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Victoria Fu’s third solo exhibition with DOCUMENT features a new series of glass artworks that are at once sculptures, paintings, photographs, and prints. Reflecting her ongoing interest in the mediation of perception through technology, these works quote the visual qualities of LCD screens through material and figural representations of iridescence. <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://documentspace.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=86575b609554c4ccf7fa6c892&amp;id=000aa7cad1&amp;e=8ae6879d32" target="_blank">More information</a>&nbsp;

Victoria Fu: Lather Cactus Drape

Summer Group Exhibition including:Flor FloresDaniel HojnackiD. Rosen

Summer Group Exhibition: Flor Flores, Daniel Hojnacki, and D. Rosen

Volume Gallery is pleased to announce&nbsp;The Crystal Chain, a 15-year anniversary show, opening Friday, June 13, 2025, from 5-8PM.Named for a series of utopian letters initiated by Bruno Taut in 1919, in which a small group of like-minded architects and artists, unfettered by the demands of practicability, exchanged ideas on what form the architecture of the future should take. The exhibition celebrates Volume Gallery's 15 years of collaboration, showcasing the innovative practices of the celebrated artists we’ve been privileged to work with, fresh perspectives that continue to push the boundaries of art and design.More about the exhibition&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://ymlps3.com/72857mmmbapaeqemhanawmsacajbsm/click.php" target="_blank">here.</a> Image: Anders Ruhwald,&nbsp;L3, 2024

The Crystal Chain, a 15-year anniversary show

&nbsp;In the digital age, almost anything can become a global phenomenon.&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://oh4nipbab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001sLX7ecqjiNqwMmstth8XEa6l4TQhk18687kN21xmIAShDy-6cBR8Zbwv_woTaUJc5W0vWsMnmKA-a3bBqB3cei47Zn9EESagwbDui7Ap6DAuDroOi_rB32V8WWZYR3pw6j7ccLCcNDx38mCiw0ukbuEZ9nnXtMK4TnACnGSMP1acO6PJ2VAmIwuHyGN1A5ez&amp;c=gB2iEyCuqG-aEFkvWW00vaI4ZV879_ebP2oV-iw_S7p4Euxptgxg5w==&amp;ch=HurcvyYYoj23toltKvv7_jVTzlKy2Et9hl6FRNE1ACtQQqUJ-Ng71Q==" target="_blank">#TRENDING&nbsp;</a>will put our pop culture, politics, music, fashion, memes and more under the microscope. Check out this exhibition to see if you’re also staying current with trends!

#TRENDING

Carmen Winant

Alex Chitty

Rosa Barba | Nuthu’n to Hyde: Gertrude Abercrombie and the Hyde Park Scene, 1935–75

Mariane Ibrahim is pleased to present&nbsp;Thus masked, the world has a language, a group exhibition exploring the masquerade and mask traditions across the African diasporas in Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States.&nbsp;Across the exhibition, masks are activated forms—a vessel through which truths can be expressed, history can be questioned, and memory can be reactivated. The exhibition will feature works by gallery artists Raphaël&nbsp;Barontini&nbsp;and Lorraine O’Grady, alongside invited artists Nick Cave, Ebony G. Patterson, Darryl Richardson, and Tavares Strachan.&nbsp;Through lens-based practices, collage, and sculpture, the artists engage the performative, political, and intergenerational dimensions of masks that bridge geographies and social histories. As a threshold between the visible and the invisible, the archival and the contemporary,&nbsp;African diasporic&nbsp;masquerades are rituals that summon the essence of nature, from the bush and swamp to animals, spirits, foreigners, witches, the past itself, or ancestors —to allow spiritual presence&nbsp;to be embodied for communal and social transformation.&nbsp;&nbsp;As masquerade culture spans between and beyond ritual, carnival, and street processions; ceremoniously the mask becomes a conduit: a threshold to the divine, a channel for the ancestral realm, or a vessel for collective memory. Darryl Richardson and Raphaël&nbsp;Barontini&nbsp;focus on the intersection of communal erasure and recovery, using partial concealment as a strategy to counter erasure and assert diasporic lineage. Their meditations on systemic erasure&nbsp;lead&nbsp;to&nbsp;Encourage from the&nbsp;Fambily&nbsp;series&nbsp;(2010) by Ebony G. Patterson,&nbsp;and&nbsp;sculpture&nbsp;by Nick Cave,&nbsp;that&nbsp;adorn figures&nbsp;whom&nbsp;transform the masked body into a site of reemergence and historical agency. Like&nbsp;Barontini, Tavares Strachan reclaims the archive through collage—but where&nbsp;Barontini&nbsp;gestures&nbsp;toward partial visibility, Strachan leans toward total concealment.&nbsp;Self Portrait: Loyalty to the Past (Blue Guro Mask)&nbsp;2023, emphasizes loyalty to ancestral heritage while addressing the metaphysical complexities of identity and memory, making the mask a statement on resilience and continuity within the African diaspora.&nbsp;Similar to&nbsp;traditional masks, Cave’s&nbsp;Soundsuits&nbsp;are constructed with everyday materials—twigs, sequins, fur, wire. These suits conceal the body entirely, freeing the wearer from assumptions tied to race, class, or gender. Within the context of masquerade, O’Grady’s concealment in&nbsp;Announcement&nbsp;(2020) becomes a vessel of deflection and power—resisting legibility while confronting the demands of visibility and representation. Both Cave and O’Grady activate concealment as a choreography of refusal and renewal.&nbsp;In&nbsp;Thus masked, the world has a language, concealment is not absence—it is redirection, resistance, and transformation. From object to action, the mask’s power lies in its ability to be worn, danced, and inhabited—activating knowledge that is both embodied and inherited. As Lorraine O’Grady posits, through&nbsp;Announcement&nbsp;(2020),&nbsp;what truths&nbsp;emerge&nbsp;through concealment?&nbsp;Thus masked, the world has a language, will be on view at Mariane Ibrahim Chicago until August 23, 2025.Image: Tavares Strachan, Self Portrait: Loyalty to the Past (Blue Guro Mask), 2023. Photo by Miho Suzuki.

Thus masked, the world has a language

We are excited to announce the return of our beloved open call exhibition now in its third year,&nbsp;Perennial Hug 3 Chicago and Vicinity!Perennial Hug&nbsp;is an annually occurring open call and guest juried exhibition that will feature&nbsp;artists of all demographics, and abilities. Through the deployment of various formal and material strategies the work selected for&nbsp;Perennial Hug&nbsp;functions as an assembly of outstretched arms awaiting the warm embrace of the viewer.

Perennial Hug

Though titled after the hit television show,&nbsp;White Lotus&nbsp;by Alex Katz bears very little relation to HBO’s dark comedy. Rather, the paintings in this series are guided more by the tools of cinema, through Katz's use of monumental canvas, dramatic lighting, and repeating figures.Opening at GRAY’s Chicago gallery on July 11, 2025,&nbsp;White Lotus&nbsp;is a testament not only to Katz’s nonstop creative output, but also his status as one of the most groundbreaking American artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Alex Katz: White Lotus

Image: Akemi Nomo,&nbsp;LifeTime ( 人间，人間 )Photo credit: Industry of the Ordinary

Industry of the Ordinary Summer Residency 2025 Exhibition 

Arts of Life makes a triumphant return to Art on the MART,&nbsp;the world’s largest permanent digital art projection.&nbsp;In collaboration with students from the University of Chicago, we will introduce our artists’ work to a broad audience of locals and visitors on this iconic Chicago building along the riverwalk. Location: Merchandise Mart (72 E Randolph St Floor 1, Chicago, IL 60601)

Art on the MART

Location: Epiphany Center (201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607) Join us at our 25th Anniversary Annual Benefit Auction and Dance Party. Enjoy a lively evening complete with music, cocktails, mingling with our artists, not-to-be-missed silent and live auctions, and&nbsp;a dance party. Come&nbsp;be part of a celebration dedicated to art and community at our Silver-themed celebration!&nbsp;

25th Anniversary Benefit Auction

New Works by Vidvuds Zviedris

Public Preview:&nbsp;Friday, April 25, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.&nbsp;&nbsp;Catalyst: Im/migration and Self-taught Art in Chicago,&nbsp;the first exhibition to open in Intuit’s newly-renovated museum, is part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities.&nbsp;Catalyst: Im/migration and Self-taught Art in Chicago&nbsp;is the first major exhibition to focus on the importance of immigration and migration in the genre of self-taught art. The exhibition underscores the creative contributions of migrants and immigrants,&nbsp;broadening the scope to include artists deserving of greater attention, while posing questions about access to the art world and how art comes to be defined and valued. Considering artists in the context of their migration experience, cultural backgrounds and communities invites new insights into their work. Chicago, a city with a significant and ongoing history of immigration and migration, is fertile ground for investigating the rich array of academic and nonacademic influences—cultural, communal and familial—that enrich artistic production.&nbsp;The exhibition aims to be inclusive of the experiences of immigrants and migrants while acknowledging social and legal differences.&nbsp;&nbsp;Catalyst: Im/migration and Self-taught Art in Chicago&nbsp;explores catalysts for leaving home, for coming to Chicago and for pursuing an art practice.&nbsp;The range of personal and political subject matter and artistic styles reflects artists processing distinct cultural traditions, memories and experiences of living far from one’s homeland. Themes in the artworks range from belonging and longing for homeland, to labor and individual expression, to bearing witness to history, to assimilation.&nbsp;The narrative centers on the rise of self-taught art in Chicago during the second half of the 20th century, opportunities for artists leading up to this time, and the continued importance of im/migration and self-taught art to Chicago today.Image credit: Derek Webster, American, born Puerto Castilla (Republic of Honduras), raised in Belize City (British Honduras, now Belize), 1934-2009. Untitled (Turtle with up-turned head), 1990. Paint on found wood and found materials, 12 x 19 x 30 in. Collection of Intuit Art Museum, gift of Madeline Murphy Rabb, 2021.6

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