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

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Wisconsin

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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

Told from the point of view of Sansei (third generation) Japanese Americans, Resilience—A Sansei Sense of Legacy is an exhibition of eight artists whose work reflects on the effect of EO9066 (The law ordered the forced imprisonment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast of the United States) as it resonated from generation to generation. While several of the artists in Resilience employ traditional Japanese methods in the construction of their work—Lydia Nakashima Degarrod’s use of boro stitching on her works on paper; Na Omi Judy Shintani’s kimono cutouts honored in ceramic vessels—others use iconography relating to Japanese culture as a jumping-off point for personal explorations on the subject of the incarceration camps—Reiko Fujii’s photographs-as-kimono; Wendy Maruyama’s columns of replicated camp ID tags. Each in their own way, the artists in this exhibition express moments of deeply felt pain and reluctant acceptance, emotions which were often withheld by their elders. Exhibition artists are: Kristine Aono, Reiko Fujii, Wendy Maruyama, Lydia Nakashima Degarrod, Tom Nakashima, Roger Shimomura, Na Omi Judy Shintani, and Jerry Takigawa.

Resilience: A Sansei Sense of Legacy

Opening Reception:&nbsp;Saturday, September 12, 2026, 4pm — 7pm (the gallery will be open 12pm — 7pm)Artist Talk: 4pm&nbsp;About the exhibitionThe Renaissance Society and Fondazione In Between Art Film present&nbsp;Tendered, a solo exhibition by Karimah Ashadu, whose moving-image practice examines the conditions under which bodies are rendered legible within contemporary systems of labor and value, especially within the cultural context of Nigeria and its diaspora.Karimah Ashadu: Tendered&nbsp;will be on view at the Renaissance Society in Chicago from September 12 - November 1, 2026.&nbsp;Working across film and installation, Ashadu develops close, sustained encounters with people whose lives unfold within informal economies, attending to how aspirations are negotiated under material constraint.&nbsp;The exhibition marks the U.S. debut of&nbsp;MUSCLE,&nbsp;a new moving image installation co-commissioned and co-produced by the Renaissance Society, Fondazione In Between Art Film, and Camden Art Centre. Centered on bodybuilders training in the heart of Lagos’s slums, the work situates bodybuilding within a broader field of exertion: the body as site of labor, autonomy, and self-fashioning.&nbsp;MUSCLE&nbsp;is accompanied by a series of new sculptural works,&nbsp;Pure Rugged Water (2025),that draw directly from the film’s environments.Having grown up between Nigeria and the United Kingdom, the artist situates her point of view within a constant negotiation of distance. In&nbsp;MUSCLE, she works with a sympathetic—and sometimes visceral—proximity to the subjects of the film, eschewing the documentary point of view. As she gathers the stories of men in this film, she extends an ongoing inquiry present in earlier works, including&nbsp;Machine Boys&nbsp;(2024) (on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from September 11&nbsp;—&nbsp;November 1, 2026),Plateau&nbsp;(2022), and&nbsp;Red Gold&nbsp;(2016).&nbsp;The exhibition is organized within the framework of&nbsp;Unison, a biennial initiative established by the Fondazione In Between Art Film to commission and produce moving image-based exhibitions in collaboration with international institutions.&nbsp; PublicationTendered9.76 x 12.79 inches168 Pages&nbsp;ISBN: 9788867497089&nbsp;&nbsp;Tendered&nbsp;is accompanied by the first reference monograph dedicated to the artist, edited by Bianca Stoppani,&nbsp;curator for the editorial and discursive programmes&nbsp;at&nbsp;Fondazione In Between Art Film, with Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi. Published by Mousse, the monograph&nbsp;features contributions from Karimah Ashadu; Myriam Ben Salah, director and chief curator at The Renaissance Society,&nbsp;Chicago; Leonardo Bigazzi, curator at Fondazione In Between Art Film; Gina Buenfeld-Murley, curator at Camden Art Centre,&nbsp;London; Martin Clark, director at Camden Art Centre, London; Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka, associate professor in film, culture&nbsp;and society, UCL, London; Alessandro Rabottini, artistic director at Fondazione In Between Art Film; Bettina Steinbrügge,&nbsp;director at Mudam Luxembourg; and Arese Uwuoruya, assistant curator at Camden Art Centre. About the ArtistKARIMAH ASHADU (b. London 1985) is a British-born Nigerian artist and film director living and working between Hamburg and Lagos. Her work has been exhibited and screened at institutions internationally, including the 60th Venice Biennale, where she was awarded the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Participant in the International Exhibition. Other Institutional shows and screenings include Camden Arts Centre, London, Canal Projects, New York, MoMA PS1, New York, Kunsthalle Bremen,&nbsp;Tate Modern, London, Secession, Vienna, Kunstverein in Hamburg, South London Gallery, London, Museum of Modern Art, New York and Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève.&nbsp;Current&nbsp;solo shows include the Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover.&nbsp;Credits&nbsp;Tendered&nbsp;is curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi of Fondazione In Between Art Film with Myriam Ben Salah and Karsten Lund for its iteration at the Renaissance Society.&nbsp;Supported by Sadie Coles HQ, LondonPure Rugged Water (2025)&nbsp;was produced with additional support of the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung.Renaissance Society programs are supported by Teiger Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.&nbsp;EventsConversations at the Edge: An Evening with Karimah AshaduThu, Sept 10, 6PMSiskel Film Center164 N. State Street, Chicago, IL 60601Presented in collaboration with the School of the Art Institute and Gene Siskel Film Center, this screening presents three other films by Karimah Ashadu—Plateau,Brown Goods, and&nbsp;King of Boys—and will be&nbsp;followed by a conversation with the artist.&nbsp;Opening Reception&nbsp;Sat, Sep 12, 4-7pm&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Screening by the African Film InstituteWith a conversation between Christian Nyampeta and Natacha NsabimanaThu, Oct 15, 7PMLogan Center for the Arts, 2nd&nbsp;Floor&nbsp;In 2019, artist and filmmaker Christian Nyampeta, who is based in New York, launched the African Film Institute, housed at e-flux. In conjunction with Karimah Ashadu’s exhibition, Nyampeta and anthropologist Natacha Nsabimana will show a film and be in conversation as part of their ongoing collaboration on the question of what is African cinema?Visit&nbsp;<a href="http://renaissancesociety.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);" target="_blank">renaissancesociety.org</a>&nbsp;for more information. Image: Karimah Ashadu,&nbsp;MUSCLE, 2025 [Still] HD digital film, colour with stereo sound, 22:20 mins © Karimah Ashadu. Courtesy the Artist, Camden Art Centre, Fondazione In Between Art Film, Sadie Coles HQ and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.

Karimah Ashadu: Tendered 

Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians perform an evening of chamber music celebrating Amy Beach and Fanny Mendelssohn, two pioneering composers whose extraordinary works deserve a place at the center of the Romantic repertoire.

CSO Chamber Music: Carving Out History

Our Free Days Are Taking The Night Shift! From March through November, we’re returning to Free First Tuesdays! On the first Tuesday of every month, enjoy extended hours from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm - admission is free for all, no residency restrictions. Want more chances to visit? Take a look at our full lineup of 2026 Free Days below and mark your calendar! From March through November, we’re returning to Free First Tuesdays! On the first Tuesday of every month, enjoy extended hours from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm - admission is free for all, no residency restrictions.

Free First Tuesdays

Join us on November 5th for an exciting Political &amp; Historical Americana sale. The auction features material dating to the 18th and 19th century, including a rare George Washington free frank, and a desirable John Quincy Adams Pewter mirror. Collectors will also find a wonderful selection of three-dimensional campaign items, an amazing Howard Hughes signed photograph, important association items, campaign posters, Lincolniana, and historical autographs. <a href="https://auction.potterauctions.com/auctions/potter-potter/political-historical-americana-23580" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Details</a>

Political & Historical Americana sale

November 5, 2026Start time: 10:00 AM CST Freeman’s presents <a href="https://freemansauction.com/auction/6553-fine-printed-books-manuscripts-including-americana" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fine Printed Books &amp; Manuscripts, Including Americana</a>, a live auction in Chicago on November 5 at 10 a.m. Central. Visit the auction page for catalogue and bidding information. Sale number: 6553

Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana

Co-curator Corinne Granof leads an in-gallery conversation about the event "All the Noise and the Hurry" on Thursday, November 5, at 3:30 PM.

Curator's Talk: All the Noise and the Hurry

Block Cinema presents a newly rediscovered print of Denis Mitchell’s impressionistic BBC documentary portrait of Chicago, in its first screening in 60 years.

Chicago: First Impressions of a Great American City (1961)

The IHSAE Educator Show is scheduled to take place from September 18 to November 6, 2026, spanning a duration of 7 weeks in Room 3A. The event will commence with Open Studios on September 18, 2026.

IHSAE Educator Show

Una Vuelta a Mis Raíces (A Return to My Roots): Monochromatic Pigment Paintings by Robert Lipton SEP 18-NOV 6, 20263rd FLOOR GALLERY Inspired by the powerful materiality of abstract expressionism and contemporary masters such as Antoni Tàpies, Anselm Kiefer, and Bosco Sodi, Robert Lipton presents a series of richly textured mixed-media paintings that explore color, surface, and transformation. Built through layers of pigment and organic processes, these works invite viewers to slow down, look closely, and discover shifting landscapes of texture, depth, and form. Image: Untitled 2025 -Mixed media on canvas 66” x 41”

Una Vuelta a Mis Raíces (A Return to My Roots): Robert Lipton

Art Educator &amp; Alumni Exhibition Presented by ArtConnectED Sept 18 – Nov 6. 3rd Floor Gallery ArtConnectED understands the importance of building community and the role the arts play in bringing people together. Art Connection: Past Meets Present celebrates the enduring connections between art educators and their former students, honoring the shared creative journey that begins in the classroom and continues throughout a lifetime. This exhibition showcases the impact of mentorship, inspiration, and the lasting influence that teachers and students have on one another. Through a variety of media and artistic voices, the show highlights how creative dialogue and exploration can span years, evolve, and continue to inspire new perspectives. Awards:Awards are generously provided by BLICK Art Materials and by donations from partnering art schools, colleges, and universities. Opening ReceptionBridgeport Art Center, 3rd Floor Gallery on September 18th from 7:00-10:00P Image:Natalie Pivoney – Creekside Elementary SchoolMillennial Park – Oil on Canvas 2026 – 30W” x 20H”

Art Connection: Past Meets Present

Oliva Gallery presents the opening reception for Pleasure Spread, a two-person exhibitionTara Sabini and Jeremy Plotkin Wong. The exhibition brings Sabini’s maximalist oil paintings into conversation with Wong’s biomorphic ceramic sculpture, examining pleasure as something seductive, excessive, unstable, and psychologically charged. Sabini draws from the theatrical abundance of seventeenth-century Flemish still life, redirecting its proximity between luxury and mortality toward femininity. Pattern, ornament, and the body accumulate until visual abundance begins to exert pressure. Wong begins with the ceramic vessel and pushes it beyond utility, producing swelling, curling, and contorted forms whose polished surfaces remain appealing even as their anatomy becomes increasingly uncertain. Together, the artists locate pleasure at the point where attraction becomes complicated. Sabini intensifies the image until abundance begins to press back against the viewer, while Wong transforms the vessel until function gives way to something creaturely. Throughout Pleasure Spread, ornament becomes consequential and pleasure exceeds its expected boundaries. About the Artists Tara Sabini is a Chicago-based maximalist oil painter and graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited nationally, and she has participated in residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Lillstreet Art Center. Jeremy Plotkin Wong is a Chicago-based performance and sculpture artist whose interdisciplinary practice combines ceramic and sculptural form, abstraction, material experimentation, and performance. Wong received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and entered the MFA program in Ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2025.

Pleasure Spread

Krasl Art Center presents&nbsp;Intervals of Mark and Matter, a group exhibition featuring KC Crow Maddox, Karen Dana Cohen, Evan Mazzelan, Amelia Mendelsohn,&nbsp;Ivan Montoya, Thương Hoài Trần, and Antonio Scott Nichols. On view from August 15 through November 7, 2026, the exhibition brings together artists whose practices approach painting through layered processes and cross-medium experimentation. Across the exhibition, painting extends past tradition. The artists work across oil, acrylic, textile, and hybrid approaches, allowing representational imagery to come together in different forms. These works speak to painting as an open field and framework that expands beyond the medium. The artists draw from personal histories and cultural references to shape works that move between intimate scale and broader social context. Figures, patterns, and textures are built up and reference individual experiences and the artists’ specific perspectives.&nbsp;&nbsp; Across the exhibition, painting becomes more than a surface; it becomes a language for relation. These images offer a portrait of contemporary painting as a living, inclusive practice, one that reflects the complex emotional and cultural landscapes of the present. Other exhibition related events:PUBLIC P<a href="https://sfpwlrdab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001pSSRl7evIb86RM80nIvm5Hy9YjoYjA5bEd3F7q3w_sCHUKjU229cZXVHuroKXZrKkmofcgjUzdjvigac_nl6rwRgtRsUT6v0TZ2FjWxaiHjZB96ch0h-AsSeiUa_pgbaK-le-SmEp0PdBhBkKPgTN2w6-McHSUjpyZcQOWs5QqUHaWyykTYm1Q==&amp;c=6hib9qryNzLfZvFGK85jhGcMsJR__HdSoZYLRo1_u2hGBpzNkfW0dg==&amp;ch=UEQe7idMHjCsN8dwYdbmLQ_rS_u0IY0QRKxgrpKLSEg2V1dllVXIjw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">REVIEW PARTY</a>Friday, August 14, 20266 - 8 PM <a href="https://sfpwlrdab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001pSSRl7evIb86RM80nIvm5Hy9YjoYjA5bEd3F7q3w_sCHUKjU229cZXVHuroKXZrKtfDWvDHHFA3YKYyInWDKpr7yrejL5zZpa_F5o_v_nT8811KUx_HSd1N_CmMDec6N09F7sUmj0WD3aNhp53SYPcb9FKQYYNhinK2MluAMlugdSNG1hTGYopIdkSN_QMwR&amp;c=6hib9qryNzLfZvFGK85jhGcMsJR__HdSoZYLRo1_u2hGBpzNkfW0dg==&amp;ch=UEQe7idMHjCsN8dwYdbmLQ_rS_u0IY0QRKxgrpKLSEg2V1dllVXIjw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">COFFEE WITH THE CURATOR</a>Thursday,&nbsp;August 20, 202612 - 1 PM CLASS OFFERINGS: APPROACHES TO CONTEMPORARY PAINTING Instructors: Meli Bandera, Tami Fauver, and Nathan Margoni(5) Tuesdays, 6 - 7 PM, September 1 - 29. For more information regarding the exhibitions, visit&nbsp;<a href="https://sfpwlrdab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001pSSRl7evIb86RM80nIvm5Hy9YjoYjA5bEd3F7q3w_sCHUKjU229cZTgx-nBs_T0I20ArstDnjsh-3AiwkY3XB9iF1u4E9q325Qxi_Yzcs_3MRYXaqbNox3UbPVCKbepaWvuCVLs0B-YghzGV2LJiTQGs69kp-Dvp&amp;c=6hib9qryNzLfZvFGK85jhGcMsJR__HdSoZYLRo1_u2hGBpzNkfW0dg==&amp;ch=UEQe7idMHjCsN8dwYdbmLQ_rS_u0IY0QRKxgrpKLSEg2V1dllVXIjw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.krasl.org</a>. Evan Mazellan,&nbsp;Embracing Couple, Oil on canvas, 24 in. x 16 in., 2026.

Intervals of Mark and Matter 

Krasl Art Center presents a new interdisciplinary installation by Bella Kiser in the Project Space, expanding her ongoing exploration of soft architecture, a practice that uses soft sculpture and participation to consider how identity and experience shape ideas of home.&nbsp;Kiser is a mixed-race Filipino American artist from Chicago, IL, currently based in Detroit, MI. She is a graduate of Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Combined Degree Program, where she received a BFA in Studio Art and a BS in Environmental Studies. Throughout her practice, she works with wearables, textiles, and immersive environments to construct what she describes as&nbsp;fabritecture,&nbsp;a malleable, ever-changing building system shaped by sensory and emotional experience. Her work engages questions of identity, otherness, comfort, and discomfort, as well as critiques of American productivity culture, while foregrounding the physical conditions of lived experience.&nbsp;In this exhibition, Kiser also draws from the form of the&nbsp;Balikbayan Box, a package sent by overseas Filipinos to family back in the Philippines, as a conceptual reference point for thinking about container, care, distance, and return. Through soft sculpture and audience interaction, she builds environments that invite bodily experience, informing the interpretation of the work.&nbsp; Other exhibition related events:PUBLIC P<a href="https://sfpwlrdab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001UBr39of_zhZbpwGpurhBfkSk8_znP-1C_6OeatmVlbgZisH0dVlz9P0eY1VGdkbj1RI3xMTfo8ZUaP4NPTPnBYveoiC0LqukjH939JJ3rtaYt8m_BKqVTU-eg46q84BzhPZJLjupHDvjnaw_7Oir1ZpMc28_6lGKqx7XfgXEj0wEuzwAmaJEyQ==&amp;c=fiKcx2h_nBWAS4xnKbX2wcgC3ytmtOVOAVjva-94UWvNMn1OuqkCKg==&amp;ch=i-cMYFbz8TWdKndA4lMm5sSeTCcgFToAOAANxGBD1S3l1CTb6sOI8g==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">REVIEW PARTY</a>Friday, August 14, 2026﻿﻿6 - 8 PMARTIST TALK: BELLA KISERSaturday, August 15, 202612 - 1 PM<a href="https://sfpwlrdab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001UBr39of_zhZbpwGpurhBfkSk8_znP-1C_6OeatmVlbgZisH0dVlz9P0eY1VGdkbjxGAUsfPhX1V60O6mobrFrw1W78bxf_AZ4F6fAX1AbDDoKH21-9itZ-vn3mKnpa_wR4wcMBoN7FMmZXE8v9D1XkozdJr6boDkXsdi3RGJz2-NVGNEG7pltQcybDR4xdFD&amp;c=fiKcx2h_nBWAS4xnKbX2wcgC3ytmtOVOAVjva-94UWvNMn1OuqkCKg==&amp;ch=i-cMYFbz8TWdKndA4lMm5sSeTCcgFToAOAANxGBD1S3l1CTb6sOI8g==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">COFFEE WITH THE CURATOR</a>Thursday,&nbsp;August 20, 202612 - 1 PMCLASS OFFERINGS: APPROACHES TO CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGInstructors: Meli Bandera, Tami Fauver, and Nathan Margoni(5) Tuesdays, 6 - 7 PM, September 1 - 29. For more information regarding the exhibitions, visit&nbsp;<a href="https://sfpwlrdab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001UBr39of_zhZbpwGpurhBfkSk8_znP-1C_6OeatmVlbgZisH0dVlz9BV97qIuz4gK2PyLrsJQGItl1YuGgfNx7Z7dIS3NrwpsUJG67nvBG_r1LZsrlQdKB7ogsOoYS3VAtCTnMl1Onqmnuog-FXfPb15Bn09n6WjE&amp;c=fiKcx2h_nBWAS4xnKbX2wcgC3ytmtOVOAVjva-94UWvNMn1OuqkCKg==&amp;ch=i-cMYFbz8TWdKndA4lMm5sSeTCcgFToAOAANxGBD1S3l1CTb6sOI8g==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.krasl.org</a>.

In the Project Space: Balikbayan Box by Bella Kiser

ABOUT THE EXHIBITIONWoman Made Gallery presents&nbsp;In Full View, a juried group exhibition of work by 47 women and non-binary artists age 65 and older. Selected by Jerry Zbiral, the exhibition explores visibility and invisibility as they relate to identity, aging, memory, and the legacy of a fully lived life.&nbsp;Working across a variety of mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, fiber, and mixed media, the artists consider what it means to be seen, overlooked, remembered, or revealed, and how those experiences shape both life and art. The work speaks to presence, resilience, personal history, and the evolving power of creative expression over time.Opening Reception:&nbsp;October 10, 2026 | 4–7 p.m.Artist Walkthrough &amp; Closing:&nbsp;November 7, 2026 | 2–4 p.m.Exhibiting Artists:&nbsp;Pánne Ally, Loraine Anderson, Laura Balombini, Jane Barrow, Marian Berg, Lindsey Berkun, Carrie Betlyn-Eder, Mary Ann Bucklin, Kathy Castleton, Laura Cerf-Dahl, Margaret Colarelli, Marie Corfield, Susan Fecho, Viktoria Ford, Tammi Franke, Amanda Freymann, Anne-Bridget Gary, Mary Gingrich, Shari Gullo, Pam Hamilton, Deborah Hirshfield, Pamela Hobbs, Ellen Holtzblatt, Judith Huacuja, Frederica Huff, Mama Coco, Jude Kallok, Ruth A. Keitz, Katherine Kraus, Phyllis Lear, Sylvia Lorraine, Darcy Lynn, Maureen May, Angela McElwain, Erin McNamara, Karen Mosbacher, Karen Musgrave, Moni Olguin, Linda Popp, Cherry Rahn, Jane Rieso, Paulette Schermerhorn, Beth Shadur, Carol Spindel, Paola Tavoletti, Mary Jane Tenerelli Janet Tsakis<a href="https://us.list-manage.com/Vdu3cazbpHK?e=a3993dd90f&amp;c2id=31024f3b516cbeaa8db35c380455cf8f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SEE THEIR WORK AND STATEMENTS</a>

In Full View

In Full View is an exhibition scheduled to take place from October 10 to November 7.

The West Town Art Walk is an upcoming event featuring the works of artist Patrick Jilbert. It will take place from October 2nd to November 7th. The event will showcase a variety of art pieces and installations, providing an opportunity for art enthusiasts to explore and appreciate the creativity and talent of Patrick Jilbert. Attendees can expect a vibrant and engaging experience as they walk through the art displays in West Town.

West Town Art Walk Featuring Patrick Jilbert

Oliva Gallery presents the closing reception for Pleasure Spread, featuring Tara Sabini’s maximalist oil paintings and Jeremy Plotkin Wong’s biomorphic ceramic sculpture. The exhibition explores pleasure as seductive, excessive, unstable, and psychologically charged. Sabini layers pattern, ornament, and the body until abundance becomes pressurized. Wong pushes the ceramic vessel beyond utility into swelling, contorted forms that blur the line between object and organism. Join Oliva Gallery for a final opportunity to experience Pleasure Spread before it closes. About the Artists Tara Sabini is a Chicago-based maximalist oil painter and graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited nationally, with recent residencies including Vermont Studio Center and Lillstreet Art Center. Jeremy Plotkin Wong is a Chicago-based performance and sculpture artist whose interdisciplinary practice combines sculptural form, material experimentation, abstraction, and performance. Wong received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and entered the MFA program in Ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2025.

Closing Reception: Pleasure Spread

Woman Made Gallery presents&nbsp;In Full View, a juried group exhibition of work by 47 women and non-binary artists age 65 and older. Selected by Jerry Zbiral, the exhibition explores visibility and invisibility as they relate to identity, aging, memory, and the legacy of a fully lived life.&nbsp;Working across a variety of mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, fiber, and mixed media, the artists consider what it means to be seen, overlooked, remembered, or revealed, and how those experiences shape both life and art. The work speaks to presence, resilience, personal history, and the evolving power of creative expression over time.Opening Reception:&nbsp;October 10, 2026 | 4–7 p.m.Artist Walkthrough &amp; Closing:&nbsp;November 7, 2026 | 2–4 p.m.Exhibiting Artists:&nbsp;Pánne Ally, Loraine Anderson, Laura Balombini, Jane Barrow, Marian Berg, Lindsey Berkun, Carrie Betlyn-Eder, Mary Ann Bucklin, Kathy Castleton, Laura Cerf-Dahl, Margaret Colarelli, Marie Corfield, Susan Fecho, Viktoria Ford, Tammi Franke, Amanda Freymann, Anne-Bridget Gary, Mary Gingrich, Shari Gullo, Pam Hamilton, Deborah Hirshfield, Pamela Hobbs, Ellen Holtzblatt, Judith Huacuja, Frederica Huff, Mama Coco, Jude Kallok, Ruth A. Keitz, Katherine Kraus, Phyllis Lear, Sylvia Lorraine, Darcy Lynn, Maureen May, Angela McElwain, Erin McNamara, Karen Mosbacher, Karen Musgrave, Moni Olguin, Linda Popp, Cherry Rahn, Jane Rieso, Paulette Schermerhorn, Beth Shadur, Carol Spindel, Paola Tavoletti, Mary Jane Tenerelli Janet Tsakis

Artist Walkthrough & Closing

Cutting East to West celebrates the diversity and enduring creativity of papercut art from around the world. Originating in Asia, papercutting has traveled across cultures and generations, evolving into distinct regional traditions, techniques, and contemporary forms. Featuring 48 artists from across the United States and abroad, the exhibition presents both time-honored practices and innovative new approaches. Participating artists are Aaron Reser, Amanda Humpage, Amy M. Bennett, Barbara Schreiber, Beatrice Coron, Benjamin Feinstein, Bethany Ricks, Bianca Levan, Carolyn Guest, Charles Kubly, Daniela Yew, David Friedman, Deborah Brewer, Dena Bach, Frances Halley, Gillian Jackson, Irena Boobyer, Janelle Washington, Jennifer Kaplan, Jerise Fogel, Karen Aldrich, Karen Bell, Kathleen Rupff, Kathleen Trenchard, Kory Sutherland, Leah Korican, Liu L, Lorraine Bubar, Lucrezia Bieler, Lucy P. Liu, Marie-Helene Grabman, Melanie Kehoss, Nancy Keyes, Peter Weideli, Randall Williams, Reni Gower, Richard Schuchman, Rosa Daragan-Powers, Sam Wróbel, Sara McMahon, Shruti Satish Amritkar, Sue Gettlin, Tiffany Budzisz, Volha Palunisa (Baburyna), William Carroll, Yang Cuevo, YS Liu, and Yun Xie. Presented in collaboration with members of the Guild of American Papercutters (GAP), Cutting East to West invites visitors to discover the precision, imagination, and cultural stories held within a single sheet of paper. Papercutting on Stage: Kamishibai 紙芝居 Workshop Oct 16, 2:00 - 4:00 PM | $45 Opening Reception : Cutting East to West Oct 16, 6:00 - 8:00 PM | free Papercutting Art Live-Demonstration Oct 17, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM | free Oct 18, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM | free One Sheet, Many Stories: Chinese Papercutting Across Cultures Oct 24, 2:00 - 4:00 PM | $45 Intro to Wycinanki - The Polish Folk Art of Papercutting Oct 25, 2:00 - 4:00 PM | $45 Event Registration: https://www.heritageasianart.org/2026gap

Cutting East to West: Guild of American Papercutters Members' Exhibition

DOCUMENT is delighted to present&nbsp;The Awnings, Alexandra Barth’s second solo exhibition with the gallery and the artist’s first in Chicago.Alexandra Barth is a Slovakian artist based in a small town near Verona, in Northern Italy. Her painting practice is grounded in the observation of quietly evocative interiors and furnishings, rendered through precisely layered applications of airbrushed paint. For the past two years, she has turned this attention toward the retractable awning, a common feature of commercial and residential buildings across Italy and Southern Europe. Painting from unstaged photographs sourced on the web, Barth focuses on the awning in every form except its fully functional state—emphasizing instead its everyday, technical, and non-aesthetic aspects, and the tension between its familiar Italian character and its purely mechanical qualities.The exhibition treats the awning less as a functional object than as a symbol, tracing the hidden lifecycle it typically undergoes unseen: manufacture, retail display, and eventual resale. Barth’s source images are drawn from online marketplaces such as Facebook Marketplace and Subito, where sellers of secondhand units post close-up photographs of pattern and condition alongside pictures of shuttered awnings removed from the storefronts and entryways they once shaded.In&nbsp;The Showroom, a formation of small-scale models in various awning shapes curiously adorns an interior wall, echoing the display logic of the retail settings found throughout the exhibition. Red, orange, pink, blue, beige, and gray tones—drawn from the retail displays and online listings that inspire the work—dominate the paintings’ palette.By foregrounding the awning’s “behind-the-scenes” existence, Barth invites viewers to reconsider the quiet, overlooked architecture that structures public space.Alexandra Barth (b. 1989, Malacky, Slovakia) lives and works in Sanguinetto, Italy. She received her degree from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia in 2013. Recent solo exhibitions include DOCUMENT, Lisbon, Portugal (2025); LOOM Gallery, Milan, Italy (2024); Mrs., Maspeth, NY (2023); Photoport, Bratislava, Slovakia (2023); A SUD, Pescara, Italy (2022); Stone Projects, Prague, Czech Republic (2022); Chris Sharp, Los Angeles, CA (2021). Group exhibitions include Photoport, The Elevator, Temporary Parapet, MDŽ, and White&amp;Weiss, in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2024 she was awarded the TCP Art Finance Prize at The Armory Show, and her work is in the collections of the Zahorie Gallery of Jan Mudroch in Senica, Slovakia and the Morgan Stanley Collection, New York, NY.

Alexandra Barth: The Awnings

Out There October 9 - November 7, 2026Opening Reception: Friday, October 16th&nbsp;from 5 to 8PM (Gallery Night MKE) 207 E Buffalo St, Suite 404, Milwaukee, WI 53202 (Marshall Building, 4th floor) Kim Storage Gallery is pleased to present Out There, a two-person exhibition of new&nbsp;work by Hector Acuna and Andy Paczos. The title borrows the advice a teacher gave Paczos at the&nbsp;School of the Art Institute of Chicago: look out the window, "there's lots of good stuff out there." He&nbsp;took it, and has painted Chicago from direct observation for three decades since. Acuna works the&nbsp;same way, returning to his Wisconsin sites across multiple plein air sessions and staging handmade&nbsp;props to paint in natural light. Both find their subjects by standing in front of them Andy Paczos, From Chicago. Ave. Bridge, Oil on linen, 28 x 40", 2011

Out There

Transition&nbsp;September&nbsp;3, 2026 - November 8, 2026 Transition&nbsp;presents a body of work by Mélanie Denis created over three years, crossing three territories, three inner states, and three defining moments of a life. Through this series, the landscape becomes the reflection of a personal transformation, moving through grief, emancipation, and rebirth. View details <a href="https://www.pistachiosonline.com/collections/transition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>&nbsp;

Transition

Elmhurst Art Museum kicks off the Veteran Art Summit with poetry readings and presentations inaugurating the 2026 Veteran Art Triennial RESISTING THE LONG WAR. Other participating venues include the Chicago Cultural Center, Hyde Park Art Center, and Walls Turned Sideways with additional exhibitions and related programming. Each exhibition offers a distinct curatorial frame on artists’ creative defiance to war and militarism, and each location will host programming during the Veteran Art Summit, November 5–8, 2026.

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