<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419090/tk4ysgxehvo6phbhhpgm.jpg"><figcaption>Photo: Dan Piotrowski</figcaption></figure>By ANNA DOBROWOLSKIOn days where joining friends for a meal isn’t an option, and the effort of cooking for one is better spent calling for takeout, eating alone can seem a chore, rather than an event. Reserving a ‘table for one’ at a Michelin-starred restaurant rarely enters the realm of possibilities; even less so is taking a snack to an art gallery. In Lincoln Park, Chef Tomaska and his team at <a href="https://www.esmechicago.com">Esmé</a> curate a world where you can have your art and eat it, too.For the uninitiated, the Lincoln Park restaurant received a Michelin star in April 2022 less than a year after its opening on August 18th, 2021. Located on the tree-laden corner of Webster and Clark, Esmé’s open windows and modern exterior welcome art and food lovers for a feast for the senses.&nbsp;Chef Jenner Tomaska and partner Katrina Bravo came up with the food-art tandem by listening to artists talking about their work. “I’m interested in the story of how and why an artist decides to create. Working in the kitchen, [as a chef] you remove yourself from the conversation a lot of the time, but I like the conversations that happen when people come together and discuss a piece,” Chef Tomaska tells me.&nbsp;Esmé's current menu is inspired by Chicago-based multimedia artist Courtney Shoudis. I recently had the chance to speak with the creatives on scene.&nbsp;*<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419091/izdst6pe94tdv6vhtv4s.png"><figcaption>Photo: Dan Piotrowski</figcaption></figure>Before working in painting and sculpture, and new media such as film, Shoudis worked in fashion and design. She is currently working on a new painting for her series ‘The Passing of Time’— a collection of paintings which renders seasons passing while waiting for her partner’s final immigration interview into America. At first, Shoudis created these paintings to grapple with long distance and the confusion spurred by immigration processes that have been backlogged by the pandemic. “I naïvely thought that it would be six months. Now, I am working on the 13th season,” she says. “It’s at the point where it is just madness. The reason I wanted to visualize it was to cope.”&nbsp;Shoudis and I moved our conversation from the bar into the main dining area and gallery space, into an area by the west entrance with tabletops designated for amuse bouches. In our periphery, Shoudis’ untitled female nudes brush against Cubist traditions with their delineating figures and flattened, color blocked forms. “I thought about pulling [the women] apart, reconsidering them from the female viewpoint and experience. In this work I’m trying to understand these different stages of life through the body, and I'm trying to figure out how much of that has been seen before me as well as who I am.”&nbsp;As we orbit around the sculptures, we see the angular silhouette of a woman on her knee, then standing up and being strong again. The lines echo the sculptures and the tabletop female sculptures, which Shoudis had designed specifically to function as a serving plate for the subsequent bites. She has long been interested in the use of women’s bodies in art, using her own practice to point out, and then reconsider, these trends in a new light. “With the tabletop sculptures, I played with the idea of objectifying women even further,” she points out, as I watch guests pluck appetizers off the structure.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419092/wi7z118nu5roxq8mdzrs.jpg"><figcaption>Photo: Sandy Noto</figcaption></figure>In the main dining area there are four canvases with colors exploding across the canvas. Their impressionistic fluidity contrasts against the geometric sculptures.&nbsp;“I have never shown these two bodies of work in the same space,” says Shoudis. For her, Seasons has been a personal odyssey in which she draws from various texts. “I never know what will trigger the next season,” she says. One painting with controlled, deep purple daubs across the raw canvas is Shoudis’ reflection of Ophelia’s desperation in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In Mayakovsky and the Passing of Winter, she mentions an affinity for a line from Frank O Hara’s poem “Mayakovsky:”&nbsp; “It may be the coldest day of the year, what does he think of that? I mean, what do I? And if I do, perhaps I am myself again.” In another, she meditates on the falling of cherry blossoms.*Sitting down with the work of art is one part of the story. My friend Nancy had flown in from New Orleans for the weekend and – in a herculean Human Race effort, hailed an Uber straight to Esmé to join me for our 7pm dinner reservation (I resigned from eating alone, here). Our very first bite was a reconstructed Cheeto,™ with its puff shell and orange cheese powder staining our fingers a la nostalgia. Each bite, like each of Shoudis’ season, carried a new impression – bittersweet, smoky, acidic – and each platter arrived with another story. For instance, a savory puff pastry was served on a gossamer origami plate (“Lips”<a href="https://www.instagram.com/polyscene/?hl=en"> Polly Verity</a>). One meal was delivered on a zoetrope–it disappeared quickly so that I could spin the plate and witness birds in flight. As a preamble to dessert – the grand finale– smoke emerged out of a marbled head on a platter.&nbsp;*<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419093/f7qr5tq9yf4tfhaflzq1.png"><figcaption>Photos: Anna Dobrowolski</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;After the feast, I asked the Chef about the process of creating a menu inspired by art and some of its challenges. Says Tomaska, "Esmé was conceptualized to lead with art and community first, so in many ways we flipped the construct of a restaurant on its head, reverse engineering the process of creating a menu. It's exciting to create in this way, but also presents challenges in terms of the frequency with which we are making menu changes and switching out the artwork, something we embrace because of our dedication to this mission and goal to utilize our space to be a platform to shine a light on the individuals who contribute to Chicago's creative culture. We've been fortunate that we have been embraced by the community and take the care to explain the vision for what we are doing as we are guiding their meal at the restaurant.”&nbsp;When I told Tomaska I could appreciate the mission to give back as well as give a platform to artists, he responds that there is more to come. “The next collaboration will be with <a href="https://www.kitchenpossible.org/">Kitchen Possible</a>, a local non-profit dedicated to empowering kids to make amazing things happen in their lives through lessons learned in the kitchen. The menu will be inspired by those life lessons with a portion of proceeds benefiting the organization.”&nbsp;Check out Esmé at <a href="https://www.esmechicago.com">esmechicago.com</a>You can find Courtney Shoudis on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/courtneyjean/?hl=en">Instagram</a>&nbsp;at or on her <a href="https://www.courtneyshoudis.com/">website.</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419094/vzai75aiocfztr0rs29e.jpg"><figcaption>Photo: Sandy Noto</figcaption></figure></body></html>

Esmé: Where You Can Have Your Art and Eat it Too

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419091/wwhwgaqcuviduu49qqq4.png"><figcaption>The Travelers’ Broken Crowd by Rashid Johnsohn. Image courtesy of the New York Times.&nbsp; &nbsp;</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.saic.edu/news/terminal-c-at-la-guardia-features-installations-by-saic-alums?fbclid=IwAR0pfpl3QNtyTn-MMSA6MhEHqzi6GNQtySiL5kH7VvKpK_hiJlSwFjHLnNw">Terminal C at La Guardia Airport Features New Installations by SAIC Alums</a>School of the Art Institute of Chicago alums Rashid Johnson (MFA 2004) and Aliza Nisenbaum (BFA 2001, MFA 2005) are among the six New York-based artists who were recently commissioned to create large-scale permanent art installations for Delta Air Line’s Terminal C in New York’s La Guardia Airport. Commissioned in partnership with Queens Museum, the new works are part of a $12 million art program designed to turn the transportation hub into an art destination.Via SAIC&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/columns/hard-truths-advice-column-nft-1234633544/">HARD TRUTHS: SHOULD A ‘SERIOUS PAINTER’ STOOP TO MAKE&nbsp;NFTS?</a>With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen &amp; Lampert deliver hard truths in response to questions sent by Art in America readers from far and wide."As a serious painter, I’ve been paying no attention to the NFT art boom. People in my world keep talking about them, but I barely understand what NFTs are and can’t say I especially care, given that my work has nothing to do with media or video art."Via Art in America&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/07/08/cold-war-era-returns-as-cultural-ties-are-severed">Cold War era returns as cultural ties are severed between Russia and US</a>In May, Russia officially withdrew from a memorandum of understanding with the US in the field of culture, education and the media, in effect closing the door on cultural exchange in a move that takes both countries back to the heightened Cold War era that lasted until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The US Embassy was informed of the move on 1 June.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 7/11/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419090/ufovuh7o8bhqltrhfiti.jpg"><figcaption>In front: Nick Cave,  Speak Louder, 2011.  Mixed media. On wall: Nick Cave, Tondo, 2022. Mixed media. &nbsp;Photo: CGN</figcaption></figure>By GINNY VAN ALYEAWandering through Nick Cave's expansive retrospective, Forothermore, at the MCA a few weeks ago, I knew it wouldn't be my last visit. Luckily for those of us who live in Chicago, the exhibition is on view until October 2. If you haven't seen it yet, we know how fast summer goes, so make sure to see the show soon.&nbsp;I've seen Cave's work in many places over the years, but this is a chance to see so much of it all at once while following the timeline of Cave's art over the decades. Cave's work is undeniably beautiful to behold and also transfixing for the viewer because of its detail and technical complexity. Right there these things make for a blockbuster of a show. But the reason to return is to consider more deeply things other than beadwork and recognizable ephemera. Cave, an artist the MCA describes as "celebrated for projects that blend community building with vibrant works of art across disciplines," has become a star because of his sculptural Soundsuits that are both works of art as well as performance vehicles that can offer a means of contemplating humanity. These works can be static museum pieces you're not allowed to touch, as well as transformative garments worn to enliven public space and captivate attention spans in real time. In each case they mean more than meets the eye.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419091/issokcqjfabs0t4lfcfy.jpg"><figcaption>Installation view. Photo: CGN</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;While the Soundsuits on display are static here, several works are helpfully accompanied by audio narrations by Cave himself. One work – Hustle Coat – that hangs on the wall is brought to life when you can hear the swishing clanks of the watches and jewels that line the interior of a jacket while Cave describes, "The hustle coat is really a trench coat, which is made out of cotton. It’s double breasted. It has a belt. But inside of the coat it also has a lining. And this lining is covered in jewels. Just imagine—necklaces, chains, watches, jewelry, stones, are all sewn by hand into this lining of the coat, making it appear to be this jewel box."&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419092/udu6qy9nm66vfb4p8zpr.jpg"><figcaption>Nick Cave, Hustle Coat, 2021. Trench coat, cast bronze hand, metal, costume jewelry, watches, and chains. Photo: CGN</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;While you should see the show in person, it is helpful to also spend time on the MCA's website afterward in order to view the additional media available, in particular the <a href="https://mcachicago.org/publications/video/2022/nick-cave-forothermore">exhibition video</a> featuring an interview with Cave and videos of activated Soundsuits.&nbsp;There is also a totally wild and immersive (I say this in the best, not overused sense) site-specific installation in the MCA's soaring two-story atrium and fourth floor, Spinner Forest, made up of thousands of shiny, twirling spinners. On a recent visit to Wisconsin, I was so tempted to buy the spinners I spied at several road side gas stations, but I realized that were I to bring it home it would not have the magic that Cave has given it. &nbsp;And this is the reason to see the exhibition: the experience magic an artist can bring to the every day as well as to history. You will enjoy seeing these works together in this setting, maybe coming away as I did with a new, more personal understanding of art as well as struggle and even the future.&nbsp;<a href="https://mcachicago.org/exhibitions/2022/nick-cave-forothermore">Nick Cave: Forothermore</a> is accompanied by an exhibition catalogue designed with Cave's partner, Bob Faust. The exhibition is curated by Naomi Beckwith, former Manilow Senior Curator. It is presented in the Griffin Galleries of Contemporary Art on the museum's fourth floor. On view through October 2.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419093/aw7kwggr6sl2fsmwy1um.jpg"><figcaption>Nick Cave, Spinner Forest, 4th floor lobby. &nbsp;Photo: CGN</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419094/bfoc6ezxvfduraaxqjzh.jpg"><figcaption>Nick Cave, Soundsuits. Photo: CGN</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419094/hbwdwejppgfrmqhbjey6.jpg"><figcaption>Nick Cave, Time and Again, 2000. Mixed media including vintage metal, found objects, and wood. Time and Again is representative of Cave's early installation work, a harbinger of his future working practices, and an ode to his family. Cave arranged his grandfather's tools, agricultural objects, and Catholic symbols into an altar-like assemblage to honor a patriarch who was purposeful and meticulous. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: CGN</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419095/vsbloczejjodn2drr06k.jpg"><figcaption>Nick Cave, I Wouldn't Bet Against It, 2007. Mixed media including vintage fabric, dice and objects. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: CGN</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;</body></html>

Nick Cave: Photos from Forothermore

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419084/kzpr4ld0fkdhk8bpwdg0.jpg"><figcaption>Nancy Rubins</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.expochicago.com/programs/in-situ-outside?utm_source=EXPO+Master+%7C+Main+List&amp;utm_campaign=bc4e5facb3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_ODXLIV&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_5e6f73ac04-bc4e5facb3-58709297">New Sculpture on Chicago's Lakefront</a>As part of <a href="https://expochicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=feab88d1702b05fff44372e88&amp;id=fe7806e4ec&amp;e=c5b146cc27">IN/SITU Outside</a> and in partnership with the Chicago Park District, Chicago DCASE and Rhona Hoffman Gallery, EXPO CHICAGO is proud to present two Nancy Rubins sculptures from her Diversifolia series installed along Chicago's lakefront. First shown in London in 2018, this is the first time the series will be seen stateside for a longer installation period and displayed outdoors to be enjoyed by the public. Learn more about the project and locations <a href="https://expochicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=feab88d1702b05fff44372e88&amp;id=bc88c6f72d&amp;e=c5b146cc27">here.</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419084/assjcfbcz6wy96iiuzh2.jpg"><figcaption>Mac Maker (left) and Ruth DeYoung Kohler with the Culinary Art Car, 2014. Photo courtesy of John Michael Kohler Arts Center.</figcaption></figure><a href="https://artdosemagazine.com/2022/07/02/announcing-ruth-foundation-for-the-arts-new-grantmaker-stewards440-million-trust/?fbclid=IwAR1WZBqXn-TnM7LfMgmg-OX3ZTFWSBFuU7cLHQrce46dCeFdq3xzSgO4brA">Announcing Ruth Foundation for the Arts&nbsp;New Grantmaker Stewards $440 Million&nbsp;Trust</a>On June 30th, the&nbsp;Ruth Foundation for the Arts&nbsp;(Ruth Arts) marked its debut in the landscape of arts philanthropy with the announcement of its inaugural grantmaking cycle. The new foundation is supported by a bequest of&nbsp;$440 million&nbsp;from the late&nbsp;Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, and expects to award grants totaling more than&nbsp;$17 million&nbsp;annually.The first class of Ruth Arts grantees — an initial round of funding that precedes the regular giving cycles that the organization will embark upon later this year — includes 78 nonprofit arts organizations that have been awarded a total of&nbsp;$1.25 million&nbsp;in funding. These individual grants range from&nbsp;$10,000 to $50,000&nbsp;each.Via Artdose Magazine&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/2/23189106/lake-meadows-howard-brown-architectural-jewel-prairie-urban-renewal-shine-again?fbclid=IwAR2hzmphrUy_aG6liImnp0weKF_h1B0mFAtUN2AGyVjyi4d23pgz1-mblvc">Unsung architectural ‘jewel on the prairie’ in Bronzeville is poised to shine again</a>A steel-and-glass building on Bronzeville’s northern edge is among Chicago’s finer modernist structures, yet it has gone relatively unnoticed and uncelebrated since its construction 60 years ago.But that could change over the next year or so.The long-vacant, two-story former Lake Meadows professional building at 31st Street and Rhodes Avenue is set to come alive again in early 2023 as office space for the Howard Brown health organization.Work has already begun, with the building stripped down to its steel bones as part of the transformation.Via Chicago Sun Times&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 7/6/22

<html><head></head><body>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419084/khp7yx5lil6jsaxfi33n.png"></figure>Beyond the FrameOpening: Thursday, July 7, 5 – 7&nbsp;pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/beyond-the-frame">Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP)</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419085/ecpa77gfq15x50ino0ym.jpg"></figure>Summer Group ShowOpening: Friday, July 8, 5 – 8&nbsp;pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/vale-craft-gallery">Vale Craft Gallery</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419086/dutgyvxohpxx1vvrobm0.jpg"></figure>Summer Group ShowOpening: Friday, July 8, 5 – 8&nbsp;pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/summer-group-show-3f360754-a2e8-4a34-8057-03341055b55d">Carl Hammer Gallery</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419087/cvwjbejbzxnbqr6lo2i2.jpg"></figure>New paintings by Carl LinstrumOpening: Friday, July 8, 5 – 8&nbsp;pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/addington-gallery">Addington Gallery</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419089/plfuyedtkrvjj3zgcbyy.jpg"></figure>Mid-Summer River North Gallery WalkOpening: Friday, July 8, 5 – 8&nbsp;pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/jean-albano-gallery">Jean Albano Gallery</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419089/irgltvhnq9ipr6pyqv9v.jpg"></figure>Mid-Summer River North Gallery WalkOpening: Friday, July 8, 5 – 8&nbsp;pm<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/gallery-victor-armendariz">Gallery Victor Armendariz</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions July 7 & 8

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419084/mfzocqof69kzmwos5njk.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/deirdre-sullivan-beeman-delirium">Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman: Delirium</a>Opening: Saturday, July 9, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmBert Green Fine Art&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419084/lvobs9xissm8wzcu28zf.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/collin-van-der-sluijs-solo-show-2507d6bb-64ee-45b7-b6d9-026eecb4509e">Collin van der Sluijs: Collision</a>Opening: Saturday, Jul 9, 2022 12 – 6&nbsp;pmVertical Gallery&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419085/rcucvwqrj2jd5v3ednx6.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/true-grit">True Grit</a>Opening: Saturday, July 9, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmSpace 900&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419086/rzoeyxu2dmeuucu9hwhi.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/vicinity-opening-reception-at-the-gallery-saturday-july-9-2022-5-7-p-m">Vicinity: Opening Reception at the Gallery</a>Opening: Saturday, July 9, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmPerspective Photo Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419087/dkgcn5akxfaoqkxqovhw.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/chicago-works-gregory-bae">Chicago Works: Gregory Bae</a>Opening: Saturday, Jul 9, 2022 1 – 3&nbsp;pmMuseum of Contemporary Art&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419088/nnrxrlgofk85f8zo6xdx.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/pox-americana-how-smallpox-once-plagued-america-the-world">Pox Americana: How Smallpox Once Plagued America &amp; The World</a>Opening: Saturday, Jul 9, 2022 6 – 8:30&nbsp;pmInternational Museum of Surgical Science &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions July 9

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419084/fk1fuw1tlymbgckvldt9.jpg"><figcaption>Sibylle Friche and Aron Gent of DOCUMENT</figcaption></figure>DOCUMENT welcomes Sibylle Friche as PartnerDOCUMENT is excited to announce the appointment of Sibylle Friche in her new role as Partner. She joins Gallery Founder and Owner, Aron Gent.Friche has served as DOCUMENT’s Director from 2015–2022. Since joining the gallery, she has produced over forty solo and group exhibitions, overseen numerous internationally-recognised art fair presentations, and has played a pivotal role in the development of the gallery’s program and expansion. During her tenure, Friche has facilitated institutional acquisitions by The Guggenheim Museum, The Centre Pompidou, and The Carnegie Museum of Art, among others.&nbsp;“Sibylle has been instrumental to the success of the gallery,” said Gent. “She has expanded our reach and has formed meaningful relationships with institutions, artists, and collectors across the globe, most notably in Europe.” He continued, “She approaches her work with integrity and rigor and I am eager to see what she brings to this new role.”“I am proud to continue my work at DOCUMENT in a new capacity, while continuing to support and champion a talented roster of artists,” said Friche. “I admire Aron’s dedication, vision, and contributions to the art world and I am excited to be able to play a role in shaping the future of DOCUMENT.”&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419084/pzzsl6evjhchqt1yya8g.png"></figure><a href="https://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-sculpture-park-2022/nathan-manilow-sculpture-park-university-park-illinois/?fbclid=IwAR090mA_j8e6f3Q0luq1BFsG5v9h8OeED_prkHfhgwmsI8RlGGwAIPnnodQ">Vote on 10Best for Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park</a>This sculpture park at Governors State University in Chicago’s Southland features a collection of 30 large-scale sculptures displayed across 100 acres of prairie landscape. The free outdoor museum also hosts programs to help connect visitors with art and nature in a more meaningful way.They were voted #1 in 2021. Voting is live for the next four days.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Richard Hunt Shares Video Teaser of New Obama Center Sculpture<a href="https://video.thrivent.com/view/RisingTeaser?linkId=158480646&amp;fbclid=IwAR0vTT-2jNHpQlfq-qBMy5nRxkWHSBN1Rm2LBnQefQn1z84mOwGxVQv8i7U">View the video here.</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mystateline.com/video/rockford-artists-support-ukraine-with-‘art-for-peace’-event/7795738/?fbclid=IwAR1fZtfk42z91b2eF20GIg8Tmk4mUZviZZU-LITge-Rtue6KqKEJOrEeyAs">Rockford artists support Ukraine with ‘Art for Peace’ event</a>Mary McNamara Bernsten, Executive Director of Rockford Area Arts Council, and Father Jonathan Bannon, from Christ the Savior Orthodox Church, will host “Art for Peace: An Evening to Support Ukraine” on Wednesday at the University Club of Rockford, at 945 N Main Street.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 6/30/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419084/uxuwssfgc0fnwupri1gs.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/opening-reception-moniquemeloche-presents">Opening Reception: moniquemeloche presents…</a>Opening: Friday, July 1, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmLubeznik Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419084/rpfvwnkvl4ae4iwynsnb.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/hoodoos-and-other-anomalies">Hoodoos and Other Anomalies</a>Opening: Friday, July 1, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmMu Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419085/ifndlihx0ceh0nh3ioax.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/victoria-fullerbring-back-the-extinct-northern-white-rhino">Victoria Fuller - Bring Back The Extinct Northern White Rhino</a>Opening: Friday, July 1, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419086/pmwbdiuxczjzfmy9x0we.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/open-house-new-zealand-artist-judson-chatfield">Open House: New Zealand artist Judson Chatfield</a>Friday, July 1, 12–7pm and Saturday, July 2, 12–5pm.&nbsp;Two day open house featuring the bronze figurative sculpture of noted New Zealand artist <a href="https://www.facebook.com/judsonsculptor?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZX4JFcyUB_AS2UlesP5f1kFueSsac7jNZ82YVcBF74c8HBzBFHO7pkStQ-euDfa1-LJXNRYDHu0FGdUhV4l1IjIpBSQcdz1brqQvJHYY-0jtTeW5ycZkj0TGtfUgEftdtuuKbK4dZb5lR0Y9LPKO_o43xy8pA-kpRiWECq0BuKYnA&amp;__tn__=-%5DK-R">Judson Chatfield</a>Addington Gallery&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419087/bn0qchjc6h2pjfaurjo7.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/martine-syms">Martine Syms: She Mad Season One</a>July 2Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA)&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Opening July 1 & 2

<a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/06/27/1107915923/artist-sam-gilliam-died">Artist Sam Gilliam has died at 88</a>One of the most important and influential abstract visual artists in the U.S. has died: Sam Gilliam, a great colorist whose work influenced generations of artists, was 88 years old. Gilliam's death on Saturday was announced by the Pace Gallery, which had represented him since 2019, and the David Kordansky Gallery, which had represented him since 2012. The cause of death was not disclosed.Gilliam was born in Tupelo, Miss., in 1933 as the seventh child of eight to a father who worked on the railroad and a homemaking mother. He attended the University of Louisville for both bachelor's and master's degrees, but in 1962 moved to Washington, D.C., where he lived and had his studio for the rest of his life. He became one of the leading artists of the Washington Color School — a 1950s movement that emphasized large fields of color.He was very interested in freeing his paintings from the boundaries of canvases and frames.Via NPR&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/cezanne-art-institute-of-chicago-gloria-groom-caitlin-haskell-natalia-sindlina-camille-pissarro-monet-degas-gauguin-matisse-picasso-henry-moore-lucian-freud-jasper-johns-gustave-caillebotte-11655932056?mod=Searchresults_pos1&amp;page=1">‘Cezanne’ Review: In All His Complexity - A WSJ Review</a>The first painting visitors to “Cezanne” at the Art Institute of Chicago encounter is “Undergrowth (Sous-Bois)” (c. 1894), a pine-forest scene painted from a bit below the trees, gazing up, with a barely perceivable horizon, and formed from patches of distinct marks that suggest just a slight fluttering. Some elements, like a rust-colored mound on the left, take shape only from several steps away.It is an inspired choice. Unusually (then) for a landscape, it’s a vertical canvas; it lacks a focal point; and it verges on being what later came to be called an “all-over painting,” with the image spilling past the edges of the canvas. Every bit as perplexing as it is engaging, “Undergrowth” serves as an apt metaphor for Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) himself.Via WSJ&nbsp;<a href="https://womanmade.org/about/update_june2022/?fbclid=IwAR0s5vEGG-gUhJmZw7PBD9dxXPsKNsFxVat7RRI-_RByyAtOfG01_CkIj-Q">Woman Made Gallery Shares Updates on Staffing Future As it Nears 30th Anniversary</a>&nbsp;In a recent message to members WMG shared, "Jamie Pitts has recently stepped down as Managing Director. The Board of Directors is currently transitioning Jamie’s responsibilities to board members with the help of Darshita Jain, Programming Lead. We sincerely thank Jamie for stewarding the gallery during a challenging time in our history. As we approach the 30-year anniversary exhibition, Generations, please visit us at the gallery,&nbsp; participate in our public programming, and keep an eye out for more information. We will keep updating and including you in this journey with us."Read the full announcement <a href="https://womanmade.org/about/update_june2022/?fbclid=IwAR0s5vEGG-gUhJmZw7PBD9dxXPsKNsFxVat7RRI-_RByyAtOfG01_CkIj-Q">here.</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 6/28/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image image-style-side"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419084/ukoibxbtski8a6qzpyir.png"><figcaption>Gertrude Abercrombie, Self and Cat (Possims) (1953) (est $300,000-$500,000) at Hindman's Casting Spells: The Gertrude Abercrombie Collection of Laura and Gary Maurer on September 28. Courtesy Hindman Auctions.</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/06/16/a-single-owner-sale-of-works-by-gertrude-abercrombie-may-bring-her-market-the-attention-is-has-long-deserved">The Art Newspaper Spotlight's Fall Auction of works by Gertrude Abercrombie at HINDMAN</a>Via The Art NewspaperIt seems that the art world has finally caught up with Gertrude Abercrombie. While her work has always been well regarded, until recently the market had failed to fully appreciate Abercrombie’s charming and delicate Surrealist works. That changed in February this year, when Chicago’s Hindman Auctions sold her small painting The Dinosaur (1964) for $387,500 (with fees) against an estimate of $30,000-$50,000, marking a worldwide artist record. With the recent surge of interest in <a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/10/04/exploring-the-global-appeal-of-surrealism">Surrealism</a> it is no wonder that Abercrombie’s work is being looked at more closely (even if one needs a magnifying glass to do so).In September, <a href="http://hindmanauctions.com/">Hindman</a> will bring to the market Casting Spells: The Gertrude Abercrombie Collection of Laura and Gary Maurer. The single owner, single artist sale will see 21 of Abercrombie's most significant works, including the mystical Self and Cat (Possims) (1953), one of the physically largest works by the artist, who is known for minute and richly detailed paintings that can sometimes be no larger than a postage stamp.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-danny-torres-art-installation-0619-20220623-o2yattdqpnfrrjgetltczih74m-story.html?fb_news_token=AnTMr8BrYboMFl5vHF7kUw%3D%3D.BvwkKMg3nOpYnrKA0HI%2Fn%2BI37JRZffXSrtNpYI7eDeXt5U1kea%2FMvRj8fWMiuRFbm5DC2eBDwzkSi7LPQ6DJUES9Qj7BFRCF0LypDzfyAYZ%2FQz1XIqSRjiYbORVGzmEHPySZNtgXRS6z65lpv7DA%2F%2BqvYSrsG%2FTtq9KzpP3RTDBp%2FnkNn3PcRmz2TSddji73DnnP2FoGnA1mVyWE2nOUuLwJq1K2v%2FJ5iBqkrGJA1wmHUi1ZXBcZjBt2Rt%2BslDmiw%2FfnNw1rh1dZQxzOeZ%2F4RV9MFx1sd7idqYvj%2FJpOPR3gAquysfVt9pfd8uN2bBIVcV7oqRXesgE8UwPtREyK6wpeFzdq%2Fba%2BtM6iJIQqcPxyps8K5JBugJUtkyC%2BNzAYFroSvyF0HXpDmOHh%2Bw3Zdd3oejI7MHNvFYdgDM%2F6zufWF9mCejsWnTesvEqD6yyK&amp;fbclid=IwAR0EXVOP8XoeH3J3AN3EvUVDSmsRHPhZy8LKao40JhzSUs5TkcnNqBp9MTI">Danny Torres, Tony Fitzpatrick Protege, Interviewed by Chicago Tribune</a>Via Chicago TribuneThis latest art adventure began with the heart attack [artist Tony] Fitzpatrick suffered in 2015. “My cardiac rehab nurse was this wonderful woman named Rosa at St. Mary’s Hospital. She told me her nephew was an artist and asked if I would meet with him.”Of course, he said yes.That artist was Danny Torres, some three decades younger than Fitzpatrick, who has a long history of encouraging and mentoring younger artists.“So I came and met Tony and we just sat there talking and it was like we had known each other forever,” Torres told me. “It was like in that movie, ‘Back to the Future,’ where Marty meets his older self.”&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/best-booths-2022-art-basel-1234631911/">Gray Gallery Named one of ARTnews Best Booth's at Art Basel</a>Via ARTnewsThis year’s Unlimited section features 70 large-scale works, including Theaster Gates’s Hardware Store Painting (2020–22), which measures 16 feet by 28 feet. Presented by Gray, this installation memorializes a family-owned True Value hardware store formerly located on Chicago’s South Side and then turned into an artistic material. Gates, whose practice is deeply invested in the preservation of neglected social and cultural histories of his hometown, acquired the store and all of its merchandise in 2014; he has continued to activate the Halsted True Value Hardware archive since 2016. Aware of the value of such places for local communities, the interdisciplinary artist invites viewers to look beyond the objects: “The hardware store is the atlas. Like so many encyclopedic forms, it reminds us of a singular vocabulary, a homeland, a material sanctuary that unfortunately has its end when the form of exchange is no longer convenient.”&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 6/23/22

<html><head></head><body>Via PRThe Chicago Printmakers Collaborative announced the Recipients of the 2022 Bloom Residency: Juana Estrada Hernández and Alexandra AntoineThe Bloom Residency at CPC supports women artists of color in either exploring new printmaking techniques or expanding their existing print practices. Recipients are provided with one to three weeks of 24/7 access to CPC’s professional print studio to produce a limited edition, print-based work.<figure class="image image-style-side"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419084/bqqupkfbtc1ecnhsunxz.jpg"><figcaption>Juana Estrada Hernández</figcaption></figure><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001mWCWGAKaYLYv_PJuiS3oaiyvl_cybjS7MO-4UuX7Z1nsIt1zAxsS--vv12SiTwk4rre9Nhxxm8IHB73Dc2stZTjrJ620JmMMFeA2k5V2HzWOqfmSoGpnYamcaCXcfjCs96g7f6dkxfRURGG_Na1X6tHcoevCOpvm&amp;c=bYyULtT5abw-5w3nB5t19g8Ns8gr3olLKu7YyldRgrWPcJDeU22V_Q==&amp;ch=eTKt7UzldJv1z4B_qBnhvxKhoMKLXzH0W8P0Scz_XGbX2mWIuZlRzw==">Juana Estrada Hernández</a>&nbsp;was born in Luis Moya, Zacatecas, Mexico and immigrated to the United States when she was seven years old. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas and her Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Estrada Hernandez is a recipient of the Southern Graphic Council International Graduate Fellowship Award, SITE Scholars Award, Center of Fine Arts Dean Travel Award, UNM Student Conference Award Program, and Ralph W. Douglas Endowed Memorial Scholarship. As an artist, Estrada Hernandez utilizes her experiences growing up in the United States as a young immigrant to create work that addresses social and political problems surrounding Latinx migrant communities. Her creative practice stems from her love of drawing, Mexican folklore, pop-culture, Mexican culture, and her family’s migration stories.<figure class="image image-style-side"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419084/jxu7z3ror3gp9h9whtpu.jpg"><figcaption>Alexandra Antoine</figcaption></figure><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001mWCWGAKaYLYv_PJuiS3oaiyvl_cybjS7MO-4UuX7Z1nsIt1zAxsS--vv12SiTwk4XUdv4dS45Bqy7jdWNE87X5kDFicw9jMNOxwrDcUNhi-bb9LT3j3HCTAjhNP3Xq2FCo5wyP2qnkCkQ1VgMdEtOn8C98KExON7&amp;c=bYyULtT5abw-5w3nB5t19g8Ns8gr3olLKu7YyldRgrWPcJDeU22V_Q==&amp;ch=eTKt7UzldJv1z4B_qBnhvxKhoMKLXzH0W8P0Scz_XGbX2mWIuZlRzw==">Alexandra Antoine</a> is an interdisciplinary visual artist and cultural apprentice based in Chicago. Her work acknowledges the influences of her Haitian culture and interest in portraiture, food, farming and physical labor in traditional artistic practices of the African diaspora. She honors the different forms and functions of her work in the process of her vision coming into fruition. She received her BFA in Fine Arts and Arts Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.<a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001mWCWGAKaYLYv_PJuiS3oaiyvl_cybjS7MO-4UuX7Z1nsIt1zAxsS-2T4Tgb4QImaYU6BPCRBq_J3ZWrrTtV3IWVD3M34UBHB4Y2crbGcHlEMF1IKhhYlhcn6P3BuKWL6lZWkthWRiv0f157xQuSRwE1sgc53CnRy5adP-KaotDk_VWonWPh5fQ==&amp;c=bYyULtT5abw-5w3nB5t19g8Ns8gr3olLKu7YyldRgrWPcJDeU22V_Q==&amp;ch=eTKt7UzldJv1z4B_qBnhvxKhoMKLXzH0W8P0Scz_XGbX2mWIuZlRzw==">More about our 2022 Bloom Recipients</a>CPC's Bloom logo was designed and named by their first recipient Octavia Thorns (check out her prints, illustration and design work <a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001mWCWGAKaYLYv_PJuiS3oaiyvl_cybjS7MO-4UuX7Z1nsIt1zAxsS-2T4Tgb4QImaMaqdrpr_uMI9csYxJ05ODM-gjHBtQnc8ZCvBOSZZMKos6LHb3TXV0Q99aMSbQ0BQixT_mNL5AW4CQfCw6zGy5NpmkGx9UySp&amp;c=bYyULtT5abw-5w3nB5t19g8Ns8gr3olLKu7YyldRgrWPcJDeU22V_Q==&amp;ch=eTKt7UzldJv1z4B_qBnhvxKhoMKLXzH0W8P0Scz_XGbX2mWIuZlRzw==">HERE)</a></body></html>

Chicago Printmakers Announces Bloom Residents

<figure class="image"><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/9e4250b7536dc23e9352b28ee/images/767a6bba-97e8-a5c3-64e0-440a94e33e21.jpg" alt=""><figcaption>Photo via MoCP</figcaption></figure>Via&nbsp;PR&nbsp;Chicago —&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mocp.org">The&nbsp;Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP)</a> held&nbsp;DARKROOM, their annual benefit auction on Thursday,&nbsp;June 2, 2022, bringing in $230,000&nbsp;to support the museum.&nbsp;Funds raised at DARKROOM will provide critical support for the museum's exhibitions, collections, and community engagement initiatives&nbsp;for the&nbsp;2022-2023 season.&nbsp;The event was held at the Columbia College Chicago Student Center, located at 754 S. Wabash Avenue in the South Loop, and was co-chaired by Jennifer and Joe Shanahan. &nbsp; Over 300 guests in attendance enjoyed hors d'oeuvres, drinks, and music while perusing auction items by celebrated contemporary artists. Works sold included pieces by Dawoud Bey, Terry Evans, Ayana Jackson, Dawit Petros, Alec Soth, Edra Soto, and Penelope Umbrico. The benefit auction was presented by Sotheby’s. &nbsp; Many individuals and corporate sponsors gave their support for the MoCP, including Gage Hospitality Group and Seaberg Picture Framing. &nbsp; Longtime MoCP supporters Lawrence K. and Maxine Snider were honored during the evening for their contributions to the museum. For the past decade, they have sponsored the&nbsp;<a href="https://mocp.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e4250b7536dc23e9352b28ee&amp;id=cbd6d93b77&amp;e=58cea278c7">Snider Prize</a>, which&nbsp;is a purchase award given to emerging artists in their final year of graduate study by the museum annually. The Snider Prize encapsulates the museum's ongoing commitment to support new talent in the field of contemporary photography. Recent recipients Kei Ito and Alayna N Pernell were in attendance to help honor them. &nbsp; "We are so grateful for our sponsors and everyone who helped make DARKROOM 2022 our most successful benefit auction to date. Funds raised at DARKROOM will provide critical support for the museum’s community initiatives and exhibitions," said Natasha Egan, MoCP Executive Director. &nbsp;&nbsp;

MoCP Annual Gala Presented by Sotheby's Raises $230K

<html><head></head><body>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419059/yu9olr4g0tpvdspbsi8q.jpg"><figcaption>A view into Emery Blagdon’s The Healing Machine at JMKAC's The Art Preserve. Photo: CGN</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;By GINNY VAN ALYEAWhen I asked myself last winter where I should travel for a weekend away with my husband and children, I didn’t think about somewhere with an average temperature of 75°. I thought about heading to Kohler, an art-filled village in Sheboygan, WI just a couple hours drive from Chicago.How did this sleepy Midwestern town by Lake Michigan become a center for art and design? Curious to know, I was happy to book an off-season room at The American Club, located half way between Milwaukee and Green Bay, in the heart of Kohler. Originally built as a dorm to house Kohler factory employees in 1918, The American Club, as it is known today, has been a five-star, five-diamond destination resort hotel since 1981, and it is just one of many Kohler company success stories. Located in the center of a campus that is home to four of the world’s best golf courses, one of the world’s best spas, nine restaurants and much more, the building itself, listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1978, is a testament to how a company has stood the test of time by continuing to innovate, with quality and creativity at the center of everything.&nbsp;*The name Kohler is synonymous with plumbing, specifically: toilets, sinks and fixtures. A hotel stay at The American Club means as a guest you can “test-drive” Kohler products–a genius approach to brand-building. It was tempting to not even leave the hotel itself, but we were there for art. While exploring the campus I notice the very same materials utilized to make Kohler fixtures have been incorporated into various contemporary sculptures scattered around the grounds. Installed adjacent to the pool were over a dozen, glazed vitreous China waves by Natalie Clark. Tiny, colorful fish by Carlos Alves also swam among the pool deck's white wall tiles. An expressive cast iron figure, by Steve Bradford/Martha Heavanston, was placed along the path into the tennis center. Each work I saw was by an artist who had been a resident of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center's Arts/Industry program. These weren’t works purchased to furnish a resort, they were a permanent investment in artists made real, showcasing the visions artists bring to life when given meaningful support and access.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419060/jgblhztl4aubasn4a5do.jpg"><figcaption>At the Kohler Design Center. Photo: CGN</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;Not all the art on view was installed around the resort. The Kohler Design Center is a destination in its own rite, and it’s open to the public, as well as members of the design trade. Here, Kohler fixtures, including cast iron bathtubs, commodes and pedestal sinks are artfully displayed–including on the center’s famed “Great Wall of (vitreous) China.”&nbsp;The basement of the Design Center features a museum about the Kohler family along with an overview of the Arts/Industry residency program, which was conceived in 1974 by former John Michael Kohler Art Center (JMKAC) Director Ruth DeYoung Kohler II. The program is both unusual and obvious, in an ‘A-ha!’ kind of way.&nbsp;Arts/Industry offers artists time and space to focus on the creation of new work while in residence at the Kohler Co. factory in Pottery and /or Foundry. They are not limited by their medium–experience with clay or metal are not prerequisites. Much of the residency is technical, but what may begin as utility can spur creative thinking, and maybe a little bit of magic.&nbsp;*<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419061/upgn7ygforladi0odjqv.jpg"><figcaption>Cynthia Consentino’s The Women’s Room. Photo: CGN</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;After visiting the Design Center we drove a couple of miles to the John Michael Kohler Art Center, an art space founded in 1967 that hosts extensive programming and exhibitions. At the front desk the staff reviewed photography protocols with us and then made a point of encouraging me to stop into each washroom on site. I was glad they did. In the late 1990s, JMKAC commissioned six artists to design, create and install the tiles, plumbing, and other components of the art center's bathrooms, using these immersive hybrids of public and private space to convey the belief that art can rouse you from routine. Cynthia Consentino’s The Women’s Room is super girly – a physical top ten list of feminine stereotypes depicted in over 120 glaze paintings: lacy undergarments, hats, shoes, bras, stockings, jewelry, and handbags.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419062/sgg5bllllwiy0hefjnon.jpg"><figcaption>Matt Nolen: The Social History Of Architecture. Photo: CGN &nbsp;</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;On the other side of the Center, entering Merrill Mason’s Filling and Emptying you are greeted by grooming objects that have been cast in iron and tucked into marble nooks: perfume bottles, delicate gloves, fragile hand-mirrors and combs, each blackened and weighted like they could be effective weapons, if they weren’t used to prep for a fancy dinner party. These spaces, usually private and reserved for necessity, challenge not only the idea of objects and places we take for granted but also what a center for art can offer its artists, as well as the visiting public.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419062/fo5twi75yifiasfboe1v.jpg"><figcaption>Merrill Mason’s Filling and Emptying. Photo CGN</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;*While the focus of the Arts/Industry program is innovation today, another separate area of focus I discovered at JMKAC was the preservation of overwhelmingly expansive but undoubtedly mind blowing world of art environments, folk architecture, and collections by self-taught artists. An incredible number of such environments have been preserved and now conserved and publicly displayed, thanks to the work of Ruth Kohler, who led JMKAC and pioneered its focus on Art Environment builders. Ruth died in late 2020 and was instrumental in providing the leadership and vision that has brought JMKAC to a preeminent position in the field of art environments. In 1983 when Ruth encountered the life’s work of Wisconsin artist Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, just two weeks after he had died, she was compelled to find a way to bring the prolific artist’s body of work to be seen in its entirety. It was a tall order, but soon after the Arts Center acquired 6,000 objects, including paintings and bone sculptures, marking the beginning of the Arts Center’s commitment to artist-built environments. It is one thing to seek out the best representations of an artist’s work, acquire them and make individual pieces part of a museum collection. It is another to track down, transport and reinstall thosands of expressions of an artist’s mind.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419063/mp5dj4pbwlitejtn5kcw.jpg"><figcaption>Bernard Langlais: Live and Let Live On installation view at JMKAC. Photo CGN.</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419064/ghi7paefwzpxalr4bye7.jpg"><figcaption>Loy Bowlin’s The Beautiful Holy Jewel Home. Photo: CGN</figcaption></figure><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419065/wbdqsofmopxhtu02dwmr.jpg"><figcaption>Loy Bowlin, portrait. Photo: CGN</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;Following last summer’s opening of an extention of the JMKAC, The Art Preserve, a three-story space that is the world’s largest collection of artist-built environments, the Foundation’s efforts make it a national leader in the preservation of and respect for these collections. There has been a lot of attention on “immersive” art experiences recently, but so much of that has been virtual, digital or just made for Instagram. At The Art Preserve, you’re invited to immerse yourself in the artist’s world, where you can see wild visions in-person: Loy Bowlin’s The Beautiful Holy Jewel Home from McComb, Mississippi is wallpapered in glitter and construction paper reminiscent of Moroccan tile; Von Bruenchenhein’s gold-painted chicken bone thrones are displayed, along with hundreds of the artist’s paintings; dozens of Dr. Charles Smith’s concrete and tile figures make up a sort of miniature army. Complementing The Art Preserve itself is the center’s website, which provides additional context as well as images of the artist sites as they originally existed.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419066/x3ggkz0mtjecmyndl05n.jpg"><figcaption>Made from tiny bones, this is one of dozens of sculptural miniature thrones made by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein. Photo: CGN</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419066/ycbf5xjcc74mex7kh2he.jpg"><figcaption>A partial view of Ray Yoshida’s home collection. Photo: CGN</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;I marveled at not just the obsessions of these individuals but the sheer scale of the institutional effort it must have taken to make these tableaux available to the public. It’s a one-of-a-kind experience to wind through Ray Yoshida’s recreated home and see his work, and that of his famous students–Roger Brown, Gladys Nilsson, Karl Wirsum and Jim Nutt–alongside Native American Kachinas, African masks, wooden figurines and folk art that influenced the Imagists. All of this is presented without typically verbose explanations, only identifications–another sign that this is an altogether different place with entirely different art.&nbsp;*In 36 hours I completed a crash course on the Kohler family’s remarkable impact on industrial design and contemporary art. My experiences at Kohler were cohesive as well as disparate: an education on the large-scale weathered wood friezes of Bernard Langlais and his life in Maine followed a showroom viewing of a tower of sinks and toilets in every color. I played tennis in the morning and in the afternoon wandered through Emery Blagdon’s The Healing Machine at The Art Preserve. What began as a family getaway left an impression. Here, art informs everything and will continue to for generations, thanks to the success the Kohler Company and the Kohler Foundation are paying forward. &nbsp;&nbsp;Publisher's note: This version of the article has been updated since it was printed in the summer 2022 issue of CGN to clarify that the Kohler Foundation and Kohler Company are separate entities from the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. The Kohler Foundation is a generous supporter of the JMKAC and its Arts/Industry program.&nbsp;</body></html>

Kohler: Preservationists of Art and Design

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419077/f0curnh8mpdwzwfclk9a.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/consciousness-of-abstraction">Consciousness of Abstraction</a>Exhibition begins June 23ARC Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419078/vatcaprbak65dyflwdgg.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/fatima-axkauia">Fatima: Axkauia</a>Opening: Friday, June 24, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419079/wosapmetryrcu6kyim6s.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/messejah-washington-love-is-omega">Messejah Washington: Love is Omega</a>Opening: Friday, June 24, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmElephant Room Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419079/jlivbwasvhydkzhozyxi.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/luana-coonen-trunk-show">Luana Coonen Trunk Show</a>June 24 – 26Pistachios Contemporary Jewelry Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions June 23-25 (Part I)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419084/idxjqromxisohplo2lds.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/laura-letinsky">Laura Letinsky: The indignation of counting spiders</a>Opening: Friday, June 24, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmDOCUMENT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419085/ld4qsu7b0hl7rpsdu0ze.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/abigail-chang-reflections-of-a-room">Abigail Chang: Reflections of a Room</a>Opening: Friday, June 24, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmVolume Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419085/jn6vlffpylks5q9tav5e.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/azikiwe-mohammed">Azikiwe Mohammed: Maiden Voyage II: Heliocentric Forms of Blackness</a>Opening: Saturday, June 25, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmWestern Exhibitions&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419087/ty2rewefvrjqenj6jh6x.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/rebecca-stahr-encaustics">Rebecca Stahr | Encaustics</a>Opening: Saturday, June 25, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmBlue Moon Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions June 23-25 (Part II)

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/anna-weyant-paintings-larry-gagosian-11655482365?mod=trending_now_news_1">Three Years Ago, Her Art Sold for $400 at the Beach. Now It Fetches Up To $1.6 Million at Auction</a>Anna Weyant, a new art star whose work evokes a millennial Botticelli, was discovered on Instagram. She’s also dating her dealer, Larry Gagosian.Via WSJ&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/nonprofits-philanthropy/chicagos-african-american-history-museum-changing-its-name">New name, new look for DuSable Museum</a>It's changed to a punchier name as part of its Juneteenth celebration: The DuSable Black History Museum &amp; Education Center.The DuSable Museum of African American History is changing to a punchier name that is more in keeping with contemporary terminology: The DuSable Black History Museum &amp; Education Center.The announcement, which also includes new logos and rebranding, will kick off a Juneteenth weekend celebration that includes free admission to the South Side institution all weekend and a Sunday BBQ and block party hosted with Chance the Rapper.Via Crain's&nbsp;<a href="">Demonstrators Descend on the British Museum to Make the Case for Athens as the Rightful—and Safer—Home for the Parthenon Marbles</a>Campaigners gathered at the British Museum in London on Saturday to renew calls for the institution to return its Parthenon Marbles to Greece.The ancient sculptures, which were removed from the Acropolis by Lord Elgin in the early 19th century, are housed today in a gallery that is “dark, wet, and has leaks in the ceiling,” George Gabriel of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles told fellow activists as he welcomed them to the British Museum’s Great Court at the start of the demonstration.Via Artnet&nbsp;&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 6/21/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419077/b2dhjngmvcyw7iyinyhk.jpg"><figcaption>Richard Hunt. Via Pigment, Int.</figcaption></figure><a href="https://files.constantcontact.com/db846255701/f32a230c-e069-4fbc-9169-2827d823c320.pdf?rdr=true">Mayor Lightfoot Declares June 9 Richard Hunt Day&nbsp;</a>International sculptor Richard Hunt has been able to seep into the heart of this great city without regard for race or creed or gender, attaining a universality that all artists crave.&nbsp;Metal, his material of choice, has no color after all, only form, and Hunt has bent it to his will for more than seven decades.&nbsp;And what’s more he’s bent us to his will by being a Chicagoan through and through, a son of Woodlawn.&nbsp;He has said of his lifelong pursuit of art that his mom was ‘supportive’, and his dad was ‘tolerant’.&nbsp;&nbsp;Hunt was honored by the Leadership Advisory Committee (LAC) of the Art Institute of Chicago with its 2022 Legends &amp; Legacy Award on June 9th.&nbsp;It is presented to African American artists “who through their lifelong accomplishments and exceptional careers in the visual arts, have influenced generations of artists.”&nbsp;Eldzier Cortor, Dr. Margaret Burroughs and Elizabeth Catlett are among the recipients. And Hunt, at 86, is the youngest honoree.&nbsp;<a href="https://files.constantcontact.com/db846255701/f32a230c-e069-4fbc-9169-2827d823c320.pdf?rdr=true">Via Pigment International</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419078/najzkusgnmdrbgluhela.jpg"><figcaption>Photograph: Superfly, Alive Coverage &nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.timeout.com/chicago/news/an-immersive-prince-experience-opens-in-chicago-061022?cid=email~emailname%3DCHICAGO%20EN_NEWSLETTER_20220614~jobid%3DDM22320~crmid%3Da24d3b4d-bbd5-4cf6-a7c9-7a6ed8cf5fa2&amp;deliveryName=DM22320">An immersive Prince experience opens in Chicago</a>Developed by the event production company Superfly, “<a href="https://princetheexperience.com/">Prince: The Immersive Experience</a>” takes visitors through an approximately 60-minute tour of interactive rooms exploring the iconic musician’s life, music and legacy. You’ll first be greeted by a short video; then, it’s onto themed rooms made to look like everything from a lilac-scented imitation of the bathroom in the “When Doves Cry” music video to a realistic version of Prince’s Paisley Park studio, painstakingly recreated with details like a shelf stocked with the 5-Hour Energy shots Prince kept on hand for recording sessions. And because this is an immersive experience, many of the rooms are equipped with some kind of interactive element, whether you prefer to experiment with sound mixing “Let’s Go Crazy”&nbsp; in the studio, take a personality quiz to get a custom playlist of Prince’s deep cuts or pose for photos atop a replica of the famous “Purple Rain” motorcycle.&nbsp;&nbsp;Via TimeOut&nbsp;<a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/06/15/art-institutes-lions-spotted-on-the-highway-after-being-taken-away-to-be-cleaned/">Art Institute’s Lions Spotted On The Highway After Being Taken Away To Be Cleaned</a>The Art Institute’s famous bronze lions were removed from their Downtown pedestals early Tuesday so they can be cleaned, a move <a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/06/10/art-institute-lions-being-removed-for-cleaning-but-dont-worry-theyll-be-back/">the museum had announced in advance</a>. A large crane hoisted them onto trucks, where they were secured and driven away.Via Block Club&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 6/15/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419077/xdomwrqycwykhaetwiiw.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/3rd-friday-open-studios-f387f00d-2836-43c5-b9d2-4e7435319267">3rd Friday Open Studios</a>Friday, June 17, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmBridgeport Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419078/ndesb1zzoljhnmx4n9ia.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/diversity-inclusivity-celebrating-20-years-with-monique-meloche-gallery">moniquemeloche presents…</a>Exhibition begins June 18Lubeznik Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419079/v7bz4yg6aou4vgbuyosx.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/michel-andreenko-revisited">Michel Andreenko: Revisited</a>Opening: Saturday, June 18, 4 – 8&nbsp;pmUkrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419079/wdi5xxnkund9abcktp6t.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/skin-masks-decolonizing-art-beyond-the-politics-of-visibility">Skin + Masks, Decolonizing Art Beyond the Politics of Visibility</a>Opening: Saturday, June 18, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmKavi Gupta - Elizabeth St.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions June 15-18 (Part II)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419077/kzbkwtnkonxpc0grhcfg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/racine-art-guild-juried-competition-2022">Racine Art Guild Juried Competition 2022</a>Exhibition begins June 15Racine Art Museum&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419078/kf7vtgbswo5ofisgctr8.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/nature-s-blueprints-biomimicry-in-art-and-design">Nature’s Blueprints: Biomimicry in Art and Design</a>Exhibition begins June 17Elmhurst Art Museum&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419078/z1adnwlovgpqalxbef9v.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/visceral-solo-exhibition-by-tamara-wasserman">Visceral: Solo Exhibition by Tamara Wasserman</a>Opening: Friday, June 17, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmOliva Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419079/xlb0iqlh5rugjv9aheec.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/famil-e">famil-E</a>Opening: Friday, June 17, 5:30 – 8&nbsp;pmThe Art Center Highland Park&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419080/dg073kfxz8fmtrfyfdiy.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/roman-villarreal-south-chicago-legacies">Roman Villarreal: South Chicago Legacies</a>Opening: Friday, June 17, 11&nbsp;am – 8&nbsp;pmIntuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions June 15-18 (Part I)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419077/wleeadgmgybqvy28hxz1.jpg"><figcaption>Detail views of works by Rebecca Zaragoza, Diane Thodos, James McNeill Mesplé, and Elena Diadenko for Greektown’s Lyre public art exhibit.</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;Via PR<a href="https://greektownchicago.org/">Greektown Chicago</a> has opened its new outdoor art exhibit My Painted Lyre: Seeing music in Chicago’s Greektown, with 26 vibrant three-dimensional artworks lining Halsted Street from Monroe to Van Buren Streets now through spring 2023.A map showing the locations of the artworks in Greektown is available <a href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:7d707423-a3bd-3732-9e3a-ae951aa390f4">HERE</a>. Visit <a href="https://greektownchicago.org/">greektownchicago.org</a> for more information.A diverse group of Chicago artists is celebrating music with personal interpretations of the “lyre,” an ancient Greek instrument reimaginedin a modern-style sculpture. The lyre speaks of music, song, poetry and dance. It also brings to mind the heavens where the constellation Lyra appears in the northern sky. Inspirations for the 26 magnificent artworks come from multiple sources including Greek mythology, history, science and memories of special places. My Painted Lyre is sponsored by Greektown SSA #16, the neighborhood’s business improvement district, in partnership with the Chicago Greektown Educational Foundation.&nbsp;Title of Lyre Artworks &amp; Artist StatementsLyrical Spirit by Arturo Barrera: Inspired by Albin Polasek’s Spirit of Music in Grant Park, Lyrical Spirit is a celebration of music and Greek history. Spirit of Music depicts a tall, bronze, muse holding a lyre. Lyrical Spirit is an abstract approach with simplified geometric figures, representing two different people holding a lyre. The colors used are traditional Greek colors. Many people associate Greek culture with only blue and white because of their country’s flag, and Greek statues with a lack of color. However, many of the ancient Greek sculptures were originally painted colorfully. After years of harsh weather and other effects on Grecian sculptures, the polychromatic finishes fade significantly, if not fully, which gives them a white, or bland, appearance. Lyrical Spirit connects the history of the Greek palette with a celebration of Greek culture in Chicago.&nbsp;Chicago’s Lyre by Juan A. Cano: Inspiration: Love for our city and diversity in music.&nbsp;Day and Night by Elena Diadenko : Two women, Day and Night, are each dressed in traditional Ukrainian outfits and surrounded by the fields of wheat and poppies. They represent the beauty and rich folklore of Ukrainian culture. One of the women (Day) holds a bundle of wheat that represents prosperity and life in Ukraine. Another woman (Night) holds a dove of peace and poppies that speak to the beauty of the land.Symbolic Gestures of the Goddess by Malika Jackson: This work is to honor several of the Greek Goddesses with their symbols: Aphrodite, Hera, Artemis.My Polish Summer by Bonnie Loboda: There is music and movement in the natural world. And it stays long in our memories. I recall the buzzing of insects, the flutter of birds, the dancing of butterflies and the soft sway of flowers (poppies, daisies, cornflowers, dandelions, etc.) in a gentle wind.Three Celestial Hierarchies by Victoria Martin: The Celestial Hierarchies were famously put in order during the fifth century by the theologian Pseudo-Dionysus the Areopagite. The highest level, i.e., the first, contains the beings around the throne of God. My thesis is that these were premonitions for actual objects &amp; shapes discovered in Deep Space 1920 - now. In the second level down are the creator deities. They are explained symbolically but seem to depict what we now know to be true via creation science and evolution. In the third level are the angels that watch over the earth and its inhabitants well known to us via biblical stories.Sun Dance by James McNeill Mesplé: Apollo teaches Orpheus to play the Lyre as Terpsichore (the Muse of Dance) plays her own lyre while dancing!&nbsp; Marsyas challenges Apollo to a music contest, playing sensual Earth Music on his flute for Eurydice’s Sunflower Dance.&nbsp; Apollo plays the classical Music of the Spheres, the heavenly planets themselves, thereby winning the contest.The Grapes of Generosity by Molly McGrath: The grapes of generosity relate to the Greek people. They like the fruit that grows on the vine, help them stay alive and be healthy.Daughter of Athena&nbsp;Κόρη της Αθηνάς by Mark Nelson: Angela Paterakis nurtured many student artists at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Many of her students become teachers and educational leaders embedded throughout the Chicago Public Schools, higher institutions and beyond. Angela’s students greatly appreciated her wisdom, compassion and commitment that often continued into their professional life long after they graduated. Her impact on the world of arts education exponentially grew as she witnessed her network of leaders energize arts in early education and expand equitable opportunities for Chicago’s inner-city kids and beyond.They All Played by Patricia Owsiany: Apollo, as the myth goes, received his lyre from Hermes, the messenger God. It was one of his power symbols. As Apollo played, the Greeks also played. The lyre was one of the most common instruments of Ancient Greece.&nbsp;Now, Henry the 8th was also an accomplished musician who played many instruments, and the lyre was just one of them. In the heavens, the constellation Lyre is composed of Vega, Gamma Lyre, R Lyre, Mu Lyrae Eta and Delta….so even the stars played!!Apolo Ohno by Percent: 500 m: 41.327 (2009) 1000 m: 1:24.500 (2009) 1500 m: 2:11.280 (2003) 3000 m: 4:32.975 (2003)String Theōros by Terry Poulos: The artist draws first upon the Pythagoreans' love of beauty and symmetry in relation to resonance, proportion and certain pleasing melodic tones concerning specific spacing of string instrument ratios (a fifth, a third, etc.).&nbsp; Modern physics redirected that knowledge in the form of String Theory, asserting particles themselves are the emergent product of vibrations of 'quantum threads of interaction' which create what humans perceive as condensed matter (fermionic particle-waves) and light (bosonic particle-waves). The conjecture being that this illusory physical world we inhabit is dependent on the frequency and angular momentum at which said strings resonate and interact.Lyrical by Diane Thodos: This work is inspired by the many lyrical and moving images of lyra players from classical ancient Greek pottery. The emotion and movement of the musicians shows an immediacy created centuries ago that is just as lyrical and expressive in our times.The Castaway by Miss Alex White: Inspired by the 1965 Castaways song, "Liar Liar," this lyre piece is an amalgamation of psychedelia. Oozing with Peter Max pop sensibility, this colorful work echoes mid-century imagery and messages that still resonate today.The Color of Music by Kiki Whitehead: There are few art forms more enchanting than the collision of music and art.&nbsp; Both can be felt deep within your soul. This piece is an abstract form of that beautiful combination beginning with the origins of the lyre.A Woman's Touch by Rebecca Zaragoza: I've depicted a series of women joyfully playing the lyre. Of course, anyone willing can play the instrument. And doing so, they can bring music to our ears and color to our world through harmonious notes and other relationships.&nbsp;Artist BiosArturo Barrera is an educator in the Chicago Public School system.&nbsp;He has been a school Assistant Principal for four years and has enjoyed a career in art education for over 30 years (always encouraging his students to new ways of seeing and thinking). Barrera has a B.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Art Education; a M.F.A. from Northern Illinois University in printmaking and painting; and a M.A. in&nbsp;Education Administration from Governor State University.Juan A. Cano is a contemporary graffiti artist from Logan Square.&nbsp;He is well-known for his “shattered glass” style. Cano participates in several art exhibitions each year and is an art philanthropist to charitable causes. He especially enjoys working on public art projects. Instagram: @Juan_A_Cano&nbsp;Elena Diadenko was born and raised in Ukraine and immigrated to the United States in 1992. She received her first art degrees from Myrgorod Ceramics College and Lviv National Academy of Arts in Ukraine. Later, Diadenko received two masters’ degrees in interdisciplinary art and art education from Columbia College in Chicago.&nbsp;&nbsp;She has lived and worked in Chicago for 30 years and is currently an art teacher Schurz High School. Diadenko has participated in more than 60 art exhibitions, including solo and group shows, both internationally and in the Chicagoland area. &nbsp;&nbsp;Malika Jackson has exhibited her works widely in both group and solo shows.&nbsp; She currently has a solo show at the Hyde Park Art Center. Jackson received the SPARK Award-2020, completed a six-month residency at the Hyde Park Art Center ‘THE CENTER PROGRAM’ and received commissions for the Ronald McDonald Houses’&nbsp;tribute to the Ryder Cup Tournament. She has shown at the Howard Brown Center, Black Clay at Chicago State, Fast Forward, Rewind: Play, HPAC, Woman Made Gallery, Gallery D’Estees, Noyes Gallery, Museum of Science and Industry, Artropolis at the Merchandise Mart, The Cliff Dwellers and many other venues. She was featured in the film Curators of Dixon; Producing Local Color: Art Networks in Ethnic Chicago, a book by Diane Grams; and South Shore Current magazine with her art on the cover. Jackson has a MFA &amp; BFA from the School of the Art Institute, and further studied at Illinois State University, Normal, IL.&nbsp; She did an Artist tour of France and Italy and completed a ceramic workshop in Tuscany, Italy.Bonnie Loboda began painting as a young child in Poland. Soon after, she learned to embroider and was creating intricate pieces for export. Art remained her passion even after she moved to Chicago in 1994.&nbsp; Over the years, Loboda has stretched her imagination and taught herself new techniques. Today, she paints on glass, canvas, wood, walls and more. Many times, Loboda works well into the night shaping and re-shaping each new artwork.Victoria Martin is a large-scale mystical painter.&nbsp; She combines symbols from new science with illustrations of ancient magical texts. (FYI some of those prayers really work!). She also teaches art as a spiritual praxis at workshops and events. Martin holds a BA in Art Education and an MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago.James McNeill Mesplé’s art focuses on classically inspired images viewed through the lens of contemporary life.&nbsp; As a child, Mesplé was told stories by his maternal grandfather, drawn from his Osage (Native American) heritage.&nbsp; These other-worldly narratives sparked an interest in Classical Greek myths because both cultures are animistic, seeing Spirit not only in animals and flowers, but in all aspects of life on Earth (Gaia). For 10 years, Mesplé taught art at Francis W. Parker school and spent 10 years teaching at the School of the Art Institute studio program.&nbsp; And he plays the flute. Mesplé was represented for over thirty years by Printworks Gallery in Chicago and is currently with Jackson/Junge Gallery.&nbsp;Molly McGrath has an extensive body of work:&nbsp;collages,&nbsp;children’s (and other) album covers, drawings of Chicago transit system signs, fiber art, painted bottles, portraits of dolls–and Sesame Street memorabilia. Her work directly responds to her environment, with her everyday experiences becoming a starting point.&nbsp;McGrath is an artist at “Project Onward,” a nonprofit studio and gallery in Chicago dedicated to the career development of visual artists with mental and developmental disabilities. Learn more at <a href="http://projectonward.org/">projectonward.org</a>.Mark Nelson was raised in a Navy family overseas and began his formal arts education in the Republic of Panama where he was mentored in painting and live theater. On return to the continental USA, Nelson studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a BFA and received an MFA at the University of Illinois in Chicago. His artwork can be found in private and public collections, including a mural at the US Embassy, Republic of Panama. &nbsp;Nelson was&nbsp; awarded many grants and fellowships as an artist and educator from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs-Office of Fine Arts,&nbsp;Illinois Arts Council, the Golden Apple Foundation, and the Oppenheimer Family Foundation. A resident of Chicago's historic Pilsen neighborhood and arts community, his Gringolandia Studio and home is open annually to the public in participation with the 18th Street Pilsen Open Studios.Patricia Owsiany earned a BA in Fine Arts at Southern Illinois University. She has participated in many shows in Chicago and New York City. Her last solo exhibit was a mini retrospective at Space 900 in Evanston. She was born in Chicago and continues to live and create here.Terry Poulos is a writer, artist, archaeological historian, fractal geometer, and more generally autodidact scientific investigator. Two of his sculptures have been exhibited at the National Hellenic Museum (NHM), and his Net Zero Coin numismatic is in the permanent collection of the British Museum and NHM. His works can be seen at <a href="http://scientiquity.com/">Scientiquity.com</a>&nbsp;PERCENT is a group of artists who are somewhat Asian. Their work is strictly collaborative—no piece created by an individual can bear the collective’s name. Their approach is an attempt to acknowledge the falsehood of purity.Diane Thodos is a Chicago-based artist with a forty-year career in painting and printmaking that emphasizes both abstract expressionism and German expressionism.&nbsp;&nbsp;This comes from her study with Jackson Pollock’s teacher Stanley William&nbsp;Hayter in 1984, and study of the Speck’s German Expressionist print collection at the Milwaukee Art Museum over a 20-year period. Diane's work&nbsp;combines&nbsp;figure&nbsp;and abstraction to create a fertile ground for ever-new compositional and emotionally expressive possibilities.&nbsp;She is a 2002 Pollack-Krasner Grant&nbsp;recipient, has exhibited internationally, and has work in&nbsp;the collections of the Milwaukee Museum of Art, The David and Alfred Smart Museum, the State of Illinois Museum in Chicago, The Illinois Holocaust Museum and The Block Museum of Northwestern University, &nbsp;among many others.Miss Alex White is a&nbsp;Greek American,&nbsp;native Chicagoan, DePaul University MBA, and front woman of the rock'n'roll duo White Mystery. In addition to her career as a full-time musician, Miss Alex White is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, film, video game design, and drawing.&nbsp; Kiki Whitehead is a first-generation Greek American. Her parents immigrated to Canada before coming to the United States in the 1960’s. She is most recently recognized as the National Chairman of the United Hellenic Voters of America (UHVA), a non-partisan political organization representing the Greek American community where she resides over an Executive Board.&nbsp;Kiki recently illustrated two children’s book “How Does My Mama Know?” and “Ollie Under It.” With a book of her own on the way, Kiki hopes to continue this work into her twilight years.&nbsp;She is currently the Marketing Director for Olympik Signs, Inc., one of the largest sign companies in the Chicago area. But her greatest achievement will always be her beautiful, blended family.Rebecca Zaragoza is an artist engaged in poetry, painting and sculpture. Art in all its varieties, she says, is an expression of feelings.&nbsp; Since we all have them, we can all be artists.Along with an exciting group of professional and emerging Chicago artists, the following ten Chicagoland Greek schools are participating in the Lyre exhibit: Guardian Angel Orthodox Day School, Holy Apostles Greek School, Holy Cross Sophocles Greek School, Koraes Elementary School, Plato Academy, St. Demetrios Pythagoras Children’s Academy, St. Demetrios SOLON Greek School, St. George Greek School, St. John the Baptist Pythagoras Greek School, and St. Spyridon Plutarchos Academy.&nbsp;About Greektown ChicagoGreektown is a dining, nightlife and cultural district located on the Near West Side of Chicago. A popular destination for tourists and Chicago residents alike, Greektown offers the best sampling of Greek heritage outside of Athens—from authentic restaurants, cafes and shops to the National Hellenic Museum and annual Taste of Greektown festival. Greektown Special Service Area #16 is the business improvement district for the neighborhood, administered by sole service provider the West Central Association and guided by a volunteer commission of local business owners, property owners and residents. For more information, visit <a href="https://greektownchicago.org/">greektownchicago.org</a>.Top image: Detail views of works by Rebecca Zaragoza, Diane Thodos, James McNeill Mesplé, and Elena Diadenko for Greektown’s Lyre public art exhibit.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

My Painted Lyre: Seeing music in Chicago’s Greektown now on view along Halsted Street

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419077/uouhuioksfr8jt7gpdez.jpg"><figcaption>Adam Brooks; 'Freedom Wall'; 1994; enamel on vinyl, publicly-sited installation, Chicago, IL, USADimensions: 72 feet x 15 feet 6 inches.</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.facebook.com/AdamBrooksIOTO">River North Freedom Wall by Adam Brooks Will Soon Disappear</a>Artist Adam Brooks posted on Facebook last week about the coming disappearance of his public work of art that perhaps millions of Brown Line commuters have viewed and wondered about for decades: "Nothing lasts forever, and thus the 28-year run of my ‘Freedom Wall’ project, on the side of the 325 W. Huron building in Chicago, will soon be coming to an end, as the parking lot in front of the building is being developed, and once this building is constructed, ‘Freedom Wall’ will be entombed between this new structure and the existing one. These are the final weeks to see it in person while it is gradually obscured by the impending construction."&nbsp;He thanked Rhona Hoffman, Buzz Ruttenberg, and Henry Landan for their critical roles in realizing the project back in 1993-94 and offered to share a booklet he produced in conjunction with this project in 1994 and send a PDF version, which includes an essay by Susan Snodgrass, as well as a complete listing of all of the names collected, and those who submitted them. E-mail <a href="mailto:adambrooks9@gmail.com?subject=Freedom%20Wall&amp;body=Via%20CGN">adambrooks9@gmail.com</a>The artist says he's looking at ways to create an updated version.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419078/qockfzs4olze1bsokxdx.gif"></figure><a href="https://mailchi.mp/northwestern/studentacquisition2022?e=64540e863b">Block Museum Student Associates select work by Michael Koerner as 2022 Student Acquisition</a>The Block Museum of Art and the 2021-2022 Block Museum Student Associates (BMSA) cohort are pleased to announce the acquisition of photographic prints&nbsp;Blue DNA#1205L – #1201R (2021), Worlds #0318 (2020), and The Beast Diagnosis #8942 (2019) by Illinois-based interdisciplinary artist Michael Koerner.&nbsp;Koerner’s work&nbsp;explores his family history and genetics through small tintypes, using photographic chemistry to assimilate the bursts and biochemical fallout from the atom bomb. The selection is the third annual Block Museum student-led acquisition to the collection, succeeding the 2021 selection of Leonard Suryajaya’s <a href="https://northwestern.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=904f932038284b4d9eea69636&amp;id=e2e5470d92&amp;e=64540e863b">Quarantine Blues</a> (2020) and the 2020 selection of Myra Greene’s <a href="https://northwestern.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=904f932038284b4d9eea69636&amp;id=3f32fc0cf4&amp;e=64540e863b">Undertone #17, #23, #51</a> (2017-2018). Over the 2021-2022 academic year, BMSA researched potential acquisitions with the&nbsp;primary goal of collecting around the theme of “Earth” while also seeking work that would complement the museum’s collection, connect to the mission, and coincide with curriculum across Northwestern University.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419079/d5mxhplfsacc9bbrwe5l.jpg"><figcaption>Inspired by the city’s St. Patricks’s Day traditions as well as notable sites and sights like Chicago’s Lakefront Trail, baseball fields and the oldest L line , Color Factory's &nbsp;custom green ball pit is a joy whether you’re 2 or 200.</figcaption></figure><a href="https://colorfactory.co/chicago/">Color Factory Opens in Chicago Soon</a>Within each Color Factory location, visitors are invited to experience the joy of color through interactive installations, immersive rooms, and carefully curated moments. The website describes that Color Factory collaborates with artists, art institutions, nonprofits, and brand partners to tell compelling stories that make life just a little more joyful. In Chicago Color Factory will be located on the lower level of Willis Tower, inspired by (some well known) aspects of the city. Edra Soto is one locally-based artist who will be participating.&nbsp;<h3>&nbsp;</h3></body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 6/7/22

<html><head></head><body>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419077/wbappxynbyon7agcthcx.jpg"><figcaption>Installation view, works by David Klamen</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;By ANNA DOBROWOLSKIEnter Gray Gallery’s echoey warehouse on Chicago’s west side. As you approach three rows of stalagmitic sculptures on pedestals, you begin to recognize common objects–a deflated doll head, shoes, frogs, and vaguely familiar tchotchkes–intersecting each other as the sculpture visually tapers to a point.&nbsp;At first glance, David Klamen’s Life Trophies may seem like a departure from his painting practice (or meta-painting practice, for the initiated). However, these ‘sculptures made of sculptures’ bring to the forefront the philosophical questions recurring throughout most of Klamen’s work: “How do we know what we know?” His Life Trophies ask a new question: of what stuff is life made?&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/zEk5I2JVyBUeJchp2iUsOdk8XQeDZRJ0NtBni_lVFiEqy2uQN3IU2SME-qcMYr4T4TGXQ4FuK08RBSD33s0DAjWEgpLD7bEhVyrC2QH-Ei2_qEfAmUq5UFtBr3p0595694MIjMMcnQXQNA5zEA"><figcaption>David Klamen</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;About five years ago Klamen sketched the first prototype for Life Trophies. “When I was making these sketches I was thinking of myself as an accumulation of experiences, memories, and forgotten incidents.” The process of transforming his ‘sketches of heaps of ambiguous elements’ to life is what he ascribes to ‘overflowing gumption’, knowing which artistic rules to break without jeopardizing the structural integrity.&nbsp;From the beginning, he knew that these drawings required a third dimension. “I envisioned them as made out of ceramics. I also knew that they needed to not be found objects.” Though ceramics was terra incognita for the painter at the time, Klamen soon found himself hiring a U-Haul to lug back tons of mostly unused slip cast molds to a COVID–vacated ceramic studio. There, using a combination of slip-casting–a technique of pouring liquid clay into plaster molds–and hand throwing, he began creating individual ceramic objects that he would later stack, fuse, or pitch like a ball. “They are formed in many ways by chance and gravity and contingent relationships,” he says. If a piece did not fit in a regular kiln, Klamen would modify a garbage can and unrestrainedly throw in slip cast pieces for bisque firing.&nbsp;Because he was able to reuse some of the molds, we can recognize the same shape (ie. sparrow, asparagus, worm; one visitor remarked that the gaping frog crowning one of the sculptures was also a soap-dish) in a different piece, a new iteration, severed, reattached and so on–an artistic experiment of assembly akin to young Frankenstein fabricating his creature. “I'm not premeditating. I’m discovering it as it’s being made. I allow them to be constructed out of all of these broken and bent elements,” Klamen says. Sometimes it seems like the only thing fusing the objects together is the glaze, which ranges from a highly reflective chrome to painted greenware.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/CN1Iw4XwY0lDy-k96MDV5iI9E9VLRcXeqObVlW9D7YeGIblDiX73uRIWydTsKgMGrBG9c6zCicEkRyh0fd12D5N6EIb4WMCJDOEOWbbrCVzzk7k4rAgHZh-Kf50ifb1l9S9r96dFGa9vgtsLMQ"><figcaption>David Klamen, Untitled, 2021–22, Glazed stoneware, Dimensions variable</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;“The final resolution of these pieces takes place with trying to find the right answer to what goes on top,” he continues. “It’s usually something that has a sense of appreciation and commemorates the present moment of finishing the piece.”&nbsp;Lodged in one of the sculptures, a candle drips wax over the sculpture's royal-icing glaze. At exactly 7pm on the night of the opening, a member of the gallery’s staff swiftly blows it out, a universal signal that the party is over.&nbsp;**&nbsp;CGN: Can you tell me more about your sketches for Life Trophies. How did they evolve into this new body of work?DK: The first sketches were made 5 years ago, and the first piece was made somewhere around 4-5 years ago. Most of the works were made in the last two years when I had complete access to a vacant ceramics department in Indiana. Throughout this time I’ve continued my painting practice, but this has really grown into a meaningful part of my creative effort.&nbsp;In my painting practice, I have experience visualizing things without needing to make sketches, but this was far enough outside of my artist vocabulary that they required me to sit down and sketch the idea. They solidified what was in my head and made sense. Once that happened I knew that I needed to make something.CGN: You mention that your paintings tend to be more meditative, ‘almost quiet,’ whereas these sculptures require some degree of collaboration, spontaneity and looseness. What links the two practices together for you?DK: In my mind all of my work revolves around this consistent interest I have in exploring answers to the question of ‘how we know what we know’ and then testing different historical answers. Some of my paintings have been linked to empiricism or Eastern methods such as daimoku that suggest that we gain wisdom and enlightenment through repetitive chanting or memory and introspection. Even Op-art, which might suggest that some knowledge is a purely optical experience. These sculptures derive from that, of me trying to answer the question: how do I reconcile the complexity of my thoughts with this one moment that appears in my brain and consciousness?&nbsp;CGN: You take great care into what goes on top of the sculpture. What do we know about Trophies?&nbsp;DK: I think of Life Trophies as a metaphor for accumulated experiences and memories that are incomplete—at times cherished, at times regrettable, at times uncertain—that coalesce in some ways together to create a sense of self. [With the trophy,] there's a sense of recognition for past accomplishments and a way to solidify something of your life for the future. It’s something that you can share with the people around you. In these cases it is the bittersweet absurdity of them—the humor of the past attempts and the shared optimism of the current moment.&nbsp;CGN: A serious question: what was the strangest thing you found yourself doing or including in this body of work?DK: I find myself laughing and smiling and feeling a sense of ridiculous accomplishment when I add something like this frog, which in some ways seems so kitschy and naïve and in other ways is destined to be one of the future elements to pile on top of. There is a sense of spontaneous discovery—I take whatever I have I put on top and then I walk away. Then there’s a sense of capturing it when it is right that isn’t a narrative, it doesn’t finish a story but it has a certain sense of hopefulness and appreciation and maybe naïveté.&nbsp;*When I ask Klamen about current projects that he is working on, he shows me some recent sketches with more Borg-like, or atomic, flourishes. “I would say I am a workaholic, but that sounds too disciplined. It’s more that I get up and do what I want to do–and what I want to do to work on my next piece.”&nbsp;Even when we don’t know what’s next–in art, in life, in a sentence–it's reassuring to think that we can compound everything that is imperfect and uncanny into art. “I think that aesthetic experience and visual experience are one of the most profound things that convinces us that the things that we know are what we know.” Lately, he tells me I find myself wondering what a consolation prize would look like–the visual equivalent of ‘Congratulations, you’re here.”&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/david-klamen-life-trophies">David Klamen’s Life Trophies is on view until June 24th</a>&nbsp;</body></html>

Out of the Mold and into the New: David Klamen’s "Life Trophies"

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419077/mbnnmyqx7h9xbjjde0ei.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/joey-africa">Joey Africa</a>Opening: Saturday, June 11, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmStola Contemporary Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419078/b0utywlshqdoisxlto3s.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/cheryl-pope">Cheryl Pope: Variations on a Love Theme</a>Opening: Saturday, June 11, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmMonique Meloche Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419079/uw3v9yedl8nlhiuksj5n.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/brad-novak-hybrid-2-0-solo-show">Brad Novak: Hybrid 2.0</a>Opening: Saturday, June 11, 12 – 5&nbsp;pmVertical Project Space&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419079/uqc0tzv6zqrl5yqo9pud.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/generations">Generations: 30 Years of Woman Made Gallery</a>Opening: Saturday, June 11, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmWoman Made Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419080/va8pugnlz8hfdfpzsvyj.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/woomin-kim-doo-jip-salim">Woomin Kim: Doo Jip Salim</a>Opening: Sunday, June 12, 12 – 4&nbsp;pmGoldfinch&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419081/qie0bzd76xzihssmrlox.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/brandon-chavis-for-colored-queers">Brandon Chavis: for colored queers</a>Opening: Sunday, June 12, 12 – 4&nbsp;pmGoldfinch&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions June 8-12 (Part II)

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419077/qzbuhrmy5kaxcxaaelom.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/almudena-rodriguez-pygmalion-effect-d6f1219a-8ef7-436f-8949-22762e6c84d9">Almudena Rodriguez: Pygmalion Effect</a>June 8PAGODA RED&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419078/eg6n35go34gxcyubcznn.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/women-of-the-blues-a-coast-to-coast-collection">Women of the Blues: A Coast to Coast Collection</a>Opening: Wednesday, June 8, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419079/s4gleer2qrfzks6hqlr8.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/some-parts-of-us-depaul-university-s-graphic-design-senior-capstone-show">Some Parts of Us: DePaul University’s Graphic Design Senior Capstone Show</a>Opening: Thursday, June 9, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419080/ffeykpchlupi3oczygyg.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/magalie-guerin">Magalie Guérin: hard green</a>Opening: Friday, June 10, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmCorbett vs. Dempsey&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419081/gkvcq5iiemzj3efh6gq9.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/inscription">Inscription</a>Opening: Friday, June 10, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmMu Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419082/hcr2eqtovp2eqwx0r6ny.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/frank-spidale-paintings-and-drawings">Frank Spidale: Paintings and Drawings</a>Opening: Friday, June 10, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmFirecat Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419083/yt7gacgbkkyusawjkvet.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-shape-of-light-contemporary-painting-and-studio-glass">The Shape of Light. Contemporary painting and studio glass.</a>June 10Rockford Art Museum&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News

Chicago Gallery News