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West Loop, Fulton Market, East Garfield Park

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Suburbs

Old Town, Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Roscoe Village, Bucktown, Wicker Park, Logan Square, Lincoln Square, Ravenswood, Uptown, Edgewater, Andersonville, Rogers Park

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Michigan Avenue, Streeterville, The Gold Coast, The Loop, and South Loop

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Pilsen, Bridgeport, Chinatown, plus Hyde Park, Jackson Park/Dorchester, and Bronzeville

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Superior and Franklin streets, West Chicago Ave, and down to Merchandise Mart and the River

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Chicago-based painter<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://kimstoragegallery.com/artist/april-behnke#works" target="_blank">&nbsp;April Behnke</a>&nbsp;received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011 and has completed residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha and the Slak Foundation in the Netherlands. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including in Mexico City, Seoul, New York City, Berlin, Chicago, London, and Basel.<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:kim@kimstoragegallery.com?subject=Mind%20Games%20Opening%20Reception&amp;body=Hi%20Kim%2C%0A%0AI%20would%20like%20to%20attend%20the%20opening%20reception%20and%2For%20artist%20talk%20for%20Mind%20Games.%20I%20will%20be%20bringing%20___%20guests.%0A%0ASee%20you%20soon%2C%0A" target="_blank">RSVP</a>

Artist Talk with April Behnke

Join Monica in the gallery on Saturday, July 19 at 1pm for Myths &amp; Stories about "Jaybird &amp; the Queen of Hearts." “Biomythography” is a term coined by Audre Lord defined as “combining elements of history, biography and myth” within literature. My exploration of this idea is a continuation of the ongoing series of paintings, collages and stories in my Mythical Memory series. This body of work combines Afro-surrealism, abstraction, and elements of pop art aesthetics. This overlap and intersection of genres is used to create a dialogue around the abstract qualities of time and memory, the liminality of the dream space and the way in which personal narratives can create a mythology. Time and memory are components of history. The mythology enters as the realm where the dream space and memory coincide. Love is the enduring force that weaves it all together. Exhibition dates: July 3 - 25, 2025Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm

Monica Brown: Myths & Stories about "Jaybird & the Queen of Hearts.

Artist, curator, and impresario Don Baum (1922-2008) was a fixture in Chicago starting in the 1950s. Initially affiliated with the artists known as the Monster Roster – Leon Golub, Ted Halkin, Cosmo Campoli, Dominick Di Meo, Seymour Rosofsky – Baum assumed the role of Chairman of Exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center in the south side neighborhood in 1956, and he oversaw and helped curate HPAC's activities into the 1970s. Founded in 1939, HPAC was one of several important art sites in Hyde Park, including the Renaissance Society and the 57th Street Art Colony. Painter Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977), who would become one of Baum's closest compatriots, lived in the 57th Street Art Colony early in her career, bumping elbows with other WPA-era artists like Emil Armin, Charles Biesel, and Frances Strain, all of whom, including Abercrombie, participated in the very first show at HPAC. At an early stage, Harold Haydon, an artist and critic who taught at the University of Chicago, was HPAC's exhibition director, but once Baum took the helm things began to shift from a more conventional regional art center to the explosive Imagist brooder that HPAC would become. Working with artists Jim Nutt and Jim Falconer, Baum helped assemble small group shows, starting with the Hairy Who, with multiple exhibitions spotlighting their iconoclastic new work. In the exhibition Nuth'n to Hyde, CvsD has brought the two epochs of Hyde Park together again, featuring works by Abercrombie (including a wonderful canvas in her Countess Nerona series that was unveiled at the Renaissance Society in 1945), Haydon, and Campoli alongside artists who emerged in the '60s including Nutt, Falconer, and Karl Wirsum. In the middle, as a bridge, the man who facilitated the Imagists and was executor of the Gertrude Abercrombie estate, Don Baum occupies a position of great significance, the kind that he demanded when he curated the show Don Baum Sez: "Chicago Needs Famous Artists" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1969. In this rare conversation, Don Baum's son Charlie Baum sits with John Corbett to discuss his father's legacy, revealing little known facts about Don's relationship with Gertrude Abercrombie, his work as a painter and sculptor, and his efforts to build and maintain HPAC.

Don Baum, Gertrude Abercrombie, and the Visual Arts in Hyde Park: A Conversation with Charlie Baum

Entwined: Banner Making&nbsp;with Kathryn Hempel, Bishal Manandhar, Lori Kaplan, and Tamara Wasserman&nbsp;Kathryn Hempel, Bishal Manandhar, Tamara Wasserman, and Lori Kaplan welcome you to participate in the Culture Flow Entwined fabric and mixed media workshop at Oliva Gallery, 3816 W. Armitage Ave in Chicago, on Monday, July 21st, 2025, from 6 - 8 pm. A variety of textiles, fabric paint, and art supplies will be available for use. Participants are encouraged to bring a piece of fabric representative of their culture, ancestry, homeland, or neighborhood to add to our collaborative work or their individual artwork. We look forward to ripping, weaving, painting, knotting, and possibly sewing together.

Entwined: Banner Making with Kathryn Hempel

Join artist Tom Burtonwood in conversation with arts writer and critic Susan Snodgrass, as they discuss Burtonwood’s current installation at 21c Chicago, Recurring. In Recurring, Tom Burtonwood presents three elements of his ongoing project “A Cube is a Rectangle”, featuring a large-gridded wall installation of over 200 of Burtonwood’s signature “Würfel” drawings. Adjacent to the gallery, two large “Würfels” crafted from mixed media materials, including hydrocal, paint, soil, and natural fibers, hang side by side. Accompanying these two-dimensional works is a new single-channel stop-frame animation of his unfolding cube motif.

On Creative Practice: Tom Burtonwood and Susan Snodgrass

Please join MoCP for a lecture by acclaimed artist Alfredo Jaar, followed by a wine reception in the museum. Jaar’s installation, Caritas, Real Pictures (1995) is on view in the current exhibition&nbsp;Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography in Dialogue with the MoCP Collection.Alfredo Jaar is an artist, photographer, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013), Sao Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010, 2021) as well as Documenta in Kassel (1987, 2002).Over eighty monographic publications have been published about his work. He became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1985 and a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. He received the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2018 and the Hasselblad Award in 2020. In 2024 he was awarded the IV Albert Camus Mediterranean Prize. He was recently selected as the recipient of the 2025 Edward MacDowell Medal. Stage 2618 S. Michigan Ave., Floor 2Chicago, IL 60605 *Registration is required Please register by clicking the button below.<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mocp.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e4250b7536dc23e9352b28ee&amp;id=26e3cec141&amp;e=62775191de" target="_blank">Register for Lecture</a>

Lecture with Alfredo Jaar

<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/M3sCoPTIQLuhQYPomKPUiw" target="_blank">Register here!</a> The 8th annual Chicago Vicinity Exhibition opens noon July 3rd at Perspective Gallery in Evanston.&nbsp;The opening reception and award announcements will be on July 12th, 5-7 p.m. followed by a virtual artist talk on July 24th, 7.&nbsp;The Vicinity 2025 juror is Erin Hoyt, an arts administrator specializing in contemporary photography. She is the Executive Director of Filter Photo, a non-profit arts organization based in Chicago that focuses on professional development practices for fine art and documentary photographers.&nbsp;Each of the exhibiting artists has a different take on the theme HOME.&nbsp;There is a wide range of visual interpretations on the idea of what represents home.&nbsp;Congratulations to 23 artists who will be showing their work:Pamela Allen, Elijah Barnes, Reeves Beckley, John Bolin, David Brodsky, Sam Burzak, Larry Chait, Stephen Clay, Amanda Colon, Riley Curtis, Maria Finitzo, Alan Leder, Lucy Mueller, Patrick Pagnono, Warren Perlstein, Dorothy Perry, Darlene Poloniak, Carolyn Potts, Joan Tortorici Ruppert, Ryan Searl, Claire Shoolin, Benjamin Tholotowsky, and Becki Utigard.Perspective Gallery is celebrating its 15th year. Vicinity 2025 will have a Closing Reception on Sunday, July 27th from 3&nbsp;- 5 p.m. This reception also will be a fifteen-year gallery anniversary party and public reception for Perspective Gallery.Image:&nbsp;David Brodsky -&nbsp;"The Party's Over"

Virtual Artists’ Talk: The 8th annual Chicago Vicinity Exhibition

Join artist Yvette Mayorga and scholar Emmanuel Ortega for a gallery talk discussing Pu$h Thru, Yvette's first solo exhibition at moniquemeloche. The event will take place on Saturday, July 26 at 3pm at Monique Meloche Gallery, located at 451 N. Paulina St., Chicago, IL 60622. The exhibition, Pu$h Thru, is on view through Saturday, July 26.<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://t8j4tqkab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Jn2ktEm__NmbOCqjMoP8Yd8KIYXifzxfCotAvJfvx3LhgsMYYaOlEkmU53twsYqgvG7yBgA_tGe38VmEgTU3aditji5rQ5j8KPfXWrVJ-WYYVxSuhEkpzu8O_RJp4wt1_ocsJcEjNBOI0eI79qNy4qpFJSTKI5SZpIj1YXSqMnVOFz1QFT-Ue1eS6QZEYLmoLiEKuoO8Q9wbLO3TygfKJr60jN1q0Yd9j5R0fAaWPP5-0XoWAC0EUaOK6YDBz8HFuF9uuxxPmTnh87gLUVV8sNRRtkBcwAvg&amp;c=ULGgY_4coUNKPsE_Tiax5VOJS6ywOIXxGxKJEqjSg5qDqm2CaOw0hg==&amp;ch=ITJyjcuRuBHnsmLwzNDQ0bKpRYGRpzyY3OmbhI9x6Agasn0rK_e3YA==" target="_blank">RSVP here</a>

Gallery Talk: Yvette Mayorga and Emmanuel Ortega

Please join us in a viewing and conversation around works in the MoCP permanent collection on&nbsp;the topic of autonomous power in photography. Works presented include photographic practices of Black, Indigenous,&nbsp;and queer artists to expand topics presented in the exhibition, Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography&nbsp;In Dialogue with the MoCP Collection. This discussion will be led by MoCP Curatorial and Education Assistant, Kyli Hawks.*This program will be held in the MoCP print study room.&nbsp;

Photos at Noon: Autonomous Power in Photography

Saturday, August 16, 2-5 pm,&nbsp;Collage and Thinking: a Writing Workshop&nbsp;with Dale Pesmen at Oliva Gallery&nbsp;Dale Pesmen, a painter, collage and encaustic artist, author, and PhD in Cultural Anthropology, has run creative nonfiction writing workshops for over ten years in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, and Serbia. Influenced by dadaist techniques, the workshops are inspired by the principle that making art can be thinking. In this 3-hour session, we will do exercises to demonstrate to ourselves how it feels when unexpected jumps, ideas, and images emerge in the process of wordplay. ﻿Image Credit Dale Pesmen

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