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The International Currents Gallery of the John David Mooney Foundation exhibits and offers residencies to international artists whose challenging work push boundaries and explore new territories. Lectures, workshops, and Master Classes are interwoven into Chicago’s diverse creative communities; exhibitions run concurrently in three galleries, each 4,000 sq. ft.
Since 2022, the Foundation’s Art Bridge Fellowships have supported “At-Risk” artists from war-torn countries, including 16 Ukrainian artists and one Palestinian artist from the West Bank.
The Albert I. Goodman Collection of wartime paintings, posters, and drawings from the 1960 and 70’s is on view in the third-floor gallery. This unique and important Collection serves as a study center for Chicago colleges and universities engaging in cross-cultural investigations. Ongoing are the Foundation’s environmental projects helping to control Climate Change in vibrant new ways through Art.
The JDMF is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 educational arts organization.
All events are free and open to the public.
Image: Performance: Daria Holovchanska, “Night Call I,” January 21, 2024. Photo by JDM.
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The focus of Anita’s work will be on “glagoljoca”, the Croatian script which has been in existence since the tenth century to the present, and its relationship to romanesque sacred architecture. Anita will be the Foundation’s Artist-in-Residence this April and May, creating new work and preparing her installations.
This Croatian-American Day will be highlighted with a truly unique viewing opportunity of four works by the late Croatian sculptor, Ivan Meštrović. These pieces by the late Croatian Maestro have not been exhibited publicly before. They will include a monumental drawing, 11 feet high, of St. Francis receiving the stigmata. Only a few eyes have been privileged to view this piece before. The Meštrović works are being shown courtesy of the Croatian Franciscans in Chicago.
Chicagoans are familiar with Meštrović’s earlier works, the two statues of Indians on Horseback (“The Bowman and the Spearman“) at Congress Street and Michigan Avenue. The opening reception of our exhibition at 2pm follows the Croatian- American Day festivities which will take place at Daley Plaza at 12 noon on May 10. The exhibition in the International Currents Gallery will continue through May 31.
Image: Anita Kontrec
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Anita Kontrec will be introducing her exhibition Script and Architecture and say few words about the works by Ivan Meštrović, a late Croatian - American sculptor, author of the Native American sculptures in Lincoln Park, whose works are also exhibited in International Currents Gallery in JDMF.
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The Consul General of Ecuador, Lenin Housse Dávalos, will open an exhibition of eleven Ecuadorian artists in a show entitled UYATA SHUYCHIK visualizing the sonorous. These artists in their paintings use symbols and images to carry on the stories and oral wisdom embedded in their native tongues. The physicality of the paintings convey the power and sense of identity inherent in this oral tradition, a linguistic form threatened to disappear. For this reason, the artists have created works signifying the importance of their native tongues and recalling the United Nations declaration of 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages.
This Ecuadoran exhibition will continue through June 28 and is part of the Chicago Inty Raymi festivities. Inty Raymi, the Festival of the Sun, is the most important celebration of Andean people. Our evening at the Foundation will include indigenous music and dance.
The Foundation’s two exhibitions, Anita Kontrec’s Script and Architecture and the Ecuadorian artists’ UYATA SHUYCHIK, shown back to back in the International Currents Gallery, both deal with ancient languages and their traditions -- the “glagoljica” from Croatia and the Kichwa tongues of Ecuador.
Image: Favio Caraguay
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Drinks, 5:30pm, Talk, 6pm
Desmond Egan, distinguished Irish poet, will read from his own poetry as well as speak on “Modern Irish Poetry.”
An eloquent and enchanting reader, Desmond Egan will include the works of Yeats, Beckett, Heaney, and Hopkins, among others. Egan founded the Gerard Manley Hopkins International Festival held every summer in Newbridge, County Kildare and is its current Artistic Director. The Festival has become a great resource for Hopkins’ scholars and lovers of Hopkins’ poetry.
Desmond Egan is author of twenty-four collections of poetry, three of prose, and two translations of Greek plays. Books of his poetry have been published in twelve languages, and his Millennium poem, “Peace,” in thirty-five languages.
Concurrent exhibitions at the International Currents Gallery:
The Irish Portfolio: Paintings of County Cork, Kinsale, and the Beara Peninsula by
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International Currents Gallery, 1st floor
We are thrilled to announce John David Mooney’s newly installed exhibition, The Irish Portfolio. The forty unique paintings in this grouping are unlike anything Mooney has created before. They are a breakthrough in the use of the watercolor medium. This series of paintings focus on the edge of Ireland, posing the question does the sea define the land or does the land define the sea: Mooney’s masterful handling of the medium has evoked a light-filled landscape in which light emanates from the very depth of these paintings. Known for his large-scale monumental light sculptures, Mooney brings to these paintings the intimate poetry of light. These works were painted on location, outdoors in County Cork, Ireland on large-scale handmade paper, specifically created for the artist by Twin Rocker Press.
Image: John David Mooney, The Pool of Erie II – Salmon, 27” x 19,” watercolor on handmade paper
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Joseph Beuys scheduled his 9th Demarco Gallery presentation for the August 1986 Edinburgh Festival before his death in 1986.
Robert Demarco invited John David Mooney to create an installation in memory of Beuys in the space he was scheduled to perform. Documentation of the four Beuys-inspired installations, including the piece done in Blackfriar Church, will be available in the International Currents Gallery at the John David Mooney Foundation during the year-long celebration of Beuys’ life, which begins May 12th.
Marking the 100th anniversary of Joseph Beuys’ birth, the John David Mooney Foundation will feature Beuys’ influence with gallery installations, film screenings, virtual presentations and webinars throughout 2021.
Highlighted are works created by John David Mooney in Scotland memorializing Beuys who died in January 1986.
Installations/performances by Mooney took place in August at the Demarco Blackfriars Gallery and other public venues coinciding with the Edinburgh Festival. In America Mooney created “Sparky’s Piece” on the main quad of Indiana State University later in 1986. Both the Edinburgh and the Indiana works involved live horses, a signature of Beuys’ use of contradiction.
Top Image: Photo was taken from John David Mooney's Blackfriar Reconsecrated installation
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Six artist-performers from Kharkiv are in residence in Chicago for the month of October as part of the John David Mooney Foundation's Ukrainian Art Bridge Fellowship. This program was developed to provide emergency support and housing for Ukrainian Artists impacted by Russia's aggression on the people and culture of Ukraine. The Foundation with the support of its generous benefactors is providing living accommodations and studio space for the artists and their families.
The Kharkiv Slovo Theater is a group of artists, actors, performers and directors working to write, develop, workshop, and perform an original piece while in residence at the John David Mooney Foundation. The work is based on the writing of Mykola Khyvylovy and his 1924 novella \"I am (a Romantic),\" in which the head of the Cheka, a communist law enforcement agency, must decide whether or not to sentence his own mother to death following the ideals of the Commune.
This short story inspired Paris-based playwright, Audrey Rose Degez, to apply for residency at Slovo Theater in Kharkiv, where Khyvylovy suffered at the hands of Stalin, and to develop a play based on his work. The February 24th invasion of Ukraine made this impossible; instead, she managed to bring Slovo Theater to America and to workshop in Chicago.
All are invited to attend the following events hosted by the John David Mooney Foundation, International Currents Gallery:
114 West Kinzie Street, Chicago, IL, 60654
Valet Parking is available next door at 108 West Kinzie, and self-park in the Sterling Park Garage directly across the street from the Foundation
Saturday, October 15 from 11am to 1pm
Discussion and workshop on the author Khyvylovy and Kharkiv's Slovo Theater, Methodology and personal experiences.
Thursday, October 20, at 7pm
Performance of work in progress.
Friday, October 21, at 7pm
Performance of work in progress.
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Through 4/20: by appointment only, contact jdmstudio@aol.com, alionasolomadina@gmail.com to schedule a visit, John David Mooney Foundation, 114 W. Kinzie, mooneyfoundation.org
Photo: Installation view, \"Formation of Time,\" on view at John David Mooney Foundation Credit: Courtesy of the artist
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The John David Mooney Foundation is delighted to announce Anxious Pink, an exhibition of painting and installation by Valeriia Tarasenko, Ukrainian Art Bridge Fellow.
Please join us for the Opening Reception:
114 West Kinzie Street, Chicago, IL 60654
For the opening reception: Parking, Valet and reduced evening rate, Sterling Park Garage
This exhibition presents work created by Valeriia during her four months of residency as a recipient of the Ukrainian Art Bridge Fellowship. The large-scale canvases reveal the artist's first impression of Chicago and interweave a narrative of her journey in exile after February 24, 2022.
Marking the culmination of Tarasenko's Ukrainian Art Bridge Fellowship residency at the Foundation, Anxious Pink presents the artist's unique view of Chicago - from familiar sites, to new faces, and personal moments - and couples this with personal, diaristic, and political reflections. Tarasenko deftly interweaves these personal and collective narratives in large scale canvases, fiber pieces, and works on paper, examining shifting and conflicted notions of 'home'.
Valeriya Tarasenko (b. 1988, Kyiv) studied at the Polygraphic department of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Since 2008 she has worked as a teacher at the art school. In 2013 she graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts Faculty of Painting Restoration department. Valeria is also co-founder of an organization which works with Down syndrome people - \"Atelier Normalno\".
Thanks to the generous support of donors, the Ukrainian Art Bridge Fellowship of the John David Mooney Foundation has hosted ten Ukrainians this past year. From our initial launch on May 5, 2022, at the Union League Club until the present, the Chicago community has generously contributed to and encouraged our combined efforts to provide respite, safety, and freedom for those artists at risk, displaced, and traumatized by the war. Nine of our residents have been from Kharkiv. Members of their accompanying families have ranged from an 8-month-old baby to a 92-year-old grandmother. These Fellowship holders, visual artists, designers, and artist performers have produced extraordinary work, and have impacted and enriched our city's cultural landscape. Valeriia is the first to come from Kyiv.
We are seeking support to continue the Fellowship and provide opportunities for those who will join us in the fall. If you are inspired by this effort, we hope you will consider a gift. You may make a donation via PayPal (enter: jdmstudio@jdmf.org <mailto:jdmstudio@jdmf.org> ) or by check to the John David Mooney Foundation, a not-for-profit, at 114 West Kinzie St., Chicago, IL 60654. Your support will help to sustain and protect the living culture of Ukraine and its future Renaissance. Thank you for your consideration and look forward to welcoming you to the exhibit opening!
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Tectonics is about things in process; objects out of place and/or out of time. About buildings as condensations of human and non-human activity. About navigating tides of sensation while being occasionally anchored to islands of familiarity; about objects and spaces that rhyme. As a vandal let loose in the library of the metropolis, Lightbound uses architecture as a lens to examine spatio-temporal relationships between bodies, built spaces and landforms, rearranging aspects for one to lose authority against the backdrop of the other. The exhibition becomes an intimate act of readership on the magnetic nature of materiality in the medium of building.
Tectonics presents a series of anecdotal installations, incorporating print, sculpture, drawing, and site-responsive works on paper. Variable screen print editions take a single photographic image as their starting point; their surfaces threatening to evolve through ongoing, iterative processes. Salvaged architectural fragments from elsewhere are sent off on new voyages, thickening their associative dexterity. Heavyweight graphite rubbings formed through Lightbound’s sustained bodily engagement with the gallery, shift paper to sculptural relief. Relativizing meaning and transforming trace materials like graphite to breaking point (where meaning is lost and found) the works encourage a deeper consideration of surface and structure, deconstructing and at times collapsing, human and geologic timelines to redistribute raw materials toward more salient truths; towards elemental nature and the enigmatic charge of spatial gesture.
Frances Lightbound (b. 1989, Sheffield, UK) works at the intersection of printmaking, drawing, sculpture and architecture. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including projects at Paris•London•Hong Kong, Chicago; Bianca Bova Gallery; Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; MONACO, St Louis; and 68projects, Berlin. Lightbound is a faculty member of the Printmedia Department at School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and a Luminarts Visual Arts Fellow. She holds a BA (Hons) from Glasgow School of Art, and an MFA from SAIC.
Tectonics is on view September 21st till October 29th, 2023. Regular gallery hours are Tues–Fri 12–6pm. Sat/Sun by appointment only - kindly email jdmstudio@jdmf.org to schedule a weekend visit.
Alongside EXPO Chicago Exhibition Weekend, join us for Brunch in the Gallery on Saturday, September 30, 10am – 12:30pm.
This project is generously supported by Luminarts Cultural Foundation.
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How long can I stand on one leg?
What does it mean \"one leg\"?
What are we thinking about or imagining when we hear this phrase?
Is it about sides and directions, the right or the left?
Do we visualize a body with one leg or without the leg?
Is it possible to accept this absence or separation?
How often do we deal with that?
You do not need to be in a country where there is a war
to have a feeling of being on one leg,
of standing on one leg
looking for the moment to catch the equilibrium.
I'm not talking just about a physical body.
There is a lot about respect and something new for us today,
which is not new for humanity,
just new for contemporary us, people.
We have to learn how to create support,
how to keep the balance today,
how it could approach a bit grounded tomorrow.
Ukrainian artist Yaryna Shumska will speak about her artistic and life experiences after February 24, 2022 and about the effects of the Russian aggression on the lives of her artist friends in Ukraine. Additionally she will talk about art and life at the Academy of Art in Lviv where she teaches painting and performance
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5:30 Reception
6:00 Illustrated Talk
Mohamed Fariji is Artistic Director of L’Atelier de L’Observatoire, an arts and research collective in Casablanca that develops socially engaged projects designed to imagine and document an alternative history to official accounts. The Musée Collectif is an ongoing series of artist-led actions to preserve the artifacts and memories of ordinary people.
This will be Fariji’s first presentation in the United States. Co-Sponsered by Chicago Sister City International
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The genesis of A VILLAGE BEFORE US can be traced back to a serendipitous conversation during a visit to Albert Goodman’s collection which features the works of the first generation of Vietnamese modern artists, who studied at the national colonial-era art school, The Ecole des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine. These masterpieces were collected by the late Bruce Blowitz, an American who traveled to Vietnam in the mid-1990s, after its decades-long economic embargo. It was during his time in Vietnam that Blowitz met Dr. Nora Annesley Taylor, now Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, at the home and studio of artist Vu Dan Tan, who ran one of Hanoi’s first independent art spaces. The importance of Chicago as a crossroad is solidified when, after his death in 2015, Blowitz left his collection in the care of his good friend, Chicago philanthropist Albert Goodman.
Coming from diverse backgrounds and points of origin across the world, the participating artists in A VILLAGE BEFORE US found themselves in Chicago for various reasons, from pursuing education and research to seeking work opportunities. Through their individual connection to Dr. Nora Annesley Taylor, these artists formed a community of friends and contemporaries, mirroring the experiences of the artists within Albert Goodman’s collection who shared similar educational and artistic backgrounds. Hence, the title of the exhibition, A VILLAGE BEFORE US. This title embodies the fundamental aspects of Vietnamese culture and the art world. 'A VILLAGE' is an extended unit formed of nucleus connections, while ‘BEFORE’ acknowledges the legacy of its past and stands in anticipation of its future trajectory. ‘US’, a plural pronoun, intimately refers to the group’s collective identity while also playing with the moniker of the group’s current home.
A VILLAGE BEFORE US will feature a remarkable group of artists currently working in Chicago, including Le Hien-Minh, Do Quy, Nguyen Maya, Vo Thuy-Tien and the collective [[Rehearsal]], Ngo Hua Minh Tri, Nguyen Trang, Do Minh-Giang (Jent), as well as art historians Phan Quang Nguyen Justin and Nora Annesley Taylor.
The exhibition will run from November 10th to December 31st, 2023, at the John David Mooney Foundation, located at 114 W Kinzie Street, Chicago, IL. The gallery will be open Tuesday through Friday, from 11am to 6pm.
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Polina Verbytska, an artist from Kyiv, Ukraine is both a painter and a sculptor, and has been in residence at the John David Mooney Foundation for the last three months.
‘The Body Dialogues’ speaks to the significance of human form, both as a medium for engaging with reality and a way of affirming our own existence.
Through her introspective process, Polina skillfully blends evocative imagery and symbolism to elicit profound moments of reflection.
Image: Someone For Me, 2024, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
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JDMFoundation Fellowship exhibition of Spanish artist, Iri do Castelo, a culmination of her 3 month residency. The exhibition runs through Dec 8, 2024.
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During her residency at the John David Mooney Foundation, Iria do Castelo produced a body of work inspired by her first experiences in America and the nature of Lake Michigan.
For this exhibition, she unfolds a symbolic universe in the forms of a post-Anthropocene fable. In Arcana Natura the visual narrative is configured as a forest through which the visitor moves in a web of relations between the pieces. The exhibition space becomes a place of discovery and transformation, where the edges of two worlds, the real and the imaginary, mingle giving rise to new possibilities.
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Christmas exhibition of the work of 2020–2024 Fellows of the JDMFoundation in residence.
Exhibition runs through January 6, 2025.
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Details to come
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The John David Mooney Foundation is proud to display the visual artworks of the 10 finalists contending for a Visual Arts Fellowship through the Luminarts Cultural Foundation. Luminarts, founded in 1949 as the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation (CAF), works to cultivate Chicago's vibrant arts community by supporting exemplary young artists through its competitive programs that offer financial awards, artistic opportunities, and mentoring that bridge the gap between education and career.
We were honored to play host to these extraordinary young artists, originating from a wide array of disciplines, as they launch their careers in the field.
NINA MURASHKINA: \"HER BEASTS\"
May 29 - June 12
Opening reception: May 29, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Ukrainian Artist, Nina Murashkina, has been artist in residence at the John David Mooney Foundation since early April. From the Donetsk region, Nina trained in Kyiv & Kharkiv and now maintains a studio in Spain.
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Arvedo's action-oriented technique, painting with hands, brushes, and pipettes, channels an- cestral forms drawn from Hopi cave paintings, the Nazca lines, and Saharan rock engravings. The result is a powerful visual language that transcends borders and time, aiming not to explain, but to connect.
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We are most grateful of Culture Ireland, who supported this event.
John David Mooney Foundation is pleased to present Drifting Sovereignty, a solo exhibition by Elaine Byrne, represented by Kevin Kavanagh Galleries, from 5th - 29th November 2025. This show, supported by Culture Ireland, will be opened by Consul General Brian Cahalane.
Drifting Sovereignty is a multidisciplinary exhibition that critically engages with the shifting nature of borders and the performance of power at geopolitical and environmental margins. Through photography, sculpture, video, and performance, the exhibition interrogates how sovereignty is both asserted and destabilized in contested spaces.
Contemporary borders are often represented as fixed lines on maps, yet such depictions obscure their social, political, and material complexity. Byrne's work shifts focus from the border as line to the borderscape--a dynamic, contested space shaped by governance, infrastructure, and lived experience. In doing so, the exhibition emphasizes the constructed and mutable nature of borders, which appear, dissolve, fracture, and overlap in response to both human and environmental forces.
The works traverse multiple geographies. In the California desert. Byrne photographs prototypes of the U.S.-Mexico border wall--monumental forms that embody both the spectacle and futility of territorial enforcement. In the Canadian High Arctic, she documents landscapes marked by forced Indigenous relocation, revealing how political decisions have reconfigured lives and land. In Svalbard, where Russian-owned land exists within NATO territory, she explores competing territorial claims in the context of climate change and resource extraction.
A central performance video shows Byrne walking across Arctic Sea ice--a minimal gesture that functions as a meditation on human presence within a rapidly changing landscape. This act underscores how environmental instability redraws boundaries once presumed stable.
Byrne's sustained engagement with borders positions them not solely as barriers, but as active agents in the production of identity, belonging, and exclusion. Drifting Sovereignty offers a critical reflection on the entanglement of geopolitical power, mobility, and environmental change, prompting urgent questions about the future of territory and the limits of control in an increasingly unstable world.
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This exhibition of watercolors by John David Mooney captures the quiet power of the Irish landscape. Rooted in observation, Mooney's works evoke the elemental qualities of Ireland.
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The John David Mooney Foundation is proud to exhibit the work of the Chicago Artists who teach and uplift young artists from under-served communities, bringing local and emerging talent to our International Currents Gallery for the first time! SkyART The Teaching Artists Exhibition will be on display, free and open to the public, from June 18 to July 8, 2026
Valet Parking Available & Reduced Rate Parking across the street at Sterling Park Garage
Image: Victoria Jimenez, ‘Going on a Walk’, mixed media on paper, 18 x 24 in, 2021
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Opening Night, Thursday, August 27 : Open 5:30pm and will include gallery tour around 7:00pm
Documentary Screening, Thursday, September 3: 6:00pm screening of film 'TAQI' by the Chicago Palestinian Film Festival. A journey through the artist's creative processes
Oud Performance, Thursday, September 10: 6:00pm Live traditional Palestinian Music
Story Time + Q&A with Taqi, Thursday, September 17: 6:00pm Intimate conversation with the artist
Parking Available across the street at Sterling Park. Garage.
Image: Committed Nature, Acrylic on Canvas, 2025
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