ENGAGE Projects is a commercial gallery located in West Town. Our mission is to continue to build our program through engagement with our artists, communities and patrons by striving to break down the walls to the art world and embracing inclusivity and accessibility, resulting in an expanding community with multiple voices and viewpoints within our gallery walls and beyond.
ENGAGE Projects was founded as Aspect/Ratio Projects in 2012 as a gallery for international emerging video artists. During 2021 our roster and programming expanded to include both mid-career and emerging multidisciplinary conceptual artists working in painting, photography, sculpture and video.
ENGAGE Projects represents the careers of Aaron Spangler, Adam Daley Wilson, Alberto Aguilar, Alejandro Figueredo Diaz-Perera, Andrew Bearnot, Cameron Gainer, Cameron Patricia Downey, Casilda Sanchez, Chris Cosnowski, Chris Larson, Derrick Woods-Morrow, Edra Soto, Xie Hongdong, Hương Ngô, Margaret Welsh, Morgan, Nick Albertson, Phyllis Bramson, Raheleh Filsoofi, Rob Fischer, Selva Aparicio, and Sharon Louden.
Check our website for additional programming for each show. Our shows rotate every 5 weeks, with openings held typically on Friday or Saturday evenings 6–8 pm. Usually the artist is present.
Image: Margaret Welsh, Suspension of Disbelief at ENGAGE Projects Installation. Photo by Jonas Mueller-Ahlheim
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The show also proposes that one example of possible art practices in Post-Theory Art is “artist-placed public document art”—an artist creates a theory of public interest, places it into a court—art-as-law—and the court’s response lands not just in the heads, hearts, and lived experiences of the participants, but also in members of the public, if the public issue resonates.
In all of this, Post-Theory Art is proposed as human: When an artist makes a work with their head, heart, and body—all three—and when a viewer then experiences it themselves through all three, then perhaps this is a special human connection that AI is unable to do. If so, Post-Theory Art, by communicating theories through the emotional and sensorial, may be a way to preserve our human theory-making in this new time when AI can now make theories too.
The exhibition traverses styles including large-scale inscription paintings composed of scrawling, layered text as well as precision paintings that pair serene landscapes with the artist’s own truisms. Wilson’s work oscillates between poise and purposeful disruption to keep the viewer on their toes all the way through the gallery.
Daley Wilson’s work is held in private and corporate collections in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Miami, and Chicago. His solo exhibitions have been recognized as “Must See” by Artforum (Chicago, 2021, 2023). More recently, he was selected for EXPO Chicago’s public art programming (2025) and published an initial paper on art theory in the Fine Arts, Aesthetics, and Philosophy Journal of SSRN (2024). Daley Wilson has also served on the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Doctoral Studies in Visual Art (IDSVA), an international PhD program for artists, and he is also a practicing appellate lawyer specializing in Art Law, Constitutional Law, and the Visual Artists’ Rights Act. He also provides pro bono services to artists.
Image: Adam Daley Wilson, Only Some Species Unmarred, 2021, artist's text on collage of appropriated images on aluminum, 82 x 58 in, 208.3 x 147.3 cm
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