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ARC Gallery is an internationally recognized exhibition space that has been an integral part of the Chicago art scene since its inception in 1973. Founded during the women’s movement as an alternative to the mainstream gallery system, ARC is one of the longest running art spaces of its kind in the country. As a non-profit, woman artist-run cooperative, ARC continues its feminist tradition by providing exhibition opportunities for professional and emerging artists working in all media based on excellence of artwork, without discrimination toward ethnicity, race, gender, age, class, religious, sexual or political orientation.
Image: ARC Gallery, 2022. Image by Nathan Keay
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To deeply know something or someone outside of yourself is intimate. You must open your perception to what’s around you, set yourself aside, listen closely, and consider what might misalign with your worldview. And then, a glimmer of connection.
Through a series of nonobjective paintings on paper, Wolfkill asks audience members to bear witness to and participate in softness, intimacy, and openness. Pause in front of each painting and let them wash over you. Methods of self protection, the space we hold between ourselves and others, and the masking we engage in to enter social situations “appropriately” must fall away. Vibrant colors and rounded forms create a sense of delight and comfort while spatial relationships amongst elements change as the viewer looks. This body of work asks for tenderness, radical compassion, vulnerability, and joy. It is a space to pause and consider what is possible when we connect to each other with authenticity. Take your time, there’s no rush.
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The word reads the same forwards and backwards, mirroring itself perfectly. Rotator performs rotation just by being read — form and meaning reflect each other. Arguably the most philosophically complete palindrome: ROTATOR enacts its meaning. Being inside a future once imagined is stranger than the wanting of it. Seeing from within a once-future now is unmooring — calmer in some places, wilder in others. Can we see the texture of the actual? Not the dream of a life, but the life of a dream? A new place becomes familiar as time is lost inside of it. This is the unexpected weight of a world created with intention. Rotator is the lightness of beauty that arrives without being conceived of. The synchronicity of a plan not fully fleshed out that becomes a reality which cannot be removed from the picture. The act of rotation only functions as it moves. For an object like a gyroscope, a bicycle wheel, a spinning top, rotation is their function. Stillness changes their purpose. As a metaphor, this inverts the usual assumption that a successful life means rest. Rotation is to be present inside a life you only once imagined. Human presence isn’t stillness or clarity, it is both the balance within rotation and the disorientation of attempting to take stock of it. Always in equilibrium inside something, never outside it looking in.
This work gathers at the midpoint between the fall equinox and the winter solstice, where the year tips into its dark half. It is a threshold season, and the body knows it before the mind does. The pull toward slowness and the disappearing of the light. The instruction to fold inward as the ground begins its own long rest. To pause here is not idleness. It is a refusal. The world we inhabit demands constant motion and vigilance, and to stop is to say no to that. In this season, the choice to slow becomes an act of care. It is also defiance. As the warmth thins and light withdraws, the self turns to interior work. This is the kind of knowledge only the dark makes possible. The western hemisphere, and the body alongside it, prepares for rest, the implied question is what should be carried forward and what should be laid down? The withdrawal of light is not where the membrane between worlds grows thin. The shadows draw near, and we make room for them. We honor the ones who created our bodies with their own erotic power. We honor the dead and respect their navigation of the same rhythm of humanity we are now pursuing. We keep vigil to remember the accumulated knowing our own bodies fight to retain. Photography mimics this register of motion and rest, of the porous body and the thinning veil. It respects the cyclical. The natural rhythm of withdrawal and return. It harkens, as Lorde wrote, to the body's deepest rhythms. To slow, to descend, to honor the dead, to let the body rest. They are one act to tend the fire of our fearless selves. This call is for photography that engages with liminality and seasonal transition; images exploring rest, descent, ancestry, grief/vigil, or the body's relationship to seasonal rhythm. Landscape, portraiture, and still life photographs are all welcome as long as the work speaks to this in-between, threshold energy.
Exhibiting Artists: Vanessa Lafolla, Sarah Gillingham Schorr, Eden Berke, Sarah Joy, DanaidX Duo, Kevin Lyle, Erin Graver, Frank Morgan, Kathryn Rodrigues, Alan Leder, Maria Macko, Brent Showalter, Erica McKeehen, Darlene Poloniak, Andrea Vaca, Bethany Barto.
Abigail Engstrand: My Sheros is an upcoming event scheduled to take place from November 6 to December 4.
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\r\n\r\nJill AnnieMargaret, Elizabeth Arden, Martin Beck, Leah Mulligan Cabinum, Nelson Cantada, Kristin Cass, Marion Delarue, Evin Dubois, Abigail Engstrand, David A. Feingold, Mary Frances Fleming, Nicolina Holt, Michael Hubbard, Kevin Kegler, Emily Lombardo, Jamie Luoto, Jessica Malatia, Kelly Mathews, Luis Mejico, Hayden Nagin, Cassandra Opaskar, John Paradiso, Ahmad Jahandeh Poshtiri, EM Racine, Leslie Robison, Andre Rubin, Dan Scott, Omi Torres, Sanh Brian Tran, Antoinette Viola,
\r\n\r\nGENDER—perhaps the most essential aspect of one’s person— has transcended the binary ideas of the past, evolving into complex conceptions about identity and sexuality. While contemporary gender expression has created space for empowerment and freedoms for many, it remains confusing for some, wrong-headed for others, and a topic that is continually fascinating to the media. Many welcome this attention and the progress it bodes; but it has also resulted in pain, harassment, and discrimination for others.
\r\n\r\nARC, established as a woman-run gallery 45 years ago, continues to embrace and honor the various struggles associated with belonging to a particular gender. Because of this mission, the gallery is presenting a juried exhibition entitled “Pride and Prejudice” which will open in June 2018–the same month as the Pride Parade in Chicago.
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\r\n\r\nThe juror for this exhibit, Oli Rodriguez, is an interdisciplinary artist working in video, photography, performance and writing. Currently, he is faculty in the Photography Department at the School of the Art Institute Chicago (SAIC). His projects conceptually intersect and dialogue within consent, queerness, childhood and sexuality. He curated the exhibition, The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics at SAIC. He is part of the monograph Confronting the Abject, named from his research themed class that he co-taught with Catherine Opie at SAIC. He just finished his book, the Papi Project, which archives the AIDS pandemic through his queer, POC family in Chicago during the 1980s. Rodriguez has screened, performed, lectured and exhibited his works internationally and nationally. Oli Rodriguez will give a closing juror's talk on July 14, 2pm. His work can be seen at www.olirodriguez.com
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\r\n\r\nGranite Palombo (Amit ) is an activist, interdisciplinary artist who exhibited nationally and internationally. She initiates outreach projects with previously incarcerated clients, youth at risk, and with residents of a domestic violence shelter. Integrating her training as a therapist she exhibits and performs with her clients in professional art venues. She was ordained as a Rabbi at RSI in New York in June 2016, focusing on Jewish mysticism and healing.
\r\n\r\nPalombo’s (Amit) work has a strong textual component and her installations and performances uses often projected animations and projections of real-time interactive animation reflecting the dancers’ movements. Her narratives concern social issues, which she connects to broader more general questions of humanity and the human condition.
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Opening Fri. July 20, 6-9pm
\r\n\r\nWhile my legal name is Heidi, mostly everyone calls me Tehilla: my Hebrew name which means “Praise Gd with song.” I love to sing, yet also praise the Gd of my understanding with visual art. I use clay, (MotherEarth Herself) and while I work from live nude models, I sculpt the neshama (soul/essence) rather than the physical body. People who see and touch them in person comment on the “Kabbalstic” healing energy emanating & vibrating from within them. I welcome your touch and feedback.
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Opening Fri. July 20, 6-9pm
\r\n\r\n“My current work is an exploration of memory, history and personal mythology. I believe that gathering the stories from the past, knowing them, and sharing them is a means to healing learned dysfunctional patterns as well as embracing inherited strengths and gifts. I have been exploring the stories of my maternal ancestors with an inquiry into that which is passed down through generations of women (epigenetics).
\r\n\r\nWhat does it mean to remember? Memory is the fabric of life experience. Our autobiographical memories are the stories that we tell ourselves about ourselves. Though life events may be experienced with others, memory is a solo journey, as it a reproduction of events filtered through personal perception and an interpretation of past experiences. Beyond nostalgia, memory holds an essence of our awareness of ourselves. It is a template for how we perceive relationships, and informs our interactions inside relationships.
\r\n\r\nMemory is an abstraction. It holds our entire history, but how much of that is our “real” story? And what stories do we tell ourselves about this story? Which stories do we own and which ones own us? And how do we break free of those that don’t serve our greatest good? And which ones are there for us to uncover/recover/discover for the healing our ancestors/progeny/selves?”
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Top image: Granit Amit
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\r\n\r\nGet a sneak peek of our new in-progress West Town space: 1463 W. Chicago Ave.
\r\n\r\nDrinks, hors d'oeuvres, and sweets. Art raffle, silent auction, music and more! Ticket price includes two free drinks.
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\r\n\r\nThis exhibition will be held at ARC gallery's new space: 1463 W Chicago Ave. 60642
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This exhibition will be held at ARC gallery's new space, 1463 W Chicago Ave. 60642
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\r\n\r\nAs described by the Helsinki-based DeBose, “Fifteen years ago when I shot the first piece in this collection, I never would have guessed I’d run into the faces and names of our presidents so regularly while outside of our borders; I knew our culture had garnered plenty of the world’s attention, but not on the scale where everyday people would name their restaurant after them or have imagery of them on their clothing. The level of variety in how they are portrayed has also been crazy to encounter: some of the messages and imagery that this exhibition shares look like passive-aggressive Post-It notes hung on an office refrigerator, others looked more like Renaissance-era frescos painted on the ceiling of a church. In the wake of the actions of four U.S. presidents, it has been enthralling to see how the feelings of the public overseas has differed from administration to administration as well as geographically, from region to region.”
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Exploring themes of identity, voice, and agency, Lee’s current body of work draws from recent research on themes of personal identity and what it means to have, and find, a voice. Her work depicts figures that may appear childlike and innocent at first, but often have an underlying psychological undercurrent. Some figures include crowns, others antlers which work to suggest relating to regeneration and transformation.
\r\n\r\nAfter working in large scale for most of her life, Lee’s paintings explore imagery on a much smaller scale, drawing the viewer in, and a square format. Line, deliberately varied and expressive, is an important element here. Color is also an integral part of the work, including experiments with silver leaf. Repetition in some of the work invites the viewer to interpret, dispute, challenge, and reinvent repeated imagery and mainstream narratives.
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Anomalous showcases Stutt’s interests in creating conceptual assemblage with found objects that have nothing in common, except the glue that binds them.
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To celebrate our move to a new location on in the West Town Arts District on Chicago Ave., we invite artists to submit small works-no more than 15 inches wide
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\r\nYou are invited to exhibit your work and join us for the 45th year celebration of our new gallery space, Reinvention II, an Open Walls Exhibition. Once a year we open our gallery for artists to exhibit their work with many other artists. This is an opportunity for emerging artists, young artists, first exhibitors and experienced artists to show new ideas and experimentations together, and to create an exhibition with a wonderfully diverse array of work. In the past these kind of shows have been very successful exhibitions, with a wide range of art, all expressing a visual voice.
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ARC needs YOU: Your VOICE, Your VISION, Your PASSION! Consider joining ARC as a member. Become part of a vibrant gallery that is celebrating its 45th year!
Join us on Sunday, Nov 18 at 2pm for a membership info session. Free!
We'll have snacks and mimosas; and we'll answer any questions you have about membership.
For more info: http://www.arcgallery.org/arc-members/membership/apply-for-local-membership/
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The nude expresses the human condition because our bodies are road maps of our individual experience. To study another's face and form is to understand their essential humanity, their frailty and imperfection. When studying anyone with the level of intensity my kind of figurative work requires, you see their beauty and strength as well.
My art engages the viewer to confront the immediacy of the human condition. It reminds them of their humanity at a time when digital life threatens to consume us. My work has been described as having a quality of urgency. I appreciate that word as there is an urgent need to know and understand each other as technology creates more distance between us.
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Opening reception on November 30 at 6pm, with artist performance at 7pm
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Come to the gallery to see the variety of excellent work shown by the artists who run the gallery on a day-to-day basis (or have done so in prior years).
Current ARC Members: Granite Amit - Virginia Carstarphen - Nancy Fritz - Iris Goldstein - Ruti Modlin - Cheri Reif Naselli - Randi Shepard - Lee Stanton - Michele Stutts - Cynthia Vaicunas - Amy Zucker
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Laura Cerf-Dahl, Esther Charbit, Anne Farley Gaines, Jeanine Hill-Soldner, Kathryn Kucera, Judy Langston, Bert Leveille, Kelly Mathews, Jeane Kat McGrail, Mary Krebs Smyth, Anita Miller, Joan Minsky, Jacqueline Moses, Sandra J. Perlow, Alice Revelski, Judith Roth, Caren Helene Rudman, Vicki Senn, Heather Sepanik, Suzanne Weythman, Rebecca Wolfram
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Moroccan Markets is the result of a residency program I attended at Green Olive Arts located in Tetouan, Morocco.Over the years the country has negotiated international free trade agreements with several countries. This work was inspired by the patterns, colors, repetitions and amassed quantities of merchandise found in daily life around Tetouan.
Opening Reception, Friday, February 8, 6:00-9:00
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Exhibiting Artists:
Adrienne Aaronson
Gail Baar
Marcia Babler
Sandie Bacon
David Cohen
Reginald Coleman
Marilyn De Boer
Ellen Roth Deutsch
Marlene B. Diamond
Marikov Ventura
Jeanne Garrett
Barbara Goldsmith
John Hatelstad
Suzanne Horwitz
Todd Jacobs
Steven T. Jones
Judith Joseph
Beverly Kedzior
Pamela Lee
Ruti Modlin
David Robbin
Ann Rosen
Marilyn Schulenberg
Peggy Schutze
Judy Lipman Shechter
Mary Krebs Smyth
Cheryl Steiger
Kay Thomas
Michele Thrane
Ellen & John Wright
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Call for artists deadline: January 19, 11:59pm
With this exhibition, we are calling for art that addresses structural sexism-in particular, women's emotional realities, and how that emotional reality plays out in a national atmosphere of distrust about women's stories, women's rationality and women's anger.
His-ter'-ee-uh: from the Greek word \"hystera\", or womb-an organ that was thought to migrate erratically through a woman's abdomen, searching for \"fragrant smells\", much like \"an animal within an animal\". (Aretaeus, Greek physician, 2nd century AD)
Today, in the inevitable backlash to the \"MeToo\" moment, women once again are distrusted, disdained (and sometimes diagnosed) for an emotionality that threatens the status quo. Women's bodies continue to be the ground around which much of the conflict revolves. Strangely enough (as we saw in recent Supreme Court hearings) some of the hysteria around these events now seems to also emanate from men, which suggests the need for a new metaphor to explain the cause of women's rage.
Original works created within the last 5 years. All mediums and materials will be considered in addition to video and performance based arts. No large projections or media installations will be accepted for this show due to space limitations. Open to all artists, national and international.
Work for this exhibition will be juried by Olive Stefanski, a multidisciplinary artist working in fiber art, installation, performance and sound.
Master of None is an exhibition of Master of Fine Arts graduates from Northern Illinois University. Join us for the Opening Reception: Friday, April 5, 6-9pm.
This exhibition is at ARC Gallery's new location: 1463 W. Chicago Ave.
Exhibiting Artists:
Sasha Bitzer
Shane Bowers
Terrance Gray
Noah Kashiani
John Linquist
Samantha Mendoza
Natalie Pivoney
Emily Rangel-Cascio
Zeinab Saab
Daniel Stetzinger
Xingyi Tan
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Susan Emmerson's work speaks to the cause and consequences of natural disasters, both on a personal emotional level and on a more global scientific level. Using paper, Tyvek (a plastic paper), and drawings she explores the scenes of destruction and the imagery of loss. The wall sculptures depict disheveled, broken surfaces where Tyvek painfully peels away like paint or skin, and found objects and photos that recall lost mementos of home.
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Working with sumi ink and brushes of many sizes, Katherine Nemanich paints with broad movements that echo the rhythmic flow and rhetoric of selected musical compositions. She then transforms these marks into three-dimensional constructions as she tears and combines her calligraphic paintings, bending and layering the durable 100% cotton paper and fastening it in places with industrial elements-grommets, bolts, and wire. Nemanich's constructions are non-rectangular and extend outwards across the wall or floor, or suspend from the ceiling.
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In Cynthia's new work gestural big brush strokes run into dense repetitive areas of bold color - challenging the flow by their placement. Her willingness to switch materials contribute to stops and starts to emphasize a point. Introduction of lozenge like shapes drop from the top to the bottom of the picture plane and interrupt the underlying primary movement. Both gently and boldly they reveal themselves. Like bombs they carry weight both visually and emotionally as they alternately float and drop redefining space and altering our perceptions. They force us to see what happens when an opposing force is introduced.
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Here’s to Life: Opening Reception Fri. May 31, 6-9pm
Spring is here again after the long, severe winter. The seasons come around. Eight years have passed since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami took away the lives of more than 18,000 people and swept away everyday life along the coasts.
After the terrible tsunami, a single pine tree, which had once been a part of a large forest, was the only tree left standing. It was called “the miracle pine” and it initially survived the summer heat, the blowing seawater winds, and the cold snow. It encouraged people and gave them hope to survive. Its roots, however, had been fatally exposed to seawater and it finally died one year after the tsunami. People started to work on a big project to apply special treatments to keep the wood from decaying before restoring it to its original site. By using cloning technology, efforts have been made to create offspring of this miracle pine. It has become a symbol of the recovery and survival efforts of the people in this region.
I have come to the realization that there is something we must hand down to later generations and to the future world. On the exact day of the Big Tsunami I was in bed, in the hospital after surgery. However, I am now here and I am able to enjoy my art and my life again. These small pieces of art are my everyday “journals”. They are my way of life shown in Light and Shadow.
I am writing this on Mother’s Day and I feel a sense of gratitude. My 98-year-old mother helps me cut the paper for my art. I feel thankful for my family and my friends. I am also grateful to the ARC artists who continue to encourage me to make art.
Image: Chiyeko Yuki
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INTERIORITY: Opening Reception Fri. May 31, 6-9pm
This work, my work, is a glimpse into an interior life and ongoing conversations – wondering, searching, thinking, feeling, collecting, solving, hoping, listening, wandering, finding, questioning, more thinking, learning, panicking, walking, seeing, forever searching, visual thinking on paper and in space – resulting in this exhibition.
Image: Cheri Reif Naselli
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Beyond: Opening Reception Fri. May 31, 6-9pm
In the series “Beyond” the images are meant to imply, to suggest, or to infer. Each environment is unique and the image aims at transcending the immediate setting into another realm. The viewer is invited to enter this territory and discover a new dimension.
These images seek to evoke mood, tension, and the unknown. While much of my work is rooted in reality, this series starts from a specific location but ends somewhere else. We live in times where the issue of what is real and what is not real is thrust upon us. This work invades this terrain.
Image: Nelson W. Armour
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Break Every Fiber in Me
There's nothing worse
than feeling bad and not
being able to tell you.
Not because you'd kill me
or it would kill you, or
we don't love each other.
It's space. The sky is grey
and clear, with pink and
blue shadows under each cloud.
A tiny airliner drops its
specks over the UN Building.
Everything sees through me,
in the daytime I'm too hot
and at night I freeze; I'm
built the wrong way for the
river and a mild gale would
break every fiber in me
- Frank O'Hara, \"Nocturne\", 16-19
For more information click HERE
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Sarah Barnhart Fields: Opening Reception Fri. July 26, 6-9pm
I work to reach that magic place I knew as a child, where “reality” disappears and all things are possible.
My work is a way of finding out who I am. To quote Kurt Vonnegut; “I make art to experience becoming – to find out what’s inside me – to make my soul grow.” Each piece tells me more about myself. It’s a more honest statement about who I am and my relationship to the world than I can make in any other way.
I am a sculptor whose raw materials are scrap metal, wood and other materials I find. I manipulate, add and subtract until the piece speaks to me, tells me it is finished and I see the “soul” of the work. I live and work in the country & have access to old tools and parts of farm equipment. These materials speak of death and renewal.
Being an artist for me is a process of lifelong learning, you are never done. Each piece is perpetual renewal. It’s always for the first time.
Image; Sarah Barnhart Fields
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QUERENCIA: Opening Reception Fri. July 26, 6-9pm
Cash bar at opening
Querencia: Spanish, a metaphysical concept, a place where one draws strength and is restored. In bullfighting, it is the part of the arena the bull seeks and chooses to take his stand, from this position he finds strength and calm.
These photographs are for me, querencias. They are places of meditation, sanctums in whose forms I find a presence that restores and gives peace. I drive backroads, through countryside, towns, and cities, looking to find, see, and photograph those places that are imbued with presence. I make documentary photographs that are both concrete and abstract. In my photographs there is a dialogue between the natural color of the living landscape and the manmade color of structures as they have been modified by conditions and time. My photographs are an aesthetic and topographic archaeology of a site; they are simultaneously a celebration of light gracing form, and a way of seeing which reveals the extraordinary in the ordinary. Photographic accuracy of light and color renders the subtle place where the fortuitous occurs and the marvelous emerges. The photograph captures the chemistry of an instant that both defines, and is redefined by the printed image. A sense of place, an image, a print, a querencia.
Image: Casey Sills
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Eclecticity: Opening Reception Fri. July 26, 6-9pm
My body of work is eclectic. Some of the pieces are abstract, some are figurative, and some are very decorative; but all have surface texture created by collaged papers and built-up paint.
Image: Esther Charbit
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Featuring artists Colleen Walsh, Liz Wolf, and Heather Klausa
This event is free and open to the public
@walshwalshcolleen@heatherklausart and @lizwolf_art (half of the creative mind behind the genius print works of @wolfwren
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Artist Statement: I am an observational figurative painter. I work exclusively from life and find inspiration in the urban environment around my studio. Many of my models are people from the neighborhood. I talk to my models while I paint and this helps me to connect with them. My goal as an artist is to open the door to my emotions and sharpen my eye as an observer.
Image: Joe Steiner
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Machine Reveries: Opening Reception Fri. Sept 6, 6-9pm
The primary focus of my work stems from an interest in technology, geometry, machine aesthetics, architecture and nature. My work explores a dichotomous relationship between the hand and the machine. This series of recent drawings and paintings on exhibit at ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation examine gendered domestic machines from the early part of the twentieth century referencing trade catalogues and actual utilitarian objects. These works hold in common a marriage of both traditional media and digitally mediated computer approaches intrinsic to the development of the images. The mechanical forms within these compositions are transformed casting off their mundane function and asserting an animated physical presence and internal narrative connecting to the human condition.
Image: Jessica Gondek
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TIME “The indefinite continued process of existence and events in the past, present, and future.” (Merriam-Webster)
Aging is ever present. We resist with our choices and hope to make friends with the reality in the mirror and our minds. There can be judgment and disagreement in the choices we make to achieve youth or how we define healthy aging. The passage of TIME that defines aging however, is unavoidable, accepted and defined differently for us all.
I have long made art that relies heavily on my experiences as a nurse working with older adults and it has always served as a speaking point for me. I worked as a CNA in a nursing home when I was 16. I loved the residents’ white hair and faces, deep with wrinkles and lines. I am now middle aged and though I will always find them beautiful, I don’t want those features to be mine and I wonder about this. Irony? Hypocrisy? My mother lived to be 99 years old and in her mind she was forever young, always preferring to keep her age top secret. Even though she’d laugh with awareness after she’d say “I’m sweet sixteen!” youth and beauty would forever be desired by her.
My process has often been drawn to the act of sewing. It is both a memory and a companion to art making and nursing. Both my parents sewed. My mother sewed when she was young to make the clothes she could not afford but desired and later to adjust the clothes she could now buy but needed to tailor to her liking. My father was a surgeon and sewed tiny stitches both to mend due to an accident or to adjust for the patient’s desire. I have often felt the kinship of sewing to caregiving as an act of making repairs, closures and mending as we nurses help our patients seek out help to do the same.
Image: Amy Zucker
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ARC Gallery is excited to be participating in this year'sWest Town Art Walk! Join us on Friday, September 27 from 5pm-8pm, and Saturday, September 28 from 12-8pm. We'll be selling ARC Gallery beer glasses for $10, including a free pour!
\"The West Town Art Walk is an annual event celebrating art in all forms-visual, musical, culinary, and otherwise-within shops along Chicago Avenue (between Milwaukee Ave and Western Ave).
During this Friday & Saturday event, attendees can enjoy visual art, music, and fashion from Chicago artists all showcased within West Town's shops, businesses, restaurants, and bars. Admission is free.
On exhibition at the gallery during the Art Walk will be ARC's Annual Members' Exhibition! View current artwork from its talented and diverse membership.
ARC's mission is to bring innovative, emerging and experimental visual art, to a wide range of viewers, and to provide a nurturing atmosphere for the continued development of artistic potential and dialogue. Celebrating 46 years in existence, ARC provides exhibition opportunities and support to artists, across all artistic disciplines including performance, sound, and video. The support ARC offers includes: professional presentation of work, significant financial subsidy of gallery space, group and themed show opportunities, and feedback and encouragement to young and emerging artists.
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Coming in OCTOBER to ARC Gallery
Please join the collective membership of ARC for its annual Members' Exhibition! View current artwork from its talented and diverse membership.
As one of the oldest and largest non-profit galleries in Chicago, ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation (ARC) has a long and distinguished history as a cultural institution in the city. Founded in 1973 as a women's cooperative organization, ARC not only provided exhibition space to 2-D and 3-D artists, but installation and video arts.
ARC's mission is to bring innovative, emerging and experimental visual art, to a wide range of viewers, and to provide a nurturing atmosphere for the continued development of artistic potential and dialogue. Celebrating 46 years in existence, ARC provides exhibition opportunities and support to artists, across all artistic disciplines including performance, sound, and video. The support ARC offers includes: professional presentation of work, significant financial subsidy of gallery space, group and themed show opportunities, and feedback and encouragement to young and emerging artists.
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Coming in NOVEMBER to ARC Gallery
JURIED BY ARTIST LAURA RUDOLF CLOUD, Michigan State University Professor
Many artists 'begin' their careers as artists not only in their early twenties but in later decades and for a wide variety of reasons-rediscovery of a long suppressed drive, delayed ability to focus on creating, a return to art school later in life, or a moment of enlightenment.This exhibition is calling for EMERGING artists of all ages and will feature the diversity of work that they are currently creating. All media will be considered including film/video/new media, mixed media/multi-disciplinary, installation and performance.
JUROR Laura Rudolf Cloud's work has been exhibited internationally and nationally. Exhibitions include: actuel'art/lagalerie in Paris; the Museu Historico de Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil; the Liu Hai Su Art Museum in Shanghai, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago and the Sidney Yates Gallery in the Chicago Culture Center. Last summer she was invited to speak about her work at the 6th Annual International Conference on the Visual and Performing Arts in Athens, Greece. In 2016 she was an artist in residence at Green Olive Arts in Tetouan, Morocco. Her most recent projects were in collaboration with Michigan State University's RECap Lab, the Snares to Wares Initiative and the Uganda Wildlife Authority.
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In the age of social media, people are experiencing more anxiety than ever, and more commonly being diagnosed with depression. How has the human experience changed? What motivates us in how we choose to spend our time?
Randi Shepard's current work questions the value of our experiences and explores the theme of loneliness. The most valuable and fulfilling experiences are those where there is a strong connection with others. And, sometimes the loneliest feelings can occur not when we are alone, but when we are actually with others.
Just as these images change when you view them up close, and bring your attention to the flat shapes laying on the paper, we also need to step back, look beyond the surface and tap into the world that opens up when we let the stories, the personalities, and the feelings unfold.
Image: Randi Shepard
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Clairon Ferrono says \"Our nation, our world seems pretty ragged today. The Torn Things series was inspired by Tibetan prayer flags and Japanese and other indigenous peoples' prayer trees. Each piece represents a prayer, a plea, an incantation for betterment of: climate, resources, political life.\"
\"I am an observational figurative painter. I work exclusively from life and find inspiration in the urban environment around my studio. Many of my models are people from the neighborhood. I talk to my models while I paint and this helps me to connect with them. My goal as an artist is to open the door to my emotions and sharpen my eye as an observer.\"
Image: Clairon Ferrono
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Iris Goldstein is a Chicago-based artist who has experimented with various sculpture formats. She worked with hand tools to carve wood sculptures alluding to human forms, then moved on to work with plaster and other hardware-store materials allowing her a freedom of expression that belied the humdrum nature of her sculptural tools.
After working for a number of years creating painted plaster wall-relief sculptures, Goldstein more recently has experimented with using colored pencils on paper to see whether she can create a sense of three-dimensional space on paper. This exhibit features a collection of drawings meant to mimic and elaborate on some of her sculptural ideas and is also a mini retrospective of the variety of her earlier work.
Image: Iris Goldstein
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Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Roth graduated from the Boston Museum School on scholarship, earned a BFA from Tufts University. Another scholarship was awarded before her senior year to attend Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Later she took classes at the School of the Art Institute (SAIC) and the Hyde Park Art Center.
Roth taught figure drawing and painting for many years at institutions including SAIC, Columbia College in Chicago, Suburban Fine Arts Center (now The Art Center) in Highland Park IL; The Figurative Art League, founded by Fred Berger, in Evanston IL; and Adler House in Libertyville IL.
She has been the recipient of many awards and purchase prizes including an Illinois Arts Council Project Completion Grant which culminated in a one-person show at the Illinois Arts Council, Chicago IL.
Widely exhibited, Roth's many exhibitions include Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, Virginia; Trenton State College, Trenton NJ; National Academy of Design, New York; Wright State University, Dayton OH, College of Lake County, Grayslake IL; J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Ltd., Chicago IL.
Some of the many private and corporate collections that hold her art are: Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois; Sandoz/Novartis, AG, Switzerland; Illinois State Museum, Springfield IL; College of Lake County Foundation, Grayslake IL ; Schiff, Hardin & Waite, Chicago IL; Whole Health Management, Inc., Cleveland Ohio, Abbott Laboratories, etc.
As president of the Chicago Women's Caucus for Art (CWCA) 2001-2005, she founded The Ravenswood Corridor Arts & Industry Walk (now the greatly expanded Ravenswood ArtWalk (RAW), to engage her community via the CWCA, with Chicago Artists' Month, and in 2006 was appointed by Alderman Schulter to the CTA Brown Line \"Arts in Transit\" panel.That year she was also honored by the Ravenswood Community Council \"in recognition and appreciation for outstanding dedication and service to the Ravenswood Community.\"
Featured in a two person show \"Figures\" at College of Lake County in 2009, she was an affiliate member of ARC Gallery, Chicago Illinois, one of the longest running women's cooperative galleries in the country, and showed a major collaborative piece at the gallery's Member's Show \"Collaboration\" in October in conjunction with the 2009 Chicago Artists' Month.
From 2004-2009 she had a large body of work on view at the Berman Center, a women's health and wellness facility founded by Dr. Laura Berman, at 211 E. Ontario St., Chicago IL, and in 2010 was honored by the Chicago Women's Caucus for Art for \"Excellence in the Arts\" as an artist, artist advocate, and founder of Ravenswood ArtWalk.
Image: Judith Roth
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LA RESISTENCIA \"THE RESISTANCE\"
This series of portraits is inspired by \"La Resistencia,\" the young men and women on the front lines of Venezuela's protest movement. Noble warriors. Mostly young men, many of whom have college degrees and career aspirations. They use homemade weapons and shields to battle the police, national guards and military on the streets of Caracas in the fierce struggle for the future of Venezuela.
Image: Gloria Bravo
Retrospective by nature, What Remains: On the Sacred, the Lost, and the Forgotten Relics of Live Art is the first exhibition of Defibrillator Gallery's 10th anniversary year. Curated by Netherlands based ieke Trinks, this visual art exhibition and performance art series features a cohort of Dutch artists and others from around the world who responded to an open call to reanimate Defibrillator's collection of objects from performances that took place over the past nine years.
What Remains will take place from February 7th to the 28th, 2020 at Defibrillator's former home [now ARC Gallery] - framing the site itself as a relic or record of ephemeral practices. The storefront is located at 1463 W Chicago Avenue, Chicago IL 60642. The one-month exhibition is broken into four chapters and will include a performance art series, visual art installations, discussions, and satellite events on the following days:
_CHAPTER 1: FIXING | FRI 07 > SUN 09 FEB
FRI 07 FEB | 6PM | Opening + Performance Program
SUN 09 FEB | 2PM | Discussion: The Impulse to Collect.
_CHAPTER 2: MERGE | TUE 11 > SUN 16 FEB
WED 12 FEB | 12PM | Off-site: Guerrilla Street Performance.
SAT 15 FEB | 6PM | Performance Program + Late Night Program [Off-site: Bridgeport 10-12am]
_CHAPTER 3: REFERENTIAL | TUE 18 > SUN 23 FEB
THU 20 FEB | 7PM | Off-site Performance Program: No Nation Unspace Lab
SAT 22 FEB | 6PM | Performance Program
SUN 23 FEB | 2PM | Discussion: Activating an Archive of Ephemeral Practices.
_CHAPTER 4: CONSUME | TUE 25 > FRI 28 FEB
TUE 25 FEB | 7PM | Off-site: Video Program at Nightingale Cinema
FRI 28 FEB | 6PM | Performance Program + Finissage
About What Remains:
What Remains explores the connection between performance and relic. Instigator and artist ieke Trinks conceived of a curatorial project that would speak to the challenges of keeping records of live performances beyond the dominant and didactic lens of video and photographic documentation. The project is structured around proposals from artists to re-interpret the relics in the Defibrillator object archive and provide a framework for reconceptualizing their value and meaning through new works.
What Remains tackles several questions, including: What impact does history have on a performance object's status? What value does it have when it is not specifically an artwork itself, or not intended to be an art object that now stands on its own as a relic? How much will the relic tell us about the performance for which it was originally used? What value can we place on the collection itself? These questions and more are addressed through performances and discussions throughout the month.
The exhibition will focus on a different theme each week: FIXING, MERGE, REFERENTIAL, and CONSUME. The presentation of objects will change from week to week, with new pieces added when relics are reactivated as performances or installations. The relics that aren't yet activated will be on view downstairs in the basement on shelves waiting to be used and displayed throughout the month. The overall idea for the exhibition is to keep it vivid and in a constant flux, just like the nature of performance art itself. Transformation of the space and installation of objects will be done during open gallery hours, underlining the performativity of the accumulation and exhibition of relics. There will also be space given to display the 91 submitted proposals from around the world.
Participating artists:
What Remains features four Netherlands-based visiting artists Nina Boas, Jolanda Jansen, Frans van Lent, and Kirsten Heshusius; all other artists have been selected from an open call. When putting out the call Trinks wrote, \"Proposals can be bold, daring, (un)conventional, conceptual, personal, insightful, (de)constructive, (ir)responsible, monumental, fleeting, portable, technical, emotional, minimal, and all of the above.\" This foreshadows the wide range of works that will be presented in the exhibition. The entire open call is available at: dfbrl8r.org/exhibit/open-call-remains.
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CHAPTER 4: CONSUME | Consume is not meant to be a literal description of each work presented but, rather, an indicator of the end to come that will perhaps lead to a final resolution or a place where nothing original will remain. Throughout this month in What Remains we have already experienced the disappearance of performance relics [or transmutable actions that lead to the vanishing of an object] whether through burning, destroying, eating, or by simple re-use. In 1993 Peggy Phelan wrote in her infamous book 'Unmarked' that performance itself is an act of disappearance - because nothing is saved...only spent. Performance in this sense resists the art market's economical demand to become a collectable object. In What Remains we ask what actually remains after a performance is over. Does the consumption of things [as well as time and experience] lead to an end of what used to be? Or does it make a place for something new to begin? The relic pencil sharpener leaves us with shavings; the burning of a relic leaves us with ashes...but we are also left with memories.
Massive in scale and retrospective by nature, What Remains: On the Sacred, the Lost, and the Forgotten Relics of Live Artis the first exhibition of Defibrillator Gallery's 10th anniversary year. Curated by Netherlands-based ieke Trinks, this visual art exhibition and performance art series features a cohort of artists from around the world who responded to an open call to reanimate Defibrillator's collection of objects from performances that took place over the past nine years.
FRI 28 FEB | 6-10PM | Performance Program + Finissage
proxy* | when the featured artist isn't able to be present, a local artist will produce the work.
**Artists are not aware of the context of the original performance in which the relic was used.
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Virtual exhibition on view here
The terms \"Abstraction\" or \"Abstract Art\" are perhaps among the most common references describing particular way(s) of understanding and perceiving the cosmic and daily realities in which we find ourselves. (We might note, too, that the terms are often mis-applied as though they are necessarily in opposition to \"Realism\" or \"Realistic Art\".) The truth is, however, that the abstract art \"movements\" of late 19th and early 20th century (Impression, Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, etc.) were driven by a passion to get closer to the complex realities of nature and human condition, not depart from them. Later, Minimalism, Neo-Dada, Geometric Abstraction, Conceptualism, Art Povera and other developments continue this \"Big Bang\" inquiry. Put simply, \"Realism in Art\" could no longer be described as an explicit fidelity to direct, observed, experience. This basic axiom remains, arguably, just as valid today: Reality is often far beyond simple, static appearance and can be highly counter-intuitive.
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This is your chance to own a Judith Roth or Virginia Mallon artwork and help ARC Gallery continue its mission of supporting artists! You can purchase tickets for this (online only) virtual fundraising event here: https://artsolidarity.bpt.me
ARC is a woman-run Chicago gallery recognized for its long-standing support of talented artists, showing more than 200 individual artist's work each year for the last 47 years. But this year, as we shelter in place, we face our biggest challenge yet. You can help!
In lieu of a spring fundraiser, ARC is hosting an online event both to raise much needed funding and to honor two talented women artists who have supported ARC in the past.
Judith Roth (July 18, 1935 - February 9, 2019), a former member of ARC, was a highly regarded figurative artist in Chicago. Virginia Mallon is a New York painter and ARC supporter, who has shown her work at the gallery. Through a generous donation of work by Virginia and by Judith's family, ARC is able to mount a fundraising \"event\" which gives lucky participants the opportunity to become a collector of their work. Simply purchase a ticket to the \"Art, and a Time of Solidarity\" event and you will be automatically entered into a drawing to win a piece of Judith's or Virginia's work for your collection. Following is the link to see all available work and to purchase tickets: https://artsolidarity.bpt.me
Each ticket purchased increases your chances in this unique opportunity to become a collector. Tickets are $10/each. Three tickets are $25. A purchase of five tickets for $50 also makes you an Artist Friend of the gallery. The Artist Friends page gives supporting artists visibility on ARC's website in appreciation for their support of the gallery's mission.
On Saturday, June 20, ARC Gallery will host this virtual \"event\" and live drawing announcing the winners of the five paintings and drawings shown here. Your entry(s) will make you eligible to win one artwork. (Please note that this is an online event only. There will be no in-person event at ARC's Gallery's physical location.)
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This is YOUR chance to OWN a Judith Roth or Virginia Mallon artwork and help ARC Gallery continue its mission of supporting artists!! You can purchase tickets for this (online only) virtual fundraising event here.
Each ticket purchased increases your chances in this unique opportunity to become a collector. Tickets are just $10/each! Three tickets are $25. A purchase of five tickets for $50 also makes you an Artist Friend of the gallery. The Artist Friends page gives supporting artists visibility on ARC's website in appreciation for their support of the gallery's mission.
ARC is a woman-run Chicago gallery recognized for its long-standing support of talented artists, showing more than 200 individual artist's work each year for the last 47 years. But this year, as we shelter in place, we face our biggest challenge yet. You can help!
ARC is hosting an online event both to raise much needed funding and to honor two talented women artists who have supported ARC in the past. Judith Roth (July 18, 1935 - February 9, 2019), a former member of ARC, was a highly regarded figurative artist in Chicago. Virginia Mallon is a New York painter and ARC supporter, who has shown her work at the gallery. Through a generous donation of work by Virginia and by Judith's family, ARC is able to mount a fundraising \"event\" which gives lucky participants the opportunity to become a collector of their work. Simply purchase a ticket to the \"Art, and a Time of Solidarity\" event and you will be automatically entered into a drawing to win a piece of Judith's or Virginia's work for your collection.
On Friday, July 24, ARC Gallery will host this virtual \"event\" and live drawing announcing the winners of the five paintings and drawings shown here. Your entry(s) will make you eligible to win one artwork. (Please note that this is an online event only. There will be no in-person event at ARC's Gallery's physical location.)
You can purchase tickets here.
Thank you for your support in these challenging times!
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What does a future look like that allows us all to BREATHE freely?! Each citizen of this world has a RIGHT to BREATHE.
At the crux of some of the current crises that the world is enduring right now, is breath: African-Americans are being denied the right to breathe; COVID 19 is attacking lungs; and the lungs of the planet are in need of restoration. Life on our planet is inter-connected. Divisions and exclusions will insure the continued separation of humanity. Together we live, or together we perish. Humans are the problem and the solution. Compassionate, righteous indignation, coupled with action for legislative justice is needed to shape a future that includes racial equality, universal healthcare, and planetary stewardship.
ARC Gallery is looking for work that addresses the need to elevate humanity. RESPIRATION(S) NOW! will be an online exhibition in which work not only addresses the problems, but envisions solutions and blueprints for action to create a world which honors BREATH as a RIGHT.
All mediums and materials are eligible for submission including video and performance. Images must be jpg. Videos of time-based work or performance must be 3 minutes or less and include a password-free link to YouTube or Vimeo. Public art and site-specific installation (oustide of the gallery space) will also be considered, and must be in place by July 24. The images selected by the juror will be compiled into a slideshow video. This video will be shown on ARC Gallery’s website and Facebook page. Time-based work will be given a space on Facebook to be viewed. Individual images will be also be highlighted on Instagram and Facebook.
This is a donation-based call for entries. A suggested $5-$50 donation will allow ARC Gallery to continue its mission to provide a nurturing atmosphere for the continued development of artistic potential and dialogue. And to raise public awareness on community-based issues by presenting exhibits, workshops, discussion groups and programs by, and for, underserved populations.
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Reality, Realism, Representation. Art is often about searching for and expressing reality, whether literally or conceptually. In our last juried show, “Consciousness of Abstraction”, we were interested in the movement away from imagery. This exhibition is a continuation of the conversation— from the considering of abstraction to the considering of its sibling genre, realism, reality and representation — or Reality and Art.
This environment of shifting and contradicting truths, denial of science, proliferation of ‘alternative facts,’ and manipulations of imagery makes understanding reality and truth an illusive undertaking. The artist’s striving to express and understand reality becomes more complicated with this shifting appropriation of what is mere perception and what is reality. This show includes work that is representational in both the traditional sense of being compelled to express what you see and reality as a conceptual sense of using the contemporary current environment as a reference.
Exhibiting Artists:
Kristin Anderson, Allison Baker, Selene Bataille, Michael Borowski, Abbi Chase, Alexander Clark, Michele Corazzo, Robert Esau, SP Estes, Jack Flynn, Barbara Hansen, Michael Koerner, Jamie Kost, John Manno, Christopher Miller, Mary Murphy, Erin O’Neill, Daniel Walworth, Kelly Xintaris
(Image: Give Me Your Tired Your Poor by Barbara Hansen)
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Power Trip: Virtual Opening Reception Sat. Sept 12, 4-5pm
Bryana Bibbs is a textile artist and painter. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 2014, Fiber and Material Studies) and is currently a teaching artist at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Evanston Art Center.
Power Trip is a body of work about exploitation, relationships, and self-validation. The exhibition features six new textile pieces and paintings.
Gallery hours: Fri 3-7 pm, Sat & Sun 12-4 pm
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Bryana Bibbs is a textile artist and painter. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 2014, Fiber and Material Studies) and is currently a teaching artist at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Evanston Art Center.
Power Trip is a body of work about exploitation, relationships, and self-validation. The exhibition features six new textile pieces and paintings.
Curator: Virginia Mallon
Virtual Opening Reception via Zoom (link will be sent in an email on day of event). This event is in conjunction with ARC Gallery Members' Exhibition Virtual Opening Reception.
In response to the current political crises in America, a cadre of diverse and talented artists launched a year-long cross-country show into the heartland of America, united by the belief that art is and should be a catalyst for change. Waylaid by the pandemic, the exhibit has launched virtually with planned exhibits in 2021.
You can view the full exhibition here.
Exhibiting Artists:
Donna Bassin, Beatrice Lebreton, Virginia Mallon, Marrisa Bridge, Lydia Makepeace, Jessica Nissen, Jonathan Talbot, Barbara Friedman, Dee Mallon, Yvonne Short, Jessica Waddington, Holly Gordon, Maggie Rose
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Juror: Dr. Kryssi Staikidis, Professor of Art and Design Education at Northern University
Exhibiting Artists: Linda Andrei, Larissa Barnat, Margaret Buchen, Patrick Carroll, Jenny Chernansky, Chris Cinque, Kate Conroy, Mary Rose Deraco, Noris Englund, Donna Fleetwood, Charles Goss, Precious Henshaw, Masha Hoffey, Allie Kushnir, Bryce Landingham, David Eugene Lemley, Rebecca Miller, Robert Mullenix, Natalie Pivoney, Sebastian Sandu, Joe Steiner, Jennifer Stofer, Rachael Warner, Christine Wuenschel
In this time of isolation and confinement – when we can often see only a portion of another’s face – this juried exhibition celebrates faces – and the people behind them. This exhibit also examines the ways in which people mask themselves or masquerade. This genre is defined as broadly as possible: self, other, representational, abstracted, likeness, current, past, psychological, emotional…
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UNMASKED: Portraiture in a Pandemic – Virtual Opening Reception, Sat. November 7, 4-5pm
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In the Shadow of the Feminine: Virtual Opening Reception – Sat. Dec 5, 4-5pm
The depth of the shadow is equivalent to the strength of the light. They are relative and dependent on each other without hierarchy Shadows are often subtle, unseen yet necessary for sight. They play with our imaginations, our fears and dreams. The idea of a shadow has many implications; from the interference of light, the mysterious unknown, the Jungian idea of repressed aspects of the psyche, even the beginnings of painting have been associated with the tracing of a shadow. Throughout history, religion, and culture the feminine is often condemned to darkness, kept in the shadows, divided into categories such as virgin and whore. The show attempts to shine a light on the feminine shadow.
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Virtual Opening Reception, Saturday, Dec 5, 4:00-5:00pm
The depth of the shadow is equivalent to the strength of the light. They are relative and dependent on each other without hierarchy Shadows are often subtle, unseen yet necessary for sight. They play with our imaginations, our fears and dreams. The idea of a shadow has many implications; from the interference of light, the mysterious unknown, the Jungian idea of repressed aspects of the psyche, even the beginnings of painting have been associated with the tracing of a shadow. Throughout history, religion, and culture the feminine is often condemned to darkness, kept in the shadows, divided into categories such as virgin and whore. The show attempts to shine a light on the feminine shadow.
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SITTING IT OUT, variations on a theme: Virtual Opening Reception – Sat. Jan 9, 4-5pm (via Zoom)
(Link will be sent on day of event.)
The work for SITTING IT OUT has been created during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, save and except for 4 paintings that were painted previously yet included to complete the series. My work is derived from live model sessions or composites of different ones. While we all find ourselves restricted and less active, I felt a sense of introspection and new meaning in the stillness and anticipation of the subjects. Some compositions were created in response to a newspaper article, political upheaval or explorations of my own psychic imagination.
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Juror: Danny Floyd
Exhibiting Artists:
Ahmari Benton, Jeffrey Brooks, Paula Bulwinkle, Elena Clark, Eli Craven, Andrea Ferrigno, Bob Fields, Cait Hardie, Stephanie Huang, Doina Iacob, Carol Irving, John Lane, Sangheon Kim, Douglas Malone, Therese Mulgrew, Dan Oliver, Robert Pockmire, Gwen Pryor, Kathryn Rodrigues, Sheri Rush, Mardy Sears, Sage Whitney, Gary Wolfe
Solitude can elicit either a sense of euphoria or peace, or a sense of confinement or punishment, while others are isolated in a community unit. As we move forward into the fall and winter months, and COVID continues to impede our movements and interactions, how do we, as individuals, or as members of a larger, even worldwide community, process these survival confinements? Artists use their mediums to express the inner joy, conflict, frustration, sadness or peace we find ourselves confronting. This show represents the creative endeavors of this process under the current circumstances — keeping artists alone but pulling together into a community.
Gallery hours are: Fridays, 3-7pm; Saturdays and Sundays, 12-4pm. Masks for all visitors are required and no more than 6 people will be allowed in the gallery at one time. (Hours subject to change.)
ABOUT THE JUROR:
Danny Floyd is an artist, researcher, curator, and educator based out of Chicago. At the risk of confusion, his work seeks the narrow threshold between meaning and nonsense in text and images. Often at odds with neuro-normative conventions, he embraces divergent thinking through improvisation and the delightfully weird. He is the Exhibitions Director for ACRE and a Lecturer of Visual & Critical Studies and Sculpture at SAIC. Since 2013, he has been an active part of Chicago’s artist-run space community through two programs, Ballroom Projects and Adler & Floyd. He has held curatorial residencies with ACRE and Chicago Artists Coalition. He was also awarded the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation Curatorial Fellowship in 2017.
Virtual Opening Reception, Saturday, Jan 9, 4:00-5:00pm
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1000 Mirrors Virtual Opening Reception – Sat. Feb 6, 4-5pm (via Zoom – Link will be posted here on day of event)
The glistening of gold in Japanese landscapes, scrolls and screens. Rich gold, pale gold, antique gold. Summoned up from ancient secret recipes. Sacred light and embodied reality encased in golden light.
Light trails, accidental objects, diaphanous forms which barely cling to existence. But the real world emerges, botany, unexpected.
The persistence of Eastern landscapes, forgotten, veiled in fog. If only to capture its spirit. Gravity and veils of paint the reveal of laws of the universe. Painting the invisible (or maybe it is humming of the breath we breath)…..emerging, receding…..lost in nature’s landscape, creation, destruction…..This is where I begin.
Find out more about Aviva Kramer here: www.avivakramer.com
Virtual Opening Reception, Saturday, Feb 6, 4:00-5:00pm
Top Image: Detail of Angels Dwell, Aviva Kramer
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Plucked & Gleaned… an exhibition of fine art prints Virtual Opening Reception – Sat. Mar 6, 4-5pm (via Zoom – Link will be posted here on day of event)
Plucked and Gleaned is a group exhibition of fine art prints. The work on display touches on themes of identity, Midwest culture, place, and personal ecosystems. All of the works in the exhibition are by print artists living and making art in Northern Illinois and the Chicagoland area.
Exhibiting Artists:
Wes Beeler
Rachel Beer
Sasha Bitzer
Alex Bridges
Marco Camacho
Zoë Couvillion
Mikey Crotty
Jayden Dale
Jan Gerenstein
Nathanial Gilchrist
Christina Kang
Greg Padgett
Nick Phan
Sixing Qi
Saffron Williams
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Gallery hours: Fri – 3-7 pm, Sat & Sun – 12-4 pm
JUROR: LAURA CLOUD
“Observing Motherhood” is an exhibition of innovative approaches to the representation of Motherhood, shifting the viewpoint from the overly nostalgic imagery promoted by popular culture, to a critical exploration of the subject. This work goes beyond the conventional stereotypes, and represents a wide range of perspectives and alternative viewpoints on the idea of Motherhood.
The exhibition will run from April 30 – June 19, 2021. Gallery hours are: Fridays, 3-7pm; Saturdays and Sundays, 12-4pm. Masks for all visitors are required and no more than 6 people will be allowed in the gallery at one time. (Hours subject to change.)
Exhibiting Artists: Karen Ami, Diana Baumbach, Amy Bernard, Alexandra Buxbaum, B. Kirk Chernansky, Sara Peak Convery, Ava Da Re, Katrina Davis-Salazar, Jillian Dickson, SP Scotti Estes, Morgan Ford Willingham, Stacey Lee Gee, Katere Gladdys, Niki Grangruth, Elizabeth Hall, Caitlin Hazelton, Susan Hensel, Daisie Hoitsma, Chloe Iria, Anna Johnson, Lindsay Johnson, Sarah King, Beth LeFauve, Robert Mullenix, Nastja Nykaza, Denise Orlin, Allison Pasquesi, Anat Pollack, Katie Ries, Gina Lee Robbins, Holly Romano, Marleene Rubenstein, Mardy Sears, Amy Usdin, Weiting Wei
ABOUT THE JUROR:
Laura Cloud’s work has been exhibited internationally and nationally. Exhibitions include: actuel’art/lagalerie in Paris; Le Logge Art Gallery, Assisi, Italy; the Museu Historico de Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil; the Liu Hai Su Art Museum in Shanghai, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago and the Sidney Yates Gallery in the Chicago Culture Center. She was invited to speak about her work at the 6th Annual International Conference on the Visual and Performing Arts in Athens, Greece. In 2016 she was an artist in residence at Green Olive Arts in Tetouan, Morocco and in 2019 she was an artist in residence at the Arte Studio Ginestrelle in Assisi Italy. Recent projects include collaborations with Michigan State University’s RECap Lab, the Snares to Wares Initiative and the Uganda Wildlife Authority.
Laura is an Associate Professor and coordinator of the sculpture program at Michigan State University. She received a BFA from the University of Hartford, Hartford Art School and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Jeanette May’s “Tech Vanitas” photographs embrace anxiety over new technology and love for beautifully designed, obsolete machines. Her still lifes suggest 17th Century Dutch vanitas paintings with their air of craft guilds, international trade, and personal wealth. Her carefully disheveled arrangements of familiar devices also allude to product photography and advertising. “Tech Vanitas” examines the present and the past of technology with a sense of wonder and trepidation.
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Virtual Opening Reception, Saturday, May 29, 4:00-5:00pm
While in college I discovered the writings of American geographer John Wright who coined the term “geopiety:” geo from the Greek for earth and piety from the Latin pietas meaning sense of duty of filial love. This word so perfectly expresses my love and sense of devotion to the places that have filled my life. The landscapes of Georgia, New England, Florida, and the Midwest; the waters of the Great Lakes, Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico all figure prominently in my work.
Although my work edges mostly on abstraction, I have always thought of myself as a landscape artist. Artists like Eva Hesse, Anselm Keifer, and Cy Twombly inspire me. Cartography and asemic writing are devices I rely on to explore my subject matter. Through line, color, material and gesture I attempt to honor the landscapes that I am deeply attached to. These landscape explorations are filtered through both experience and memory. Imagination plays an important role as well.
At times these abstracted landscapes can be internal mappings of the human body on a cellular level – a way of finding myself in the world. Other times they verge on more macrocosmic abstractions – a landscape as big as a galaxy. Often they navigate the space in between. It is within that space that I find balance between destruction and renewal, entanglement and order.
In this body of work, maps themselves become the vehicle to explore these ideas. Where am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going? These questions are at the heart of the manipulations of the maps. They become transformed by my wanderings, both literally and symbolically.
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Virtual Opening Reception on Saturday, June 26 at 4pm
JUROR: Jane Stevens
Spring is here! And the beauty of our natural world is ever more apparent. Green shoots are poking through the crust, and once again the earth is warming in the sun. However “the warming earth” carries a more somber message as well – a reminder of the fruits of our greed, the fragility of our planet, the reality of our losses. And, as we face the urgency to respond, we raise our artistic voices – to celebrate, to mourn, to activate, and to contemplate how we live together in relationship to this one planet we must all share and nurture. “Our Planet: Ourselves,” gives expression to these messages.
Exhibiting Artists: Alice Becker, Denise Bellezzo, Rose Bonacorsi, Laura Cerf-Dahl, Joelle Dietrick, Jeffrey Doyle, Leslie Ann Eliet, Donna Fleetwood, Jane Flynn, Donna Hapac, Bob Hilger, Margaret LeJeune, Nora Lloyd, Julie Mars, Jeane Kat McGrail, Jane Michalski, Jacqueline Moses, Lucy Mueller, Louise Pappageorge, Adriana Poterash, Linda Robinson Gordon, Cherie Sampson, Autumn Schaefer, Beth Shadur, Michelle Shipka, Juliane von Kunhardt, Brooke White, Marjorie Woodruff, Ryan Zoghlin
ABOUT THE JUROR:
Jane Stevens is Curator of Art, Emeritus at the Illinois State Museum. as well as an art educator. She curated over twenty-five exhibitions of Illinois artists at the Illinois State Museum. She is interested in documenting the art of Illinois artists and has published five books on Chicago artists including: Don Seiden: An Artist’s Life; From Light to Dark: The Life and Work of Ellen Roth Deutsch; The Legacy Continues: The Chicago Society of Artists; Barbara Aubin: A Life of Art 1928 – 2014; and Dusty’s House: A Victorian Treasure. She is currently working on a new book that is scheduled to be released in early 2022.
She received an MFA from the State University of New York, Buffalo and studied at the School of the Art institute of Chicago.
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Virtual Opening Reception on Saturday, June 26 at 4pm
Ancestor(s) Stones are intuition mining tools. They represent ancient wisdom, antiquity. They are the knowing inherent in having bourn witness to the ages. They align with the string of memory that lives in DNA, passed down through generations. They represent grounding, leverage, or steps to take. The stones have taken many shapes…
This journey has its beginnings in a seed that was planted in a seed, that was planted ages ago, across the oceans of time and space, in the land that birthed the first mother. When her firstborn daughter came of age, her mother asked her to remember. “Remember what?” her daughter asked. “Remember this.”
Still not comprehending, though understanding the depth of what she was being asked to do, those words resounded in her spirit, and so, almost without knowing why she did it, she passed this message on to her own daughter: “Remember.” And so, it was passed down through generations, across continents, over oceans, through rivers, atop mountains, written on clouds, intertwined in tree branches, and encoded in dreams when those memories had been forgotten. And so… I heard my grandmothers speak in a whisper, softly, yet firmly: “Remember.”
I am the branch, extending back, resting on the bough of my mothers. I am the daughter of Elizabeth, Flora, Grace, Ora, Parthena, Zilpha, YOMHN… and her mother, and her mother, and her mother…
Virtual Opening Reception, Saturday, June 26, 6:00-9:00
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Stevens’ photographs combine images from past and present moments to create a transformed reality.
Fragments and portals into the past are powerful reminders of the passage of time and the ever-changing environment. These photographs are a reflection on how the past affects our personal lives and alters the future.
The landscapes in the photographs are visual metaphors for the artist’s transformative process and journey of reclaiming a sense of self and connection to the world/community.
Stevens has exhibited her work nationally and internationally including the Los Angeles Photography Center; Galeria Tonalli, Mexico City; University of Arizona, Tucson; Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; and Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas.
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The beauty of our natural world is apparent. The earth is warming in the sun. However “the warming earth” carries a more somber message as well – a reminder of the fruits of our greed, the fragility of our planet, the reality of our losses. And, as we face the urgency to respond, we raise our artistic voices – to celebrate, to mourn, to activate, and to contemplate how we live together in relationship to this one planet we must all share and nurture. “Our Planet: Ourselves” addresses nature in all of its complexity -- its beauty, its fragility, its ubiquity to everything else that we are.
JUROR: Jane Stevens, Curator of Art, Emeritus at the Illinois State Museum
Exhibiting Artists: Alice Becker, Denise Bellezzo, Rose Bonacorsi, Laura Cerf-Dahl, Joelle Dietrick, Jeffrey Doyle, Leslie Ann Eliet, Donna Fleetwood, Jane Flynn, Donna Hapac, Bob Hilger, Margaret LeJeune, Nora Moore Lloyd, Julie Mars, Jeane Kat McGrail, Jane Michalski, Jacqueline Moses, Lucy Mueller, Louise Pappageorge, Adriana Poterash, Linda Robinson Gordon, Cherie Sampson, Autumn Schaefer, Beth Shadur, Michelle Shipka, Juliane von Kunhardt, Brooke White, Marjorie Woodruff, Ryan Zoghlin
image by Juliane von Kunhardt
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About this event
Announcing: ARC's Art Resuscitation Celebration! The pandemic is waning (!!) The City of Chicago has announced moving into Phase 5. Help us celebrate this resuscitation of art by joining us at an actual in-person event!
We are hosting a closing reception for the fascinating “Our Planet: Ourselves” exhibition, juried by Jane Stevens whose work will also be on display in the gallery. During this event, ARC will also host a hybrid in-person/ on-line fundraiser that honors a talented woman artist who has supported ARC in the past.
This is YOUR chance to OWN a Judith Roth artwork and help ARC Gallery continue its mission of supporting artists!!
Judith Roth (July 18, 1935 - February 9, 2019), a former member of ARC, was a highly regarded figurative artist in Chicago, with work in many notable collections. Through a generous donation of work by Judith's family, ARC is able to mount a fundraising event which gives lucky participants the opportunity to become a collector of her work. Simply purchase a ticket (or lots of tickets!) to \"Art Resuscitation Celebration\" and you will be automatically entered into a drawing to win a piece of Judith's work for your collection. (See below for details on how to enter.)
On Friday, August 13, ARC Gallery will host this in-person/virtual event and live drawing announcing the winners of the three artworks shown on this ticket page. (Link for on-line event will be posted here on day of event.) Each ticket purchased increases your chances in this unique opportunity to become a collector. Tickets are just $10/each or three for $25! Each entrant is eligible to win one artwork. And of course, the more tickets you purchase, the better are your chances! (Your ticket also enters you in a drawing for other great prizes such as gift cards to local restaurants, coffee shops, or other venues.)
This event is a fun chance to own a great piece of art, as well as the opportunity for you to help ARC raise some much-needed cash. 2020 was a tough year for lots of arts organizations, ARC included. Support ARC as we continue to do what we do so well -- showing the work of lots of great artists, especially art by women and emerging artists. Please join us either in-person or on-line. (Attendance to the in-person closing reception is free.) We can't wait to see you!
ARC Gallery is a woman-run Chicago gallery recognized for its long-standing support of talented artists, showing the work of more than 200 artists each year for the last 48 years. As we move closer to our 50th year, and into a more hopeful time, ARC breathes new life into our mission to support artists.
Thank you for your support!!
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Join ARC Gallery on Thursday, September 9, from 7 -10 pm at Room 13 for an evening of art, ritz, and cocktails. (Room 13 is a speakeasy in the garden level of the Old Chicago Inn, 3222 N. Sheffield Ave., Chicago. )
Ticket holders will enjoy a welcome glass of Cava (sparkling Spanish wine), 2 drink tickets good for classic American cocktails, as well as an assortment of hors d'oeuvres, and truffles at the end of the event. Enjoy the musical stylings of pianist and vocalist Bobbie Newman.
Guests will also have the opportunity to bid on a silent auction of items such as gift certificates to restaurants, coffee shops, and wine shops, thanks to our sponsors: Room 13, Standing Passengers, Noble Grape,Fry the Coop, June Bug, and more...
Dress to impress! We look forward to seeing you!
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I love the formal challenges of composition, color, and craftsmanship involved with painting in oil on a canvas in 2 dimensions. But what I love most of all is figurative imagery – trying to express something interesting about a (usually human) form in space and time. For my last show, I concentrated on using mostly classical painting techniques to create intimate realistic little portraits of the women in my family. As a newly retired person with (finally) more time to paint, I am now trying to figure out what kind of painter I’ve become in the interim.
So, this show re-plays some ideas from the past (mirrors, patterns, spatial ambiguity), re-purposing some old canvases in new ways, and experimenting with more spontaneous, stylized types of representation. What holds it all together is a desire to find new and interesting ways to think about figuration and see where that leads next.
The first painting, “Self-Portrait in My Studio” is an old painting done soon after I graduated from the post-bac program at SAIC, about 25 years ago. All the other paintings are recent, but have to do with “looking,” in the same vein as that painting – examining what it means to make and see art in new ways. The mirror that appears in many of the paintings is meant to portray that act of self-examination. All these paintings are simply documentation of that experimentation in self-examination.
The painters who have most influenced me are also diverse—Charlotte Saloman, Alice Valenstein, Eduard Vuillard, Jorge Castillo, and the Bay-Area Figurative painters from the 60’s—just to mention a few. I am grateful for all those artists and their visions, who have in turn inspired mine.
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Trees reach, extending upward, branches forking. Lines wandering with purpose. Reaching and growing. Similarly, their roots weave themselves as they descend into the earth below. Shadows in between, patterns, lines, and shapes crisscross the path.
The sun casts shadows that change dramatically through the day. Shadows cast, long and short. They vary based on time and season, but also because the sun is not a single point source of light. Light generated by the sun emanates from different points in space along the sun’s surface creating sharp and soft edges, lines, and shapes.
Shadow Walks explores these patterns, and the way trees, shadows, and reaching and forking branches become metaphors.
Lee Stanton is an artist and art history instructor currently living in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago.
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Kina Bagovska follows her path of existence as an immigrant in a multicultural society. As an artist living between different cultures, she believes keeping the tradition alive is key to preserving ones unique identity.
Kina studies and explores the symbols of handmade embroidery from Bulgaria and how they are transmitted across generations. In her most current series of paintings, she attempts to reevaluate the aesthetics of the traditional craft and how its assigned value changes nowadays. To emphasize the semantics she combines symbols from Bulgarian embroidery and texts from modern poetry.
One of the most ancient symbols – the Octagonal Star (an eight-pointed star) associated with the circle of life has been a reoccurring motif used not only in Bulgaria, but also in Central, Northern and Southeastern Europe. This alludes to a possible unified creative spirit of the prototype of the world and explains the symbolic similarities between geographically distant and unrelated cultures. A range of similar geometric and floral motifs are used in the embroidery of traditional clothing symbolizing fertility and the tree of life.
The sentences in the paintings are from the contemporary poem “Thracian Sun” by Zdravka Vladova-Momcheva. The poem is part of the poetry collection “Thracian Treasure”, Palabrass Press Publishing House, Canada, 2012. The words in Zdravka’s unique poetry are subordinated to uneven rhythm which is innate to Bulgarian traditional music. Thus the text reverberates the encoded language of the embroidery.
Transparent silk is used as a collage and together with the hand stitching reflect the cultural layers passing through the memory of the artist and her main idea of keeping the spirituality of the generations alive.
Kina Bagovska was born in Bulgaria and graduated from the Academy of Arts in Poland with a Master of Fine Arts degree. Throughout the years Kina had many solo and group exhibitions, and won numerous awards in Europe and United States. In 2007 her painting was a part of Mark di Suvero’s Piece Tower at the Chicago Culture Center. In 2003 and 2008 the artist was awarded with grants by the Illinois Arts Council for her collaborative arts. In 2003 she became a member of ARC Gallery. Since 2000, she has been living in Chicago, teaching art at Triton College, and her Private Art Studio.
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This exhibit represents a small sample of the photographic work being produced by first- and second-year students at McHenry County College.
This work was made by students staring to explore the possibilities of the photographic medium. Students employ various strategies to make the work from: exploring the places they live, turning the camera on their friends or themselves, constructing complex tableaux, or using the camera to distort the everyday. The use of photography allows for an unlimited interpretation of subject and form, these are the first attempts by young photographers trying to make their mark.
Exhibiting Artists: Jenna Ahrens, Katy Beam, Matthew Bork, Haley Cleghorn, Janet Devereux, Megan Gurba, Therese Kolodzik, John Rudzena
Instructor: Justin Schmitz
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Free exploration often opens doors to imagination. With tongue in cheek, GO MAKE A THING is interested in play to overcome stress and frustration! This show includes ‘things’ in many different media.
The exhibition will run from October 29 – December 18, 2021.
Gallery hours are: Thursdays & Fridays, 2-6pm; Saturdays and Sundays, 12-4pm. Masks for all visitors are required. (Hours subject to change.)
Exhibiting Artists: Danica Antich, Grant Brownlow, Liz Callahan, Leslie Getz, LucyJulia Hale, Deborah Hirshfield, Cynthia Holzum, Jill Kolker, Doug McAbee, Laura Moore, Bryan Northup, Eia Radosavljevic, Judith Shepelak, Robin Strand, Michele Stutts
About the Juror:
Jessica Gondek is an artist/teacher living in the Chicago area. She received her M.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, and her B.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Loyola University Chicago and teaches drawing and painting in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts.
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My work endeavors to blur the distinction between hand and machine. The title of the exhibition, Ironmades, is a nod to the early 20th Century Dada movement engaged with machinery and readymades. As an artist, I continue building on this tradition to bring it into the digital era of the 21st Century as our relationship with technology continues.
The forms I explore are inspired by vintage domestic utilitarian machines and gadgets I have collected as well as related trade catalogues, advertisements, blueprints, and patent drawings. Digital manipulations derived from these source materials lay a foundation that launches their evolution. The drawing medium allows for both transparency and mutability between layers of information. The mechanical forms within these compositions are simultaneously transformed casting off their intended function and asserting an animated physical presence and internal narrative that allows me to explore a multitude of dualities: male vs female, hand vs machine, organic vs mechanical, playful vs menacing, analog vs digital, and functional vs dysfunctional.
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Laminated Heart: Opening Reception Fri. Dec 3, 5-8pm
my heart broke in silent sound
my tears did not touch the ground
“Laminated Heart” is an internal landscape, directed at no particular audience. A powerful drive to reproduce oneself. A journey that takes you into replications of self that kept me alive. A glance into a biding time revealing memories stolen by the time. A quest for a golden note. A dare to dissect the inner of the unknown without fear.
Exhibition dates: Nov 27 – Dec 18, 2021
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
Although I was born in Chicago, from a young age I was always hiking through prairies, sandy beaches and forests with my amateur botanist, photographer father looking for rare native plants to identify and photograph. Nature has always been one of my greatest inspirations, but I am deeply worried about it. This collection of paintings and drawings of wild native Midwest flora and fauna appear to be fading away because too many species are threatened and endangered. So, get outside and enjoy nature and her varied habitats before it all gets destroyed and disappears.
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Virtual Opening Sat. Jan 8, 4-5pm (via Zoom)
In January 1973, Roe v Wade dramatically extended women’s options for bodily autonomy. Notwithstanding, women’s bodies remain a battleground – not just around reproductive health, but in myriad other areas, including (but not limited to) decisions around consent, safety, employment and beauty. Roe v Wade faces new threats to its existence – leaving reproductive rights in ever greater peril. Beginning with the policing of women’s bodies, and expanding to examine all forms of body policing and discrimination. ARC will host a juried exhibition in January 2022 to address these themes. Body politics shape the socio-political climate and affect basic human rights. From the #metoo movement and rape culture, to domestic violence, to gender politics, and right down to the politics of hair in the classroom and workplace, we want to hear from you with work that addresses ideas around bodily autonomy. Entry is open to all genders.
ALL media are welcome, including video, performance, sound, 2D and 3D work; and all artists’ work will be considered. Due to space limitations no large projections or media-based installations will be accepted. Three “juror awards” will be selected for a small monetary award ($100 each); and awarded work will be featured on the ARC website. The exhibition will run from January 6 – 29, 2021.
Entry fee: $40 for one to three images. $10 for each additional image. (Lower charge for students — high school or college students can pay a reduced fee of $25 per 3 entries with $10 for each additional entry. Please include copy of Student ID.)
Image: \"Le Chapeau III: The Birth of Venus\" by Darlene Tyree
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This February, ARC seeks to examine the construct of LOVE. What is Love? In what way is it a construct? How is it challenging? Love isn’t just a feeling, it’s a force to be reckoned with. It is used to move the world – forward or backward depending on your point of view. How does one’s understanding and concept of love influence our feelings, our decisions, our actions?
How do we mend and heal our relationships – and our relationship to the world – during this time of distrust, contempt, group think, political differences, racial strife, and the overall sense of “Us vs Them”? How do we: get back to friends and family during COVID; save our planet from human destruction; respond to the general humanity of our world, and celebrate the human capacity for tenderness?
This exhibition is an artist-response to this idea of “Love” – in the broadest sense. These ideas include the love of: family and friends, nature, the body, and love for one’s heritage. Love can be vulnerability, a motivator, an obsession, crippling, and healing.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Antonia Amir, John E. Bannon, Grace Boss, Natasha Buksh, Paula Bullwinkel, Laura Cerf-Dahl, Jeanne Ciravolo, George C. Clark, David DeCesaris, Rima Day, SP Scotti Estes, David Feingold, Robert Fields, LucyJulia Hale, Lauren Krause, Michael LaMattina, Chris Law, Pamela Maurer, Robert Mullenix, Nancy Natow-Cassidy, Julie O’Connor, Mary Jo O’Hearn, Vijay V Paniker, Sabrina Sabella, Lauren Schoepflin, Erin Starr, Stella Zee
ABOUT THE JUROR:
Chantala Kommanivanh is an award-winning Lao American artist, educator and musician. The rap music he’s produced with Maintenance Crew and the visual components of Kommanivanh’s artwork have areas of overlap in their meaning and content. He is interested in creating new memories by “sampling” from past events. Through painting, his works are a reinterpretation of memories documenting his personal history. Raised with traditional Lao customs at home and active in hip-hop culture outside of home, Kommanivanh’s work investigates cultural hybridity and tensions of identity, as he and his family were refugees from the unfortunate outcomes of the 1964-1975 Secret War in Laos. His collection of paintings derive from personal and found photographs representing pivotal times in his life. His visual works have been displayed in five major solo exhibitions in Chicago-area and Midwestern art galleries, and have been included in numerous group and invitational exhibitions across the U.S.
Kommanivanh is a recipient of several prestigious awards including the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation award in 2009 and was a two-time awardee of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Advance Opportunity Program Fellowship. In 2013, Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth recognized him for his service of excellence to Illinois’s 8th District arts community.
Kommanivanh earned his bachelor’s degree from Northeastern Illinois University in 2008, and a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts in 2012. He has since found his way back to his hometown of Chicago and is an arts professor at his alma mater, NEIU.
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Iris Goldstein, a long-time member of ARC Gallery, is exhibiting colored-pencil drawings at the gallery in February 2022. Goldstein is always interested in the unusual and offbeat. Though she is committed to nonobjective art, she tries to find visual images that are suggestive and allusive, based on real-life objects or places that are transformed through the artist’s imagination. After working many years creating painted plaster wall-relief sculptures, she has been experimenting to see whether she can create a sense of 3/D space using colored pencils on paper. The artist always tries to find new ways of seeing that she hopes will find a response in the viewer. She views nature as a stimulus for her ideas and sees nature and art as common elements in her search for a personal way of seeing. Goldstein studied sculpture at Smith College with Leonard Baskin and has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in drawing and painting. She has shown her work in Europe and Japan and China.
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My work often begins as a visual narrative connected to autobiography. The stories I paint are about immigration, a child’s longing, love, divorce, solitude, my dog, birds, the moon, the sea, life, death. I think of paintings as means to emote, reminisce, look back, as well as project into the future. My paintings are meant to be visual landscapes in which figures appear and disappear. These are stories, embedded, forgotten and revealed, works that hope to haunt and remind, and at times, foresee.
My process involves reading into stains of washes that I apply initially with oil and turpentine in layers. As I have an idea in mind, I look for the shapes of my characters randomly in the mix of transparency. Painting in this way, I am not limited by sketching or reproducing images that have already been created. I have found that as I paint, figures emerge that live their own lives and they begin to tell their own stories, often diverging from what I had originally intended. The paintings eventually become compositions of color and movement. They are painted one over another, sometimes ten or twelve times, so they are literally heavy. When asked to express their meanings or describe them, I rarely discuss form, but rather the stories I represent.
I have relied on narratives, both personal and cultural, as the driving force for my work. Some of the paintings in the exhibition at ARC this spring 2022 are Buddhist narratives which include the letters of Nichiren Daishonin written to his disciples in 13th Century Japan. “Ceremony in the Air” and “Tatsunokuchi” are such paintings. They are my ways of confirming the potential in each human being.
Image: A Visit from the Other Side, Oil on Canvas, 60″ x 72″, 2021
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Epilogue is a group-exhibition displaying select pieces by seven graduate-candidate students finishing their final semester at Northern Illinois University. Artists Ina Murphy, Marco Camacho, Marisol Cervantes, Nicholas Phan, Shinan Wu, Sixing Qi, and Zoë Couvillion are showcasing a variety of printmaking mediums, ceramic vessels, sculptures, paintings, and new-media works. The show is a culmination of the craftsmanship and conceptual growth gathered over the course of their three-year scholarship, and is an exciting springboard into their newfound artistic careers.
Gallery hours: Thurs & Fri – 2-6 pm, Sat & Sun – 12-4 pm. (Hours subject to change.)
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Boehmer’s soft sculptures display a tragic sense of humor. Using art history as a starting point she creates tension and anxiety through sewing the work by hand, with raw, anxious stitches of red thread. Her old sculptures are cut up and are incorporated with upcycled taxidermy to make new work.
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My current work explores the possibility of making visual sense through a process that, though sometimes complex, turns out to be a kind of managed serendipity. I create large abstracts, worked flat. I start with acrylic paint, begin with colors in different areas, and manipulate the canvas until I find what works. The beginning is almost arbitrary, but what emerges is usually surprising. I combine paint with a variety of textures—sometimes pouring medium, sometimes varnish, sometimes gels—to create surfaces that I embellish, remove, scrape, splatter or puddle.
Walking around the canvas as I work, I discover the perspective that best suits the piece. Whether vertical, horizontal or angled, there is a struggle between disarray and harmony, comfort and discomfort that I try to resolve in each piece, a process that can be completed through a minute detail or disparate dash of color. I try to keep the viewer simultaneously engaged by the complexities of the work and soothed by the empty spaces in between.
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Mine is a collaborative process. With help from Mother Nature, I create weapons for the army of folks who are battling real or imagined demons. Our minute of history has been eclipsed by exhaustive and shameful political buffoonery, a ghastly pandemic, dreadful combative heads of state, inflation and on and on. What is the average and tireless world citizen supposed to do to be hopeful, to enjoy control? I worry, because it is my makeup. I worry, because we are too fragile to withstand the onslaught of misery that has become commonplace.
So, I thought about options for supporting emotional wellness. I decided that each of us needs what the most fortunate already have… that enviable feeling of empowerment and confidence, the joyous realization that we all count. We need the stuff of sovereigns. We need tools for might.
So I make scepters. One of kind, doused with jewels and distinctive textiles, remarkable embellishments from everywhere, embroidered to the hilt, my magical wands are multi-faceted. Along with the regal implications of privilege and entitlement, the ornamental branches have mystical capabilities, or so I am suggesting. See them as “divine rods” with supernatural means to manage stress and heighten awareness.
My work is contemplative. It is therapeutic. Each stitch and decorative detail is thoughtfully placed. While I work, I am ridiculously focused and not easily distracted. The work is slow and deliberate and hell on my hands. But I am happiest when I am designing my scepters, because I do not fret about the world and my role on the planet while I am sewing and sharing. Instead, I feel strong and optimistic about being present in this messed-up era. The repurposed branch reminds me that I, too, am noble enough and mindful enough to live my life boldly.
Hopefully, my scepter will arouse enlightening moments for you, allow you to reflect on your own layered story rather than brood about what has become regrettably normal. May the dazzling accessory be part of your private arsenal against self doubt and fear. May it be a symbol of spunk. Should you find comfort in its meaning, consider my power-packed piece a gift to modern weary warriors.
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The Movement for the Liberation of the Narrative-Exodus and the Divine Humor is an installation focused on the hermeneutic and psychological examination of sacred texts free of didactic presentation and respectful of all paths.
Sacred texts are understood as agents or vessels of transformation, whose purpose is to propel us out of our comfort zone and to enable change and growth. The literal layer of the story is treated as a “temporary structure” for understanding the human journey. The same systems of decoding sacred texts that Granite explores may be applied to our personal narrative, starting with the question, What is the purpose of the narrative?
This installation focuses on Exodus as an allegory for collective paradigm shifts and the ever-present yearning for freedom.
The installation is composed of 11 short animations that are the chapters/stages of the story/transformation. The context behind this installation/examination is the concept of the “Breaking of the Vessels,” “Shevirat Ha-Kelim,” meaning the purpose for the creation of the world and for humanity in its ultimate role. The visual space includes the staging of the animations and large-scale prints of broken glass, as a visual metaphor for our fragility and the essentiality of gentleness.
The animations are available on Granite Palombo Amit’s website: granitepalombo.com or her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyAAReglqWeOuYOEtLsRb0A
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Each painting in this show is a kind of meditation on mortality and death. Together they form a series of scattered conversations between one another; a pattern of calls and responses realized over a span of five years. In this way, time is both a medium and a subject.
“Deep time” refers to the time scale of geologic events, which is vastly greater than the time scale of human lives. “Garbage minutes” refers to the final minutes of a sports game in which one side has an enormous lead, and the teams are playing out the clock without hope of changing the final result.
The recent works were inspired by Federico García Lorca’s poem Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, whose rhythmic chanting of “five in the afternoon” creates a cadenced flow that evokes the passage of time, as the writer elegizes a lost friend. Repetition creates a sense of continuity, of an unbroken pattern (opposed to the extreme discontinuity of endings and death). The idea of repetition as a meditative denotation of the passage of time is central to this work.
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David Reif, the Juror for “Consciousness of Abstraction II”, will offer a presentation on “Some Essential Paradigms and Critical Observations in Contemporary Art”, followed by an open Q&A discussion. This will take place on Saturday, June 25, 2022, at 1:00pm at ARC Gallery, 1463 W. Chicago Ave, Chicago. Professor of Art for 35 years and Emeritus Professor since his retirement from full-time teaching in 2001, David Reif has given extensive workshops on Contemporary Art and its theoretical principles. He has exhibited as a visiting artist and lectured as an invited scholar at numerous universities around the country including the University of Wisconsin, Yale, Michigan, Houston, Colorado State and Northern Arizona, among others. Reif has also held chairmanships and memberships on many arts organizations and boards including the Chair of The Wyoming Arts Council and the Denver Art Museum, College Advisory Board and has juried numerous exhibitions nationally and regionally.
If you are interested in understanding the intellectual framework that has shaped the ongoing evolution of Contemporary Art, this event is not to be missed.
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Closing Reception, Saturday, August 13, 1-3pm
https://www.arcgallery.org/maryam-safajoo/
Maryam Safajoo | ARC GALLERY & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
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Without any provocation, Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, 2022. The attack is considered an act of aggression internationally. It has triggered Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II with more than 5 million Ukrainians leaving the country. As UN Women states, \"wars affect women and children differently and disproportionately.\" Women and children in Ukraine are being targeted by Russian forces as reports from Bucha and Irpin indicate, and women and children refugees who have left Ukraine are being targeted by human traffickers.
In support of the Ukrainian people, and to protest the Russian invasion, ARC Gallery invites artists to respond to the war in Ukraine using their creativity. We envision an inclusive exhibition that protests this, and other, acts of aggression through thought-provoking and thoughtful artwork. The submitted artwork can specifically address the current war in Ukraine and the refugee crisis created by this war, as well as previous and current wars that create a refugee crisis for women and children.
Ukraine celebrates its National Flag Day on August 23rd and its Independence Day on August 24th. In order to honor these important dates in Ukraine, ARC Gallery will host an artist panel discussion on Saturday, July 23rd one month early to celebrate and support the Ukrainian Spirit.
All mediums and materials are eligible for submission including video and performance. Due to space limitations, no large projections or media-based installations will be accepted.
“Ukraine hath not yet perished, nor her glory, nor her freedom,
Upon us, fellow Ukrainians, fate shall smile once more.
Our enemies shall vanish, like the dew in the sun,
And we too shall rule, brothers, in a free land of our own.”
Beginning Stanza of Ukrainian National Anthem
ABOUT THE JUROR:
The show will be juried by Dr. Adrienne Kochman, Curator of contemporary art at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago. Dr. Kochman has a PhD in Art History from the University of Chicago. Dr. Kochman, PhD has been working as an art historian, curator and educator in Chicago and its art community since the 1980s. Formerly Associate Professor of Art History and Adjunct Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Indiana University Northwest, she currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and since 2017, is curator at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. Recent curatorial projects include The Ukrainian Diaspora: Women Artists, 1908-2015 (2015) and Reality Check: Directions in Contemporary Art Since Ukrainian Independence (2016); Increment: Barbara Cooper, Shona MacDonald, Yoonshin Park (2018); Raw Reckoning: Michael Paxton (2019). Her exhibit on Paris-based Ukrainian refugee artist Michel Andreenko opens in June.
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“Tractatus 2” is a decade’s long survey of found object oriented visual works by multimedia artist Spencer Hutchinson that refer to or utilize sound in their conception and execution.
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Opening Reception: Fri. September 9, 5-8pm Closing Reception Fri. September 23, 5-8pm
Please join the collective membership of ARC for its annual Members’ Exhibition!
ARC, founded in 1973 as a women-run cooperative organization, has a long and distinguished history as a cultural institution in the city. ARC’s mission is to bring innovative, emerging and experimental visual art, to a wide range of viewers, and to provide a nurturing atmosphere for the continued development of artistic potential and dialogue. Celebrating 49 years in existence, ARC provides exhibition opportunities and support to artists, across all artistic disciplines including performance, sound, and video. The support ARC offers includes: professional presentation of work, significant financial subsidy of gallery space, group and themed show opportunities, and feedback and encouragement to young and emerging artists.
Local Members: Sessah DelaRue– Nancy Fritz – Iris Goldstein – Cait Hardie – Beth LeFauve – Elyse Martin – Ruti Modlin – Cheri Reif Naselli – Randi Shepard – Lee Stanton – Michele Stutts – Michelle Williams
National Members: Laura Cloud – Abigail Engstrand – Nicolei Buendia Gupit
Affiliate Members: Granite Palombo Amit – Kina Bagovska – Nancy Bechtol – Denise Bellezzo – Monica J. Brown – Virginia Carstarphen – Esther Charbit – Jessica Gondek – Carolyne King – Pauline Kochanski – Jane Stevens – Cynthia Vaicunas – Amy Zucker
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Michele Stutts is a British born, Chicago-based, contemporary artist whose journey has led her to a diversity of visual art: video, painting, drawing, collage, installation and assemblage.
Her assemblages have integrated all of her artistic experiences. They are found objects, rich with history and seasoned by time. They are forgotten things that have lost their original appearance and purpose that have been reborn with a new aesthetic and meaning.
Her current exhibit: Housebird is not synonymous with “birdhouse”, but the opposite. Although both are human-crafted structures, a birdhouse is gratis, where birds find protection from the harsh elements and predators. The young follow a natural timeline from youth to adults.
In contrast, Housebird experience a constant state of financial insecurity, anxiety, isolation and uncertainty. There is no natural relationship between a Housebird and the parasitic home they have to maintain, for the house always comes first.
See more about Michele Stutts here: http://michelestutts.com/gallery.html
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\"The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.\" - Joseph Campbell
A few months after my last show at ARC, Fractured States, my mother was diagnosed with a terminal cancer. She passed away 17 months later and it seemed as if the concepts that exhibition had discussed were a reality for me. The fight for connection had, at least artistically, given way to loss and inertia. But something else happened too during this time. I fell in love. Simultaneously, I was experiencing the worst of pain and best of happiness.
Grief - Solace - Sadness - Joy
These four words became a mantra that kept ringing around my head. And slowly the focus of the work began to build on the peace and silence created by negative space, harmony between color and each piece's collage element.
Yet, The Space Between, like Fractured States, A Delicate Balance and Fragile States before it, is also a reflection of my belief that we are on a continuous and circuitous path of creation, illumination, and spiritual progression towards one’s place within the universe. I fully believe in the Buddhist practice of re-learning what one has learned for while the lesson has remained the same, the person has changed. And the loss of my mother has changed me on a deep level.
As the work for this exhibition began to take shape so did the realization that in creating this current body of work I was putting into practice my own artistic concepts, as both an action of living and an action of creativity. The Space Between is a, “fight for connection in the face of dissolution…Even if it seems components are being forced together, in the end, each piece that goes into the artwork has a purpose. It is not always an easy progression and there is strife and loss on the way. And sometimes the simple belief that things will be better is enough to hold even the smallest connection together.”
See more about Carolyne King here: https://carolyneking.com/
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Curator: Spencer Hutchinson
For nearly the entire history of Black Artists’ existence in the U.S., black art has been largely segregated from the concerns of mainstream Modern, Postmodern, and Contemporary Art, and usually focused on the human figure. Even visual artists as unconventional as Jean Michel Basquiat still frame the representation of the black body as the center of their Art making. Recently, this trend has been undergoing a change. Artists such as Julie Mehrutu and Mark Bradford have crossed the rubicon into Abstraction and into a frame of discourse that long excluded Black Artists while much older Black artists working in Abstraction going back decades such as Macarthur Binion are experiencing a renaissance and having their art being given the credibility that evaded them in years past. At the heart of this show are the questions what respectively drive Black Representational and Black Abstract Art? How are these motivations distinct from “Mainstream” representational and abstract art that the general public are more familiar with? How do representation and abstraction inform and contextualize each other in the discourse surrounding Black art and are there implications within this realm of discourse that can help shed light on the ontology of figuration and abstraction more broadly. This show attempts to equally represent Black figurative and abstract artists working in the mediums of Painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, and sculpture across a broad range of the African diaspora. We seek to include artists at all levels of their careers regardless of age, gender, ability, or sexual orientation to help drive the conversation and engender broader understanding of these two major themes in Contemporary Black Art.
A Statement on PERSPECTIVES by the curator: In 1933 curator James V. Herring, philosopher Alain Locke and visual artist James A. Porter joined forces and put together a show featuring the various contributions made by African American Artists at all levels of training, education and professional accomplishment throughout the country to showcase what we now take for granted as being at the foundation of Modern Black Aesthetic Interests.
In the year 2022, only 89 years after the opening of a show that was erected at The Smithsonian Institution’s National Gallery of Art, many of the same issues addressed by Herring, Locke and Porter continue to resonate with us today. The centrality of The Black Experience, of African Identity, and of a sense of participation in a society in which one finds oneself to be so deeply enmeshed, and yet held so far apart from.
The location of Black Art’s contribution to society shifts with-in the American Psyche, in the ebb and flow of time, just as America’s relationship with us, her African-American inhabitants has. The styles have changed, somewhat, but the lived social realities remain very much the same. Intended to also act in recent historical concert with similar shows that have showcased Black Artists working today, specifically the ICONIC: Black Panther show at The Stony Island Artsbank in The Chatham/Southshore Neighborhood, PERSPECTIVES revisits what may have been the same subjective themes in 1933 revisited for the benefit of a contemporary audience, namely the representation of the human Figure, and the concept of Abstraction from the figure, from nature itself, and from the depths of the human psyche.
The Art that has been chosen, reflects the times in which Black Artists find themselves in yet again. I hope the work in this show teaches us to live for today, and celebrate the continued vibrance, vitality, and impact of Black Art in The City of Chicago and around the world.
Exhibiting Artists: Krystal Boney, Austen Brantley, Summer Brooks, Amel Dockery, Zahra Edwards, Angela Davis Fegan, Erol Harris II, Jennifer Hodges, Lindsay Johnson, George Jones, Rhian Kempadoo-Millar, Anika Kowalik, MISU, Marcela Adeze Okeke, Turtel Onli, Angie Redmond, Michele Stutts, Narvell Taylor, Darlene Tyree, Cheryl Toles, Nia Wilson
About the Curator: Spencer Hutchinson is a 2020 MFA graduate from The University of Illinois at Chicago where he studied Studio and New Media Arts (specifically Painting and Sound) and a 2009 BFA graduate from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he studied Sound, Painting and New Media. His work primarily deals with intersections across visual media, particularly painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, performance, 3D animation, video and sound as well as topics relating to race and art theory and criticism. He has shown nationally and internationally in Mexico City, Ravenna IT, Assisi IT, Dubai UAE, and Manchester UK and previously served as editor and art critic for the New Art Examiner as well as being a founding member of Agitator Cooperative Gallery in Chicago. He has been a working artist based in Chicago, IL since 2007.
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Adriana Miranda was born in Phoenix, AZ and moved to Oak Park, IL with her family at age five.
Adriana expressed her creative prowess early in life through music and art. Adriana’s coming-of-age involved Basquiat, her father’s house music expertise, her love for learning, and lots of video games. Her adulthood has been shaped by the chance to reclaim her childhood through parenting. Today, Adriana is working to make a statement in the fine art industry about the power of memory and letting go.
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Curator: Spencer Hutchinson
For nearly the entire history of Black Artists’ existence in the U.S., black art has been largely segregated from the concerns of mainstream Modern, Postmodern, and Contemporary Art, and usually focused on the human figure. Even visual artists as unconventional as Jean Michel Basquiat still frame the representation of the black body as the center of their Art making. Recently, this trend has been undergoing a change. Artists such as Julie Mehrutu and Mark Bradford have crossed the rubicon into Abstraction and into a frame of discourse that long excluded Black Artists while much older Black artists working in Abstraction going back decades such as Macarthur Binion are experiencing a renaissance and having their art being given the credibility that evaded them in years past. At the heart of this show are the questions what respectively drive Black Representational and Black Abstract Art? How are these motivations distinct from “Mainstream” representational and abstract art that the general public are more familiar with? How do representation and abstraction inform and contextualize each other in the discourse surrounding Black art and are there implications within this realm of discourse that can help shed light on the ontology of figuration and abstraction more broadly. This show attempts to equally represent Black figurative and abstract artists working in the mediums of Painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, and sculpture across a broad range of the African diaspora. We seek to include artists at all levels of their careers regardless of age, gender, ability, or sexual orientation to help drive the conversation and engender broader understanding of these two major themes in Contemporary Black Art.
A Statement on PERSPECTIVES by the curator: In 1933 curator James V. Herring, philosopher Alain Locke and visual artist James A. Porter joined forces and put together a show featuring the various contributions made by African American Artists at all levels of training, education and professional accomplishment throughout the country to showcase what we now take for granted as being at the foundation of Modern Black Aesthetic Interests.
In the year 2022, only 89 years after the opening of a show that was erected at The Smithsonian Institution’s National Gallery of Art, many of the same issues addressed by Herring, Locke and Porter continue to resonate with us today. The centrality of The Black Experience, of African Identity, and of a sense of participation in a society in which one finds oneself to be so deeply enmeshed, and yet held so far apart from.
The location of Black Art’s contribution to society shifts with-in the American Psyche, in the ebb and flow of time, just as America’s relationship with us, her African-American inhabitants has. The styles have changed, somewhat, but the lived social realities remain very much the same. Intended to also act in recent historical concert with similar shows that have showcased Black Artists working today, specifically the ICONIC: Black Panther show at The Stony Island Artsbank in The Chatham/Southshore Neighborhood, PERSPECTIVES revisits what may have been the same subjective themes in 1933 revisited for the benefit of a contemporary audience, namely the representation of the human Figure, and the concept of Abstraction from the figure, from nature itself, and from the depths of the human psyche.
The Art that has been chosen, reflects the times in which Black Artists find themselves in yet again. I hope the work in this show teaches us to live for today, and celebrate the continued vibrance, vitality, and impact of Black Art in The City of Chicago and around the world.
Exhibiting Artists: Krystal Boney, Austen Brantley, Summer Brooks, Amel Dockery, Zahra Edwards, Angela Davis Fegan, Erol Harris II, Jennifer Hodges, Lindsay Johnson, George Jones, Rhian Kempadoo-Millar, Anika Kowalik, MISU, Marcela Adeze Okeke, Turtel Onli, Angie Redmond, Michele Stutts, Narvell Taylor, Darlene Tyree, Cheryl Toles, Nia Wilson
About the Curator: Spencer Hutchinson is a 2020 MFA graduate from The University of Illinois at Chicago where he studied Studio and New Media Arts (specifically Painting and Sound) and a 2009 BFA graduate from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he studied Sound, Painting and New Media. His work primarily deals with intersections across visual media, particularly painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, performance, 3D animation, video and sound as well as topics relating to race and art theory and criticism. He has shown nationally and internationally in Mexico City, Ravenna IT, Assisi IT, Dubai UAE, and Manchester UK and previously served as editor and art critic for the New Art Examiner as well as being a founding member of Agitator Cooperative Gallery in Chicago. He has been a working artist based in Chicago, IL since 2007.
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Ten years ago a tragedy occurred which changed the course of my sister’s life. So many of us whose lives she touched with her love and generosity are still scrambling to fill the voids created by this loss.
Plans were hijacked, dreams shattered, and futures altered. She can no longer comfort us with her words, offer advice or encouragement, be our advocate, give us self-confidence or validation, accompany us around the world, or cuddle our babies in her arms.
This work is intended to celebrate my sister, who always brought happiness to others, even if only as a brief distraction from their own tragedies. It is an attempt to call out what we take for granted, and acknowledge that which requires appreciation, while there is still time.
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Faces of 2022 is a collection of modern portraits representing Charlie Goss' take on Tonalism and Impressionism.
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It’s odd to think “Chicago” and “Wilderness” in the same breath. The concept of a Chicago Wilderness seems contrary to the concrete and steel grid that defines our dazzling magnificent city. And yet a wilderness persists, albeit vastly fragmented and depleted from its earlier form. More complex than most of us realize, we depend on it to maintain fresh water, flood control, agriculture, and breathable air. Migrating animals depend on it for their yearly journeys across the planet. Many of us retreat to it, as we must.
A native Chicagoan, my art focuses on animals and plants of the Chicago Wilderness with intention to educate via the artists’ process. The more we know, the more responsibility we have to maintain, restore, and resolve the complexities of coexisting within a necessarily biodiverse environment.
All original art is for sale. For those who prefer to spend less, fine art signed-edition prints are available for each image. 50% of all sales go towards conservation organizations.
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There is something about travel that leads to a particular way of seeing. In a new place, the mind is fresh and open; our senses are heightened. We notice things that we might have overlooked in our everyday life. Certain things stand out – color, structure, direction, patterns – as the mind seeks to make sense of the unfamiliar.
Travel involves an act of imagination, when our curiosity of another place gives us a window into a life that isn’t our own. The making of art can take us further along that path, as lived experience is transformed into the imaginary.
Inspired by travels in Japan and Hong Kong, these pieces embrace the speed, the noisy and chaotic in the urban landscape, while finding the order, quiet and stillness within them.
Cait Hardie was born in Australia, and educated in Australia and the United States. She lives in Chicago.
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Opposition only strengthens the resolute.
Time makes the resolute more persistent.
To be resolute is to feel the force of an idea and to remain dedicated despite what crumbles and grows around it. Dedication is measured by painstaking increments of effort over sustained periods. The resolute take every chance to memorialize and preserve each small gain, to perpetuate their own survival.
In this first month of 2023, ARC kicks off its 50th year with a celebration of the spirit of determination that got us here. We are, and have been for 50 years, a women’s cooperative not-for-profit art gallery run by artists themselves. Our time, money, sweat, organization and talents have kept the doors open for 5 decades. Through sustained work and dedication, ARC will continue to be a community anchor for artists sidelined by the traditional art world system.
Resolute features artwork by the current members of ARC who work daily together to run the gallery. Each piece interprets what it means to be resolute in the here and now, with the deepest respect for all of the brilliant women artists who came before us.
Participating Members: Sessah DelaRue – Nancy Fritz – Stacy Lee Gee – Iris Goldstein – Diane Jurado – Beth LeFauve – Elyse Martin – Ruti Modlin – Cheri Reif Naselli – Randi Shepard – Lee Stanton – Michele Stutts – Michelle Williams
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Curator: Ann Rintz
Color is one of the most exciting elements of art. It personifies beauty, expresses emotion, and creates a mood. The power of color has a profound effect on the viewer. It’s one of the first ways we learn to decipher the world around us. Color can sway thinking, and cause reactions both joyful and extreme. Color can seem absolute, but it shifts and changes.
Artists manipulate color to turn our perceptions on their heads; to challenge our understanding of reality. Color is magical. Color is cultural. Color is symbolic. Color signifies. How do our interpretations of color affect our perceptions? Our prejudices? Our stereotypes? Does color reflect the racial, social, and political forces shaping our communities? The LGBTQ community, for example, has taken the rainbow of all colors for their symbol of strength and unity.
About the Curator: Ann Rintz is the Art Gallery and Permanent Collection Curator of the Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art at the College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois. Ann attended Northern Illinois University and earned both a Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degree in drawing and installation art in which the curriculum included foreign study of contemporary art and design in England and France. She is a fine artist and college art professor. Her fine art exhibition history encompasses galleries in Chicago including one-person shows at ARC Gallery, Gallery 1633 and the Pilsen Arts Invitational. On a personal level, Ann celebrates visual grace and is dedicated to the propagation of all beautiful things.
Image: For Ken, Acrylic on Canvas, by Elyse Martin
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David Bechtol: THROUGH THE EYES OF A TRAVELER
Opening Reception Fri. Mar 3, 5-8pm
This expansive imagery was selected over the last several decades from travels to Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands, Paris, and several majestic locations in Canada. Included are Inkjet wall print panorama installations, running 4 feet by 12 feet, custom printed by the artist. These are taken hand-held and are stitched involving up to 30 images in a single photo. David remarks: “Each image captured attempts to take the viewer on a journey, to transport them to that place of wonder and grandeur as I experienced it.”
Photography has been a dedication and integral part of his life for over 50 years. He is a self-taught photographer. David has an Engineering Degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.
His work history includes 31 years with the Hyatt Corporation as a Senior Computer Scientist/IT. He is a member and Treasurer of the Chicago Society of Artists (CSA), his fine art photographs are included in “The Legacy Continues: The Chicago Society of Artists.” His photo silk screens are in the major portfolios, “Illinois” and “Route 66”. A member of the PSA, Photographic Society of America; Co-producer/Photographer with Shadow Bechtol Studio’s indie films, listed in IMDb, and most notably, “This is Indian Land~Okee-Chee’s Vision”, which premiered at the American Indian Center of Chicago, and is in the collection of the Newberry Library. David’s exhibition record includes shows at August House Studio, ARC Gallery, Lost Artist Colony, and Trickster Gallery. His photography received the Editor’s Choice Award from Art & Beyond Magazine.
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Nancy Bechtol: no RAIN no RAINBOWS
Opening Reception Fri. Mar 3, 5-8pm
no RAIN no RAINBOWS is a Hawaiian saying, and indeed has deep meaning universally. Art has Social Impact and saves lives. Welcome to my self -curated show.
Ideally, the pain, the rain, the difficult times yield to the earned results, visionary colorful, kaleidoscopic lights of personal achievements. Past. Present. Future collides.
If done right, we get there standing on the shoulders of giants that came before us and show gratitude. Tribute to Don Baum, Painting Class with Imagists in 2 years at Roosevelt University; and Mentored by Phil Morton, Time Arts/Video Founder, MFA 84, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
If done right, we get to hold hands with others to help them to their goals and achieve too.
To speak of the highlights of this show, creating a multitude of art images, over 50 years, in multiple formats — Surprises me. The Pandemic gave me time to pause and reconsider my art history. The volumes of work I created, no matter what my “real job” was, daily life influenced me. The indie/art films, fine art media from an array of materials (everything is a crayon) acting and interacting in social-political arenas for 12 years as a Photojournalist. Here are a few of my favorite things over the years. Believe me, the Studio carries enough to fill a museum. Sending this out to the universe…
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Rachel’s practice combines the lively qualities of monotype and woodblock printing with the delicate mark-making of graphite and lithography. Through her research she navigates a world of concrete while searching for the ruptures where softer ways of living can emerge. In her work she examines how the rigid structures that surround her have become internalized within while also considering how to nurture the cracks that are beginning to form.
Alex’s work investigates the relationship of our accessible conscious mind in conjunction with our unconscious beneath the surface. Combining lithography and collagraph printmaking techniques is her avenue for visualizing a distorted reality. An invitation is made for the viewer to experience the work from a distance, then finding new details once stepping closer. By working intuitively and keeping a balance between conscious decision-making and natural response, there is a collaboration which happens between the work and the artist.
E.A. Stuart’s practice examines how spaces, real or virtual affect how the individual perceives themselves and present that image to the world about them. Furthermore, as time passes and spaces transform, how that public persona is altered to adapt to these changes. Through the construction of brutalist objects, and then using these forms as models for multiple “portrait” paintings, she creates opportunities to examine the relationship between the objects and individuals from different viewpoints.
In each of their practices, these artists are exploring what’s been hidden and bringing these perspectives into view.
Image: Alex Bridges
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Sleep paralysis, induced by post traumatic stress disorder, will infect you with a craving for calmness. It instills a longing to wake without exhaustion. A desperation to sleep without fear.
The shadows that haunted my childhood bedside faded with time and practice. And these new demons, waking me from a deep sleep with the barrel of a gun pressed against my forehead, they too shall pass. Though haunting, their recurring presence offers a sign of progress. Each time they stalk my exhausted body they appear slightly fainter than the night before.
This exhibition, much like the spit bite intaglio I practiced as a teen, is a ritual. The ferric chloride that dribbled across my copper plates etched impressions of the freshwater lake that brought me comfort as a child. Like a suture to an open wound, each etching closed a chapter.
And with this new sacrament, I forbid my demons. With every misty drip, each slow intentional breath, I resurrect the stillness I worshiped as a child floating naked in a moonlit lake. I’ve blended their haunting silhouettes into panels of birch, not unlike the dock I stained with water bleeding off my body after leaving demons at the bottom of that lake. With this water and wood, I forced them out of their sleepless terrors. Through this ritual, I reclaimed a space. I now rest calmly on my mattress, and within my mind, where shadows once lurked. And the terror that birthed these shadow demons continues to drift away, leaving me to revel in my undisturbed darkness, finally able to sleep.
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Living as the female of the human species has many challenges, from birth onward. There is childhood conditioning which pushes girls to adhere to societal norms. They are encouraged to wear pink and play with dolls. Girls help Mommy with cooking and housework, and sit quietly in the classroom while Frank and Johnny answer the questions asked by the teacher.
These ideas get stronger as girls mature into teenagers. They are taught to defer to men in power situations, dress in a certain way so as not to sexually stimulate men. At the same time young women must adhere as closely as possible to the body shape most desired by men, or risk bullying and ridicule. In short, women are taught that their worth comes from men, how men perceive and value them is what matters most.
Once puberty hits, there is the constant fear of pregnancy by rape or accident or thoughtlessness. The burden is on women to handle birth control and pregnancy, because they bear the children. All of these pressures are compounded for those in our transgender and nonbinary community.
Access to abortion is necessary because women need the freedom to decide whether or not to carry a child. Men cannot be relied on, and women can’t do it alone. They need the federal government to protect their right to choose what to do if they get pregnant. And the government is not able to secure those rights at this time. This group of artists feels compelled to act now by making artwork that states their feelings on this dangerous assault on women. What we do with our bodies is OUR CHOICE.
Featuring the work of: Rachel Ahava Rosenfeld, Donna Bassin, Marissa Bridge, Noelle Iovino, Dee Mallon, Virginia Mallon, Maggie Rose, Mary Cathryn Roth, Yvonne Shortt, Jonathan Talbot
More than just an art exhibit, OUR CHOICE is a protest against the attack on women’s reproductive rights in the United States of America.
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
“It is important throughout your life to proclaim your joy” -Mark Eitzel
Artmaking is joy, sharing is joyous. Amanda’s quilted works are a celebration of unconventional fabric combinations and abundance of hand stitching. She finds that sharing her process and her unique approach to making quilts brings her as much joy as she finds in making her work. Quilting has become an act of self care; working in the medium of textiles enables her to fit stitching into free moments throughout her day.
Amanda Nadig is a textile artist who finds inspiration in keeping with and breaking away from traditions in quilting. Her hand quilted compositions explore colors and shapes sourced from secondhand garments and home textiles discovered near her home studio in Chicago, IL. Her two young children and her high school art students have a great influence on her work; she explores balance, embraces chance, and experiments endlessly in her artistic practice.
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In her essay titled: Motley Efforts, Sculpture’s Ever-Expanding Field, Anne Ellegood speaks of the myriad sculptural practices at work among today’s artists. She speaks of the inability to locate clear categories for much of contemporary sculpture… the profusion of cultural and historical references, the range of materials and an eye towards experimentation.
Ellegood speaks of appreciating artworks for their sensitivity to form or physical flair…”these are after all, objects in space that we encounter with our bodies – but the conceptual underpinning are often as complex and layered as their forms and encourage a certain amount of unpacking. In her essay, Samuel Beckett is quoted as saying, “It is the artist’s task to find a form that accommodates the mess.”
The works in this exhibition embrace disorder and precariousness, pristine surfaces and the predetermined, the messy, decrepit, clumsy, expressive, flamboyant, corporeal, ambiguous, enigmatic, and more.
Exhibiting Artists: David Baird, Carrie Betlyn-Eder, Matthew Boonstra, Pat Brutchin, Doug Cannell, Lindsey Champlin, Lindsay-Ann Chilcott, Sofia Chitikov, Bethany Cordero, Virginia de Pintor, Melissa Dorn, Mirentxu Ganzarain, Stacey Lee Gee, Noah Greene-Lowe, Lourdes Guerrero, Trish Happel, Claire B Jones, Pauline Kochanski, Ginny Krueger, Beth LeFauve, Ellen Lustig, Angela McElwain, Margot McMahon, Scott Mossman, Katherine Nemanich, Bryan Northup, Darren Oberto, Fred Pereira, John Ralston, Robin Rios, Sylvia Schieber, Liv Sciford, Edwin Shelton, Katherine Skwira-Brown, E.A. Stuart, John Swartwout, Michele Thrane, Penelope Thrasher, Susan Trees, John T Upchurch, Michelle Williams, Debra Wright, Jenny Wu, Chris Wubbena
About the Curator:
Bernard Williams is an established artist based in Chicago, IL and working in painting, sculpture, installation, and public art. He holds a BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MFA from Northwestern University. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the U.S., and has been represented by the N’Namdi Gallery in Detroit, the Thomas McCormick Gallery in Chicago, and the Ethan Cohen Gallery in New York. Williams has received recognition both regionally and nationally, including grants from the Illinois Arts Council, Artadia in New York in 2001, The Meier Foundation in Chicago in 2013, and The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation in New York in 2015. He has completed artist residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA., and the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York in 2013.
The artist began painting outdoor murals in the early 1990’s with the Chicago Public Art Group. While continuing with CPAG, Williams has added outdoor sculpture to his practice. In recent years he has created several outdoor steel sculptures in Chicago, and completed the Black Tractor Project at the Arts Club of Chicago 2019. In November 2020-May 2021 he debuted a large sculptural work in the “Long Dream” group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. In 2021 the artist has won two significant outdoor Commissions: The Naomi Anderson installation for Michigan City, Indiana, and in 2023 a large steel sculpture will be installed at Nate Manilow Sculpture Park at Governor’s State University in University Park, IL.
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Drawing inspiration from natural processes, I create soft, vibrant, abstract pieces inspired by the ways the earth continuously churns inert materials into complex forms. In the Emergent series, I translate images through multiple iterations of building up surfaces and breaking down material. I begin by deconstructing abstract paintings and rearranging them into brightly colored collages. These collages are printed onto fabric. The fabric is cut and stuffed to emphasize undulating forms. Each step of the process leaves a lasting imprint, resonating through a series of permutations. The image goes from flat to full; from inanimate to active and swirling. The resulting soft paintings unearth ways elemental marks and materials can, through dynamic changes, grow in complexity.
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The layering technique I use in my art allows me to experiment with different colors, textures, and shapes, allowing new ideas to flow and change direction. It’s like going on a creative journey, where I never know exactly where I’ll end up, but I’m always excited to see what I discover along the way.
Painting is an outlet for me, a break from the stresses and challenges of everyday life. Through my art, I can process my emotions, find healing, and express myself in ways that words alone cannot. It’s a way for me to tap into my innermost thoughts and feelings and communicate them visually to the world.
Overall, my goal as an artist is to create artwork that is both visually striking and emotionally meaningful. By representing everyday objects in a new and whimsical way, I hope to spark joy, inspire creativity, and encourage viewers to look at the world around them with fresh eyes.
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The comprehensive idea behind this series is a visualization of the economic truth surrounding both the creation and exclusion of wealth in the USA. I created 267 bags: 89 for each era of wealth-creation / exclusion during the years of slavery / black codes: The Cotton Empire Era, The Tobacco Era, and The James Crow Era. The bags symbolically represent wealth.
My concept is based on the idea of “The Originalists” who are now known to be the original signers of the US Constitution. This term has become part of our vocabulary now because of the recent Senate hearings when Amy Coney Barrett was being vetted for her position as Associate Supreme Court Justice in 2020. She said she considered herself a defender of the Originalists (even though the original document is discriminatory against anyone other than white, male landowners).
The 56 Originalists who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the 39 Originalists who signed the Constitution in 1789 were all complicit in the original design to rein-in democracy and, control and capitalize on wealth creation. In my concept, I include all signers of these two documents together. 6 men signed both documents; hence 95-6= 89.
These symbols of wealth have been created with my deconstructed and repurposed (original) yarn from my previous outdoor installations, which have been seen in the Santurce art district since I began in 2016. The definition of the word yarn has several meanings, one of which is a colloquial expression for a good story which may or may not be true. The hanging scraps of yarn from each piece represent the lies these people believed (a good yarn), and reinforced every day. Each era is created within the color scheme of a grotesque rainbow, because that is what these controls of wealth creation were; a rainbow or a prism-like concept of agreed upon lies to create wealth… which was dependent on everyone agreeing to this structure, much like a prism is dependent on very specific nuances in order to exist. Slavery was an accepted, egregious anomaly; a concept based on grotesque arrogance. In my visualizations of these bags, it is my intention to have them look both grotesque and arrogant.
The Cotton Empire era was THE most profitable time for wealth creation in the United States. According to Professor of History Edward Batiste at Cornell University, author of “The Half Has Never Been Told,” he states that the 8 cotton states of GA, MS, SC, LA, TN, TX, AL and FL were producing 88-95% (depending on the year) of the entire world’s cotton commodity; which was the most traded commodity in Liverpool, England. To compare that to the oil industry of today, it was as if those 8 states produced all of the oil of Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Kuwait, Venezuela, Iraq, Iran, UAE, and Russia for DECADES.
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“Into the Field of Awareness Dances Time” is a body of work which combines Afrofuturism, abstraction, and elements of pop art aesthetics. This overlap of genres is used to create a dialogue around the ideas of memory, history and personal mythology. A “collage” technique is used which takes old and/or unfinished paintings and reimagines them by placing a new painting on top, integrating the imagery together to tell a story about the illusion of time. Other images in this series take a simple graphic arts approach and focus more on the play of color.
Some inquiries that form the ideas around this series include: What does time do to memory, and memory to time? How much abstraction is needed to sort through these ideas? What is a lifetime, and what part does memory play in creating a life? How much power lives in a moment, and how many moments are needed to fulfill a journey? What role does perception play in life events? Can the illusions created through paint solidify a feeling in the way that a photograph is able to capture a moment? Can an entire story be told in one image? How many stories live inside one story? The dance of the thread of life, the weaving of dreams, the circumference of a dream: what remains at the center? How many dreams unfold inside one dream?
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These sculptures have their roots in calligraphy, brushwork, and the written word. Many of these unique works are inspired by Japanese sumi-e calligraphy, in particular the Zen practice of the enso, an ink circle drawn briefly and in one stroke. Others are deconstructed and reimagined letterforms from the Thai, Armenian, Korean and other alphabets. But all are fabricated from bent, laminated plywood, in a process that interprets loose, inky brushstrokes and typography into three dimensions.
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Freddy Hovey – outsider, autodidact – uses layers of collaged digital photo vignettes to investigate the effects of color on visual recognition.
Large abstract Giclée prints immerse a viewer into a world of imagery which manifests into surprisingly ethereal and temporal propositions.
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Get Ready for the Art Auction Party!
Art Party Starts on August 18th, 5pm CST! Online bidding starts two days ahead on August 16th, 12am CST!
When the bidding starts, you'll want to be ready! Register for an account in order to receive alerts when the bidding begins. We need your help to reach our goal of 25K! Get your bidding in early on August 16th and join us August 18th and 19th at ARC Gallery for food & drinks.
See you soon!
Website URL: fundraiser.bid/arc-art-auction
Bidder Mobile App:
Apple / iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/auctria-mobile-bidding/id1388761108
Android / Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.auctria.bidder&pli=1
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Opening Reception Fri. Sept 8, 5-8pm
This show spans over 30 years of my beaded sculptures. Before bead art, I worked with tapestry, weaving, baskets, embroidery and crochet. In 1989, on a trip to Jamaica, I began exploring bead art using basic couching techniques and the human form. The first in that series, I called “First in Series.” My sculptures have won prizes and been featured in several Bead Art books.
In the mid-90s, I explored various beading techniques such as peyote & square stitch. In 1992, in “Doll with Swirl Skirt,” I began incorporating quartz or rose quartz crystals into the interior of the sculptures, almost like a heart or chakra. The crystals amplify an energetic field for the viewers and allow feelings to surface beyond the visual. I have also repurposed textiles such as antique lace or silk from Thailand and other fabrics with personal or family significance, using them as the base from which to bead. This adds a layer of ancestral energy to my work. I also tackle themes unique to the female experience such as 1996’s “Sabotage of the Working Woman.”
I have long been passionate about conservation and environmentalism, becoming a vegetarian in my early 20s. I like the idea of turning garbage or discarded materials into something different and of beauty. Since the late 1990s, I’ve collected bottle tops and thickly encrust plastic beads onto them. This has been the foundation for my larger scale work mirroring my concern for recycling, reuse, and repurposing what most consider garbage. This larger work is whimsical and sometimes influenced by other cultures.
World travel being an ongoing source of inspiration, in my early work, travel to Costa Rica, Jamaica and Florida were strong influences. In 1994, I created “Sloth Girl” after two long trips to Costa Rica. Living in Jamaica in the 1970s and many trips in the following decades, led me to create “Crack Eyes” in 1995 to bring more awareness to the harrowing crack epidemic brought to the island by white tourism. Walking the Atlantic coast beach in FL as I cared for my mother in the last years of her life, led me to create “She Shell” in 2021.
Most recently, travel to carnaval in Argentina and time spent in India have influenced my evolving style and inspired me to incorporate new materials such as feathers and shells. A recent visit to the Guo Pei Exhibit at the Bowers Museum in California led me to experiment with embellishing the sculptures using beads and feathers in ways I never have before. Texture, patterns, and color are major components of all my work.
The sculptures evolve naturally from my feelings and thoughts as I bead, in the moment. I let the journey lead me. There is a spirit of play and whimsy in the colors I choose and the postures of the figures.
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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Opening Reception Fri. Sept 8, 5-8pm
According to Buddha, “When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”
White on blue. A line. An identifiable path created by a point moving in space. Look up! Lines, a trail of condensed water from an aircraft at high altitude, a white streak across the sky. Intangible, the sky has no surface; it cannot be turned into a thing or given a quantity. It may represent infinity, eternity, immortality, transcendence, or simply inspiration. As the traditional residence of gods and goddesses the sky may suggest omnipotence. The sky may also be symbolic of order in the universe. How might our interference with the environment alter these responses, drawing lines across the vista. In this series, views of land or anything else which might help to suggest scale or orientation is decidedly absent, excluded, and kept to a minimum. Infinite possibilities.
Opening Reception, Friday, Sept 8, 5:00-8:00pm
Exhibition dates: August 31 – September 23, 2023
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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Please join the collective membership of ARC for its 50th Anniversary Members' Exhibition! For this 50th year celebration, ARC presents work by members past and present.
ARC, founded in 1973 as a women-run cooperative organization, has a long and distinguished history as a cultural institution in the city. ARC's mission is to bring innovative, emerging and experimental visual art, to a wide range of viewers, and to provide a nurturing atmosphere for the continued development of artistic potential and dialogue. Celebrating 50 years in existence, ARC provides exhibition opportunities and support to artists, across all artistic disciplines including performance, sound, and video. The support ARC offers includes: professional presentation of work, significant financial subsidy of gallery space, group and themed show opportunities, and feedback and encouragement to young and emerging artists.
Exhibiting Artists: Karen Ami, Kina Bagovska, Raissa Bailey, Monica Bauer, Nancy Bechtol, Denise Bellezzo, Gerda Meyer Bernstein, Rine Boyer, Dawn Brennan, Monica J. Brown, Virginia Carstarphen, Nancy Charak, Esther Charbit, Laura Cloud, Jan Chenoweth, Sessah DelaRue, Rosemary Mesa DesPlas, L.J. Douglas, Kathleen Dugan, Abigail Engstrand, Leslie Ann Eliot, Nancy Fritz, Anne Farley Gaines, Stacey Lee Gee, Iris Goldstein, Jessica Gondek, Kristina Gosh, Cait Hardie, Kerry Hirth, Pamela Hobbs, Nicole Jacquard, Diane Jurado, Carolyne King, Pauline Kochanski, Elizabeth LeFauve, Laura Lencioni, Elyse Martin, Renee McGinnis, Ruti Modlin, Lynnette Mohill, Julia Morrisroe, Cheri Reif Naselli, Jan Parker, Ellen Petraits, Ann Ponce, Granite Palombo-Amit, Civia Rosenberg, Katherine Steichen Rosing, Cheri Sampson, Beth Shadur, Randi Shepard, Lee Stanton, Jane Stevens, Rebekah Stoneberg, Michele Stutts, Deva Suckerman, Beth Turk, Ralitzo Vladimirova, Monika Wilfers, Michelle Williams, Jodi Younglove, Chiyeko Yuki, Amy Zucker
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
Read about ARC's 50th Anniversary here
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Artists of all backgrounds explore the challenges and threats faced by children growing up in the world today. From the looming threat of global warming and natural disasters to the rise of school shootings and the erosion of civil rights, young people today face unprecedented challenges that will shape their lives and the future of the planet they inhabit.
Young people have little agency to decide their futures, but they will undoubtedly experience the consequences of decisions made by today’s adults in power. Artists reflect on this power imbalance in their work and consider the ways in which children are often overlooked and marginalized in discussions about their own lives.
Artists draw on personal experiences and observations. This exhibition showcases a diverse range of perspectives and styles that highlight the complex and multifaceted nature of these issues, and shining a light on the challenges faced by children today and inspiring greater awareness and empathy for this historical time.
Exhibiting Artists: Mallory Avalon, Michael Callaghan, Helen Celewicz, Abigail Engstrand, Susan Page Estes, David Feingold, Nancy Fritz, Laura Gilmore, Robert Hilger, Deborah Hirshfield, Johnson Hunt, Laurel A Izard, Lindsay Johnson, Katsy Johnson, Olivia Lee, Huaqi Liu, Kathleen Maltese, Linda Marcus, Ruti Modlin, Aaron Pickens, Victoria Smits, Joan Stolz, Victoria L Tasch, Lydia Wood
Curator: Danielle Andress
Danielle Andress is a Chicago based artist and educator. She primarily produces non-functional weavings and assemblages that investigate our relationships with digital architectures, consumable images, siloed spheres of influence, and the circulation of information through the poetics of weaving and everyday objects. As a bi-racial practitioner, her work considers identity politics and relational objecthood via slow craft and material artifacts through a multicultural lens. She earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the California College of the Arts. Danielle Andress is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Fiber and Material Studies department where she teaches hand and digital weaving. She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally including at the Central Museum of Textiles (Lódź, Poland), John Michael Kohler Art Center (Sheboygan, WI), Yunnan Provincial Museum (Kunming, China), SPACES (Cleveland, OH), Lowe Mill (Huntsville, AL), and the Anchorage Museum of Art (Anchorage, AK).
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Melanie Gerules is a Chicago painter who will be showing recent portraits. Painting each head presents a different visual story in color and form. She explores the exciting and uncomfortable tension of painting from a live model.
Exhibition dates: November 20 - December 16, 2023
FUSEDChicago, an organization of artists based in the Midwest who share an interest in encaustic, a method of making art using pigmented wax fused to a surface by heat, is pleased to announce Connections, a juried group exhibition of works that will address contemporary relationships to nature.
The artwork in this exhibition will address contemporary relationships to nature. The connection between humans and nature is a fascinating one. Nature is both all around us and deep within us. We exist in layers that range in depth and complexity and it is often difficult yet necessary to look beyond the surface.
Thirteen member artists will be featured in the exhibition: Carrie Baxter, Cat Crotchett, Helen Dannelly, Andrew DeWeerdt, Alicia Forestall-Boehm, Donna Kuo, Cindy Lesperance, Jane Michalski, Carol Myers, Denise Oehl, Karen Tichy, Neli Tzintzeva, and Robin VanHooser.
The exhibition was juried by nationally known art curator and critic Barbara O’Brien.
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One part deep history, one part plexiglass from Home Depot. The collaboration of old and the new, the history of myself and the space. The arrangement of objects in a particular room at a particular time.
The care that goes into worshiping something is the kind of humanity I wish for.
Sometimes I go into a museum and everything is dead. It takes a significant amount of work as the person viewing artwork to put myself inside it.
When I make something, I feel the reverence of walking into a museum, taking art off the wall, adding to it, and hanging it back up.
We can worship anything.
When worshipping, we don’t even need to know what it is we are worshiping. To enter into worship, we place ourselves in the spot of our psyches where we want to receive and give.
By perpetually inventing ourselves, we are inventing the world. There’s nothing more appealing than that. This is what freedom is. The existentialists say: ‘You are free. In other words, invent.’ Moral choice is constructing a piece of art. Choosing ourselves in the presence of others is the opposite of superstition.
Choice is the worship of everything.
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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One part deep history, one part plexiglass from Home Depot. The collaboration of old and the new, the history of myself and the space. The arrangement of objects in a particular room at a particular time.
The care that goes into worshiping something is the kind of humanity I wish for.
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Exhibiting Artists: Erin Armstrong, Kina Bagovska, Summer Boezeman, Karen Breitenbach, Grant Brownlow, Betty Kirk Chernansky, Cathleen Cramer, Andre Daugavietis, Melanie Deal, Karen Hanken, Amy Hanks, Trish Happel, Addyson Hoey, Beth Jackson, Shama Kipfer-Tessler, Takako Konishi, Jamie Kost, Marvel Maring, Julia Marks, Dan McCormack, Valerie McCune, Margot McMahon, Georgie Miller, Charlene Moy, Nick Mozak, Eve Ozer, George Peterson, Gerri Rachins, Fernando Ramos, Itamar Ramot, Anna Reed, Katrina Revenaugh, Diane Holland Rickerl, Gina Lee Robbins, Joseph Royer, Lisa Sachs, Edwin Shelton, Lynne Smith, Paul Somers, Penelope Thrasher, Brian Van Camerik, Mel Watkin
About the Curator: DAVID REIF -- Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Univ. Wyoming. BFA, Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, The Art Institute of Chicago, MFA, Sculpture, Yale Univ.; Assoc. Professor, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.; Chair and Board, Wyoming Council for the Arts, Visiting Artist: Univ. of Northern Arizona; Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison; Univ. of Michigan; Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, Centenary College of Louisiana; Univ. of Houston, TX., Wayne State Univ.
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
Image by David Reif
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Iris Goldstein, a long-time member of ARC Gallery, is exhibiting colored-pencil drawings at the gallery in February 2024. Goldstein is always interested in the unusual and offbeat. Though she is committed to nonobjective art, she tries to find visual images that are suggestive and allusive, based on real-life objects or places that are transformed through the artist's imagination. After working many years creating painted plaster wall-relief sculptures, she is delighted to be immersed in the world of works of art on paper. These drawings are developed from the observations of natural objects in the woods of Maine. The artist always tries to find new ways of seeing that she hopes will find a response in the viewer. She views nature as a stimulus for her ideas and sees nature and art as common elements in her search for a personal way of seeing.
Goldstein studied sculpture at Smith College with Leonard Baskin and has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in drawing and painting. She has shown her work in Europe, Japan and China.
http://www.arcgallery.org/project/iris-goldstein/
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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The forms I explore are inspired by vintage domestic utilitarian machines and gadgets I have collected as well as related trade catalogues, advertisements, blueprints, and patent drawings. Digital manipulations derived from these source materials lay a foundation that launches their evolution. The drawing medium allows for both transparency and mutability between layers of information.
The mechanical forms within these compositions are simultaneously transformed casting off their intended function and asserting an animated physical presence and internal narrative that allows me to explore a multitude of dualities: hot vs cold, male vs female, hand vs machine, organic vs mechanical, playful vs menacing, analog vs digital, and functional vs dysfunctional. I often explore these dualisms by creating works that are tandem in format, mirror images or opposites.
https://www.arcgallery.org/exhibitions-archive/jessica-gondek-6
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https://www.arcgallery.org/exhibitions-archive/abigail-engstrand-2
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Humanity’s fascination with issues of the mind fails to account for its fragility and how quickly everything can unravel. There is an unspoken expectation when creating work about mental health that it is based strictly on trauma. My artwork is informed by delving into divergent issues that come from mental health while combating societal stigma surrounding speaking about these struggles. The outlining on my sculptures emphasize that these figures are not defined by their mental health. I utilize my own positive and negative experiences while using imagery found in science fiction, comic books and gothic art and architecture, and most importantly objects that exist in my personal space. I create heroic female figures and items that fuel my world that extend into the monumental. The resulting sculptures explore ritual, comfort and destigmatize the viewer to see the humanity in the entire spectrum of wellbeing.
https://www.arcgallery.org/exhibitions-archive/n-dia-webb
“Doomscapes and the Digital Beyond” presents work about our damaged planet and its imagined future. Artists of all backgrounds, age groups, generations, and stages of their career explore the challenges to image, object, and meaning making in the context of die-offs, biodiversity loss, dead zones, extinction and the wild proliferation and unmitigated advancements in computational technologies.
With most natural systems on this planet in steep decline, cutting edge technologies are rapidly opening up vast new realms of discovery and innovation that promise to fundamentally change the way we, as humans, relate to each other and the world.
How does art, a technology with origins that stretch back to the dawn of symbolic human thought, negotiate a landscape beset by polycrisis (climate disruption, ocean acidification, pollution, natural habitat destruction, etc.)? How do artists find meaning in a culture where visuality is increasingly defined by the pixilated glow of a pulsing screen. A thoroughly digitized, interfaced, networked, and algorithmic society in which machines learn, intelligence is artificial, minds are extended, reality is virtual, and the future imagined as posthuman.
As the author, Erik Davis, puts it in his revelatory and prescient book, Techgnosis, “We live on the brink in a time of accelerating noise and fury, of newly minted nightmares and invisible architectures of luminous code that just might help save the day. The sense of an ending ruptures the false complacency of the everyday, and allows us to glimpse our global turbulence, if only for a blink of an eye, under the implacable sign of the absolute.”
Exhibiting Artists: Andrew Ackerman, Brandon Barr, April Behnke, Megan Bickel, Dan Bina, Alison Campbell, William Cody, Debra Couch, Jeff Crisman, Jonathan Dankenbring, Jackson Daughety, Liz Ensz, Frank Geiser, Sara Gevurtz, Ahna Girshick, Devin Gora, David Hauptschein, Katsy Johnson, Ruth Lantz, Kevin Maginnis, Katie Neece, Mary Neubauer, Darren Oberto, Cole Pierce, Mac Pierce, Sheri Rush, Nate Sandercock, Stephanie Schlaifer, Kendrick Shackleford, Katherine Sidelsky, Lee Stanton, Russ Thompson, Katie Vota, Cheryl Wassenaar, Erik Wenzel, Jonathan Worcester, Chris Wubbena, Brian Zimmerman
About the Curator:
Curtis Anthony Bozif is a Chicago-based visual artist and art writer. He was born in 1982 in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned his BFA in Painting and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2006. That same year, he moved to Chicago where, in 2008, he earned his MFA from the Department of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University. His art has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in numerous private collections throughout the country. To date, his art criticism has been featured in Newcity and Bridge magazines.
Since 2008, Bozif has worked as a Digitization Specialist in the Repository & Digital Curation Workgroup at the Northwestern University Libraries where he specializes in cultural heritage imaging and digital assets and project management with an emphasis on color management, image quality standards, analytics, and quality control.
Aside from making his own art, Bozif enjoys thinking and writing about other peoples art; reading about nature, ecology, history and art; hiking, backpacking, and camping; and listening to jazz and classical music. He keeps his studio and lives with his wife, Zoë, and their growing family of houseplants, in the lakeside neighborhood of Rogers Park on Chicago’s far northside.
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Opening Reception: Friday, May 3, 2024, 5-8pm
Ruti Modlin’s show is inspired by our relationship with trees, who stand as tall, silent witnesses to the evolution of our human existence. Trees breathe life into our shared ecosystem. Our lives are intertwined and symbiotic. The temple-like structured living Conservatories, allow us to experience tranquil meditative escapes, a sense of emotional rootedness while across all cultures, trees symbolize the connection of the earthly and the divine wisdom.
Opening Reception, Friday, May 3, 5:00-8:00pm
Exhibition dates: May 2 - 24, 2024
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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I tell myself I’m not a junk collector, that my studio isn’t filled with lost and discarded materials, rather, my studio is filled with possibilities. Working strategically, I relish that creative moment when objects come together to offer a new story. A place where my story meets yours — evoking for you, the viewer, your own personal narrative. My goal is for the work to spark a dialogue with you, to transcend the objects themselves —so that you too are found.
Opening Reception, Friday, June 7, 5:00-8:00pm
Exhibition dates: June 6-28, 2024
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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My work is about glaring imperfection, repurposed into beauty. Things ripped up or discarded, put back together. Reassembling old narratives, turning them into new ones.
I’m a working filmmaker. My work is cinematic. In the sense that each piece has a character, a narrative, a theme, a story, but unlike with a film, you direct your own eye… In and out like a zoom lens. Left and right and right and left, like a tracking shot or pan. Up and across like a big crane move. Close up, as you like, all the way back to the wide. The viewer decoding the piece, inventing their own story.
These pieces deal with popular culture and the ephemeral nature of all things. I explore that through the use of ephemera (get the joke?) The Here and Gone. The Was. I collect the ephemera myself. Off the street, flea markets, travels, things I’ve eaten, books I’ve read, old magazines, new magazines, trying to avoid the nostalgia that is too often at the center of collage, rapid curating, grabbing something that is right now, that we have no historical relationship to YET because it’s happening this week, then seeing how that ages. How our relationship to red hot narrative changes, days, weeks, years after the fact.
I like making mistakes. I like throwing paint at my paint. Closing my eyes and trying to see how long I can go before I ruin it, then open my eyes to see where my arm went, where the brush went, the pencil, the palate knife… with the intent that no matter how many mistakes I make in a piece, I can always re-organize those mistakes into something beautiful, useful, transformative — something I can live with…
AMERICAN WALLPAPER is a theme I’ve returned to frequently with a sensibility for the street. These pieces are loud, bawdy, random, obnoxious, sophisticated, funny, color-coordinated, witty, nonsensical, random, beautiful, lush and highly structured — and intended to blur the line between ridicule and worship of the culture itself — repurposed and reimagined as billboards, travel posters, record covers, bus kiosk, religious objects, a newsstand, baseball cards and periodicals — the-here-and-gone totems of our world, the ephemera of our lives.
Opening Reception, Friday, June 7, 5:00-8:00pm
Exhibition dates: June 6-28, 2024
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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Curator: Casey Whittier
The eager human brain looks for meaning everywhere. Repetition conveys it. We see the urgency of meaning when a design is repeated over and over.
Throughout history, artists have subverted expectations by literally or metaphorically weaving contrasting messages into opulent designs. Silenced voices have found poetic pathways by creating patterns laden with rebellious (or secret) messages. New visual art is born from playing within rigid frameworks to explore the kind of nuance only found in objects that are intimate, intricate, and beautiful.
WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY?
This exhibition explores the aesthetics inherent in pattern, repetition, and design-based processes that creatively employ systematic methodologies to achieve unexpected outcomes.
Exhibiting artists draw inspiration from the aesthetics of opulence, beauty, intricacy, or intimacy; explore repetition or decoration as a symbol of experimentation; and/or reflect on the complexity of simultaneous harmony and conflict within dynamic interplay.
About the Curator:
Casey Whittier received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is interested in the metaphorical and philosophical power of visual art and the ways in which the ceramic material creates direct connections between the geology of the earth, basic human needs, and complex metaphysical desires. Repetitive processes and systems of reliance are often used as metaphors for interconnectedness.
Whittier teaches ceramics and social practice at the Kansas City Art Institute and works from her home studio. Whittier works with The Land Institute through their Ecosphere Studies Program cohort and as a participant in their Silphium Civic Science Community, where research into new perennial and sustainable food and oil seed production is ongoing.
Whittier was named a 2020 Emerging Artist by Ceramics Monthly Magazine. She serves as President for Artaxis.org. and more of her work can be found at www.caseywhittier.com and www.palmpetals.com.
Exhibition dates: July 5 - 26, 2024
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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I have always been a figurative painter. I am unable to paint anything else. For a while I was fascinated with painting faces of people I cared about—trying to capture each unique essence on the canvas. This show takes a different turn—faces are generic; figures are ambiguous and stylized. What links these paintings is the connection between the figures—a person reaching towards another person, figures moving in concert… each part of an ecosystem larger than themselves.
As I get older, this is what seems to matter. Coming of age during 2nd wave feminism, I (of course) tried to do it all. I became a physician and then a parent and finally a painter. And it turns out that none of these things (even painting) can really be done outside of community. I began to understand that feminism (perforce) implies connection. Now part of a feminist collective of artists, I am ever more aware of the energy acquired via connection and collaboration — with other people, with the environment, with artists who’ve come before me. I am less interested these days in using imagery to express unique identities — and more interested in how a figure-shaped splotch of color communicates something that we all understand — a sort of semiotic language available to us just because we are human. The figures in these paintings sit/dance together — often uncomfortably. I nestle these human-ish shapes within a background of bird, tree, and plant shapes — some of which seem on fire, some are perhaps dying. There is a darkness to these paintings; but the figures in them nevertheless are connected to each other — an essential aspect of “being”. They are not without hope.
So... in spite of my (usually) very cognitive take on life, and an ironic view of most things human, there is nothing ironic, or even very conceptual, about these pieces. I have an old-fashioned love of craft, of making a tangible object with my own hands, of layering pigmented muds to create an illusion of light and solidity and narrative suggestion. There is a kind of (perversely retro?) romanticism to these paintings that nevertheless appeals to the feminist in me — that nods to the complicated ecosystems we live in.
I hope they perhaps will speak to you as well.
Artists who have particularly influenced me: Jorge Castillo, Charlette Salomon, Peter Doig, Nicole Eisenmen, Alice Valenstein, Andrew Cranston
Opening Reception, Friday, July 5, 5:00-8:00pm
Exhibition dates: July 5 - 26, 2024
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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Exhibiting Artists: James Arendt, Marty Arnold, Randi Bachman, Vic Barquin, Anne Bernard-Pattis, Ana Buitrago, Cathleen Cramer, Carolyn Cronin Hughes, Andre Daugavietis, Sherri Denault, Michael Dinges, Victoria Fuller, Jon Green, Pierce Haley, Savannah Jubic, Wendy Kawabata, Millicent Kennedy, Hùng Lê, Jessica Lee, Lisa Maione, David Marshall, Scott Mossman, Joanna Poag, Claire Pope, Amy Reckley, Linda Robinson Gordon, Matthew Thorley, Adrienne Weiss, Carson Whitmore, Maggie Wiebe, Rachel Wittels, Xingyi Zhao
About the Curator: Casey Whittier received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is interested in the metaphorical and philosophical power of visual art and the ways in which the ceramic material creates direct connections between the geology of the earth, basic human needs, and complex metaphysical desires. Repetitive processes and systems of reliance are often used as metaphors for interconnectedness.
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I am a figurative painter and a long-time member of ARC Gallery, a woman-run collective gallery in Chicago. I am fascinated by color and form — but also by the stories paintings can suggest. In my most recent series of paintings, I am less interested in unique identities — and more interested in how a figure-shaped splotch of color communicates something that we all understand — a semiotic language available to us because we are human. The figures in these latest paintings sit/dance together — sometimes uncomfortably. But they are not alone. I nestle these human-ish shapes within a background of bird, tree, and plant-ish shapes — some of which seem on fire, some are perhaps dying. As in the greater world, there is a darkness to some of these images; but the figures in them nevertheless are connected to each other. They exist within a community, and an ecosystem — they are not without hope.
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This program is supported by a grant from the Athena Fund.
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This program is supported by a grant from the Athena Fund.
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I’ve found that repetitive and iterative processes, such as copying, tracing, and rewriting, can lend a kind of lastingness to a thing – a word, an image, or a mark – suffusing it with more weight and importance with each recurrence. These actions also allow the thing to subtly shift and change, to become more nuanced, and so become more mine in some indefinable but intimate way. The loss and transformation inherent in these iterative processes mirror my attempts to preserve my history, existing as it does in disparate and disconnected pieces, but also the futility in doing so.
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
This program is supported by a grant from the Athena Fund.
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Opening Reception: Friday, September 6, 2024, 5-8pm
RELATED is an artistic dialogue between Chicago-based cousins and artists, Amy Zucker and Valerie McCune. This collaboration began as an exploration of familial ties through art and evolved into a mutual exchange of inspiration and creativity. Their unique styles reflect their individual journeys, yet blend harmoniously in this show.
Each piece represents a conversation: one artist's creation sparks the other's response, showcasing their evolving relationship. By hanging their works side by side, viewers are invited to witness the interplay of their distinct voices, united by family and friendship.
Opening Reception, Friday, Sept 6, 5:00-8:00pm
Exhibition dates: September 5 - 27, 2024
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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Opening Reception: Friday, September 6, 2024, 5-8pm
NEW WORK: ALTERED PAGES is a series of drawings and notations on and of organic images. Using the base imagery to respond to, I can modify, eliminate, or accent patterns and textures. Contour line is applied and masked and applied again to build up layers of information. Book pages, maps, floor plans, aerial photography are all starting points for my process. From these previous images, I respond using additive and subtractive techniques; counteracting , engaging, modifying until a satisfying conclusion is reached. For me, a sense of whimsy is encouraged as a response to the papers. A continuous layering of pattern, line, or textures allows for a formalist structure to be imposed that helps simplify the end result.
Opening Reception, Friday, Sept 6, 5:00-8:00pm
Exhibition dates: September 5 - 27, 2024
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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Artist Talk: Sunday, September 22, 2024, 1pm
Chicago-based artist Karen Ami presents a series of interdisciplinary mosaic works in 'Well-Kept Ruins,' an exhibition addressing brokenness, chaos, and repair in the context of adoption and post-Holocaust generational trauma. These works incorporate inscribed and carved ceramic shards, sculpture, writing, drawing, and collage, an entanglement of her narrative, autoethnographic practice, and art research. This year, several of these selected works were created and exhibited during her PhD dissertation research in Berlin, Germany, the site of maternal and ancestral threads severed by the Holocaust. Ami's works examine feminist identity and familial repair, a re-connection to the remnants and apparitions that remain after loss and disruption. The exhibition's title is inspired by feminist theorist poet Hélène Cixous’s reflective memoir on returning to what remains of the past. The manifestation of these well-kept ruins is about refusing closure, rebuilding imaginary places around the fragments that remain restless yet still before us.
Opening Reception, Friday, Sept 6, 5:00-8:00pm
Artist Talk: Sunday, Sept 22, 1:00pm
Exhibition dates: September 5 - 27, 2024
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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There is something deeper than what we see. Energetic undercurrents of power, violence and love. Undercurrents as unpredictable as they are unexamined in mainstream culture. This ebb and flow can push an individual to feelings of intense passion, inspire the greatest works of art the world has seen, and cause abrupt changes in the course of world history.
Let us put a spotlight on the unspoken energy flow operating beneath the surface of our daily life. Let us examine the invisible threads present in a crowd of people that hold our current culture in a stasis of perpetuation.
This show is a subtle examination of energy and spirituality through art. Through this exhibition, we hope to shine a light on the depth of the human condition to inspire greater spiritual awareness and empathy within this historical time.
Exhibiting Artists: Maria Ansh, Raissa Bailey, Mariona Barkus, Ruby Barnes, Madeline Bass, Anne Bernard-Pattis, Ashley Brossart, Stefani Byrd, Robin Carlson, Betty Chernansky, Sun Choi, Bethany Cordero, Cathleen Cramer, Gil DeMeza, Vicki Engonopoulos, Abigail Engstrand, SP Estes, Darlys Ewoldt, Merav Ezer, Marla Faith, Larissa Fardelos, Alice George, Dorothy Graden, LucyJulia Hale, Sheila Halligan-Waltz, Carol Hammerman, Sharon Harper, Judith Joseph, Isabella Kang, Beth Krensky, Sandra Lema-Stern, Anna Lentz, Angela McElwain, Kiki McGrath, Michael Miller, Darlene Poloniak, Patricia Roberts, Marky Salvati, Charlotte Saylor, Christine M. Schröder, Catherine Schwalbe, Jeanmarie Simpson, Erin Starr, Scotti Taylor, Mindy Tiberi, Steven Tritt, Joanne Vena, Carol Wickersham, Alex Wilson, Alexandra Zeller
About the Curator: Indira Johnson
As an artist, my identity has evolved as part sculptor, cultural worker, peace activist, and educator. I grew up in Mumbai, India, influenced by an artist father - an ardent follower of Gandhi’s teachings - and a social activist mother. This combination of art and activism has been a major thread of influence that is interwoven into my art and life. For me, creating objects in the studio goes hand in hand with site specific installation and interactive, community-engaged projects. Community art projects have dominated my practice for the last three decades. They are rooted in my passion to make art part of everyday life, to involve local voices and communities in the art process, and to cultivate peace as individual action.
Much of my inspiration comes from transitory, ritualistic Indian folk art practices which I've used to address issues of labor, domestic violence, nonviolence, and health education, adapting them to operate within contemporary experiences thus evolving a hybrid version of the original traditions. As a result, my work has always been informed by my experience of life in both the US and India.
The numerous studio artwork and community engaged projects that I have presented over the last three decades reflect these influences as they explore an array of social issues including the cultural dimension of domestic violence, leprosy health education, labor, the environment, gender, peace, nonviolence, and literacy. They follow the “call and response” tradition that is prevalent in many cultures. I put out a call, and the community responds so that the final artwork is a hybrid that depends on and is completed by community interaction.
The definition of reformation: noun
1. the act of changing to a better state or character, way of operating, lifestyle, etc.; the correction of abuses and bad habits or practices.
2. an improved state or way of functioning that results from the correction of abuses and bad habits or practices.
The work on view here illustrates my inquiry into the transformative possibilities of the human endeavor to overcome cultural obstacles, blockades, biology or religious tradition in order to attain one’s own sense of Self. The content is particularly apropos to womxn’s experience. The structure of collage and constructs are especially useful for this inquiry because material used in them is re-formed or reinvented to a new meaning whether the source is torn paper, bits of scrap, strands of hair, shards of glass or other detritus. Some materials, hair for instance, are used for their deeply personal meaning. Others assume a new form different from their original use or purpose acquiring a new symbolism.
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\"Overlooking Possibilities: A Naturalist's Dream\" is a series of environmental observations portrayed in a colorful, whimsical way. I use scientific research as inspiration, allowing me to dream of the what-ifs and current possibilities. The good and the bad of Climate Change and humanity's role in it.
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Proliferate, by artist Nicole Havekost, is of a series of ten works on paper. Made with traditional drawing materials, the artist pokes holes through the paper, creating a white, swollen perforation on the front. Using ovoid forms, the artist references voids and tears, and interiors and exteriors through accumulated gestures. The work speaks to unseen labor, the passage of time, and transformation.
Math of Four Minute Warnings is an exhibition that interrogates the role Western media plays in constructing cultural narratives, while centering a caring and concerning lens on the destruction of Syria and its people through large-scale paintings. For Kasir, the works start from a personal place. “Iraq is my father’s country, and Syria is my mother’s as well as the second home of my youth. It is where my aunts, uncles and cousins were living. It is where there are buildings where I slept in and streets where I played tag and other games as a child. I’ve witnessed years of destruction of my countries from US invasion, with very little regard from Western mainstream media to civilian casualties.”
SEWN FROM RESISTANCE: Deconstructing Black Disability Narratives in America is a site-specific, multi-sensory installation by Jill Wells that critically examines the intersection of Black and Disability histories within the American context. This work challenges stereotypical portrayals of Black disability identities while celebrating the resilience and resistance embedded within these lived experiences. Through a fusion of installation, painting, sound, and tactile sculpture, Wells engages sensory elements that shape how individuals' access and engage with information.
Opening Reception: Friday, May 2, 2025, 5-8pm
Join the Affiliate Member artists of A.R.C. for an exhibition showcasing their artwork. Affiliates of ARC have served in the past as working volunteer members of the gallery.
Artists Residents of Chicago (A.R.C.) was founded in 1973 as a women-run artists’ cooperative at a time when the art world largely dismissed women’s voices. In 2025, We continue to champion innovative, emerging, and experimental visual art, reaching a broad audience—including our wonderful West Town community. As a non-commercial gallery, we foster an environment of artistic experimentation and dialogue.
Exhibiting Affiliate Members : Amy Zucker, Jessica Gondeck, Granite Amit, Virginia Carstarphen, Jane Stevens, Nancy Bechtol
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Artist Talk: Saturday, May 3, 1:00pm
Raissa Bailey’s upcoming solo show, “Venus Rising, Axiom Schema,” delves into the concepts of consciousness and evolution. This innovative showcase blends installation and mixed media art, inviting viewers to explore connections between prehistoric and modern modes of creation.
Drawing terminology from theoretical math, Bailey connects the language of math to spirit and intuition, exploring the framework of our shared reality and evolution.
The exhibition will feature a series of immersive installations that play with form and texture, utilizing materials from natural objects to digital elements. Each piece is designed to provoke thought and reflection, inviting viewers to consider their connections to evolution, consciousness, and creation.
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I am interested in how information is realized, interpreted, and shared. My work is inspired by my surroundings and observations of transitory states in the environment. Viewers should think they are looking at a familiar object when in fact they are not; I love the reversal of expectations. These ceramics serve no utilitarian purpose other than to express the world around me. The inspiration for my pieces comes from the eight-block daily dog walk, which includes shadows reflecting off street signs, thrown away to-go containers littering the street, discarded boxes run over by cars, and telephone poles having graffiti, pipes, and wires attached to them.
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Drawing terminology from theoretical math, Bailey connects the language of math to spirit and intuition, exploring the framework of our shared reality and evolution.
The exhibition will feature a series of immersive installations that play with form and texture, utilizing materials from natural objects to digital elements. Each piece is designed to provoke thought and reflection, inviting viewers to consider their connections to evolution, consciousness, and creation.
Curator: Fiona Cashell
Call for art: https://www.arcgallery.org/calls-for-entry-archive/call-for-entries-home
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Wednesday, June 25, 12pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/1717388905819832
For Dear Life grapples with and makes light of the perils of daily life. Inspiration is derived from domestic spaces—a space that can be hauntingly dull as well as safe and protective. I look for comparisons and rely on the uncanny, such as a flushed baby swing mechanism moving a broom to sweep the floor, referencing the monotony and ingenuity of motherhood.
Many of the domestic structures are stressed or bent, referencing strain of one in a supporting role; however, in their altered form, they become visible and accomplish new feats, such as a shelf standing up on its own. I translate the push and pull of my own experience through tethered movements, contingent forms, reaching objects, and broom bristles. The absurd hints toward the profound while acknowledging struggle.
https://www.arcgallery.org/exhibitions-archive/lisa-walcott
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https://www.arcgallery.org/exhibitions-archive/margaret-archambault
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https://www.arcgallery.org/exhibitions-archive/monica-j-brown-5
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“Biomythography” is a term coined by Audre Lord defined as “combining elements of history, biography and myth” within literature. My exploration of this idea is a continuation of the ongoing series of paintings, collages and stories in my Mythical Memory series. This body of work combines Afro-surrealism, abstraction, and elements of pop art aesthetics. This overlap and intersection of genres is used to create a dialogue around the abstract qualities of time and memory, the liminality of the dream space and the way in which personal narratives can create a mythology. Time and memory are components of history. The mythology enters as the realm where the dream space and memory coincide. Love is the enduring force that weaves it all together.
Exhibition dates: July 3 - 25, 2025
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
ATHENA FUND EXHIBITION WINNER
https://www.arcgallery.org/exhibitions-archive/jasmine-percell
Opening Reception: Friday, August 1, 2025, 5-8pm
Exhibition dates: August 1-29, 2025
Muscle Memory is a meditation on the significance of labor and the body in a time increasingly shaped by automation and post-biological ideals. This series represents an extension of my own body detached from myself, exploring how the body may become detached from consciousness in the digital age.. Through repetitive processes and actions, I think of my labor in creating this work as itself an act of resistance against the idea that human beings can be reduced to machines. While the work is not directly performative, I consider the labor embedded in the making of these works as a quiet performance.
\"Muscle Memory\" asks what it means to be human in a time when convenience, artificial intelligence, and tech-driven systems are rapidly reshaping how we live and think. Through a hands-on, process-based approach rooted in repetition, movement, and materiality, I reflect on the growing disconnect between the body and the mind—and what we risk losing when we value efficiency over human complexity.
Rivers Qinnan Zhu: Thread’s Return along the Equinox
ATHENA FUND EXHIBITION WINNER
I come from a lineage of four generations of female artisans, with a strong tradition of lace-making in Xiaoshan, China. Lace, with its intricate yet fragile structure, carries a tension between visibility and absence, labor and ornamentation, history and transformation. Lace-making is not just about preserving techniques; it’s about understanding them as shifting, unstable, and deeply connected to the people who practice them.
Thread’s Return along the Equinox draws from the most elemental act in lace-making: the looping of a single thread. A loop does not simply repeat—it returns in order to continue. This circular rhythm echoes the dual life of rural women: working the fields by day, making lace by night. These alternating modes of labor—earth and hand, public and private—are woven into the fabric of shared memory and survival. The equinox is not the subject but the structure of the work. A moment of balance between light and dark that reflects a cyclical conception of time, where dyed threads and woven deviations reflect a tension between order and disruption.
Thread’s Return along the Equinox asks how traditions continue— by preserving sameness or through adaptation? Lace becomes a way of holding time, of returning through making.
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It can be compelling to think we understand something, to assert that we understand what a story is, and have that be what defines us. Art should never be clear. It should never have an easy conclusion. Love, Lies, and Everything Else We’ve Ever Done Wrong implores the viewer to look closer than is comfortable. Subjects reduced to their most basic forms narrate the quiet moments: moments of contemplation, otherness, and selfhood. In this series of paintings, the amount of visual information stripped away in each painting varies, allowing the viewer to bring in their own conclusions about what they are seeing.
This collection of figurative oil paintings delves into the complexities of the human form, challenging conventional beauty standards and celebrating the power of inner strength. By employing bold colors, expressive gestures, and the evocative power of the face, these works invite viewers to engage in a profound and personal dialogue with the subjects depicted. The paintings aim to dismantle the idealized notion of female beauty, often imposed by societal expectations. Instead, they highlight the inherent beauty that radiates from within, rooted in individuality, resilience, and vulnerability. Through the use of expressive brushwork and vibrant colors, the paintings convey a sense of depth and emotion. The faces, in particular, serve as portals into the souls of the subjects, inviting viewers to contemplate their own experiences and emotions. The interplay of light and shadow further enhances the dimensionality of the figures, creating a sense of presence and intimacy. Ultimately, this collection seeks to inspire viewers to appreciate beauty in all its forms, to challenge societal norms, and to embrace unique identities. These paintings aim to leave a lasting impression, empowering viewers to see themselves and others in a new light.
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This exhibition features work that surprises, that reveals itself slowly, or that occupies the fragile space where beauty unsettles rather than soothes. Artists in this exhibition reflect on how aesthetic interpretations carry the weight of history, how beauty might obscure or reveal power, and how what is finely wrought can also bear witness.
Exhibiting Artists: Parto & Pardis Ahmadpour, Rodrigo Azaola, Jane A Barrow, Rex Cassidy, Kyle Chaput, Lucas Cordes, Vincent Escareno, Morgan Ford Willingham, Tara Sabini, Mack Gingles, Matthew Girson, Briena Harmening, Yuliya Klochan, Roopa Kosuri, Jiselle Ramirez, Sajal Siwakoti, Yaning Xing, Shelly Zhang.
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What does it mean to be a good future ancestor? How might today’s personal, cultural, social, and or environmental actions become legacies for those who come after us? This juried exhibition, curated by artist and ceramicist Donté K. Hayes, shows works that meditate on wisdom, intentionality, and the responsibility of shaping a world that extends beyond ourselves.
Exhibiting Artists: Emmanuel Kstony Asamoah, Sarah Alsaied, Ronald Beckham, Laurie Buman, Tiffany Carbonneau, Geornica Daniels, Gabriela Espino, Yessenia Gerace, Julia Hechanova, Valerie Huhn, Annick Ibsen, Maya Jackson, Katie Kehoe, Eliot Kim, Jamie Kost, Boneger Oduro Kwarteng, Muyang Li, Hattie Mendoza, Sofia Mac Gregor Oettler, Mel Rosen, Stevia Roxanne, Jaelene Tatum, Max Trumpower, N. Dia Webb
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The Given Distance is an exploration of the default condition or inherent barrier that artists face in fully communicating their internal experience to others. This exhibition points to the role of the artist, whose work attempts to bridge that distance.
This members’ exhibition brings together work by all artists of ARC Gallery, highlighting the range of voices, perspectives, and approaches that make up the gallery’s community. Working across diverse media and styles, ARC’s members present artworks that reflect their individual attempts to translate personal perception into visual form, collectively exploring the space between inner experience and shared understanding.
*Passed Away
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Experience \"The Given Distance,\" curated by Chicago gallerist William Lieberman, and connect directly with ARC’s artist-members as they share work exploring the space between inner experience and visual expression.
Please join us for lively discussion, refreshments and a unique opportunity to engage with the artists on their work, ideas, and collaborative experience as one of Chicago’s most enduring creative communities.
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In their own distinct ways, and through a range of mediums, both of these exhibitions seek to close the gap between the real and imagined. Furthermore, the galleries themselves bridge a robust history of women-run galleries in Chicago; the eponymous Elise Seigenthaler Gallery is the newest woman-run gallery to open in Chicago, and ARC is one of the longest-operating women’s cooperative galleries in the country. Seigenthaler’s programmatic mission to create more space for Chicago-based and otherwise underrepresented artists echoes the pioneering spirit that in 1973 inspired ARC’s founding members to create their own opportunities within an exclusionary industry.
Over the years, ARC has expanded its exhibition programming to support exhibitions that integrate the work of ARC Member artists and emerging to mid-career artists from Chicago and beyond. With more than 50 years spanning their respective openings, and as evidenced by their respective programming, both galleries—located less than half a mile apart in West Town’s gallery district—demonstrate an ongoing commitment to Chicago’s illustrious history platforming Chicago artists of all origins and backgrounds.
The coffee crawl will begin at 10 am at the Elise Seigenthaler Gallery at 1709 W. Chicago Ave., where Seigenthaler will speak on her decision to open her own space in January of this year, and what can be anticipated of her exhibition programming moving forward.
The group will then walk two blocks west on Chicago Avenue and arrive at ARC for a presentation by current ARC Member Raissa Bailey about the gallery’s history in Chicago and the gallery’s forthcoming Athena Fund Show: Reflections on Perception, featuring three solo exhibitions of work by the latest round of Athena Fund Awardees. ARC Gallery proudly awards fully funded Solo Exhibitions to multiple artists each year. These exhibitions are made possible by a generous grant from the Athena Foundation in support of making solo show opportunities accessible to a broader audience. Visual artists of all disciplines, ages and geographic locations are encouraged to apply. Bailey will be available to answer questions about how to apply for the next round of funding following her presentation.
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Juror for Body Sovereignty: Danni O’Brien
Solo artist: Audrey Yang
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Exhibiting Artists: Sarah Barnett, Patrick Bell, Neb Berry, Harley Burns, Daisy Canaan, Ollie Caplin, Jana Cariddi, Kelly Clare, Genevra Daley Bell, Stephanie Dishno, Elizabeth Folk, Henry Gepfer, C Hancock, Brooks Harris Stevens, Yani He, Anna Henson, Jamie Ho, Benjamin Hunt, Ali Hval, Erin Juliana, Lauren Kalman, Ariana Leon, Aida Lodge, Maria Macko, Thomas McIntyre, Shug Munic, Matthew Nicholas, M.A. Papanek-Miller, Emily Peca, Emmett Ramstad, Mia Rose, Brooke Schuh, Emma Schwartz, Ivette Spradlin, Leah Tacha, Jean \"J.C.\" Villalon, Kenzie Wells, Melissa Wilkinson, and Isabel Zeng. About the Curator: Danni O’Brien Danni O’Brien (she/they) is a queer, interdisciplinary artist based outside Baltimore, MD. Through scavenging and collecting, O’Brien builds enigmatic sculptures and reliefs from found objects, vintage patent diagrams, handmade paper pulp, ceramics, and the cast-offs of consumer culture. Her work grapples with queer identity, dystopian survival, and conspicuous consumption — playful and absurd on the surface, deeply meditative underneath. O’Brien has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Asya Geisberg Gallery, Hamiltonian Gallery, and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, and has held residencies with The Wassaic Project, Baltimore Clayworks, the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Byrdcliffe Colony, and Stove Works, among others. She is the recipient of Individual Artist Grants from the Belle Foundation for Cultural Development and the Maryland State Arts Council. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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Artist talk: Saturday, July 18th, 3-4pm
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Artist Talk: Saturday, July 11, 1-2pm
Audrey Yang: Sanctuary As Method Sanctuary As Method offers artmaking as refuge for “throwaway” materials—snack wrappers, used kitchen gloves, old bedsheets, dryer lint—and turbulent emotions—anger, disappointment, grief, fear. These are precious evidence and accumulation of every day that we are alive. Processing these over weeks, months, and years—through repeated acts of sewing, folding, painting, soaking, dyeing, shredding, reassembling—yields continuous transformation that cannot be defined or controlled long-term. Drawing inspiration from utopia as method in literature, this body of work traces the shift from suppressing to anticipating potential beyond language and knowing—then seeing that very potential within ourselves. Artmaking as a sanctuary for distress and debris anticipates how we come to peace with our own totality.
Audrey Yang is a Chinese-American interdisciplinary artist and educator, born and raised in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. She is currently pursuing a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is grounded in relationships devoted to learning. She adheres to the belief that self-acceptance—the unlearning of shame—generates reciprocal webs of curiosity between oneself and others. Curiosity enables learners to think, work, interact, and imagine beyond disciplinary boundaries, beyond secondhand language, towards something infinite.
Artist talk: Friday, July 31, 4-5pm
Exhibition dates: July 10 – 31, 2026
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
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Exhibition dates: July 10 – 31, 2026
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
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Melanie P. Brown has a long standing practice of painting in direct response to sound, music, and motion. Since 2020 her process has centered on live and recorded sound, her gestures and movements while painting, and video of birds and her own body in motion. Preparing extensive palettes and integrating pastel and charcoal, she translates rhythm, texture, and spatial perception into layered compositions. Her latest series combines all of these elements and explores how it feels to be inside a body as it moves through space as well as the image of the body itself. In some of the pieces she uses gestures of birds in flight which merge with the body as a way of expressing the feeling of unbounded space and infinite freedom that exists inside the mind. She believes that the most accurate portraits capture what something is doing rather than their static form and describes these paintings as kinetic portraits of the inner and outer self.
Exhibition dates: July 10 – 31, 2026
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
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Exhibition dates: July 10 – 31, 2026
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
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King’s work reconsiders the malleable nature of memory, haunted and holy spaces, and the chain of living connection through a recontextualization of heirloom porcelain objects. At the heart of my practice is a series of large hand-painted porcelain pots inspired by functional historical forms, such as amphorae and canopic jars, that she refers to as her “memory vessels”. Their surfaces explore the fundamental desire to safeguard personal narrative and nostalgia, the history of ceramic objects as vessels for storage and preservation, and the ways in which Jewish tradition informs how she has come to understand her relationship to her family’s past and my consequential present. These vessels exalt the unseeable things underfoot and consider the intersecting relationships between social invisibility, utilitarian craft history, and the geological mechanisms that both govern and record activity on earth.
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Michelle Williams is drawn to the human figure as the most honest landscape we have. Through the slow, meditative act of beading alongside mixed media, she builds up layer upon layer until the subject in front of her becomes something new: a surface that holds light differently than it holds shadow, a form that reveals itself gradually, the way people do. Each bead is a decision, a moment of attention. Together they create a presence that cannot be rushed, and cannot be looked at only once.
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\"kept + carried\" examines how care is inherited, performed, and remembered through the ordinary objects and rituals of domestic life. Drawing from family photographs, German folk traditions, household vessels, and stories gathered through community participation, the work considers the labor historically assigned to women: preserving, nourishing, mending, witnessing, and carrying memory forward. Layered textiles, translucent surfaces, printmaking, embroidery, sewing, and found materials function as an evolving archive where personal histories intersect with collective experience. Architectural forms, fences, jars, utensils, and suspended threads become metaphors for protection, containment, connection, and resilience. Audio recordings gathered through witness extend the work beyond the gallery, inviting visitors to contribute their own stories. Together, these works ask how acts of care become records of belonging that endure across generations.
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