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By GINNY VAN ALYEA

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The world comes to Chicago during EXPO CHICAGO to experience what some of the best galleries in the world are exhibiting as well as what art in our city is like. For the international art fair's 7th edition, September 28–30, 2018, there is artwork by over 3,000 artists from 135 leading galleries representing 27 countries and 63 international cities. 

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In the company of so many international galleries are also many highly respected local dealers. In this age of abundant art fairs, many collectors and arts supporters have gotten into the habit of bingeing on art that is all in the same place, all at one time. For Chicagoans this means that, though there are dozens of galleries operating in the city, hosting new exhibitions and openings every few weeks during the year, many people don't visit local spaces very regularly. As a result EXPO is in fact an ideal chance to catch up with our local stars as well as the esteemed guests from around the country and the world. And of course don't forget that there is an even wider community of galleries and artists who are rolling out the red carpet beyond the fair in the city's art districts and neighborhoods. 

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In order to make this weekend's art binge as productive as possible, following is a summary of highlights from those galleries and arts institutions that proudly call Chicago home all year long. Make sure to say hi during EXPO, and then don't be a stranger once the fair is over.

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If you're visiting from out of town, we hope you experience and appreciate the full extent of our city's creativity as well as welcoming nature while you are here. 

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Corbett vs Dempsey (Booth #211)

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Corbett vs. Dempsey's fair booth this year offers a view of history through the lens of art with 50 Years: 1969-2018 which it  says pays homage to the 50th anniversary of the response shows, which took place at various locations in Chicago in 1968. Following on the violent events surrounding the Democratic National Convention that year, artists, galleries and institutions around town mounted protests. In the booth, [the gallery] will exhibit actual works that were shown in these legendary exhibitions, including works by Seymour Rosofsky, Ed Flood, Art Green, William Weege, and Robert Donley, as well as many pieces that connect in spirit with those acts of defiance, including Joyce Pensato, Charline von Heyl, Robert Lostutter, Sam Gilliam, and Keiichi Tanaami. In addition to vintage works from 1968 – paintings, assemblage, drawings, prints and a film by Tom Palazzolo will round out the historical part of the booth. In contrast, we will also show work by contemporary artists that relate to these historical pieces, including John Sparagana, Cauleen Smith, David Hartt, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, and Brian Calvin.

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Richard Gray Gallery (Booth #139)

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Richard Gray Gallery's booth at the fair features a range of gallery artists, but notable are works by Alex Katz (91) and David Hockney (81), who have each recently held major exhibitions of new work in the gallery's west side warehouse space in the Kinzie Corridor. The gallery's booth at the fair offers art by many artists whose work is prized around the world. Featured are: Alexander Calder, Bethany Collins, Joseph Cornell, Mark Di Suvero, Jim Dine, Arthur Dove, Sam Francis, Theaster Gates, Alberto Giacometti, Marsden Hartley, David Hockney, Rashid Johnson, Alex Katz, David Klamen, Walt Kuhn, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Lutes, René Magritte, Roberto Matta, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Jaume Plensa, Leon Polk Smith, Evelyn Statsinger, and John Storrs.

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Rhona Hoffman Gallery (Booth #219)

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Rhona Hoffman Gallery's artists are participating in multiple aspects of the fair this year. A /DIALOGUES talk featuring artist Torkwase Dyson, whose exhibition is currently on view in the gallery in West Town, takes place Friday, September 28 at 4:00pm. The talk is titled, Alterity and The Exhibition Environment: Feminist History of Alternative Spaces in Chicago. 

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Gallery artist amanda Williams' work is featured as part of EXPO in OVERRIDE / A BILLBOARD PROJECT. And a special exhibition with 6018North and 3Arts also presents Williams' work in Sanctuary – a social justice space designed by the artist and activated by 3Arts Make A Wave artists Carris Adams, Maya Camille Broussard, Mashaun Ali Hendricks, Nikki Patin, Amina Ross, and Rhonda Wheatley. The artists provide healing services, justice consultation, and above all, sanctuary. Sanctuary unveils a prototype of Justice Hotel – supported by a Joyce Foundation ideation grant – as a think tank for embodying the ideas and actions that support social justice and self-care. 

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Another special exhibition at EXPO is PROJECTART, in which gallery artists Judy Ledgerwood & Nathaniel Mary Quinn are participants. ProjectArt transforms the nation’s public libraries into vital cultural hubs through artist residencies. The nonprofit’s award-winning model of change reaches 1,700 children in six cities throughout the country including New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Detroit, and Pittsburgh as well as Chicago. 

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Zolla/Lieberman Gallery (EXPO Booth #371)

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Zolla/Lieberman Gallery has been in business in Chicago for over 40 years, and they've participated in Art Expo, Art Chicago and EXPO CHICAGO from the beginning. This year Z/L offers a special exhibition curated by gallery artist Buzz Spector, Hauntology. The gallery explains, "Jacques Derrida offered the term hauntology 25 years ago, describing how any attempt to locate origins or histories is dependent on (always) already existing language , which make 'haunting the state proper to being as such.' What haunts us now is not the past but the failure of the future we dreamed of to materialize. As another cultural theorist, Mark Fischer, puts it, 'The future is always experienced as a haunting,' so for artists depicting waking dreams, different imaginative spaces or alternative worlds, questions of 'when' as much as 'where' or 'whom' subtly haunt artworks of this exotic scenario or that. The artists Spector has selected each aspire to make sense of the world while simultaneously drawing forth specters of its often displaced reality." The exhibition features Phyllis Bramson, Lisa Corrine Davis, Harley Lafarrah Eaves, Vernon Fisher, Julie Heffernan, and Maria Tomasula. 

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Stephen Daiter Gallery (Booth #319)

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Stephen Daiter Gallery, which specializes in photography, has paired up with Rena Branstein this year to show a range of work, including a selection of images by Gary Schneider, among other artists. 

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Catherine Edelman Gallery (Booth #167)

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Catherine Edelman Gallery, another local space focusing on photography, brings a range of work to the fair this year, including moving image constructions by gallery artist Gregory Scott. See down the page for details on Edelman's special project for CASE Art Fund.  

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Kavi Gupta (Booth #121)

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Kavi Gupta Gallery's list of artists is much admired and widely known and the gallery's vibrant booth is continually popular at EXPO. Currently represented artists demonstrate a strong exhibition record with museum solo shows and biennales, with works having been placed in important institutional and public collections. 

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This year the gallery has a special project onsite that is a companion to its gallery exhibition opening Saturday night, africobra50.

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McCormick Gallery (Booth #255)

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McCormick Gallery, once again in partnership with Vallarino Gallery, features art by several Abstract Expressionists as well as contemporary artists working in a similar style, such as Anna Kunz, Darrell Roberts, Ben Tinsley, and Vidvuds Zviedris. 

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moniquemeloche (Booth #321)

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Monique Meloche's gallery booth this year features a range of work in various mediums, in particular watercolors on paper by Jeff Sonhouse, constructions made of quilts and gold leaf by Sanford Biggers, Ebony Patterson's large-scale paper and plastic crown collages, and sculpture by Brendan Fernandes, whose work is also part of DePaul Art Museum's booth nearby.

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Richard Norton Gallery (Booth #275)

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Richard Norton Gallery focuses on notable American + European Impressionist + Modern paintings, drawings + sculpture from the 19th + early 20th Centuries. Tucked away in Chicago's iconic Merchandise Mart, their booth's aesthetic at the fair offers a departure from the contemporary spaces of most galleries, as they've even displayed traditionally framed art casually leaning against walls or perched on shelves. If you don't pay attention you can almost miss a stunning small work by Gertrude Abercrombie, The Night Visitor.

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Carrie Secrist Gallery (Booth #137)

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Carrie Secrist's booth this year pairs bright, inviting works by artists like Anne Lindberg, Whitney Bedford and Andrew Holmquist, with small scale sculptural constructions by Liliana Porter, which need close examination and contemplation and also lend themselves well to social media likes...

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CASE Art Fund (Booth #154)

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CASE Art Fund, founded by Catherine Edelman, of Catherine Edelman Gallery, and Anette Skuggedal of Oslo, provides support and exposure to fine art photographers whose projects focus on humanitarian issues that create a positive impact on social awareness, human rights, and education. Through a bi-annual grant, CASE will support an artist that aligns with the funds mission. The resulting photographs will be exhibited on billboards, kiosks, and other forms of public presentations, supported by discussions, workshops and small dinners. Syrian activist and photographer Omar Imam (b. 1979, Damascus) uses irony and a conceptual approach to respond to the violent situation in Syria. Live, Love, Refugee and Syrialsim is Imam’s photographic response to the chaos erupting in his homeland.

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Chicago Artists Coalition (Booth #174)

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Chicago Artists Coalition (CAC) presents the BOLT Artist-in-Residence Benjamin Larose uses the language of objects and material culture to creates pieces that explore themes such as gender, sexuality, status or taste, and question our assumptions on what it means to be “normal”. Larose's pieces are bold, irreverent and unapologetic, and transport viewers to a place where difference is depicted as epic and triumphant. CAC is a non-profit organization that supports contemporary Chicago artists and curators by offering residency programs, exhibitions, professional development and resources that enable them to live, work and thrive in the city.  

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Threewalls (Booth #465)

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Threewalls presents Nnenna Okore, a current RaD Lab artist. Okore's exhibition, Guilty Pleasures, highlights the effects of climate change, encouraging viewers to connect and re-connect with the natural world. By manipulating materials part of our everyday experience—paper, string, burlap and wire—into sculptural forms that often mimic forms in nature, Okore's presentation will incorporate some of these materials, with conversations from social media, material waste from Chicago homes, and Okore's own reflections on ecological changes to create a highly sensory multimedia experience.

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Hyde Park Art Center (Booth #176)

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HPAC's installation at EXPO includes a wall painting by 2016 Jackman Goldwasser Resident Artist, Eric J. Garcia and an chain link installation by current Center Program artist Frances Lightbound.

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The Renaissance Society (Booth #469)

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The Renaissance Society is offering hands down the most affordable art for sale at this year's fair: they're bringing back the exhibition poster! For sale. For $15. Buy all of them.

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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Booth #441)

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SAIC's booth this year features multiple works by current students and recent graduates. A 10 part, individually titled work accompanied by an explanatory diagram is by 2018 MFA graduate Kevin Demery.

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ADDITIONAL CHICAGO GALLERIES AND special exhibitions NOT PICTURED: 

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• Alan Koppel Gallery
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Come see it all for yourself, and more, at EXPO CHICAGO through Sunday, September 30, 2018 at Navy Pier. 

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This weekend's art plans can take you across Chicago, into the far suburbs, and north to Wisconsin.


The Chicago Architecture Center’s annual Open House Chicago opens doors to distinctive spaces, while family activities and an outdoor sculpture tour offer more ways to spend time with art.


Here is a look at what’s on this Saturday and Sunday. Follow the event links for any registration details and updates, and keep an eye on CGN’s calendar as more details are added.


– CGN




Open House Chicago at the Driehaus Museum

Saturday–Sunday, October 17–18; Saturday performance 1–2 p.m.

The Driehaus Museum

Murphy Auditorium, 50 E. Erie St., Chicago


Explore the historic Murphy Auditorium during the Chicago Architecture Center’s annual Open House Chicago weekend. The landmark, reopened after renovation in 2024, also hosts Hanna DiLorenzo’s Behind Closed Doors on Saturday. Entry is free without reservations; access does not include the museum’s exhibition galleries.




Family Day: Proud to Be Me

Saturday, October 17, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.

Smart Museum of Art

5550 S. Greenwood Ave., Chicago


Exhibiting artist Nina Chanel Abney guides visitors in creating colorful self-portrait collages. A collaborative card-deck project extends the activities beyond the canvas, offering families a chance to explore identity and creativity together.




Open House Chicago: Etching Demonstrations

Saturday–Sunday, October 17–18, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. each day

WING Studio

4883 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago


Add printmaking to your Open House Chicago itinerary. WING Studio welcomes visitors for etching demonstrations on both days, offering a closer look at an art-making process inside a working studio in Lincoln Square.




Guided Tour of theNate with Director and Curator Jeff Stevenson

Saturday, October 17, 1–2:30 p.m.

Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park

Governors State University, University Park


Head outdoors with Jeff Stevenson for a tour of the South Collection, considering visiting artists’ installations alongside familiar works and their connections to the Earth. Admission is $10. Meet at the F Entrance, wear shoes for grass paths, and dress for the weather; parking is free.




Kevin Blake: Sundowning

Saturday, October 17, 2–4 p.m.

Bert Green Fine Art

8 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 620, Chicago


This Saturday event highlights Kevin Blake’s solo exhibition, guest curated by Dan Cameron. Blake’s paintings scrutinize inherited ideas of masculinity, placing familiar social roles in unsettled situations and revealing vulnerability beneath the outward performance of confidence.




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This week’s art plans can take you across Chicago, into the suburbs, and north to Wisconsin. Bridgeport is busy with Third Friday festivities and Milwaukee’s quarterly Gallery Night MKE is back. New exhibitions, live calligraphy, and an art sale round out Friday’s choices.


Here is a look at what’s ahead on Friday. Follow the event links for registration and updates, and keep an eye on CGN’s calendar as more details are added.


– CGN




Between Reflection and Revelation: David Dunlop’s Material Alchemy

Gallery Night: Friday, October 16, 5–9 p.m.; Gallery Day: Saturday, October 17, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; exhibition opens October 14

JK Art House

191 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, Wisconsin


Make a Wisconsin art outing part of the weekend. David Dunlop combines traditional translucent oil techniques with metal supports, producing paintings whose surfaces change with light and movement. The opening joins Milwaukee’s quarterly Gallery Night MKE, with a free John Michael Kohler Arts Center workshop also taking place in the gallery.


Also taking place is Treasured Postcards on Friday, October 16, 5–9 p.m. This is a John Michael Kohler Arts Center workshop at JK Art House. Inspired by Lenore Tawney’s correspondence, this free Gallery Night workshop invites participants to make small collage postcards from photographs, printed papers, and other materials. Stop into JK Art House’s Parlor to create an artwork that can travel through the mail.




Out There

Gallery Night: Friday, October 16, 5–8 p.m.; Gallery Day: Saturday, October 17, 11 am. Exhibition on view through November 7

Kim Storage Gallery

207 E Buffalo St., Ste 404, Milwaukee, WI 53202


Out There is a two-person exhibition of new work by Hector Acuna and Andy Paczos. The title borrows the advice a teacher gave Paczos at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago: look out the window, \"there's lots of good stuff out there.\" He took it, and has painted Chicago from direct observation for three decades since. Acuna works the same way, returning to his Wisconsin sites across multiple plein air sessions and staging handmade props to paint in natural light. Both find their subjects by standing in front of them




Recycled 2026

First Look: Friday, October 16, 5 p.m.; opening-night event at 6 p.m.; sale through October 24

The Art Center Highland Park

1957 Sheridan Rd., Highland Park


Rediscovered art finds new homes at The Art Center’s annual sale, with donated works selected and priced for accessible collecting. Opening-night tickets offer an early look; weekend hours are Saturday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m., and Sunday, noon–4 p.m. Entry is free October 19–24.




Calligraphy Performance

Friday, October 16, 5–8 p.m.; artist conversation 5–6:30 p.m.; performances begin at 6:30 p.m.

Research House for Asian Art

3217 S. Morgan St., Chicago


The Becoming Words reception brings calligraphy to life through performances by Hekiun Oda and Bahman Panahi. Panahi joins musician Kerry Leung for Musicalligraphy, while Oda demonstrates his distinctive practice. Food reflecting both artists’ cultures accompanies the evening. Admission is $40, plus the ticket service fee.




Structure in Stature

Opening: Friday, October 16, 6–9 p.m.; on view through November 20

Forum 301

301 W. Ohio St., Chicago


Fashion becomes a meeting point for architecture, sculpture, and performance in this group exhibition. The participating artists examine how clothing shapes bodily presence, from protection and concealment to exaggeration and transformation, and how we construct the space we occupy.




Open Studios Third Friday at the Bridgeport Art Center

Friday, October 16, 7–10 p.m.

Bridgeport Art Center

1200 W. 35th St., Chicago


Explore studios and three gallery presentations: Decadence Deux, presented by Pigment International and September Gray Fine Art; Art Connection: Past Meets Present, from ArtConnectED; and Robert Lipton’s Una Vuelta a Mis Raices. The free evening offers opportunities to encounter artists and their work throughout the building.




Bridgeport Third Friday Art Walk

Friday, October 16, 7–10 p.m.

Bridgeport Artist Community

Multiple neighborhood locations in Bridgeport, Chicago


Extend your Third Friday visit beyond a single building. The Bridgeport Artist Community’s route connects more than 45 galleries, studios, shops, and cultural spaces. Use the linked neighborhood map to plan stops, and check individual venues for their evening hours.




Szukalski. The Mythshaper / Szukalski. Rzeźbiarz mitu

Opening: Friday, October 16, 7–9 p.m.; on view through October 2027

Polish Museum of America

984 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago


A major exhibition revisits Stanisław Szukalski’s complex legacy through sculpture, drawing, prints, and photography. Organized with the POLONIKA Institute, it examines his imaginative mythmaking and contested ideas. Opening admission is $25; a Saturday discussion at 1 p.m. is $20, or $40 for both programs.




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This week’s art plans can take you across Chicago, into the suburbs, and north to Wisconsin. Auctions and museum conversations lead into Lincoln Park Art Night on Thursday, followed by Bridgeport’s Third Friday festivities and Milwaukee’s quarterly Gallery Night MKE. New exhibitions, live calligraphy, and an art sale round out Friday’s choices. Over the weekend, the Chicago Architecture Center’s annual Open House Chicago opens doors to distinctive spaces, while family activities and an outdoor sculpture tour offer more ways to spend time with art.


Here is a date-by-date look at what’s ahead. Follow the event links for registration and updates, and keep an eye on CGN’s calendar as more details are added.


– CGN




Curated: CALDER

Auction: Wednesday, October 14, 10 a.m. Central / 11 a.m. Eastern

Rago and Wright

online bidding


A midweek auction offers another way to engage with art. Rago and Wright’s current Curated: CALDER sale brings the artist’s work to the auction block, with bidding available online. See the current auction catalog for lots and registration.




European Furniture & Decorative Arts

Auction: October 14–15, 10 a.m. Central each day

Freeman’s

1550 W. Carroll Ave., Chicago


Freeman’s two-day sale spans English and Continental furnishings, decorative objects, and sculpture. Collections from across the country, including Barrington Hills, contribute to a selection ranging from clocks and tapestries to Minton porcelain.




Symposium: Religion, Art, and Provenance in Museums

October 14–16

Smart Museum of Art

University of Chicago | Hyde Park


What happens to religious objects when they enter museum collections? Keynotes, panels, and roundtable conversations consider their changing meanings and histories in this multi-day symposium. Consult the program for individual session times and locations.




Art and Women in Sports: Looking at Amber Morningstar

Wednesday, October 14, 3:30–5 p.m.

Block Museum of Art

40 Arts Circle Dr., Evanston


Northwestern Athletics’ Ava Earl and Associate Provost Michelle Manno consider Cara Romero’s photograph Amber Morningstar through the lens of women in sports and self-representation. The conversation connects art with identity, teamwork, and the power to shape one’s own image.


Coffee and tea begin at 3 p.m.




Becoming Words: A Joint Calligraphy Exhibition

October 15–November 15; opening reception Friday, October 16, 5–8 p.m.

Heritage Museum of Asian Art and Seldon Institute

Exhibition at Research House for Asian Art, 3217 S. Morgan St., Chicago


Japanese calligrapher Hekiun Oda and Iranian artist Bahman Panahi bring different traditions into conversation, moving from written language toward gesture, abstraction, and sound. The exhibition opens Thursday, followed by Friday’s live performance program and a free artist-led tour Saturday, October 17, 1–3 p.m.



The Fine Art of [Madron Gallery]

Opening: Thursday, October 15, 5:30–8:30 p.m.; on view through December 18

Madron Gallery

1000 W. North Ave., 3rd Floor, Chicago


Madron marks its 25th anniversary with twenty-five works by twenty-five artists from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The free opening joins the fifth annual Lincoln Park Art Night, making it a lively evening to explore Madron, Leslie Wolfe Gallery, gallery 1871, Art City, and Art on Sedgwick.




Wander and Wallow: Must We Dwell — Brian Lathan

Opening: Thursday, October 15, 6–8 p.m.; artist remarks at 6:30 p.m.; on view through November 20

Kavanagh Gallery, Fine Line Creative Arts Center

37W570 Bolcum Rd., St. Charles


Brian Lathan’s brightly colored prints explore the uneasy relationship between escape and self-care. Figures shelter smaller versions of themselves inside exposed headspaces, inviting viewers to consider the habits and interior worlds that sustain us. Meet the artist at the free opening reception.


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