-photographer">A New Biography Aims to Answer Some of the Many Questions About Vivian Maier</a>There has always been an air of mystery surrounding the life of Vivian Maier.Maier, was a North Shore nanny who quietly pursued another endeavor – in her spare time she took extraordinary photographs.Her body of work — 140,000 images — was discovered in a Chicago storage locker in 2007. And the photographs were not attributed to her until she died two years later. Our own Jay Shefksy first reported on the phenom before her life became the subject of a 2014 documentary. Now a new biography aims to answer some of the many questions about Maier.&nbsp;It’s called “<a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vivian-Maier-Developed/Ann-Marks/9781982166724">Vivian Maier Developed — The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny</a>.”&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/01/05/i-have-been-hacked-collector-loses-more-than-dollar2m-of-nfts-overnight?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=ec3795a7c6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_01_05_11_10&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c459f924d0-ec3795a7c6-61117077">‘I have been hacked’: collector loses more than $2m of NFTs overnight</a>More than $2.2m worth of NFTs were stolen from the New York-based art collector and gallerist, Todd Kramer, according to a series of now-deleted tweets. Kramer, of Ross+Kramer Gallery, called for help via social media in the early hours of 30 December, saying: “I have been hacked, all my apes [have] gone." He described the night as the "worst of his life". The 15 NFTs which disappeared from his wallet were from the highly prized Bored Ape Yacht Club and the Mutant Ape Yacht Club collections, in what is believed to have been a phishing scam.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;&nbsp;

CGN Art World Recap: 1/6/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418996/yuktotpneghtpzkst8cb.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lee-godie-sincerely">Lee Godie: Sincerely...</a>Opening: Friday, January 7, 5:30 – 8&nbsp;pmCarl Hammer GalleryForty-three years ago, on the eve of the grand opening of the Carl Hammer Gallery at 620 N. Michigan Avenue, a first-time encounter with Chicago’s iconic street artist took place.&nbsp;Now, twenty-eight years since her passing, Carl Hammer Gallery takes a look back at the remarkable, inventive eye of one of Chicago’s most widely collected artists – Lee Godie.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418997/sneztxsw3zgofsnhcdev.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/for-spacious-skies">for spacious skies</a>Opening: Friday, January 7, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmChicago Artists Coalition (CAC)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418998/z7zqebyhqlk1ofhdkjso.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/patrice-s-nelson">Patrice S. Nelson</a>Opening: Friday, January 7, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418998/adfmsjjjb9o0ef0hcqrn.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/wunderkammer-victor-s-cabinet-of-curiosities">Wunderkammer: Victor's Cabinet of Curiosities</a>Opening: Friday, January 7, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmGallery Victor ArmendarizWunderkammers, or cabinets of curiosities, arose in mid-sixteenth century Europe as repositories for all manner of wondrous and exotic objects, sometimes filling entire rooms. These collections mark the intersection of superstition, science, and man-made objects and are precursors to museums.&nbsp;To celebrate our five-year anniversary, Gallery Victor Armendariz will transform our space into a modern Wunderkammer featuring artists: Marcos Raya, John Seubert (AKA John Dolly), Rick Farrell,&nbsp;Ivan Markovic and many more!&nbsp;Including the Kupjack Miniature Rooms.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418999/fpeyq5tayj1jrwbyfy6k.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/colorful-language">Colorful Language</a>Opening: Friday, January 7, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmAddington Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419000/b8dsmcznlxikxb6sylwk.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/anneke-eussen-blank-pages">Anneke Eussen: Blank Pages</a>January 8DOCUMENT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419001/uyhrpdrhh0husjivu0at.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/through-a-new-lens-works-from-the-world-wide-mobile-photography-movement">Through a New Lens: Works from the World-Wide Mobile Photography Movement</a>Opening: Saturday, January 8, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmPerspective Photo GalleryThis exhibition provides a small glimpse to how a mobile device is not only a convenient device in one’s pocket, but also a powerful creative tool harnessed by these artists to redefine how we understand picture-making. The question before us now is: What is the next technical advancement mobile photography is paving the way for?&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419001/xv0zoxawvlyx2umiwszo.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dan-gunn-of-the-land-behind-them">Dan Gunn: Of the Land Behind Them</a>January 8&nbsp;Monique Meloche GalleryGunn’s work relies on the imagery, aesthetics, and craft traditions of the American Midwestern vernacular and investigates their ideological function in politics and for the formulation of male subjectivity.&nbsp;His practice mines materials for their unconscious associations and emotional potential. Woodworking and ceramics are used for their historical connection to Midwestern mythologies in&nbsp;an attempt to construct a counterfactual folk art, one not riddled with nostalgia but more accurate to the current state of affairs.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start January 7 & 8

<a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/artist-maps-englewood-homes-where-land-sale-contracts-denied-black">Artist maps Englewood homes where Black residents were denied ownership</a>In January, signs will start appearing in front of houses that were part of an onerous period in Chicago’s housing history, the mid-20th century era of land sale contracts, when Black households were allowed tantalizingly close to homeownership without attaining it.Via Crain's Chicago&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/obituaries/wayne-thiebaud-dead.html">Wayne Thiebaud, Playful Painter of the Everyday, Dies at 101</a>Wayne Thiebaud, the California-based painter whose lush, dreamy landscapes and luminous pictures of hot dogs, deli counters, marching band majorettes and other charmed relics of midcentury Americana were complex meditations on life and painting, and represented one of the most affecting and individual variations on 20th-century Pop Art, died on Saturday at his home in Sacramento. He was 101.Via The New York Times(Thumbnail image: “Untitled (Three Ice Creams),” 1964.Credit...Wayne Thiebaud /Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/01/04/new-caravaggio-workonce-estimated-at-euro1500-and-now-worth-millionsoffered-to-spain">New ‘Caravaggio’ work—once estimated at €1,500 and now worth millions—offered to Spain</a>The regional government of Madrid will have the opportunity to buy a newly discovered work thought to have been painted by the 16th-century artist Caravaggio. The work, known as The Crowning of Thorns, was withdrawn from an auction in Madrid last spring after curators from the Museo Nacional del Prado said there was “sufficient stylistic and documentary evidence” to suggest it could be an original Caravaggio. The regional government recently granted the work protected status, declaring it an item of cultural interest.The piece was due to go under the hammer at Ansorena auction house on 8 April with a guide price of just €1,500. The small-scale painting was included in the online catalogue of Ansorena with an attribution to the “circle of [the 17th-century Spanish artist] José de Ribera”. The Spanish government subsequently imposed an export ban on the work.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/armory-show-latinx-latin-american-art-2022-1234613288/">Armory Show Plans Fair-Wide Focus on Latinx and Latin American Art for 2022&nbsp;Edition</a>For its upcoming edition next fall, the Armory Show will focus its special programming on Latinx and Latin American art. Three of the fields’ leading curators will oversee those events: Mari Carmen Ramírez, Tobias Ostrander, and Carla Acevedo-Yates.Via ARTnews&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 1/4/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418996/yjnpmzdyvbfknuihgyvn.jpg"><figcaption>Oskar Friedl, far right, with the Zhou Brothers (3rd from left and 5th from left)</figcaption></figure>Former Chicago Art Dealer and longtime curator Oskar Friedl has DiedOskar Friedl passed away after a battle with COVID-19. He would have turned 66 this week. His son shared details on his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/oskar.friedl">Facebook</a> page. Friedl was also a collaborator with the Zhou Brothers, as well as an editor of their books.&nbsp;More information on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/oskar.friedl">Facebook</a>&nbsp;Work In Progress: Eighteen Months Ago, Woman Made Gallery Started An Overhaul in the Wake of a Racially Charged UnravelingIt’s been over a year since the nation’s art institutions released their promises, statements and commitments, in various verbiages, to “do better” with racial justice. Some have stayed the course, others veered back to business as usual. Most are somewhere in the middle and have spent the past year-and-a-half adjusting to a new standard of equity and inclusion.Woman Made Gallery is a nonprofit exhibition space that focuses on women and non-binary artists. In June of 2020, Woman Made Gallery’s newly appointed director left, citing “racism in the organization and microaggressions in the workplace,” according to a statement from the gallery. Then a staff member quit, for similar reasons. Then a board member left. Ultimately the gallery ended the summer with full staff turnover and a much-reduced board.Via <a href="https://art.newcity.com/2022/01/03/work-in-progress-eighteen-months-ago-woman-made-gallery-started-an-overhaul-in-the-wake-of-a-racially-charged-unraveling/">Newcity</a>&nbsp;Susanin's Sold Its Auction Building and is Now Doing Art AdvisorySean Susanin shared: "2022 marks a fresh start and the chance to reset ourselves. Our flagship building in downtown Chicago has been sold.&nbsp;We will no longer be conducting traditional English style auctions.&nbsp;As we all know, the art and auction industry has seen tremendous change...With 40 years experience navigating the art and auction world, our mission at SUSANIN'S will continue to bring confidential, trusted advice, solutions and phenomenal results for all your art-related needs" with Susanin's Art Advisory Group.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 1/3/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418996/y0hfjvj2nohrjcbxj0oj.jpg"><figcaption>Megan Williamson created a hundred portraits based on interviews she saw on newscasts. (WTTW News) &nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://news.wttw.com/2021/12/20/chicago-artist-paints-100-zoom-portraits?fbclid=IwAR2XorTpgtMFHaz4EEspaLhvneF-iCjslK9rGWVOo9G4n7jVkh1UAINBy48#.YcIpK2k0NtI.facebook">Chicago Artist Paints ‘100 Zoom Portraits’</a>A landscape artist is ditching the dirt for some more formal paintings in a new series titled “<a href="http://www.meganwilliamson.com/">100 Zoom Portraits</a>.”What started out as 300 screenshots of Zoom interviews from her favorite newscasts, has since transformed into a declaration of the times.&nbsp;Via WTTW&nbsp;<a href="https://news.wttw.com/2021/12/20/embattled-thompson-center-lands-buyer-plans-overhaul-reuse?fbclid=IwAR0xhm6HaVf5Pmv9VU0AQF6t62kDpFxYLAe6v9lZjvXLBKRPxMtWwHFyh2A">Embattled Thompson Center Lands Buyer With Plans For Overhaul, Reuse</a>A reprieve for the Thompson Center.Late last week, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a deal to sell the love-it-or-hate it state building downtown to the Prime Group for $70 million. The development firm plans to overhaul the Helmut Jahn-designed structure rather than demolish it and start anew, as others had proposed.Via WTTW&nbsp;<a href="https://michiganave.mlchicagosocial.com/faust-art-installations-chicago?fbclid=IwAR1Ak23fhqyoIykpI3b810hGDttqv-LF-VBgYdawvZMi4hHpkaPm7KpvlT8">Bob Faust's Latest Art Installations See Chicago All Wrapped Up</a>“I am blessed that my work and life places me regularly in many of our city’s great neighborhoods, rich with color, texture and surprising juxtapositions,” acknowledges Bob Faust, principal and creative director of his eponymous Chicago-based art and design studio Faust (<a href="http://faustltd.com/">faustltd.com</a>). “I have made it part of my practice to catalog inspiring images when I come across them.” These images are the main medium in Faust’s most recent installations, with all, and still… and Rapt on The Mile, two distinct projects connected by the artist’s style and intent.Via Michigan Ave. Magazine&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/rashid-johnson-deciders-2022-1234613116/?fbclid=IwAR1oNn88tMB0RdVBySO2lAItlELlSssmLrXdB3pAsPFot0lKi5q-W1juezw">From Outside In: Rashid Johnson Has Plied His Status as an Art Star to Effect the Kinds of Change He Wants to&nbsp;See</a>After meeting at a neighborhood bar a little more than a decade ago, <a href="https://www.artnews.com/t/rashid-johnson/">Rashid Johnson</a> and Joel Mesler became such fixtures together on New York’s Lower East Side—where Johnson lived and Mesler owned a gallery—that one day Mesler half-jokingly said to his friend: “‘Look, man, we’ve got to divide Orchard Street properly.” Mesler decided that he would commandeer the thoroughfare two blocks south of Grand Street, while Johnson would take control of the blocks to the north. After quickly becoming the unofficial mayor of his zone, Johnson would “sit out on his porch, on the steps, and smoke cigarettes—and he just knew everybody,” Mesler recalled.Via Artnews&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 12/21/21

<html><head></head><body>By CGN StaffThe new CGN 2022 Arts Guide will be out after Christmas, and we're busy now filling the calendar for 2022. Here for you are a handful of exhibitions opening in the early days of the new year. Check out calendar daily for new additions and updates!&nbsp;Happy new year!&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418996/msdp4jxve23escktwz9r.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/colorful-language">Colorful Language</a>&nbsp;Jan 7 – Feb 5Addington GalleryFeaturing work by Joanne Mattera, Cat Crotchett, Kathleen Waterloo, Alicia LaChance, Joan Holleb, Julia Katz, Michael Hoffman, David Versluis, Rebecca Crowell, Allison B. Cooke, Lisa Pressman&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418997/oxkjpj6k8h9qrkzuf5lx.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-rounds">The Rounds</a>Jan 7 – Feb 17Chicago Artists Coalition<a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-ciiulhy-ftuikdrju-y/">The Rounds</a> is a duo exhibition featuring new works by current CAC HATCH 2021-22 artists-in-residence <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-ciiulhy-ftuikdrju-j/">Osée Obaonrin</a> and <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-ciiulhy-ftuikdrju-t/">Nayeon Yang</a>, and curated by <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-ciiulhy-ftuikdrju-i/">Yi Cao</a>. The Rounds captures the repeated tries, recurring counter-actions, and recursive tensions existing amid the perpetual state of motion in societies, between relationships, and within one’s mental landscape.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418998/m6sce4iknljypswx9nvg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dan-gunn-of-the-land-behind-them">Dan Gunn: Of the Land Behind Them</a>Jan 8 – Feb 19Monique MelocheGunn’s work relies on the imagery, aesthetics, and craft traditions of the American Midwestern vernacular and investigates their ideological function in politics and for the formulation of male subjectivity.&nbsp;His practice mines materials for their unconscious associations and emotional potential. Woodworking and ceramics are used for their historical connection to Midwestern mythologies in&nbsp;an attempt to construct a counterfactual folk art, one not riddled with nostalgia but more accurate to the current state of affairs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418999/o9640xjrbd0uboppabui.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/anneke-eussen-blank-pages">Anneke Eussen: Blank Pages</a>Jan 8 – Feb 27DOCUMENTDOCUMENT presents Anneke Eussen's&nbsp;first&nbsp;solo exhibition at the gallery. Eussen lives and works in the Netherlands. She studied at the Academy of Maastricht followed by a post-graduate residency at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts, Belgium.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419000/k3vu9seu2xizqqzpzydh.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/un-disclosed">(un)disclosed</a>Jan 8 – 261100 Florence(un)disclosed is an exhibition of select Fall 2020 Journal Series weavings. These weavings are an alternative to handwritten journals that document Bibbs’ day-to-day life through the intuitive use of color, textures, and material.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419001/upz4rkvrzcqhzmurk2di.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/through-a-new-lens-works-from-the-world-wide-mobile-photography-movement">Through a New Lens: Works from the World-Wide Mobile Photography Movement</a>Jan 6 – 30Perspective GalleryThrough A New Lens is an exhibition by seven internationally-recognized iPhoneographers. The exhibit, curated by museum professional, art historian and photographer, Gina Costa, demonstrates a broad range of styles and approaches used by mobile technology. Works range from traditional, “straight” photographs, to abstract and highly “apped” works of art. Visitors to the exhibition will observe the incredible span of possibilities mobile technology permits.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Preview of First Shows of January 2022: Part I

<html><head></head><body>By CGN StaffThere are just a few days left in 2021, and if you're in town for the holidays, consider stopping by area galleries to catch these notable exhibitions before they close soon.&nbsp;Of course please call before you visit to make an appointment or check for holiday hours. And bring your mask! &nbsp;Goodbye 2021!&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418988/wb3yzye6nhmmpkwdsxdf.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/par-excellence-redux-the-back-9">Par Excellence Redux. The Back 9</a>In a unique collision of recreation and art, the&nbsp;Elmhurst Art Museum joins forces with Colossal founder Christopher Jobson to curate two 9-hole golf courses made by artists.The Back 9 closes January 2, 2022.&nbsp;The fully playable course, designed by artists and architects from the Midwest and beyond, pays homage to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s wildly popular 1988 exhibition, Par Excellence. Tee time reservations are made online and available at <a href="https://www.elmhurstartmuseum.org/golf">elmhurstartmuseum.org/golf</a>.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418989/znbrx0l66qgtby43sxwd.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jin-lee-views-scenes-054f9e14-7daa-428e-a9a2-0e6604cedfa7">Jin Lee: Views &amp; Scenes</a>At the Chicago Cultural Center thru January 2, 2022This one-person exhibition by highly respected Chicago photographer <a href="https://jinleephotography.net/">Jin Lee</a> features a series of photographs that closely examine landscapes and built environments around Chicago. The exhibition brings together four bodies of work: Train Views – images made during the artist’s weekly 2-hour Amtrak commute between Chicago and Bloomington/Normal; Great Water – views of Lake Michigan taken from a single location on the South Side of Chicago; Salt Mountains – images of piles and mounds of salt and dirt found on storage sites around the city; and Weeds – a collection of portraits of wild plants that grow in alleys and empty lots in a neighborhood.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418990/wfc07ylepe1yo9x8bv6p.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/atrium-project-orkideh-torabi">Atrium Project: Orkideh Torabi</a>At the MCA thru January 2, 2022Orkideh Torabi rendered a vividly detailed bathhouse filled with characters based on men she encountered during her upbringing and visits to Iran. Inspired by traditional Persian miniature paintings, Torabi depicts the rooms of the bathhouse in a split-scene style. After transferring paint dye onto cotton fabric, Torabi dries it with an everyday hairdryer, resulting in the saturated colors in her artworks. For this exhibition, in which her work is presented at a larger scale than it has been before, Torabi’s work on cotton fabric has been transferred to vinyl.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418991/gdqzskjivhnxgrcr4l5x.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jeffrey-gibson-beyond-the-horizon">Jeffrey Gibson: Beyond the Horizon</a>Thru January 8, 2022 at Kavi Gupta. Also viewable <a href="https://kavigupta.com/exhibitions/349-jeffrey-gibson-beyond-the-horizon-kavi-gupta-chicago-il/">online</a>.&nbsp;Gibson’s aesthetic position is rooted in the spaces where narratives collide. The work recontextualizes relationships between popular culture, identity politics, personal experience, memory, and canonized versions of history, inviting viewers to question the myths and assumptions that empower contemporary social structures.For Beyond the Horizon, Gibson brings together four&nbsp;bodies of work, integrating a broad mix of source content, including a dazzling&nbsp;new series of Quilt Block Paintings.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418991/ijvm8ivgjv3f2tiuissp.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/rachel-harrison-assorted-varieties">Rachel Harrison: Assorted Varieties&nbsp;</a>Thru January 8 at Corbett vs DempseyIn Assorted Varieties, Rachel Harrison unveils four major sculptures and three wall works. Of these large-scale pieces, three are in theory monochromatic – red, blue, and yellow – however their variegated hues almost chide the idea of the monochrome, revealing a subtle pandemonium of hues and temperatures residing in craggy surfaces, torqued volumes, and inset objects. The wall works roughly map onto the color scheme of the sculptures, recast in three different media – a set of post-it notes, an enigmatic abstract photograph (titled "Photograph"), and a blown-up screen grab of a frozen cherry pie with associated Tweet. Everything in Harrison's artistic ecosystem is buzzing with latent meaning – nothing is arbitrary, but nothing is obvious.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

These 2021 Exhibitions are Closing Soon

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418988/hfbvptxn2ty8wnvyvmiw.png"><figcaption>Jason Pickleman&nbsp;</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;By CGN StaffWe are welcoming 2022 with open arms, even as we may not know entirely what to expect in terms of COVID and its ever-changing ways. Below is a preview of the many events that will be taking place over the course of 2022, from international art fairs to gallery openings, walks, and more. We are also sharing some news about galleries that are new to CGN as well as those that have anniversaries to celebrate this year!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ART FAIRS<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/expo-chicago">EXPO CHICAGO</a> is back and returning to its place on the spring calendar, April 7–10, after taking place in September since 2012. The original Art Expo first took place in Chicago in May 1980. This year’s calendar change will shift much of the art world’s focus from September to April, with Chicago galleries planning their spring shows in accordance with the energy that comes along with the fair. Watch for lots of buzz.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/chicago-antiques-art-design-show-176f8db2-f169-4dcc-92cf-d75145c7359e">The Chicago Antiques + Art + Design Show</a> is set for May 12–15, 2022 at the Merchandise Mart after two years off.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/57th-street-art-fair">The 57th Street Art Fair</a> is planning a return to in person as well, when they will finally celebrate their 75th anniversary in June at the Hyde Park fair.&nbsp;As of press time, the end of 2021, we are still waiting to hear about dates and plans for Intersect Chicago (formerly SOFA) as well as The Other Art Fair (which did take place in 2021 but will switch venues in 2022).&nbsp;&nbsp;WELCOMESCGN’s annual list of galleries has tied a record in 2022. We are proud to share nearly <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations">100 galleries, museums and art spaces</a> in these pages this year, a testament to just how much art there is to see in our part of the country and to the resolve to keep making and showing art no matter the obstacles. We also have more Wisconsin spaces listed than ever. Pick a street, neighborhood, suburb or city within 100 miles, and CGN can direct you towards art to find.&nbsp;We encourage you to read each listing’s program description and discover new spaces, artists and services, as well as revisit those who blazed trails early on. Each one is a small business or nonprofit dedicated to art, design and creativity, and there is something for everyone at every level in the art world.&nbsp;Galleries and Art Services new to our '22 pages for the first time:• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/adams-appraisal-llc">Adams Appraisers</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/blue-moon-gallery">Blue Moon Gallery</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/dragonfly-gallery">Dragonfly Gallery &amp; Creative Spaces</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/elephant-room-gallery">Elephant Room Gallery</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/engage-projects">ENGAGE Projects</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/graphic-conservation-company">Graphic Conservation</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/the-martin">The Martin</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/os-projects">OS Projects</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/parkside-galleries">Parkside Galleries</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/peterson-picture-co">Peterson Picture Company</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/pilsen-arts-community-house">Pilsen Arts &amp; Community House</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/racine-art-museum--2">Racine Art Museum</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/rosenthal-fine-art-inc">Rosenthal Fine Art</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/sculpture-milwaukee">Sculpture Milwaukee</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/stola-contemporary-art">Stola Contemporary</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/tandem-press">Tandem Press</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/alphawood-gallery">Wrightwood 659</a>&nbsp;‘22 ANNIVERSARIES• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/museum-of-contemporary-art-chicago-mca">Museum of Contemporary Art</a>: 55 years• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/catherine-edelman-gallery">Catherine Edelman Gallery</a>: 35 years•<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/carrie-secrist-gallery"> Carrie Secrist Gallery</a>: 30 years• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/vale-craft-gallery">Vale Craft</a>: 30 years• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/woman-made-gallery--2">Woman Made Gallery</a>: 30 years• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/elmhurst-art-museum">Elmhurst Art Museum</a>: 25 years• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/document">DOCUMENT</a>: 10 years•<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/engage-projects"> ENGAGE</a> (formerly Aspect / Ratio): 10 years• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/gallery-victor-armendariz">Gallery Victor Armendariz</a>: 5 years&nbsp;GOING BIG• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/flxst-contemporary">FLXST Contemporary</a> is opening FLXST601 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/mana-contemporary">Mana Contemporary</a> in 2022• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/kavi-gupta">Kavi Gupta Gallery</a> expanded into the 1st floor at 835 W. Washington and opened a space in New Buffalo, MI• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/alan-koppel-gallery-north">Alan Koppel</a> opened a suburban space in Glencoe• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/vertical-gallery">Vertical Gallery</a> opened <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/vertical-gallery-project-space-and-studios">Vertical Project Space</a> at 2006 W. Chicago Ave.&nbsp;&nbsp;OPENING RECEPTIONSOpening night receptions have returned in area galleries. Some galleries now have longer, open house style hours, while others open for a couple of evening hours, hopefully with the artist present. Either way you can make a day or a night of it, taking a road trip or enjoying dinner after some openings. Keep in mind that many openings happen in district clusters, where and when possible, but most weekends there is an opening happening somewhere, so check <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=openings">Chicagogallerynews.com</a> often to find out what’s newly on view.&nbsp;Key DatesThe art world follows a seasonal rhythm, whether in Chicago or elsewhere. There are openings clustered around the beginning of the year in January, and then again in spring, then mid-summer, followed by September, and usually November. There is also a lot to see in alternative and artist run spaces at any given time as well.&nbsp;&nbsp;Art WalksHere are just a few area walks to check out – some are monthly, others quarterly or annually.• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?district=river-north&amp;filter=openings">River North Gallery Nights</a>: January, July, September, November• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/river-north-design-district-rndd">River North Design District</a> Annual Gallery Walk in Early September• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/bridgeport-art-center">Bridgeport Open Studios</a>, 3rd Fridays, 7–10• <a href="https://gallerynightmke.com">Gallery Night Milwaukee</a>, Two nights, quarterly (Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct)• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/ravenswood-artwalk-raw">Ravenswood Art Walk</a>, September• <a href="https://www.westtownchamber.org/westtownartwalk">West Town Art Walk</a>, late September&nbsp;</body></html>

2022: A Full Art Year in Real Life

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418988/flama1khtltluxdmo3gt.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/mike-egan">In Memory Of: New Works by Mike Egan</a>Opening: Friday, December 17, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmFirecat Projects"For my latest show “In Memory Of” I wanted to continue exploring classic themes from my past and the thoughts of getting older. As I continue to age I'm constantly battling the idea of religion and how it shows up in my art and in my life. I also continue to explore themes of death and how as I get older what that means to me. There are also elements of relationships in these works. As I continue on with life people can slowly go away, people die, friendships and relationships end, etc. I like to think that my paintings are a bit of a photograph or diary entry that I can look back at well of course get older."&nbsp;Mike Egan&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418989/dzdhcuegfygl40zxix6m.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/idol-hands">Idol Hands</a>Opening: Friday, December 17, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the ArtsA group show dedicated to craft at Epiphany Center for the Arts.Chicago-based artist, muralist, and sculptural fabricator Czr Prz is pleased to present Idol Hands, the latest group show of his own curation. Dedicated to craft, fabrication, and structure, this exhibitionpresents new and original works by fifteen artists from across the United States, each selected for their unique approach to 3D and material-based work.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418990/ztv5spqxwofkefhtemet.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/where-art-works-artist-communities-and-creative-placemaking-how-a-northside-studio-building-became-a-community-anchor">“Where Art Works: Artist Communities and Creative Placemaking,” How a Northside Studio Building Became a Community Anchor</a>Opening: Friday, December 17, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEat Paint StudioSixteen artists whose studios are located at the Cornelia Arts Building in Roscoe Village will participate in a group exhibition at Eat Paint Studio.In addition to maintaining their private art practices at The Cornelia Arts Building, each of these artists participates in the larger Chicago community through teaching, public art projects, lectures, coordinating group exhibitions and art experiences, open studio events, and other professional creative practices. Being an artist requires entrepreneurial skills but, unlike operating a small business, commercial activity is not the end goal in the studio. Rather, the artist’s studio is a third place -- a space to experiment and discover, to envision the future, and to manifest connections.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418991/kh01vwdundmwomyu5fdp.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/3rd-arc-pauline-kochanski">3rd-Arc: Pauline Kochanski</a>Opening: Friday, December 17, 5 – 10&nbsp;pmOliva GalleryThis exhibition is the third show in a series of four presentations, beginning in 2017 with “The Past is Still With Us”, continued in 2018 with“Reflections” and now in 2021 with “3rd-Arc.” The series will culminate with a fourth exhibit, dates to be decided. This cycle of work reflects my interest in the pain and suffering caused by the Holocaust in Europe and other holocausts where people are considered else less than by others. While the circle of my life continues to expand, this exploration, this circle closes with the final exhibition tentatively titled, “Roots.”&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start December 17 & 18

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418988/vgbiaqtf1uwhvk76lupp.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/gallery-talks-with-daniel-schulman-dcase-director-of-visual-arts">Gallery Talks with Daniel Schulman DCASE Director of Visual Arts</a>Wednesday, December 15, 12:15 – 1&nbsp;pmChicago Cultural CenterArt and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott is the first comprehensive retrospective of one of America’s most compelling and controversial artists, Robert Colescott (1925-2009). In his large-scale paintings, Colescott confronted deeply embedded cultural hierarchies involving race, gender, and social inequality in America with fearless wit and irony.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418989/ecttkzapkanshe0pyfwz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/discussion-with-christopher-schneberger">Discussion with Christopher Schneberger</a>Thursday, December 16, 7 – 8&nbsp;pmPerspective Photo GalleryPerspective Gallery presents “The Wanderers” by Christopher Schneberger. This new series of semi-narrative tableaus imagines a band of young explorers traversing the land. The young women in the series portray both the fantasy of imagined childhood expeditions and illustrate the idea of getting lost and finding one’s way&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418990/qqyugdbx6xhvsslwdewl.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/mirrors-and-misconceptions-gallery-talk-collage-activity">Mirrors and Misconceptions: Gallery Talk + Collage Activity</a>Saturday, December 18, 2 – 4&nbsp;pmStony Island Arts BankParticipants will view the Toward Common Cause exhibition, in collaboration with Smart Museum, at Stony Island Arts Bank. The exhibition includes several works focusing on Black identity as well as Wilson’s sculpture, Act V. Scene II Exeunt Omnes. A gallery talk will follow to identify themes witnessed in The Tragedy of Othello that resonate with this work. Following this conversation, guests of all ages will participate in a collage activity to make their own art in creative response.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418990/jeral6xkcpxxi58gdvvc.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/hilma-s-ghost-solstice-rituals">Hilma’s Ghost: Solstice Rituals</a>Tuesday, December 21, 2 – 3&nbsp;pmCarrie Secrist GalleryFounded by Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray, Hilma’s Ghost is a feminist artist collective that seeks to address existing art historical gaps in abstraction through sustained methods of praxis, research, and pedagogy. Hilma af Klint’s exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (October 12, 2018 – April 23, 2019) served as a reckoning for abstraction by women, trans, and non-binary peoples, whose narratives have been subsumed by dominant modes of western art history.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Talks This Coming Week: December 15 - 21

<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-chicago-climate-change-art-initiative-tt-1208-20211208-mllqfajk2behlbnxq5ksepyafu-story.html?fbclid=IwAR3gOgWJtSpBAl3Fmbatw5CglEz_2Xlnhk4FuFn9ELDyLZNmp7z8c5xHBf4">E(art)H Chicago offering $300K for art that addresses climate change</a>A citywide community-based art initiative called E(art)H Chicago (Earth Art Chicago) seeks to raise awareness, create dialogue and inspire action on climate change, natural resource use and environmental justice. The program is giving $300,000 in grants to artists and community organizations to produce artworks that stimulate community engagement on climate change and environmental justice from the Southeast Industrial Corridor to the North Branch of the Chicago River.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/12/jumpei-mitsui-great-wave-lego/?fbclid=IwAR1Lx0SukzxnPHT5NgqdQy4kKAkHrR8mkp1cHrU8W2nOOZQD_OybHBc4lYE">An Undulating Sculpture Recreates Hokusai's Great Wave in 50,000 LEGO Pieces</a>Japan-based artist <a href="https://twitter.com/Jumpei_Mitsui">Jumpei Mitsui</a> is one of just 21 <a href="https://www.lego.com/ja-jp/aboutus/lego-certified-professionals">LEGO Certified Professionals</a> in the world—this means his full-time job is to create artworks with the plastic building blocks—and is the youngest of the renowned group. He’s fulfilled this title most recently with a sculptural recreation of Katsushika Hokusai’s “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa">The Great Wave off Kanagawa</a>.” During the course of 400 hours, Mitsui snapped together 50,000 cobalt and white LEGO into an undulating wave that mimics the original woodblock print.Via Colossal(Thumbnail image by <a href="https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/jumpei-mitsui/">Jumpei Mitsui</a>)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/forum-ideas-culture/fuel-chicago-artists-investor-grade-seed-funding?utm_source=morning-10&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20211130&amp;utm_content=article8-readmore">Fund artists to create a new market of ideas</a>At <a href="http://www.6018north.org/">6018North</a>, an experimental contemporary art space I founded and run within a repurposed 1910 mansion, we connect diverse artists and audiences through uniquely engaging cultural experiences. 6018North promotes connections and risk-taking not only to advance the state of art, but to percolate civic imagination and expand possibilities. If we connect people and take risks, others are encouraged to do so.Tricia Van Eck via Crain's Chicago&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

CGN Art World Recap: 12/14

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418988/webvjwvnrkh3ua3fczet.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-life-and-death-of-charles-williams">The Life and Death of Charles Williams</a>Opening: Friday, December 10, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmIntuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider ArtThe Life and Death of Charles Williams, an exhibition featuring a breadth of work ranging from sculptures to comics by the late artist Charles Williams, stretches across two galleries of Intuit and opens to the public on Friday, December 10.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418989/er2cyldkmcigdse1zkgp.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jeffrey-wolin-faces-of-homelessness">Jeffrey Wolin: Faces of Homelessness</a>Opening: Friday, December 10, 5 – 7:30&nbsp;pmCatherine Edelman GalleryFor more than 30 years, Jeffrey Wolin has combined photographic portraiture with auto-biographical texts, exploring issues about memory, identity, and trauma. Beginning in 1985, Wolin turned the camera on himself, writing personal stories directly on photographs that related to his life. Soon after, he began photographing residents at a housing project in Indiana, Holocaust survivors, and American and Vietnamese war veterans, combining portraits and personal histories directly on the photographic surface. His newest series, Faces of Homelessness, examines the homeless crisis and its complicated realities.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418990/uwqswxzkc04yjpcg31zz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jeffrey-wolin-faces-of-homelessness">In Southeastern France</a>Opening: Saturday, December 11, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmLily Pad | WestAndy Newman creates dynamic landscape and figurative works inspired by European architecture and countryside.&nbsp;Newman studied in London, earning his degree in Modern History at Trinity College, Oxford. He then went on to hold a successful career as a lawyer in Washington, D.C. before deciding to exchange his briefcase for a paintbrush at the age of 36. Since then, Neman has maintained his studio practice, and currently resides between Concord, MA and Cavillargues, France with his family.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418991/xb5phjmgcjcozretyabk.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lydia-ourahmane-and-alex-ayed">Lydia Ourahmane and Alex Ayed: LAWS OF CONFUSION</a>Opening: Saturday, December 11, 3 – 6&nbsp;pmThe Renaissance SocietyLAWS OF CONFUSION is the second collaboration of Lydia Ourahmane and Alex Ayed, whose individual practices converge in a choreography of movements. Together, they contend with ideas of displacement and the friction between personal histories and wider narratives–­–geopolitical, mystical, speculative, technological. This new exhibition hinges on interceded or interrupted communications in various forms.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418992/bt698rxvgsrzfjrld62s.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/atomic-number-13-group-show-curated-by-artbuilds">Atomic Number 13 | Curated by ArtBuilds</a>Opening: Saturday, December 11, 12 – 6&nbsp;pmVertical GalleryVertical Gallery is very proud to present ‘Atomic Number 13,’ a year-end holiday group show featuring new work from a local, national, and international roster of artists, curated by Chicago-based art services and custom framing company ArtBuilds.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start December 10 - 11

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418988/tchhh1jdivx58lhdu6fu.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/emanate">Emanate</a>Opening: Friday, December 3, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418989/srjlt2qfayen58ek30hz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/it-s-a-small-show-after-all-9435c412-8da2-4722-bc35-2eae30febc3d">It's a Small Show After All</a>Opening: Friday, December 3, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmHofheimer Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418990/ymzmm5cbry3orln856e4.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/first-friday-event">First Friday Event</a>Friday, December 3, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmLubeznik Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418991/atjiwo6hvu9bb8huw7rm.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/being-bipolar-in-a-polarized-world-and-the-thin-line">Being Bipolar in a Polarized World and The Thin Line</a>Opening: Friday, December 3, 5:30 – 7:30&nbsp;pmThe Art Center Highland Park&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418991/kvpsxjqssiubsirpb3fz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-32nd-annual-international-small-print-exhibition-holiday-sale">The 32nd Annual International Small Print Exhibition &amp; Holiday Sale</a>Opening: Saturday, December 4, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmChicago Printmakers Collaborative&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418992/ee13ztz1h9qxwjqshqdh.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/plein-air-painters-chicago-annual-group-show">Plein Air Painters Chicago Annual Group Show</a>Opening: Saturday, December 4, 4 – 8&nbsp;pmPalette &amp; Chisel Academy of Fine Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418993/gbmz9wkkxmduy0szcte4.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kac-members-show-40014d5c-3c91-42b6-82d6-7a4b5a486c1d">KAC Members’ Show</a>Dec 4, 2021 – Jan 9, 2022Krasl Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418994/h7obtaa7ydmuroc0iuuw.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/christopher-schneberger-the-wanderers">Christopher Schneberger: The Wanderers</a>Opening: Saturday, December 4, 6 – 7:30&nbsp;pmPerspective Photo Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418995/ofz85ayjlgdef9hmgtar.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/rituals-brenton-good-mandy-cano-villalobos-marissa-voytenko">Rituals: Brenton Good, Mandy Cano Villalobos, Marissa Voytenko</a>Opening: Saturday, December 4, 12 – 4&nbsp;pmUkrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418995/z7vu1wagzwipukbu7wz4.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dreaming-of-flowers">Dreaming of Flowers: Susan Kraut, Jaclyn Mednicov, and Jeffrey Janson</a>Opening: Saturday, December 4, 1 – 4&nbsp;pmAddington Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start December 3 & 4

<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/ct-virgil-abloh-dies-chicago-20211128-3bwhs526xva6zd4iujwpdmoagm-story.html">Virgil Abloh, prolific Illinois-born fashion designer and Louis Vuitton men’s artistic director, dies at 41</a>Virgil Abloh, a famed Illinois-born fashion designer who founded the Off-White label and became men’s artistic director of Louis Vuitton, has died from cancer at the age of 41.LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton announced the designer’s death Sunday and said he had been battling cancer privately for several years.According to The New York Times, Abloh died in Chicago.&nbsp;Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://www.immersive-frida.com/?utm_source=sendgrid.com&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=website">Another Immersive Exhibition is Coming to Chicago&nbsp;</a>On the heels of Immersive Van Gogh, Lighthouse Immersive and Maestro Immersive Art have set their sights on the art and life of Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). FRIDA: IMMERSIVE DREAM features some of the artist’s best-known works “brought to life” by the Italy’s Massimiliano Siccardi,accompanied by composer Luca Longobardi’s resonant score. Vittorio Guidotti is the Art Director. FRIDA: IMMERSIVE DREAM arrives to Lighthouse ArtSpace at Germania Club (108 W. Germania Pl) Feb. 24 through May 28, 2022. Tickets are <a href="https://www.immersive-frida.com/?utm_source=sendgrid.com&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=website">on sale today</a> starting at around $40&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/omicron-fails-to-halt-art-basel-miami-as-people-crave-normalcy/ar-AARgxAx">Omicron Fails to Halt Art Basel Miami as People Crave Normalcy</a>Art Basel Miami Beach kicks off this week, bringing a massive fair and tens of thousands of visitors from around the world to southern Florida just as scientists are weighing the public-health implications of the new omicron Covid-19 variant.“It’s important that this happens, and I believe that Art Basel is hosting this responsibly and in a way that creates the safest environment possible,” Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber, a Democrat, said in an interview Monday.Via Bloomberg&nbsp;&nbsp;

CGN Art World Recap: 11/30

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418979/dxgd7odeboujj3srgseg.jpg"><figcaption>William Swislow, left, and Aron Packer have a new book, "Lakefront Anonymous" about overlooked art along the shoreline; they're at Foster Beach in Chicago on Nov. 9, 2021. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-lakefront-art-gallery-kogan-1128-20211125-6m66aitw5zfurmidgyd32awiwu-story.html">Aron Packer and William Swislow's ‘Lakefront Anonymous’ is the latest appreciation of amateur art that lines Chicago’s lakefront</a>In his new book, William Swislow writes, “Hidden in plain sight on Chicago’s Lake Michigan shoreline is one of the world’s great public art treasures.”He is not referring to the Navy Pier Ferris wheel, which does offer, I guess, some modest pleasures, but rather to a new book, compiled with his friend Aron Packer, the former gallery owner and artist who currently represents artists and holds events.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/metro-state/2021/11/22/22797349/art-institute-workers-united-museum-school-union-afscme-vote-election">Art Institute employees say management trying to block their unionization efforts</a>Employees of the Art Institute of Chicago say museum management is trying to hinder their attempt to collectively bargain — and they are demanding officials step aside and allow unionization efforts to proceed without interference.Staff from the institute’s museum and school filed paperwork earlier this month to hold a federally run election that will decide if they can form a union. But management has intimidated workers and held meetings to obstruct unionization, workers charged at a rally Monday on the institute’s famous front steps on Michigan Avenue.Via Chicago Sun Times&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/art-angle-podcast-re-air-van-gogh-experience-2038591">The Art Angle Podcast Re-Air: How High-Tech Van Gogh Became the Biggest Art Phenomenon Ever</a>Even if you aren’t spending the weekend visiting one of the many immersive Van Gogh experiences that have popped up across the country and around the globe, chances are someone at your Thanksgiving table has already been. As of mid-September, Lighthouse Immersive, the company behind just one of these touring Van Gogh shows, had sold 3.2 million tickets…&nbsp;that’s 700,000 more than the number of tickets sold for Taylor Swift’s 2018 Reputation tour.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/24/china-museums-commercial-galleries-exhibitions">How China's museums are cosying up to commercial galleries for big-ticket exhibitions</a>As new museums have proliferated in China over the past decade, they have spent lavishly on impressive architecture and, sometimes, blue-chip art acquisitions. But many have scrimped on staffing, leaving a gap in curatorial expertise that commercial galleries are eager to fill. Top international galleries, which have launched operations in Hong Kong and increasingly the mainland over the same period, have imported Western models of sponsorship for museum exhibitions of their artists but the traditional boundaries between museums’ curatorial control and the market’s commercial interests are far more blurred in China.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/reviews/caravaggio-st-jerome-theft-pbs-1234611354/">PBS’s ‘Secrets of the Dead’ Recounts the Thrilling Recovery of Malta’s Stolen&nbsp;Caravaggio</a>How do you recover a stolen masterpiece? As most experts will tell you, it’s not as easy as you might think. In fact, scores of stolen works over the years have never even been recovered. That’s the case with famous heists—for example, the 13 masterpieces from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990—as well as lesser-known ones. But there are fortunate cases where the works were indeed found, and one involves a Caravaggio and Father Marius Zarafa, a Maltese priest and art historian.Via ARTnews&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 11/26/21

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418979/zx18olgpis0maq4mt4xi.jpg"><figcaption>Photo by Alan Kozlowski / Credit South Asia Institute and the Ravi Shankar Foundation</figcaption></figure><a href="https://news.wttw.com/2021/11/09/ravi-shankar-retrospective-display-south-asia-institute">Ravi Shankar Retrospective on Display at South Asia Institute</a>The Beatles, jazz great John Coltrane, composer Philip Glass – all of these music giants and many more felt the influence of Ravi Shankar. “Chicago Tonight” toured a pandemic-delayed exhibition about the sitar virtuoso.&nbsp;Read more via <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2021/11/09/ravi-shankar-retrospective-display-south-asia-institute">WTTW</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418980/a3vzxhwv3hpyaeelrudc.jpg"><figcaption>Auctioneer Oliver Barker conducts Sotheby’s first sale of the Macklowe collection in New York on 15 November 2021. Photo courtesy Sotheby’s</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/16/sothebys-macklowe-auction-646m-record?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=daca109513-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_11_15_01_03&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c459f924d0-daca109513-61117077">Macklowe collection auction brings $646m, the highest sale total in Sotheby’s history</a>Divorce, one of the three “Ds” that result in major art collections going to auction, brought a deluge of another “D”—dollars—to Sotheby’s at the first of two <a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/09/09/sothebys-wins-dogfight-to-sell-dollar600m-art-collection-of-harry-and-linda-macklowe">court-ordered auctions</a> of Linda and Harry Macklowe’s art collection on Monday night in New York. All 35 lots found buyers, making for a white glove sale that brought in a total hammer price of $588.7m, near the high end of the pre-sale estimate of $439.4m-$618.9m (estimates do not include the buyer’s premium). With fees, the evening’s total take was $676.1m, making it the most valuable sale in Sotheby’s 277-year history.Read more via <a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/16/sothebys-macklowe-auction-646m-record?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=daca109513-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_11_15_01_03&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c459f924d0-daca109513-61117077">The Art Newspaper</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418980/ilcyitw8m8kbqer1sake.jpg"><figcaption>Credit: Sotheby's</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.cnn.com/style/article/frida-kahlo-self-portrait-auction-intl-scli/index.html">Frida Kahlo self-portrait fetches a record $34.9 million</a>A self-portrait by <a href="https://cnn.com/style/article/frida-kahlo-birthday-trnd-style/index.html">Frida Kahlo</a> has become the most expensive work by a Latin American artist ever to sell at auction, fetching $34.9 million in New York on Tuesday.Read more via <a href="https://www.cnn.com/style/article/frida-kahlo-self-portrait-auction-intl-scli/index.html">CNN</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: November 18th

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418979/zz5aifbftlbisadzlyb6.jpg"><figcaption>Gupta's home gallery also displays works by Theaster Gates, Sam Gilliam, and Jessica Stockholder, among others. © 2021 Sam Gilliam / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.Photography by Gianni Franchellucci</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/step-inside-this-art-insiders-chicago-family-home">Step Inside This Art-Insider's Chicago Family Home</a>West-loop local art dealer Kavi Gupta transforms the loft above his gallery into a family haven that’s ready for guests and art.Read more via <a href="https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/step-inside-this-art-insiders-chicago-family-home">Architectural Digest</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418980/vbtiuxxc4nschtw5tqsl.png"><figcaption>At the celebratory banquet Berliner secession: Writer Meier-Graefe, Ms. Hugo Simon, Painter Eugen Spiro, art collector Fritz Schoen, Ms. Meier-Graefe, Ms. Spiro. (ca. 1929) (Photo by bpk/Salomon/ullstein bild via Getty Images)</figcaption></figure><a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/history-lesson-1920s-art-scene-2030894">What Was the Art Market Like During the Real Roaring ’20s? History Offers Some Lessons as We Enter Another Decade of Decadence</a>Gertrude Stein held vibrant salons in Paris. Diego Rivera traveled from Mexico City to Moscow to paint murals. Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden, whose families had moved north as part of the Great Migration, fueled the vibrancy of the Harlem Renaissance in New York.Read more via <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/history-lesson-1920s-art-scene-2030894">ArtNet</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418981/m6tq0wngky3czh7uuips.jpg"><figcaption>Photo courtesy of Geneva Lakefront Realty</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/richard-driehaus-estate-lake-geneva-under-contract-buyer?utm_source=breaking-news&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20211111&amp;utm_content=hero-readmore">Richard Driehaus' estate in Lake Geneva under contract to a buyer</a>The late financial guru's Glanworth Gardens estate was on the market just three weeks, while its $21 million next-door neighbor has sat unsold since February.&nbsp;Read more via <a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/richard-driehaus-estate-lake-geneva-under-contract-buyer?utm_source=breaking-news&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20211111&amp;utm_content=hero-readmore">Crain's</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: November 11th

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418979/s7piuz0tqgazjepgsr39.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jan-pieter-fokkens">Jan Pieter Fokkens</a>Exhibition begins November 10PAGODA REDChicago-based artist Jan Pieter Fokkens uses his work as a means of processing the incomprehensible. Navigating the relationship between algorithmic abstraction and the tangible qualities of pattern and color, Fokkens meditates on how reality is mediated by digital image.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418980/gcemhz1kjx1493mvblnu.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dusti-bonge">Dusti Bongé</a>Exhibition begins November 11McCormick Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418981/wol6owfsgastjpfzpplc.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/big-bowl-of-wonderful-jeff-garlin">Big Bowl of Wonderful: Jeff Garlin</a>Opening: Thursday, Nov 11, 7 – 11&nbsp;pmThe Rangefinder Gallery / Tamarkin Camera&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418982/iguvhqlnmcbqi7l9srhq.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/john-paul-berry">John Paul Berry</a>Opening: Friday, November 12, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmLily Pad | West&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418983/eqag80vhmbertrso1cba.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lauralynn-white-journey">Lauralynn White: Journey</a>Opening: Friday, Nov 12, 5 – 10&nbsp;pmOliva Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418983/nmabfppya697issdc9wb.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/new-work-by-andrew-steiner">New Work by Andrew Steiner</a>Opening: Friday, Nov 12, 2021 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEat Paint Studio&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418984/mpdzezmba7egb8fw6xts.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jeffrey-gibson-beyond-the-horizon">Jeffrey Gibson: Beyond the Horizon</a>Opening: Saturday, Nov 13, 2021 4 – 7&nbsp;pmKavi Gupta - Elizabeth St.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418985/bizmq129i7nb28km5tph.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kirk-henriques-alexandra-antoine-gastropoetics">Kirk Henriques &amp; Alexandra Antoine: Gastropoetics</a>Exhibition begins November 13FLXST Contemporary&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418986/gawo5jot01mxbg0mj9kk.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lauren-asta-solo-show">Lauren Asta Solo Show</a>Exhibition begins November 13Chicago Truborn&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418987/o2o06fkbl7xn7xob9kum.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/mari-eastman-night-life">Mari Eastman: Night Life</a>Opening: Sunday, November 14, noon – 4&nbsp;pmGoldfinch&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start November 10 - 14

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418979/ebdrupdyifwgtk1ldsad.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/programming-for-deep-cuts">Programming for Deep Cuts</a>Wednesday, November 10, 6 – 7:30&nbsp;pmChicago Artists Coalition (CAC)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418980/yn9wctzjcpcickzozl55.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lecture-in-photography-nancy-floyd">Lecture in Photography: Nancy Floyd</a>Wednesday, November 10, 6 – 7&nbsp;pmMuseum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418981/nskgumjsiqfch6ddbanb.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/visualizing-a-lead-free-environment-the-eisenhower-foundation-explores-how-art-intersects-with-community-activism">Visualizing a Lead Free Environment: The Eisenhower Foundation Explores How Art Intersects with Community Activism</a>Thursday, November 11, 5:30 – 6:30&nbsp;pmEXPO CHICAGO&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418982/jeqjorsitvxvhdouu6x1.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/a-conversation-with-gordon-segal-online">A Conversation With Gordon Segal (Online)</a>Thursday, November 11, 6 – 7&nbsp;pmTerra Foundation for American Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418982/ik3zdrbm2fayolvyu5bj.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/poetry-reading-at-the-gallery">Poetry Reading at the Gallery</a>Thursday, November 11, 7 – 8:30&nbsp;pmPerspective Group + Photography Gallery, Ltd.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Talks This Week: November 10 - 14

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418979/vtzjympvztro6igf69gi.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jessica-campbell">Jessica Campbell: Gigantomachinations</a>Opening: Saturday, November 6, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmWestern Exhibitions&nbsp;Prior to this exhibition, Campbell’s work was woven from elaborate, humorous, and politically pointed narratives, fitting for an artist who is a well-regarded cartoonist with 2 published graphic novels and another forthcoming.&nbsp;Her process has since changed. This exhibition is a response to the stress of a move from Chicago to Green Bay to help care for her ailing in-laws, stress from her own family, stress from making a living in upper Wisconsin, stress from the ongoing pandemic and a myriad of political and social crises. The work combines both the tradition of crazy quilts and pareidolia, the experience of ascribing meaning to visual phenomena (like seeing figures in the clouds). For Campbell, this method of working intuitively and formally, as opposed to starting with a clear idea and executing it, is “the only sustainable way for me to work in this current moment through a constant brain fog.”&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418980/hmpjhbgofmnbpbtm8whr.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dan-attoe">Dan Attoe: Pandemic Paintings</a>Opening: Saturday, November 6, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmWestern Exhibitions&nbsp;Throughout his 20+ years of painting, Attoe has challenged himself to offer as much detail as possible: “I’ve always enjoyed finding the limits of my abilities and comprehension. For me, there’s something in hitting the end of the jar, the point where earnest representation meets awkwardness, where processing of reality meets metaphor, that is entertaining and telling about an artist’s psychological makeup.”&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418980/lpyvzdrurwjikgctmj3p.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sung-jang-given">Sung Jang: Given</a>Opening: Saturday, November 6, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmVolume Gallery&nbsp;In his second solo exhibition at Volume Gallery, Chicago based designer Sung Jang presents symbiotic combinations of found stones buttressed by lattice bases. The deliberate combinations are analogous to humanity’s relationship with nature—rock and grid representing nature meeting human reasoning. With their light touch, the pieces reflect a traditional Korean dynamic with nature, one of appreciation and respect.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418981/npyafwszxpud1algh9fy.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sara-greenberger-rafferty-346b8c5d-0528-4477-b022-995b07025368">Sara Greenberger Rafferty: Views from Somewhere</a>November 6DOCUMENT&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418982/nkmcc0gpzlzbqxfk5bsm.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ravi-shankar-ragamala-to-rockstar">Ravi Shankar: Ragamala to Rockstar</a>Opening: Saturday, November 6, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmSouth Asia Institute&nbsp;Legendary sitar pioneer Ravi Shankar, whom George Harrison called the “Godfather of World Music”, was instrumental in bringing Indian classical music to mainstream audiences in the west. Shankar became a pop culture superstar and a celebrity unlike anyone who looked&nbsp; or sounded like him before. South Asia Institute is very pleased to announce the debut of the art and music exhibition, “Ravi Shankar: Ragamala to Rockstar - A Retrospective of The Maestro's Life in Music”. The exhibition is an opportunity to experience the legendary musician’s groundbreaking career in music through an unprecedented collection of&nbsp; rare concert posters, psychedelic art prints, flyers, photographs, videos, record covers and personal artifacts.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418983/cefvgsyxh24mvysssewv.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ariel-dannielle">Ariel Dannielle</a>November 6Monique Meloche Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418984/a8lw2svfaslymshcjpoq.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/richard-haley">Double Life / Flayed Beings / Hidden Counterparts</a>Opening: Saturday, November 6, 2 – 5&nbsp;pmBert Green Fine Art&nbsp;In this exhibition, artists Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Richard Haley, Trisha Holt and Bailey Scieszka engage in experiments in "saliency detection"* at the intersection of the human soma and the lens-based technologies that saturate our environment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418985/cinwfj8so9cb4mtz4dtb.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sergio-farfan-5-years-solo-show">Sergio Farfan: 5 Years</a>Opening: Saturday, November 6, 12 – 6&nbsp;pmVertical Gallery&nbsp;‘Five Years,’ which runs from Nov. 6-24 at our 1016 N. Western Ave. location, caps off the first half-decade of Farfán’s professional career while introducing daring possibilities for the next phase of the artist’s evolution. The show features new canvases and sculptures as well as a unique video installation intercutting animations of Farfán’s original characters with clips from the classic cartoons, films and music videos that inspired his formative efforts.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418986/eevtdxmrse1gz16vafoe.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/haiku-by-wilda-morris-i-follow-my-shadow-home">Haiku by Wilda Morris: I follow my shadow home</a>Opening: Saturday, November 6, 5 – 7:30&nbsp;pmPerspective Group + Photography Gallery, Ltd.&nbsp;Perspective Gallery Presents the Premiere Showing of "Poetry and Photography" by The P2 Collective. In the summer of 2019, a group of Chicago area photographers and poets met to discuss the idea of pursuing an ekphrastic conversation between poetry and photography, a conversation in which one art-form inspires the other. For example, a photograph might inspire a poem, which in turn inspires another photograph, which then inspires another poem and so on.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418986/zytsfia5cddb1cjsvy4q.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/david-antonio-cruz">David Antonio Cruz</a>November 6Monique Meloche Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/bassim-al-shaker-solo-exhibition">Bassim Al Shaker: Solo Exhibition</a>November 6FLXST Contemporary&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418987/nlj5trpinmrmg1yps876.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/agave">Agave!</a>Opening: Sunday, November 7, 4 – 6&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;Mezcal has been part of Mexican life, gastronomy and culture for centuries. The Spaniards called the agave plant “the tree of wonders”. Agave evolved in southern Mexico over six million years ago and Oaxaca is its center of diversity. Mezcal’s popularity exploded in recent years, transforming it from a local spirit to one that is known internationally. Patrons in New York, Los Angeles and everywhere in the world were now saying “with mezcal please”, and mezcal fever exploded, causing its demand to grow exponentially. As a result, people in Oaxaca began to produce more and more of it and a thriving international market was born. Every community and hill in the state was soon surrounded with agaves that were destined for mezcal.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start November 6

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418973/pemoyt5f30n0m1uf0psq.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dan-ramirez-sheets-of-space-finding-place">Dan Ramirez: Sheets of Space / Finding Place</a>November 5Zolla / Lieberman Gallery John Coltrane’s “sheets of sound,” with its blazing chordal arpeggios compressed into musical space and time, often described as Coltrane’s response to a connection with the cosmos and the spiritual, suggested to me new ways to look at a substrates (wood or canvas) potential for creating “sheets of space” through light and reflection. In this new work, layers of light and space, either imagined or posited visually, create the illusion of a compressed space that uses the sides of the substrate as well to push the idea even further.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418974/ypl4rbefcoethwiu0g5x.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/imagined-landscapes">IMAGINED LANDSCAPES</a>Opening: Friday, November 5, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmCarl Hammer Gallery&nbsp;Opening at&nbsp;Carl Hammer Gallery,&nbsp;November 5, 2021, from 5 pm to 8 pm, our new exhibition,&nbsp;IMAGINED LANDSCAPES,&nbsp;features artists Francois Burland, Joseph Parker, Grace Graupe Pillard, David Sharpe, Hollis Sigler, Kahn and Selesnick, and Mary Lou Zelazny.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418975/xvdcrs4qywcjuztvrraz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/herman-aguirre-39848e04-2f1c-453f-8285-4437e2cacddd">Herman Aguirre: Agua y Aceite</a>Opening: Friday, November 5, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmZolla / Lieberman Gallery&nbsp;His newest body of work, Agua y Aceite, includes canvases of various sizes, many irregularly shaped, as well as preparatory ink drawings. To create his impasto, canvas surfaces, the artist 'works intuitively' with paint skins and oil and acrylic accumulations to build up the three-dimensionality, resulting in work that straddles the line between painting and sculpture.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418975/if1uy1crsnuzchpzfg9t.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/alicia-lachance-solo-exhibition">Alicia LaChance: New Village</a>Opening: Friday, November 5, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmAddington Gallery&nbsp;My paintings are a personal declaration aimed at ameliorating our modernity. When I paint, I compose visual anthropological essays that bridge the past and present for a contemporary acculturation. The colors and symbols I use are adopted from many stations, ranging from folk traditions to street art. Further manipulation recontextualizes them as both graphic ornament and Esperanto. Initially, these paintings were organized according to open-source graphs describing patterns of social human interaction. They have become a way for me to filter the urgency and collective scramble of contemporary life.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418976/c6vn5ogeart56crdnnmh.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/at-the-table">At the Table</a>Opening: Friday, November 5, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmVale Craft Gallery&nbsp;Join us at Vale Craft Gallery on Friday, November 5 from 5 to 8 pm for the opening of our group exhibition&nbsp;At the Table.&nbsp; The show will feature&nbsp;functional ceramics and glass by Chicago and Midwestern artists including&nbsp;bowls, plates, cups, vases, serving platters and more.&nbsp; Find great gifts for your loved ones (or even yourself) while supporting local artists.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418977/brdafyzmygq9zswtqtef.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/obsession-bunny-hoppel-jeanine-coupe-ryding">Obsession: Bunny Hoppel &amp; Jeanine Coupe Ryding</a>Opening: Friday, November 5, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmHofheimer Gallery&nbsp;OBSESSION is a 2-person exhibition featuring works by Bunny Hoppel and Jeanine Coupe Ryding who have both spent several years fixating on one subject, utilizing one type of medium or method to interpret their inspiration that ultimately became an obsession.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

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