March 1, 2023: We are happy to announce our move to a new temporary office space at 1732 W. Hubbard Street, Suite 1A, opening to the public on March 1, 2023. Located kitty-corner to our upcoming permanent space at the corner of Hubbard and Wood, this expansive viewing room / meeting space will allow us to work hand-in-hand with our artists, architects and construction crews as together we realize the buildout of our exciting new vision across the street.
During this transitional \"countdown\" period, we will be keeping our standard gallery hours (T-F 10:30-6, Sat 11-5) and will welcome visitors.
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Carrie Secrist Gallery, established in 1992, features contemporary artwork by emerging, mid-career and established artists who work in a variety of mediums. This year marks the gallery’s 30th anniversary.
Represented artists include: Whitney Bedford, Stephen Eichhorn, Shannon Finley, Diana Guerrero-Maciá, Andrew Holmquist, Anne Lindberg, Liliana Porter, Michael Robinson and Dannielle Tegeder.
From Fall 2022: After two years of interruption, transition and reevaluation within all art communities, we are thrilled to announce that Carrie Secrist Gallery has discovered and committed to its new home in West Town – the city’s preeminent gallery district. Located at the corner of Wood and Hubbard Streets, this bow-truss, skylit space is a 10,000 sq. ft. arena featuring an expanded approach to contemporary exhibition experiences.
Our reinvigorated programming will present solo artist exhibitions alongside curated surveys by like-minded creators who will elaborate the dialogue around related topics. Additional programming includes panel discussions, lectures, curatorial invitationals and other events. We intend to ring in CSG’s 30th Year by offering our revitalized mission as a gift to engage our art community locally and at large.
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Exhibition on view: January 21-March 11, 2017
\r\nOpening reception: January 21 from 5-8pm
Carrie Secrist Gallery is pleased to present Ryan Fenchel: The Adept Wept. Fenchel's new body of work combines two threads of his recent practice, paintings and light boxes. Developed from an intuitive studio practice, the vessel-like shapes that appear in the paintings provide an expressive outlet for a variety of formal ideas situated within conceptual constructs. The light boxes on view borrow their structural and graphic format from Japanese bar signs while originating form the same world as thevisually textured paintings.
\r\n\r\nInfluenced by alchemy (the adept), mythologies, secret societies, art histories, and modernism, Fenchel's work is a cosmos without hierarchy. Familiar three-dimensional objects rendered in two dimensions engender a template for mark-making: from the abstract, to the portrait, the anthropomorphized and singular opaque colors. It is endlessly generative, and encourages open questions and interpretations.
\r\n\r\nThe painting that lends its name to the show title, Refreshing Memories, The Adept Wept, features four shapes - one spaced slightly away from the rest. The shapes resemble vessels, but the familiar properties of vessels ends at the shapes. One a pitcher, one a vase, one bending like a figure, and one flattened by an Egyptian landscape - the Sphinx in the foreground as a testament to objects familiar yet mysterious. Several mural-sized paintings, ranging from 8 to 13 feet long, emphasize the concept of volume literally and figuratively. Weight, movement and space parry with the use of color, form and shape to underline the atmosphere in the individual paintings as well as the cumulative effect in the gallery as a whole.
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\r\nRyan Fenchel (b. 1981, United States) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He completed an MFA in Art Theory and Practice from Northwestern University in 2007. This is his second solo exhibition with Carrie Secrist Gallery. Past exhibitions include solo and group shows in Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Tokyo.