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

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

River North

We hope you'll join us for an evening of arresting art, light refreshments and engaging conversation. All are welcome and there is always free parking in our open lot across the street and just to the north on Clybourn (look for the sign that says Jayson Home, Artists Frame Service and Chicago Art Source). What Dreams May Come&nbsp;will be on view in the gallery through June 14th and the virtual exhibition can be viewed&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://chicagoartsource.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c1d50c8e60a2b190ac05b35b9&amp;id=1f59700307&amp;e=dea8511fc1" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;

What Dreams May Come: Featuring Fontaine Scarelli, Krista Harris and Peter Kuttner

Reception: May 16, 5:30 - 8:00 p.m.A group show featuring artists represented by Victor Armendariz of Gallery VICTOR. In celebration of The Art Center's 65th&nbsp;anniversary.&nbsp;&nbsp;Every year, The Art Center holds an art show to go along with its annual Spring Benefit. This year, TAC has invited Chicago gallerist Victor Armendariz to curate a new show titled&nbsp;Our Time.This exhibition will celebrate art and legacy, commemorating 65 years of The Art Center Highland Park being the North Shore's home for artistic discovery.

Gallery VICTOR Presents: Our Time

PATRON is proud to present our first solo exhibition,&nbsp;All water has a perfect memory, with Chicago-based artist Lindsay Adams.&nbsp;Titled in reference to Toni Morrison’s “The Site of Memory,” an essay exploring the nature of memory and narrative truth specifically in context of the historic Black American experience, Adams’s presentation of new paintings and drawings on both paper and mirror tile, metaphorizes the fluid nature of water as a means to extend her own exploration of memory, emotional truth, and place.&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:info@patrongallery.com?subject=Lindsay%20Adams%20%7C%20preview%20request%20" target="_blank">Inquire Here</a>Image: LINDSAY ADAMSUntitled (The Site of Memory, Morrison #3), 2025Ink, graphite, charcoal, pen, oil paint on paper22 1/4" x 30"Framed:&nbsp;25 1/2" x 33 1/4" x 1 3/4"&nbsp;LA010

Lindsay Adams: All water has a perfect memory

As art forms, collage and assemblage are most closely associated with the modern era—particularly the early twentieth century. However, as a technique, collage—with its root word&nbsp;coller&nbsp;meaning to stick together or glue—has been practiced for centuries. While both collage and assemblage involve piecing together materials, collage describes two-dimensional compositions while assemblage generally characterizes three-dimensional works. Often, although not exclusively, collage and assemblage feature found or non-traditional art media. Many modern and contemporary artists even draw attention to their usage of various, often unexpected materials. Rather than disguising the multiple components of collage and assemblage, they explore ways of combining and expanding the information visually to create a unified whole made of bits and pieces of other things. Artists often engage elements that reflect modern life or larger themes—for example, found and recycled materials, or socially or politically charged images. Focused on the breadth of two- and three-dimensional work in RAM’s collection, this exhibition includes sculpture, collage, jewelry, quilts, and art to wear compiled from or appearing as a variety of individual pieces. In addition to being an exploration of artist process and material exploration,&nbsp;Pieces&nbsp;underscores the ability of some artists to recontextualize the marginalized or overlooked and to imbue the ordinary with something extraordinary. With an emphasis on repurposed and found materials, this exhibition supports RAM’s Zero Waste Art Initiative, an ongoing and multi-faceted project encouraging reconsideration of consumption habits and creative solutions for reuse. As outlined by RAM’s Education Department, this initiative “is working to establish partnerships with local businesses and manufacturing plants to reduce their waste and keep it out of landfills by turning these materials into educational, eco-art.” <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ramart.org/exhibit/pieces-collage-and-assemblage-from-rams-collection/" target="_blank">Details</a> Image: ErmanJacket, ca. 1995Found fabric and thread31 x 42 inchesRacine Art Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Victor WhitmanPhotography: Jarvis Lawson

Pieces: Collage and Assemblage from RAM’s Collection

PATRON is proud to announce&nbsp;Caroline Kent: The Sentimental Hand, our second solo exhibition with the Chicago-based artist.&nbsp;The Sentimental Hand&nbsp;results from a year in which Kent’s focus returned to honing in on the building blocks of her practice, starting with cut paper forms–the elementary facet of her practice. Celebrating the role of the artist’s own hand as foundational in each stage of her creative process, the exhibition unites four bodies of work across which Kent has been concurrently working for the past year.&nbsp;<h4>&nbsp;</h4><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:info@patrongallery.com?subject=Caroline%20Kent%7C%20preview%20request%20" target="_blank">Inquire Here</a> Image: CAROLINE KENT&nbsp;A cordial invitation to whimsy and mayhem, 2025Acrylic on Belgian linen, ebonized walnut&nbsp;30 3/8"&nbsp;x 36 3/8" x 2"&nbsp;CK151

Caroline Kent: The Sentimental Hand

Photography Now

SECRIST | BEACH is&nbsp;pleased to announce the exhibition&nbsp;Master Class: Inside the Last American Museum School with SAIC Painting Alumni.&nbsp;Master Class&nbsp;brings together artworks by over 60 former and current students who studied in the Painting and Drawing Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) between the years 2000 and 2025. This exhibition, on view from April 19 through June 21, 2025 at SECRIST | BEACH in Chicago, is guest-curated by art historian, Chair of the Department of Painting and Drawing and current faculty member Lisa Wainwright along with SAIC President Emerita, Elissa Tenny. The gallery will host an opening reception for the public on Saturday, April 19 from 5-8PM.&nbsp;In 1866 a group of 35 artists founded the Chicago Academy of Design. Their mandate was to create a free school to study “life” and “antique” drawing and to run a gallery space alongside the school. The building the original gallery space occupied was lost in the Great Chicago fire of 1871, but by 1879 a new gallery space, with the support of new board members, was born and renamed the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In 1882, that name was changed to&nbsp;what we know as&nbsp;the Art Institute of Chicago. Since that time, the School and the Art Institute have grown into a symbiotic dynamic that has&nbsp;greatly impacted both the Chicago scene and the larger art world&nbsp;in myriad ways.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On the eve of its 160th anniversary, and little known to many, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is the last 'Museum School' in North America. In celebration of this achievement,&nbsp;Master Class&nbsp;dives into the close connection between the museum and the alums of its renowned Painting and Drawing Department from the last 25 years. On view in the gallery will be an artwork by each of the artists selected, taking up the entirety of the gallery’s 10,000 sq. ft. space. In addition to their own artwork, each artist has been asked to identify an artist and a work of theirs from the collection of the Art Institute. Didactics and a video presentation on view in our salon room will guide viewers to those works in the collection.&nbsp;&nbsp;Curating this exhibition has reminded us - and will express to viewers - the integral and generative link between the school and the museum, highlighting the long histories of public collections and art-making in Chicago. Some of the connections between the artwork on view and their chosen Art Institute collection include a Tony Lewis drawing and Stuart Davis’&nbsp;Ready-to-Wear&nbsp;(1955), Jeffly Gabriela Molina’s painting with Agnes Martin’s&nbsp;Untitled No. 12&nbsp;(1977), Minami Kobayashi’s painting and Pierre Bonnard’s&nbsp;Earthly Paradise&nbsp;(1916-1920).What becomes apparent in&nbsp;Master Class&nbsp;is the indelible impact these master artworks have provided for two and a half decades of art students. Contextually, placing these works into close proximities allows the viewer to comprehend the role a museum has in the cognitive&nbsp;and technical&nbsp;development&nbsp;of artists. Ultimately, the engaging&nbsp;pairings provide&nbsp;insight into the role of looking,&nbsp;sensorial consciousness,&nbsp;historical mapping,&nbsp;institutional awareness and other more surprising discoveries.&nbsp;This exhibition serves as a&nbsp;tangible experience for anyone interested in art history and pedagogy. CATALOGUE:&nbsp;In recognition of the importance of this monumental exhibition, SECRIST | BEACH is developing a comprehensive catalogue that will provide valuable insight regarding&nbsp;Master Class.&nbsp;Many&nbsp;participating artists&nbsp;have&nbsp;provided their own writing in which they expound on their experience as a student, their relationship with SAIC and why the master artwork they chose was impactful. A cadre of art historians, critics and academics connected to SAIC will also be contributing essays that focus on individual artists and their inspiration. Additionally, art historian and co-curator of&nbsp;Master Class&nbsp;Lisa Wainwright and artist and SAIC&nbsp;Crown Family&nbsp;professor Michelle Grabner will contribute introductory essays diving into the history of the relationship between the School and the Institute,&nbsp;and the placement of twenty-five years of production in the context of contemporary art. SCHOLARSHIP:At the conclusion of&nbsp;Master Class, Carrie Secrist and Bill Beach will be presenting a gift to The School of the Art Institute to support future students and their endeavors in learning.&nbsp; Artists featured in&nbsp;Master Class&nbsp;include:Lindsay Adams, Noelle Africh, Luke Agada, Alberto Aguilar, Latifa Alajlan, Cecilia Beaven, Aviv Benn, Samantha Bittman, Elijah Burgher, Robert Burnier, Nik Cho, Alex Bradley Cohen, Jeane Cohen, Paula Crown, Chelsea Culprit, Tavin Davis, Dana DeGiulio, Austin Eddy, Stephen Eichhorn, Peter Fagundo, Nicola Florimbi, Howard Fonda, Jae Ford, Jonathan Gardner, Magalie Guérin, Antonia Gurkovska, Efrat Hakimi, Andrew Holmquist, Mika Horibuchi, Patrick Dean Hubbell, Steven Husby, Omair Hussain, G.D. Johnson, James Kao, Em Kettner, Minami Kobayashi,&nbsp;Meredith Kopelman,&nbsp;David Leggett, Tony Lewis, MJ Lounsberry, Wangari Mathenge, Kristoffer McAfee,&nbsp;Rodney McMillian, Isabella Mellado, Emily Miller, Jeffly Gabriela Molina, Aliza Nisenbaum, Angel Otero, Ruth Poor, Kaveri Raina, Autumn Ramsey, Celeste Rapone, Josh Reames,&nbsp;Clare Rojas, Sterling Ruby, Charlotte Saylor, Claire Sherman,&nbsp;Sumakshi Singh, Cameron Spratley, Keer Tanchak, Sebastian Thomas, Alice Tippit, Orkideh Torabi, Pedro Trueba, Cody Tumblin, Omar Velázquez, Jonathan Worcester, Hiejin Yoo and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung.

Master Class: Inside the Last American Museum School with SAIC Painting Alumni 

Image: Willie Kohler, Keep On Rowing, 2024, oil on canvas, 52 x 48 inches

 Willie Kohler: There Are Many Nows 

Curator: Fiona CashellCall for art: <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.arcgallery.org/calls-for-entry-archive/call-for-entries-home" target="_blank">https://www.arcgallery.org/calls-for-entry-archive/call-for-entries-home</a>

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2025 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University.&nbsp;This exhibition and associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice and the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment

2025 Art Theory and Practice MFA Thesis Exhibition

Cover Artwork: “Ubuntu” by Russel Z. Harris 13th Annual Art Competition FinalistsTemoWeriemHolly AkkermanTony ArmendarizHeather BakerHarlan BalloggKyle BarronChristopher BeatySusan BennettSpiro BolosCheryl BooneJoan BredendickLaurie BumanGina BurriCathleen BurrillDorothy Bury ShawPaul CallahanMiguel A. CanoAshley ChappellJavier ChaviraMichael CoakesAndrea ColeAbdoulaye CondeBethany CorderoNastia CraigShkelqim DaniChantal DanylukLenin DelsolSherri DenaultMaisie DoyleMario DuarteConrad EdmondsRea Silvia EmmanouilJason FarleyJayson FateJohn FirakRobert FrankelTracy FreinMaureen GasekShelley GilchristMichael GlassmanMarco GonzalezCharlie GossClifton HenriKaren HirschLeslie HirshfieldAlan HobscheidKeira HowardJay HydeDoina IacobJames JonesJason E. JonesChristopher KillhamCherin KimErin LaRocqueKim LaurelYunkyung LeeSeonyoung LeeJean LewisDawn LiddicoattGeorge LindmarkMorgan MarshallSusan MarxCaroline McFaddenWilliam McKearnJennifer McNultyKatie MeuserRyan MillerKara MittonRosemary MorrisseyEmma MykowskiDaniel NolanGeoffrey NovelliHaven OvertonMariam PareJasmine PercellJonathan PrucLori RoderickElizabeth SarpongHoward SchwartzDavid SeligmanDavid SenJoalida SmitEva SmithDave SobotkaPatricia StewartDorothy StraughterFlannery ThompsonHarvey TillisAlexia TrzynaJeshurun TutsonLaima UrbanMadeline UsherJoanne VenaConstance VolkBruce WebberAJ WestleyRosalie WhiteBrian WildemanVeronica WoodwardXindi WuEdwige Massart Xavier WynnRebekah Younger

13th Annual Juried Art Competition

Michael Bentley, Untitled No. 111, 2024, Gouache&nbsp;on Paper, 41" x 85 1/4" Inception to Conclusion:&nbsp;The Perceivable Healing Power of Water SeriesThis will be Bentley's 7th Exhibition with Gruen Gallery

Michael Bentley |  New Works on View

GRAY is pleased to announce&nbsp;Apparitions,&nbsp;presenting the work of over twenty pioneering artists from across the last century whose interrogations of the human form and its fleeting presence have pushed boundaries of representation. Whether by dematerializing the body, imagining spirits, or making mirages, artists conjure a hallucinatory realm—a liminal space between what appears and what vanishes. Exhibited artists include Magdalena Abakanowicz, Huma Bhabha, McArthur Binion, Roger Brown, Jean Dubuffet, Alberto Giacometti, Ewan Gibbs, Ann Hamilton, Reggie Burrows Hodges, Rashid Johnson, Alex Katz, David Klamen, Jim Lutes, Ana Mendieta, Sandra Mujinga, Trevor Paglen, Naudline Pierre, Jaume Plensa, Susan Rothenberg, Mira Schor, Evelyn Statsinger, John Storrs, Kara Walker, and Wilmer Wilson IV. Apparitions&nbsp;will be on view at GRAY Chicago (2044 W. Carroll Ave.) from April 25 through June 27, 2025. The exhibition will open with a reception 6–8PM on Friday, April 25. Image: Kara Walker,&nbsp;Ten Opaque Micro-regressions, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York

Apparitions

Born in Mexico, but raised in Colombia, Stinkfish has been honing his skills on the streets of his hometown of Bogota since an early age. He first experimented with stencils in 2003 and has since perfected his own, unique style. His murals always have a stenciled portrait at their center. These portraits are taken from photos that the artist shoots during his travels around the world. They are faces that catch his eye, but not people he approaches and talks to. Another source is found photographs; either discovered lying on the streets or bought at flea markets. He fashions large format stencils based on these photographs, which on the street are then amended by impromptu, colorful halos.

Stinkfish: Prickly portraits of a fragmented world

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, May 9, 2025 5-8pmOn view May 9 through June 28, 2025Solo Exhibition -&nbsp;Robin Denevan. Evocative encaustic waterscapes &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Robin Denevan. Evocative encaustic waterscapes

I'm pleased to invite you to&nbsp;Symbiotic Struggles: Lichen and Coral, a new exhibition featuring paintings by Margot McMahon and Sandra Wilcoxon that explores the fascinating parallels between two of nature's most remarkable symbiotic organisms. We'd be delighted if you could join us for the opening reception on Saturday, April 19, from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. The exhibition runs through June 29, 2025. Image: Sandra K. Wilcoxon,&nbsp;Fringed Rosette Lichen 2, 2025, Physcia stellaris, Candelaria concolor,&nbsp;Hyperphyscia adglutinata, 12 x 15 in. framed, Watercolor&nbsp;

Symbiotic Struggles: Lichen and Coral

The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to our upcoming exhibition,&nbsp;Friends of Dorothy’s, curated by Emma Rose Gudewicz.&nbsp;The exhibition will be on display from&nbsp;May 24 - June 29, 2025, and will be free and open to the public.&nbsp;Friends of Dorothy’s&nbsp;examines what it is to be queer today, underscoring the artists’ individual experience with queerness. This exhibition seeks to uplift and highlight LGBTQIA+ voices in an uncertain world. The exhibition title&nbsp;Friends of Dorothy’s&nbsp;derives from queer slang in the mid-20th century. At a time when homosexuality was criminalized, many queer individuals used coded language to identify one another safely in public. "Are you a friend of Dorothy?" was a discreet inquiry from one queer individual to another that didn’t risk revealing a queer person’s identity to potentially dangerous people.&nbsp; Amid the regression of societal acceptance and understanding, we reflect on historical queer communities—their unity and resilience—and how their experiences shape the spaces we create today.

Friends of Dorothy’s

Tobin Fraley

Anne Smith Stephan, Fire and Ice

Evanston Made Group Show

Italian Artist, Arvedo Arvedi

3rd Floor GalleryExperience the powerful new exhibition by South Asian artist Grishma Shah, where art, identity, and disability converge in a compelling exploration of personal and societal contradictions.&nbsp;Dissonance&nbsp;challenges perceptions of discomfort, inviting you to reflect on the tensions that shape our lives. Through installations and mixed-media artwork, Shah’s work celebrates the complexity of existing at the intersection of culture and self-expression.Join us for the opening reception on May 16, from 7-9pm.&nbsp;Cover Artwork: “All Dolled Up For Zoom ”Mixed Media on canvas -2020Image Description: Pandemic bride showing off her bright red bangles and henna-tattooed hands. Blue paint representing spotty video call.&nbsp;

Dissonance

﻿Project Onward Exhibition of the works by Chicago artists from Project Onward that supports artists with developmental and mental disabilities. These sensational works are in a wide variety of media.

Project Onward Exhibition

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