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Established by Kimberly Oliva in 2016, Oliva Gallery brings to Chicago provocative emerging and mid-career contemporary artists. 


In addition to the gallery’s ongoing exhibition programming, Oliva Gallery regularly participates in national art fairs, including Door County Contemporary Art in Wisconsin and Design Round Top in Texas.

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Oliva Gallery presents the opening reception for Pleasure Spread, a two-person exhibitionTara Sabini and Jeremy Plotkin Wong. The exhibition brings Sabini’s maximalist oil paintings into conversation with Wong’s biomorphic ceramic sculpture, examining pleasure as something seductive, excessive, unstable, and psychologically charged. Sabini draws from the theatrical abundance of seventeenth-century Flemish still life, redirecting its proximity between luxury and mortality toward femininity. Pattern, ornament, and the body accumulate until visual abundance begins to exert pressure. Wong begins with the ceramic vessel and pushes it beyond utility, producing swelling, curling, and contorted forms whose polished surfaces remain appealing even as their anatomy becomes increasingly uncertain. Together, the artists locate pleasure at the point where attraction becomes complicated. Sabini intensifies the image until abundance begins to press back against the viewer, while Wong transforms the vessel until function gives way to something creaturely. Throughout Pleasure Spread, ornament becomes consequential and pleasure exceeds its expected boundaries. About the Artists Tara Sabini is a Chicago-based maximalist oil painter and graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited nationally, and she has participated in residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Lillstreet Art Center. Jeremy Plotkin Wong is a Chicago-based performance and sculpture artist whose interdisciplinary practice combines ceramic and sculptural form, abstraction, material experimentation, and performance. Wong received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and entered the MFA program in Ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2025.

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Oliva Gallery presents the closing reception for Pleasure Spread, featuring Tara Sabini’s maximalist oil paintings and Jeremy Plotkin Wong’s biomorphic ceramic sculpture. The exhibition explores pleasure as seductive, excessive, unstable, and psychologically charged. Sabini layers pattern, ornament, and the body until abundance becomes pressurized. Wong pushes the ceramic vessel beyond utility into swelling, contorted forms that blur the line between object and organism. Join Oliva Gallery for a final opportunity to experience Pleasure Spread before it closes. About the Artists Tara Sabini is a Chicago-based maximalist oil painter and graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited nationally, with recent residencies including Vermont Studio Center and Lillstreet Art Center. Jeremy Plotkin Wong is a Chicago-based performance and sculpture artist whose interdisciplinary practice combines sculptural form, material experimentation, abstraction, and performance. Wong received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and entered the MFA program in Ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2025.

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Oliva Gallery presents Material Bodies: Identities in Clay, the 2nd Annual Midwest Ceramic Exhibition. This group exhibition explores the human form as both presence and container, using clay to examine identity, memory, and transformation. Through surface, gesture, and form, the works consider how material carries personal and collective stories, holding traces of strength, vulnerability, and resilience. The exhibition is juried by Nancy Pirri and Lauralynn White. Exhibiting Artists Lynn Basa, Aaron Becker, Robin Carlson, Hillary Catrow, Gabriel Chalfin-Piney-Gonzalez, Jamie Freedman, Mirentxu Ganzarain, Jennifer Holt, Matthew King, Darby Lewis, Dawn Liddicoatt, Suzanne Long, Linda Marcus, Patrick Miceli, Andryea Natkin, Jonathan Pacheco, Henry Tyson, Susan Volk, and Christopher Williams.

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The conversation will be moderated by Chicago artist and curator Catherine Schwalbe, whose practice spans sculpture, installation, mixed media, found objects, site specific work, and social practice. Schwalbe maintains Haptic Studio and Residency, shares a clay studio at Ripple Studios, and teaches at Lillstreet Art Center.

The program offers an opportunity to hear directly from participating artists about their work, their relationship to clay, and the regional context surrounding contemporary ceramic practice.


Featured Artists:

Aaron Becker

Gabriel Chalfin-Piney-González

Mirentxu Ganzarain

Suzanne Long

Henry Tyson


Location:

Oliva Gallery

3816 W. Armitage Ave.

Chicago, IL 60647


Image: Suzanne Long, Lamb of God take away the sins of the world

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The show brings together a wide range of original artworks and artist-made objects, including prints, jewelry, small sculptures, ceramics, decorative pieces, and other gallery-appropriate works. Most pieces are priced at $500 and under, with many available at lower price points, including works around $20 and up.


Whether you are looking for the right gift for a loved one or a small piece to bring joy into your own home, this event offers it all!


Admission: Free

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Presented as part of Material Bodies: Identities in Clay, the second annual Midwest Ceramic Exhibition.


The exhibition moves between figuration and abstraction, using the body as a point of departure for contemporary ceramic practice. The figure drawing session takes place during the final week of the exhibition, which remains on view through December 19.


Please bring your own drawing board or other firm, flat support for drawing.

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The closing reception for Material Bodies: Identities in Clay marks the final evening of the second annual Midwest Ceramic Exhibition.


Juried and curated by Nancy Pirri and Lauralynn White, the exhibition brings together 19 artists from across the Midwest whose ceramic practices consider the human form through contemporary clay. The work ranges from direct figuration to abstraction, examining the body as both subject and physical presence. Featured artists include Lynn Basa, Aaron Becker, Robin Carlson, Hillary Catrow, Gabriel Chalfin-Piney-González, Jamie Freedman, Mirentxu Ganzarain, Jennifer Holt, Matthew King, Darby Lewis, Dawn Liddicoatt, Suzanne Long, Linda Marcus, Patrick Miceli, Andryea Natkin, Jonathan Pacheco, Henry Tyson, Susan Volk, and Christopher Williams.

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Opening Reception: October 5th, 5-10PM

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Solo Exhibition: Beatriz Ledesma 

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In this new body of work, Ledesma looks at nature (ants) to find answers  to the chaos our world is in at the moment.

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She takes the human to the level of the ants, and the ants to the level of the human to explore the notion of human survival by exposing the egalitarian society of these small and industrious insects in contrast to our notion of “civilized” world where competition and individualism are propelling division among all of us, where external and internal walls become more important than bridges of connectivity and community building.

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Opening Reception: in conjunction with International Women’s Day Friday March 8, 2019 5-10 PM 


trau•ma 

Origin: Greek, late 17th century, literally ‘wound.’ 
 

20 artists, various mediums, featuring works by Jane Norling, Nicholas Nadja, Eve Brownstone and Kate Roth. 

Gallery open Saturdays 12-4 PM 

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Opening Reception: April 12, 5-10pm

UNBOUND: Exploring Possibilities will include a new collaborative art installation that comes from the artistic partnership between Karen Tichy and Alicia Forestall-Boehm. This encaustic installation is comprised of distinctive mixed-media sculptures. The artists explore paper, fiber, encaustic, and other materials in this singular collaboration created for display at the Oliva Gallery.

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Featuring the newest work by Bridgeport Art Center’s Tamara Wasserman. 
 

 

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Presented by Kate Roth 

Featuring found 1940s Boudoir Photography from Men’s Camera Clubs
 

 

 

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Hrayr Attarian: 22 Cities 22 Portraits is an exhibition of stunning street photography spanning 18 countries, 4 continents and 3 decades

 

 

Open for the first Friday of the month with other area galleries from 5-10pm.

 

 

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Oliva Gallery is pleased to present FULVOUS: a group exhibition featuring various media as a transition to Fall. 

Fulvous /ˈfʊlvəs/ is a colour, sometimes described as dull orange, brownish-yellow or tawny, it can also be likened to a variation of buff, beige or butterscotch.

 

Elizabeth Burke- Dain - Painting & Ceramics

Carie Lassman- Painting 

Abbey Muza- Textiles

Kate Roth - Photography 

Tricia Rumbolz- Drawings

 

 

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Beatriz Ledesma presents \"Tribal Language\"- work inspired by the Diaguita Indians' design, imagery, and understanding of the world.

 

Image: Beatriz Ledesma, Mystical Triangle, oil on canvas

 

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Oliva Gallery honors the 50th anniversary of Poster Plus, which has celebrated this unique art form in Chicago for five decades. 

 

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Incongruous Eden is a collection of several studied works by contemporary artist Nicholas Nadja. The series shows the incongruences in the time we are living and juxtaposes a new type of understanding to what makes a garden of Earthly delights. The body of work in this exhibition reveals the alchemy of turning the grotesque and unacknowledged into beauty and divinity. Through incongruous combinations, bountiful fruits of the imagination reveal the subjects of Nadja’s paintings, and a haunting beauty echoes throughout each work.

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The late Mary Ellen Croteau, artist and agitator will be honored at Oliva Gallery in conjunction with International Women’s Day and 100 years of Women’s Suffrage. The show will include artists who were featured in her window front gallery Art on Armitage with 2D and 3D works. 

Artists:

Nathan Mason 

Ginny Sykes

Mia Capodilupo 

Cathi Schwalbe 

Corinne D Peterson 

Giovanna Aguirre Peresson 

Jane Michaelski 

Alicia Forestall-Boehm 

Nicole Beck 

Pinar Aral 

Jane Barthes 

 

Image: Ginny Sykes

 

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Please contact the gallery as our plans have changed in April 2020 due to shelter-in-place orders for COVID-19

Never has a show title been more fitting! Follow the details in our next exhibition: hOMe with @vankanegan. 

An exhibition of art by Nancy VanKanegan. hOMe is defined as: A place where something flourishes, is most typically found, or from which it originates. (https://www.lexico.com/definition/home) whatever else hOMe is—and however it entered our consciousness—it’s a way of organizing space in our minds. (Verlyn Klinkenborg)

The primary home is the body itself. The work of the body is to observe, sustain, protect, rebuild when necessary, and most important to create: and then to share.

The word OM represents the creation of sound from deep within the body, the sound echoing in the chamber of the physical self-transmittal of the interior to the outside–and a return to silence. The silence of the home deep within.

Opening Reception: 

Opening Friday, April 10TH, 5–10pm virtual opening only. The Opening will be a multi-faceted Facebook and Instagram Live event and closed to the public. Opening date: Friday, April 10th, 5–10pm

https://www.instagram.com/olivagallery/

https://www.facebook.com/olivagallery/

People are invited to see the show via private appointments, but the opening is closed to the public. Personal showings will require the attendee to follow the social distancing rules of Oliva Gallery. Only paired couples and individuals will be allowed to see the show at one time. No more than 3 total people will be admitted at any one time. So at the opening, we will do a virtual launch on FB and Instagram Live. We will be open for the duration of the show via private appointment. The exhibition will run through May 9TH, 2020.

Image: Nancy VanKanegan

 

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Photography exhibition with Kevin Byrne, Pauline Kochanski, Doug Boehm, Jon Randolph, Akira, Daphne Walsh, Kate Roth and Matt Tuteur. 

Masks required. 

 

Image: Photo is Pauline Kochanski

 

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In his upcoming show, Frederick will be showing some of his abstract paintings without titles, instead asking in-person and virtual visitors to take his colorful Rorschach tests and title the paintings themselves. 

 

 

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Jamie Tubbs and Macus Alonso 

In our first ever textiles exhibition, Alonso and Tubbs interweave their past lives into “RESURFACING” - an interactive installation saturated with color and texture. 

 

 

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Curated by Sara Renae Holloway

Distorting realism, proportions and angles while skewing objective reality, this selection of artworks from uniquely different artists concentrates on highly stylized figures with symbolic and disorienting elements. This is a group exhibition of artists who are constantly taking liberties with form through a variety of styles and mediums. These artists all share a similar fascination with mutating line and color, emphasizing mood and the geometrically absurd over naturalistic representations of hyperrealism. 


Featuring Artists:
Corinne Halbert, Uriel Corre, Amalia Kouvalis, Taylor Morgan, Onsmith, Paul Nudd, Julie Murphy, Sarah Leitten , Joe Tallerico, Sara Renae Holloway, Kimberly Lavonne, Sean Culver, Brett Manning, Jesy Grose, Randi Drozd, Daphne Arthur, Frank Pollard, Pattie Stell, Max Morris 

 

Image: New Riff For Sam, by Uriel Correa

 

 

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13 piece exhibition of New Work by Helen Jones-Mayer 

Note for opening reception: All in attendance are to follow safe social-distancing protocols. Masks required. Chairs will be set up outside for social distancing and we will live stream the event.

 

 

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Closing reception: January 2, 2021 , 12-4 PM 

Conversation with the artists on this important Midwest ecological art exhibition. 

We also will have the new Chicago Gallery News book on hand to give out for those eager to plan their Spring 2021 exhibition lists! 

 

Louise Pappageorge 

I surrender to the clay; it gives me form; presence. Bound to the earth we are, so unequivocally that recognition is here. Memories and secrets hide and are revealed in these tiny caverns, folds, and primordial plains of earth. Dust to dust, mud to mud we are.

Statement
Clay connects me to the earth, the smell, the feel, the tactility of the material. I surrender to it and give it presence; it gives me form. Following its own frequency, clay dictates its own order. Through the interplay of chance and surrender, mud becomes incarnate; becomes “human” and conspicuous as Adam in the Biblical creation myth. I do not separate the verdure or the terra firma from the “human” they are part and parcel the same.

These works, with their suggestions of flora, fauna, water eddies, bone, and aggregations of rock and soil are my reaction to the elemental residue of collective existence. It is the quintessential aboriginal process being affected and transmuted by the four primal elements, earth, water, air, and fire. At first, stability is established only through random contacts and mutable form, reminiscence. Change and chance are possible until fire the final solution renders it im-malleable and stone-like.

There are shadows and hiding places in the personification where inner-most memory and secrets hide. Recognition is here, revealed in these tiny caverns. Remembrance no longer reminiscent but manifest, set in stone; an alchemical aggregation of materials, of recollection and primordial beauty. Dust to dust ………………………. mud to mud; we are.

-Louise Pappageorge

 

Curtis Anthony Bozif

Erosion, sedimentation, growth, and decay— processes that help shape what we call landscape— greatly inform my work. \u0003In these natural processes— of increase and decrease, of transformation by repeated addition and subtraction—\u0003I find an analogue to the act of painting itself and \u0003a metaphor for incomprehensibly vast time scales and ecologies.

Statement
“Impermanence rules the sandy marge: dunes form, move, sometimes linger, occasionally erode in great gales or hurricanes, make untenable anything but temporary human buildings, remind the wise of natural system force.”

— John Stilgoe, Orchard Professor of the History of Landscape at Harvard University

Though not a landscape painter in the traditional sense, erosion and sedimentation, growth and decay—geological and biological processes that help shape what we call landscape—greatly inform my work. In these natural processes—of increase and decrease, of transformation byrepeated addition and subtraction—I find an analogue to the act of painting itself and a metaphor for incomprehensibly vast time scales and ecologies.

The Dune series is informed by environments of the same name situated in and around the Great Lakes; prominent examples include Indiana Dunes National Park and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. A feature of these environments I’m particularly fascinated by are the foredune stretches of Marram Grass and Little Bluestem. As a painter, I’m drawn to the abstract qualities of these plants, especially in winter, when under cold, gray skies their waxy green turns a pale gold and copper. As they mature into dense rhizomatic clumps, they combine to create a rich mesmerizing texture, a thick intertwined mesh of growth and decomposition.

The deep roots of these pioneering grasses stabilize the dunes from erosion. In time, a thin, fragile soil forms, becoming the foundation for ecological succession, the process of change of an ecological community which, for dunes, culminates in old-growth hardwood forests.

This state of wilderness and flux is contrasted by the amount of plastic detritus that one increasingly finds accumulated along the beaches of the Great Lakes. It’s estimated these polymers will take tens of thousands of years to decompose. For me, these bits of plastic function as a metaphor for the contest between wilderness and the human world and signature of the anthropocene. By removing plastic waste from these places and embedding it into the surface of my paintings, I’m trying to do three things: disrupt a traditional mode of aestheticizing the natural world, i.e. landscape painting; interfere with the anthropocentric time scale upon which our species relates to the natural world, and challenge the definition of nature itself.

-Curtis Anthony Bozif

 

 

 

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Closing reception:

January 2, 2021 

12-4 PM 

Conversation with the artists on this important Midwest ecological art exhibition. 

We also will have the new Chicago Gallery News book on hand to give out for those eager to plan their Spring 2021 exhibition lists! 

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Musical performance by the artist, Saturday March 20th at 2 pm. RSVP for a socially distant seat!

SWIM: Musical Performance by David Criner

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Organized by the Chicago-based Didaar Art Collective, this group show exhibits a selection of juried drawings and printmakings on the perception of space or the ideas(s) of alternative spaces by Iranian visual artists who live in Iran and beyond.

This collection of works visualizes and displays diverse ways that space is invoked to be investigated in its perplexity as both a personal and a social experience.

 

 

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This exhibition is curated by Kate Roth.

Image credit: Jason Kriegler, UNTITLED 11, linen, paper, acrylic, hand embroidered.

 

 

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SYMBOLIC TOTEMS 

I have a deep interest in the stories, applications,  materials, and techniques that have been told  through textiles and the people that create them:  the historical nature of man-made creations  from different regions, tribes, or villages that  construct these intricate pieces. Men and women  contributing to conceive unique works through  the making of textiles. Ceremonial, everyday use,  wearables, trade or decoration: shapes, patterns,  color, and ideas unfold through the centuries. 

This body of work is a contemporary interpretation and influence from textiles from the past, using  dark and light organic, biological forms as well as  abstract exteriors, but can also be experienced  purely as combinations of shapes, line, and  texture. Despite their simplicity, they have a  captivating quality that rewards careful looking  which reveals the complexity and fragility of  contemporary works, hand-embroidered into paper  and linen, enlivened by a sense of depth that only  seems to grow with the continued examination. 

- Jason Kriegler 

BIO 

Kriegler’s work has been exhibited both within  the U.S. and internationally. He currently lives  and works in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. 

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While in art school in the mid-’80s, Kriegler  was intrigued by the rising textile artists, contemporary art and modernism that were  changing the art scene; especially Bauhaus and Black Mountain College where new ideas  and techniques were being challenged 

and created. 

Influences of his work were and are abstract  modernist artists; Dubuffet, Anni Albers, Bryce Marden, Anslem Keifer, Franz Kline,  Helen Frankenthaler, Sheila Hicks, Ruth Asawa  and Cy Twombly to name a few. 

These artists influenced his work and helped push  the boundaries of what textile art or fiber art is.  Painting and textiles can the both be intertwined,  infused. 

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‘Not the norm’ of traditions. i.e. hand embroidery  into paper rather than traditional fabric. He began  as a traditional painter then made the transition to  mixed-media, using found objects and materials in  the early ‘90s. 

Over the past 10 years, he began using embroidery  or stitching into different mediums to create  modern contemporary dimensional forms based  on his experiences traveling and learning about  techniques old and new through the making of  textiles.

 

 

 

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Oliva Gallery presents “Shape Shift”, a solo show of works on paper by Beth Herman Adler Opening Friday, June 18, and running through July 10 at 3816 W. Armitage, Chicago

Curated by Kate Roth, “Shape Shift” highlights the shifts that Chicago-based artist Beth Herman Adler has experienced over the last four years, both in life and in her in her art. The show moves from works created during a difficult personal time through brightly colored, design-friendly monoprints inspired by mid-century modern motifs; it visits her Covid Houses and culminates in her very recent Luna series. All of the work employs Ms. Adler’s printmaking skills and often incorporates, drawing, painting, folded sculpture, collaging, and stitching.

 

Covid Houses, 2020-21

With its exterior “built” of folded monoprints and Its interior papered in Covid reports
from newspapers and magazines, each house marks a month in quarantine. Shown are nine houses from June 2020 to February 2021.

Adler: “The Houses were my diary for this period, keeping track of the progress of the virus. Each house is a memorial to those who suffered during the pandemic. So many people died and I wanted to remember that.”

 

Inspired by Modernism, 2018-20

Ms. Adler has always been drawn to the biomorphic shapes and colors of the 1950s and ’60s. Inspired by artists such as Ruth Asawa and the textiles of Ray and Charles Eames, she created design-friendly monoprints that work well in contemporary homes and offices.

 

Land Shift, 2017

In 2017 Ms. Adler experienced a health issue that forced her to cancel a much-anticipated overseas trip. While recovering, she produced a series of works incorporating the map-like patterns created by suminigashi marbling on handmade paper and using pen, chalk, and ink to fill the resulting spaces. Combining the macro view of landforms with micro shapes, she visualized the disease that impaired her travel and the shift she needed to make in her plans.

Gallery Hours: Friday 5-8 pm, Saturday 12-4pm, or by appointment
Covid precautions will be observed. A maximum of 25 people will be allowed in the gallery at any time. Masks are required.

 

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Artist Talk: Saturday, June 26, 2pm 

Exhibition closing: Sunday, July 10, 12-4pm

See Ms. Adler interviewed for a March 23, 2021, segment of the WTTW news show Chicago Tonight:

https://news.wttw.com/2021/03/23/chicago-printmakers-covid-year-project-study-art-therapy

 

About Beth Herman Adler

http://www.hermanadler.com

Beth Herman Adler is a printmaker and mixed media artist. She studied printmaking and graphic design as an undergraduate at the School of the Art Institute. Her first job was as a graphic designer for Chicago’s Field Museum, working on exhibition graphics. Surrounded by the plethora of natural and cultural history specimens there, she developed an eye for pattern and shape. Ms. Adler went on to work as a graphic designer for over 25 years; she continues to bring design thinking to the creative process as an artist/printmaker, engaging collaboratively with collectors, interior designers, and architects on custom artistic solutions, filling private and public spaces with unique art.

 

About Oliva Gallery

Oliva Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery in Logan Square opened in 2016. Gallery owner Kimberly Oliva exhibits primarily Midwest artists with 10 exhibitions annually and was a SOFA 2019 Participant.

For more information about Oliva Gallery or to make an appointment to see the show, please contact Kimberly Oliva at 847.922.5736 or Kimberly Oliva <olivagallery@gmail.com>.

Image: Gravitational Pull, 2021, 22” x 30”, Mixed media collage with printmaking, hand letterpress, and sewing on black Arches paper. 

 

 

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Regular gallery hours are Friday 5-8 pm and Saturdays 12-4 pm, or by appointment (847/922-5736). Beth will host two afternoons at the gallery on Thursday, June 24, and Thursday, July 8, 1-4 pm. On Saturday, June 26, she will give an artist talk facilitated by Alison Cuddy, artistic director of the Chicago Humanities Festival. The talk will be in-person as well as live-streamed. A closing event on Saturday, July 10, will feature furniture, jewelry, and other mid-century modern artifacts for sale from the collection of Estate Chicago. 

 

See Ms. Adler interviewed for a March 23, 2021, segment of the WTTW news show Chicago Tonight:

https://news.wttw.com/2021/03/23/chicago-printmakers-covid-year-project-study-art-therapy

 

About Beth Herman Adler

http://www.hermanadler.com

Beth Herman Adler is a printmaker and mixed media artist. She studied printmaking and graphic design as an undergraduate at the School of the Art Institute. Her first job was as a graphic designer for Chicago’s Field Museum, working on exhibition graphics. Surrounded by the plethora of natural and cultural history specimens there, she developed an eye for pattern and shape. Ms. Adler went on to work as a graphic designer for over 25 years; she continues to bring design thinking to the creative process as an artist/printmaker, engaging collaboratively with collectors, interior designers, and architects on custom artistic solutions, filling private and public spaces with unique art.

 

 

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Please join Beth Herman Adler at the closing for her solo show at Oliva Gallery. Curated by Kate Roth, “Shape Shift” highlights the shifts that Chicago-based artist Beth Herman Adler has experienced over the last four years, both in life and in her in her art. The show moves from works created during a difficult personal time through brightly colored, design-friendly monoprints inspired by mid-century modern motifs; it visits her Covid Houses and culminates in her very recent Luna series. All of the work employs Ms. Adler’s printmaking skills and often incorporates, drawing, painting, folded sculpture, collaging, and stitching.

http://www.hermanadler.com

 

 

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Chicago photographer Daphne Walsh debuts a new body of work with female-identifying artists over 50 and how they are relevant in society given the advancement of age. Walsh is known for capturing the beauty of making women feel beautiful.

Opening July 16th 5-8pm 

Exhibition runs thru August 7th

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This exhibition is a play on hard edge lines in contrast to soft renderings. 

Opening: August 13th 5-10pm 2021 

Runs through September 4th

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Abstract Expressionism by Stanley Dean Edwards

The paintings presented by Oliva Gallery meet at the nexus of spontaneity and control. Two emotional forces that collide on the canvas, expressing the Yin and Yang of the human psyche.

 

 

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Slow or quick, direct or indirect, gestural marks have an immediate response to the surface that they associate themselves with. These marks celebrate materiality and highlight passages of the body’s movement through space.

Gestures not only accentuate time, but they have the potential to organize or disrupt a composition. In the works of Lisa Marie Barber and Sarah Dupré there is a clear embracement of line, color via paint or glaze, and play upon surface texture. Simultaneously, these two artists awaken a sense of touch by their performance with color that vacillates between matte and gloss finishes.

Lisa Marie Barber


Lisa Marie Barber uses recycled clay to create ceramic assemblages that glorify the “hand.” Barber’s personal, pictorial work displays flowers, hearts, and familiar objects that adorn her sculptural
figures. The artist’s iconography celebrates her upbringing in Arizona and presents gestures of love that, “serve as personal meditations on the ease, beauty, and wonder that can outline every day.”

Sarah Dupré’s paintings compose an atmospheric clash of mediums. Her work accommodates chance and erasures while lean marks of graphite take pleasure in line. Washed, slashed, and scraped away, Dupré’s work finds solace in ambiguity that is generated through repetition.

Common Gesture honors the vow to create work through uninhibited play with available material and showcases Barber and Dupré’s commitment to highlight the paramount and unique gestures of the hand.

The opening reception will take place October 8 from 5-10pm and the show will be up through November 6th.

Top Image: Sarah Dupré’

 

 

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Alma, Art and Interiors is an exhibition of 30 leading Chicago artists, presented by Oliva Gallery and Architectural Anarchy. Exploring contemporary art alongside distinct antiques and modern design, Alma, Art and Interiors reimagines the gallery as the spirit of the home. In 18,000 sq. ft. of 20th century loft space, Kimberly Oliva of Oliva Gallery and Gosia Korsakowski of Architectural Anarchy have curated dozens upon dozens of vignettes, each consisting of a few pieces, drawn from a variety of artistic disciplines and time periods — antique furniture, vintage lighting, modern ceramics, contemporary painting, fiber artists, photography, sculpture wood work, metal art, and more. 

Rather than a traditional gallery setup, the choice to stage mixed media vignettes rescues the works from seeming isolated and spiritless. Furniture and ceramics paired with visual art and vintage lighting produces the effect of a living home. “An interior without art is like a place without soul. We want to create the feeling of people who live there,” Gosia explains. “A painting or a sculpture brings another level to every home, and each vignette invites you to visualize the spirit of your own home, in all its levels.”

Beyond returning spirit to the gallery, Alma, Art and Interiors also restores the highly missed conveniences of in-person furniture and art dealings, following more than a year of show cancellations, supply-chain delays, and exorbitant freight costs. “I’ve been holding back my premier pieces in hopes of the return of large scale exhibitions, and Alma is a vision of what I would’ve exhibited if SOFA — now Intersect Chicago — had taken place at Navy Pier in 2020 and 2021,” says Kimberly Oliva. “Alma is the very latest extension of the Chicago arts community that I’ve fostered at Oliva Gallery.” With exhibitions no longer stuck in the midst of an indefinite hiatus, all of the art and vintage furniture at Alma, Art and Interiors is available for cash and carry. Full list of artists at bottom.

Alma, Art and Interiors opens on Saturday, November 6th, 2021, 11:00am - 7:00pm, at 3636 S. Iron St., Chicago, IL 60609. Additional shows will be on November 7th, 11:00am - 5:00pm, and the following weekend (Nov. 13-14) during the same hours. Visit by appointment any day of the week throughout November.  

Wine and cocktail service will be provided during the first two weekends. A portion of opening night sales will go to the Infant Welfare Society. Follow the event, Oliva Gallery, and Architectural Anarchy on Instagram

@alma_art_interiors

@olivagallery

@architecturalanarchy

Works include ceramics from Nathan Mason, Chris Heck, Zachary E. Weber, and Louise Pappageorge; fiber artists Melissa Leandro, Yasmin Spiro, and Macus Alonso; sculptures from Mia Capodilupo, Beth Lefauve, and Salvador Dominguez; wood work from Michelle Peterson Albandoz; metal artist Eric Gushee; photography from Sean Williams; paintings from Tony Fitzpatrick, Thomas Masters, Lucca Colombelli, Cormac Steinbock, Madeleine Finley, Juan Arango Palacios, Griffin Plumer, William Schaeuble, Nathalie Gribinski, Stanley Dean Edwards, Marc Benja, Jane Barthès, Anthony Adcock, Valeria Terrazas, Melissa Leandro, Bojana Ilic-Bojitt, Curtis Anthony Bozif, Sarah Dupré, and Walter A. Fydryck.

 

 

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Over the last two decades artist Lauralynn White has been articulating the implicit inter-connectedness between the human figure and the dynamics of nature. Being female, the majority of forms she represents are poetical expressions of herself in graceful gestures and exotic poses as the everywoman. Her representations of the male are equally dynamic in expression but her primary focus is a response to her own gender and life.

That said, the myriad ways she gets this idea across is through endless innovations of style and medium that incorporate classical standards of figure drawing (a constant motif throughout) with illustrative technique and fanciful color. Recently, the work has migrated atop earthy surfaces with her figures imbued onto hollow wooden doors and flat stone. She “reads” into the organic patterns and textures of these materials to extract the human essence from within its variegated surfaces; like looking into clouds but seeing yourself embedded in them.

Her latest scrolls of female nudes seem as if they could wrap around a colossal Etruscan urn or cover the inner walls of an Egyptian tomb with pictorial narratives that recall women's roles throughout the entire of history. References to Medieval Manuscripts, Middle Eastern Icons, Degas' ballerinas and comic books, Matisse's dancers as well as Salvador Dali's paranoia critical method of looking can be regarded as subtle homages to all of these oddly related artforms.

An avid doodler, White takes tiny drawing pads with her to public events, concerts and exhibitions. Accompanied with a linear shorthand developed over many hours of life drawing classes and workshops, she would sketch out a figure through imaginative observation, and, with a frenetic abuse of illustration pens, morph a human form into trees and branches while pushing the figure into submerged shadow within a pesky, consciously scribbled space.

Extending this methodology further, the artist took numerous photographs of landmasses seen from an airplane. These aerial views of all the twists, turns and curves of rivers and hills are then printed and suggestively reworked with ink, resulting in languorous females luxuriating upon a living planet.

These works are subtle in their implications, finding their strength in cultural memory and art history while keeping the image of the female form entirely forefront. A prime example of this are the gold-framed icons of women lounging against a blazing carmine red background with touches of gold.

In contrast to the long established Orthodox history of male-oriented icons of saints and savior; the halos, bibles, ceremonial attire and depth of demeanor are absent. The women are relaxed, as if just getting out of the bath, either stretching or sleeping, and the mixture of Russian iconography with Degas' bathers is yet another odd pairing of historical ironies.

An important feature of any classical art education, life-drawing is a direct observation of the human creature and is as ancient as it is modern. In White's firm anchoring within this practice, she sees a different direction, a separate path, and attempts to place all of these women in alternate settings while proposing in the future that these and many other women journey toward greatness.\"

And the statement was written by Ron Schira in a critical review of the collection.

 

 

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This exhibition is the third show in a series of four presentations, beginning in 2017 with “The Past is Still With Us”, continued in 2018 with“Reflections” and now in 2021 with “3rd-Arc.” The series will culminate with a fourth exhibit, dates to be decided. This cycle of work reflects my interest in the pain and suffering caused by the Holocaust in Europe and other holocausts where people are considered else less than by others. While the circle of my life continues to expand, this exploration, this circle closes with the final exhibition tentatively titled, “Roots.”

The work in this 2021 exhibition reflects the changes and turns in my life, thinking, consciousness and creativity in the last years, including the isolation of the pandemic.

Yesterday is written, tomorrow is unknown. Today is the only time we have to act. Each moment is a new moment. Be mindful and aware. Breathe Peacefully.

 

 

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In celebration of the 6th year anniversary of Oliva Gallery - 56/Milwaukee 
 

March 11 through April 16, 2022

Opening March 11, 5-9pm

Closing reception April 16, 12-4pm

 

Named after Kimberly Oliva's high school bus line 56/Milwaukee, the exhibition features 2D and 3D artists from 90's-2000's whose creative endeavors inspired her to open up a contemporary art gallery. \"I consider Milwaukee Avenue as a roadmap/time line of my life, punctuated by the electric energy from the Around the Coyote Festivals, dancing at Medusa's at Congress Theatre to hanging out at Earwax renting movies and meeting the likes of Wesley Willis. I look to 90's-2000's Wicker Park as such a vibrant catalyst in the Midwest arts scene.\"

This group show features 22 artists who worked in Chicago during the 90s and 2000s.
Curated by Kate Roth

Michael Thompson, Scott Mossman, Cathi Schwalbe, Aron Packer, Beth
Adler, Ginny Sykes, Kate Roth, Ann Marie Greenberg, Tony Fitzpatrick,
Margie Criner, Tracey Ostmann-Haschke, Elizabeth Burke-Dain, Daphne
Walsh, Marvin Tate, Yvette Kaiser-Smith, Michael Gallagher, Nancy Van
Kanegan, David Criner, John T Upchurch, Nathan Mason, Jim Redd, Danny
Mansmith, Nancy Pirri.

 

 

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Oliva Gallery presents for Earth Day 2022, “Earth Abundance”, an exhibition that features the works of local and national artists curated by Pauline Kochanski.  A local artist herself, Pauline uses elements from nature in her drawings, ceramics and daily rituals.  In this exhibition, she invites the audience to pause and reflect on the beauty of the planet.  Pauline recalls, “In 2020, a walk in nature was my only remedy to counteract the feelings of isolation, loss and grief. So Earth Abundance was initiated (born).”

Participating artists were chosen for their personal and creative relationship to nature, either by their choice of materials and art rituals celebrating the Earth or singularly for documenting a weed flourish even when left to its own devices.

The Earth’s Abundance is omni present in the flora, fauna and the waters of our planet.  This exhibit is a reminder of its beauty and a call to be kind to her. One art exhibition cannot change the world. But art can be compelling and cause us to pause.  It has the power to reflect who we are and who we want to be. 

Earth Abundance will be on show (April 22 - May 14, 2022) at Oliva Gallery, 3816 W. Armitage; visit olivagallery.com for updates and announcements.

Earth Abundance, curated by Pauline Kochanski, will feature Pinar Aral, Ruby Barnes, Sharon Bladholm, Curtis Anthony Bozif, Monica Brown, Makeba Kadem-Dubose, Anne Farley Gaines, Bill Friedman, Layne Jackson, Corinne Peterson, Cathi Schwalbe, Casey Sills, and Ginny Sykes.

Image: Dune, Number 5, 2021, oil and found pieces of polystyrene, polyethylene, polypropylene, and polyvinyl chloride on panel, 58 x 38\" (147.32 x 96.52 cm)
 

 

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Meditations on Shape is a solo exhibition by Annette Baksinskas. This show will feature both her 2D and 3D work. Annette Baksinskas studied at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

 

 

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Tamara Wasserman is an artist based in the United States whose paintings have been featured in solo and group exhibitions nationally. She describes her most recent works as resulting from the fusion of observation with emotion. Omitting the details of faithful observation, Wasserman concentrates on the essentials, allowing \"intense emotion to find its free abstracted expression\". She creates using oils, acrylics, oil pastels, and charcoal on canvas or wood.
 

 

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The future of black and indigenous people is one of healing and rebelling. 

BLACK AND INDIGENOUS FUTURES SEEKS TO CREATE A NARRATIVE OF HOPE AND LOVE FOR OURSELVES AND THE LAND THAT NOURISHES US. 

Depicting the healing energy of land and prayer, alongside images of the rebellion spirit among black and indigenous youth.

WITH THE TRUTHS AND WISDOM OF THE LAND, WE WILL BE THE ONES TO LIBERATE THE WORLD FROM THE POWER OF COLONIALITY.

 

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Landscape of Entanglement: Azadeh Hussaini – Solo exhibition

Opening Reception September 15, 2022 5-9 PM 

The Landscape of Entanglement, amid a series of drawings, along with paper and cardboard installations, is an exhibit culminating from the  artist's experiences through both visual study and the years of necessary nomadic migration within both urban and non-urban environments. This collection focuses on various human living spaces examining concepts of home as shelter and safe place.
 

 

AZADEH HUSSAINI

Visual Artist. Co-Founder of Didaar Art Collective, an Iranian Chicago based artists community Board member and curator at Theater Y, a Chicago based theater company

Art Gallery advisory board at Lewis University; Faculty at Evanston Art Center; Member at Art Club of Chicago

 

 

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The Landscape of Entanglement, amid a series of drawings, along with paper and cardboard installations, is an exhibit culminating from the  artist's experiences through both visual study and the years of necessary nomadic migration within both urban and non-urban environments. This collection focuses on various human living spaces examining concepts of home as shelter and safe place.

 

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This is Mitch Clark’s second solo exhibition at Oliva Gallery. 

In the 60's I shared a studio with Charlie Pearson who was a jazz musician and composer. His upright piano, double base, and guitars took up very little space in the studio.  He paid half the rent.  This was all to my advantage. Charlie was a great friend and good company.  When composing he would tap out on the piano a short musical phrase – a riff.   Sometimes he would say, “Imagine this a little faster.”   Then he would ask me what I thought.  I was able to see a relationship between what he was doing with music and time, and what I was attempting to do with paint. Later I began to work with shapes – visual rifts, a catch.  Thanks Charlie, this exhibit is for you. -Mitch Clark 

 

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Grounded in the metaphors inherent in working with felt, fibers, and clay I explore inner, remembered, or felt landscapes.  I continually revisit places which are healing alongside experiences of loss and trauma, cultivating a balanced sense of self. When I am in nature I feel at peace; ultimately it’s all about finding home.

Rheault Post has shown internationally and nationally and has been awarded both international and national residencies. She teaches group workshops as well as privately and has offered felting at various schools to ages 4-13 internationally and locally in Chicago.

 

 

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Opening Reception: December 16th 5-9 PM 

Andrea Jablonski is a Polish born multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago.

Jablonski spent her 20s traveling the world. She spent extensive time exploring the culture and history of Northern Europe, the Eastern bloc, many parts of Asia, and settled in Australia for a time before returning to the US.

In her 30s, Jablonski toured the US, playing bass and singing in several bands. Most notably, she formed and fronted a doom metal outfit, Rabid Rabbit that earned critical acclaim. She has performed in almost every state and played many festivals, including SXSW.

Now in her 40s, Jablonski has spent the last few years honing her artistic aesthetic as a painter and fabricator. Her work includes site-specific installations, wall pieces, sculptures and murals. Her use of diverse materials to bring ideas from concept to creation, as well as her hands-on approach, have helped her secure a wide variety of clients and projects.

She has earned many grants and merits, including being named one of the Chicago Reader’s People Of The Year 2011 and a featured artist for Chicago Artists’ Month 2014.

She continues to exhibit regularly and organize/curate events when possible.. Jablonski has worked with many community arts organizations, including Elastic Arts, Arts Of Life, Opera-Matic and After School Matters.

She also hosts an Eastern European themed radio program on Lumpen Community Radio once a month.

 

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Juxtaposed 

Curator Kate Roth presents experimental art in motion and magical realist work by Jesus Monsivais and Darren Oberto. The result is a visual melody.

March 3  thru April 1, 2023 

Opening March 3 - 5pm-9pm
 

This is the gallery's 7–year anniversary exhibition

 

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Meet The Artists of Juxtaposed - Darren Oberto & Jesus Monsivais at Oliva Gallery. 

Discussion on both artists drawing techniques.

Sun, March 19, 2023, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM CDT

More info here

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Numb is an exhibition highlighting the fast and slow navigation of past and current experiences through the use of intricacy, color, and form.

Telling stories of trauma and mental health is not always easy, based on the stigmas in our society, which is how it became a central motivation in my practice. There are parallels between the slow navigation of personal experiences and the rhythmic textile techniques of hand-carding, hand-spinning, and handweaving, both of which are a form of transformative repetition. While working between traditional and experimental processes, my large-scale pieces navigate past experiences in what I consider to be \"chapters.\" Whereas small-scale works are similar to journaling, channeling day-to-day observations.

With ongoing tactility and material investigation, the works inspire an internal space that is externalized through the play of intricacy, color, and form, often inspired by the fluidity of mark-making and tone associated with painting. As I want my works to speak to people, their display—especially in juxtaposing scale and texture—invites intuitive engagement and consideration of the viewers' own physical and conceptual association within the pieces. As an extension of this intention, I also create environments for people to express their experiences. Through building community, artworks, and conversations together, I hope to support others in creating transparency around their stories of trauma and work towards ending the stigma.

 

Bryana Bibbs (b. 1991)  is a Chicago-based artist who works at the intersection of  textiles, painting, and community-based practices. Bibbs earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Fiber and Material Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the founder of “The We Were Never Alone Project - A Weaving Workshop for Victims and Survivors of Domestic Violence” and serves on the Surface Design Association’s Education Committee. 

Recent exhibitions include Power Trip, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL (2020); Evanston Art Center Faculty Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL (2020); Intrinsic Color, The Wayback, Chicago, IL (2021); HATCH: I Sense Something Has Changed, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL (2021); Cotton: Raw Material & Precious Metaphor,  Room482, Brooklyn, NY (2021) Fluffy Crimes #6, Fluffy Crimes, Chicago, IL (2022); Black Creativity Exhibition, Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago, IL (2022); Art of Surface, Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, Grayslake, IL (2022), Embedded, Praxis Fiber Workshop, Cleveland, OH (2022); Layer, Mark, Repeat, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL (2022); (un)disclosed, 1100 Florence, Evanston, IL (2022); Carrying the Thread, The Merchandise Mart - Chicago Textile Week (2022); In the Fray, Bolivar Art Gallery (2022). Recent awards and residencies include the Chicago Artists Coalition HATCH Residency (2021/22); The Lunder Institute for American Art Residential Fellowship, Waterville, ME (2022); and Surf Point Foundation Artist Residency, York, ME (2022). Recent commissions include The Art Institute of Chicago and The Design Museum of Chicago. Collections include Delta Airlines, Inc. and various private collections.

 

Instagram: @bryanabibbs, @thewewereneveraloneproject

Website: bryanabibbs.com, thewewereneveraloneproject.org

 

Image credit: Alone Against It All, 2022. 5.5’ x 5.5'. Hand-felted wool, handwoven hand-spun wool, angelina fiber, bamboo fiber, silk, and recycled sari silk.

 

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Secret Life of Plants: Solo photography exhibition with artist Jim Newberry 

Curator: Kate Roth 

May 12 – June 3, 2023

Opening May 12, 5–9 PM 

Artist Talk May 13, 1–4 PM

“I'm interested in distilling the often complicated visual structure of plants to a minimalist representation; attempting to create prose from poetry. To do this I shoot in black and white (the removal of color information simplifies, and also transforms the image into a less literal depiction), and compose tightly, isolating basic shapes and geometric forms. In addition, I use color filtration to individually adjust grayscale tones, to create a slightly otherworldly impression.” – Jim Newberry 

 

Widely published, award-winning fine-art and commercial photographer

Selected Clients: 

CHICAGO, IL AND LOS ANGELES, CA 1990 - PRESENT

Atlantic Recordings, Esquire, The Guardian, KPCC, Kellogg School of Management, LA Weekly, London Times, Matador, Mojo Magazine, New York Times, Rewire, Rolling Stone,

School of the Art institute of Chicago, Shout! Factory, Spin, Sub Pop, Village Voice, WBEZ, Twin Cities PBS, U.S. Dept. of Education, Vice Media, Wisconsin School of Business

 

Exhibitions: 

• GRAND AVE AUGMENTED - 2022 – Los Angeles, CA

• LA. ARTCORE, GROUP SHOW- 2019 – Los Angeles, CA

• MEMORY & PERCEPTION, GROUP SHOW- 2018– Marin Moca, Novato, CA

• STREET SHOOTING AROUND THE WORLD, GROUP SHOW- 2017 – Los Angeles Center of Photography, CA

• BRAND FORTY-FOUR WORKS ON PAPER- 2016 – Brand Library and Art Center Glendale, CA

• LOS ANGELES JURIED EXHIBITION - 2015 – Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

Education: 

Eddie Adams Workshop, New York

Columbia College, Chicago - B.A.

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Artist Talk May 13, 1–4 PM

Secret Life of Plants: Solo photography exhibition with artist Jim Newberry 

Curator: Kate Roth 

Exhibition runs May 12 – June 3, 2023

Opening May 12, 5–9 PM 

“I'm interested in distilling the often complicated visual structure of plants to a minimalist representation; attempting to create prose from poetry. To do this I shoot in black and white (the removal of color information simplifies, and also transforms the image into a less literal depiction), and compose tightly, isolating basic shapes and geometric forms. In addition, I use color filtration to individually adjust grayscale tones, to create a slightly otherworldly impression.” – Jim Newberry 

 

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Truth Be Told 

Artists: Corinne D. Peterson and Pinar Aral 

Opening reception: June 9, 2023 5-9 PM 

Closing July 1, 2023 

Truth Be Told is a sculpture show of ceramic studio mates—Pinar Aral and Corinne D. Peterson—about attempts to discover their personal truth, and their reactions and contributions to the collective truth about motherhood, womanhood, and aging.

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\"An international flow of art as a means of Universal communication and collective spirit across cultural and social boundaries.”

Co-Curated by Marianna Buchwald, Janet Trierweiler and Cem Koc.

Participating Visual Artists include: Janet Trierweiler, Beate Axmann, Timm Ulrichs, Bishal Manandhar, Kathryn Hempel, Adriana Poterash, Colette Wright Adams, Sherree Blakemore, Kao Ra Zen, Franz Betz, Marianna Buchwald, Cem Koc, and Majid Tabe. 

Other artists working in the performative arts, dance, and music as well as filmmakers will be featured. 

 

Image Credit: Janet Trierweiler

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Curtis Anthony Bozif

In this, his third solo-exhibition, Curtis Anthony Bozif broadens the scope of his recent work, informed by environments of the Great Lakes, to include the falls at Niagara. This new series of large-scale abstractions, rooted in observation and in place, assay tone and the prismatic color spectrum. Moreover, they disrupt the idea that landscape, as such, is static, even material. Indeed, the supposed permanence of landscape here becomes an opalescent memorial to a world continually undone by geologic forces: plate tectonics, volcanism, earthquakes, glaciation, erosion, sedimentation, and in just the last two hundred years, the gradual increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide due to the anthropogenic burning of fossil hydrocarbons. In these processes of decrease and increase, of dissipation and concentration, and transformations by repeated subtraction and addition, Bozif sees an analogue to the act of painting itself. As he embraces the challenge of interpreting what was once seen as the quintessential subject of American landscape painting, his diaphanous curtains of pigment and light test the very limits of the genre and its conventions. 

Image: Niagara, Number 5 (detail), 2022, oil on canvas, 70 x 45\"

 

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\"Stitched Time\" is an exhibition curated by Tamara Wasserman and Oliva Gallery showcasing works by five artists: Makeba Kedem-Dubose, Darin Latimer, Gina Lee Robbins, Helen Mayer Jones, and Tamara Wasserman. 

This exhibition highlights the idea of extreme kinship between artists separated by time and space. The showing artist found cultural phenomena from different corners of the world that feel to them like home. They re-use, morph, reinvent concepts and ideas, created, heard, tasted, and sung somewhere else or during some other time. \"Stitched Time\" aims to convey the fact that culture and time are not always linear and that artists may identify with other than their immediate surroundings. 

Through their artwork, the artists demonstrate their ability to \"stitch time,\" creating connections between past and present as well as between different cultures and communities. The exhibtion invites the viewers to reflect on the power of art to transcend boundaries, thus connecting us to one another and to our shared human experience. 

 

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Curated by Kate Roth

In 2021 printmaker Beth Adler and wood sculptor David Rubman began a playful collaboration based on their shared affinity for bold abstract compositions and patterns. Rubman cut wooden shapes that he incised with his unique textures. Adler took the resulting “blocks” and printed them in various combinations, adding collage, drawing, and sewing. 

Parallel Play brings together Adler’s prints and Rubman’s wood constructions, some created individually, some cooperatively--and some through parallel play.

 

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Join Beth Herman Adler and David Rubman to discuss their collaborative printing process in discussion with curator Kate Roth. 
 

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Artists: Melanie Brown and Nancy Pirri 

Melanie P. Brown (b. 1972) is an exhibiting painter and teaching artist living and working in Chicago, IL. by way of Colrain, Mass. and Tulsa, OK. Melanie has performed live painting during collaborations with Ryan Ingebritsen, Jeff Yang, Eric Mahle, and the Ursa Ensemble. She also performs live painting regularly during concerts at Fulton Street Collective. A long time teacher and former program director at Lillstreet Art Center, Melanie has been painting and teaching for 19 years in Chicago alongside children and adults of all ages. Melanie holds a BA from Knox College in Galesburg, IL and an MFA in Painting from The American University in Washington, DC.
 

Nancy Pirri (b. 1963, Brooklyn, NY) is a working artist, focusing on ceramic figures, in Chicago, IL. She received her B.A. from the University of Iowa in 1985 studying studio art. She is currently represented by Blue Sky Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Alma Art & Interiors, Chicago; Acquisitions of Fine Art, Hinsdale, IL, and Inner Haven Gallery, Grayslake, IL. Her studio is located at Lillstreet Studios, 4401 N. Ravenswood, 2nd Floor.

 

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A conjecture is a dalliance with guessing; an ongoing relationship with an ever-present perhaps.

Mitch Clark creates ephemeral sculptures from found, organic, and composed materials such as wire, paper and thread. Many are so delicate, that the tiniest wisps of air could result in them falling apart. Clark photographs these sculptures in the studio.

In these wildly imaginative works, Clark devises dreamlike landscapes by arranging and rearranging paper in such a way as to create worlds with hovering forms and unexpected reflections.

John Upchurch’s sculptural objects are created from discarded materials, industrial relics, parts of old tools and all kinds of interesting looking hardware. The conjecture in this work is the hopeful notion that almost anything can become something else, something new, something beautiful, hilarious or both. There is joy and poetry in perceiving anew, in reconfiguring and recombining. Easily anthropomorphized, the sculptures transmit possibility; many seem in the midst of something dynamic, active and alive and Upchurch’s titles tell us what: They Billow, Mingle, Comment and Reckon.   

 

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“This Long Pursuit” reflects the intertwined lives of Kelly McKaig and Bruce Riley. Partners for 38 years, artists for longer, their visions have taken the form of a double helix with its two strands oriented in opposite directions bound together by time and love. Although visually different, it would be hard to deny the common familial ground that has nurtured their art practices.

Kate Roth curated this exhibition for Oliva Gallery.

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Saturday, April 13, 2024 1-4 PM

 

Conversation with Kelly McKaig and Bruce Riley in conjunction with EXPO Chicago week. Join us in the gallery moderated by curator Kate Roth.

This project is partially supported by an Individual Artists Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, as well as a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, a state agency through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Join Kelly McKaig for an afternoon of community and craft. Bring your current portable project, whether embroidery, mending, knitting, crochet, or quilting, and share some handwork, snacks and conversation in the gallery.

Saturday, April 27, 2024, from 12 to 4 p.m.


 

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 Bethany Cordero and Deborah Newmark

Cordero explores issues of identity, memory, and the impermanence of self. As we age, we are left with vestiges of thoughts- memories of a life that no longer exists. We are in a perpetual state of transition from one state of consciousness to the next. 

By grafting, binding, and welding these ancient materials together, I use the remnants to create sculptural assemblages that serve as a symbolic bridge between selfhood of today to the liminal space of tomorrow. Each iteration is equally referential and abstract, and serve as containers for space, composition and the inherent congruency and contradictions between my past and the present. 

Newmark is curious about where things touch, where one thought ends and another begins, what is left unsaid. What is important to me is that I acknowledge a moment in time, one that will never exist again. Newmark uses collage, drawing and mixed media, layering materials and gesture, finding beauty in surprising relationships; often improvised or accidental. 

 

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Curated by Kate Roth

David Roth’s sculptures are made with materials such as wood, rubber, paint and mysterious found objects. Relics of something you’ve possibly seen but not sure what it was used for. Patterns run in textures that provide a vision of enchantment. David Roth's sculptures takes on a pictorial mini story that speaks and shows the viewer drama and wonder, bringing your own meanings.

Stanley Dean Edwards is an American artist known for his abstract paintings. He earned his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 1967. His paintings are in the permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago and in many private collections. In this body of work Edwards paints in the geometric abstraction style. Geometric shapes arranged in bonding streamlined geometry, hard- edged, linear forms with the celebration color.

Closing reception July 13, 2024 12 - 4PM 

Image: left: David Roth, Ambition; Stanley Dean Edwards, Untitled 

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Artists: Stan Edwards and David Roth

David Roth’s sculptures are made with materials such as wood, rubber, paint and mysterious found objects. Relics of something you’ve possibly seen but not sure what it was used for. Patterns run in textures that provide a vision of enchantment. David Roth's sculptures takes on a pictorial mini story that speaks and shows the viewer drama and wonder, bringing your own meanings.

Stanley Dean Edwards is an American artist known for his abstract paintings. He earned his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 1967. His paintings are in the permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago and in many private collections. In this body of work Edwards paints in the geometric abstraction style. Geometric shapes arranged in bonding streamlined geometry, hard- edged, linear forms with the celebration color.

Image: left: David Roth, Ambition; Stanley Dean Edwards, Untitled 

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Sa Schloff

Curated by Kate Roth

Misplaced mural whose integrity has been compromised by a poorly located radiator, pipe, door, and inauspiciously, a small piece of electrical tape and chewed gum stuck to the wall. The images are lonely, melancholic and hopeful at the same time. Schloff produces images that make the blurred memories of schoolrooms and hallways once animated by classmates, teachers, and the daily junior soap opera of primary school life crisp, recognizable and familiar. Yet the photographs do not catalogue or describe these places; rather, they quietly circle around them, and, at a remove, offer small glimpses back to those school day settings, recalling their character and an ambiance “Filtered Through Time”.

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Artist Talk: Saturday, September 21, 2024 1 – 3 pm

 

Sa Schloff

 

Curated by Kate Roth

Join us for the Filtered Through Time Artist Talk. Sa Schloff, a celebrated photographer whose work delves into the simultaneous experience of past and present, will discuss her latest exhibition, Filtered Thru Time. Schloff's work has been showcased in prestigious venues such as The Arts Club of Washington, DC; Portland Museum of Art, Maine; Museum of Contemporary Photography; Houston Center for Photography; Smith College Art Museum, among others.

This artist talk is an opportunity to hear Schloff share insights into her creative process and explore how her photographs evoke a nostalgic journey through blurred memories. Attendees will have the chance to engage with Sa Schloff in a conversation about how her work captures the melancholic and hopeful essence of past days, offering a quiet reflection on the passage of time and the spaces that shape our memories.

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Join us at Oliva Gallery for the closing reception of Filtered Through Time, a mesmerizing photography exhibition by Sa Schloff, curated by Kate Roth. This exhibition invites you to explore a nostalgic journey through blurred memories, as Sa Schloff's photographs capture the melancholic and hopeful essence of past days, evoking a sense of familiarity and distance.

The closing reception offers a final opportunity to immerse yourself in this evocative imagery and engage in meaningful conversations about how time influences our perceptions and memories.

RSVP HERE

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Eleana Grace Daniel is an American oil painter working between abstraction and representation through themes of landscape. She is a recent graduate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, earning her MFA in May of 2024. Eleana’s work is a negotiation of control and an exercise in trust. Abstraction is necessary to her practice now because it is flexible; it allows for the unnamable and ineffable. Through painting, she is looking for alternatives.

Emily Schroeder Willis is an artist known for her tactile ceramic vessels. She uses the process of creating to help her reconcile and understand the world around her. Using the vessel as a metaphor, it holds many things for her such as mythical stories, personal experiences, questions, and the hope and fear of what is to come. She is interested in the discord and tension that can be generated by peculiarities coming together in a singular object.   

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Saturday, November 16
Doors Open at 12:00 PM
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM CDT

Join us for the closing reception of our captivating exhibition featuring the works of two talented artists: Eleana Grace Daniel and Emily Schroeder Willis.

Eleana Grace Daniel is an American oil painter whose work explores the delicate balance between abstraction and representation, focusing on themes of landscape. A recent MFA graduate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Eleana’s paintings navigate concepts of control and trust, using abstraction to convey the unnamable and ineffable.

Emily Schroeder Willis is celebrated for her tactile ceramic vessels, which serve as metaphors for her personal experiences and reflections. Through her artistic process, she captures mythical stories, questions, and the dualities of hope and fear, delving into the tensions created by the unique qualities of each object.

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Paul Wear, a contemporary abstract painter, was born in the Midwest and grew up on the East Coast. He found his passion for painting in community college and studied at the University of Maryland. Since the mid-1990s, he has lived and worked in Chicago and its suburbs, drawing inspiration from the city's culture, architecture, and energy. His studio is located behind his home in Evanston, IL. Over 30 years, Paul has developed a unique style, juxtaposing bright colors with dark surfaces, flatness with texture, and figurative elements with abstraction. His paintings start as chaotic splashes and build up in layers, with images emerging as he draws into the surface with a needle tool. For Paul, painting is a dynamic conversation with his materials. 

Jablonski uses scraps and leftovers from her commercial fabrication/mural business and incorporates soft structures woven on a loom in a traditional RYA method (knot tying), braids and other materials to create colorful, sculptural pieces. Her Polish heritage plays a large role in influencing design and palette.

Image, left to right: Paul Wear; Andrea Jablonski

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Pająki (pah-YONK-ee / spiders)

Artist Talk, Workshop & Closing Reception

Friday, December 13, 2024, 6 – 9 pm


Join Andrea Jablonski for the exploration of Polish pająki. Vibrant folk mobiles crafted from straw, paper, and feathers, pająki are rich in history and symbolism, traditionally hung in homes during winter to spin gently in the breeze and ward off bad luck and evil spirits. Rooted in Slavic rituals marking the winter solstice and spring equinox, pająki celebrate seasonal change while serving as protective ornaments.


This drop-in workshop invites participants to create their own mini pająki at their own pace, learning basic techniques and adding personal touches. Jablonski will also lead a conversation on cultural customs and their artistic influences, offering a hands-on experience steeped in tradition. Larger pająki samples will be on display and available for purchase.

The event also serves as the closing reception for the duo show (is it) Enough?, featuring Andrea Jablonski and Paul Wear. Celebrate the culmination of this dynamic exhibition while exploring the intersection of art, history, and tradition.

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(is it) Enough? Closing Reception

Saturday, January 4, 2025

12 PM – 4:00 PM CST


Join us for the closing reception of (is it) Enough?, an wonderful exhibition featuring the works of Paul Wear and Andrea Jablonski. This is your final opportunity to experience their exploration of form, culture, and materiality in contemporary art.


Paul Wear: Midwest native and painter whose abstract works reflect Chicago’s vibrant architectural energy, brought to life through vivid colors and intricate textures.

Andrea Jablonski: Sculptor inspired by Polish heritage, blending traditional knot-tying techniques with industrial materials to craft innovative, sustainable art.


Don’t miss this last chance to connect with the art, celebrate these talented artists, and explore the meaningful questions their work raises about beauty, tradition, and our environment.

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Visionary


Opening Reception: Friday, March 7, 2025 | 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM


March 7, 2025 – April 26, 2025


Join us in celebrating Oliva Gallery’s ninth anniversary with Visionary, a solo ceramic exhibition by artist Aaron Becker.


Becker’s unique approach to ceramics explores themes of memory, the future, and human experience. From intricate contemporary ceramic objects to whimsical \"thought factories\"—sculptures inspired by childhood dreams—his work invites both playfulness and reflection. 


Coinciding with EXPO Chicago week, Visionary has already drawn attention from Chicago Gallery News and Newcity, and we are truly grateful for the recognition and support from our arts community. 


We look forward to celebrating with you soon! 

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Oliva Gallery invites you to join us for a special gallery talk and pop-up event celebrating the Visionary exhibition by Aaron Becker. This exhibition showcases Becker’s transformative approach to ceramics, blending futuristic visions, childhood dreams, and reflections on societal inclusion.


Join us for an informal walkthrough of Visionary, where you can explore Aaron Becker’s work up close and gain insight into his artistic process. Browse a special ASIF Art pop-up featuring exclusive merchandise inspired by the exhibition. Don’t miss the artist talk and Q&A, where Becker will share the inspirations behind his thought factories, contemporary ceramic forms, and hope stones, reflecting on themes of inclusion, memory, and the future.

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Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM


As Visionary comes to a close, join us for a final celebration of Aaron Becker's solo ceramic exhibition at Oliva Gallery.


Becker’s distinctive work, which explores themes of memory, the future, and human experience, has captivated visitors with its intricate contemporary ceramics and whimsical \"thought factories\"—sculptures inspired by childhood dreams.


We are grateful for the support and recognition Visionary has received, including coverage from Chicago Gallery News and Newcity. We invite you to join us one last time to experience the full scope of Becker's visionary art before the exhibition ends.

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Opening Reception: Friday, May 2, 2025 | 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM 

Exhibition Dates: May 2, 2025 – June 1, 2025 

 

Oliva Gallery is honored to present Osamenta, a powerful photographic exhibition by Herminio Rodríguez that explores the landscapes of decay and resilience across Puerto Rico. Rodríguez’s work captures a profound narrative of socioeconomic hardship, offering audiences a deep look into the often-overlooked aftermath of economic recession, governmental debt, and natural disasters on the island. In Osamenta, Rodríguez shares the results of a six-year journey through Puerto Rico’s seventy-eight municipalities and its islands, Vieques and Culebra. During this time, he documented abandoned industrial sites, deserted commercial properties, and once-thriving government buildings left to deteriorate. Each photograph is an intimate study of desolation, revealing the effects of Puerto Rico’s prolonged economic struggles under U.S. Tax Code 936, a series of hurricanes, and the ongoing debt crisis. Through his lens, Rodríguez examines the haunting beauty in these relics of economic ambition, now neglected and fading. Herminio Rodríguez: A Journey of Discovery and Reflection Rodríguez’s approach goes beyond mere documentation; it is a personal and introspective search to understand Puerto Rico’s landscape in the face of its current economic realities. From large industrial facilities once governed by the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO) to private commercial properties that fell victim to the island’s economic downturn, each structure he photographs stands as a silent witness to Puerto Rico’s complex history. His dedication to photographing interiors reveals a layered narrative of decline, abandonment, and an eerie beauty that resonates with similar histories in places like Detroit, where economic collapse has left entire districts forsaken. Rodríguez’s exhibition is further enriched by personal notes and reflections that accompany each image. These brief texts serve as a diary of his journey and experiences, capturing the social, physical, and technical challenges he faced. Each entry offers viewers a more personal insight into Rodríguez’s journey, inviting them to see through his eyes and feel the weight of the story behind each space. 

 

 

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Oliva Gallery presents Offering, a two-person exhibition by Laura Peterson and Nikki Renee Anderson exploring the emotional landscapes of identity, vulnerability, and transformation. Through sculpture, painting, and installation, the artists examine how personal histories intersect with broader cultural narratives. Anderson’s ceramic environments confront feminine archetypes and reclaim intimacy and self-representation as acts of power, while Peterson’s layered portraits, informed by her work as a behavioral health therapist, navigate themes of grief, healing, and emotional renewal.

Together, Peterson and Anderson create a meditative space that invites reflection and emotional engagement. Offering is not just an exhibition, it is a dialogue between two artists deeply committed to exploring the tension between fragility and strength, stillness and change, and the evolving nature of the self.

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Oliva Gallery presents LUMINOSITY: The Ocean Between VIII

A group exhibition curated by Marianna Buchwald and Tamara Wasserman

LUMINOSITY: The Ocean Between VIII brings together a dynamic roster of international and Chicago-based artists whose work reflects the fluid intersections of culture, imagination, and personal mythology. The exhibition explores light, not only as a visual phenomenon, but as a metaphor for transformation, connection, and creative vision.

Through diverse media including painting, sculpture, mixed media, and installation, the featured artists illuminate the conceptual distance between places, people, and identities, transforming it into a shared space of artistic inquiry.

Participating artists include: Betty Kirk Chernansky, Bishal Manandhar, Bonnie Katz, Dale Pesmen, Franz Betz, Harro D.B Schmidt, Jenny Chernansky, Judith Meyer, Kao Ra Zen, Kathryn Hempel, Kevin B.Chatham, Lars Schumacher, Lori Kaplan, Marianna Buchwald, Michaela Hanemann, and Tamara Wasserman.

Browse Event Programming

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Entwined: Banner Making with Kathryn Hempel, Bishal Manandhar, Lori Kaplan, and Tamara Wasserman 

Kathryn Hempel, Bishal Manandhar, Tamara Wasserman, and Lori Kaplan welcome you to participate in the Culture Flow Entwined fabric and mixed media workshop at Oliva Gallery, 3816 W. Armitage Ave in Chicago, on Monday, July 21st, 2025, from 6 - 8 pm. A variety of textiles, fabric paint, and art supplies will be available for use. Participants are encouraged to bring a piece of fabric representative of their culture, ancestry, homeland, or neighborhood to add to our collaborative work or their individual artwork. We look forward to ripping, weaving, painting, knotting, and possibly sewing together.

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The Art Center Highland Park, in partnership with Oliva Gallery, proudly announces Facades, a powerful new exhibition opening August 8, 2025, that foregrounds three influential voices in contemporary Midwestern art: Nikki Renee Anderson, Aaron Becker, and the late Molly Schiff. Through sculpture, color, and dynamic form, Facades confronts themes of identity, visibility, and public space, inviting audiences to consider how we construct, obscure, and reveal ourselves in a constantly shifting social landscape.


These three Chicago-based artists—each rooted in a distinct material language—deliver an experience that is visually compelling and emotionally resonant, shaped by Midwest sensibilities and a commitment to community dialogue.


Nikki Renee Anderson, known for her ceramic sculptures and immersive installations, brings a tactile intimacy to the exhibition. Her works challenge static notions of femininity and identity, drawing on personal history to create forms that are at once soft and assertive, playful and deeply psychological. Anderson’s practice reflects a career of national and international acclaim, with exhibitions at the Chicago Cultural Center, Hyde Park Art Center, and the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Italy. A professor and leader in ceramic education, Anderson’s work reclaims the domestic and decorative as spaces of feminist resistance and self-exploration.


Aaron Becker engages viewers with a sculptural language that distorts familiarity. Trained in ceramics, Becker constructs imagined environments through abstract form and geometric composition, asking us to examine the energies that shape our perception of place. His work, which often pairs the functional with the conceptual, explores the thresholds between domesticity and disorientation. His installations provoke questions about presence, interiority, and what it means to occupy space.


Molly Schiff (1927–2018), a visionary Chicago modernist, rounds out the exhibition with vividly colored paintings that channel emotional immediacy through abstraction. A lifelong creative force who began painting after a career in the garment industry, Schiff earned multiple degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and exhibited widely across Illinois. Her works exemplify a blend of expressive form, bold palette, and open invitation to interpretive intimacy. She remains a cherished figure in Chicago’s art history and her legacy continues to influence new generations.


Together, Anderson, Becker, and Schiff present a multi-generational conversation on form, identity, and the surface tensions that define civic life. Facades is more than an exhibition, it is a reflection on visibility, vulnerability, and the connective power of art in public discourse.


Opening Reception: August 8, 2025 | 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM 


Exhibition Dates: August 8 – September 2025


Note: this exhibition takes place at The Art Center of Highland Park (1957 Sheridan Rd Highland Park, IL 60035)


Learn more

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Saturday, August 16, 2-5 pm, Collage and Thinking: a Writing Workshop with Dale Pesmen at Oliva Gallery

 

Dale Pesmen, a painter, collage and encaustic artist, author, and PhD in Cultural Anthropology, has run creative nonfiction writing workshops for over ten years in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, and Serbia. Influenced by dadaist techniques, the workshops are inspired by the principle that making art can be thinking. In this 3-hour session, we will do exercises to demonstrate to ourselves how it feels when unexpected jumps, ideas, and images emerge in the process of wordplay.


Image Credit Dale Pesmen

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Oliva Gallery invites you to experience Holding Space, a group exhibition featuring artists Jan Nakao, Laurie LeBreton, and Macus Alonso. Each artist approaches their work as a form of care, reflection, and experimentation in holding space for complex emotions and cultural memory.The exhibition brings together painting, sculpture, and installation to ask how we process what we carry, and how materials help us release, remember, or transform. Rooted in each artist’s distinct background, Holding Space centers process over polish and meaning over spectacle.

Jan Nakao: Painting from the Unconscious Jan Nakao, trained as a Jungian psychoanalyst, creates paintings guided by images from the collective unconscious. Her practice draws from decades of work in the field of psychological trauma and is shaped by intuition and the internalized “third hand”. The result is a body of abstract work rich with emotional depth and symbolic resonance. Nakao holds a Diplomate in Jungian Analysis from the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago (2005) and degrees from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Champaign-Urbana.

Laurie LeBreton: Sculptural Forms of Renewal Working with handmade paper and natural materials, Laurie LeBreton constructs large-scale installations that reference ritual garments, natural growth, and inner transformation. Her sculptural work operates in the space between delicacy and resilience. These forms test the boundaries of material and meaning, offering viewers meditative entry points into the emotional and spiritual dimensions of healing.

Macus Alonso: Geometry, Body, and Cultural Memory Macus Alonso’s geometric abstractions investigate structure, rhythm, and movement through color and form. A central theme in Alonso’s practice is the relationship between the body and spatial construction, drawn from multicultural influences and grounded in personal narrative. Her use of layered paint and structural patterning encourages a dialogue between spiritual exploration and material experimentation.

About Oliva Gallery

Oliva Gallery is dedicated to showcasing exceptional work by contemporary artists with roots in

the Midwest and beyond. Through exhibitions spanning painting, sculpture, and mixed media,the gallery fosters critical dialogue, interdisciplinary exploration, and inclusive cultural

engagement.


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Oliva Gallery invites you to experience Holding Space, a group exhibition featuring artists Jan Nakao, Laurie LeBreton, and Macus Alonso. Each artist approaches their work as a form of care, reflection, and experimentation in holding space for complex emotions and cultural memory.The exhibition brings together painting, sculpture, and installation to ask how we process what we carry, and how materials help us release, remember, or transform. Rooted in each artist’s distinct background, Holding Space centers process over polish and meaning over spectacle.

Jan Nakao: Painting from the Unconscious Jan Nakao, trained as a Jungian psychoanalyst, creates paintings guided by images from the collective unconscious. Her practice draws from decades of work in the field of psychological trauma and is shaped by intuition and the internalized “third hand”. The result is a body of abstract work rich with emotional depth and symbolic resonance. Nakao holds a Diplomate in Jungian Analysis from the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago (2005) and degrees from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Champaign-Urbana.

Laurie LeBreton: Sculptural Forms of Renewal Working with handmade paper and natural materials, Laurie LeBreton constructs large-scale installations that reference ritual garments, natural growth, and inner transformation. Her sculptural work operates in the space between delicacy and resilience. These forms test the boundaries of material and meaning, offering viewers meditative entry points into the emotional and spiritual dimensions of healing.

Macus Alonso: Geometry, Body, and Cultural Memory Macus Alonso’s geometric abstractions investigate structure, rhythm, and movement through color and form. A central theme in Alonso’s practice is the relationship between the body and spatial construction, drawn from multicultural influences and grounded in personal narrative. Her use of layered paint and structural patterning encourages a dialogue between spiritual exploration and material experimentation.

About Oliva Gallery

Oliva Gallery is dedicated to showcasing exceptional work by contemporary artists with roots in the Midwest and beyond. Through exhibitions spanning painting, sculpture, and mixed media,the gallery fosters critical dialogue, interdisciplinary exploration, and inclusive cultural engagement.

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Oliva Gallery is proud to present Found in Place, an exhibition of new abstract oil paintings by Chicago-based artist Tiffany Stronsky and ceramic installations by sculptor Carolyn Cronin Hughes, running from October 3 through November 1, the exhibition opens with a reception on Friday, October 3, from 5:00 to 9:00 PM.


Found in Place explores the ways belonging reveals itself in fragments, through familiar sights such as the lines of a porch, the shadow of a tree, or the glow of late afternoon light across a neighborhood street. Stronsky translates these impressions into layered, abstract compositions where brushstrokes act as gestures of recognition, each canvas becoming a meditation on seeing, staying, and claiming space.Through her vibrant palette and richly textured surfaces, Stronsky transforms the everyday into expressive landscapes of memory and presence. The works invite viewers to consider their own connections to place, tracing the quiet beauty of what surrounds them and reflecting on the resonance of home.


About the Artist

Tiffany Stronsky is a Chicago-based painter whose work investigates memory, perception, and place. Known for her layered oil technique and expressive use of color, she creates abstract works that draw viewers into an active relationship with the canvas.

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Oliva Gallery presents 

Verdastro 


Opening October 3 5-9 


Thru Nov 1, 2025 

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Fall Flowers Workshop: Still Life Sketching and Bouquet Building


As part of the exhibition programming for Found in Place, Oliva Gallery will host Fall Flowers: Sketch, Sip, and BYOB (Build Your Own Bouquet) on Saturday, October 25 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. This afternoon of creativity celebrates the rich colors and local flowers of the fall harvest. Celeste’s Flower Shop will guide participants in building their own bouquets, while local artists Tiffany Stronsky share insights on their creative process and the works on display.


Guests are invited to join in a seasonal still life sketch session, with inspiration and supplies provided (personal materials welcome). The event will also feature treats by Sweet Charity supporting One Tail at a Time’s animal rescue mission, along with a coffee bar and beverages available for purchase.


This event is free to attend; RSVPs are encouraged. Bouquet-building and coffee bar options will be available for purchase.


RSVP Link

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3816 W. Armitage Ave., Chicago, IL 60647

847-922-5736


PROGRAMMING: 


Gallery Hours: Friday 5–8 PM, Saturday 12–4 PM, or by appointment


Timeless Bodies interprets the human form through sculptural realism and abstraction. Throughout history, the human form has been symbolized as a container of life, emotion, and spirit, reflecting both fragility and resilience. How does the body hold and convey our stories, memories, or cultural history? Artists were encouraged to celebrate the interplay of form and storytelling in clay.

 

Juror & Curator: 

Nancy Pirri is an artist from Chicago, working primarily in ceramics and creating figures of all sizes. Pirri has won awards from the Beverly Arts Center and the Rockford Art Museum, including work published in ‘500 Figures in Clay’ V2. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including SOFA in Chicago representing women's rights anniversaries, and has acquired collectors from all over the world. She has exhibited with numerous galleries in the Midwest and is currently represented by Oliva Gallery, J. Petter Galleries (MI), Design at 329/Primitive/The Stalls, and Inner Haven Gallery. 


ARTISTS EXHIBITING:

Nikki Renee Anderson

Monica Balc

Lynn Basa

Aaron Becker

Sharon Bladholm

Debbie Burk

Lisa Farris

Autumn Horwath

Lynda Lawson Karr

Jayne King

Dawn Liddicoatt

Linda Marcus

Johannah Tomita Martin

Amber Matthews

Suzanne Mauro

Carole McCurdy

Bobbi Meier

Arny Nadler

Andryea Natkin

Alexis Lee Ortiz-Duarte

Roberta Ulrich-de Oliveira

Susan Volk

Christopher Williams

Runhui Xu

Thomas Zamiar


Image: Arny Nadler (associate professor of Art Sam Fox School of Art and Design at Washington University St Louis Mo )  

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Artist Talk: Saturday, Nov. 15th, 2025 – 3-5pm

Timeless Bodies interprets the human form through sculptural realism and abstraction. Throughout history, the human form has been symbolized as a container of life, emotion, and spirit, reflecting both fragility and resilience. How does the body hold and convey our stories, memories, or cultural history? Artists were encouraged to celebrate the interplay of form and storytelling in clay.

 

Juror & Curator: 

Nancy Pirri is an artist from Chicago, working primarily in ceramics and creating figures of all sizes. Pirri has won awards from the Beverly Arts Center and the Rockford Art Museum, including work published in ‘500 Figures in Clay’ V2. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including SOFA in Chicago representing women's rights anniversaries, and has acquired collectors from all over the world. She has exhibited with numerous galleries in the Midwest and is currently represented by Oliva Gallery, J. Petter Galleries (MI), Design at 329/Primitive/The Stalls, and Inner Haven Gallery. 


Image: Linda Marcus

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FIGURE DRAWING: Sunday, Dec. 7th – 3-6pm. Live Model - FEE: $20


Timeless Bodies 

First Annual Midwest Ceramic Exhibition

 

Timeless Bodies interprets the human form through sculptural realism and abstraction. Throughout history, the human form has been symbolized as a container of life, emotion, and spirit, reflecting both fragility and resilience. How does the body hold and convey our stories, memories, or cultural history? Artists were encouraged to celebrate the interplay of form and storytelling in clay.

 

Juror & Curator:

 

Nancy Pirri is an artist from Chicago, working primarily in ceramics and creating figures of all sizes. Pirri has won awards from the Beverly Arts Center and the Rockford Art Museum, including work published in ‘500 Figures in Clay’ V2. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including SOFA in Chicago representing women's rights anniversaries, and has acquired collectors from all over the world. She has exhibited with numerous galleries in the Midwest and is currently represented by Oliva Gallery, J. Petter Galleries (MI), Design at 329/Primitive/The Stalls, and Inner Haven Gallery. 


Image: Susan Volk

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Timeless Bodies 

First Annual Midwest Ceramic Exhibition

 

OLIVA GALLERY

3816 W. Armitage Ave., Chicago, IL 60647

847-922-5736

Nov. 7-Dec. 13, 2025


PROGRAMMING: 


Gallery Hours: Friday 5–8 PM, Saturday 12–4 PM, or by appointment

Timeless Bodies interprets the human form through sculptural realism and abstraction. Throughout history, the human form has been symbolized as a container of life, emotion, and spirit, reflecting both fragility and resilience. How does the body hold and convey our stories, memories, or cultural history? Artists were encouraged to celebrate the interplay of form and storytelling in clay.

 

Juror & Curator:

 Nancy Pirri is an artist from Chicago, working primarily in ceramics and creating figures of all sizes. Pirri has won awards from the Beverly Arts Center and the Rockford Art Museum, including work published in ‘500 Figures in Clay’ V2. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including SOFA in Chicago representing women's rights anniversaries, and has acquired collectors from all over the world. She has exhibited with numerous galleries in the Midwest and is currently represented by Oliva Gallery, J. Petter Galleries (MI), Design at 329/Primitive/The Stalls, and Inner Haven Gallery. 


ARTISTS EXHIBITING:

Nikki Renee Anderson

Monica Balc

Lynn Basa

Aaron Becker

Sharon Bladholm

Debbie Burk

Lisa Farris

Autumn Horwath

Lynda Lawson Karr

Jayne King

Dawn Liddicoatt

Linda Marcus

Johannah Tomita Martin

Amber Matthews

Suzanne Mauro

Carole McCurdy

Bobbi Meier

Arny Nadler

Andryea Natkin

Alexis Lee Ortiz-Duarte

Roberta Ulrich-de Oliveira

Susan Volk

Christopher Williams

Runhi Xu

Thomas Zamiar


Image: Arny Nadler (associate professor of Art Sam Fox School of Art and Design at Washington University St Louis Mo )  

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HOLIDAY/GIFT PARTY: Friday, Dec. 19th, 2025 – 5-9pm


Timeless Bodies interprets the human form through sculptural realism and abstraction. Throughout history, the human form has been symbolized as a container of life, emotion, and spirit, reflecting both fragility and resilience. How does the body hold and convey our stories, memories, or cultural history? Artists were encouraged to celebrate the interplay of form and storytelling in clay.

 

Juror & Curator:

 

Nancy Pirri is an artist from Chicago, working primarily in ceramics and creating figures of all sizes. Pirri has won awards from the Beverly Arts Center and the Rockford Art Museum, including work published in ‘500 Figures in Clay’ V2. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including SOFA in Chicago representing women's rights anniversaries, and has acquired collectors from all over the world. She has exhibited with numerous galleries in the Midwest and is currently represented by Oliva Gallery, J. Petter Galleries (MI), Design at 329/Primitive/The Stalls, and Inner Haven Gallery. 


Photo credit: Suzanne Mauro

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Oliva Gallery marks its ten-year anniversary with MMM…., a group exhibition presented in conjunction with International Women’s Day. The exhibition opens March 6, 2026, and features work by Melanie P. Brown, Mia Capodilupo, and Michelle Stone. The title references both the shared first initials of the participating artists and the visual and sensory richness of their work.

Together, the exhibition brings painting, sculpture, installation, and performance-informed practices into dialogue, highlighting distinct yet complementary approaches to material, gesture, space, and perception.

Melanie P. Brown presents work rooted in her long-standing practice of painting in direct response to sound and music. Since 2020, Brown’s process has centered on live and recorded sound as a catalyst for color, gesture, and mark-making. Preparing extensive palettes and integrating pastel and charcoal, she translates rhythm, texture, and spatial perception into layered compositions. Brown frequently performs live painting in collaboration with musicians, treating the act of painting as a time-based, multisensory event. The resulting canvases function as residual records of these four-dimensional collaborations. Brown lives and works in Chicago and holds a BA from Knox College and an MFA in Painting from American University.

Mia Capodilupo contributes sculptural and installation-based work informed by physical contact, spatial experience, and material tension. A sculptor and installation artist originally from Boston, Capodilupo has exhibited widely in museums, galleries, and alternative spaces across the United States. Her practice includes large-scale public and semi-permanent installations commissioned by the cities of Chicago, Atlanta, Bellevue, Washington, and the Indianapolis Art Center, as well as a permanent work at the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Illinois. Capodilupo holds an MFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute and serves as Gallery Director at Lillstreet Art Center. She is also the founder and director of Ignition Project Space in Chicago.

Michelle Stone presents constructed, impasto acrylic sculptures alongside related paintings and drawings. Her work occupies a space between figuration and abstraction, often expanding into wall-based, floor-based, and immersive installations. Stone’s practice investigates memory, narrative, and the human condition through layered surfaces, fragmented forms, and evolving structures. Her paintings and sculptures emphasize transformation, erosion, and psychological space, with imagery emerging through accumulated gestures and textures. Stone is affiliated with Ceres Gallery in New York City and Dialogue Chicago and maintains a studio with Greenleaf Artists. She lives and works between Chicago and New York. MMM…. affirms Oliva Gallery’s decade-long commitment to presenting contemporary work while foregrounding the voices and practices of women artists. The exhibition aligns with International Women’s Day to future emphasize this focus of the gallery.

Artists: Melanie P. Brown, Mia Capodilupo, Michelle Stone

Occasion: International Women’s Day and Oliva Gallery Ten-Year Anniversary For additional information, images, or press inquiries, please contact Oliva Gallery.

About Oliva Gallery

Oliva Gallery is dedicated to showcasing exceptional work by contemporary artists with roots in the Midwest and beyond. Through exhibitions spanning painting, sculpture, and mixed media, the gallery fosters critical dialogue, interdisciplinary exploration, and inclusive cultural engagement.

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Oliva Gallery presents Girl Talk, a solo exhibition of paintings by Chicago-based artist Lindsey Kircher, on view from April 3 through May 30, 2026. The exhibition brings together a group of recent figurative works that stage psychologically charged scenes populated by women, animals, and symbolic objects. Through dense compositions and saturated color, Kircher constructs theatrical environments that blur the boundaries between interior life and performance.


Kircher’s paintings unfold as layered narrative spaces in which bodies, decorative objects, and animal figures intertwine. Poodles, parrots, musical instruments, bird cages, fruit, and candles appear alongside female figures whose poses oscillate between vulnerability and command. Limbs twist and fold across the canvas, creating compositions that feel at once intimate and unstable. These environments operate less like conventional portraits and more like staged psychological tableaux where fragments of domestic life accumulate into something closer to myth or allegory.


Across the exhibition, Kircher examines the visual language historically used to frame femininity. The paintings reference traditions of figurative painting that intertwine the body, ornament, and domestic space, yet they complicate these associations through exaggeration, humor, and visual excess. Characters appear aware of their own performance, inhabiting environments that feel part boudoir and part stage set. The result is a body of work that treats identity not as a fixed image but as a shifting composition of gestures, objects, and symbolic relationships.


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Join Oliva Gallery for the opening reception of Girl Talk, a solo exhibition of paintings by Chicago-based artist Lindsey Kircher. Poodles, parrots, musical instruments, bird cages, fruit, and candles appear alongside female figures whose poses oscillate between vulnerability and command. Through dense compositions and saturated color, Kircher constructs theatrical environments that blur the boundaries between interior life and performance. The works reference traditions of figurative painting that intertwine the body, ornament, and interior space while complicating those associations through exaggeration, humor, and visual excess.


Opening Reception Friday, April 3, 2026 5–9 PM

Exhibition Dates April 3 – May 30, 2026

Location Oliva Gallery 3816 W. Armitage Ave. Chicago, IL


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Join Oliva Gallery for Small Talk, an artist talk with Lindsey Kircher presented during her solo exhibition Girl Talk. The conversation offers visitors an opportunity to hear directly from the artist about the ideas, imagery, and processes behind the paintings on view.


Kircher’s work stages psychologically charged scenes populated by women, animals, and symbolic objects. Through dense compositions and saturated color, she constructs theatrical environments that blur the boundaries between interior life and performance.


During the talk, Kircher will discuss the layered narrative spaces that unfold across her paintings, where bodies, decorative objects, and animal figures intertwine. Elements such as poodles, parrots, musical instruments, bird cages, fruit, and candles appear alongside female figures whose poses oscillate between vulnerability and command. These environments operate less like conventional portraits and more like staged tableaux where fragments of domestic life accumulate into something closer to allegory.


The talk will explore how Kircher engages traditions of figurative painting while complicating the visual language historically used to frame femininity. Through exaggeration, humor, and visual excess, the work treats identity not as a fixed image but as a shifting composition of gestures, objects, and symbolic relationships.


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Join Oliva Gallery for the closing reception of Girl Talk, a solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Lindsey Kircher, presenting recent figurative paintings that stage psychologically charged scenes through dense composition, saturated color, and symbolic imagery, where figures, animals, and objects converge in layered interiors that move between intimacy and performance; the reception takes place Saturday, May 30 from 1–3 PM and offers a final opportunity to experience the work and meet the artist.

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The Path to Nowhere Errol Ortiz and Stanley Dean Edwards

Oliva Gallery presents The Path to Nowhere, a two-person exhibition featuring Errol Ortiz and Stanley Dean Edwards. Bringing together two distinct Chicago-connected artists, the exhibition places Ortiz’s charged, symbol-rich Imagist language in direct conversation with Edwards’s disciplined geometric abstraction. Ortiz’s work moves through current events, social tension, pattern, humor, and unease, while Edwards builds pressure through structure, color, and precise compositional restraint. Together, their work creates a space of visual suspension, where images scatter, forms lock into place, and two very different artistic logics meet in unexpected cohesion.

The opening reception will also include a screening of a short documentary on Errol Ortiz by On The Real Film in collaboration with Pentimenti Productions. The film premieres at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago on May 26 as part of a series on Chicago artists, with the June 12 reception offering a more intimate opportunity to view the film and meet the artist.

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Oliva Gallery, in partnership with Bridgeport Artist Community, presents Art in Transit, a group exhibition bringing together artists CV Peterson, Daniela Castro, Jane Michalski, Kuna Na, Pamela Staker, Takako, and Tara Sabini.


The exhibition explores how movement, transition, and shifting environments shape artistic practice. Transit appears here as both a physical and internal condition, moving through space, memory, perception, material, and time. Together, the works reflect a creative community shaped by exchange, passage, and ongoing transformation.


Programming in conjunction with Art in Transit includes:


Opening Reception: Art in Transit

Friday, July 24, 5:00 PM

Oliva Gallery


Cake Decorating Workshop: Faux Frosting with Daniela Castro

Thursday, August 6, 4:30 PM

Oliva Gallery


Introduction to Encaustic Materials and Demonstration with Jane Michalski

Sunday, August 9, 10:00 AM

Oliva Gallery


Virtual Studio Visit: Tara Sabini

Saturday, August 15, 3:00 PM CDT

Virtual


Workshop: Collage with Recycled Materials 

Thursday, August 20, 6:00 PM

Oliva Gallery


Art in Conversation: Art in Transit Closing Reception

Saturday, August 29, 2:00 PM

Oliva Gallery


To RSVP visit bit.ly/Oliva_Gallery

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September 4–October 3, 2026

Opening Reception: Friday, September 4, 2026, 5:00–9:00 PM

Closing Reception and Conversation: Saturday, October 3, 2026, 1:00–3:00 PM — Moderated by Chanelle Lacy


Oliva Gallery presents Witness to Bedlam, a two-person exhibition featuring Olivia Petrides and Lynn Basa.


Bringing Petrides’s fractured works on paper into proximity with Basa’s ceramic forms, the exhibition examines disorder through its physical traces.


Through ruptured structures, obscured language, unstable surfaces, cavities, and accretions, Witness to Bedlam considers what remains after coherence has broken down. Rather than treating disorder as spectacle, Petrides and Basa work across paper and clay with rupture, compression, and residue, creating forms that are unsettled but deliberate, marked by seams, collisions, fissures, and the suggestion of an unnamed aftermath.


Petrides presents works from her ongoing Split / Divide series, created with ink, gouache, and collaged newspaper on paper. Extended fields are interrupted by visible divisions, as though each composition has been broken apart and provisionally reassembled. Newsprint survives beneath veils of black ink and abrasive passages of yellow, pink, blue-gray, and mineral green. Printed language is cut, obscured, and absorbed into gestural surfaces, turning information into material. The works resist both conventional abstraction and descriptive landscape. They suggest damaged records, storm systems, geological faults, and walls layered with successive histories. Each composition holds together, but its unity remains visibly contested. Basa’s ceramic sculptures occupy related terrain through radically different means. Her forms shift between artifact, organism, vessel, fossil, and geological specimen. Surfaces are fissured, blistered, folded, and encrusted. Openings resemble mouths, vents, shells, or excavated chambers, with glaze and glass gathering inside cavities or clinging to irregular edges. The objects appear simultaneously ancient, damaged, and newly formed. Where Petrides works through division across the plane, Basa builds outward from rupture. Petrides preserves interruption through seams and exposed fragments of language.


Basa transforms fracture into volume. Together, their work presents bedlam as a material condition that can be mapped, excavated, and observed without being resolved. The title Witness to Bedlam emphasizes the position of the observer. To witness is not necessarily to understand. Petrides and Basa do not impose order on disorder. Their work records its pressure, studies its remnants, and gives form to what remains difficult to name.


About the Artists:


Olivia Petrides is a painter, illustrator, and Associate Professor Adjunct at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she has taught since 1985. She received an Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in 2024 and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2021, in addition to multiple Illinois Arts Council project grants. Her research and residency history includes extended work in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland. Lynn Basa is a Chicago-based artist whose work is held in numerous public, private, and museum collections, including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Spencer Museum of Art, and the Tacoma Art Museum. Her work appeared in Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, organized by the American Craft Museum, and in the Smithsonian Institution’s traveling Threadworks exhibition.


Basa has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hyde Park Art Center, and Creative Capital. She is the author of The Artist’s Guide to Public Art and holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MPA in public art policy from the University of Washington.

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The closing conversation will bring Petrides and Basa together to discuss their respective practices, the relationship between paper and clay within the exhibition, and the ideas surrounding rupture, material, fragmentation, and observation that connect their work. Closing Reception & Conversation Saturday, October 3, 2026 1:00–3:00 p.m. Moderated by Chanelle Lacy Location Oliva Gallery 3816 W. Armitage Ave. Chicago, IL 60647 About the Moderator Chanelle Lacy is a curator, cultural producer, and Reiki Master whose work exists at the intersection of contemporary art, community, and healing. Passionate about bringing ambitious, rigorous, and deeply considered projects to life, she works closely with artists at all stages of their careers to nurture expansive practices and contribute to a more inclusive and evolving art historical canon. Her curatorial practice is grounded in a commitment to amplifying voices that have been historically underrepresented, while creating meaningful points of connection between artists, institutions, and communities. Chanelle is also the founder of On Ancestral Wings, a creative healing platform rooted in the belief that marginalized communities carry an innate capacity for power, restoration, and transformation. Through energetic modalities and inner exploration, the platform creates space for reconnection, remembrance, and collective healing. This impulse to bring art and healing into dialogue is central to Chanelle’s practice, where she is continually creating space for unexpected worlds, ideas, and ways of being to meet. Currently serving as the Managing Director at Gertie, Chanelle works alongside the organization’s founder to shape the platform’s artistic vision, programming, partnerships, and growth. She is also at the helm of citywide cultural activations including Chicago Exhibition Week (CXW), advancing Gertie’s mission to deepen engagement with Chicago’s artists, institutions, collectors, and broader cultural community.

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