Group Exhibition

Opening Reception: May 1, 2026, 6–10 PM

Exhibition Dates: May 1 – May 29, 2026

Chicago Grand Gallery presents Without Permission, a group exhibition featuring Paul Sierra, Kevin C. Lawler, and David Hauptschein. Bringing together painting, material-based practice, and AI-driven image-making, the exhibition explores shifting identity, surface, and constructed narrative across three distinct artistic approaches.

Working across abstraction and figuration, Paul Sierra creates paintings that reflect identity in transition. His work draws from memory and migration, where forms remain fluid and continuously evolving.

Kevin C. Lawler approaches painting through material and surface. With a background in traditional gilding and conservation, his work carries a strong sense of craft, where texture and process become central to the visual experience.

David Hauptschein presents AI-based digital works that question authorship and image-making in the contemporary moment. Using artificial intelligence as both tool and collaborator, his work constructs layered, often unsettling visual narratives.

Without Permission brings these practices into dialogue, where painting, process, and machine-generated imagery intersect. The exhibition resists fixed meaning, instead embracing transformation, tension, and the instability of form.