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

July 12, 2025 - January 10, 2026 America Meredith, Andrea Carlson, Bobby Dues, Chris Pappan, Cynthia Harding, Debra Yepa-Pappan, Erin Lee Antonak, Erin Genia, George Alexander, Henry Payer, Jonathan Thunder, Julie Buffalohead, June Carpenter, Micah Wesley, Monica Rickert-Bolter, Selena Kearney <a style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xXPFGj8mP5fhgQKCVyNOx-c7Mw8QA2B9?usp=drive_link" target="_blank">Click here for the press release and other media on this exhibition.</a> Pictured: Jonathan ThunderRed Lake OjibweThe Doctrine of Re-Discovery2019Acrylic paint on canvas The canvas was painted in honor of the Indigenous movements bringing tribal communities together and re-introducing food systems, culture and spiritualty. Pictured is an Indigenous baby wearing a space mask for protection. On the left is an elder offering markers to find the way home. On the right are government issued rations and a crumbling monument. A rag doll resembling the former POTUS peers from the protection of the large stone statue. A black lake is represents oil and water.

Sight of Resistance

Maia Cruz Palileo&nbsp;(they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist whose paintings, installations, sculptures, and drawings navigate themes of migration and the permeable concept of home. Influenced by the oral history of their family’s arrival in the United States from the Philippines, as well as the history between the two countries, Palileo infuses these narratives using both memory and imagination. They produce paintings of dream-like quality that hover between fact and fiction. Investigating the malleable language of the medium, Palileo’s works offer a panoramic lens through which to investigate the larger questions&nbsp;pertaining to&nbsp;forgotten histories and how best to honor these stories in perpetuity. Sourcing subject matter through various photographic archives, their paintings recontextualize the stories, portraits, and images to resuscitate these figures from the exploitative gaze of the ethnographic image.&nbsp; Palileo (b.1979, Chicago, IL) received an MFA in sculpture from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY (2008) and BA in Studio Art at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA (2001). Palileo has had solo exhibitions at&nbsp;David&nbsp;Kordansky&nbsp;Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2025);&nbsp;moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL (2023, 2021, 2019);&nbsp;The Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, FL (2023);&nbsp;Kimball Arts Center, Park City, UT (2022); the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (2021); the&nbsp;Katzen&nbsp;Arts Center, Washington D.C. (2019);&nbsp;Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY (2018); Taymour&nbsp;Grahne&nbsp;Gallery, New York, NY (2017); and&nbsp;Cuchifritos&nbsp;Gallery + Project Space, curated by Jordan&nbsp;Buschur, New York, NY (2015).&nbsp;Palileo has been featured in recent group exhibitions at&nbsp;the Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL (2024);&nbsp;Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA (2024); Sargent’s Daughters, Los Angeles, LA (2024);&nbsp;Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2023);&nbsp;Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE (2023); The Nasher Museum, Durham, NC (2023);&nbsp;National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. (2022); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (2022); San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (2022); Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2022); The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY (2018); and the Bureau of General Services Queer Division, New York, NY.&nbsp;Palileo will present&nbsp;a&nbsp;solo show&nbsp;at&nbsp;moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL&nbsp;(2025).&nbsp;&nbsp;Their work is in the collections of The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD;&nbsp;The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA;&nbsp;Cummer Museum of Art &amp; Gardens. Jacksonville, FL; The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C;&nbsp;The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC;&nbsp;The Speed Museum, Louisville, KY;&nbsp;and The&nbsp;Fredriksen&nbsp;Collection at the National Museum of Oslo, Norway.&nbsp;Palileo is a recipient of the Sharpe-Walentas&nbsp;Studio Program Award, NY (2022); NYFA Painting Fellowship (2021); Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Program Grant (2017); Rema&nbsp;Hort&nbsp;Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2014); Astraea Visual Arts Fund Award (2009); Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters &amp; Sculptors Grant (2008); and Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Award (2018).&nbsp;Palileo has&nbsp;participated&nbsp;in residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME; Lower East Side Print Shop, NY; Millay Colony, Austerlitz, New York; and the Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans. They currently live and work in Brooklyn, NY.&nbsp; Image: Maia Cruz Palileo,&nbsp;I Am Well, How Are You?, 2025, oil on linen, 72 x 68 in

Maia Cruz Palileo: Branch Dance

Image: The Grey Point, 2025, oil on canvas, 52 x 34 inches

Michael Cuadrado Gonzalez: Entangled Forces

Pedro Montilla is a Colombian artist whose practice unfolds through painting as a way to understand the experience of being alive and surrounded by life. His work stems from the understanding of painting as a mystical being, voracious and capable of imbuing objects with life. Through this lens, his practice becomes a space for transformation, reflection, and attentive presence. Pedro works primarily on fique fabric, a fiber cultivated, dried, and woven in the Colombian Andes, traditionally used to transport coffee beans and harvests. This surface mirrors both belonging to a place while also holding a sense of dislocation and memory for what it touches. On it, he creates hybrid objects that exist between painting and tapestry, holding an imagery of landscapes, scenes, and abstractions that reflect an amalgam of internal states and lived experience.&nbsp;Montilla (b.1997, Bogotá, Colombia) holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2025) and a BFA from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (2020). He has presented solo exhibitions at Policroma Galería, Medellín (2023; 2021), and participated in group exhibitions at the Epiphany Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL (2025); Chili Art Projects, London, UK (2024); National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL (2024); Galería El Museo, Bogotá (2024); SGR Galería, Bogotá (2021); among others. He was a Fellow at Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI (2025) and is currently a resident at the Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL. Montilla lives and works in Chicago, IL and is currently a Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Image: Pedro Montilla, Primero&nbsp;está la soledad / First there is loneliness, 2025, oil and tempera on fique, 57 x 78 in

Pedro Montilla: Mirar abajo

The first mid-career survey of the artist’s work,&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.jmkac.org/exhibition/ashwini-bhat-reverberating-self/?utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_Ui-15B_CcQknU9GEDGXMjBqDrNc-DTSKdHoyu63GuASVBzt71GYE_-e31PGV6S0Mplqp9YfAjLuTlga8VG8STj3QakJsCm2tjyDUB9eTtkUkzkDY&amp;_hsmi=343424237&amp;utm_content=343424237&amp;utm_source=hs_email" target="_blank">Ashwini Bhat: Reverberating Self</a> contains artworks made over the past decade alongside newly made work that has never been shown. The exhibition illustrates her journey since moving to California—creating a new home and securing a sense of belonging through communion with her environment and art making. The artworks evidence Bhat’s technical skill and intuitive approach to diverse materials and techniques, including cast bronze, hand-built ceramics, video works, and an artist-led collaborative community installation. All works on view are part of&nbsp;Assembling California,&nbsp;the artist’s ongoing project of place and self. The series concentrates on natural phenomena including post-fire forests, climate change, large-scale forces, mapping, and relationships. As an immigrant from southern India, Bhat works to find a sense of belonging and self in her home in California. She does this through walking, hiking, and spending time with local ecologists. Bhat’s past is infused into the present and imaginings of possible futures. She weaves time and experience through her sculptures by naming a body of her works depicting California flora after nature spirits, or Yakshis, entities that are part of Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain religious practices. Bhat firmly roots her practice in recognizing humankind’s interconnectedness with all living beings and places—through contact, communion, and witnessing. She creates sculptures to share moments of her journey—of seeking self within her ecologies and invites viewers to relate to their environments by building relationships and spending time with other beings, human and nonhuman alike. Image: Ashwini Bhat. Photo: John Janca, courtesy of the artist and Shoshana Wayne Gallery.

Ashwini Bhat: Reverberating Self

The&nbsp;Community ⇄ Members’ Show&nbsp;is a cherished celebration of local art and talent. Whether you’re an artist or an art lover, this exhibition is a must-see, offering a rich experience of creativity in our community. Mark your calendar for the Public Preview Party on November 21, 2025 from 6 - 8 PM and join us in celebrating the vibrant artistic talent that makes our region shine. The exhibition will be on view from November 22, 2025 to January 11, 2026. Ending on our annual Pizza with the Artist event on January 11, 2026 from&nbsp;﻿4 - 6 PM.For more information regarding the exhibitions, visit&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://sfpwlrdab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001HIHBgKWmfZFsj0uHJ8VS6FYkXzlFj1PARabvKe9x6XrZh5wDwqoWvtixSV_KM9xNOhFAk0Eq0O0DZzQD_BVu0gksqKFqx4NaE1jJqHTmI3S6PEIQqABLG_SOgW7guNLw4SGU5KlRTgyOZXEK78x_B2ulQNaviEeZ&amp;c=50MTjcCJ5tDmXgKjPU21Qy_xlB1XX3MATKetvAKehRF50lfOQVCU3g==&amp;ch=9wQzHSEWPOeXK11nDqeX7IBDdcQBIg92SboG0_lYCtouAIT8l5ynVQ==" target="_blank">www.krasl.org</a>.

2025 Community ⇄ Members’ Show

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, November 7, 2025 |&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(110, 6, 16);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ten-by-ten-opening-reception-tickets-1854549440299?aff=oddtdtcreator" target="_blank">RSVP</a> ﻿TEN by TEN is a yearly celebration of diversity and passion found within the Chicago arts community. With each piece being 10” x 10”, the result is a dazzling grid of artwork, in all styles and mediums. Being open submission, the exhibition is a chance for artists of all levels to contribute and gives an unfiltered look at what is going on today in the Chicago arts scene and beyond. Gallery Director,&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(110, 6, 16);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://j2gallery.com/about/staff/kaitlyn-miller/" target="_blank">Kaitlyn Miller</a>&nbsp;reflects, “After the first year of TEN by TEN, we recognized the need for an open submission exhibition. Finding your footing in the art world is not an easy task, it is competitive and often disheartening and our goal has always been to support emerging artists. We had such an overwhelming response to the first year, so we thought let’s expand and accept every artist that applies. The exhibit has grown and become a way for Jackson Junge Gallery to give back and celebrate Chicago’s incredible arts community.”Featured in TEN by TEN are works by Jackson Junge’s in-house artists, whose work the gallery exhibits year-round. Featured artist,&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(110, 6, 16);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://j2gallery.com/about/artists/laura-lee-junge/" target="_blank">Laura Lee Junge</a>, created an eye-catching mixed media painting, “<a style="color: rgb(110, 6, 16);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://j2gallery.com/store/artists/laura-lee-junge/originals-laura-lee-junge/mixed-media-originals-laura-lee-junge/inward/" target="_blank">Inward</a>”. The painting is done in a 3D style seen in her solo exhibition “CUCKOO: I’M NOT CRAZY, YOU ARE”, earlier this year. This series explores elements of freedom, movement and time. The focus of “Inward” is handmade clay and metal dragonflies, a departure from Junge’s usual butterfly subjects in this series. The background has impressions of clock gears imprinted in thick acrylic paint, an element used in Junge’s mixed media collection.&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(110, 6, 16);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://j2gallery.com/about/artists/kate-hoyer/" target="_blank">Kate Hoyer</a>’s “<a style="color: rgb(110, 6, 16);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://j2gallery.com/store/mediums/painting/rainbow-kitty-2/" target="_blank">Rainbow Kitty</a>” is painted in her signature bold and colorful style, utilizing stripes and blocks of color to define the forms of her animal subjects.&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(110, 6, 16);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://j2gallery.com/about/artists/autum-justine-miller/" target="_blank">Autumn Justine Miller</a>&nbsp;has gone with a less cuddly character for her humorous painting, “<a style="color: rgb(110, 6, 16);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://j2gallery.com/store/mediums/painting/duck-doctor/" target="_blank">Duck Doctor</a>”, which features a rubber ducky with a plague mask and a skull tattoo. Miller is known for her creepy-cute subjects, and this painting is no exception.Stand-out pieces in TEN by TEN are often using unexpected materials. Jonathan Pruc’s shining piece “<a style="color: rgb(110, 6, 16);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://j2gallery.com/store/special-exhibit/too-much-on-my-mind/" target="_blank">Too Much on My Mind</a>” utilizes many colored mirrors to reflect light and draw the viewer in. The mirrored surface gives it a slightly different appearance and color with a change of position or lighting, giving a unique optical effect. Another notable piece this year is Josh Brickman’s “<a style="color: rgb(110, 6, 16);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://j2gallery.com/store/special-exhibit/el-oh-el/" target="_blank">El Oh El</a>”, a map of the Loop made entirely of Legos. Brickman’s piece is both playful and well executed; you could almost use it to navigate downtown!Michael Bever’s painting also brings us to the El. His acrylic painting “<a style="color: rgb(110, 6, 16);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://j2gallery.com/store/special-exhibit/parked-under-the-el/" target="_blank">Parked Under the El</a>” finds the beauty in a rainy evening beneath the train tracks, focusing on the warm reflections of light from surrounding streetlamps. A car idles in the center of the painting, perhaps waiting for someone to hurry up so they can get home before the weather turns once again.When viewed all together as one large wall of artwork, TEN by TEN becomes an installation representing a year of creation and exploration from hundreds of emerging and established artists. The exhibition is an opportunity for all these creatives to come together and celebrate the hard work and progress that they have made this year.TEN by TEN will be on display November 3rd, 2025, through January 11th, 2026, at Jackson Junge Gallery. Join us in celebrating the wide range of work that Chicago’s artists have to offer!TEN by TEN is curated by Gallery Owner&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(110, 6, 16);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://j2gallery.com/about/staff/chris-jackson/" target="_blank">Chris Jackson</a>, Gallery Director&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(110, 6, 16);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://j2gallery.com/about/staff/kaitlyn-miller/" target="_blank">Kaitlyn Miller</a>, Assistant Gallery Director&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(110, 6, 16);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://j2gallery.com/about/staff/kristen-arcus/" target="_blank">Kristen Arcus</a>, Gallery Assistants&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(110, 6, 16);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://j2gallery.com/about/staff/marisa-taravella/" target="_blank">Marisa Taravella</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(110, 6, 16);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://j2gallery.com/about/staff/maddie-kirmse/" target="_blank">Madeline Kirmse</a>&nbsp;and Gallery Intern Sadie Walden.

Ten by Ten

Andi Crist: Live Laugh Labor Thoughts on usefulness and other myths Cleve Carney Museum of Art&nbsp;(CCMA) presents the first solo museum exhibition by multi-disciplinary artist&nbsp;Andi Crist, titled "Live, Laugh, Labor: Thoughts on Usefulness and Other Myths,” Oct.16, 2025 – Jan. 11, 2026. An opening reception will take place from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16 with remarks from the artist.&nbsp; Recently named one of Newcity’s 2025 Breakout Artists, Crist now presents her first major museum exhibition. The show features sculptures, drawings, and ceramic works from the past five years that explore the artist’s role as an arts worker.&nbsp; In this upcoming exhibition, Crist’s work prompts broader questions about labor, authenticity, and the shifting recognition of human effort in society today. Drawing inspiration from her career as a professional art handler and fabricator, this exhibit navigates the boundaries and relationships between work, play, and practice.&nbsp; “Andi Crist’s playful and humorous work challenges us to consider pressing cultural questions: What is the worth of human labor in an era of cheap goods and artificial intelligence, and what does it mean to ‘make’ in a world where so much work is hidden?” —&nbsp;Justin Witte, Director and Curator of the Cleve Carney Museum of Art In this solo exhibition, Crist utilizes various media, including woodworking, ceramics, leather craft, and mold-making/casting. These pieces showcase Crist’s technical skill and wit, while offering a playful perspective on the roles and representations of an artist as a worker.&nbsp; In Crist’s work “Ladder” the artist has hand-crafted an a-frame ladder appears at first familiar. The work has conventional ladder rungs on one side, but the other side is abruptly shortened and terminates in two handholds carved to fit Crist’s own hands. The piece only functions when Crist physically intervenes: she straps herself to one side, holding the structure steady above her head so another person can climb. That literal dependence makes the work a wry interrogation of the “ladder” as a metaphor for upward mobility and hierarchical progress. Crist transforms a ubiquitous image of success, rungs, ranks, reaching the top, into a staged dependency: she is simultaneously the wall the ladder leans on, the support that enables advancement, and a laborer charging for her service. The work folds wordplay and labor politics together, asking who holds us up and what we pay for that support.&nbsp; Andi Crist is a Chicago-based artist whose practice explores the intersections of urban environments, community and transformation. Known for her innovative use of found materials and construction techniques, Crist reimagines everyday objects and spaces, often incorporating elements of sustainability and reuse in her work. Her installations are immersive, encouraging viewers to reconsider the world around them and engage with their surroundings in new ways. Through both solo projects and collaborations with other artists, Crist’s work highlights the beauty and resilience of urban life, while challenging viewers to reflect on issues of ecology, community and collective responsibility.&nbsp; Her pieces have been featured in Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago, Roots &amp; Culture, and the Chicago Athletic Association. Recently, Crist was named as Newcity’s 2025 Breakout Artist’s issue. Crist graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology, where she gained her wood and fabrication knowledge while also freelancing as an art handler. In 2010, Crist founded Autotelic, a non-profit arts organization that serves artists on the northwest side of Chicago by creating affordable workspaces and exhibitions.&nbsp; “Live, Laugh, Labor: Thoughts on Usefulness and Other Myths” is curated by Justin Witte, Director and Curator of the CCMA. The exhibition will be on view Oct. 16, 2025 - Jan. 11, 2026. Admission is free. CCMA is open Wednesday – Sunday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. and one hour prior to MAC Performance Series concerts.&nbsp;For more information, visit&nbsp;TheCCMA.org&nbsp;&nbsp;and follow along at&nbsp;@CleveCarneyMuseumofArt For expert insight into the exhibition’s themes, tune in to CleveCast, the Cleve Carney Museum of Art’s new podcast, where Justin Witte hosts conversations with special guests including curators, artists, and scholars for behind-the-scenes stories and deep dives into the museum’s exhibitions. His interview with Crist can be found on the CCMA website at&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(229, 28, 40);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://theccma.org/clevecast" target="_blank">theccma.org/clevecast</a> Related Exhibition Events and Programming---Opening reception Thursday, Oct. 16, 5 – 7 p.m. Remarks from the artist. Light refreshments and cash bar. This event is free and open to the public.---CCMA Chief Curator Justin Witte will give a curator talk and tour of the exhibition Saturday, Oct. 18, 6:30 – 7 p.m. The event is free. Advance registration is not required <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1760641826/tm1vtz1z478stzqrp0fd.jpg">

Andi Crist: Live Laugh Labor

The Art Center's Annual Members and Faculty Exhibition.

In View 2026

We are pleased to present Once upon a midnight dreary, a solo exhibition of new works by French-artist Djabril Boukhenaïssi. This show marks the artist's first solo presentation in the United States, and the first with the gallery. This presentation of engravings and paintings meditates on the Night as a space of contemplation and connection where darkness dissolves the boundaries between self and the world. Drawing from literary and philosophical references including Baudelaire, Novalis, Rilke, and Max Milner, Boukhenaïssi’s palette of deep blues and mauves activates abstraction through opacity and illumination. His canvases transform the shadows of night into a site of memory and imagination, asking what emerges under the moonlight when the visible gives way to the unseen. The exhibition will run from November 14, 2025, to January 17, 2026, with an opening reception on Friday, November 14, 2025, from 6 - 8 PM.

Once upon a midnight dreary

PATRON is proud to present Long, Shore, Drift, our first solo exhibition with New York–based artist Simon Benjamin. Through a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture, installation, printmaking, and video, Benjamin posits the sea and coastal zones as sites of a perennially entangled network of geology and culture. For Benjamin, who is originally from Jamaica, the ecology of the Caribbean becomes a site at which to examine the historical and current relationships between afro-diasporic people and the sea. Emergent from his work to capture his own experiences as an avid surfer and swimmer, Benjamin’s recent work incorporates the physical materials of coastal zones, alongside and in juxtaposition to the visual lexicon of stylized ephemera of tourism produced by an ongoing colonial, commercial economy. Long, Shore, Drift refers to the geological term longshore drift, a natural process that moves sediment along a coastline resulting from the waves’ repetitive actions. Within the context of the exhibition, the pattern becomes a metaphor for examining how coastlines evolve, a concept Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite’s refers to as tidalectics—a framework that conceives of Caribbean identity as cyclical and fluid, shaped not by fixed geography but by movement and exchange. Continually unfolding and falling back upon itself, Long, Shore, Drift offers a repetitive, rhythmic reminder of the series of extractions that continue to shape the world and our perception of it.

Simon Benjamin: Long, Shore, Drift

Bert Green Fine Art&nbsp;is pleased to present our first solo show by Indiana-based contemporary artist&nbsp;Tom Torluemke.Tom Torluemke&nbsp;is known for his ambitious and evocative socio-political paintings. Drawing is the rarely seen starting point and driving force in his practice. It serves as a meditative and relaxing exercise, a testing ground for ideas, and a springboard for the direction the artist takes when pursuing a project. This exhibit features a selection of drawings by the artist stemming from three areas of the artist's work: plein air landscape drawings of the area near the artist's home, fanciful and personal autobiographical graphite drawings, and studies for the artist's large, imaginative, ambitious socio-political paintings.Born in Chicago, Illinois, his practice spans 40+ years and includes works in painting, drawing, sculpture, and installations in various mediums. Torluemke is known for his powerful, no-holds-barred approach to subject matter relating to socio-political, ethical, and humanistic themes. With over 150 solo and group exhibitions and 30 public art commissions throughout the Midwest, his work testifies to the relevance and scope of his ideas and his ability to present them in a meaningful context within their communities. In 2025, Torluemke's work on paper was the subject of a career retrospective,&nbsp;Tom Torluemke: Live! On Paper, 1987 – 2024&nbsp;curated by&nbsp;Dan Cameron&nbsp;at the&nbsp;Chicago Cultural Center&nbsp;with a monograph published by&nbsp;SKIRA Editore, Milan. The show was reviewed in&nbsp;Art Forum&nbsp;magazine in October 2025.&nbsp; All gallery events are free and open to the public. Additional information found at the gallery website at&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://bgfa.us./" target="_blank">https://bgfa.us.</a>&nbsp;Please forward to any interested parties.

Tom Torluemke: Sorted Sheets

Pistachios is hosting a solo exhibition with critically acclaimed artist, Sowon Joo. The work featured involves a labor-intensive metal weaving process that requires a tremendous amount of time and effort, resulting in sculptural jewelry that is in perfect harmony with the wearer.&nbsp;"I pour my thoughts, memories and spirit during the process of weaving, and the fragile and delicate nature of weaving with silver wire represents the vulnerability and fragility of life, especially in the early stages, which demands our care and protection. I design each piece as a subject within the context of the human body and consider it complete when the subject and the context are united in harmony and balance. In that sense, each person wearing my work is a part of my work; and my work, hopefully, is a part of the life of each person wearing it. By this relationship, even without direct communication, the user and I are part of each other’s life and experience." - Sowon Joo

Sowon Joo: Whispers of Winter Blooms

The Lewis University Department of Art and Design and the Wadsworth Family Gallery present the 9th Annual High School Art Invitational. Artwork from local high school students will be featured in this annual exhibition.

9th Annual High School Art Invitational 

In 2022, RAM organized a landmark exhibition for its street-facing Windows on Fifth Gallery. With artworks chosen from RAM’s collection,&nbsp;<a style="color: var(--link_color);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ramart.org/exhibit/on-fire-women-glass/" target="_blank">On Fire: Surveying Women in Glass in the Late-Twentieth Century</a>&nbsp;offered a cursory look at how women were shaping glass as an art material in the 1980s and 1990s. The exhibition title alludes to certain techniques of physically working with glass as well as the idea that some artists were innovating and making names for themselves—that they were “on fire” in their art world trajectory. This exhibition, an expanded version of the 2022 show, offers a deeper dive into this vital period in contemporary craft by outlining the concerns of artists who explore the sculptural, visual, metaphorical, and creative potential of glass. Seen through the eyes of women, it reflects developments with the medium as an art material two and three decades after studio glass concepts were being implemented into university programs and contemporary practices. Notably, a portion of the gallery is dedicated to supporting materials, such as images, articles, and books, which offer a broader context for understanding the artists, medium, and field.Glass does not have a single history as it has been used in many different ways. Its usage in a decorative context still exists, but the twentieth century also saw the academic establishment of it as a viable art-making material. This exhibition includes various examples of work produced within the studio glass framework—as self-consciously made art reflecting artistic investigations of materials, processes, and ideas. Artists represented include Sonja Blomdahl, Kimiake Higuchi, Concetta Mason, Flo Perkins, Kari Russell-Pool, Ginny Ruffner, Acquaetta Williams, Ann Wolff, and Toots Zynsky. Expanding on the 2022 exhibition, this iteration also features examples from collaborative teams, such as John Littleton and Kate Vogel and Benjamin Edols and Kathy Elliott. These artists explore numerous topics, including identity, beauty, color, pattern, nature, abstraction, form, the figure, metaphor, process, and the properties and abilities of glass as a material. There is also a range of techniques represented, including blowing, lampworking, casting, fusing, carving, polishing, pâte de verre, assembling, and various surface treatments. In essence, the exhibition summarizes the experimental nature of the artists and studio glass in general. A critic of another recent all-female glass exhibition lamented about needing to draw attention to the fact that all of the artists were women—are they artists first or women first? These conversations can also be limiting as they sidestep more fluid gender dynamics. Yet, in this particular moment in time, it is indeed important to draw attention to components beyond the objects themselves. Who the makers are and how they move through the world influences the work even if it is not the identifiable subject matter. Image: Ginny RuffnerTempest in a Spoon&nbsp;from the&nbsp;Structuring Beauty Series, 1999Glass and enamel paintRacine Art Museum, Gift of Stanley and Evelyn AsraelPhotography: Jarvis Lawson

On Fire Part II: Surveying Women in Glass in the Late-Twentieth Century

City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago&nbsp;is an intergenerational group exhibition that highlights Chicago’s essential, yet often underacknowledged, role in the story of queer art and activism. The exhibition examines this history from the mid-1980s, when activists radically mobilized in response to the US government’s disastrous handling of the AIDS crisis. In this moment of change, activists reclaimed the historically pejorative epithet “queer” as a liberatory term, encompassing all who purposefully deviate from heteronormative society. Drawn from the MCA’s collection and other local collections,&nbsp;City in a Garden&nbsp;follows this paradigm shift in LGBTQ+ history by bringing together work from over 30 artists and collectives working in Chicago from the 1980s to the present.These artists address queerness through diverse media and methods: documenting clandestine queer spaces in photographs, creating sculptures that challenge normative depictions of gender and sexuality, and exploring queer intimacy through drawings, paintings, and videos.&nbsp;City in a Garden&nbsp;also features archival materials related to groups who innovatively combine artistic practices with their activism. The exhibition takes its title from Chicago’s official motto,&nbsp;Urbs in Horto, which translates to “city in a garden.” In the context of this presentation, this motto speaks to the exhibited artists’ and activists’ utopian visions of a metropolitan sanctuary for people of all races, genders, and sexualities. As queer people continue to fight for their lives and livelihoods under ongoing and renewed political threats, these visions remain as urgent today as ever.City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago&nbsp;is curated by Jack Schneider, Assistant Curator.

City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago

<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://tnxbinhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0019Zs6dNFjX7qIcYdaZ8XX_Eff-Fb8JzDYn1L2P8gn-uAqJj96CDvdTMa5_smWVyCbxO-4qAc7vl3KM8exRRuogt08ukdYKZ64ip_8vNq83bRq5EI4YcatBvsusY7rLUvfVoKP05KTH1IS7PRG_016qRjN0G-v1HpIak3UGMDTasT_p_KcBfgSch8kLOujM7501cIw53QGFhM=&amp;c=UAse3PA9iSB-4Mj0SuvQGzlKGOWy0Nx2SbKZlCYkiKHksGmZSDk4Lw==&amp;ch=ZVooo2YRVsSxdN6CxIjYyHMGPkHLYBVf1zkjZEoneF1y2qqImyqpKQ==" target="_blank">From Its Own Ashes</a>, a two-person exhibition by 2024-26 Artist Residents&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://tnxbinhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0019Zs6dNFjX7qIcYdaZ8XX_Eff-Fb8JzDYn1L2P8gn-uAqJj96CDvdTADW1hvQwLbfOmJwQcRg-utLAitPWJkmgZOiXHSaGRYX--zEwatwpgbHDsRJ7l94R_sg9A1V1yK7YuK6LMFO2YD6iLnxd05o387a884Hbha2inPAH1Q2MZuJA8aR8jzTRekHdN_cssoL&amp;c=UAse3PA9iSB-4Mj0SuvQGzlKGOWy0Nx2SbKZlCYkiKHksGmZSDk4Lw==&amp;ch=ZVooo2YRVsSxdN6CxIjYyHMGPkHLYBVf1zkjZEoneF1y2qqImyqpKQ==" target="_blank">Isaac Couch</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://tnxbinhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0019Zs6dNFjX7qIcYdaZ8XX_Eff-Fb8JzDYn1L2P8gn-uAqJj96CDvdTADW1hvQwLbfGbqYnsj_lm9PGYZaQni0pwXDex0te1kaFalbLkf0rYiVc4ibvWBXXoi7-NIIgtdtZ0fsmLd92w3hWGAXlg9N77jB0A2ykZC7BLb61vViDqUB4nosWtJo2vIVwEwykvmM&amp;c=UAse3PA9iSB-4Mj0SuvQGzlKGOWy0Nx2SbKZlCYkiKHksGmZSDk4Lw==&amp;ch=ZVooo2YRVsSxdN6CxIjYyHMGPkHLYBVf1zkjZEoneF1y2qqImyqpKQ==" target="_blank">Sangwoo Yoo</a>,&nbsp;curated by 2024-26 Curatorial Resident&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://tnxbinhbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0019Zs6dNFjX7qIcYdaZ8XX_Eff-Fb8JzDYn1L2P8gn-uAqJj96CDvdTPyiSucoXInJWbyvp3hen9WHUEPBqkLnXqTii3QuYPGoFsvTxdHMX8p6UdGPwinjxgg5nMUm-YpfNXzCDkT4yLmpxlgFwSITXL5Ww2kSvwlyDyrst5ymPJt1D8zMb9ogadA8-g95cxS2x4s2-hMkNOY=&amp;c=UAse3PA9iSB-4Mj0SuvQGzlKGOWy0Nx2SbKZlCYkiKHksGmZSDk4Lw==&amp;ch=ZVooo2YRVsSxdN6CxIjYyHMGPkHLYBVf1zkjZEoneF1y2qqImyqpKQ==" target="_blank">Francine Almeda</a>.With similar mechanisms and social inquiries at its core,&nbsp;From Its Own Ashes&nbsp;is a duo exhibition that originates from both artists' personal navigation of loss. Yoo recalls encountering a felled Christmas tree in downtown Chicago as a pivotal moment of unexpected sorrow, its fallen form symbolising both the tree’s life giving force and the grief he holds for friends and family lost; Couch embodies a similar mourning for loved ones lost, drawing upon his upbringing within the American Southern and the constraints of western garment design as a metaphor for the destructive forces of systemic oppression. Although influenced by grief, both artists embrace the potentiality of instability. Working across sculpture, scent, video installation, and garments, Yoo and Couch investigate how these processes of loss (both material and spiritual) can become an alchemic, generative site of transformation.

From Its Own Ashes

Our&nbsp;Winter Salon&nbsp;show,&nbsp;featuring works by our gallery artists,&nbsp;opens on Friday, November 28th. Browse works by 40+ artists in a range of styles and sizes to find that perfect gift for someone special or to make your home ready for the holidays! We'll be open regular hours on both Friday and on Small Business Saturday (the 29th) and hope to see you then!Our&nbsp;Winter Salon&nbsp;will be on view through January 30th.

Winter Salon

CSI Member Benefit Art AuctionLittle, But Bold is in celebration of all things unmonumental. Often flying under the radar, small things have the special ability to bridge private and public spaces. Within the sculpture field, there has been a projected narrative that bigger is better. We are here to assert that small things can hold the same importance as the largest monument.

CSI Project Space: Little, but Bold! 

25 Years: Art + Design Alumni, 2000–2025, showcases the breadth of creativity and talent that emanates from the Department of Art + Design at Eastern Illinois University. As a quarter-century survey, the exhibition welcomes back former students and families to reflect on and celebrate what it means to have "bled blue"—on canvas, in the round, or anything in between or beyond—while inviting current and prospective students and community members to see what is possible after graduation.&nbsp;

25 Years: Art + Design Alumni, 2000–2025

Virtual Artists’ Talk:&nbsp;Thursday, January 15th, 2026 at 7 PM | <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://perspectivegallery.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=04a588cae42ffc5c2d944d823&amp;id=e288dd61d3&amp;e=49b9939ea4" target="_blank">Register here</a> Perspective Gallery is pleased to announce&nbsp;Fugue, a solo exhibition of new photographic works by acclaimed music composer, and visual artist William Harper, opening January 2, 2026. In this striking series, Harper explores the visual equivalent of musical counterpoint through motion-intensive photographic techniques, including timelapse, burst sequencing, and drone-based imaging.The exhibition features work that capture the dynamic patterns of landscapes and natural phenomena, revealing hidden harmonic relationships within movement. Each image or sequence becomes a “voice,” interacting with others to create a visual polyphony.Fugue&nbsp;invites viewers to experience time, movement, and structure in a photographic decisive moment.

William Harper: Fugue

The exhibition showcases Lustig's multifaceted creative force spanning from childhood to the present day. The showcase includes drawing, painting, sculpture, and more. Highlights include her&nbsp;Surreal Tree Paintings, oil works revealing anthropomorphic qualities in nature; Abstract Illusion Paintings, spontaneous landscapes evoking music and motion; and&nbsp;Zofscape, a multimedia installation combining LED light sculptures, animated video, and original music composition.A graduate of California College of the Arts in Oakland, Lustig has built a remarkable career as a caricature artist, ceramic sculptor, mural painter, and puppet maker. Her work reflects the influence of Bay Area underground comics culture and the Chicago Imagist movement, blending whimsy with deeper commentary on contemporary life. Her signature Pop Surrealism style transforms ordinary subjects into dreamlike scenarios that are simultaneously playful and profound. About the artist:&nbsp;Ellen Lustig is a multi-faceted artist and composer working in variousmedia to create her dynamic installations. Ellen’s light sculptures are a fabrication of acrylic etchings enhanced by LEDs and music, producing what feels like an all-immersive voluminous 3d space. Her animation series includes digitally rendered passages that mimic the designs seen in her sculptures and also have the effect of an other-worldly landscape. A graduate of California College of the Arts in Oakland, California, Lustig has spent decades as a caricature artist, ceramic sculptor, mural painter, and puppet maker, creating unique pieces that are sought after nationwide. In addition to numerous one woman and group shows with her sculptures and paintings, she dedicates time by regularly teaching art to cancer patients and their families in hospitals and wellness centers such as Gilda’s Club of Chicago. Ellen can also be found playing blues keyboards at open mic nights in Chicago and the suburbs.Ellen Lustig's paintings are a collection of Pop Surrealism art. Her subject matter is forever transforming as she delves into toys, nature, and abstraction. The imagery in Ellen's paintings is a combination of whimsy, pop and realism. The subjects in her paintings also vary between baby boomer toys in uncanny situations, anthropomorphic trees, or quirky abstractions.Throughout Ellen's paintings including her early work, tree paintings, toy paintings or abstractions, Lustig creates a variety of subjects and styles. Her continuous theme is Pop Surrealism Art.The Pop Surrealism/Lowbrow art movement originated in the 1960's with hot rod culture and underground comics. It has evolved into a vilified, vital, and exciting art movement.Having been schooled in the Bay area for College, Ellen was definitely influenced by the comical area surrounding her. She then moved to Chicago where the Hairy Who and Imagists were prevalent in the art world which also had an effect on her subject matter. Lustig still resides in Chicago where she has made a lifelong career as a multimedia artist. Her work has been shown nationally in galleries and museums along with private collections. About the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art:&nbsp;The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) preserves and promotes contemporary art as a shared expression of the Ukrainian and American experience. UIMA develops, utilizes and encourages artistic talent through exhibitions, concerts, readings, lectures and films to serve the cultural needs of our community and city, and thereby strengthen cultural understanding and diversity. <ul><li>Artist Talk: Saturday, January 17, 1–2 pm</li></ul>

Ellen Lustig: Transformations

The show&nbsp;highlights print projects published by Manneken Press over the past twelve months. The exhibition features work by five artists, with works&nbsp;ranging from symbolism to geometric and painterly abstraction to photographic realism. Included are unique monotypes as well as limited-edition etchings and photogravures. On view online at Artsy <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.artsy.net/partner/manneken-press" target="_blank">here</a> The exhibition features work by five artists, ranging from symbolism to geometric and painterly abstraction to photographic realism. Included are unique monotypes as well as limited-edition etchings and photogravures — a hybrid of photography and intaglio printmaking. Artists invited to Manneken Press typically travel from cities such as New York, Dallas, or Bogotá to our central Illinois studio, where they work intensively for a week or longer. The artist’s presence is crucial, and the compressed nature of these working sessions often yields a cohesive body of prints that can stand individually or function together as a series — hence the term “project.” Artists included in the show:•<a style="color: rgb(9, 194, 105);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://qvrzaq.clicks.mlsend.com/tf/c/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjM4NzU1NixcImxcIjoxNzI4ODYwMjc4NzgyNzAxOTEsXCJyXCI6MTcyODg2MDQxMzkzMzY2NTk0fSIsInMiOiI0MTE0YzU0ODZmZDEyZWE5In0" target="_blank">Edie Fake</a>•<a style="color: rgb(9, 194, 105);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://qvrzaq.clicks.mlsend.com/tf/c/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjM4NzU1NixcImxcIjoxNzI4ODYwMjc4ODQ1NjE2NTYsXCJyXCI6MTcyODg2MDQxMzkzMzY2NTk0fSIsInMiOiI3MzU5ZTkzNzYyNDIyYjY0In0" target="_blank">Andrea Ferrigno</a>•<a style="color: rgb(9, 194, 105);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://qvrzaq.clicks.mlsend.com/tf/c/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjM4NzU1NixcImxcIjoxNzI4ODYwMjc4ODk4MDQ1NDAsXCJyXCI6MTcyODg2MDQxMzkzMzY2NTk0fSIsInMiOiI2YTM4YjRiMzk5Y2YxMjhlIn0" target="_blank">Jason Karolak</a>•<a style="color: rgb(9, 194, 105);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://qvrzaq.clicks.mlsend.com/tf/c/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjM4NzU1NixcImxcIjoxNzI4ODYwMjc4OTYwOTYwMDEsXCJyXCI6MTcyODg2MDQxMzkzMzY2NTk0fSIsInMiOiI3YTM5Y2NjNjEyZmIzNDMwIn0" target="_blank">Claire Seidl</a>•<a style="color: rgb(9, 194, 105);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://qvrzaq.clicks.mlsend.com/tf/c/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjM4NzU1NixcImxcIjoxNzI4ODYwMjc5MDEzMzg4ODUsXCJyXCI6MTcyODg2MDQxMzkzMzY2NTk0fSIsInMiOiJhYWU5NjE2YTVlZjE2NjU1In0" target="_blank">Philip Van Keuren</a> Image: Jason Karolak:&nbsp;Prospect,&nbsp;2024. Aquatint on Magnani Incisioni paper.&nbsp;Edition of 20. Image: 21" x 18"/sheet: 26.5" x 23".

Projects: Recent Releases from Manneken Press

<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://qvrzaq.clicks.mlsend.com/tj/cl/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjM4NzU1NixcImxcIjoxNzMyNDE4MTEyMzY1NTM4NDAsXCJyXCI6MTczMjQxODIzMzYxMjM4NTIwfSIsInMiOiJlOThmMGIzOTE2ZDA3YjNjIn0" target="_blank">Projects: Recent Releases from Manneken Press</a>The show&nbsp;highlights print projects published by Manneken Press over the past twelve months. The exhibition features work by five artists, with works&nbsp;ranging from symbolism to geometric and painterly abstraction to photographic realism. Included are unique monotypes as well as limited-edition etchings and photogravures -&nbsp;a hybrid of photography and intaglio printmaking.Artists invited to Manneken Press typically travel from cities such as New York, Dallas, or Bogotá to our central Illinois studio, where they work intensively for a week or longer. The artist’s presence is crucial, and the compressed nature of these working sessions often yields a cohesive body of prints that can stand individually or function together as a series — hence the term “project.” Artists included in the show:•<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://qvrzaq.clicks.mlsend.com/tj/cl/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjM4NzU1NixcImxcIjoxNzMyNDE4MTEyNDkxMzY3NzYsXCJyXCI6MTczMjQxODIzMzYxMjM4NTIwfSIsInMiOiJmN2ExYWNjOWEwMmU1OTFmIn0" target="_blank">Edie Fake</a>•<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://qvrzaq.clicks.mlsend.com/tj/cl/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjM4NzU1NixcImxcIjoxNzMyNDE4MTEyNTQzNzk2NjcsXCJyXCI6MTczMjQxODIzMzYxMjM4NTIwfSIsInMiOiJkMGJiZGRmMTExODg1MWUyIn0" target="_blank">Andrea Ferrigno</a>•<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://qvrzaq.clicks.mlsend.com/tj/cl/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjM4NzU1NixcImxcIjoxNzMyNDE4MTEyNjA2NzExMzMsXCJyXCI6MTczMjQxODIzMzYxMjM4NTIwfSIsInMiOiJlNDcxODc1MGExYzFkMWNjIn0" target="_blank">Jason Karolak</a>•<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://qvrzaq.clicks.mlsend.com/tj/cl/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjM4NzU1NixcImxcIjoxNzMyNDE4MTEyNjY5NjI1OTYsXCJyXCI6MTczMjQxODIzMzYxMjM4NTIwfSIsInMiOiIyY2Q0MmJhNTI5ZTY3NzFmIn0" target="_blank">Claire Seidl</a>•<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://qvrzaq.clicks.mlsend.com/tj/cl/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjM4NzU1NixcImxcIjoxNzMyNDE4MTEyNzMyNTQwNjEsXCJyXCI6MTczMjQxODIzMzYxMjM4NTIwfSIsInMiOiJiNWNjYmU1YmQwZDYyOTg4In0" target="_blank">Philip Van Keuren</a>

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