TEN by TEN

Group Exhibition

November 3, 2025 - January 11, 2026

TEN by TEN is a yearly celebration of diversity and passion found within the Chicago arts community. With each piece being 10” x 10”, the result is a dazzling grid of artwork, in all styles and mediums. Being open submission, the exhibition is a chance for artists of all levels to contribute and gives an unfiltered look at what is going on today in the Chicago arts scene and beyond. Gallery Director, Kaitlyn Miller reflects, “After the first year of TEN by TEN, we recognized the need for an open submission exhibition. Finding your footing in the art world is not an easy task, it is competitive and often disheartening and our goal has always been to support emerging artists. We had such an overwhelming response to the first year, so we thought let’s expand and accept every artist that applies. The exhibit has grown and become a way for Jackson Junge Gallery to give back and celebrate Chicago’s incredible arts community.”

Featured in TEN by TEN are works by Jackson Junge’s in-house artists, whose work the gallery exhibits year-round. Featured artist, Laura Lee Junge, created an eye-catching mixed media painting, “Inward”. The painting is done in a 3D style seen in her solo exhibition “CUCKOO: I’M NOT CRAZY, YOU ARE”, earlier this year. This series explores elements of freedom, movement and time. The focus of “Inward” is handmade clay and metal dragonflies, a departure from Junge’s usual butterfly subjects in this series. The background has impressions of clock gears imprinted in thick acrylic paint, an element used in Junge’s mixed media collection. Kate Hoyer’s “Rainbow Kitty” is painted in her signature bold and colorful style, utilizing stripes and blocks of color to define the forms of her animal subjects. Autumn Justine Miller has gone with a less cuddly character for her humorous painting, “Duck Doctor”, which features a rubber ducky with a plague mask and a skull tattoo. Miller is known for her creepy-cute subjects, and this painting is no exception.

Stand-out pieces in TEN by TEN are often using unexpected materials. Jonathan Pruc’s shining piece “Too Much on My Mind” utilizes many colored mirrors to reflect light and draw the viewer in. The mirrored surface gives it a slightly different appearance and color with a change of position or lighting, giving a unique optical effect. Another notable piece this year is Josh Brickman’s “El Oh El”, a map of the Loop made entirely of Legos. Brickman’s piece is both playful and well executed; you could almost use it to navigate downtown!

Michael Bever’s painting also brings us to the El. His acrylic painting “Parked Under the El” finds the beauty in a rainy evening beneath the train tracks, focusing on the warm reflections of light from surrounding streetlamps. A car idles in the center of the painting, perhaps waiting for someone to hurry up so they can get home before the weather turns once again.

When viewed all together as one large wall of artwork, TEN by TEN becomes an installation representing a year of creation and exploration from hundreds of emerging and established artists. The exhibition is an opportunity for all these creatives to come together and celebrate the hard work and progress that they have made this year.

TEN by TEN will be on display November 3rd, 2025, through January 11th, 2026, at Jackson Junge Gallery. Join us in celebrating the wide range of work that Chicago’s artists have to offer!

TEN by TEN is curated by Gallery Owner Chris Jackson, Gallery Director Kaitlyn Miller, Assistant Gallery Director Kristen Arcus, Gallery Assistants Marisa Taravella and Madeline Kirmse and Gallery Intern Sadie Walden.

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, November 7, 2025 | RSVP