West Town, Wicker Park, Ukrainian Village, Kinzie Corridor, Humboldt Park

West Town

Wisconsin

IL • MI • IN

West Loop, Fulton Market, East Garfield Park

West Loop and West Side

Evanston, The North Shore, Northern, Western and Southern Suburbs

Suburbs

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

North Side

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

Michigan Avenue

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

South Side

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

River North

Flying Kites in a Windless World is composed of artworks from Filley’s projects over the past eight years. The works are inspired by a wide range of influences, including Emily Dickinson’s poem “We Send the Wave to Find the Wave,” drawings and weavings by Lenore Tawney, quilts passed down through generations, migratory patterns of birds, the shifting light of sunrise and sunset, and other investigations into the built and natural world. Filley generates her paper-based works using a methodical, repetitive process which functions as an act of discovery for the artist and a form of ritual that opens a pathway to the spiritual. Doing the same things over and over again--dot making, stitching, blending pencil marks—facilitates a close analysis of the how and why of doing. Repetition also allows for pattern to emerge and invites the question of how something might grow, shift or evolve over time. For Filley, moving through the world is an act of gathering disparate pieces—of “massing stardust,” in the artist’s words—that slowly cohere as experience is filtered into understanding. Her drawings, which can be likened to imagined cosmic maps, become the conduit for exploring an aspect of existence that is collective rather than individual. Beyond capturing a single moment, Filley’s art practice seeks to bridge time, expand an understanding of the present and come into harmony with that which is beyond the self. Merging sacred geometry and geometric abstraction with the error and energy of the human hand, her artwork expresses how the act of making transforms the body into a portal through which something unknown can pass.

Vanessa Filley: Flying Kites in a Windless World

Japeth Mennes: I will always love ewe

Featuring one-of-a-kind fine art prints, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative is displaying a gallery show focused on the monoprint &amp; monotype. Come to the Reception on Thursday, April 2nd from 5-8pm for a first look at this selection of gorgeous prints.&nbsp; <a href="https://chicagoprintmakers.com/print-making-gallery-chicago/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Monoprint: one of a kind</a>&nbsp;will be on view through mid July, 2026.

Monoprint: One of a Kind

Sawhorse is thrilled to present the third iteration of The Museum of I Love You So Much, a curatorial project organized by Los Angeles-based artist and writer Hannah Tishkoff. Exhibiting artists include Deen Babakhyi, Megan Lee, Jenna Beasley, Flannery McDonnell, Jerry Bleem, Tatiana Sky, Cookie Bunk, Amy Stober, Julia Yerger, and Jack Kearney Photo by Deen Babakhyi

The Museum of I Love You So Much #3

Dan McCaw · John McCaw · Danny McCaw&nbsp;Our inaugural exhibition brings together three generations of painters from one extraordinary family — Dan McCaw and his sons John and Danny, who share a studio in California and have spent years in daily creative conversation. The result is twenty paintings that feel both deeply personal and utterly distinct from one another.﻿

The Studio: A Family Dialogue in Paint

From Cobalt to Indigo: The Power of Blue in East Asia&nbsp;is an exploration of one of the most enduring and influential colors in global art history. Spanning centuries of Chinese and Japanese creativity, the exhibition traces how the color blue—once among the rarest and most prized pigments—shaped artistic innovation, cultural exchange, and aesthetic identity across East Asia.From the luminous depths of cobalt-painted porcelain to the brilliance of carved lapis lazuli and the bold Prussian blue of Japanese ukiyo-e prints, this exhibition brings together works that illuminate the remarkable journey of blue across materials and artistic traditions. From Cobalt to Indigo will explore symbolism, craftsmanship, technological advancements, and cross-cultural influences. It showcases blue as both a material and an evolving metaphor. This exhibition invites audiences to see a familiar color anew and to experience the profound beauty and cultural resonance of blue in East Asian art.<a href="https://www.kiarts.org/events/tag/cobalt/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Click here to see all events in connection with this exhibition</a>.

From Cobalt to Indigo: The Power of Blue in East Asia

<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.hydeparkart.org/" target="_blank">Hyde Park Art Center</a>, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, is proud to announce a major solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Alison Ruttan. Visualizing the catastrophic impact of global warming on coastal communities, the immersive installation places visitors at the center of a submerged suburban neighborhood to invite reflections on the climate crisis. On view from&nbsp;April 4-July 12, 2026, the expansive exhibition takes up 2300 sq. ft. gallery space with over 160 cast ceramic forms. A free public opening reception with the artist will take place on&nbsp;Saturday, April 4, 2026 from 1-4 p.m.Throughout her career, Ruttan has created many visual representations of massive traumatic events, such as the Gombe Chimpanzee War, the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon, the “Highway of Death” in Kuwait, and the Syrian Civil War.&nbsp;For Ruttan, the labor involved in rendering these events visible is an attempt to emphasize their urgency for herself and viewers. The title&nbsp;The Paradox of Inaction&nbsp;refers to a mistaken belief that doing nothing is risk-free, while in reality, failing to act has consequences, increases risks, and limits ways forward. She hopes the exhibition, which took more than two years to complete, is a call to action for shifting unsustainable habits and preventing further inaction toward climate issues.Composed of over 160 cast ceramic forms, this installation is arranged in low-lying platforms throughout the gallery. At first glance, the ceramic forms appear abstract; seen collectively, they create the illusion of a submerged suburban neighborhood. Works from Ruttan’s earlier series&nbsp;High Water&nbsp;(2023 - 2024), a group of miniature ceramic sculptures of flooded homes, will be on view on the second floor of the Art Center, complementing the large-scale installation on the first floor. With an otherworldly appearance, the glazed surfaces of the ceramics are suggestive of pools of blackwater and mildewed walls.Ruttan shares why she believes an immersive art installation is a powerful tool for change:&nbsp;“To know something is not the same as comprehending it. I work with the belief that art can sometimes do a better job of convincing than facts alone. In looking at a work of art, we allow our intuitive thinking to mingle with factual thinking. We go back and forth between the contemplation of the physical objects' form and the suggested context that exists outside the art gallery. In bridging these different ways of thinking, we often feel we are coming closer to the truth”.This exhibition is part of an ongoing annual series of large-scale artworks commissioned by Hyde Park Art Center, which in the past included new works by Edra Soto, Faheem Majeed, Lan Tuazon, and Yasmin Spiro, among others. A series of public programs will offer opportunities for audiences to further engage with the exhibition.&nbsp;Alison Ruttan: The Paradox of Inaction&nbsp;is generously supported by the Graham Foundation.ABOUT THE ARTISTAlison Ruttan is a project-based artist whose work focuses on topical investigations. Her work has been exhibited in Chicago at the Riverside Arts Center, Chicago Cultural Center, Weinberg Newton Gallery, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, and Document Gallery, among others. Nationally, her work has been presented at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Crystal Bridges Art Museum in Bentonville, AR;&nbsp;Elmhurst Art Museum, IL; Kent State University Art Museum, OH; The Frist Museum, TN; and The Drawing Center, NY. International presentations of Ruttan’s work have included Galerie Wit in Wageningen, Netherlands, and Rocket Gallery in London, UK. Ruttan has received awards and residencies from the Illinois Arts Council, Jerome Foundation, Art &amp; Technology Residency; Wexner Museum, Artists Residency; and Wild Animal Park. She is an associate professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she has taught for over 25 years.

Alison Ruttan: The Paradox of Inaction

Weeds Grow in All Directions&nbsp;is an exhibition of Cydney Lewis's collage works and large-scale assemblages. Using everyday materials found in her daily life–plastic bags, packing paper, magazine cutouts, as well as rhinestones and textiles–Lewis creates otherworldly landscapes that prompt meditation on the destruction and resilience of the natural world. The works in the exhibition reward close looking—to find the extraordinary in the overlooked, to reconnect with energies around us, and to feel the pulse of our shared ecology through playful wonder and poignant reflection. In this body of work, the resilient weed is both metaphor and guide, challenging our perceptions of the disregarded and revealing the quiet spirit inherent in all natural matter. In Lewis's work, the material world intersects with the realm of elemental spirits, creating a layered tapestry of human emotion and urgent ecological awareness.

Cydney M. Lewis: Weeds Grow in All Directions

Palomar&nbsp;is a group exhibition about watching the sky, something that appears deceptively simple. Featuring twenty-eight artists, it unfolds in two parts, each five weeks long. Some works remain in place while others come and go, this encounter in time acting like a double exposure. Gradually, the familiar act of looking up spills over into a sense of life that is more layered and complex, or even contradictory. It turns out there is a lot at stake in the space above us.&nbsp;Decades ago, after the launch of the first satellite into orbit, humans had big dreams of leaving the Earth. Politicians, poets, and scientists made public comments in this spirit. Today it’s mostly billionaires who talk of escape, or of mining the planets out there. The rest of us look to the sky from the ground as life carries on. An earlier age of optimism around space exploration and human progress has given way to a new era, as the stars fade from view in our cities, new technologies emerge with unsettling effects, and those in power surveil from above. Through it all, the sky is a steady presence. The sun rises and sets. The moon, too. The stars come out, where you can see them. We organize our lives by these patterns. They infuse our concepts, our sense of time, and our language, even when they’re not on our minds.Part 1 of&nbsp;Palomar&nbsp;introduces certain celestial rhythms and cycles, while thinking about astronomy and other forms of observation in everyday life. It also begins to draw out experiences of time, as it is marked, measured, and perceived. Part 2 brings into view changing relationships with technology and the militarization of the skies. Both parts are shadowed by the question of what one sees and what one doesn’t, and the roles that images play, especially photographs, often wrapped up with the comforts and discomforts of distance.&nbsp;The exhibition borrows its title from the name of an observatory on a California mountaintop, which once had the largest optical telescope in the world. It lost that distinction in 1976, but it is still used to study the stars. In the eighties, Italo Calvino wrote a book about a man who shares his name with that place:&nbsp;Mr. Palomar, a seeker of the cosmic in the commonplace and an unflagging, if absentminded, observer. Taken together, these two touchstones evoke different kinds of observation and attention.&nbsp;Looking overhead can be a way to understand one’s place in the world, as it has been for thousands of years. Given the many ways people watch the sky or look to the cosmos, from scientific study to the habits of daily life, there are just as many different things to think or feel. The movement of the heavenly bodies offers a measure of continuity in the face of destabilizing change; the view above can be a source of solace, a realm of startling beauty, a reminder of something larger than oneself. The sky can also be a dark premonition, a site of violence or grief, a reminder of what there is to lose, or for many what is already gone. Sometimes it’s all of this at once.Curated by Karsten Lund.&nbsp;Artists featured:Part 1 (May 2–June 7, 2026)&nbsp;Darren Almond, Sarah &amp; Joseph Belknap, Myriam Boulos, Vija Celmins, Paul Fägersköld, Pierre Huyghe, Rinko Kawauchi, Jason Lazarus, Tony Lewis, Aspen Mays, Eadward Muybridge, John Opera, Chantal Peñalosa Fong, Kathleen Ryan, Carrie Schneider, Heji Shin, Erin ShirreffPart 2 (June 10–July 13, 2026)&nbsp;Sarah &amp; Joseph Belknap, Myriam Boulos, Vija Celmins, Cynthia Daignault, Paul Fägersköld, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sebastian Jefford, Jordan Kantor, Tony Lewis, Eadweard Muybridge, John Opera, Trevor Paglen, Torbjørn Rødland, Kathleen Ryan, Heji Shin, Erin Shirreff, Alec Soth, Shomei Tomatsu, Samira Yamin&nbsp;Videos online&nbsp;(Parts 1 &amp; 2)Allora &amp; Calzadilla, Chantal Peñalosa Fong, Simon Starling, Alice Wang&nbsp;CreditsLead support for this exhibition is provided by School Museum Fund, The Hees Family.&nbsp;Friends of Palomar Patron Circle: Maria Christina &amp; Guy-Karim Caland Puymartin, and Zach Smith.&nbsp;Renaissance Society programs are supported by Teiger Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.&nbsp;EventsOpening Reception (Part 1)Sat, May 2, 4–7pmTalk at 4PM between curator Karsten Lund and Steven L. Bridges (MSU Broad Art Museum)&nbsp;Walkthrough (Part 1)Sun, May 17, 1PMLed by Karsten Lund&nbsp;WorkshopSun, May 17, 3PMLed by Karsten Lund and Joshi Radin Flores&nbsp;Performance: Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie StewartSat, Jun 13, 4PM&nbsp;Opening Reception (Part 2)Sat, Jun 13, 5–7PM&nbsp;Walkthrough (Part 2)Thu, Jun 18, 6:30PMLed by Karsten Lund&nbsp;Performance Lecture: Day &amp; Night with Sarah &amp; Joseph Belknap&nbsp;Sun, Jun 21, 12PM &amp; 10PM12PM Logan Center for the Arts, Screening Room10PM Midway Plaisance Winter GardenVisit&nbsp;<a href="http://renaissancesociety.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">renaissancesociety.org</a>&nbsp;for more information.&nbsp;

Palomar (Part 2)

<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1780937416/w8nbdtjyfpqiztqb93vv.jpg" width="560"> She Loved the water...&nbsp;her father, Lt. Commander Henry Livermore Abbott, was a sailor, a decorated submarine captain&nbsp;in the First World War and a Naval advisor to the FDR administration during WWII. As an introduction, I've written a&nbsp;little remembrance&nbsp; The Last Time I Saw Mary… In May of 2019 I traveled to the Long Island enclave of Southampton for my annual visit with Mary Abbott. I’d been making this pilgrimage for about 15 years, where I would visit with Mary in her tidy ranch house at 125 Corrigan Street. We would catch up on life, go to lunch, sit in her garden, have some wine&nbsp;and spend time mucking about in her studio. There, I would pick out paintings to send back to Chicago and unearth works on paper from her disarrayed flat file drawers. These were generally unsigned and I would sit her down, put a pencil in her hand and make her sign away. Mary didn’t have a commercial bone in her body and did not enjoy signing her work. She had horrible handwriting, was dyslexic and had a hard time fitting her name in the space provided. Very often works received her scribble only on the day they left her studio. Often I would be soundly reprimanded for forcing her to do this small but heinous task:&nbsp;"Oh, just leave me alone!" &nbsp;<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1780937417/slyalqkx56l62uzgd4uo.jpg" width="560">I Am a Sailor’s Daughterwatercolor on paper9 x 12 inchessigned at lower right; signed and titled on frame backing board, estate stamped verso#11580 Mary loved to paint watery watercolors of the ocean, sky, and clouds, often from a perch on the beach at Southampton.&nbsp;On this visit I arrived to find Mary still in bed, which was not particularly unusual as she liked to lounge around but I was told she had been spending much more time there. Wanda, her housekeeper, was puttering about the kitchen and her Girl Friday, Mary Stubelek, arrived soon after. She began filling me in on Mary Abbott’s slowly declining health — she was 98 and had heart problems. But, she was perky and chatty, though there would be no lunch date on this visit. So I sat with her in the bedroom looking out the window at her lovely garden, listening to the birds scold an errant squirrel. After a while Mary S, and I wandered away to talk privately about the fact that Mary A. was not going to live forever and we should put some thought into what comes next. We knew Mary had a will, prepared years before, but as far as we knew it had never really been completed or possibly even signed. She had no children and, really, no heirs. In 2007 Abbott had asked me to look into setting up some sort of trust or foundation that, after her death, could use the proceeds from her estate to support emerging women artists. It was a wonderful idea and I contacted Artadia, the non-profit grant-maker in New York, about partnering in such an endeavor. They were very interested and we organized a couple of meetings with attorneys and stakeholders in nearby Jamesport. Mary was happy and excited about this and just as things began to gel I received a phone call from the lawyer in New York City who, years before, had written her original will. This fellow, who I’m not naming, came on like a rabid dog saying if I knew what was good for me I’d mind my own damn business and leave Mary Abbott’s affairs alone! Full stop! Well… he scared the hell out of me, so we stopped. This was both disappointing and embarrassing,&nbsp;as I had to contact everyone and apologize for wasting their time. Worst of all, her will remained unresolved, as far as we knew, and we assumed that when she would eventually pass things would be a mess. This visit lasted a few more days. Mary Stubelek and I worked on organizing her studio, sorting through piles of blank paper and unfinished drawings… investigating long ignored rolls of canvas, and generally trying to bring some order to her 98 years of life. We poked around an off-site storage unit but it was just too much to tackle. A&nbsp;few days later I said my goodbyes and left Corrigan Street, fairly certain I wouldn’t see Mary Abbott again. She died two months later on August 23, 2019. &nbsp;Sure enough, what followed was a mess. Another attorney, and old friend of Mary’s, acted as her executor and I did not envy him the chore. He allowed me, working with Mary Stubelek, to continue representing the estate while he began sorting things out. I was well treated and appreciated the opportunity to keep working with Mary’s wonderful legacy. Eventually, in August of 2020, we were instructed to return everything we had on consignment in Chicago — I think there were about 70 canvases or so and many works on paper.&nbsp;And suddenly, after 19 years, that was that.&nbsp; Since then good things have continued to happen for Mary Lee Abbott. In 2021 we published a 120 page Abbott biography drawing on stories and photos from my nineteen year friendship and interviews with her many friends and colleagues. Her estate found a home with the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, where Mary taught for a decade in the 1970s. Last year Schoelkopf Gallery presented a major Abbott exhibition in New York,&nbsp;To Draw Imagination, and interest in her work has continued to grow.&nbsp; Over the past 25 years we have placed well over 400 Mary Abbott paintings, watercolors and drawings. We have a wide selection of small, watery watercolors such as these 4 x 6 inch works. All are signed or initialed and estate stamped.&nbsp; <a href="https://us.list-manage.com/pcr35qALife?e=4e60073cbe&amp;c2id=4d50cb5e36083b5514fb6b314e231f0b" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176);" target="_blank">Buy the Biography HERE</a> To view more images of the exhibition<a href="https://us.list-manage.com/bQegXl2WznN?e=4e60073cbe&amp;c2id=4d50cb5e36083b5514fb6b314e231f0b" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176);" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>

Mary Abbott: I Am a Sailor's Daughter

The color spectrum—Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet—is the focus of this show. Showcasing art from across the country, the gallery will be a rainbow of color. This exhibition will showcase artwork from over 30 artists, many from Illinois. Fine Line will host an in-person reception on Thursday, June 18, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM to officially open the show, with several of the participating artists in attendance. As with all Fine Line gallery receptions, this event is free and open to everyone. Light refreshments will be served during the evening.

Pick a Color

Martin Wong: Chinatown USA&nbsp;traces the development of the work of the queer painter and poet, highlighting Wong’s connection with the art and&nbsp;culture&nbsp;of&nbsp;Asia,&nbsp;inparticular through&nbsp;his&nbsp;collecting&nbsp;of&nbsp;pre-modern&nbsp;Asian&nbsp;art and antiquities and his explorations of the Chinatowns of New York and San Francisco from 1970 through the 1990s. A large portion of the exhibition is devoted to his Chinatown paintings, which were the subject of a major exhibition titled&nbsp;Chinatown USA&nbsp;presented at P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York City and the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993. These works depict notable architecture such as the Chinese pagoda-style building at 241 Canal Street, iconic actor Bruce Lee and Peking opera performer Mei Lanfang, festivities like the Chinese New Year Parade, and&nbsp;street&nbsp;scenes. The exhibition also explores Wong’s interest in counterculture communities (such as Puerto Rican poets and graffiti artists) and language through his poetry and American Sign Language paintings. The latter are presented alongside a&nbsp;small&nbsp;selection&nbsp;of works by artists of the modern graffiti movement from Wong’s personal&nbsp;collection,&nbsp;which he donatedto&nbsp;the Museum&nbsp;of the City of New York in 1994. Wong died in 1999 at the age of 53 from an AIDS-related illness.&nbsp;Martin Wong: Chinatown USA&nbsp;is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue published by Halsted A&amp;A Foundation and Gregory R. Miller &amp; Co. Edited by Yasufumi Nakamori, it includes six essays by leading scholars Solomon&nbsp;Adler, Lisa Hsiao Chen, Mark&nbsp;D.&nbsp;Johnson,&nbsp;Vivian&nbsp;Li, Margo Machida, and Lydia Yee.

Martin Wong: Chinatown USA

<a href="https://www.newberry.org/calendar/free-and-independent" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Free and Independent: The Declaration of Independence and the Words That Made the United States</a>, features a rare early copy of the Declaration. The exhibition features more than two dozen historic items inviting visitors to survey selected phrases from the Declaration, such as "All Men are created equal," and to consider some of the surprising ideas behind those words. Collection items highlight influential figures such as John Locke, Benjamin Franklin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay. On display will be the only surviving manuscript copy of John Jay’s&nbsp;Federalist no. 3, one of only five surviving manuscript drafts of any of the Federalist essays. The exhibition is curated by Eric Slauter, Deputy Dean of the Arts and Humanities Division and the College at University of Chicago. Slauter is the author of&nbsp;The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution, essays on the language of rights and equality in early America, and a forthcoming book on the origins, meanings, and afterlives of the Declaration of Independence. The Newberry's copy of the Declaration is a rare broadside from Newport, Rhode Island, mistakenly dated June 13 rather than July 13, 1776, that demonstrates how supporters and opponents of independence might have first encountered the empire-shattering news.&nbsp;Only in August 1776, as the document began to circulate in Europe, did delegates of Congress sign the famous handwritten parchment scroll currently at the National Archives.&nbsp; Other exhibition items include:<ul><li>A 1776 map of America;</li><li>A revolutionary timeline dedicated to Benjamin Franklin;</li><li>One of the first petitions by enslaved people to circulate widely in print;</li><li>Notes of a meeting between members of Congress and representatives of Native nations taken by Thomas Paine;</li><li>The biography of Deborah Sampson, a woman who disguised herself as a man to fight in the army.</li></ul> Free and Independent&nbsp;will be on view in the Hanson Gallery through July 18’s NewberryFest open house celebration, and is part of an array of programs and events related to the 250th&nbsp;anniversary of the Declaration. The Newberry is proud to be a partner in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.il250.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" target="_blank">Illinois America 250</a>, an inclusive, statewide effort to bring together Illinoisans’ diverse perspectives about our history – and our future. Learn more at:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newberry.org/the-newberry-observes-america-250" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" target="_blank">https://www.newberry.org/the-newberry-observes-america-250.</a> Free Public Programs being held along with the exhibition include: <a href="https://www.newberry.org/calendar/coffee-nation" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" target="_blank">May 7, 6pm</a>“Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States.” Presenters: Author Michelle McDonald in conversation with curator and scholar Eric Slauter. Coffee Nation challenges traditional interpretations of the American Revolution, as coffee’s spectacular profitability in US markets and popularity on the new nation’s tables by the mid-nineteenth century was the antithesis of independence.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newberry.org/calendar/allen-stephenson-conversation" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" target="_blank">June 6, 2pm</a>Annual Colonial History Program: “The Declaration of Independence.” Discussants: Scholar/author Danielle Allen (Harvard University) and historian Scott Stephenson (Museum of the American Revolution), in partnership with Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois. The discussion will be followed by a book signing of Dr. Allen’s latest book,&nbsp;Radical Duke.&nbsp;Reproduction artifacts from the Museum of the American Revolution will be available for viewing, including a recreation of George Washington’s tent in Washington Square Park, located across the street from the Newberry’s main entrance. <a href="https://www.newberry.org/calendar/declaration-reading" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" target="_blank">July 8, 5pm</a>Sharing the Spirit of America: A Statewide &amp; National Reading of the Declaration of Independence Gather with special guests, fellow visitors, and library staff for a live, simultaneous nationwide public reading of the Declaration of Independence with one and all in Chicago and across the country. <a href="https://www.newberry.org/calendar/newberryfest-250" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" target="_blank">July 18, 10am</a>NewberryFest: 250 Years of the United States Learn more about the history and legacy of the American Revolution by exploring our collection and try your own hand at historical calligraphy techniques. Celebrate all things Newberry with collection presentations, hands-on activities, tours, a mini used book sale, and so much more at this open house event. Image: Declaration of Independence broadside, Newport, RI: Solomon Southwick, 1776, VAULT Case broadside E221 .U57.

Free and Independent: The Declaration of Independence and the Words That Made the United States

The Path to Nowhere Errol Ortiz and Stanley Dean Edwards Oliva Gallery presents The Path to Nowhere, a two-person exhibition featuring Errol Ortiz and Stanley Dean Edwards. Bringing together two distinct Chicago-connected artists, the exhibition places Ortiz’s charged, symbol-rich Imagist language in direct conversation with Edwards’s disciplined geometric abstraction. Ortiz’s work moves through current events, social tension, pattern, humor, and unease, while Edwards builds pressure through structure, color, and precise compositional restraint. Together, their work creates a space of visual suspension, where images scatter, forms lock into place, and two very different artistic logics meet in unexpected cohesion.The opening reception will also include a screening of a short documentary on Errol Ortiz by On The Real Film in collaboration with Pentimenti Productions. The film premieres at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago on May 26 as part of a series on Chicago artists, with the June 12 reception offering a more intimate opportunity to view the film and meet the artist.

The Path to Nowhere with Errol Ortiz and Stanley Dean Edwards

Marking the gallery’s second solo exhibition with Jennifer Rochlin, on view in Chicago from June 6 through July 18, 2026, the presentation will unveil a new body of ceramic vessels and paintings in which personal narrative, memory, and material experimentation are closely interwoven.Returning to the city where she received her MFA in painting in 1999, Rochlin approaches&nbsp;The Horizon Keeps Moving&nbsp;as both a form of return and excavation. The works are shaped by layered impressions of Chicago—its lakefront horizon, the river, its architectural density, and its more intimate geographies of bars, alleys, and domestic thresholds. These elements surface as sculpted anecdotes across ceramic forms, where drawing and surface function as extensions of thought. In this context, the city operates not simply as backdrop but as a structuring logic—one through which memory, subjectivity, and narrative are continuously reassembled.<a href="http://link.marianeibrahim.com/ls/click?upn=u001.QEhnWBve3x4w-2FznpuSOKkHDHeH9lWxp-2BpojXmbdTFEfNIzMO4Fk0hZGVAcuFTnrwh8bO4SorqqInd4p4CD6AREU9uXdzg2BZ6OB0F2jAgIQ-2BzEgmloUlTMCFMoxelkmP-2FAEuyLOJeI3TqDkkRsl8IA-3D-3DeeEq_0g5QiKQ3ANfCkWXxwzczn1phIok0-2FnBF8GNWXrNhq2-2B4ftGj9DI8Jn4AfRAGeAJVikNEQwxpwEcoOyKbtwuEcKJX9jU3-2BoN-2BCdE2f3amVWjwnMunuiQFw-2B6GbgGdZ5PMEAxUdzfeQ1q0Cgxmxj62b7kuA1dPk003xaNSZsrD7SFXwaXF2Si1YtC8-2BnL2v2VWwMVxu3F9tVJIWGR-2BztJUOorRk15QF10xD-2F4qvAG5RCYPucXcnse5l1WApBcTL1XF24kkUzjCEAiNRXvNFRkhETYeKp-2BTrBz31NWadQNASJTN6OixVNohqfHY0pqOQSJeAq-2FdEdulcbC3pp-2B3ZkeIhPrGjWK6UPmGbCxvIZP8t8UEpkw6iWmodF9mG87T0zF2vPOYoacO8495462sQ1JGycI1ASakMew7L-2Fr9ZoY-2Bxyc9K6S64teg-2B5gO-2FMFCRVWk9c-2Fg76e2T5hC8HNl7hxwHPOHObAXz152qYCmwQ76FgF-2FOhX8QReW9e4eAATWC5ZK5lFsVMVo0PKjXxprjQ8jCMixisLn8L2DRG8OVjHpKejG70hEBJCjc51k0ACXkB1VXkOwX5lX-2FCR4Rf-2FZH9-2F-2FBy8281378CwRDyIphGrXiQ4ZuzGMFWsDjDbXj6-2F8ldgKKq8XstIaMgwxYvjNCItN8KCubueIIA0T8FGLeYpM41i8-2FRz7-2F7Nv4zVumjU1Oes2iZQiswnbcCySDcRzv283J12c-2FdHMnm7NJlh2bVpjXMLdPwGCb9UOopNzhHVEYt4Bf2MlLiAUt6sgUdg1aCVabimCm4ezOVNB-2FjD-2BCPjnnAyVktICDeT2cTsSYQn5WQ2XFm-2B74p7gVNKJuMcj5T6vPQ-3D-3D" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MORE ON THE EXHIBITION</a> Jennifer Rochlin (b. 1968 in Baltimore, Maryland; lives and works in Altadena, CA) received her MFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. Later moving to the west coast, an unexpected opportunity teaching ceramics at an all-girls Catholic high school prompted her first experiments with clay. Largely self-taught in the medium, vessels eventually became central to her practice.&nbsp;Rochlin builds terracotta pots through coil and slab construction, through which the imperfect marks of the artist’s hand are left imprinted on the surface of the clay. The sculptures are engraved with sgraffito techniquesand take on unusual shapes, where imagery moves fluidly across portraiture, politics, art history, and floral patterns, oscillating between personal and collective vignettes. Image: Jennifer Rochlin,&nbsp;Spring in Chicago with Georgia O’Keefe Clouds, 2026.&nbsp;Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim.

Jennifer Rochlin: The Horizon Keeps Moving

Chicago Rooms, Chicago Cultural Center&nbsp;Ornament &amp; Information&nbsp;presents artists working in Chicago and Vienna whose practices explore the historic intellectual exchange between the two cities&nbsp;—&nbsp;from modern architecture to mid-century economic thought. Through sculpture, painting and conceptual approaches, the exhibition reflects on how ideas evolve as they move between cultural contexts.&nbsp;The exhibition is curated in partnership with Gertie Chicago and featured artists include Anna Sophie Berger, Gaylen Gerber, Benjamin Hirte, B. Ingrid Olson, Devin T. Mays, Max Guy, Josef Strau, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Walter Pichler, Diane Simpson, Miriam Stoney, Valentina Triet, Micah Schippa Wildfong, Heimo Zobernig.&nbsp;Public programs include an&nbsp;opening reception on&nbsp;Friday,&nbsp;April 10,&nbsp;6-7pm in the&nbsp;Chicago Rooms&nbsp;and&nbsp;additional&nbsp;performances and artist-led events throughout the exhibition&nbsp;duration.&nbsp;The first performance&nbsp;will be held&nbsp;Saturday,&nbsp;April 11,&nbsp;at 3&nbsp;p.m.&nbsp;inside the&nbsp;Chicago Rooms.&nbsp;Please click&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com/ls/click?upn=u001.CSSunAOBvEOR4GhykBjJWWnTwxFlkUDDBF-2Fji248p2y6hFXsBorvoCC9fZuH5e36Pn-2BTTdSEqSZcF6S-2FCbBA0-2Fq9IH6tXX2BG5b0Mps0RIwEBqRxy-2BD7ec1SCRVfkVtG_fmR_0g5QiKQ3ANfCkWXxwzczn1phIok0-2FnBF8GNWXrNhq2-2B4ftGj9DI8Jn4AfRAGeAJVn7gGoI0v4yHfyxNzcTgWoLurliSnTAPDeTMjcpIoytOOx4olIMMV-2FUlia6rP-2BnJxXYH5O8tvn-2Fktq8OM7hVEsSIVa5QMZTlavNfGLkxY-2Bv5Ob8cNxVZY2QQwdDW7CjMxGACT3QdirHvuvzc-2FrsOP9qq38FKVrw-2Bh9GrF70Ft5aLbE8Nue-2F99yQjGNHjMHb-2B3klk5eNOWFwW9KoazpZWTUcBbiIMt1fpkZVbGxYby8-2FZaNQF4a7WBLAQ6RzIXxH8YyP-2F0HccGKvy2aTPy9pvMm3xHybxP0PGZAjjh3XTrzdo312fc-2BPPYJJGr0RPZuVeVLIsYvy4aTZbNapQwdWH-2Ffw-3D-3D" target="_blank">here</a>&nbsp;for more information on&nbsp;this&nbsp;exhibition.&nbsp;&nbsp;Image: Viennese Drinking Fountain, Hans Muhr, Presented to the City of Chicago on October 2, 1998

Ornament & Information 

Drawn from the Art Institute’s collection, this exhibition focuses on Greek multidisciplinary artist Lucas Samaras’s innovative photographs, as well as sculptures and paintings recently gifted to the museum by the Samaras Estate. These works offer a glimpse into Samaras’s broader practice and invites us into his creative, engaged, and focused life.

Lucas Samaras: Sitting, Standing, Walking, Looking

Volume Gallery announces&nbsp;Coyolxauhqui Imperative,&nbsp;a solo exhibition&nbsp;by Tanya Aguiñiga, opening Saturday, June 13, 2026, from 3 to 6 p.m in gallery two. Tanya Aguiñiga is a Los Angeles-based artist and activist raised in Tijuana, Mexico. Her ongoing investigations of identity and belonging made with meaningful materials are both deeply personal and an expression of her community.In this new body of work, Aguiñiga strategically removes threads from the warp and weft of delicate gauze to create images — a subtractive process like reverse embroidery. Mounted over black velvet, sections of open weave catch light and shadow to outline animals long held sacred across Mesoamerica: opossums, coyotes, vultures, snakes, and bats. These creatures occupied central roles in Indigenous life and cosmology, and some of their Nahuatl names,&nbsp;tlacuatzin&nbsp;and&nbsp;coyotl, persist in daily language as quiet evidence of their cultural significance. Today, they are largely vilified as pests or nuisances, despite their vital ecological roles. Aguińiga’s imagery is inspired by depictions of these sacred animals in Pre-Columbian codices, pictorial manuscripts covering everything from history and geography to mythology.The opossum—today dismissed or even feared—was among the most revered figures in Mesoamerican cosmology: a Robin Hood-like hero who stole fire from the gods and delivered it to humanity and who was credited in Maya tradition as an embodiment of feminine creative force, linked to the earth-lunar goddess. The vulture was also seen as far more than a scavenger; across Mesoamerican and South American traditions, it was understood as a transformer, converting death and filth into life and light. Known to the ancient world as a cathartic cleanser, the vulture appears throughout mythology as a keeper of fire and a shamanic figure associated with celestial brightness.These animals were venerated figures, woven into creation myths, healing practices, and the highest expressions of spiritual life. Indigenous Peoples have understood that these animals perform quiet, necessary labor in our ecosystems, consuming decaying materials that spread disease. Performing an essential role, they are indispensable and deserving of respect. Ultimately, Aguiñiga’s new textile works are about perception and the effects of misunderstanding. These essential animals are metaphors for those whose value goes unrecognized, whose presence is treated as a burden rather than a gift. Like the migrants who cross the same borderlands these creatures inhabit, they are fundamental to our society, yet widely maligned.For Aguiñiga, this work is also an act of ancestral recovery. Patterns referencing Otomi weaving and the craft traditions of Michoacán and Jalisco — regions tied to her own family history — speak to a Mestizo lineage fractured by colonization, now accessible only via fragments: a tourist object, a surviving codex, a persisting craft tradition. By working with gauze-like textile — used across Mesoamerica for everything from lacework to fishing nets — she draws on a material lineage that is at once sacred and utilitarian. Through material, image, and pattern, she reaches toward what has been lost, making meaning out of erasure.Coyolxauhqui Imperative&nbsp;will be on view through July 25, 2026. Tanya Aguiñiga&nbsp;holds an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from San Diego State University. In her formative years, she created various collaborative installations with the Border Arts Workshop, an artists’ group that engages the languages of activism and community-based public art. Aguiñiga is the founder and director of AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides), an ongoing series of artist interventions and commuter collaborations that address bi-national transition and identity in the US/Mexico border regions. AMBOS seeks to create a greater sense of interconnectedness while simultaneously documenting the border. Aguiñiga is a 2024 Center for Craft Catalyst Award Recipient, a 2023 Loewe Craft Prize finalist, a 2022 Latinx Artist Fellow, a recipient of the 26th annual Heinz Award, a United States Artists Target Fellow in the field of Crafts and Traditional Arts, a NALAC Grant Recipient, and a Creative Capital 2016 Grant Awardee. She is the inaugural fellow for Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities. She has been the subject of numerous articles in American Craft Magazine and has been featured in Art21’s Art in the Twenty-First Century, KCET’s Artbound, and PBS’s Craft in America Series.Recent museum exhibitions include&nbsp;m\other&nbsp;at The Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA,&nbsp;Border Fall Height&nbsp;at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA,&nbsp;Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal: Tanya Aguiñiga &amp; Porfirio Gutiérrez en Conversación/in Conversation&nbsp;at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA,&nbsp;Intertwined: Weaving in Community&nbsp;at the Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, ID,&nbsp;In the Shadow of the Wall&nbsp;at Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT,&nbsp;Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living&nbsp;as part of AMBOS at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, A&nbsp;More Perfect Union: American Artists and the Currents of Our Time&nbsp;curated by U.S. Art in Embassies,&nbsp;This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World&nbsp;at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.,&nbsp;Hella Feminist&nbsp;at the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, the&nbsp;2022 California Biennial&nbsp;at the Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA,&nbsp;LatinXAmerican&nbsp;at the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL,&nbsp;Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018&nbsp;at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., and&nbsp;Craft and Care&nbsp;at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. Her work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, DePaul Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Oakland Museum of California, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The Mint Museum in Charlotte, and The Wichita Art Museum. ﻿

Tanya Aguiñiga: Coyolxauhqui Imperative

Volume Gallery announces&nbsp;Urban Drama,&nbsp;Joe Feddersen’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, opening June 13, 2026, from 3 to 6 p.m. Working across woven linen baskets, blown and fused glass, and printmaking, Joe Feddersen, a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes based in Omak, Washington, brings together ancestral modalities with contemporary iconography to create work that reflects his lived experience. The multi-disciplinary artist speaks from a Plateau perspective—one that honors our inseparable connection with the landscape.Feddersen’s visual language is exemplified by stylized outlines—abstractions of everyday figures rendered graphic, like signs. At first glance, his work might seem traditional, and in some ways, his approach is a continuation of ancestral artistic innovations, just as Plateau people wove slanted triangles to depict mountains or painted pictographs on stone, Feddersen uses the same economy of form to depict the scenery he observes today. Parking lots, power lines, and tire tracks appear alongside bear tracks, eagles, and snakes—each given equal visual weight, each acknowledged as a character in our environment. Nature and society are shown entwined—creating indexical and unromanticized portraits of the American landscape as it actually is, shaped by industrialization, land use, and ongoing human presence.His precise linen baskets, a continuation of centuries-old Plateau “sally bag” designs, are renderings of our world—its conflicts, infrastructures, and ironies. Feddersen’s compositions are taken directly from the landscape: aerial views of parking lots, the sinuous path of a snake, the diamond geometry of high-voltage towers. The towers carry particular resonance for Feddersen, who understands them as monuments to dispossession—invasive structures on Indigenous land lost to bad-faith deals and flooding when dams were built. One recent basket,&nbsp;Wild Peaks, takes its name from an SUV tire brand, its tread abstracted into repetitive forms that read like a mountain range; the imagery’s double meaning is a wry commentary on the idealized vision of the American West that consumer culture sells back to us. Additional recent pieces show protesters and ICE agents, urgent depictions of ongoing conflict and resistance. Protesters drawn with heads of affinity animals document gatherings in the small town of Omak, the cast of characters acting as a pictorial record of a moment in history.Feddersen’s glass vessels are blown and then sandblasted with the artist’s signature symbology—trucks, bicycles, and animals are layered over subtler, weaving-like patterns etched beneath. Feddersen’s large-scale&nbsp;Charmed&nbsp;glass installations combine several ideas: a petroglyph wall, a wind chime, and a charm bracelet. Hundreds of clear fused-glass pendants, ranging from four to ten inches each, hang suspended across the wall, casting shifting shadows that animate the space around them. Feddersen’s&nbsp;Charmed&nbsp;pieces portray a teeming crowd of moments from our surroundings, in this latest iteration, cars and trucks mingle with protesters and buffalo.With a long-time background as a printmaker, Feddersen thinks in layers across his practice. His&nbsp;Urban Drama&nbsp;monoprints are painterly and energetic, incorporating spray paint and collage. High-voltage towers are reduced to pure geometry, explored through reversals of positive and negative space and Pop-like repetition. Feddersen’s decades of experience in the medium are evident in the assured, direct, and indirect application of color and labyrinthine pattern.At the heart of Feddersen’s practice is a commitment to observing, documenting, and storytelling. Viewing making as an act of reciprocity with the earth, he documents a landscape shaped by history, industry, and survival. With a finely tuned sense of humor, his work reminds us that the marks we leave on the land are all part of the same ongoing story.Urban Drama&nbsp;will be on view through July 25, 2026. Joe Feddersen&nbsp;(b. 1953, Omak, WA) emerged in the 1980s as part of a new generation of Indigenous artists along with colleagues such as Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, Truman Lowe, Kay WalkingStick, and James Lavadour. Their generation was bolstered by a new found sense of unity and agency with grass-roots Native-run alternative spaces and community centers cropping up across the country. Feddersen started out as a printmaker, his major at the University of Washington where he earned his B.F.A. While still grounded in printmaking’s layered imagery and processes, his repertoire has expanded to painting, photography, large-scale multi-media installations, collage, glass, and basket weaving. Throughout, Feddersen’s work explores his experiences in the world he inhabits as a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, a lineage grounded in the northern region of the historic Plateau territory. His work combines traditional Plateau imagery and techniques with references to the present day; geometric designs and motifs—mountains, elk, canoes, and petroglyphs—merge with geometries of the modern West—computer game animations, electrical towers, hard-edge abstraction, and graffiti. Feddersen’s work weaves its way through Indigenous thought and visual heritage, settler histories, and contemporary American art and culture.Since completing his MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989, Feddersen has exhibited extensively both regionally and nationally. Until 2009, he taught at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where he is now Emeritus Faculty. In 2023, Feddersen’s work was featured at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., as well as the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, and in 2024 he was included in the exhibition&nbsp;Implicit Explicit&nbsp;at Hauser &amp; Wirth, Los Angeles. A major retrospective of Feddersen’s work entitled&nbsp;Earth, Water, Sky&nbsp;opened at the Northwest Museum of Art and Culture in Spokane, Washington in 2024, traveled to the High Desert Museum, Bend, Oregon, and will open September 2026 at the Missoula Art Museum, Montana. The exhibition features 120 works created throughout his 45-year career. Feddersen received the Governor’s Arts &amp; Heritage Award for significant contributions to Washington State’s arts landscape or cultural heritage in 2024. Feddersen’s work appears in numerous institutional collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Seattle Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, The Heard Museum, Phoenix, and the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.

Joe Feddersen: Urban Drama

In the words of Marvin Gaye, singer/songwriter, 1939-1984, "We don't need to escalate | You see, war is not the answer | For only love can conquer hate | You know we've got to find a way | To bring some lovin' here today | Come on talk to me | So you can see | What's going on (What's going on)"&nbsp;&nbsp; Opening Reception, Saturday, July 11, 2026Virtual Artists' Talk, Thursday, July 9, 2026, 7 PM CT

9th Annual Vicinity Regional Exhibition

Part I, September 23, 2025 - February 22, 2026Part II, March 24, 2026 - July 26, 2026Why and how do people form political communities? How does political society organize our economic lives - and vice versa? And how as individuals do we navigate society?Smart to the Core: Wise to Power&nbsp;examines these questions by integrating visual art with foundational texts of modern social and political thought spanning nearly four centuries. Through a wide range of creative practices and philosophical perspectives, the exhibition addresses themes that are widely familiar yet deeply connected to specific political, economic, and cultural histories.<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://uchicago.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aba2086a45b4ee8391b89447b&amp;id=a6520b5f11&amp;e=00938adab1" target="_blank">Learn more about this exhibition</a>

Smart to the Core: Wise to Power (Part II)

Center for Native Futures presents Hattie Lee Mendoza, Melissa Melero-Moose, Sean Chandler

Hattie Lee Mendoza, Melissa Melero-Moose, Sean Chandler 

The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to its upcoming exhibition,&nbsp;Rina Akowala | Ode to Color. The exhibition will be on view from June 27 through July 29, 2026, with an opening reception on Sunday, June 28, from 1–4 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.Chicago-based, Indian-born artist Rina Akowala translates her global travels into vibrant abstract landscapes. Working across oils, inks, mixed media, and acrylics, she captures the essence of diverse locales—from European countrysides to South American waterfalls, from the farmlands of Iowa to the Indian subcontinent—emphasizing the interplay of light on land and water. Her recent work uniquely blends spiritual iconography with natural scenery, depicting ethereal representations of Lord Ganesha, the Hindu deity of wisdom and new beginnings. These pieces incorporate landscape elements, reflecting Ganesha’s invocation at the start of new ventures.Rina Akowala | Ode to Color&nbsp;will be exhibited in the Second Floor Atrium Gallery at the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.

Rina Akowala | Ode to Color

The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to its upcoming exhibition,&nbsp;Moritz Kellerman | Recent Paintings. The exhibition will be on view from June 27 through July 29, 2026, with an opening reception on Sunday, June 28, from 1–4 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.Born in Nicaragua, Moritz Kellerman is both a 21st-century artist and an art historian whose work is informed by the art of both the past and present. During his graduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Kellerman became inspired by the work of Willem de Kooning and Richard Diebenkorn. He also draws inspiration from the Old Renaissance Masters in his painting practice. His use of wood panels recalls the techniques of Leonardo da Vinci, while his method of mixing paint directly on the surface of the work echoes that of Claude Monet.Since 1981, Kellerman has exhibited extensively at colleges, museums, and galleries. He is a tenured professor at Oakton College, where he teaches Studio Art and Art History.Moritz Kellerman | Recent Paintings&nbsp;will be exhibited in the Second Floor Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.

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