Timeless Bodies
First Annual Midwest Ceramic Exhibition
OLIVA GALLERY
3618 W. Armitage Ave., Chicago, IL 60647
847-922-5736
Nov. 7-Dec. 13, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, Nov. 7 - 5-9pm, 2025
PROGRAMMING:
- ARTIST TALK – Saturday, Nov. 15th, 2025 – 3-5pm
- FIGURE DRAWING – Sunday, Dec. 7th – 3-6pm. Live Model - FEE: $20
- CLOSING: Saturday, Dec. 13 - 5-9pm
- HOLIDAY/GIFT PARTY – Friday, Dec. 19th, 2025 – 5-9pm
Gallery Hours: Friday 5–8 PM, Saturday 12–4 PM, or by appointment
Timeless Bodies interprets the human form through sculptural realism and abstraction. Throughout history, the human form has been symbolized as a container of life, emotion, and spirit, reflecting both fragility and resilience. How does the body hold and convey our stories, memories, or cultural history? Artists were encouraged to celebrate the interplay of form and storytelling in clay.
Juror & Curator:
Nancy Pirri is an artist from Chicago, working primarily in ceramics and creating figures of all sizes. Pirri has won awards from the Beverly Arts Center and the Rockford Art Museum, including work published in ‘500 Figures in Clay’ V2. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including SOFA in Chicago representing women's rights anniversaries, and has acquired collectors from all over the world. She has exhibited with numerous galleries in the Midwest and is currently represented by Oliva Gallery, J. Petter Galleries (MI), Design at 329/Primitive/The Stalls, and Inner Haven Gallery.
ARTISTS EXHIBITING:
Nikki Renee Anderson
Monica Balc
Lynn Basa
Aaron Becker
Sharon Bladholm
Debbie Burk
Lisa Farris
Autumn Horwath
Lynda Lawson Karr
Jayne King
Dawn Liddicoatt
Linda Marcus
Johannah Tomita Martin
Amber Matthews
Suzanne Mauro
Carole McCurdy
Bobbi Meier
Arny Nadler
Andryea Natkin
Alexis Lee Ortiz-Duarte
Roberta Ulrich-de Oliveira
Susan Volk
Christopher Williams
Runhi Xu
Thomas Zamiar
Image: Arny Nadler (associate professor of Art Sam Fox School of Art and Design at Washington University St Louis Mo )
