ARTIST CONVERSATION

Lindsay Adams, Claire Sherman, Michelle Grabner, and Galina Mardilovich

Thursday, October 8

6:00pm

PATRON 

Join us for an in-depth conversation with Lindsay Adams and Claire Sherman in the context of their exhibitions, Errantry and Tannic Waters, on view at PATRON through October 31, 2026. The program is free and open to the public, no RSVP required. 

Michelle Grabner is an artist, writer, and curator, and serves as the Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she has taught since 1996. Grabner is Chair of the Painting at Drawing Department at SAIC. She has also held teaching appointments at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College, the Yale University School of Art, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.Grabner is the recipient of numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Academician in the National Academy of Design, a 2026 Mary Nohl Fellow, and a 2024 fellowship from the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters.In addition to her individual practice, Grabner collaborates with artist Brad Killam to run the artist-operated project spaces The Suburban (est. 1999) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and The Poor Farm (est. 2008) in Little Wolf, Wisconsin.

Galina Mardilovich is curator at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. At the Smart, she has curated or co-curated numerous exhibitions including Theaster Gates: Unto Thee (fall 2025), Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (spring 2026), and the forthcoming Nina Chanel Abney: While Supplies Last (opening spring 2027). Prior to the Smart, Galina has held positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. Galina specializes in the history of printmaking, the long nineteenth century, and art of the Russian empire. Her research has been published by Print Quarterly, Art History, and The Burlington Magazine, as well as in several edited volumes.