Dog Show

Madeleine Aguilar, Chris Austin, Chase Barney, Alex Chitty, Noel Herrera, Em Holzinger, Mae Vitali, Zehra Khan, David Krueger and Ben Marcus, Mac Akin, Lawrence M., Jack O’Sullivan, Carol Pyes, Brian Reed, Mindy Rose Schwartz, Saemee, Alex Scott, Kelly Stone, Maria Vanik, Noah Wieder, Jean Wilson, Christina Zion

For thousands of years, artists have shown their admiration for dogs by rendering their likenesses. This expansive cross-disciplinary exhibition continues that great tradition.

Dog Show is a survey of representational depictions of dogs made by artists from The Art Of Life and beyond. Like dogs, the works in this show are funny, weird, vulnerable, playful, winsome and sometimes even furry. The many good boys in this show are imagined in print, glass mosaic, ceramic, metal, tapestry, quilting, paper sculpture, collage, drawing, and painting. In Dog Show every dog will have its day.

Exhibited at Circle Contemporary at The Arts of Life, this exhibition includes the artists:   Madeleine Aguilar, Chris Austin, Chase Barney, Alex Chitty, Noel Herrera, Em Holzinger, Mae Vitali, Zehra Khan, David Krueger and Ben Marcus, Mac Akin, Lawrence M., Jack O’Sullivan, Carol Pyes, Brian Reed, Mindy Rose Schwartz, Saemee, Alex Scott, Kelly Stone, Maria Vanik, Noah Weider, Jean Wilson, Christina Zion

*Guest curated by kg

kg (b.1980, Poland) makes weavings and writes poetry in Chicago. kg has exhibited with Horse and Pony in Berlin, Side gate Gallery in Melbourne, The Salina Art Center and UMKC Gallery Of Art in Kansas, HiLo Gallery in Atlanta Georgia, Praxis Fiber Workshop in Ohio, SideCar Gallery in Indiana, Adjunct Positions in L.A. , Left Field Gallery in San Luis Obispo CA, L.O.G. in Chapel Hill North Carolina, Camayuhs in Atlanta, The Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Bruce High Quality Foundation in New York, The Poor Farm in Little Wolfe Wisconsinand with LVL3, Julius Caesar, Terrain, Tiger Strikes Astroid, Tusk, AddsDonna, Gallery 400, Ralph Arnold Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola University, The Ukrainian, Institute of Modern Art, Dock 6 Design studios, The Suburban at the MDW Art Fair 2012 and again with LVL3 and The Unpacked Truck Gallery as part of MDW Fair’s return in 2022, Hyde Park Art Center and at LOLLAPALOOZA Music Festival, all in Chicago. kg was a participant at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2017 and The Vermont Studio Center as a fellow in 2018. Their expansive weaving survey Some Kind Of Duty, hosted by The DePaul Art Museum is available as a monograph through the museum shop and online.  They are currently Artist in residence at Chicago’s print cooperative The Donut Shop. Future shows include The Peeler Art Center in IN, Intranarratives; a virtual story tellers project hosted by the Muse?e d’art contemporain de Montre?al.