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Zombie gathers the practices of Mauricio López F., Gabriel Moreno, and Pablo Lazala Ruiz, tracing systems of extraction across borders, languages, and industries. Through objects dislocated from place: tools rebranded, images redubbed, machinery left to break down, the work returns again and again to the worker: the body that labors, rests, and is called back to labor before rest is complete. This exhibition sits inside the exhausted systems that are already obsolete but refuse to finish dying, creating the working dead: zombie here not a metaphor, but a diagnosis.
ARTIST AND CURATOR BIOS
Mauricio López F. is an interdisciplinary artist from Santiago, Chile, currently based in Chicago, USA. Emerging from Chile’s early hardcore punk scene, he later studied Musical Composition at Escuela Moderna de Música and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Aesthetics from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he focused on the Chilean avant-garde. He recently completed an MFA in Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) on a merit full scholarship. His practice explores the entanglement of visuality, sound, and motion through unexpected social synchronizations. López F. has received several recognitions, including a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a fellowship from The Arts Club of Chicago. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Chicago Artists Coalition, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and, most recently, Monira Foundation. He was also named one of Newcity's Breakout Artists for 2026. His work has been presented throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, including at Centro Cultural GAM, EXPO Chicago, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gallery 400, Kobun Gallery (Japan), and the Ars Electronica Festival (Austria).
Gabriel Moreno (b. 1992) is an artist working in sculpture, drawing, and collage. He believes sculpture is a language of “touch”: a poetic operation where two things meet and change one another. His work has explored American histories of meat packing, refrigerator manufacturing, and logging as ways into studying industry, fantasy, preservation, and its failures. Moreno’s primary investigation is the paradoxical destruction implicit in modern development and production. Refrigerators are sometimes used to house precious contents. Other times they are cut down into molds for casting. He relies on the immediacy of objects to hold together material operations of maintenance, presentation, splintering, and proliferation. Industrial artifacts and social propositions alike, these objects speak to the fantasy of defying entropy while admitting the impossibility of existing outside it.
Pablo Lazala Ruiz (b. 1992, Bogotá, Colombia) is a multidisciplinary artist, exhibition designer, and educator based in Chicago. He holds an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), along with degrees in Architecture and Fine Arts from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá). He recently participated in the SOMA Summer residency (Mexico City, 2026). His sculptural and installation-based practice examines the conditions that shape public and private space, probing ideals of progress, homogenizing structures, and the invisible systems of the built environment. Working with the rituals, (im)materialities, and temporalities of construction, he dismantles architectural rhetorics and creates spaces and stories grounded in concealment, camouflage, and impermanence. He has exhibited projects from his artistic and curatorial practice at venues including the National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago), the Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU, Bogotá), Espacio Odeón (Bogotá), Galería SantaFe (Bogotá), Galería ArteCámara / Cámara de Comercio de Chapinero (Bogotá), Espacio Más Allá (Bogotá), The Wrong Biennale (Online/Bogotá), Elastic Arts (Chicago), Galería SGR (Bogotá), Liberia Central Contemporánea (Bogotá), Compound Yellow (Chicago), and the Jim Shields Gallery through the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Serena JV Elston is a transdisciplinary sculptor and curator contemplating the body and its relationship to structures of power. Her research-based practice explores ecology, posthumanism, disability, and embodiment through a post-colonial lens. Her work asks if an institution can disable bodies, can bodies disable institutions. Grappling with disability as identity and condition, she depicts figures in states of decomposition and incompleteness. In her work, the body is never singular; it extends beyond flesh to encompass the institutional, the architectural, and the ideological. She renders bodies as precarious material forms that are vulnerable, interdependent, and impermanent. Serena interrogates the illusion of immortality alongside the certainty of death, asserting that all bodies, whether organic or constructed, require care to endure. Institutions that appear eternal are, in truth, as fragile as flesh. Through sculptural inquiry, she exposes systems of power as contingent structures sustained by our unconscious participation and vulnerability. By materializing their instability, she invites viewers to recognize the impermanence of these systems as clearly as we recognize our own mortality.
ABOUT CHICAGO ARTISTS COALITION
Founded in 1974, CAC began as a small group of artists advocating for rights, support, and visibility. Currently located in West Town, CAC is a non-profit organization that supports contemporary Chicago artists and curators by offering a residency program, exhibitions, professional development and resources that enable them to live, work and thrive in the city.
Chicago Artists Coalition’s mission and programs are funded by City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Driehaus Foundation, Field Foundation of Illinois, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Illinois Arts Council, Terry and Donna King, Nancy Herring and John Balfe, Statsinger Cohen Foundation, and the generosity of our board members and supporters.
The Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Hiding in Plain Sight, a HATCH Projects exhibition featuring works by Soheila Azadi, Hannah Givler, Leander Mienardus Knust, Raul De Lara, B. Quinn, and Hillary Wiedemann, and is curated by George William Price.
\r\n\r\nExpurgation, even when it subtracts or omits, adds a space for contemplation that allows us to read both the secondary authority and the original beneath. Walking through the gallery space, this exhibition reveals that it and its components are simply vision, rather than an absolute given. Paradoxically, we enlarge that vision—as we traverse the space—through the formation of a new universe. The physical specificity of the works in Hiding in Plain Sight enter into a comparative methodology with their gallery surroundings. In doing so these works—made of the visual, physical, and sonic—exist always on the cusp of becoming sculpture; they are actions rather than static symbols.
\r\n\r\nOur presence in the space amplifies this collective field of vision, which through an erasure of presence or an embrace of the peripheral brings attention to itself. Push and pull, material and immaterial, freedom or control, Hiding in Plain Sight asks us to orient our bodies in response to the creation of its own system, situating itself simultaneously within and outside of the world. Engaging with the bodies that activate them, the works breathe outward, intersecting with the architectural container they inhabit. Within these sculptural “actions”—temporally infinite and inexhaustible—it is our self that endures.
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\r\nOpening Reception: Friday, March 3, 6-9pm
The Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present The Politics of Desire, a solo exhibition featuring BOLT Resident Yvette Mayorga.
\r\n\r\nThe Politics of Desire presents an uncanny utopian vision of the American Dream gone awry. Intertwined between signifiers of immigrant rituals of celebration—festive ornamentation, confection, accumulated candy, frosting, and found objects—the traumatic realities of the immigrant experience after crossing the U.S./Mexico border subtly begin to emerge. Vibrant fantasies of familial domestic interiors and savory sculptures of cake frosting are ironically juxtaposed against violent undertones of race relations on borderlands. Mayorga’s work boldly confronts the paradoxes of the American Dream—state-sanctioned violence, the American body politic, home invasion, and the fragility of immigrant citizenship.
\r\n\r\nHer immersive installations are a sensory experience that offer an accessible platform to discuss issues of race, identity, gender, and Latin stereotypes. Through an ironic strategy that critiques the insatiable desires of capitalist society, she invites viewers to enter a dream-like state—where the past, present, and future converge into one continuum of memory.
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\r\nOpening reception: Friday, March 31, 6-9pm
\r\nArtist Talk: Wednesday, April 19, 6-7:30pm
Exhibiting artist, Kaveri Raina will discuss her new paintings in her solo show, Gods do Handstands; Spices Simmer with Megha Ralapati, Residency and Special Projects Manager at the Hyde Park Art Center. Raina is joined by Ralapati in conversation about the subjects of her paintings and what thought processes and ideas motivate her artistic choices.
\r\n\r\nThe Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Gods Do Handstands; Spices Simmer, a solo exhibition by BOLT Resident, Kaveri Raina.
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n“To paint as Raina paints is to build worlds, at least in the form of propositions. Her canvases are mostly scaled to the artist’s own body, often dyed with rich violets and greens, and occupied with flatly painted signs scrambled into effusive narratives about their own making. Her worlds are collapsed across the fronts and backs of loosely woven burlap supports, stretched over wooden frames—underlying structures that border the final compositions. Tectonic shapes are painted from the backside, pressing through the fabric’s weave, mapping the site of Raina’s ensuing fantasies. The paintings resist being coded into overly stabilized dichotomies; east is not always the back, nor west the front. Rather, the works model the flipsides of open-ended arguments with attention to where one locates a point of view. Spicy, earthy hues puddle juicily into post-industrial plastic (sub) continents that drift across all sides, embedding the burlap grid into sensuous formal arrangements.”
\r\n\r\n—Matt Morris (Hyperreal Hanuman: Painting into Global Flows, 2016, Hammond Harkins Gallery)
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Matter and material serve as the principle metaphors in Kaveri Raina’s work. Her paintings explore the often conflicting aspects of her hybrid identity and the pictorial push-and-pull of Western Modernism. Raina connotes the complex experience of being located between two cultures by highlighting the permeable surface of burlap as she paints from both the back and front of the textured fabric. As a result, this technique challenges the viewer to discern if the painting is behind, in front, or absorbed into the surface. For Raina, painting on the backside of the burlap creates a level of uncertainty, in which the reward is ultimately recognized by the striking outcome when one releases control.
\r\n\r\nImage: Kaveri Raina, Gateway to Pleasures (detail), 2017, acrylic, burlap, 70" x 40"
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\r\nOpening Reception: Friday, March 31, from 6 - 9 pm
The Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present this land is your land, a HATCH Projects exhibition featuring work by Azadeh Gholizadeh, Frances Lightbound, and Verónica Casado Hernández, and is curated by Ariel Gentalen.
\r\n\r\nthis land is your land is an exhibition featuring three international artists investigating the invisible forces at play in our built environment. The American musician Woody Guthrie composed the famous, eponymous folk song as an alternative national anthem, one that sings the praises of a migrant traveler, whom can freely survey the beauty of the United States. Whereas Guthrie captured a populist postwar America that was open and progressive to him, these artists use their practices to explore the imagery and philosophy that attempt to keep us apart.
\r\n\r\nWith insidious nationalism on the rise, the themes within these three bodies of work are highlighted in an urgent, more pressing tone. Azadeh Gholizadeh examines the man-made borders and stigma between the US and Iran, while Frances Lightbound tackles the visual language of infrastructure and development. Both artists look at how bodily autonomy is slowly stripped from us the more cognizant we become of the regulations within the Western world. Verónica Casado Hernández blends performance and textile-based work to address the feminized idealization of Lady Liberty, born from the Enlightenment and molded into a righteous figure, while posing questions about the ways the virtues of consent of the governed become twisted out of our reach.
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\r\nOpening Reception: Friday, April 28, 6-9 pm
The Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Minor Local Slumpage, a solo exhibition of new sculptures by BOLT Resident Ginger Krebs.
\r\n\r\nKrebs is best known for ensemble-performance works that investigate the vulnerability of bodies driven to achieve extreme efficiency or bodies surveilled by concealed systems of power. Revisiting sculpture after a 12-year hiatus, Krebs addresses awkwardness, intimacy, violence and seduction in the 40 fleshy specimens that comprise Minor Local Slumpage. They range in size -- some similar to sushi, others closer to a softball -- and reveal familiar materials, like a shoulder pad, a piece of fake baloney, or hair pulled from a drain. Many appear to have been disturbed; skewered, scraped, disemboweled, or encased in rubber. If asked for their manifesto, these works might reply:
\r\n\r\nWe are moist.
\r\nThere are secrets.
\r\nOur bodies escape us.
We have hair.
\r\nWe are tasty.
\r\nWe may be faking it.
Light on too many sides!
\r\n\r\nWe survived something terrible.
\r\nWe can barely contain ourselves.
\r\nWe don’t yet exist.
Exhibition on view: April 28-May 18, 2017
\r\nOpening Reception: Friday, April 28, 6-9 pm
The Chicago Artists Coalition proudly presents Boondoggle featuring HATCH Projects artists, Andrew Barco, Jeff Prokash, and Gülşah Mursaloğlu.
\r\n\r\nDuring the Great Depression, many New Deal programs focused on putting unemployed artists and craftspeople to work, and providing government funding for public, archival, and educational projects. One such program focused on teaching simple crafts to children by which they could produce small tchotchkes to sell and raise money for their families. A typical craft was the tying of decorative, colored leather and canvas called “boondoggles” that didn't serve any purpose beyond aesthetic novelty and a sense of accomplishment in a time of extreme malaise. Like any social program, the idea came under fire from the political right who, unsurprisingly, saw it as wasting money in order to promote wasting time. The term boondoggle became immediately metaphorical for a large expenditure of effort and resources for a foolishly useless end, and that is how we use the word today.
\r\n\r\nThis exhibition aims at reclaiming the word. The act of tying boondoggles was simultaneously a socially conscious and creative endeavor, and, as artists, we know better than to regard that as a waste of time. More and more, this stance becomes a critical political contention in an ideological return, where arts and social programs are first on the chopping block (right along with protections for transgender students and our environment). In this exhibition, Barco, Prokash, and Mursaloğlu create idiosyncratic problems just to solve them, needing no justification other than intellectual and emotional pursuit. The artists weave together complex meanings out of a self-imposed tangle of traditional, found, and archival materials. The improvised convolution of their installations is the very source of their ethos. Like a boondoggle, the means are their own ends.
\r\n\r\nBoondoggle is curated by Danny Floyd.
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\r\n\r\nOpening Reception: Friday, June 23, 6-9pm
\r\n\r\nThe Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Of Memories and Forgetfulness, a HATCH Projects exhibition featuring artists Caroline Liu, Pooja Pittie, and Brittney Leanne Williams.
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\r\n\r\nOpening Reception: Friday, June 23, 6-9pm
\r\n\r\nThe Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Stay alive, a solo show featuring BOLT Resident, Jeffrey Michael Austin.
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\r\nOpening Reception: Friday, July 21, 2017, 6-9 pm
The Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present The Mountains Whispered and the Canyon Sang, a solo show featuring BOLT Resident, Luis Sahagun.
\r\n\r\nLuis Sahagun's solo exhibition is composed of new works such as masks, large scale, sculptures, and paintings. In addition, the artist collaborated with Chicago based sound artists' Matthew Motep Woodsand, Sylvie Grace, and Simantikos (a Chicago based dance company that exists to address social injustices through movement). The collaboration consists of using Sahagun's mother's breath and heartbeat to create sounds, melodies, and movements with the intent of channeling messages to his ancestors and friends that were murdered in the Chicago Southland due to gun violence and other social injustices.
\r\n\r\nDuring the opening reception, there will be two performances titled, I know you are waiting and Next time will be better. Each performance varies slightly but both will be in the dance genre of contemporary structured improv. Sahagun says, "For a long time, my family has believed that I inherited a special gift that allows me to communicate with the dead. Most of my life I rejected and ignored those beliefs. This is my first project in which I tackle full force the concept of spirituality with my art making."
\r\n\r\nPhoto courtesy of the artist and CAC.
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\r\n\r\nOpening reception: Friday, September 8, 6-9pm
\r\n\r\nEuclidean Geometry is based on the precept that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. An elegant and comprehensive geometry unfolds with that supposition in mind, a geometry whose logic yields other shapes and relationships, surfacing by way of conclusion in material architectures, cities, and regulatory bureaucracies that society navigates daily as a matter of course. Implicit in this inherited approach, however, is the premise that space itself is stable, flat, and consistent. What if we propose that space itself is curved? For a plane crossing from one part of the world to another, for instance, the arc is its most direct route. If space bends, an entirely other logic presents itself, realizing an alternate field of potential. The Shortest Distance Between Two Points explores the relationship between logic, geometry, and the social actions that unfold, react, or resist therein.
\r\n\r\nThe ANNUAL is supported in part by The ANNUAL Council, a diverse group of professionals committed to helping visual artists thrive in Chicago. 2017 Annual Council Members: Ian Gray, Joshua Herrington, Shannon Downe, Robin Gallardi, Ashley Galloway, Browne Goodwin, Susan Lyons, Tommy Miller, Kathleen Rapp, Hunt Tackbary, and Christine Tsuchida.
\r\n\r\nA Curator's Tour with Caroline Picard takes place Wednesday, September 27, 6-7 PM
\r\n\r\nBetsy Odom, LZR Suit, 2015, leather and paint, 20 x 18 x 12". Photo courtesy of the artist and CAC.
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\r\n\r\nThe Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Unison, a BOLT Residency exhibition featuring new work by Mayumi Lake.
\r\n\r\nIn Ancient Japan, when political chaos and a series of natural disasters occurred, the people believed the last days of this world were near. To calm their fear and despair, they filled sacred prayer sites with bright and bold mythical flowers, believed to bloom through the afterlife. Those flowers were called Housouge (pronounced Housou-gae). The bigger the fear and despair, the more colorful and immense the flowers.
\r\n\r\nMayumi Lake’s new series of sculptural photographic work, Unison, feature her interpretation of the mythic heavenly flowers or Housouge. The blossoms are constructed from motifs scanned directly from girls’ vintage kimonos. They are both cut and then reassembled by hand, and include toy parts, plastic flowers, imitation gold, sequins, and various other objects that recall Lake’s own childhood in Japan. The use of the kimono goes beyond being just a reference to her cultural heritage. It signifies a dying cultural tradition, as the use of this traditional garb has all but disappeared and is relegated to a symbolic gesture reserved for special and rare occasions. Lake’s choice of objects and toys directly references her own childhood, which was saturated with objects that alluded to American pop culture. Elements of the two opposing cultures are intertwined, creating a strained and unique harmony that is illuminated through the constructed blossoms.
\r\n\r\nThe ominous mood and the idea of Mono-no-Aware (the awareness of impermanence) has been cast onto Lake’s recent works, always hinting at reincarnation and its association with death. As a natural progression, Lake’s focus has shifted to expand and decipher the life after death. The blossoms that are threaded throughout Unison represent a vision of Bardo, where the soul floats between life after death, a state similar to the Western idea of purgatory. This in-between state echoes her own existence - a cultural hybrid somewhere between East and West.
\r\n\r\nThis exhibition has been made possible with a grant from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, and Faculty Enrichment grant from School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
\r\n\r\nThe Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present social distortion, a HATCH Projects exhibition featuring new works by Rebecca Himelstein and Joseph Wilcox.
\r\n\r\nDissonance can be generally described by a lack of agreement on something, two similar frequencies create a discordant drone or sets of information don’t quite add up. The incongruity presented can be jarring, delightful, or comically absurd.
\r\n\r\nThe work presented in social distortion considers data, systems of comprehension and context as one. Two artists inspired by theories, respectively manifest interpretations of their studies. Rebecca Himelstein’s research driven studio practice surfaces sound installations and minimal works on paper that articulate personal metaphors for affective spaces between people, and a curiosity for affect theory. Joseph Wilcox’s deep dark internet probing reveals the conspiracies surrounding a man named Martin Klein, uncovering the evidence of his findings as images, video and sound.
\r\n\r\nsocial distortion is curated by Meg T. Noe.
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Free and open to the public
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\r\n\r\nRituals, whether spiritual or social in nature, all share a common purpose and can be described as a practice that allows an individual to pass from one fixed situation to one equally fixed. According to its definition, rites or rituals are usually preformed in a prescribed order. These repetitive, often ceremonial customs are connected to personal experiences and transcend time and space. Writer Cynthia Freeland expounds upon the theory of art ritual in But is it Art? asserting that “an ordinary object or act acquires symbolic and effective significance through incorporation into a belief system shared by all participants.” Here, objects or acts are transformed into art through the ritual of making.
\r\n\r\nOpening Reception: Friday, December 1, 6-9pm
\r\n\r\nImage: Amy Leners, Weight, 2015 Individual: 10 x 14 in., Installed: 14 x 14 ft. Handmade paper, 24k gold leaf
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\r\n\r\nPreview 7 presents works by Benjamin Larose, Brent Fogt, Cameron Harvey, Derrick Woods-Morrow, Emilio Rojas, Jean Alexander Frater, Jeffrey Grauel, Melissa Leandro, Oscar Chavez, and Roni Packer. This group show reveals new works by each of the artists-in-residence in anticipation of their solo exhibitions occurring in 2018. Preview 7 is curated by Ionit Behar.
\r\n\r\nDuring the opening reception of Preview 7: The whole is always smaller than its parts, visit the BOLT Studios to see other works by the artists-in-residence.
\r\n\r\nOpening Reception & Open Studios: Friday, December 1, 6-9pm
\r\n\r\nImage: Emilio Rojas, In the Lap of Lincoln, 2017, from the performance-lecture Monuments and their collapse, durational performance-lecture. Photo credit: Joe Houlberg.
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The Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present, "See Without Seeing and Know Without Knowing," a solo exhibition featuring new works by BOLT Resident, Cameron Harvey.
\r\n\r\n“There is no way I can squeeze the enormousness of myself back inside this tiny little body.”
\r\n- Jill Bolte Taylor
"See Without Seeing and Know Without Knowing" is an installation of ethereal paintings that considers that we, as living beings, are energy bodies made up of small, moving particles, which exist without edges or boundaries. The paintings expand upon the idea that the world we know is not made up of separate solid objects, but rather a universe of infinite and interconnected particles of energy. The paintings, like portals into another dimension, remind us that the nature of the Self is far greater than the experience of the physical body.
\r\n\r\nOriginally from Vermont, Cameron Harvey now lives and works in Chicago, IL. She graduated cum laude from Wellesley College in 1999 with a BA in Studio Art. After graduation, Harvey held an assistantship in printmaking at La Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, in Venice, Italy and then returned to the states in 2006 to focus on painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and at the Lijiang Studio in China, and received grants from DCASE, Illinois Arts Council, the Alice C. Cole Alumnae Foundation, and is a recipient of a 2017 3Arts Make a Wave Grant. Her work has been exhibited in the US, Italy, China, and India. Cameron's recent work focuses on the relationship between the seen and the invisible, and how the voice is used to express the experience of these two elements in daily life.
\r\n\r\nRelated programming:
\r\n\r\nThursday, January 18, 2018
\r\n6:00 - 7:00 pm
\r\nPoetry Reading
Saturday, January 20, 2018
\r\n5:00 - 6:30 pm
\r\nDharma Talk with Gabriel Halpern
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\r\n\r\nThe Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Beyond Words, a HATCH Projects exhibition featuring new works by Lesley Jackson, Keeley Haftner, Caroline Liu, Andrew Barco, and Amy Leners.
\r\n\r\nThere’s no doubt that we encounter words at every turn of daily life. But text is something more complicated, though just as integral. Michel Foucault wonders exactly how to define a text in his essay “What is an Author?”:
\r\n\r\n"The problem is both theoretical and technical. When undertaking the publication of Nietzsche's works, for example, where should one stop? Surely everything must be published, but what is "everything"? Everything that Nietzsche himself published, certainly. And what about the rough drafts for his works? Obviously. The plans for his aphorisms? Yes. The deleted passages and the notes at the bottom of the page? Yes. What if, within a workbook filled with aphorisms, one finds a reference, the notation of a meeting or of an address, or a laundry list: is it a work, or not? Why not? And so on, ad infinitum."
\r\n\r\nA text is a chain of iterations interlocking together to fashion a meaningful image of the world. It’s difficult to know where they begin and end because texts are living documents of lived experience.
\r\n\r\nWhen seen this way, we don’t have to look only to words and language to find texts. A work of art is also a text. It’s more plain to see when an artwork draws from written or literary sources, but that is not the extent of art’s textual quality. Art as an illocutionary act draws from an accretion of meaning through changes, edits, critique, interpretation, exhibition, interfacing with setting and other works, etc. Much like words fit together to make sentences and sentences to make paragraphs, physical and contextual components fit together in a modular sense to create a text that is something bigger than the sum of its parts. This exhibition highlights the crafting of textual artworks, but the texts of each work are intentionally not similar. They stand to show the versatility of text, from personal narratives, to poetic reflections, to abstractions of visuality.
\r\n\r\nBeyond Words is curated by Danny Floyd.
\r\n\r\nImage: Nietzsche: Manuscript of Ecce Homo
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\r\n\r\nOriginally from Vermont, Cameron Harvey now lives and works in Chicago, IL. She graduated cum laude from Wellesley College in 1999 with a BA in Studio Art.
\r\n\r\nThursday, January 18, 2018
\r\n6:00 - 7:00 pm
\r\nPoetry Reading
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\r\n5:00 - 6:30 pm
\r\nDharma Talk with Gabriel Halpern
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Yellow is not the color of the sun. Yellow is mine.
\r\n\r\nYou think of something as being present until you realize that it is not (it is 6,149 miles away).
\r\n\r\nit is as much about color as it is about territory.
\r\n\r\nThe big cardboard box arrived in less than two weeks. I opened it at the front desk after rushing up to turn off the alarm. Digging into it, through the familiar orange garbage bag, I saw that they were not yellow; not the right yellow. Not my yellow. Staring at the overbaked small squares, I promised myself that I would not care about color anymore. I wake up at dawn, go to my studio and start another yellow painting.
\r\n\r\nWe have been taught to draw the sun as a yellow circle. Yellow is not the color of the sun. Yellow is mine.
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\r\n\r\nSuperficial Paradise is curated by Sheridan Tucker Anderson.
\r\n\r\nImage: Daniel Hojnacki, Cracking (detail), 2017, Altered silver gelatin print, wall texture spray, latex paint, 9 x 12 in
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\r\nOpening Reception: Friday, April 27, from 6-9pm
The Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Body as Image, a HATCH Projects exhibition featuring works by Kioto Aoiki, Colleen Keihm, and Darryl DeAngelo Terrell.
\r\n\r\nBody as Image presents three Chicago-based artists exploring the body, gender, and race through historical and contemporary modes of photography. By distorting the viewer’s perception of space and time through medium, Kioto Aoki, Colleen Keihm, and Darryl DeAngelo Terrell invite viewers to encounter the unique intimacy of experimental photographic processes. The range of alternative photographic processes exhibited -- including coffee-stained cyanotype portraits, monochromatic celluloid film, and photograms made from the collaged photographs of Richard Serra sculptures -- capitalize on the unpredictability of handcrafted elements and textures. In our era of smartphones, Adobe Photoshop, social media and intangible virtual realities, the work on view collectively challenges the impalpable process of digital photography by incorporating handmade manipulation and process-based methods of layering material.
\r\n\r\nCollectively, the artists in Body as Image use the medium of photography to resist societal norms of representing the body from an array of vantage points including, selfie culture, art historical patriarchy, and marginalized minority youth. Kioto Aoki, Colleen Keihm, Darryl DeAngelo Terrell reveal how artists are negotiating the politics of an overly media-saturated society by tackling questions concerning visibility and authentic narratives outside of digital storytelling.
\r\n\r\nBody as Image is curated by Sabrina Greig.
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\r\nOpening Reception: Friday, April 27, from 6-9 pm
The Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present, Dot your i’s with Hearts, an installation by BOLT Artist-in-Residence, Benjamin Larose.
\r\n\r\nn November 1992, I received my first letter from Frédéric, my second cousin. We had met the previous summer and since his village was a twelve-hour drive away, we had agreed to write each other through the year. I immediately started drafting my response. A simple letter: reminiscing about summer days, commenting on day-to- day school stuff, and praising our beloved Montreal Canadiens. Before I sealed the envelope, I asked my dad to proofread. He said: “Why did you dot your i’s with hearts? … Seems a bit much.” I already had the feeling that might be the case. I went ahead and erased them.
\r\n\r\nFive years later, Frédéric lost a lifelong battle to leukemia.
\r\nI never went back to his village.
\r\nI never did tell him how I felt.
Dot your i’s with hearts.
\r\n\r\nBenjamin Larose uses everyday objects and the language of material culture to question our assumptions on what it means to be “normal”. His work transports viewers to a place where difference is depicted as epic and triumphant and ultimately, inspires compassion and dignity. Dot your i’s with Hearts presents a new body of sculpture work that explores boyhood and family using tens of thousands of puzzle pieces.
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Image by Benjamin Larose
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\r\n\r\nThe Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Do Something Else, a solo exhibition of new works by BOLT Artist-in-Residence, Brent Fogt.
\r\n\r\nIn Do Something Else, Brent Fogt mounts an installation of off-kilter sculptures created from furniture and other found objects. These precariously balanced pieces are inspired by Fogt’s own yoga practice as well as his fascination with how we humans learn to walk, stand, and run. At the opening reception on June 1, 2018, a dance troupe led by Victoria Bradford will interact with the objects and move through the various pathways of the installation.
\r\n\r\nFogt’s love of experimentation with new processes is present in all of his work. The driving question he asks himself is “what would happen if….?” He constantly experiments with new techniques, taking his cues directly from the materials he works with. Without a predetermined outcome in mind, he tests how individual components can be severed, joined, overlapped, combined, and recombined until they constitute a whole or near-whole.
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\r\n\r\nThe Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present The Strange Fields of This City, a HATCH Projects exhibition featuring new works by Alejandro Waskavich, Haerim Lee, and William Camargo.
\r\n\r\nThrough objects, photography, printmaking and painting, these artists explore the triangulation of place, identity, and culture. Such a triad reinforces that the broad idea of “place” extends beyond mere geography, and instead is actively shaped by a multitude of social, political, and economic factors.
\r\n\r\nOn a structural scale, we witness and endure the spatial hegemony produced through state power, capitalism, mass media, and architecture. Responding to how those mechanisms can mold the perception of a place, Waskavich’s works on paper interrogate the dissemination of visual tropes and archetypal imagery to reveal how some aspects of place-based identity are ideological constructs. On an adjacent trajectory, Lee’s paintings and photographs grapple with the consequences of how urban planning bureaucracies, real estate development, and speculative capital exercise control over space – particularly seen through residential segregation, the dissolution of public housing, and displacement of poor and working-class communities of color. Meanwhile, Camargo’s work shows that notions of place or culture are equally and simultaneously created from within a community itself, often through countervailing tactics of resistance, resilience, antagonism, and adaptation that persist on an everyday level. This is amplified in his practice through a dual enactment and documentation of rasquache aesthetic strategies which emphasize material resourcefulness and improvisation in the vein of hacer rendir las cosas (“making do”), while also serving as potent expressions of Chicanx identity in order to claim space and visibility in the face of gentrification, cultural erasure, or pressures of assimilation.
\r\n\r\nThreaded among these three projects, and embedded in the individual narratives of each artist, is a sense of transition between two places – a disconnect or rupture to contend with – which generates further queries about movement, (im)migration, dispossession, boundaries and edges, home and homeland, belonging and “dis-belonging”.
\r\n\r\nThe Strange Fields of This City is organized by Greg Ruffing.
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\r\n\r\nField Foundation President Angelique Power and Hyde Park Jazz Festival Artistic & Executive Director Kate Dumbleton will draw from their combined experience in philanthropy, education, engagement, and artistic and executive direction to unpack the concept of Adaptive Leadership.
\r\n\r\nThey will share the evolution of their professional practices, their perspectives on leadership in the arts today, and discuss the importance of skills such as listening and collaboration for thriving in an ever-evolving world. The conversation will focus on philosophical as well as practical concerns and strategies that can be implemented throughout the sector.
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CAC, OtherPeoplesPixels, and the Coney Family are thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2018 MAKER Grant, an award opportunity for three Chicago-based contemporary visual artists who demonstrate a commitment to a socially conscious, progressive and sustainable artist practice and career development.
MAKER Grant Program’s unrestricted awards of one at $5,000 (Coney Family Fund Award) and two at $3,000 (OtherPeoplesPixels Award) are intended to recognize exceptional emerging or established artists working in Chicago, and support the advancement of their artistic careers.
Thank you to the esteemed leading arts professionals who served as jurors this year.
2018 Jury
Christopher Audain, Program Officer, Alphawood Foundation
Elizabeth Corr, Manager of Art Partnerships, National Resources Defense Council
Nikki Patin, Community Arts Engagement Manager, Arts + Public Life, University of Chicago
Lorelei Stewart, Director, Gallery 400, School of Art & Art History, College of Architecture, Design & the Arts, University of Illinois-Chicago
This grant is generously funded by the Coney Family and portion of proceeds from the Chicago Artists Coalition’s annual fundraiser, WORK IN PROGRESS, as well as a benevolent matching contribution from OtherPeoplesPixels.
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Chicago Artists Coalition's Annual Benefit
2019 Honorees: Hebru Brantley + Gensler
Co-Chairs: Jessica and Timothy Canning + Chanel Coney
In honor of CAC's 1-year \"PAPER\" anniversary of being in our new home at 2130 W. Fulton,
the dress code is Paper Chic!
Not sure what to wear? Check out the LOOKBOOK for inspiration
Thursday, June 6
VIP: 6-8pm
The Party: 8-10pm
Chicago Artists Coalition: 2130 W. Fulton St.
Learn More & Purchase Tickets Here
VIP Tickets: $350
VIP includes Art Auction, Recognition of 2019 Honorees as well as Grant Recipients, Cocktails, Beer, Wine, and Heavy Appetizers + Stay for The Party 8-10pm
The Party Tickets: $70
The Party includes Dancing, Beer, Wine, Appetizers, End-of-night bites.
Early Bird Tickets on Sale, Thursday April 26
Follow the CAC Facebook page for updates HERE.
CAC's largest fundraiser of the year, WORK IN PROGRESS directly supports CAC's year-round residencies, professional development workshops, ground-breaking exhibitions and the online platform CAR (Chicago Artists Resource).
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The Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present ORWELLIAN OFFSPRING, a group exhibition featuring works by Marie Baldwin, Mitsu Salmon, and Jacqueline Surdell.
\r\n\r\nIn recent years, stories about dystopian futures have become mass media obsessions, such as Black Mirror, The Hunger Games, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Although the genre is not new, a recent New Yorker article states that we are living through "A Golden Age for Dystopian Fiction." Is it possible that its current prevalence speaks to more than just a passing trend?
\r\n\r\nWhile oppressive systems in the U.S. continue to be exposed, people en masse are turning to dystopian narratives for answers and the ability to play out mounting fears. As a means of unpacking their own inheritance of oppressive systems, the artists in this show mine their personal histories, dealing with labor, body, memory, and ancestral ties across time and place. Together, the artworks create an avenue where reality and fiction converge--illuminating an opportunity for critical reflection on the current socio-political moment and perhaps even action.
\r\n\r\nORWELLIAN OFFSPRING is curated by Courtney Cintron.
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\r\n\r\nRaw canvas is the background of the under-painting of the over-painting. Cotton weave is covered and undone and redone. Doubled material increases weight; concealed color seeps to the surface.
\r\n\r\nI use my whole body to flatten the canvas against the wall. Stretch tall and wide to fix the edges, pressing out the wrinkles. Filling my brush with paint and applying the first coat.
\r\n\r\nAnother Coat, Over Another
\r\n\r\nRipping quickly, pressing my body against the canvas, guiding the tear. The rip is loud and sharp.
\r\n\r\nThe under-color comes through the cracks; the raw canvas is the line.
\r\n\r\nHolding the wooden square frame at a diagonal with outstretched arms.
\r\n\r\nOver Under, Under Over
\r\n\r\nPaint cracks and the sharp edges cut my hand. Fabric softens as each woven gesture repeats, repeats and repeats.
\r\n\r\nPulling it tight. It snags. It sags. Light bounces off the surface.
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\r\n\r\nThis show spans the career of legendary artist Oscar Chavez. Moving across media from wearable works to public interventions, Chavez questions contemporary power structures shaping our lived physical and digital experiences. Pairings of iconic works with new and unseen works on loan from the artist’s archive bring together a survey of an artistic oeuvre that is couched in social critique.
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\r\n\r\nThis group exhibition features works by selected former artists-in-residence: Jeffrey Michael Austin, Iris Bernblum, Suzette Bross, Rashayla Marie Brown, Amanda Joy Calobrisi, Aram Han Sifuentes, Jaclyn Jacunski, Mayumi Lake, Norman W. Long, Yvette Mayorga, Hương Ngô, Erik L. Peterson, Amina Ross, Luis Sahagun, and Leonard Suryajaya. Including wall works, floor sculptures, video and sound, Late August, Early August is a survey show of atmospheric and expansive reflections on the consistency of texture through striking use of materials or sentient experiences.
\r\n\r\nLate August, Early September is organized by Teresa E. Silva.
\r\n\r\nImage: Norman W. Long, "Van Vlissingen Prairie" (Video Album Remix), 2018, Video still
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\r\n\r\nThe Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Leaf by Leaf, a HATCH Projects exhibition featuring works by Whit Forrester, India Martin, and Yasmin Spiro.
\r\n\r\nThere is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn.... Then the noun, the "Antilles" ripples like brightening water, and the sounds of leaves, palm fronds, and birds are the sounds of a fresh dialect, the native tongue. The personal vocabulary...joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
\r\n\r\n-Derek Walcott, The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory; the Nobel Lecture, 1992
\r\n\r\nInspired by the prose of Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott, Leaf by Leaf presents three Chicago-based artists examining geography’s connection to power, placemaking, and cultural identity. Through the media of photography and installation, Whit Forrester, India Martin, and Yasmin Spiro explore how experiences specific to diasporic communities are inscribed into postcolonial topographies and their natural ecosystems. In Leaf by Leaf, portraits of house plants referencing botany’s colonial history are in dialogue with sublime landscape photographs of Hawaiian foliage, or contrasted against repetitive grids patterns woven into sculptures inspired by urban development in Kingston, Jamaica. By exploring elements from organic environments--wood, gold, sunlight, bodies of water, plant life--and human-made materials from urban cities, they forge connections across transnational borders and ancestral homelands.
\r\n\r\nWhit Forrester, India Martin, and Yasmin Spiro draw from the frameworks of decolonization, systemic power structures, postcolonial ecology, social politics and ritual to understand cultural diasporas as networks of connected identities, not fractured communities. Together, artists in Leaf by Leaf challenge narratives surrounding colonialism and imperialism to demonstrate how our relationship to the living world is the conduit that has allowed us to exist as a moving organism of interdependent, diasporic relations.
\r\n\r\nLeaf by Leaf is curated by Sabrina E. Greig.
\r\n\r\nImage: India Martin, "Money", 2018
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\r\n\r\n• Opening Reception, Friday, September 21, 5-8pm
\r\n• The ANNUAL Breakfast, Friday, September 28, 9-11am RSVP
All events take place at CAC, 2130 W. Fulton St.
\r\n\r\nAll work in the exhibition will be available for sale.
\r\n\r\nThe ANNUAL is a yearly sales exhibition celebrating cutting-edge Chicago-based artists. Arranged by a guest curator, The ANNUAL creates an accessible forum for collectors to discover affordable new work and engage directly with its creators.
\r\n\r\nCAC is pleased to announce that Jordan Martins will curate this year's edition of The ANNUAL. His exhibition, Mixtapes for the Next Millennium, brings together a wide variety of studio practices and backgrounds into proximity with one another to encourage surprising synchronicities or points of overlap between them. The exhibition operates with two notions of the term “mixtape” in mind: 1) an informal compilation of songs that reflect different backgrounds and trans-genre jumps, and 2) the hip-hop use of the term to refer to more raw conjunctions of artists that allow for playful, experimental collaborations or tangents sprouting out of an artist’s more formal output. The freedom and spontaneity of the “mixtape” is embraced here in what kind of work is shown and how it is displayed, eschewing polite spacing between works on white walls for playful molecular combinations that explore how the works of different artists can more directly speak to one another.
\r\n\r\nFeaturing:
\r\nMarzena Abrahamik
\r\nKellie Romany
\r\nCameron Harvey
\r\nASMA (Matias Armendaris and Hanya Belia)
\r\nJessica Labatte
\r\nSonnenzimmer [Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher]
\r\nMarianne Fairbanks
\r\nSoo Shin
\r\nBrittney Leeanne Williams
\r\nJohn Opera
\r\nClaire Ashley
\r\nDeborah Handler
\r\nDan Devening
\r\nKaveri Raina
\r\nCathy Hsiao
\r\nDaniel Hojnaki
\r\nMarissa Neumann
\r\nDamon Locks
\r\nGina Hunt
\r\nCody Hudson
\r\nRodrigo Lara
Curator Bio: Jordan Martins is a Chicago based visual artist, curator, educator, and musician. He received his MFA in visual arts from the Universidade Federal da Bahia in Salvador, Brazil in 2007, and is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and North Park University. He is the executive director of Comfort Station, a multi-disciplinary art space. Martins’s visual work is based in collage processes, including mixed media two dimensional work, photography, video and installation, and he has exhibited nationally and internationally. He is co-director of the Perto da Lá, a biennial multidisplinary art event with international artists in Salvador, Brazil.
\r\n\r\nImage: a mixtape featuring Daniel Hojnacki (left); Brittney Leeanne Williams (right)
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\r\n\r\nThe ANNUAL is a yearly sales exhibition celebrating cutting-edge Chicago-based artists. Arranged by a guest curator, The ANNUAL creates an accessible forum for collectors to discover affordable new work and engage directly with its creators.
\r\n\r\nFor details see the full event listing here.
\r\n\r\nImage: Marzena Abrahamik, participating Annual artist, 2018
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\r\n\r\nCAC's In Conversation series invites Chicago's arts and cultural visionaries to explore important topics shaping the field today.
\r\n\r\nUsing Chicago Artists Coalition's 2018 ANNUAL exhibition, Mixtapes for the Next Millennium, as a starting point, the exhibition's curator, Jordan Martins, will discuss the exhibition process from start to finish in conversation with artist and arts administrator Meg Duigud. They will share insights into critical considerations and milestones that inform their respective curatorial processes, including: conducting studio visits, sales agreements and other contracts with artists, partnering with host organizations, securing sponsorships, and more.
\r\n
CAC welcomes you to join us at 5:30pm for social time with refreshments, with the program beginning promptly at 6:00pm
\r\n\r\nGuest Speakers:
\r\n\r\nMeg Duguid is an artist and arts administrator. During the day Duguid is currently Director of Exhibitions for Columbia College Chicago’s Department of Exhibitions, Performance, and Student Spaces. She has directed Gallery 2 for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, programmed the Arsenal Gallery and Temporary Public Art Program for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, overseen the dispersement of grants for the city of Chicago, and directed the Averill and Bernard Leviton Gallery for Columbia College before moving to her current post at the college. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from Bard College. She has performed and exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 6018 NORTH, Slow Gallery, the Mission, Terrain, Roman Susan, the Chicago Cultural Center, and Defibrillator in Chicago, as well as the DUMBO Arts Festival in Brooklyn, 667 Shotwell in San Francisco, and the Zona Maco Art Fair in Mexico City. Duguid has screened work at Synthetic Zero in New York, Spiderbug in Chicago, and the Last Supper Festival in Brooklyn. From 2009 to 2011 she ran Clutch Gallery, a 25-square-inch white cube located in the heart of her purse; since then, she lends her purse to others to curate and carry. Duguid is a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago and lives and works in Chicago with her husband, her son, and two cats. megduguid.com
\r\n\r\nJordan Martins is a Chicago based visual artist, curator, educator, and musician. He received his MFA in visual arts from the Universidade Federal da Bahia in Salvador, Brazil in 2007, and is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and North Park University. He is the executive director of Comfort Station, a multi-disciplinary art space. Martins’s visual work is based in collage processes, including mixed media two dimensional work, photography, video and installation, and he has exhibited nationally and internationally. He is co-director of the Perto da Lá, a biennial multidisplinary art event with international artists in Salvador, Brazil. jordanmartins.com
\r\n\r\nTuition: $20 General Public | $10 CAC Artist Members | FREE for BOLT, HATCH, LAUNCH, and FIELD/WORK Residents. Register here.
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\r\n\r\nThe ANNUAL is a yearly sales exhibition celebrating cutting-edge Chicago-based artists. Arranged by a guest curator, The ANNUAL creates an accessible forum for collectors to discover affordable new work and engage directly with its creators.
\r\n\r\nFor details see the full event listing here.
\r\n\r\nImage: John Opera, Double Lens (yellow with lines), cyanotype, acrylic and flashe on canvas in lacquered artist frame, 21 x 17 inches, participating Annual artist, 2018
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\r\n\r\nAn enigmatic puzzle with triangular symmetry, the “three hares” figure is thought to have a range of symbolic, mystical, or numinous associations, all of which have varied across time, geography, and culture. Potential explanations of the three hares symbol have ranged from connections to peace and tranquility; rebirth and resurrection; psychoanalytic concepts about the feedback loop between the conscious and unconscious mind; or alchemical notions about cyclical energy and infinity. Ultimately, however, its origins are unknown, as is any unified conception of its inherent meaning. It remains, possibly, an unanswerable riddle.
\r\n\r\nThe systems through which we make meaning in/of the world become both the subject and process in the work of Gonzales, Conlon, and Petrides. Through various cumulative strategies of layering and collage, representation and abstraction, they utilize printmaking, drawing, textiles and sculpture as means of exploring individuated and collective knowledge production about self and existence.
\r\n\r\nThree Hares is organized by Greg Ruffing.
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The Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's Monuments, a solo exhibition by BOLT Artist-in-Residence, Emilio Rojas.
\r\n\r\nIn 1890, a Spanish architect by the name of Alberto de Palacio submitted a proposal for a monument to commemorate Christopher Columbus for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The application, which won the competition, was meant to surpass the Eiffel Tower, which is today the most visited paid monument in the world. If built, this 1312-foot-tall copy of the earth would have been the tallest man-made structure for 73 years. Although unrealized the monument remains the most ambitious and monumental celebration of colonization.
\r\n\r\nThe Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s Monuments is an exhibition about speculative fiction: a failed monument, a forgotten architect, an immigrant that popularized bodybuilding, and a Titan condemned to hold the weight of the sky in his shoulders. This exhibition proposes an alternative history that would have altered Chicago’s cultural and political landscape in unimaginable ways using performance and the remaking of a monument.
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Join us on the 526th anniversary of Columbus' landing for Emilio Rojas in conversation with Mechtild Widrich and new speculative fiction short stories by writers: Reid Drake, Char Lee Lucket, Jamila Malika, Blake Nemek, Fred Schmalz, and Hanna Eid.
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$20 General Public | $10 CAC Artist Members | FREE for BOLT, FIELD/WORK, HATCH, and LAUNCH Residents
\r\n\r\nFour mid-career artists will reflect on the past 10 years of their careers and share how they’ve developed a business model to support their creative practices, values, and goals over time.
\r\n\r\nArtists Sonnenzimmer, Edra Soto, and Norman Teague will each share the key decisions, relationships, opportunities, administrative infrastructure, funding, and lifestyle choices that form the strategy that has empowered them to thrive with a life in the arts.
\r\n\r\nIn a moderated discussion, we will introduce a tool called the Business Model Canvas and ways that the framework can be adapted to meet the needs of artists’ creative careers. Developing a scalable business model is critical to making progress toward professional goals and the guest artists will demonstrate ways that the Canvas can be utilized for visualizing a business model to support artists’ goals and lives.
\r\n\r\nThis workshop is part of the FIELD/WORK Core Curriculum, a series of FIELD/WORK Residency sessions that are open to the public. CAC welcomes you to join us at 5:30pm for social time with refreshments, with the program beginning promptly at 6:00pm
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$20 General Public | $10 CAC Artist Members | FREE for BOLT, FIELD/WORK, HATCH, and LAUNCH Residents
\r\n\r\nRecognizing the critical importance of capturing high-quality images of artwork in many creative careers, Robert Chase Heishman will introduce artists to the aesthetic and technical knowledge that informs his work as an art documentation professional.
\r\n\r\nFollowing a concise lecture, Robert will lead participants through a series of hands-on demonstrations including lighting, photography, and post-production tailored for the work of visual artists.
\r\n\r\nCAC welcomes you to join us at 5:30pm for social time with refreshments, with the program beginning promptly at 6:00pm.
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$20 General Public | $10 CAC Artist Members | FREE for BOLT, FIELD/WORK, HATCH, and LAUNCH Residents
During this panel conversation, we will learn from first-hand accounts of dynamic artists about what it takes to bring a large-scale endeavor into fruition through a combination of artistic vision, strategic planning, and project management.
Three artists will share their experiences and lessons learned in the process by reflecting on distinct examples of large projects.
This workshop is part of the FIELD/WORK Core Curriculum, a series of FIELD/WORK Residency sessions that are open to the public. CAC welcomes you to join us at 5:30pm for social time with refreshments, with the program beginning promptly at 6:00pm.
Learning Objectives
Guest Speakers
Erica Mott is a former researcher and international development worker turned actor, choreographer and director. As a performance maker and cultural organizer, she utilizes body based forms (movement/song/realtime action with objects) in immersive environments and extensive cross-disciplinary collaborations to transform discarded materials and histories and disregarded spaces and stories. Through her immersive yet intimate performance installations, she captures and heightens the magic and mystery of the mundane and invites communities to re-view and re-envision shared spaces and practices.
Her original work for the stage has been featured across the world at such venues as Roulette & Grace Space (New York City), CRICOTEKA Museum & The Audio Art Festival (Krakow, Poland), Rawabet Theater (Cairo, Egypt), International Theatre Festival (Novi Sad, Serbia), Festival Cervantino (Guanajuato, Mexico), Steirischer Herbst (Graz, Austria), Queer Arts Festival (Rostock, Germany), NES Artist (Skagastrond, Iceland), City of Women Festival (Ljubljana, Slovenia) as well as the locally at Chicago Cultural Center, High Concept Labs, The Dance Center Columbia College, Links Hall, MCA, The National Museum of Health and Medicine and Chicago’s many parks.
Erica is a recipient of several awards including Amnesty International’s Patrick Stewart Human Rights Fellowship, The Santa Fe Art Institute Residency, Camargo Fellowship Residency, Djerassi Residency, Banff Center Specialized Residency Programme, Ragdale Foundation Residency, NES Artist, MacArthur Global Connections Grant, 3Arts Award and the Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Award. She is a former core troupe member of the internationally renowned performance art troupe, La Pocha Nostra.
Erica Mott was named one of the “Top 5 Game-Changing Dance Makers in 2015”, one of Chicago’s top culturemakers in NewCity’s “Players 2016: The Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago” and recently one of fifty artists for Chicago’s “50x50 Neighborhood Arts Project”, an initiative through the City of Chicago for their “Year of Public Art”. Currently she is a part time lecturer in the Department of Performance at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. ericamott.com
Hương Ngô (Huong Ngo, Ngô Ngọc Hương, 吳玉香) is an interdisciplinary artist whose conceptual practice connects the personal and the political, giving material form to histories which have been rendered invisible and interrogating the ideological origins of their erasure. Having grown up as a refugee in the American South, Ngô creates work that reframes the hybrid, the imperfect, and the non-fluent as sites of survival and knowledge. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BFA Fine Arts, 2001), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA Art & Technology, 2004), and was a studio fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program (2012). She was recently awarded the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant in Vietnam (2016) for her research, begun at the Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer in France and recently presented at DePaul Art Museum (2017), that examines the colonial history of surveillance in Vietnam and the anti-colonial strategies of resistance vis-à-vis the activities of female organizers and liaisons.
Her work, which has been described as “deftly and defiantly decolonial” by New City and “what intersectional feminist art looks like” by the Chicago Tribune, has been exhibited at the MoMA (2018), MCA Chicago (2004, 2016, 2017), Para Site HK (2017), Nhà Sàn Collective (2016), the Queens Museum (2014), The Kitchen (2011, 2014), and the New Museum (2012) among others. She has been awarded the DCASE Individual Artist Program Grant (2017, 2018), the Illinois Arts Council (2018), Chicago Artists Coalition BOLT residency (2016-17), Rhizome Commission (2011), and has been in residency through the Camargo Foundation Core Program (2018), LATITUDE Chicago (2015), and SOMA Mexico (2014). She has taught at the MoMA, Pratt Institute, and Parsons The New School for Design and is currently Assistant Professor in Contemporary Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. huongngo.com
Erik L. Peterson is a Chicago-based public artist, sculptor, and museum educator.
Drawing on the vocabularies of traditional arts media along with architecture and transportation infrastructure, Erik L. Peterson creates site-specific installations, public artworks, urban performances, edible sculptures, and neon artworks that challenge a viewer’s sense of space and self. Teasing out the absurdities of social convention with wry humor, his projects give viewers agency to experience the physical act of perception. Peterson’s unconventional approach to materials and his commitment to audience engagement serve to activate the public realm in new and unexpected ways. His art transports the pedestrian into a space of subtle strangeness and surprise, offering viewers a new way to participate as members of, and in the space within, a complex and changing public.
Erik’s work been featured in solo exhibitions at the Arts Club of Chicago, Open House Contemporary, EXPO CHICAGO, Bert Green Fine Art, Waubonsee Community College, Project 1612, Chicago Artists Coalition; large-scale public art projects and performances for the Broadview Hotel in Toronto, the Downtown Norfolk Council, Chicago Department of Special Events & Cultural Affairs (DCASE), and Pick Museum of Anthropology; and in group shows at The Franklin, Ralph Arnold Gallery at Loyola University, Arizona State University, Eastern Illinois University, University of Nebraska–Omaha, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Columbia College, and the Chicago Artists’ Coalition among others. Peterson is a founder of Hyde Park Kunstverein (HPK), an experimental “community museum” and Qeej Hero, a cross-cultural video game featuring an ancient Hmong musical instrument. He holds a B.F.A in Sculpture from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.F.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition to his artmaking practice, Peterson is the Manager of Family Programs and Student Engagement at the Smart Museum of Art. Peterson recently completed Ashland, a sculptural bench made from reclaimed ash wood, located in Edgewater Beach as one of the featured artists in the City of Chicago’s Year of Public Art in 2018. eriklpeterson.com
Moderated by Meida Teresa McNeal, the Director of Honey Pot Performance, an Afro-feminist collective dedicated to critical performance & public humanities. She received her PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and her MFA in Choreography & Dance History from Ohio State University. Over the past two decades, Meida has produced numerous creative projects as both a solo artist and with Honey Pot Performance, with works performed in Illinois, Rhode Island, Ohio, California, and Trinidad. She has received many grants and awards supporting her creative work including National Endowment for the Humanities, a 3Arts Award in Dance, a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist award, and a 2018-19 Co-Mission Fellowship at Links Hall. Positioning her work as an Independent Artist and Scholar at the intersection of performance studies, dance and critical ethnography, she has taught courses in dance, critical performance ethnography, and black diasporic cultural production at Northwestern University, Brown University, Governors State, and Columbia College Chicago. Meida also works with the Chicago Park District as Arts & Culture Manager supporting community arts partnerships, youth arts, cultural stewardship, and civic engagement initiatives across the city’s parks and cultural centers.
Location
Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W. Fulton Street (look for our dedicated entrance at 2132 W. Fulton Street!)
Chicago, IL
As working artists, your personal and business finances are integrally related. In this workshop, Julie Herwitt, an artist and Certified Public Accountant who specializes in working with artists, will teach best practices for organizing your finances and creating a path to financial sustainability.
Tuiton
$20 General Public | $10 CAC Artist Members | FREE for BOLT, FIELD/WORK, HATCH, and LAUNCH Residents
For more information click HERE.
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Office Hours: Portfolio Review is an opportunity for artists to meet with directors from renowned Chicago-based commercial galleries. One-on-one portfolio reviews last 30 minutes and provide a platform to discuss a range of issues of interest to working artists.
Please note that space is very limited & advance registration is required. Office Hours appointments are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Registrants will be contacted with an additional form to complete in order to indicate your reviewer preference no later than January 10.
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Through lecture and guided exercises, we will focus on strategies to make the creative practice newsworthy and timely, how to effectively communicate a project idea using clear and concise language, and authentic, thoughtful ways to invite people to experience your work.
Tuition
$20 General Public | $10 CAC Artist Members | FREE for BOLT, FIELD/WORK, HATCH, and LAUNCH Residents
For more information click HERE.
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The Poetics of Relation
In Poétique de la Relation Martinican philosopher, poet, and writer Édouard Glissant makes an argument for opacity. Defined as “an alterity that is unquantifiable, a diversity that exceeds categories of identifiable difference,” Glissant insists that we must demand the right to opacity. He further expounds upon this thought explaining “the theory of difference is invaluable —it has allowed us to struggle against the reductive thought produced by the presumption of racial excellence or superiority.” In considering the widespread, even pervasive impulse toward transparency, Glissant suggested:
“there’s a basic injustice in the worldwide spread of the transparency and the projection of Western thought. Why must we evaluate people on the scale of the transparency of ideas proposed by the West? … As far as I’m concerned, a person has the right to be opaque. That doesn’t stop me from liking that person, it doesn’t stop me from working with him, hanging out with him, etc. A racist is someone who refuses what he doesn’t understand. I can accept what I don’t understand.”
According to Glissant, the lack of transparency assisted with the construction of the Other must be eliminated in favor of relation to all things, or tout-monde. While Glissant’s writings on opacity and relation are presented specifically as it pertains to post-colonial conditions in Martinique, these ideas have been applied to contemporary art theory and practices, as well. Most notably, curator Okwui Enwezor’s writings on the globalization of contemporary art consider the imposition of Western-based hierarchies and homogenization as referenced by Glissant. Enwezor explores the complexities of globalization in contemporary art and highlights the need for the creolization of cultures. In an essay entitled “The Post-Colonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition,” Enwezor reiterates the importance of “post-colonial history and theory for accurate understanding of the social and cultural temporality of late modernity.” He goes on to state:
“If I recommended the post-colonial paradigm for illuminating our reading of the fraught historical context from which that discourse of Modernism and contemporary art emerged, it is only to aim toward a maturity of the understanding of what art history and its supplementary practices can contribute today toward our knowledge of art.”
In other words, it is imperative that cross-cultural influences, within contemporary art practice, are not only recognized, but celebrated—for it is our differences that contribute to a more cohesive image of Modernity and contemporary art at large.
The artists featured in this exhibition uniquely approach their difference. They transform notions of domesticity and intimacy. By combining elements of kitsch with “high art”, public and private spaces, the artist simultaneously upend contrived ideas of wealth, labor, class and access. Likewise, the artists’ works recontextualize relationship dynamics, challenging self and societally-imposed boundaries. Through their multi-layered practices, each artist embraces, activates, and utilizes their specific contribution to contemporary art practice, positioning it against the often lauded “cishet,” or the white and male contemporary Art World, as the sole and dominant narrative. In this act of defiance, they demand to be counted and included, while not requesting to be understood, but rather considered.
Written by Sheridan Tucker Anderson
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A video filmed on-site inside the BOLT Gallery during the run of the exhibition, with choreographed movements and the sound of water \"living image tableau\" and a select open call to CAC for performers
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Billie Howard is a pianist, violinist, violist, and music educator. Most recently, her compositions appeared as the soundtrack for the short film “Olion”. She performs & records regularly as Akosuen and released two duo albums (with Rebecca Himelstein and Cinchel) in 2018. She was the founding violinist of the Hyalite String Quartet, NbN Trio, and contemporary music collective a.pe.ri.od.ic and also plays keyboard with Bobby Conn.
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Investigating private and public archives of representation, Giles’ work imagines through various media the body as a transformative agent. Expanding from performative work, Giles presents abstract and figurative proxies for presence that address how subject-positions are formed and dismantled through acts of seeing. Giles uses iconic and lesser-known figures as a starting point to deconstruct the ways that appearance is often mistaken for essence.
Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present, As gesture, a HATCH exhibition featuring work by artists-in-residence, Ashley Freeby and Gina Hunt.
The exhibition opens on Friday, May 17, 2019 with a reception from 5-8 pm.
In Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle, he wrote that \"the purpose of the spectacle is to make history forgotten within culture.\" Yet forces of culture and society challenge the notion of history, or collective memory, continuously. The main challenging force is the gesture - the technical movement of the hand or body, the capturing or recreation of a moment long- lost, the memory that moves into the realm of reality. In the exhibition As gesture, Ashley Freeby and Gina Hunt reintroduce that movement and sensation through labor intensive and thoughtfully mapped works with an attention to presenting a contemplative moment. Using tools of the narrative and theater, a history is constructed and remembered. The intentionality of circumstantial elements can reimagine and reinterpret current realities. Exploring identity, illusion, and memory as an open system of connected and performed gestures in this collaboration, we regain the power to navigate and experience traditions, transmissions, and transference within perceived and lived moments naturally occurring around us.
Always mapping, tracing or marking, Ashley Freeby’s process is translating an image or event from a certain point in time. In past works like \"...writing his dream inside a rectangle,” the artist traces and represents the rectangular patch of asphalt that was the site of Michael Brown’s death with hand- painted gravel and the simple shape itself. Moving into new territory, Freeby experiments how creating earth through new forms, new materials, and new environments memorializes the victim in a special way. Exploring “earth monuments” through similar layered ways of working in the past, natural elements are the components of beautifully, vulnerable and sensitive sculptural segments. With equal attention to the technical, historical, and illusional, Gina Hunt helps shed light on the possibilities of our visual experiences in our current moment and space. In past series such as Transmitters, Hunt has manipulated materials, such as colored scrim and twisted canvas, to reimagine their visual realities. Now pushing her work beyond greater boundaries, Hunt is constructing a Color Space Modulator, a multi-panel painting creating a stage for the expansion of performative experiences of color and light, with inspiration from one of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s famous works. Circumstantial elements created by the artist through theater techniques such as the use of lighting and color projections, are the small gestures that push forward and help us reconsider histories of the systems and meanings in the world around us.
As gesture is curated by Alexis Brocchi.
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The collection of European and American art of Robert J. Buford spans from the mid-19th century to today, and includes work by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Jean Beraud, Cecily Brown, Jean Arp, Milton Avery, Giacomo Balla, Harry Bertoia, George Braque, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Kees Van Dongen, Kenneth Noland, Hans Hofman, Lee Krasner, John Marin, Joan Mitchell, Fernand Léger, Emil Nolde and Maurice de Vlaminck, among many others.
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The Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Far from the distance we see, a solo exhibition of new work by Mev Luna.
The exhibition opens on Fri, May 31, 2019 with a reception from 5-8 pm.
“The proliferating subaltern...indicates how the powers of the subject remain with us, that the strategies of the modern Will to Truth, the tools of science and history, remain the productive weapons of global subjection.”
– Denise Ferreira da Silva, 'Towards a Global Idea of Race'
The Toltecs, and later the Mexicas, believed that projection from the spiritual world into the physical was possible. Mahtactli on ce ilhuicatl or ‘the Eleventh Heaven’ is the location of the four spiritual energies of Tezcatlipoca, sometimes described as the ‘invisible god’ due to the scant surviving representations. Mahtactli on ce ilhuicatl is visualized by a square formation,[1] with each of the four spiritual energies occupying one corner, with scores of movement between intersecting lines of mother-thought and father-thought forming an x or cross in the center.[2] When enacted, the tracks rotate around the central axis, drawing a circle within a square. Far from the distance we see uses this geometric configuration and its spiritual significance to instigate audience participation, as the viewer must navigate the space according to predetermined routes in order to fully access the imagery contained within. Architecture elicits a compulsory performativity equivalent to our contemporary experience of screen mediation.
Far from the distance we see investigates various manifestations of physical and experiential confinement: Luna considers both corporeal confinement within the carceral state and the inescapable labor economy of late capitalism, alongside conceptual confinement within an imposed subject formation and position. The notion is explored both literally––through the specific embodied experience of moving through a constructed space––as well as through didactic and transcendental means. The exhibition necessitates two parallel forms of viewership: participants experience both watching unobstructed content, and watching others experience the same content made inaccessible by a privacy film designed to obscure only the content displayed on the video screens. The complex physical architecture and interwoven multi-media content of Far from the distance we see manufactures a viewing experience both intimate and alienating, reflecting the lived experience of the individuals for whom it was designed.
This project is supported in part by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Endnotes
[1] Olivier, Guilhem, Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God, Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008.
[2] Magaña, Sergio, 2012-2021: The Dawn of the Sixth Sun The Path of Quetzalcoatl: The Path of Quezalcoatl, Italy: BlossomingBooks, 2012.
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On June 6, 2019 Chicago Artists Coalition (CAC) will host its annual benefit, WORK IN PROGRESS (WIP), honoring Chicago artist Hebru Brantley and design firm Gensler.
The event also celebrates the one-year anniversary of CAC moving to its new home in the Kinzie Industrial Corridor. The event’s co-chairs are Director of Marketing at CFI Partners, Chanel Coney, and Jessica and Timothy Canning.
As part of last year’s “construction” theme, guests were invited to dress in “creative construction” attire. While this year’s event is a celebration of CAC’s one-year anniversary in its new home, the theme is a riff on the one-year “paper” wedding anniversary. Guests will find playful uses of paper and paper-inspired details throughout the space. Guests are also encouraged to dress and accessorize with paper. A lookbook with inspirations will be available on CAC’s website.
WORK IN PROGRESS is CAC’s largest fundraiser of the year. All proceeds from the event directly support CAC’s mission to supports contemporary Chicago artists and curators by offering residency programs, exhibitions, professional development and resources that enable them to live, work and thrive in the city. The event also serves as an opportunity for CAC to honor those who have made a positive impact on the arts in Chicago as well as announce the recipients of its MAKER Grants (co-sponsored by OtherPeoplesPixels) and the Coney Family Fund Award.
WORK IN PROGRESS will take place on Thursday June 6, 6–10pm at CAC (2130 W. Fulton St).
The VIP reception is from 6-8pm, during which CAC will acknowledge its honorees and grant recipients.
Tickets for the event are $350 for VIP; $70 for The Party. Tickets are on sale now.
For details and to purchase tickets visit:
chicagoartistscoalition.org/get-involved/annual-benefit
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Thrown Stone, Spitten Image, a group exhibition featuring new works by HATCH artists-in-residence Mark Blanchard, Cassandra Davis, kwabena foli, and Kelly Kristin Jones.
The exhibition runs July 5–August 15, 2019, with a reception on Friday, July 19, 5-8pm.
Idioms are expressions that convey a sentiment that cannot be understood solely from the words that make up the phrase. “A stone’s throw” refers to the proximity between places that are close enough that you could throw a stone from one and it would land in the other; “spitting image” refers to the resemblance between counterparts that is so remarkable, it is as if the spit of one produced the other. But there are latent and hostile allusions resting on the surface of these phrases. Thrown Stone, Spitten Image considers the literal implications of two commonly used figures of speech to probe and contest issues of power, trauma, and freedom. The works of Blanchard, Davis, foli, and Jones respond to places that are interwoven with aggression and trauma by uprooting these misrepresentations. These artists displace and reform their subjects in order to redirect prevailing narratives.
Through digitally manipulated photographs, on-site interventions, sculpture, and performance, Kelly Kristin Jones reclaims public spaces from those state-sanctioned monuments that masquerade as art while concealing oppression and abuses of power. Her sculptural intervention allows visions of place to stand without threat. Each photographic effort carries the scars, seams and digital residue of efforts to remove, reinterpret, and restore both landscape and narrative.
The multidisciplinary practice of kwabena foli is rooted in a desire to perpetually break down and rebuild the body for both the individual and the collective. foli creates poetic verse and symbology and combines these languages with images of implicated albeit anonymous black residents from Chicago’s Southside. He locates these visual poetics at public sites throughout the city and in dislocated sites such as the gallery. Through this act of placement and displacement, foli contests the erasure and silence of these native black bodies and restores power and authorship over a vernacular that has been co-opted from his community.
Cassandra Davis examines their Midwestern Evangelical upbringing as a means of understanding relationships between redemption, resurrection, embodied trauma, and the failure of the American dream. Often, Davis expands their practice into the very landscape the work references, undermining the primacy of the gallery in order to expand the conversation across polarized communities. By reimagining rural materials and spaces with hand-sewn, hand-woven, and hand-printed processes, Davis seeks to reclaim ritual in the hopes it might offer the queer and marginalized body a transcendent experience.
Mark Blanchard works in digital and virtual space to explore identity and consider misrepresentations of persons of color that prevail through mainstream media in America. Blanchard decentralizes those representations by building spaces that reconcile our identities and form strategies for navigating the systemic aggression toward brown bodies. In recent works, Blanchard extends these virtual experiences by creating platforms to more directly implicate the viewer and encourage them to express their own autonomy to enact their freedom.
Thrown Stone, Spitten Image is curated by Jeff Robinson.
Image: Cassandra Davis, Half-Staff, 2019, Hay, American flag, red velvet, hand screen-printed ink on fabric. 42 x 60 x 6 inches
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Free & Open to the Public
Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present song and story, an exhibition featuring new works by BOLT artist-in-residence, Erin Hayden. The exhibition runs from July 19 - August 29, 2019, with a reception on Friday, July 19, from 5-8 PM.
Dear Friend,
There’s been a lot of shedding of old skin, heavy coats, long hair, big gestures, and it's vulnerable. Letting moves sit still and be small. Letting words repeat and resonate. Drawing yourself into a knot to get at what it feels like. With a lake at our side and so much of the world oceans away, we walk, breathing with the moon, reminding ourselves we're water-based. Opening up to the dim depths of what is decided to be true. I’m writing letters to you, to me, to us; and, my thoughts wander as fast as your eyes can read it. Mediated by my clumsy fingers pressing keys and a typewriter that likes to make space on its own -- as thin as paper and as heavy as a heart.
Thanks for reading,
Erin
Image: Erin Hayden, Unicorns, 2019, Digital collage and drawing
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Join us for this annual event presented in partnership with EXPO Chicago
Sponsored by Knoll
Join us at The Annual Breakfast and connect with artists, curators, collectors, and art enthusiasts from around the wold, while getting a glimpse into what’s happening in Chicago’s emerging art scene. This year, the exhibition on view will feature work by all current HATCH and BOLTresidents, offering a unique survey of work by some of Chicago’s rising stars.
coffee & light breakfast
Please RSVP, email Karina Quintana: karina[@]chicagoartistscoalition[.org]
Include your name and guests' names.
Image: Installation Shot from CAC
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Because it's never too soon to start thinking your about taxes!
Income Tax Essentials for Artists & Creative Producers
Join tax expert Janet Ecklebarger as she demystifies the income tax filing process for artists and curators, and explains the impacts of the new tax legislation. During this session she will guide us through the process of identifying and accounting for the many diverse income streams (from contract day jobs to grant awards and sales) and business-related expenses that comprise the livelihoods of many arts practitioners. For more information see the event page.
Advanced registration is required.
$20 General Public | $10 CAC Members
Free for current CAC residents and grantees
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Gathering at 6 and starting at 6:30
Location: Peach's Cafe | 305 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
The SPARK Grant is an award opportunity for visual artists who identify as ALAANA (African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, Native American), an artist with acute financial need, an artist with a disability, or as a self-taught/non-formally trained artist.
The SPARK Grant offers 20 unrestricted awards of $2000 each to Chicago-based contemporary artists. This program is generously funded by the Joyce Foundation.
For more information, eligibility requirements, and application: click here
Information Session #2
Thursday, January 09, 6-7:30pm
CAC | 2130 W. Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60622
Questions? Contact adia@chicagoartistscoalition.org or call (312) 491-8888 x 1004
Image: 2019 SPARK Grant Awardees
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Corbett vs. Dempsey is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Arturo Herrera and offer a tour of their new gallery location. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery and is on view from November 22 through December 21, 2019.
Dance circulates as a subject and a model that is evoked, notated and enacted through the medium of collage, using a diversity of materials such as handmade paper, painted wood, aluminum, printed paper and glass. The works’ pictorial presence traces to specific channels that Herrera opens between the two media – dance and collage – to imbue each of their internal elements/references with a hybrid intensity. The essential layering of fragments in collage cumulatively suggest the space of stage and stage props, vanishing points, step patterns and lines of motion that seem to play out in real time.
Herrera was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1959, and received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Tulsa and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He currently lives and works in Berlin.
*Venue is wheelchair accessible.
This event is open to Collectors Circle members only. Please RSVP to Karina Quintana
Space is limited, please respond early to secure your place.
Check Out Our Upcoming Collectors Circle Events!
Not a Member? Join Collector's Circle Today!
Image: Arturo Herrera, detail Set Design for Dance/Elements N 1-15, 2019, collage and mixed media on hand-made paper
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Office Hours: Portfolio Reviews are an opportunity for artists to meet with arts practitioners from throughout the city. One-on-one portfolio reviews last 30 minutes and provide a platform to discuss a range of issues including: feedback on artwork, preparing for exhibitions, pursuing professional opportunities, and more!
The next session will be held at CAC on Wednesday, January 8, 6:00 - 8:30pm
with guest reviewers:
Ashley Wynn - Director, Monique Meloche Gallery
Britton Bertran - Director, Carrie Secrist Gallery
Jefferson Godard - Director, Aspect/Ratio
Kate Pollasch - Director, Corbett vs. Dempsey
$30 Registration fee
Please note that space is limited and advance registration is required.
Participants will be able to indicate consultant and meeting time preferences following the registration process.
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Attorney Patrice N. Perkins will introduce artists and arts practitioners to their fundamental rights as independent, freelance workers under the law and how to best advocate for their own financial remuneration and intellectual property protections. Incorporating a series of templates and resources, this workshop will also introduce ways for creative producers to assert their legal rights in a variety of circumstances, to develop a legal strategy to suit the needs and ambitions of their practice, and to politically organize for artists’ rights.
This is a pay-what-you-can workshop! Learn more and register below.
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Excavating Memory, a group exhibition featuring new work by HATCH artists-in-residence Katie Chung, and Unyimeabashi Udoh, curated by Juelle Daley.
On view: January 6 - January 20, 2021
Image: Katie Chung, Rote, 2019, Ball point pen on paper, 12 x 16 in.
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Extended: January 6 - January 21, 2021 by appointment only. Please reserve your time here.
\"When a building is destroyed, it leaves a hole in a succession of facades, sometimes revealing intimate traces still there on the party walls: bathroom tiles, a faded poster. Such vestiges look extremely outdated, miserable and touching, while being doomed to be bulldozed. But what is even more disturbing than these faces without volume is the possibility of a volume without a facade.\"
- Hélène Meisel
The works presented in BUILD YOUR SELF stem from Valdez’s deep interest and continued investigation into the archaeology of contemporary, banal material culture and human interaction, individually and collectively, produced with the urban landscape. Valdez gathers found objects, such as door handles with broken key locks, confetti remnants from last night’s party, handwritten notes and photographs, and carefully sets them on or into nooks and recesses of sculptures or architectural details in the gallery. Through a combination of found and crafted objects, preserved and discarded, Valdez constructs a series of new sculptures made from detritus and set in a subtle reconfiguration of space—introducing spatial and architectural interventions in the gallery.
Molds and casts of trash and debris remark on the loss and degradation of our eroding environment. The result could be described as an attempt to index and archive the total event of a small, individual moment. Rusty and worn, weathered or destroyed, the sculptures support the left behind, ditched, dumped and discarded into new modes of meaning and values.
Such traces collected are a reminder of the beauty of wear and tear on the surfaces of everyday life— and the impact of a journey that has been taken. Tripping. Falling. Missteps. Stumbling moments. Another attempt to pick oneself up, again.
WATCH: worlding ripping nature, a complementary video playlist by Tamara Becerra Valdez about the artist's interests in identity, infrastructure, and environmentalism. Included are videos by influential artists, poets, filmmakers, and musicians such as Anna Arismendez of Caña Dulce y Caña Brava, Cecilia Vicuña, Jose Olivarez, and May Ayim.
READ: “The Earthworm Also Sings” (1992) by Pauline Oliveros
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January 13, 2021, 5:30pm
To obtain Zoom credentials, register here
Featuring poet Richard 'Dingo' Dingwall and moderated by Juelle Daley.
Join us with the artists to discuss their art practice and what it means to remember to memorialize and to archive the past and present. What does it mean to document or write about racial and family histories?
This program is in partnership with DePaul University's Center for Black Diaspora.
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present una noche maravillosa–a monarch butterfly makes an entrance at a nightclub... a solo exhibition of new works by the BOLT artist-in-residence, Alejandro Jiménez-Flores.
The exhibition will have an opening day on Friday, January 29, by appointment only, from 3-8pm. Please reserve your time here.
Open Hours: Wednesdays, 10am-2pm and Fridays, 3-7pm by appointment only
For this exhibition, Alejandro Jiménez-Flores draws from the memories of going out dancing, having a delicious Campari soda, and finding new dance moves. All the while sharing glances with strangers, closing their eyes in movement, dancing with dear ones alone and accompanied. These moments are channeled by the artist into soft pastel drawings. Dancing to get lost and calling for a language that is not here yet, though making room for it with every new move.
Mirroring these moves with a fantastical twist florencio (the co-star of this show) creates paintings about kiki (a monarch butterfly). kiki’s story is an allegory for the experiences many people face when they resist dominant culture’s perception of their gender and race, as well as how individuals struggle with the roles and identities that their community expects them to perform. After suffering much bullying and teasing from the other Monarch butterflies, kiki wanders away from them. Lost and longing to belong, kiki finds clues for kinship throughout the urban landscape. Following the scent of something familiar yet unknown–an Aperol Spritz–she stumbles onto a dancefloor where she finally finds the space for moves and gestures of her own: for transformation, new worldmaking, and becoming.
Who is florencio, you might ask? To put it simply, florencio is a conceptual personae, a multi-temporal transdimensional entity, another framework to interact with language enacted and facilitated by the artist In relation to the exhibition, florencio via Alejandro asked Miguel Jiménez to write a short story about kiki’s journey. florencio then asked Maddy Stocking to illustrate and design the book world of the story, including drawing and paintings by florencio. This book will function as an atemporal exhibition catalogue that portrays an elsewhere, a third space, a different journey for kiki 🦋🥀
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present The Frantic Desire for Almost Real, a duo exhibition featuring new works by HATCH residents Bryan LeBeuf and Gericault De La Rose, and curated by Fabiola Tosi.
The Frantic Desire for Almost Real will be on view from January 29 - March 11, 2021, with an opening day on Friday, January 29, by appointment, from 3-8pm. Please reserve your time here.
Open Hours: Wednesdays, 10am-2pm and Fridays, 3-7pm by appointment only
The exhibition explores connections between identity, collective memory, and authenticity. The Frantic Desire for Almost Real “arises only as a neurotic reaction to the vacuum of memories” (Umberto Eco, Travels In Hyperreality). The displaced body is central to the constant search for cultural memories as a way to affirm one’s identity, the Real. This process however is complicated by the inconsistent relationship between reality, perception and the concept of authenticity. The Real is a fixed identity that exists as an ideal version of the self. Almost Real is a transitional identity, slipping in and out of liminal spaces or in-between fixed designations, as Homi K. Bhabha¹ describes in their meditation on “the authentic”. In a vacuum of memories, the Almost Real is frantically desired by the displaced body.
The works of Bryan A. LeBeuf and Gericault De La Rose stand as a representation of the complexities faced by a displaced body — may this be an individual or a community — whose desire is to affirm their identity. Constantly in flux between longing and belonging, the subject of this neurotic search fails to recognize that the unbalanced, unsteady Almost Real is in fact the expression of one’s identity.
The Frantic Desire for Almost Real is presented in both physical and digital gallery spaces. Curated programming will provide a deeper look into the artists’ practices, in conversation with guest speakers and contributors. The series includes Expedition Through the Authentic: Resist Imprint, a performance by Gericault De La Rose and a public talk with artist Bryan A. LeBeuf. Additional details and programming will be announced at a later date.
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Repository and Repertoire, a duo exhibition featuring new works by HATCH Residents Jazmine Harris and José Santiago Pérez. The exhibition will have an opening day on Friday, January 29, 2021, by appointment only, from 3-8pm. Please reserve your time here.
Open Hours: Wednesdays, 10am-2pm and Fridays, 3-7pm by appointment only
Repository and Repertoire stages a conversation between the archival processes of Jazmine Harris and the haptic choreographies of José Santiago Pérez. They arrange and compose images, objects, attitudes, and issues that articulate historical and social, collective, and individual relationships between local knowledge and global narratives.
Repository refers to cultural events that are preserved permanently, such as in writing, photographs, or recorded tapes, in archives, libraries, and collections and, therefore, are perceived as stable and unchanging over time. Through the collage of monoprints, news headlines, and photos from her personal archive, Harris repositions photography’s connection to time as a referent to create new relationships to memory.
Repertoire applies to a culture embodied in the practices of such events as rituals and dances; they follow a script but are perceived as temporary, fragile, and easily forgotten. Pérez reworks traditional basket weavings through performative processes to build a language between time, value, and touch.
Although archival and embodied knowledges seem to work in opposition, these two ways of knowing illuminate and invigorate one another. Questioning not only what we know but also challenging us on how we know it. Harris and Pérez ask:
How do you acknowledge, visualize, write, perform, practice, and enact? How do you know, store, and transmit?
Repository and Repertoire is curated by Stephanie Koch.
Public Events
Revision — Exhibiting artist Jazmine Harris will be in conversation with curator Stephanie Koch alongside artists Sasha Phyars-Burgess and Cameron A. Granger. Through a discussion of Black visualities, they will discuss their recent shifts in making to create new ways to disseminate and care for images of Black life. The conversation will be available for viewing on Chicago Artist Coalition’s web and social media platforms throughout February 2021.
Rehearsal — Through a series of six weekly open rehearsals, José Santiago Pérez will share the making of a new performative work Unburdenings (working title). Alongside their collaborators, Pérez will build a range of movements and gestures which both ask and seek to answer: How do we bear emotional, mental, and social burdens? Where do we store those burdens in the body? In what ways do we share the weight of burdens through our relations?
Rehearsals will be live-streamed at 1 PM CST every Sunday from January 31 - March 7, 2021, on Chicago Artist Coalition’s web and social media platforms.
On Sunday, March 14, 2021, at 1 PM CST, exhibiting artist José Santiago Pérez will be in conversation with curator Stephanie Koch on the collaborative process of choreographing Unburdenings (working title).
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Survey 2, a group exhibition featuring new works by HATCH 2019-2020 residents, and curated by Fabiola Tosi, Juelle Daley, and Stephanie Koch. The exhibition will be on view from March 19, 2021 through April 29, 2021, with an opening day on Friday, March 19, by appointment. Exhibiting artists include Katie Chung, Gericault De La Rose, Naomi Elson, Jazmine Harris, Ellen Holtzblatt, Julia Klein, Bryan LeBeuf, Juan Molina Hernández, Solomon Salim Moore, José Santiago Pérez, Joshi Radin, and Unyimeabasi Udoh.
Survey 2 asks the twelve resident artists to reflect on and share the distinct ways they relate to time: How do you manifest the connection between process and object, both enduring and ephemeral? With a deep look into the process and methods of each artist-in-residence, the exhibition is a survey of the different scales at which time is perceived, seized, and reshaped through diverse artistic practices. What does it mean to relate to concepts such as now and then, before and after, slow and fast? When all the artworks collide in the same space as a collective, in what way do they negotiate, depart from, merge or challenge each other’s notion of linearity to reveal the artist’s personal rhythm and unique timestamp of individuality? The artworks on view are symbolic permutations of the individual embedded with the artists’ relationship to the ephemeral.
Curated programming will extend the conversation from the gallery to non-physical space, exploring other methods of discussing and curating ephemerality. Additional details will be announced at a later date.
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Preview 10, the tenth anniversary survey show of works by BOLT artists-in-residence: Selva Aparicio, Kyle Bellucci Johanson, Susy Bielak, Julian Flavin, Maryam Taghavi, and Paige Taul. Preview 10 will open on Friday, March 19, 2021, by appointment only, from 3-8pm. Please reserve your time here.
Preview 10 is curated by Kristin Korolowicz.
Preview 10 presents various creative viewpoints from recent works that are gestures in new directions for the artists, in preparation for their solo exhibitions in 2021 and 2022. The exhibition is conversational, provisional, and open-ended in allowing the art to define itself and to evoke feelings of persistence and renewal.
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Human Shell, a solo exhibition of new works by 2019-2020 BOLT artist-in-residence, Jacquelyn Carmen Guerrero. This exhibition will include a series of experimental movement performances documented by ColectivoMultipolar during their 2021 TRQPITECA Miami Artist Residency. The exhibition will have an opening day on Friday, May 7, by appointment only, from 3-8pm. Please reserve your time here.
Scored by original musical compositions, performance videos reflect the shifting, migrating, and intertwining of human and nonhuman bodies in natural and artificial environments over time. Photographs, printed in large format, are embroidered with gemstone beads. Like scars healing from the punctures of the embroidery needle, these mutations signal the regeneration of Guerrero's physical and spiritual bodies in response to intense natural and man-made processes. Through a communion with home land, sacred spaces are revealed and spiritual landscapes are transformed.
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present We Are Safe Here, a solo exhibition of new works by the BOLT artist-in-residence, Leticia Bernaus. The exhibition will have an opening day on Friday, May 7, by appointment only, from 3-8pm. Please reserve your time here.
\"Touch is the key to all our physical sensations, whether a feeling be triggered by a foreign substance worming its way within, or something born inside the body itself inflict a pain, or when in the conceiving act of love, the outward flow delights; or when the body’s particles, struck by blow, are shaken up, and throw the senses in confusion. No? Then try this small experiment, and strike, with your own hand, any area of your body, then you will understand.\"
- Lucretius, Rerum Natura
What is it, again, to be a body? To exist as beings, no less physical than the world around us? What is gained by us having skin?
Much of our wisdom accrues through our hands. Through these permeable sensors, we slowly shape and nurture our surrounding reality, and, in turn, we are shaped and nurtured by it. In Bernaus' new body of work, the artist has been investigating touch as a medium for interpretation, as a literal and metaphorical synapse that connects us to the material world. In her works, the hand becomes the medium for exploration --- a gesture where the hand interacts with the world and one's empirical truth takes hold.
Skin is the magical boundary, the accessible layer where the inner self and the outer world are in balance, creating new knowledge and understanding. We Are Safe Hereemerges from the intersection of a profound self-examination and a material research that strives to embody the physical and spiritual aspects of our existence.
In times when virtual environments have forced a layer of immateriality onto our everyday lives, distancing us from the reality we inhabit, this exhibition exhorts the viewer to remember that all things, including mental states and consciousness, are the result of a material interaction. Matter is an archive of transformations and relations. Matter is a self-organizing totality to which we all belong. Bernaus' interventions question the fundamental principles of interrelations between all matter, while also considering how to step beyond the shared sense of community in online environments. The artist seeks to give our existence a feeling of genuine planetary union; in other words, how to turn the body into a world.
We Are Safe Here depicts the alchemic moment where a unique encounter takes place. Everything that happens, writes Lucretius, the experience of pleasure, the winds blowing, the flowers blooming in the spring, the beasts rutting, the poet composing—everything has the same essential cause. This exhibition is an invitation to slow down and contemplate, to breathe and meditate. We Are Safe Here is a visual mantra for reconnecting one's body with its role as a sanctuary for the interactions with the universe. The essential cause lives in all of us—We Are Safe Here encourages viewers to touch it.
This project is supported in part by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Image: Leticia Bernaus, We Are Safe Here, 2021, Photograph, Dimensions vary.
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Translucent Beauty and other Guardians, an exhibition featuring works by HATCH 2019-2020 residents, Ellen Holtzblatt and Juan Molina Hernández, and curated by Juelle Daley. The exhibition will have an opening day on Friday, May 7, by appointment only, from 3-8pm. Please reserve your time here.
Translucent Beauty and other Guardians is a meditation on familial relationships, its fault lines, frictions and the ferocious love that can emerge during intimate times spent together.
These elements form the axis around which the paintings, drawings and photographs by the artists orbit. They also lay bare the complexities of parenthood and how one manifests “taking care” when executed by adult children. Holtzblatt and Molina Hernández create environments of safety and protective landscapes that form as guardians to watch over family members. Both artists become the Other Guardians of their family narratives with images imbued with dignity and reverence but devoid of idolatry or glorification. In doing so, tenderness and implicit familial messiness come together like a floral arrangement crafted to honor, protect and make reproachments whether the subjects are still among the living or dead.
Translucent Beauty makes allusion to the impossibility of fully seeing and knowing the other, even when that person is related to you. Do we ever fully know them? This inability to fully “see through” the prism of familial identity is explored and compelled the artists to create portraiture as renditions or glimpses of the sitter’s interiority. Framing and composition are intentional and provide a spectrum of degrees of intimacy and emotional proximity to the subjects. The artists seem to ask, what do I see when I look at you? I see myself, I see nothing, I see vulnerability and fragility, and at the same time resilience. This intersection results in unique portraits of mothers, fathers, nephews, cousins, grandparents who become mirrors of a self that lurks for clues and possible resemblance.
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Tickets for both the free and ticketed VIP WIP 2021 events are available at Eventbrite. *Registration and ticket sales are due by June 4, 2021
The auction preview is live as of May 19, and bidding opens June 1
WORK IN PROGRESS 2021 will be Chicago Artists Coalition’s biggest night of the year, a virtual celebration of its 47 years as a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting contemporary Chicago artists. The event, taking place virtually on Wednesday, June 9, 2021, at 6:00 pm, highlights milestones of Chicago-based artists and curators and their influence both in and beyond the city. The event is free and open to the public and includes an art auction and recognition of the night’s honorees, artists Nick Cave and Bob Faust, and CAC supporter Jeff Shapack. CAC will also give grants to six artists.
A ticketed Work In Progress 2021 VIP event will follow the free public portion of the evening and includes a private, virtual tour of Facility, Nick Cave and Bob Faust’s multi-disciplinary creative space in Northwest Chicago. A live conversation with the artists follows the tour.
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Deep Cuts, a duo exhibition featuring new works by current HATCH 2021-2022 artists-in-residence Helen Lee and Nat Pyper, and curated by Joan Roach. The exhibition will have an opening day on Friday October, 1 2021 from 5-8pm.
Lee and Pyper’s studio practices cut into the B-sides of their respective cultural and personal catalogues. In their exhibition the artists disassemble, cut , stab, transform, re-print, duplicate, and put back together aural echoes of joy and suffering. Their practices are united through action, each clipping wings or zines, as a means of re-imagining, re-contextualizing, and sometimes making love to the “archive.” As Lee unearths and commemorates vulnerable moments from her lived experience, she dives further into memoriam, where she shares a collection of stories of Asian and Black lives lost due to hate. In a similar gesture against violence, Pyper pricks at the veil of queer punk anarcho-zine history. Their transgressive, clipped apart, stretched, and reprinted cut-ups bare it all, and often out of sight images see the light of day. The two artists handle the complex conversations around sex and death with a sense of reverence. They push through reticence to offer up their catharsis in its stead.
Top Image: Photo by Sung Hyun Lee
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present, A Form By Which To Be Possessed, a solo exhibition of new works by the BOLT artist-in-residence, Maryam Taghavi. The exhibition will have an opening day on Friday October 1, 2021 from 5-8pm.
In this exhibition, Taghavi’s multitude of paintings exploit a single character: a sigil, an occult letter-form believed to cast a spell upon its viewer. The sigil derives from a book of talismans, The Secrets of Qasemi, by the 15th-century Persian poet and scholar, Hussein Va’ez Kashefi, in which the power of flight is promised to its viewer.
As a letter-form, the sigil operates outside the ordinary systems of language and meaning-making, making it open to unexpected possibilities. Taghavi is driven by the sigil’s transgressive qualities to transform it into numerous shapes and arrangements that make up new spells to cast. Similar to the sigil, each painting functions as an interface to behold the flight: an escape from reality, an exhilarating state of suspension, and a reach for the metaphysical powers however temporary the touch may be.
Top Image: Maryam Taghavi, m174mmm1739919, 2021, Airbrush on folded canvas, 36 x 46 inches
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Open to anyone with an interest in contemporary art, Collectors Circle is a dynamic group made up of many emerging and established collectors who share a strong interest in supporting Chicago’s role as an arts capital. Members receive invitations to private collections tours and access to special events throughout the year. Learn more and Join HERE
Collectors Circle members will take a guided tour with Jessica Cochran of the solo exhibition of new paintings by Mary Simpson, No Island is an Island. The paintings were all made during the past three months, the summer her mother died, and they are named after narrators from books she read during this time. The works are installed on a site-specific installation: gallery walls composed of limestone Venetian plaster, a building material thousands of years old, known for its ability to expand and contract with shifting humidity. Haynes Court is blocks from Palmisano Park, a buried limestone quarry.
Members will also tour the attached residence, featuring the collection of Jessica Cochran and Eric Matthews. Over the last decade, they have acquired works by artists, including many from Chicago, including Amanda Williams, Isabel Nolan, Wesley Willis, Laura Davis, Ryan Richey, Silke Otto-Knapp, Geoff Oppenheimer, Scott Wolniak, Pedro Velez, Betsy Odom, and others.
Mary Simpson was born in Anchorage, Alaska and currently lives in New York. She received an MFA from Columbia University and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program. Her work has shown at Bortolami Gallery, On Stellar Rays, Rachel Uffner Gallery and Simone Subal Gallery, all New York; David Petersen, Minneapolis; Almine Rech, Brussels; Hilary Crisp, London; Chambers Fine Art, Beijing; Seattle Art Museum; Boise Art Museum.
Haynes Court is a project space located in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood and founded by Jessica Cochran. Since opening in fall 2020, Haynes Court hosts exhibitions including an array of contemporary artists working internationally and in Chicago. Operating within a legacy of artist-centered and project-driven cultural spaces in Chicago, our mission is to create a supportive and intentional platform for artists.
*Venue is wheelchair accessible.
This event is open to Collectors Circle members only. Please RSVP to Karina Quintana Space is limited; please respond early to secure your place.
Collectors Circle is generously sponsored by Chartwell Insurance Services
Image: Haynes Court. Photo by Useful Art Services.
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Wednesday, November 10, 6-7:30pm |Chicago Artists Coalition | 2130 W. Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
a specimen study; from land to heart | Performance | Helen Lee | 6pm
Supported by the music of our inner landscapes, Wild Anima, Helen sifts through memories and histories as something to be observed, examined, learned and perhaps, eventually understood and/or released. In celebration and remembrance of our inner child and Black and Asians lives.
Cutups and Callouts | Performance | Nat Pyper and Helen Lee
Nat and Helen take a page from queer anarcho-punk zine history in a raucous collaborative reading aided by felt wearables in the exhibition.
Artist and Curator Talk | Nat Pyper, Helen Lee, and Joan Roach
After the performance will be a conversation between the curator, Joan Roach and the artists referencing the creative process and inspiration behind the exhibition.
Photo provided by Helen Lee
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The Rounds captures the repeated tries, recurring counter-actions, and recursive tensions existing amid the perpetual state of motion in societies, between relationships, and within one’s mental landscape.
Obaonrin develops a personal and self-reflexive form of documentation that pin-prints the origins of friendship encounters, their formations, and dissolutions—threading her way through the cycles of choices, consequences, and interconnectivity. By contrast, Yang turns her eyes to migration, labor, and global circulation. She concurrently stages hybrid spaces and parallel realities through the movements of the various hands of migrant workers and consumers in the exhibition space in Chicago and a store-front gallery in Seoul.
Anchoring this exhibition is a “rock paper scissors” game-inspired, video installation the two artists made together. Through this layered reference, the collaborative piece reflects the human propensity to replicate decisions that result in reward contingencies and to shift responses away from options that formerly led to undesirable outcomes. This tendency displays a plurality of shared elements of the artists’ practices: calculative but intuitive, rigorous but playful.
The exhibition takes us on a journey that extends through screen prints, mirrors, threads, moving images, live streams, and participatory installations around the clock and across the globe, challenging the visitor to consider their own “rounds,” as well as those of others.
Image: Osée Obaonrin and Nayeon Yang, The Rounds (still), 2021, video installation.
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present for spacious skies, an exhibition of new work by Kyle Bellucci Johanson. This show was researched and produced during the artist’s BOLT Residency at Chicago Artists Coalition.
The entire history of Quattrocento perspectives is only ever a story of struggle, of the battle of geometers vying to make us forget the ‘high’ and the ‘low’ by pushing the ‘near’ and the ‘far’, a vanishing-point that literally fascinated them, even though our vision is actually determined by our weight and oriented by the pull of earth’s gravity, by the classic distinction between zenith and nadir.
The original reference point for sight is therefore not what the Italian masters said it was, that of vanishing lines converging on the horizon, but one bound up with the delicate balancing act of a universal attraction which imposes on us its gearing towards the centre of the earth, at the risk of our falling[1].
for spacious skies is an aesthetic field of oblique conversations performed on a player piano that was built in Chicago during a global pandemic which came to be called “The Spanish Flu.” The exhibition consists of a tarpaulin architecture, research media, moving image, drawings, sound, and propositions before a horizon. A central symbol of inquiry in this exhibition is the fascio, a bundle of sticks. In Chicago, this symbol adorns public monuments to US Presidents Washington and Lincoln, as well as monuments to Mussolini and Columbus. What is at the root of the compulsion to gather things together and bind? The fascio is used as a metaphor for people. “Together we are strong,” Æsop fabled, but, are these sticks conscious of their bondage [2]? Why would one consent to a promise of strength at the expense of their agency to be free?
This site-responsive work meditates on various roles and ideologies of empire play, and have played in shaping Chicago’s visual culture and perspective; as well as how symbols, figures, and monuments are deployed through time, with political conditions shifting around and underneath them. What would perspective be if the horizon had not been invented? What would existence feel like without the construction of frontier mythologies? Without places to “discover\"? What futures awaken when orientation becomes suspect? What do we make of it if upside-down, north, and “western” become untrustworthy? Here is cosmos. Here is life, together. We are here, and here is open sky.
Image: Kyle Belluci Johanson, detail of \"for spacious skies\" 2021.
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Timely Sanctification, a duo exhibition featuring new works by current HATCH 2021-22 artists-in-residence Jade Williams and Gabriel Chalfin-Piney, curated by Cristobal Alday.
The exhibition will be on view from February 25 - April 7, 2022, with an opening reception on Friday, February 25, 5-8pm.
Timely Sanctification encompasses the ways in which the artists find themselves investigating histories and how they make sense of the spiritual and familial influences on their lives.
Jade Williams jumps timelines in order to create an ideal world for her younger and future selves. She does so by using blueprints and collaging old family photos as well as implementing sound bites of family members’ voices responding to questions she is pondering: What happens when we don’t get the answers we are searching for? How can we be okay with not getting the closure we’ve sought so hard for?
Gabriel Chalfin-Piney reflects on the impermanence of spirituality and how it can be contained and made “pocketable.” Through the use of found, foraged, and purchased materials and loosely adapted oral histories of the life of Saint Seraphim of Sarov, the historical accuracy of saintly people and places is highlighted. Can a sacred space fit into a sock? What makes a holy place deserving of a souvenir shop?
Williams and Chalfin-Piney both use material manipulation that embed us into individual spaces such as the outer space, gift shops, grandma’s living room, the forest, and inner space all while we simultaneously watch their worlds collide.
Exhibition activation facilitated by Zachary Nicol and Courtney Mackedanz, and accompanied by a live performance by Devin Shaffer will take place on Saturday, March 26 at 5pm.
It will also feature cross programming by HATCH 2021-2022 residents Bryana Bibbs and Sirimas Benz Amataya Kuipers. Dates will be announced at a later time.
Image Credit: Sagrado, Spliced image using works by Gabriel Chalfin-Piney and Jade Williams created by Cristobal Alday, 2022
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Claimed, a solo exhibition of new work by BOLT artist-in-residence Selva Aparicio. The exhibition will be on view from February 25 - April 7, 2022, with an opening reception on Friday, February 25, 5-8pm.
Claimed is a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Selva Aparicio that leverages themes of death, memory, and mourning to breathe new life into the forgotten. It exposes the inherent failings of a system that disproportionately relegates impoverished, disabled, and non-white Americans to anonymous, inaccessible mass graves like New York City’s Hart Island each year. Devoid of all traces of traditional ritual and remembrance, the pine casket, synonymous with pauper’s graves and potter’s fields, forms the heart of Aparicio’s installation. They are delicately covered with dandelion seeds, or achene, and elevated into the gallery wall in a manner reminiscent of European religious burials. The shrouded casket elegantly transcends the surface, meaning it becomes a shrine befitting of individual legacy and the reverent growth and potential of a life cut short by circumstance. No longer the mark of obscurity, it offers up a gentle requiem for the lost and provides the living with a touchstone to reclaim an infinite number of moments stolen away by the poverty, illness, and isolation–so rampant in western society and mitigates the unwavering indifference of systems designed to protect its most vulnerable.
Image: Selva Aparicio, Claimed (detail), 2022, Plywood casket covered in dandelion seeds.
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Crossings is a duo exhibition featuring new works by HATCH artists-in-residence Anwulika Anigbo and Farah Salem, curated by Yi Cao.
Performance: Join us for an evening of spirited sound-making where Farah Salem will activate her installation, based on a re-imagined Tanbura (lyre) instrument. Installation activation is on Tuesday, May 17 at 7pm.
Event is free and open to the public
Collage image using works by Farah Salem and Anwulika Anigbo, 2022
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Join us for an evening of spirited sound-making where Farah Salem will activate her installation, based on a re-imagined Tanbura (lyre) instrument. Installation activation is on Tuesday, May 17 at 7pm.
Event is free and open to the public
Collage image using works by Farah Salem and Anwulika Anigbo, 2022
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Segundo Piso is a solo exhibition of new work by BOLT artist-in-residence, Susy Bielak.
Artist talk and closing reception: Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 7-9pm with an artist talk at 7:30pm.
Event is free and open to the public
On view: April 15 - May 26, 2022
Image Credit: Susy Bielak, Ascent / Ascenso (detail), Sculpture with antique dresser mirror, steel base, photo transfers and graphic rubbing on custom-cut MDF, 42-1/4” H x 39-5/16” W
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present a solo exhibition by BOLT artist-in-resident Julian Flavin, The Smell Of A House Being Built In The Rain. The exhibition will be on view from June 3 - July 14, 2022, with an opening reception on Friday, June 3, 5-8pm.
In the middle of the night, a US Military cover band returns from deployment in Kuwait; a 7-Eleven convenience store blares classical music from its awnings to discourage the homeless from loitering; a choir sings at the bedsides of the dying; and, teenagers appropriate the artist’s own music to soundtrack \"Call Of Duty,\" a first-person-shooter gameplay on YouTube.
Orbiting a feature-length documentary film, The Smell Of A House Being Built In The Rain asks how our relationship to music shapes our politics, our deepest-held aspirations, and our language for understanding our position in the world. Visualizing the complexity of these musical intersections, Flavin’s exhibition explores how multiple, even opposing, political positions can be inhabited by a single piece of music.
Image: Julian Flavin, Still from \"In The Sweet Arms\" (forthcoming), HD Video, 55:00 minutes
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Layer, Mark, Repeat, a duo exhibition featuring new works by HATCH artists-in-residence Bryana Bibbs and Sirimas Benz Amatayakul, curated by Cristobal Alday. The exhibition will be on view from June 3 - July 14, 2022, with an opening reception on Friday, June 3, 5-8pm.
Would you do things again and again over an extended period of time without expecting a result? This very question is being pondered throughout Layer, Mark, Repeat. Both Bryana Bibbs and Sirimas Benz Amatayakul are exploring their own processes, and questioning why they do what they do repeatedly.
Take it one step at a time or in this case, one weft at a time. Bibbs’ practice is used to work through the daily occurrences and struggles of life, but also past traumas. Every step is repeated daily, weekly, and even monthly. It can become second nature, even mindless after a certain point. However, through these repeated steps that it takes to “complete” a weaving is where the process of the past unfolds. By cutting and weaving together diary entries, Bibbs is emphasizing the importance of these recurring actions in her piece, After. What is being hidden in plain sight? Will repetition lead to salvation?
Amatayakul practices a way of shedding all her layers when the brush hits the canvas. By letting go of her personal signifiers, she establishes a relationship with the paint and other materials that extends beyond her thoughts. What is left is a raw pulp of ever-expanding possibilities. By going over layers of previous materials again and again, Amatayakul is adding to the notion of what is not visible right away. What is waiting to be revealed through the process? How do you know when to move forward?
Flashbacks of red appearing on strips of paper. Look beyond the wooden panels. Both Bibbs and Amatayakul take their repetitive processes and invite us to think about our own healing while we watch them try to work through their own. In a sense of exploration, both artists are using materials to build a connection between themselves and others, showcasing that although healing is an individual act, it takes a community to truly mend.
Image: After All This Time, Are We Healed?, spliced image using works by Bryana Bibbs and Sirimas Benz Amatayakul created by Cristobal Alday, 2022
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Diffractions, a duo exhibition featuring new works by current HATCH 2021-2022 artists-in-residence Jennifer Chen-su Huangand Roderick Sawyer, and curated by Joan Roach. The exhibition will have an opening reception on Friday, July 22, 2022 from 5-8pm.
In Diffractions, artists Huang and Sawyer's assemblages and collage works are sentimental stockpiles conceptually linked by their shared approach to art-making as a daily holistic practice. Their works are reflections of what the artists intuitively and attentively collect from everyday life. What follows are palimpsest love notes to the places the artists call home.
Like a beam of light split and spread between window blinds, or bent around threads in the weft, light is transposed into new patterns of light and shadow. As we read--or shine a light through them--the layers of Huang and Sawyer's creations and our understandings of their perspectives become diffractions.
Exhibitions are free and open to the public.
We ask that masks be worn regardless of vaccination status to help protect our community. Thank you!
Image: Diffractions, Collage of works by Roderick Sawyer and Jennifer Chen-su Huang, created by Joan Roach 2022
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present 71, a solo exhibition by BOLT artist-in-residence, Paige Taul. The exhibition will be on view from July 22-September 1, 2022, with an opening reception on Friday, July 22, from 5-8pm.
71, the most recent work by filmmaker Paige Taul, is about the sensibilities of the black middle class as observed by Jessica Taul and Pamela Patterson, the filmmaker's mother and aunt, respectively. Taul’s relatives discuss their differing tastes, definitions of class, frogs, and other qualifiers they consider in their evaluation of the space that they live in: a suburban-like outcropping of identical housing units. Through direct quotation and phenomenological relation to Bill Greaves’ seminal film, Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class (1968), 71 navigates the temporal gaps in conformity and respectability politics between 1968 and 2022.
Image: Paige Taul, Still from \"71', HD video/archival footage, 2022
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WORK IN PROGRESS 2022
Chicago Artists Coalition presents its annual fundraising event of the year! Radiance + Reunion Honoring Candida Alvarez + Monique Meloche
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Tickets:
$300 for VIP Event 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
$60 for After-Party 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
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Join artists, art supporters and enthusiasts at the Chicago Artists Coalition’s annual benefit, WORK IN PROGRESS 2022. The benefit includes a lively party, art auction, art activations and music.
Chicago Artists Coalition is a non-profit organization supporting contemporary Chicago artists and curators to live, work and thrive in Chicago.
Venue: Chicago Artists Coalition, 2130 West Fulton Street, Chicago, IL
For tickets visit chicagoartistscoalition.org
Candida Alvarez is an American artist widely regarded as one of her generation’s most highly innovative and experimental painters. She makes paintings and drawings that blur the boundaries between the conceptual, the intuitive and the abstract. Complex and vibrantly layered with combinations of abstract and figurative forms rich in pop, historical and modern art references, Alvarez’s works include drawings, paintings, prints and collages. She creates with materials as diverse as acrylic paint, colored pencils, enamel and embroidery thread on cloth, on various supports ranging from canvas to PVC, cotton napkins to vellum.
Alvarez’s work has been exhibited around the globe, from the Whitney Museum in New York to galleries and museums in Europe and South America. She has been a tenured professor of Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 1988 and is a recipient of numerous prestigious grants and awards.
Monique Meloche founded her eponymous art gallery in October 2000, with its debut exhibition ‘Homewrecker’ at Meloche’s home, and officially opened to the public in May 2001. Diverse and inclusive since its inception, the Monique Meloche Gallery promotes politically minded contemporary art, aiming to be a bellwether for artistic talents early or under-recognized in their careers. Working with an international group of emerging and established artists in all media, the gallery presents conceptually challenging installations in Chicago and at art fairs internationally, emphasizing curatorial and institutional outreach.
Meloche regularly collaborates with museums, including Crystal Bridges, the Spelman Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art. She is widely respected for her ability to spot young talent, having worked with celebrated artists early in their careers, including Amy Sherald, Rashid Johnson and Ebony G. Patterson.
Images: Candida Alvarez (left) Photo: Chester Alamo-Costello | Monique Meloche (right) Photo: Heidi Norton
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Preview 11, a group exhibition featuring current BOLT artists-in-residence: Laleh Motlagh, Lola Ayisha Ogbara, R. Treshawn Williamson, Sal Moreno, Tulika Ladsariya
Preview 11 explores the personal and observed narratives surrounding migration and nature that have shaped their experiences of family, space and place. The new works by the artists step out of the specificity of this moment to reframe global and cultural histories propelled by their perspectives.
Event is free and open to the public
Laleh Motlagh,\"In Search of Silence\", 2022, ink on paper
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Survey 4, a group exhibition featuring current HATCH residence.
If we are to describe Memory to you, it would be a sentence, an image, or something we point at. But Memory precedes precision. It comes first as a feeling that scallops you before you realize what it was—a bodily impulse. To make sense of this, we present you a collection of conditions—glimpses into the lives and careers of twelve remarkable artists.
Event is free and open to the public
Image: Artist’s Book, 2022, Yoonshin Park
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Join us for an artist talk and activation with Jessica Ferrar and Yoonshin Park. Learn more about the artist’s concepts of their works and get a chance to activate their pieces.
Artist Talk: Saturday, January 7, 2023 1-3p
Event is free and open to the public
Artist Collage, Yoonshin Park & Jessican Ferrer, 2022
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Luis Rodríguez Rosario is a Puerto Rican artist residing in Chicago with a BFA in Image and Design from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico and a MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has participated in several exhibitions within Puerto Rico and the United States of America, such as the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Museo Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, The Driehaus Museum and the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art.
Josué Esaú Romero Velasquez was born in Honduras, raised in San Antonio, and currently lives in Chicago. He works through sculpture, archiving, and various media to confront the implications of being undocumented in this country, searching for ways to ground safety, home, and legacy for himself and the communities he loves. Josué holds a BFA from the Southwest School of Art, and an MFA from Columbia College Chicago.
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present \"Contemplation\", a solo exhibition featuring current BOLT artists-in-residence: Laleh Motlagh.
In “Contemplation”, Motlagh furthers her accord with flora, which has held a steadfast presence in her life, and whose universality embodies both geographic and political isolation as well as solidarity. As with her earlier work, her engagement is spoken in the language of her partner, producing a conversation rooted in silence and intentional contemplation.
A conversation for which access relies on deliberate detachment from human discourse and environments.
Text by: Noah Hanna
Event is free and open to the public
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High Maintenance wants to invite you to think about the hidden labor and tension around the ordeal of maintaining, an act of repetition and reverse-entropy that has been capitalized and also racialized in contemporary American society.
On view: March 10 - April 20, 2023 with an opening reception on Friday, March 10, 5-8pm.
Event is free and open to the public
Nicki Ni, High Maintenance flyer, 2023
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to announce its partnership with Newcity and EXPO CHICAGO. Coinciding with EXPO CHICAGO 2023, CAC will host a centerpiece exhibition of this year's Newcity Breakout Artists. The exhibition will have an opening reception on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 from 5-9pm. This event is free and open to the public. The exhibition will be on view until May 19, 2023.
Established in 2004, Newcity's annual Breakout Artists issue has become a leading indicator of future success in contemporary art. Of the 150 Breakout Artists before this year, over 40 now have gallery representation, ranging from Hauser & Wirth to numerous Chicago galleries; most of the others, including those who've chosen less commercial paths, show regularly at museums and institutions around the world.
Exhibiting artists: Ále Campos (BOLT 2023-24), Maggie Crowley, Erol Scott Harris II, Janelle Ayana Miller (SPARK Grant 2020), Laleh Motlagh (BOLT 2022-23), Elsa Muñoz (SPARK Grant 2021), Ruby Que (HATCH 2023-24), Moises Salazar, Farah Salem (HATCH 2022-23), and Kushala Vora (HATCH 2018-19).
About Newcity
Newcity is a media company based in Chicago, founded in 1986 and still owned and operated by its founders, Brian & Jan Hieggelke. Established in 2004, Newcity's annual Breakout Artists issue has become a leading indicator of future success in contemporary art.
About EXPO CHICAGO
EXPO CHICAGO will host the tenth edition of the in-person exposition on April 13-16, 2023 at Navy Pier. Moving forward, the exposition will be presented annually in April, with April 11-14, 2024 as dates for the eleventh edition at Navy Pier.
The city of Chicago has proudly hosted a global contemporary and modern art exposition for nearly forty years and serves as the site of the first international art fair in the Americas. Since its inception, EXPO CHICAGO has remained dedicated to supporting local, regional, and international arts communities, with strong regional support throughout the Greater Midwest, both US coasts, and maintained a growing international commitment from Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
For more information and to reserve tickets, visit https://chicagoartistscoalition.org/events/newcity-breakout-artists-2023
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In thinking about personal gaze in practice and interrogating the notion of meaning making across both ancient and contemporary craft, Williamson arrives with an offering of charcoal monoprints, concrete sculptures, landscape paintings, and photographs — laying beauty at the sightline and draping a tapestry of thought within the periphery.
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Raveling, a group exhibition featuring 2022-2023 HATCH residents: artists James Hosking and Maria Villaseñor-Marchal, curated by Vasia Rigou.
Bold colors, unexpected textures and works that span scale—from immense to miniature—evoke introspection. Collages of newspaper clippings and magazine images from times past are presented alongside textile installations and mundane items—think: tuna cans and childhood toys. Raveling is an exhibition of dualities.
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Free-Drumming, a solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist and 2022-2023 CAC Bolt Resident Sal Moreno.
Sal Moreno’s “Free-drumming” combines emerging technologies with improvisational vocalized and percussive rhythm, and invites viewers into a multidimensional exploration of sound, visuals, and cultural symbolism. Moreno integrates motion-capture, AI-image generation, digital fabrication, and extended reality, as a means to challenge the regimented culture of marching bands, unlocking new possibilities for creative expression and dismantling biases ingrained within the field. Drawing from his Mexican-American heritage and his own experience in drumline, this exhibition delves into cosmic realms, futuristic landscapes, and post-human rituals, blurring the boundaries between the physical and the digital realms.
Event is free and open to the public.
Sal Moreno, 2023
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Bold colors, unexpected textures and works that span scale—from immense to miniature—evoke introspection. Collages of newspaper clippings and magazine images from times past are presented alongside textile installations and mundane items—think: tuna cans and childhood toys. Raveling is an exhibition of dualities.
Event is free and open to the public.
Breanna Robinson, Mariel Harari, 2023
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What we remember forms who we are. To coexist with this wild beast of memory and to try to understand it is to stay curious, courageous and serendipitous. This exhibition, structured upon explorations of the artists’ most intimate and vulnerable niches, proposes the idea of forming a collection of selves, with their shadows and specters of which we sometimes recollect, sometimes prefer not to.
If you haven't gotten to see the exhibition yet, this is your last chance!
Event is free and open to the public.
Breanna Robinson, Mariel Harari, 2023
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Eseosa Edebiri works with very tactile elements to create fantastical worlds that simultaneously evoke a sense of home. Playing with ideas of space, time, and potentiality, she creates portals—visible, conceptual or otherwise—to break through to the other side. Her intention? To touch on autonomy and chronic illness by reintegrating color in society. Leading viewers on a journey through the looking glass, she uses thread as a compass and as a metaphor for hope, change and a step toward healing from trauma that’s not just personal, but intergenerational.
Becca Thomas is a queer disabled artist who takes their experience navigating society in a divergent body-mind as a point of departure. Through fiber art, they create a home when none is to be found, carry their grief, and build new worlds in which they can reside. What do you do when your world falls apart? Thomas chooses to make work that centers on the labyrinthine journey of grief induced by chronic illness and pain. It embodies the internal turmoil encountered when your entire existence is scrutinized for the sake of survival. And it reflects a contracting world—a consequence of systemic ableism and inaccessibility.
Through vividly-colored ensembles featuring family memorabilia, tongue-in-cheek quotes and intricate fiber techniques, Thresholds—an Ariadne’s thread of sorts—highlights craft as a source of self-reflection—an intentional journey to acceptance, healing and ultimately transformation. Both artists, heavily drawing on personal narratives, aim to dismantle societal norms, pretenses and assumptions about trauma, chronic illness and disability. And by creating work that is deeply honest, and insightful, they challenge their (and the viewer’s) state of being and perception of self.
Event access info: Masks are required for the opening.
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The exhibition highlights works by: Youree Kim, Alex Kostiw, Ruby Que, Armando Román, Vince Phan, Nicole Leung, Shonna Pryor, Sungho Bae, Michelle Chun, Molly Blumberg, Sophia Karina English, and bARBER.
The show is curated by: Denny Mwaura, Sophie Buchmueller, and Sofía Sánchez Borboa.
On view: September 29 - December 8, 2023 with an opening reception on Friday, September 29, 5-8pm.
Event is free and open to the public.
Armando Román, Gabriel Over the Kitchen Table, 2023, 58 x 42 in., Inkjet on Canvas
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The exhibition highlights works by: Alexis de Chaunac, Abraham Cone, ebere agwuncha, Olya Salimova, Ále Campos, and Salvador Andrade
The night will also include a performance, Origins of the World, at 6:30pm, by Olya Salimova and Ále Campos, featuring Spencer Gale and Juliette Morris.
This is your chance to catch a sneak peak of what is to come in our 2024 exhibition lineup.
Event is free and open to the public.
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From September 29-30, CAC will also be participating in the 13th iteration of the West Town Art Walk. This event is put together annually by the West Town Chamber of Commerce, of which we are now a member!
Featuring a range of visual, fashion, musical and culinary art, the West Town Art Walk caters to all tastes.
Official Art Walk Hours: Friday, September 29 from 5-8pm; Saturday, September 30 from 12-8pm.
Meeting Spot: Chicago Ave between Damen and Ogden/Milwaukee Aves
More details can be found HERE.
Accessibility FYI: If you need assistance walking, you can flag down one of the art walk's free pedicabs for a ride.
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Never been to CAC and curious about who we are/what we do? Been to CAC and want to come back? This is the perfect opportunity! Check out our current BOLT resident studios, BOLT Works in Progress + HATCH To Be Continued... exhibitions, and meet our new ED!
This event is free and open to the public. Attendees are encouraged to RSVP in advance HERE.
Drinks and light bites will be served. There will also be a food truck with food available for purchase.
Claim your spot and mark your calendars!
Our neighbors Vector Custom Fabricating and Midwest Coast Brewing will also be hosting events over the weekend.
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The cyborgs undone, the ghosts came to light, the ancestors control the future is a solo exhibition by 2023-24 BOLT Resident Olya Salimova.
The cyborgs undone, the ghosts came to light, the ancestors control the future features works that speak to Salimova’s interest in (re)assembling the real and the unreal, abandoned and natural materials, and exploring textural strata and transfiguration.
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Image: Frey, [everything here will be a memory], enamel, acrylic, and resin on copper-tinted glass mirror, 36” x 36’’
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Image: Installation view of the cyborgs undone, the ghosts came to light, the ancestors control the future, a solo show by Olya Salimova
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Salvador Andrade Arévalo was born in Jalisco, Mexico, and raised in the Chicagoland area. He is a trained printmaker that works primarily in painting, drawing, and installation.
As a fourth generation migrant laborer, he contends with the erasure and commodification of his family's culture, history, and traditions due to economic duress imposed by neoliberal policies and draconian immigration policies. His work draws potency from ancestral influences connected to intergenerational knowledge, folklore, hand crafts, syncretic belief systems, and vernacular traditions.
He received both his BA ('10) and MFA ('22) from Yale University in Painting & Printmaking. He also holds an MPhil in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge ('12), with a thesis that focuses on 19th century Mexican lithography.
He has held residencies and fellowships with Spudnik Press, Fulbright (Mexico City), SOMA Summer, Yale University Art Gallery, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and Chicago Artists Coalition (BOLT). In addition, his artwork is included in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Mexican Art and the Willis Tower.
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Shonna Pryor is a conceptual artist who considers her found objects to be reclaimed testimonials of previous lives. Her interdisciplinary art practice critically engages memory, play, and power politics. Pryor’s work nourishes pathways for generative futurist speculation that mine the historical past.
bARBER is a non-representative figurative painter relying on elements of abstraction to personify the invisible nature of the individuals he paints. Heavily influenced by the music and makeshift bred from the underserved quadrant of Black American culture, he repurposes everyday materials, such as junk mail, packaging, and found objects, to construct artworks from a cultural perspective.
The opening reception will be on March 1 from 5-8pm.
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Garden of Liminal Bodies featuring Molly Blumberg and Vince Phan invokes gardens from the Japanese roji to the Islamic gardens of Madinat al-Zahra to Heironymous Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. Blooming, budding, fruiting and dying, the bodies in a garden, like the human body, are constantly changing; within the space of the garden, we are drawn into their liminal state of flux.
Historically, the garden was designed to enfold the body, mind, and spirit of the guest into both the natural and cultural ecologies it hosted. With rare exception, the terrestrial delight of the garden was its capacity to offer an embodied meditation on life, death, and numinous relations of bodies. Gardens reintroduce us to space-time in the languages of our senses. To enter a garden is to become aware of bodies in flux (plants, animals, geologic formations, art, etc.), human and non-human. These bodies, when encountered through the senses, cease to be distant and become “intimate experience[s] of the sensate body.”*
Blumberg’s diaphanous membranes bear an uncanny resemblance to our skin’s variation in texture, tautness, and sagging. This bodily resonance slowly transposes the work so that it is not simply noted mentally, but begins to get under our own skin. Eventually, we do not simply recognize the surfaces as familiar, but we experience them through a strange proprioception.
The fleshly floral bodies of Phan’s sculptures operate at a different register. The cured meat works present us with the uncanny inside-out condition of flesh outside its body, forming another body. This inside-outness, in the form of a flower, catalyzes a surreal vertigo that heightens an awareness of what is under our skin, the fleshiness and ephemerality of our carnal form.
Garden of Liminal Bodies produces an embodied awareness within us by means of the sculptural bodies around us. Over time, these bodies begin to slip within our own or become extensions of our own. The effect reintroduces us to the familiar unfamiliarity of our bodies as a field of contingent and evolving relationships with the world around it.
Molly Blumberg’s sculptural practice sits in the spaces between our human bodies and the materiality of lived environments, imagining their potential permeabilities. Trained as a sculptor and a papermaker, her work is grounded in an extreme engagement with materiality. Through a playfully physical studio practice and a dedication to process based exploration, she explores how it feels to be a body.
Vince Phan’s works are systems-oriented investigations of chaos in nature and the nature in the chaos. They adopt furniture and compost organic materials to create a hybridized existence of humans and nature. These creations are then traded for soil in human-occupied territories in order to create a new terra of possibility. Hybridizing objects and materials, they re-naturalize the man-made back into a natural ecology that once was its birthplace but has now become foreign.
- Christian Gonzalez Ho
The opening reception will be on May 3 from 5-8pm.
Special thanks to Sophie Buchmueller, who coordinated the collaboration between these artists and laid the groundwork for this exhibition.
Image: Molly Blumberg and Vince Phan, The Order of Earthy Delights, Deconstructed chair, flowerpot, tights, cured meat, concrete, 22” x 10” x 44”
*D. Fairchild Ruggles, “Scent, Sound, and the Senses in Islamic Gardens of al-Andalus,” in Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls: Sense Perceptions in Byzantium, ed. Susan Ashbrook Harvey and Margeret Mullett (Washington, DC, 2017), 127.
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Rustle up a Plume of Silt culminates fourteen months of image-making undertaken during Cone’s BOLT Residency. Works span large-format painting, paper-making, etching, collage, and garland making. Wafting tendrils gust across media and between works, joining materials Cone has gleaned and held to his bosom: desiccated plants accumulate into handmade papers; walnut hulls are fermented into inks; sandstone is mulled into paint. In the fusing of vegetable and mineral pigments with hide glues and oils, there is also a binding together of sacred friendships, and relations with the more than human.
Featured in the exhibition is a small edition of etchings, printed in collaboration with Pigeonhole Press on paper made with plant fibers gathered across the midwest.
The opening reception will be on May 3 from 5-8pm.
Image: Abraham Cone, Into Glacial Lakes; Out of Gravel Mines, 2023, Oil paint, walnut ink, watercolor, hide glue on linen on panel, 8” x 10” x 3”
Join us on Wednesday, May 29 for the opening of Fleurs de Macadam, a two-person exhibition by Like Queer Animals, a collaboration between visual artist Jessie Mott and queer scholar Chantal Nadeau, curated by Vasia Rigou.
The opening reception will be from 5-8pm next Wednesday, May 29 at Chicago Artists Coalition | 2130 W. Fulton St.
During the opening, BOLT Resident Abraham Cone will also have an artist talk for his solo show Rustle up a Plume of Silt from 6-8pm. The talk will be moderated by John Neff, artist, curator, and associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Greek-born Vasia Rigou is a writer, editor, and curator. She grew up to appreciate art after years of carefully planned, culture-filled travel itineraries and museum-hopping around Europe with her family. Much of her work writing about visual art, culture, architecture and design, can be found at Newcity, Chicago’s leading culture publication, where she serves as editor. She also regularly contributes to the Chicago Reader and to international magazines OnOffice and ICON. Her curatorial practice focuses on ideas of identity, intimacy and belonging, which she currently explores through the Chicago Artists Coalition’s HATCH residency program. Her work can be found at rigouvasia.com.
Image: Horizon, untitled #5, 2015. This piece is part of a series of 7 photographs, showcasing the horizon blending into the frozen lake landscape.
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to announce Rustle up a Plume of Silt, a solo exhibition by 2023-24 BOLT Resident Abraham Cone.
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Featured in the exhibition is a small edition of etchings, printed in collaboration with Pigeonhole Press on paper made with plant fibers gathered across the midwest.
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Garden of Liminal Bodies, a duo exhibition by 2023-24 HATCH Residents Molly Blumberg and Vince Phan, curated by Christian Gonzalez Ho.
Garden of Liminal Bodies featuring Molly Blumberg and Vince Phan invokes gardens from the Japanese roji to the Islamic gardens of Madinat al-Zahra to Heironymous Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. Blooming, budding, fruiting and dying, the bodies in a garden, like the human body, are constantly changing; within the space of the garden, we are drawn into their liminal state of flux.
Image: Molly Blumberg and Vince Phan, The Order of Earthy Delights, Deconstructed chair, flowerpot, tights, cured meat, concrete, 22” x 10” x 44”
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I invite you to see the explosion of color in this exhibition as an alchemy of darkness. Armando Román and Michelle Chun’s mark-making practices trace and triangulate spirits, minds, and bodies. To represent these as co-equal is rare within the contemporary landscape.
The title of the exhibition is an excerpt of dialogue from Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Weerasethakul dissolves the categories of human animal man and woman within the darkness of the cinema; art becomes witness to the testimony of the numinous.
Similarly, the profusion of color and agility of form I encounter in Roman and Chun’s work dissolve the clinical divide between “representation” and “revelation.” Lingering before these pieces, I am disoriented and unmoored from a vision of myself as a hermetically-sealed individual. The sum of these gestures is a series of moments in which otherness is rendered perceptible. Such moments invite us to exchange clarity for mystery, surety for fluidity, and control for communion.
Michelle Chun is a visual maker from Southern California. She received a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and a MAR in Visual and Material Culture from Yale Divinity School. She approaches her practice as both a visual investigation of how fragments accumulate, circulate, and create cultural imaginations within a community and also, simply, as the material language of meditation and prayer. She is currently a HATCH resident at the Chicago Arts Coalition and was the Painting and Drawing Teaching Artist in Residence at Lillstreet Art Center in 2023-2024. She has shown at Helen J Gallery in Los Angeles, Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, and Gelman Gallery in Rhode Island among other exhibitions.
Armando Román is a Chicago-based artist who creates works on paper combining digital brushstrokes with physical marks from crayons, colored pencils, and pastels. The Mexican landscape, both cultural and literal, intrigues him, reflecting both a familiarity and foreignness due to his familial history. His compositions explore the relationship between border and center, using colors and patterns informed by Mexican folk art. Roman's art intertwines religious motifs and queer aesthetics, creating works that reflect an interest in both euphoric belonging and dysphoric rejection, embodying the double bind of pleasure and pain in his identity as a queer person raised Catholic.
Christian Gonzalez Ho is a PhD candidate in Art History at Stanford university and holds a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University. Christian works as a cultural theorist, curator, and art historian, with a focus on how art and architecture mediate relationships with the self, others, and the numinous.
- Christian Gonzalez Ho
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soft structures is an installation of architectural points that are crafted alongside meditations of the lancet arch, a spear-like sacral form. The works selected create a passage ‘to and through’ shadows, obscure edges, woven fibers, repetition and interactive spiritual portals, pointing to the juxtaposed intimacy of the grande acute tipped sites.
ebere agwuncha (b.1997, Chicago) is a Nigerian American transdisciplinary artist whose practice seeks to reach the natural depths of memory that hands carry through contemporary craft practices. They dream alongside the archives of the black diaspora making architecture(s) for the world to embrace through touch, preservation, ritual, domesticity, and intimacy.
The opening reception will be on July 12 from 5-8pm. Additional programming to occur.
Image: ebere agwuncha
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Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, July 12th, from 5-8pm at Chicago Artists Coalition | 2130 W. Fulton St.
There’s a particular quote by Gustave Moreau (b. France 1868 – d. France 1898) the famed Symbolist painter and teacher that goes “I am the bridge over which certain of you will pass”. Expressed to some of Moreau’s students, this sentiment is simultaneously hopeful and troubling. Bridges help people to cross something otherwise impassible, but if a person is a bridge, that means they often spend their life getting walked on. The utility of this thought lies in the realization that we all use each other to a certain extent. And, most certainly, it is in the recognition of those moments when we become aware of the fact that another artist’s painting or writing or performance has become a bridge between oneself and the crossing of some raging river of self-doubt, or some impossibly deep canyon of inactivity.
Featured Artists: Renata Berdes, Austin Boehs, Andreana Donahue, Rio Goodwin Perez, Payton Harris-Woodard, Aaron Kleeblatt, David Krueger, Laura McManus, Travis Morehead, Ingrid Olson, Susan Pasowicz, Tim Stone
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Nicole Leung approaches their practice with a fascination for adaptation, particularly in how we (consciously or unconsciously) choose to internalize, process, and interact with our surroundings. Through their process of collecting, accumulating, and arranging neglected objects, Leung takes an interest in the habits we adopt and the delusions we construct to feel safe amidst irrepressible fear and uncertainty.
Ruby Que is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on site-specific intervention and expanded cinema performance. In their work they open portals and create hauntings. Many projects grapple with absence: the missing person, the deserted land, the obsolete media, the traumatic memory. Drawing on their lived experience as a queer, itinerant immigrant, they meditate on yearning and find home in transit. They have exhibited and performed at Kavi Gupta, Roman Susan, Comfort Station (Chicago, IL), Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY), Coco Hunday (Tampa, FL), SOLOS (Karlsruhe, Germany) and elsewhere. They have been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, and Ellis-Beauregard Foundation. Their work has been featured in The Chicago Reader, Performance Review Journal, and Sixty Inches from Center; Newcity Magazine named them a 2023 Breakout Artist. Que holds an MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Comparative Literature from Cornell University.
Kat Bawden is an artist, educator, and curator in Chicago whose work explores and mediates relationships between the body, memory, and the self. Kat holds an MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and runs Murmuration, an exhibition space, publisher, and residency.
The opening reception will be on September 6 from 5-8pm.
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There Between Light and Shadow is a duo exhibition exploring the interplay between history, memory, and identity through the complementary works of Youree Kim and Alex B. Kostiw. Both artists delve into the spaces in between—whether physical, temporal, or conceptual—to challenge conventional narratives and reveal unseen forces shaping our world.
Youree Kim’s work navigates the historical implications of “red line,” a term with roots in political and economic tactics, but one that extends into various facets of marginalization. By rooting in the socio-political landscape of transnational history, Kim examines how borders, both literal and metaphorical, influence identity and community. By juxtaposing visual elements from different cultures and time periods, Kim invites viewers to reflect on the intersecting narratives of oppression and resilience. Kim speaks to the enduring impact of historical events on contemporary urban landscapes from local to global territories.
Alex B. Kostiw’s practice navigates the personal and the ethereal, focusing on the ephemeral nature of time and existence. Through text, paper and ceramic sculpture, and cyanotypes, Kostiw’s work contemplates the transience and fluidity of stories. Her interactive installations evoke a dreamlike state, where reality blurs with myth, and the viewer is left to ponder the stories that unfold beneath consciousness. Kostiw used mythological and natural imagery to question what it means to belong to, to be in, a moment. By engaging with ancient and personal narratives, Kostiw crafts a world where the past and present converge, inviting viewers to explore their place in shifting landscapes.
Together, Kim and Kostiw create a dialogue between the political and poetic, historical and personal. Their works explore how stories—both individual and collective—are constructed, deconstructed, remembered, and reimagined, inviting viewers to traverse the liminal spaces defining human experience.
- Yiwei Leo Wang
The opening reception will be on September 6 from 5-8pm.
Image: Alex Belardo Kostiw (left) and Youree Kim (right)
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A Cloak Dripping Femme is a solo exhibition by Ále Campos (also known as Celeste) that features all new works that expand on their desire to unfold the mechanics of self-realization through queered performance and drag. The works in the show come together to suggest the power of queering vision through the use of cameras, masks and masking and how they can be harnessed as strategies or tools for self-musing, self-reflection and understanding the nuances of the psyche.
The video A Cloak Dripping Femme and its sound (originally made for a live performance titled onto a skin, highly reflective performed at SITE/less this year) that includes an original text serves as a conceptual foundation for the exhibition as a whole.
The works in this exhibition have involved the collaborative efforts of many including Will Mitchell, Claire Flemming Staples, Tomm Roeschlein, Natasha Moustache, and Fick Patterson.
Image: Ále Campos, video still from a muse over a muse, 1 channel video, TRT ~12 min, 2024
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> Free, no RSVP required
Free to the public
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This solo exhibition by artist Alexis de Chaunac, emerges as a meditation on the symbolic, atmospheric and pragmatic complexities of sustenance and its customs. The works that compose this exhibition, stretch and distort our perceptions of consumption, fermentation and digestion to the point of estrangement and disequilibrium. By disturbing elements from western spiritual iconographies and by reclassifying utilitarian objects, we are thrown into a system of vessels-and-surfaces-as-carriers of organic and inorganic processes of remembrance that allow for an ecosystemic understanding of subjectivity, community and ritual.
This exhibition would not have been possible without the support of Publican Quality Bread and Chicago award-winning baker Greg Wade.
Alexis de Chaunac (b. New York, NY, 1991) is a Mexican-French visual artist working between painting, drawing, collage and installation. His body of work is the result of his personal connection to his Mexican and French heritage, as well as his interwoven cultural histories as he uncovers layers of our collective experience.
Alberto Ortega Trejo is a Mexican artist, researcher and architectural designer. His work uses architecture, drawing, sculpture, writing and video to explore histories of indigeneity in architectural modernity, the production of extreme environments, the spatial politics of the colonial encounters in North America and the architectures of social experiments.
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to announce Insula, a solo exhibition by 2024 Newcity Breakout Artist María Burundarena, curated by Vasia Rigou.
In Insula (Latin for “island”), Maria Burundarena invites the viewer into a world of discovery, seduction, and intrigue, transforming overlooked and abandoned Chicago landscapes into immersive, sensory experiences. Influenced by her ongoing exploration of surfaces and perception, Burundarena reimagines spaces like Northerly Island—where urban debris forms an unlikely oasis—as sites of hidden beauty and tranquility. Through photography and installation, she captures the ephemeral qualities of these often forgotten places, layering her work with a sense of memory and time.
Her installations aim to seduce and confuse, triggering surprise and curiosity. The French-born, Argentina-raised artist works across multiple mediums—photography, print, collage, and digital projection—to reassemble fragments of reality, pushing the viewer to question their relationship to what they see. Her use of vibrant color—neon pinks, intense blues and holographic greens—reflects her upbringing in a digital world of screens, where images are fluid, flexible, and unbound by traditional frames. Surfaces, for Burundarena, are more than just visual; they carry encrypted messages that demand closer inspection. She describes the tone of her work as a raging RGB, a nod to both her bold use of color and her relentless creative process.
Insula creates a space where the boundaries between reality and imagination blur. Burundarena's fascination with the passage of time, memory, and broken surfaces is woven into each piece, offering the viewer a new way to engage with the city and the gallery itself. By integrating the architectural elements of the Chicago Artists Coalition space and using mirrors to reflect and expand it, she invites us to step inside her world—to be absorbed by the layers of meaning, light, and color, and surrender into a deeply personal, yet collective, experience.
María Burundarena, born in 1989 in Paris and raised in Buenos Aires, is a Chicago-based visual artist and educator. Her work spans textile design, photography, and large-scale installations using print media, light projection, and reflective materials. She has exhibited at ZAZ 10 Times Square, Chicago Athletic Association, Hyde Park Art Center, and the Cleve Carney Museum of Art, among others. In 2024, Burundarena was named one of Chicago's Breakout Artists and received the DCASE Individual Artists Program grant. She holds a BFA in Garment Design from La Universidad de Buenos Aires (FADU), where she also taught, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is currently a lecturer in the Contemporary Practices Department.
Greek-born Vasia Rigou is a writer, editor, and curator. She grew up to appreciate art after years of carefully planned, culture-filled travel itineraries and museum-hopping around Europe with her family. Much of her work, writing about visual art, culture, architecture and design, can be found at Newcity, Chicago’s leading culture publication, where she serves as editor. She also regularly contributes to the Chicago Reader and to international magazines OnOffice and ICON. By day, she’s the Writer and Copy Editor at the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) HQ. In her curatorial practice she explores identity, intimacy, and belonging.
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The show features framed works by Sungho Bae and sculptural and beaded works by Sophia Karina English.
Sungho Bae is a mixed media artist born in Seoul, South Korea. He received his BFA from Seoul National University and his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Stemming from a fascination with the evolution of consumer culture and its impact on collective memory, Bae’s work explores the remnants of counterfeit toys as a reflection of South Korea’s socio-economic landscape during the 1980s and 1990s. By assembling architectural models from these fragments, Bae examines the complexities of intellectual property rights and the cultural implications of mass production. Through this lens, Bae examines how these toys serve as artifacts of subcultural heritage, shedding light on issues of content scarcity, market demand, and national competitiveness, while also questioning the value systems intertwined with nostalgia and sentimentality.
Sophia Karina English is a latinx crafts person, sculptor, and performance artist from San Francisco, CA and based in Chicago, IL. They received their BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with an emphasis in sculpture and fiber arts.
English’s research centers around their own families’ dynamics and the objects and habits which are passed down through generations. Their work memorializes lost narratives and speculates on greater cultural impacts of one’s familial inheritance. English is specifically interested in exploring the material languages from their families’ origins in Nicaragua, Mexico, and the Californian coast.
Both artists utilize many individual parts to make a whole; forms are built through the collection of relevant bits and remnants. The works in “by will or by trust” ask the viewer to contemplate the authenticity of cultural capital and the relevance of individual memory in the shadow of broader histories.
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We’ll honor 15-year CAC board member and EXPO founder Tony Karman, enjoy a performance by CAC Alum Celeste, and disco the night away with our outstanding DJ Duane Powell.
Bites by All Together Now and beverages included!
We are trying to meet our $15,000 goal in honor of Tony, but can only do it with your help!
Updated Timeline:
6-7pm - Check In/Welcome/Cocktails
7pm - Food by All Together Now
7:15pm - Performance by Celeste
7:35pm - Tony Presentation/Thank You/About CAC
8pm - Paddle Raise
8:15pm - Dance floor opens with Performance + Tony
9-10:30pm - After Party
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With similar mechanisms and social inquiries at its core, From Its Own Ashes is a duo exhibition that originates from both artists' personal navigation of loss. Yoo recalls encountering a felled Christmas tree in downtown Chicago as a pivotal moment of unexpected sorrow, its fallen form symbolising both the tree’s life giving force and the grief he holds for friends and family lost; Couch embodies a similar mourning for loved ones lost, drawing upon his upbringing within the American Southern and the constraints of western garment design as a metaphor for the destructive forces of systemic oppression. Although influenced by grief, both artists embrace the potentiality of instability. Working across sculpture, scent, video installation, and garments, Yoo and Couch investigate how these processes of loss (both material and spiritual) can become an alchemic, generative site of transformation.
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\"what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.\"
– an excerpt from won't you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton
Won't You Celebrate With Me? is an exhibition where artists Reevah Agarwaal, Cay Mims, and Nekita Thomas journey through memory, weaving truth and wonder to investigate what lies beyond the surface.
Part personal archive, part apparition, this exhibition explores themes of memory, lineage, and impermanence. Agarwaal, Mims, and Thomas take their past narratives and shape them into new realities, seeking deeper understanding of what may remain unsaid. Together, they question the ways in which we construct and control our own memories.
Memory distorts and preserves. Lineage is grounded in continuity. Impermanence unsettles both, reminding us that nothing is immune to loss or change. In this exhibition, memory becomes a reconstruction, lineage becomes invention and impermanence becomes the only constant.
This is a celebration of what we make true.
ARTIST AND CURATOR BIOS
Reevah Agarwaal is an artist based in Chicago, IL, born and raised in New Delhi, India. She earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2024. Inspired by the aesthetics of girlhood, her work incorporates feminine palettes and decorative elements in quilts and collages. By reinterpreting childhood photographs, keepsakes, and lived experiences, she delves into themes of adolescence and Indian family dynamics. Utilizing found and inherited textiles, she reframes perceptions of domesticity, womanhood, and identity.
Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and fairs, including Expo Chicago, The Other Art Fair, FLXST Contemporary, Bridgeport Art Center, and Chicago Art Department. In 2024, she was awarded the New Futures Award from The Other Art Fair and is currently a resident at the Chicago Artists Coalition.
Cay Mims is a Black, queer artist living on the Northside of Chicago. Their primary goal is to synthesize sociological frameworks with their personal experiences. Their work is overwhelmingly concerned with representing themes of displacement, erasure, impermanence and memory. Qualitative and curious, never didactic, and infused with personality; they seek to create moments that are comfortably familiar to some, while amicably informative to others.
Cay also is an emerging, independent arts programmer and curator. Placing an emphasis on marginalized artists, they have hosted and supported creative events around the city for the past year. This includes facilitating/moderating a series of artist conversations in conjunction with shows at the German Cultural Center and (formerly) The Martin; curating an emerging artist pop-up at DragonFly Gallery; and hosting a Black Pride Movie Screening at the Logan Theater.
Cay graduated in 2021 from Vanderbilt University with a BA in Studio Art and a BA in Sociology. They have shown work in a number of galleries nationally including Space 204, Nashville TN; Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta, FL; Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI; M. G. Nelson Gallery, Springfield, IL; The Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL.
Nekita Thomas is a multidisciplinary experiential graphic designer, educator, and researcher dedicated to harnessing design for social impact. Her work focuses on the intersection of race, well-being, and urban design, spatializing justice and reimagining the civic role of design in our lives and communities. Bridging graphic design, tactical urbanism, and civic engagement, her research explores design's capacity to strengthen communities, initiate radical imagining, and amplify civic participation through anti-racist placemaking solutions. Thomas's initiatives, including public installations and participatory design workshops, guide communities toward envisioning and actualizing healthier, more inclusive, and just spatial environments and futures.
She has presented her work across disciplinary domains on both national and international stages, including venues such as the Krannert Art Museum, the Black in Design Conference at Harvard (BiD), the American Institute of Graphic Arts Design Educators Conference (AIGA), the International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference (IASDR), and artist residencies such as at Ragdale Foundation.
Sidney Mori Garrett is a Houston, TX born, Chicago, IL based curator, arts administrator, and artist. Her artistic, administrative, and curatorial practice is rooted in her southern mixed-race Black Feminist’s lens of love, mindfulness, and care. She received a Bachelor ofFine Arts in Photography and Digital Media from University of Houston and a Masters of Fine Art in Arts Administration and Policy from the School of Art Institute of Chicago.
ABOUT CHICAGO ARTISTS COALITION
Founded in 1974, CAC began as a small group of artists advocating for rights, support, and visibility. Currently located in West Town, CAC is a non-profit organization that supports contemporary Chicago artists and curators by offering a residency program, exhibitions, professional development and resources that enable them to live, work and thrive in the city.
Chicago Artists Coalition’s mission and programs are funded by City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Driehaus Foundation, Field Foundation of Illinois, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Illinois Arts Council, Terry and Donna King, Nancy Herring and John Balfe, Statsinger Cohen Foundation, and the generosity of our board members and supporters.
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Led by artist and creative entrepreneur Hope Wang, Dreaming Through Spreadsheets is a proposal to artists that spreadsheets, data visualization, and mind-mapping can be generative (and fun)! During this workshop, we will explore different organizational systems for project tracking, budget building, and creating maps of the pre-existing resources at our fingertips. Artists can often fixate on what we don’t have and how that’s keeping us from our goals, instead of seeing the merit of what resources are already available to us. By meticulously documenting and making visible the invisible costs that sustain artist practices, can we consider the budget spreadsheet or the planning document as a love letter to our ideas?
The structure of this workshop will be:
Who is this for? Artists who are looking for practical approaches to grant narratives, thinking through a project budget, preparing for new professional opportunities, and/or navigating change in your practice. Bring your own systems and favorite tools (and stationary) to share!
CAC's Professional Development series works to uncover subjects critical to professional artists outside of making art.
Rooted in our core values of knowledge-sharing and building community, this 90-minute seminar will include 30 minutes of conversation with participants. Bring your experience and your questions to the group!
Participants may attend in person or online via Zoom. Registration is required.
Tuesday, February 24th 6-8p
$10 for the general public
$5 for CAC alumni
FREE for current residents
Hope Wang is an artist and creative entrepreneur based in Chicago, IL. Her practice explores memory, loss, and longing in the ever-shifting architectural landscape. Hope is also the founder and co-director of LMRM “loom room,” is a project space fostering opportunities for art-making, research, and community programming around digital weaving. She is invested in equitable conditions for working artists, resource sharing, and moving at the speed of trust. She is a two-time recipient of an Artists Run Chicago Grant (2024 & 2025) from the Hyde Park Art Center, and a Chicago Community Fellowship Fund (2023) from the Breakout Foundation for LMRM’s contributions to the city’s art community. Her artwork has been exhibited throughout the US, which includes the Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago, IL; the Peeler Art Center at DePauw University in Greencastle, IN; The Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum in Milwaukee, WI; amongst others.
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Established in 2004, Newcity’s annual Breakout Artists issue has become a leading indicator of future success in contemporary art. Of the 150+ Breakout Artists before this year, over 40 now have gallery representation, ranging from Hauser & Wirth to numerous Chicago galleries; most of the others, including those who’ve chosen less commercial paths, show regularly at museums and institutions around the world.
Exhibiting artists: Hai-Wen Lin, Mauricio López F. (Current CAC Resident), Isabelle Frances McGuire, Mariana Noreña G, Monika Plioplyte, Nick Raffel, TaitaixTina, Noelia Towers, Carina Yepez, and Sangwoo Yoo (Current CAC Resident).
homeward (un)bound, a three-person exhibition by 2024-26 Artist Residents Maryam Faridani, Jairo Granados-Cardenas and Martha Osornio Ruiz,curated by 2024-26 Curatorial Resident gordon fung.
Gallery Hours:
Wednesdays from 11am-4pm
Saturdays from 12-4pm
By advance appointment
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When: Friday, May 29, 4:30-8pm. $15 per person.
CAC residents and alumni are free, but must register.
Entry ticket receives hot dog (vegetarian on request), chips, ice cream sundae and one drink ticket. (Additional drinks available for purchase.) Purchase tickets and register HERE.
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Intellectual Property & Copyright Law Basics with Irwin IP
This is a hybrid workshop so participants can attend in person or via Zoom.
$10 for the general public | $5 for CAC alumni | FREE for current residents
homeward (un)bound, a three-person exhibition by 2024 Artist Residents Maryam Faridani, Jairo Granados-Cardenas and Martha Osornio Ruiz, curated by 2024-26 Curatorial Resident gordon fung.
On view: May 1 - Jun 18, 2026
Artist Talk + Closing Reception: Thursday, June 18 from 6-8pm
*Artist Talk from 6:30-7:30pm
Gallery Hours:
Wednesdays from 11am-4pm
Saturdays from 12-4pm
By advance appointment
Closeup shot of work by Jairo Granados-Cardenas. Photo: gordon fung.
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Artist Talk from 6:30-7:30pm
Herman Aguirre | Diana Noh | Skyler Hunter Simpson | Rachel Dukes, Curator
Exhibition catalogs, funded by a DCASE Individual Artists Program grant, will also be available at the event.
Dust That Lay explores the fleeting thoughts, inscrutable dreams, and fragmented memories that seep through subconscious containment and glisten through the veil of reality. Herman Aguirre, Diana Noh, and Skyler Simpson explore the unresolved detritus of the past as foundational for forming knowledge that can radically shift understandings of personal identity and how we navigate our shared reality.
Spanning sculpture, photography, painting, and drawing, each artist surrenders to the unknown, exposing a devotion to their rawest, most uncontained tendencies.
Herman Aguirre pulls imagery from his surroundings in Back of the Yards, Chicago, and revives them in sculptural paintings where he reveals the residual imprint of violence on his community. Diana Noh tears, folds, and repairs photographs of transitional spaces to examine presence within absence and reveal how the past continually interrupts and inhabits the present. Skyler Simpson employs automatism, teasing the strand between precision and intuition in her meticulously drawn, monochromatic fluid-scapes, submerging viewers into a mysterious world where beauty and horror coexist.
Dust That Lay engages with Hauntology, a cultural philosophy suggesting the present is haunted by elements of the past as well as their unrealized futures. To this end, each artist interrogates the subconscious remnants that we may not readily understand but know play an active role in interpreting the various layers of the present moment.
Herman Aguirre is a Mexican American artist born and raised in Chicago, IL, where he is currently based. Through his detailed drawings and large-scale, multi-layered paintings, he reconstructs memories to find adequate language to confront and co-exist with the realities of his experience growing up in Back of the Yards, Chicago. He received his BFA (2014) and MFA (2017) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he is currently a faculty member in the Painting and Drawing Department and a youth instructor in the Continuing Studies Early College Program. Aguirre's notable awards include University of Saint Francis Visiting Artist, Fort Wayne, IN (2021); Thelma Karges Memorial Merit Award, Evansville Museum of Arts, Evansville, IN (2018); and was one of 8 artists awarded the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship (2017-2018). Aguirre has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the country and has also been featured in New American Paintings - Midwest (2018, 2019, 2020, and 2022). Several of his pieces are in the permanent collections of the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; the Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL; and the National Mexican Museum of Art, Chicago, IL. Aguirre is represented by Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL, and Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI.
Diana Noh is an interdisciplinary artist working across photography, fiber, and installation. Her practice celebrates reconstructions of distressed photographs of transitional spaces, exploring themes of trauma embedded in her family relationships and cultural in-betweenness. Noh received her BFA from Kyungil University, Gyeongsan, South Korea (2017) and her MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI (2022). She has participated in group and solo exhibitions at national and international art venues, including Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Red Springs Art Space, Artsy, Red Springs, NC; Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, IL; Editart, Geneva, Switzerland; and Space HNH, Seoul, South Korea. Noh has participated in artist residencies with Kimball Arts Center, Chicago, IL (2026); Peninsula School of Art, Fish Creek, WI (2022); and Talking Dolls, Detroit, MI (2022). She has also been awarded the Freestyle Focus Forward Award, Society for Photographic Education (2026); Monthly Art Award, Boynes Emerging Artist (2023); and was a featured artist in the Sunspot Soho catalog and digital exhibition, Aedra Fine Arts (2024). Her work has been acquired by several private collectors as well as the Jennifer and Dan Gilbert Collection, Detroit, MI; and Kyungil University Collection, Gyeongsan, South Korea.
In her paintings and drawings, Skyler Simpson explores the mysterious nature of intuition, a phenomenon that connects our world to the otherworld. She received her BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2018) and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2024). Simpson’s work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Abel Contemporary Gallery, Stoughton, WI; Gallery 7, Madison, WI; and Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE. Her pieces have been featured in group exhibitions across the country, including Red Arrow Gallery at Oz Arts, Nashville, TN; New York Academy of Art, New York, NY; Day & Night Projects, Atlanta, GA; and La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Simpson was most recently recognized as a Luminarts Visual Arts Finalist (2026) and her work was selected for the AXA Art Prize Exhibition in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings (April/May 2024), juxtapoz.com (2021), POBA Zine, issue n*6 (2020), and Booooooom.com (2020). Simpson is represented by Abel Contemporary Gallery, Stoughton, WI.
rachel dukes is a Texas-born and raised independent writer and curator based in Chicago, IL. She received a degree in Accounting from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, and her MA in Museum and Exhibition Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL. She currently leads the Archives and Collections department at the South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC) and has supported the curation of exhibitions at Gallery 400, Hyde Park Art Center, and SSCAC, where she most recently co-curated Beyond Frames: Black Women Collectors Shaping Cultural Heritage in Chicago. Her exhibition reviews and artist interviews have appeared in several Chicago-based publications, including Sixty Inches From Center, LVL3, New City, and Chicago Reader. Her writing has also been featured in the 2022-2023 issue of Black Embodiments Studio, A Year in Black Art, and the Spring 2025 issue of the International Journal of Surrealism, Surrealism and the Black World. Rachel serves as board chair for Chicago Tap Theatre and plays the French Horn in community ensembles across Chicago.
Skyler Simpson, The Streetlight, 2025, Colored pencil on mounted paper, 10” x 8”
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Herman Aguirre | Diana Noh | Skyler Hunter Simpson | Rachel Dukes, Curator
Exhibition catalogs, funded by a DCASE Individual Artists Program grant, will also be available at the event.
Dust That Lay explores the fleeting thoughts, inscrutable dreams, and fragmented memories that seep through subconscious containment and glisten through the veil of reality. Herman Aguirre, Diana Noh, and Skyler Simpson explore the unresolved detritus of the past as foundational for forming knowledge that can radically shift understandings of personal identity and how we navigate our shared reality.
Spanning sculpture, photography, painting, and drawing, each artist surrenders to the unknown, exposing a devotion to their rawest, most uncontained tendencies.
Herman Aguirre pulls imagery from his surroundings in Back of the Yards, Chicago, and revives them in sculptural paintings where he reveals the residual imprint of violence on his community. Diana Noh tears, folds, and repairs photographs of transitional spaces to examine presence within absence and reveal how the past continually interrupts and inhabits the present. Skyler Simpson employs automatism, teasing the strand between precision and intuition in her meticulously drawn, monochromatic fluid-scapes, submerging viewers into a mysterious world where beauty and horror coexist.
Dust That Lay engages with Hauntology, a cultural philosophy suggesting the present is haunted by elements of the past as well as their unrealized futures. To this end, each artist interrogates the subconscious remnants that we may not readily understand but know play an active role in interpreting the various layers of the present moment.
Herman Aguirre is a Mexican American artist born and raised in Chicago, IL, where he is currently based. Through his detailed drawings and large-scale, multi-layered paintings, he reconstructs memories to find adequate language to confront and co-exist with the realities of his experience growing up in Back of the Yards, Chicago. He received his BFA (2014) and MFA (2017) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he is currently a faculty member in the Painting and Drawing Department and a youth instructor in the Continuing Studies Early College Program. Aguirre's notable awards include University of Saint Francis Visiting Artist, Fort Wayne, IN (2021); Thelma Karges Memorial Merit Award, Evansville Museum of Arts, Evansville, IN (2018); and was one of 8 artists awarded the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship (2017-2018). Aguirre has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the country and has also been featured in New American Paintings - Midwest (2018, 2019, 2020, and 2022). Several of his pieces are in the permanent collections of the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; the Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL; and the National Mexican Museum of Art, Chicago, IL. Aguirre is represented by Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL, and Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI.
Diana Noh is an interdisciplinary artist working across photography, fiber, and installation. Her practice celebrates reconstructions of distressed photographs of transitional spaces, exploring themes of trauma embedded in her family relationships and cultural in-betweenness. Noh received her BFA from Kyungil University, Gyeongsan, South Korea (2017) and her MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI (2022). She has participated in group and solo exhibitions at national and international art venues, including Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Red Springs Art Space, Artsy, Red Springs, NC; Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, IL; Editart, Geneva, Switzerland; and Space HNH, Seoul, South Korea. Noh has participated in artist residencies with Kimball Arts Center, Chicago, IL (2026); Peninsula School of Art, Fish Creek, WI (2022); and Talking Dolls, Detroit, MI (2022). She has also been awarded the Freestyle Focus Forward Award, Society for Photographic Education (2026); Monthly Art Award, Boynes Emerging Artist (2023); and was a featured artist in the Sunspot Soho catalog and digital exhibition, Aedra Fine Arts (2024). Her work has been acquired by several private collectors as well as the Jennifer and Dan Gilbert Collection, Detroit, MI; and Kyungil University Collection, Gyeongsan, South Korea.
In her paintings and drawings, Skyler Simpson explores the mysterious nature of intuition, a phenomenon that connects our world to the otherworld. She received her BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2018) and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2024). Simpson’s work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Abel Contemporary Gallery, Stoughton, WI; Gallery 7, Madison, WI; and Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE. Her pieces have been featured in group exhibitions across the country, including Red Arrow Gallery at Oz Arts, Nashville, TN; New York Academy of Art, New York, NY; Day & Night Projects, Atlanta, GA; and La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Simpson was most recently recognized as a Luminarts Visual Arts Finalist (2026) and her work was selected for the AXA Art Prize Exhibition in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings (April/May 2024), juxtapoz.com (2021), POBA Zine, issue n*6 (2020), and Booooooom.com (2020). Simpson is represented by Abel Contemporary Gallery, Stoughton, WI.
rachel dukes is a Texas-born and raised independent writer and curator based in Chicago, IL. She received a degree in Accounting from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, and her MA in Museum and Exhibition Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL. She currently leads the Archives and Collections department at the South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC) and has supported the curation of exhibitions at Gallery 400, Hyde Park Art Center, and SSCAC, where she most recently co-curated Beyond Frames: Black Women Collectors Shaping Cultural Heritage in Chicago. Her exhibition reviews and artist interviews have appeared in several Chicago-based publications, including Sixty Inches From Center, LVL3, New City, and Chicago Reader. Her writing has also been featured in the 2022-2023 issue of Black Embodiments Studio, A Year in Black Art, and the Spring 2025 issue of the International Journal of Surrealism, Surrealism and the Black World. Rachel serves as board chair for Chicago Tap Theatre and plays the French Horn in community ensembles across Chicago.
Skyler Simpson, The Streetlight, 2025, Colored pencil on mounted paper, 10” x 8”
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Collage Making Workshop: Thursday, September 17 from 4-6pm
RSVP for free admission HERE
Image: Sebastian Bruno-Harris, A Wild Sheep Chase, 2018, Charcoal, graphite, and correction tape on vellum, 30” x 52.5”
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Thursday, October 1 at Ignite Glass Studios
Event begins at 6pm
Dress to impress in your 90s & neon attire! Enjoy a special performance and music by CAC Alum Jacqueline Guerrero (AKA Disc Jacqui). Bites and beverages included!
Early bird pricing through September 1:
Artist/Arts Worker/Student Early Bird - $50
Individual Early Bird - $100
This evening, CAC honors Ginny B. Van Alyea and her long history of supporting the Chicago artists community through Chicago Gallery News.
Help us continue help emerging artists and curators in Chicago by supporting our mission today and celebrating with us!
Timeline:
6-7pm - Check In/Cocktails/Food
7pm - Welcome + Disc Jacqui performance
7:20pm - About CAC + Paddle Raise
7:45pm - Dance floor opens
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