Exhibitions

sounds better with you

May 23, 2025 - Jun 11, 2025
Opening: Friday, May 23, 2025 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
CHICAGO STUDIO: 2010 W. Carroll Ave. Chicago, IL 60612

Please join us for the Opening Reception of sounds better with you, guest curated by Iris Colburn and Gabriel Garza.

The reception will include a performance by Van Go Go on Friday, May 23, from 5 - 8pm at Circle Contemporary. 

Featured.Artists: Chris Austin – Joey Center – Raven Chacon – Marcus Imani Kennedy – Bill Lilly – Isabelle Frances McGuire – Dave Muller –Micah Schippa-Wildfong – Lucy Walsh

 Iris Colburn is a curator and writer based in Chicago. She is a curatorial associate at the MCA Chicago, where she recently curated Chicago Works | Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons and the MCA’s presentation of Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence. She has organized performances with Joelle Mercedes, Katinka Kleijn, and Micah Schippa, and contributed writing to several publications.

Gabriel Garza is an artist from Los Angeles, currently pursuing his MFA in Art from University of Southern California. His solo shows include Malaprop Pablum at /(Slash) (San Francisco) and Escolar (Santa Rosa, CA). His curatorial projects in California include In Concert (San Francisco, 2023) and Thats A More (Oakland, 2022) with Theadora Walsh, along with Punto Lairs inc, a gallery in his parents' backyard (Los Angeles, 2020-21).


Opening Reception: Friday, May 23 | 5-8pm (VanGoGo performance)

Closing Reception: Friday, July 11 (Dorothy Carlos performance) 


Circle Contemporary

2010 W Carroll Ave

Chicago, IL 60612

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