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20th&nbsp;Century Design&nbsp;Thursday, September 18, 2025, 5 - 7 p.m.&nbsp;&nbsp;Heritage Auctions, 312-260-7200, 222 W. Hubbard St., Chicago, IL&nbsp;60654&nbsp;Also available to view September 16 - 19, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.&nbsp;Free and Open to All&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://forms.monday.com/forms/dbeb369a9020050c913b26bc1db5a0fe?r=use1" target="_blank">Register Here</a>&nbsp;Please join us&nbsp;for&nbsp;20th Century Design, including Glass, Ceramics, Sculpture and more!&nbsp;Vice President of Design Samantha Robinson invites you&nbsp;for an evening showcasing&nbsp;20th Century Design. Enjoy diverse work reflecting the beauty and craft&nbsp;of a celebrated era in the arts.&nbsp;&nbsp; View all lots and bid at&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://ha.com/8226" target="_blank">HA.com/8226</a>.&nbsp; Image Caption: René Lalique,&nbsp;Antilopes&nbsp;Vase, circa 1925, Clear glass and black enamel, 11 inches.

20th Century Design

Victoria Martinez: Frente a la vida / Facing Life Exhibition OpeningReception and artist talk to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Frente a la vida / Facing Life. The event will feature a conversation between writer Nicole Kaack and Chicago artist Victoria Martinez, followed by a reception. Free and open to all.Frente a la vida / Facing Life is an exhibition of murals and ceramic paintings by artist Victoria Martinez that responds to the life and work of Peruvian poet and activist Magda Portal.Washing the wall with a painted panorama and flooding the gallery windows with fields of color, Martinez heightens the permeability of the Poetry Foundation’s architecture, transforming it into an expressive, abstracted terrain.Image Credit: Artwork by Victoria Martinez, courtesy of the Poetry Foundation

Victoria Martinez: Frente a la vida / Facing Life Exhibition Opening 

Bernini’s Celestial Bodies ReimaginedArtist: Ivan MarkovicArtist Talk, Saturday morning, 10am

Angels: Now in Technicolor

South Gallery Audrey Niffenegger is a multifaceted American writer, visual artist, and academic whose work bridges storytelling, printmaking, and book arts. She studied visual art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned an MFA from Northwestern University’s Department of Art Theory and Practice in 1991. Niffenegger’s artistic practice centers on handmade artist’s books and printmaking. Beginning in the early 1980s, she produced limited-edition works such as&nbsp;The Adventuress&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Three Incestuous Sisters, which combined original etchings with narrative text. These projects established her reputation in the book arts world and were later reproduced in trade editions, bringing her visual storytelling to a wider audience. She has also created graphic works like&nbsp;The Night Bookmobile&nbsp;and&nbsp;Raven Girl, which was adapted into a ballet by the Royal Opera House in London. In 1994, she co-founded the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, fostering interdisciplinary approaches to print, paper, and bookmaking. Her prints, drawings, and artist’s books have been exhibited widely and are held in collections such as the Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, British Library, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 2019, she founded Artist Book House, a nonprofit in Chicago dedicated to the creation, teaching, and celebration of book arts. Her imagery often explores themes of time, memory, mortality, and the uncanny, weaving together visual narrative and psychological depth. Niffenegger continues to balance her parallel careers in visual art and fiction, creating work that merges image, narrative, and imagination into singular, multidisciplinary forms. Image: Audrey Niffenegger - "Befogged," 2025, oil on panel, 24 x 18 in. – image / 27½ x 21¾ in. – frame

Audrey Niffenegger: Wayward Bodies

Main / Office Galleries Lora Fosberg is an American artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, printmaking, drawing, and sculpture. She received her BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1992. Lora Fosberg’s work speaks to the power of form, the capacity of iconography to create a universal language that communicates the banalities and complexities of the human experience. Fosberg’s process is deeply anthropological, bound up in the intricacies and intimacies of human life—memories, emotions, our relationships with others and with nature. Disarming her viewers through familiar imagery and language in her work, often rendered in an accessible, animated manner, with a touch of cheeky humor, Fosberg affords them the space to regress to a particular memory, a moment of understanding, a conflict, an absence, a connection to another person, or to nature.​ Her work has been featured in venues across the Midwest and West Coast including the South Bend Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Hyde Park Art Center and international venues in Copenhagen and London. Fosberg’s work is represented in the permanent collections of the Illinois State Museum, Eaton Corporation, and Kirkland &amp; Ellis, as well as numerous private collections. She lives and works in Michigan City, Indiana.

Lora Fosberg: I Love it Here, Let's Leave; in Search of the Hill

William Blake: Brothers’ Bones BesideOpening Reception, Friday, October 3, 5-8pmArtist conversation with Donato Loia, Thursday October 16, 6pm

Artist Talk: William Blake

Pistachios is collaborating with Precious Collective to host an exhibition titled Things Unsaid, which will be at Pistachios from August 14, 2025 to October 26, 2025 before traveling to Munich Jewelry Week in 2026. The exhibition features 35 members from Precious Collective, an international community of artists that are bound together by their ambiguous definitions of what exactly ‘precious’ is in relation to jewelry. Conceptually, the exhibition will explore: What is a tangible manifestation for the things unsaid? How can we extend the voice of materiality through acts of making? Where does the metaphysical influence the language of jewelry? This is the first time Precious Collective will be featured in the United States. On Thursday, August 14, 2025 from 4:00pm to 7:00pm we'll be hosting a reception to celebrate the exhibition with Lynne Speake, the Founder and Creative Director of Precious Collective, in attendance.&nbsp;

Things Unsaid

Rosenthal Fine Art is pleased to present&nbsp;The Real Real&nbsp;-- a new exhibition by Dennis Wojtkiewicz. In this new body of work, the artist questions what place is there of such fiercely analog work in a mechanized, mass-produced, digital world? What is the value of a painting painstakingly constructed over time when anyone can capture an image instantly with a phone and further heighten its reality through manipulation?In his recent artist's statement Wojtkiewicz talks about his process:&nbsp;I focus primarily on how light interacts with the diverse surfaces of natural forms—forms that exist at the boundary of biology and sensuality, carrying within them an erotic charge tied to their fertility and ephemerality.The close-up, intimate vantage points I choose liberate these forms from mere depiction, pressing them toward abstraction, toward rhythm, pattern, and texture. They surrender to the idea that representation itself is an unreliable illusion, asking the viewer to engage the paintings not just as signs pointing to recognizable objects but as vivid, sensual encounters—experiences accountable only to their own internal logic.Finally Wojtkiewicz invites us to experience the work:Ultimately, my paintings are about attention and presence. They reimagine biology's fleeting moments of beauty as luminous icons, asking us not only to contemplate impermanence but also to celebrate the act of looking itself—the possibility of finding, again and again, that moment of discovery where craft, vision, and wonder converge. Image: ROSETTE SERIES #37, O/CANVAS 48 x 48 INCHES

The Real Real

Solo ExhibitionMisha Goro: Urban Echoes – New oil paintings on aluminumParticipating in the River North Fall Gallery Walk Misha Goro's artistic practice is a continuous creative search for raw authenticity in urban environments that are constantly changing. Cities are weathered by time and through use, taking on a personality of their own from the people and the elements that have interacted with them. When considering subject matter, Goro seeks simple things that we see every day, things that become symbolic once they are taken out of context. Image: Misha Goro, State Street, oil on aluminum, 30x40"

Misha Goro: Urban Echoes

Artist conversation with Donato Loia, Thursday October 16, 6pm

William Blake: Brothers’ Bones Beside

Oct 30 - Nov 29: True Color, Irish Artist Elaine Byrne&nbsp;&amp; Kevin Kavanagh Gallery (Dublin)

True Color, Irish Artist Elaine Byrne & Kevin Kavanagh Gallery (Dublin)

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, Nov 7, 2025 5-8pm On view through Jan 1, 2026 Solo Exhibition -&nbsp;TBA

Solo Exhibition

South Gallery Image: Herman Aguirre,&nbsp;¡Ni uno mas!, 2023, Oil and oil/acrylic skins on panel, 63" x 98" x 4.5"

Herman Aguirre

November 7, 2025 - January 3, 2026 Opening reception:&nbsp;&nbsp;Friday, November 7th -&nbsp;4pm to 7pm Main / Office Galleries

Sebastian Thomas

Dec 10 - Jan 4, 2026: Luminous Mosaics, Taiwanese&nbsp;Artist Kai-Chun Chiang

Luminous Mosaics, Taiwanese Artist Kai-Chun Chiang

Oct 30 - Jan 17, 2026: Sowon Joo: Whispers of&nbsp;Winter Blooms

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