<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419017/xfos2dfqyoabn5a7k8ga.jpg"><figcaption>Courtesy of Elise Swopes.&nbsp; &nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://columbiachronicle.com/columbia-student-makes-300000-selling-nfts-using-only-an-iphone?fbclid=IwAR3evRjvC81c38EP3NX82pN29x18DuKx1RHfCdznG_GOn6ofnuGY3TMVIpI">Columbia student makes $300,000 selling NFTs using only an iPhone</a>The first NFT Elise Swopes, a senior arts management and graphic design major, took was from a helicopter flying over New York City. Using only her iPhone to shoot and edit the NFT, she made it look as if a waterfall was actively falling from the edge of the city. She sold this piece in February 2020 for 11 ETH, or the equivalent of $17,000 at the time.<a href="https://ethereum.org/en/nft/">NFTs</a>, or nonfungible tokens, are digital representations of ownership or rights to original pieces of content or art. Swopes, still using only an iPhone, has now made 104 ETH, a cryptocurrency called Ethereum, which is equivalent to $300,000 in the current market.Via Columbia Chronicle&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/brooklyn-museum-virgil-abloh-2069386">The First Posthumous Retrospective Dedicated to Designer Virgil Abloh Will Go on View at the Brooklyn Museum This Summer</a>This summer, the Brooklyn Museum will stage a version of the first institutional survey dedicated to the late fashion designer and creative visionary Virgil Abloh. The show, titled “Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech,” will build on an earlier exhibition of the same name that originated at the MCA Chicago in 2019, and then traveled to ICA Boston, the High Museum in Atlanta, and Qatar Museums.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/02/07/how-auction-houses-became-the-big-winners-of-the-pandemic">How auction houses became the big winners of the pandemic</a>Consolidated sales of at least $7.3bn, Sotheby’s highest annual total in its 277-year history… $1bn of that spent on “luxury”… $7.1bn at Christie’s, the auction house’s highest total in five years, including $69.3m for an NFT… Record sales at Phillips, up 35% on 2019.It seems the only way is up for the biggest international auction houses after a pandemic-challenged, but ultimately lucrative, 2021. Meanwhile, back in the realm of beleaguered bricks-and-mortar galleries, nearly 300 art and antiques dealerships are coming to terms with the postponement of the Tefaf Maastricht fair from March to June while Art Basel in Hong Kong, also scheduled for March, has announced a “contingency tenancy” at its venue in May, should it too need to shuffle backwards at the eleventh hour due to Covid.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/02/08/tates-u-turn-on-sackler-naming">Tate's U-turn on Sacklers</a>Tate is to remove the Sackler name from five locations at its two London museums amid ongoing calls for institutions to distance themselves from the family which manufactured and sold the highly addictive opioid OxyContin through their firm Purdue Pharma.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 2/8/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419010/tx4ncixdyopjjx4pwoci.jpg"><figcaption>Serpentine Pavilion 2022 Black Chapel designed by Theaster Gates.&nbsp; Design render, interior and exterior view © Theaster Gates Studio, courtesy of Serpentine Galleries.&nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.richardgraygallery.com/news/theaster-gates4">Theaster Gates Design Revealed for 2022 Serpentine Pavilion</a>Plans have been revealed for Black Chapel, the 21st Serpentine Pavilion designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates. Black Chapel is realized with the architectural support of Adjaye Associates and will open to the public on Friday, June 10, 2022 with Goldman Sachs supporting the annual project for the eighth consecutive year. Drawing inspiration from the significance of the great kilns of Stoke-on-Trent, Gates's Pavilion will pay homage to British craft and manufacturing traditions. While the structure of the Pavilion will predominantly be made of wood, the Pavilion’s design alludes to the performative and meditative qualities of a small chapel. An operating bell, originating from the demolished St. Laurence Church on Chicago’s South Side, will be placed next to the entrance of the Pavilion and will be used to call, signal and announce performances and activations. A single source of light from an oculus will create a sanctuary-like environment for reflection and communion.<a href="https://www.richardgraygallery.com/news/theaster-gates4">Read more here...</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419011/yypsiylr13qqzamrxut8.jpg"><figcaption>Jennie C. Jones, Neutral [clef] Structure 1st &amp; 2nd, 2021 Acoustic panel, architectural felt, and acrylic on canvas in 2 parts 48 x 36 x 3 1/2 in each | 121.9 x 91.4 x 8.9 cm each Courtesy PATRON Gallery, Chicago ;&nbsp;Alexander Gray Associates, New York © 2022 Jennie C. Jones</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/jennie-c-jones-dynamics">Jennie Jones at the Guggenheim</a>PATRON announced&nbsp;an exhibition of new and recent works by interdisciplinary artist Jennie C. Jones&nbsp;at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics will include paintings, works on paper, and a sound installation that responds to the Guggenheim’s iconic architecture by interweaving visual and aural experience. Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics addresses the objecthood of painting, sound as ephemeral content, and the graphic forms of music notation. Jennie C. Jones (b. 1968, Cincinnati) considers listening to be a conceptual practice that underwrites her visual art. For her solo presentation at the Guggenheim, Jones has produced a new body of work that responds to the museum’s iconic architecture by interweaving visual and aural experience.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419012/zrfus5k4nlmr11r55pst.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.moniquemeloche.com/artists/52-sheree-hovsepian/biography/">Sheree Hovsepian is invited to the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia</a>Monique Meloche Gallery announced that gallery artist Sheree Hovsepian will participate in the 59th Venice Biennale. Foregrounding the materiality of photography in a digital age, Hovsepian (b. 1974, Isfahan, Iran. Lives in New York City, U.S.) works with film-based cameras, light-sensitive paper, various objects, and her own body to produce cerebral and sensual photographs in which she deconstructs her medium. She produces all of her photographs in the studio and darkroom using traditional printing techniques. Confounding and subtle, her work reflects her deep knowledge of the history and theory of photography.View the full list of Biennale Artists – including the following artists born or living in Chicago: Simone Leigh, Julia Phillips and Christina Quarles – here via <a href="https://www.artforum.com/news/venice-biennale-reveals-artists-for-2022-edition-87807?tid=newsletter&amp;sid=afd-2022-02-03">Artforum</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.terraamericanart.org/what-we-offer/grant-fellowship-opportunities/convening-grants/">Apply Now:&nbsp;Convening Grants from the Terra Foundation</a>The Terra Foundation for American Art actively supports convenings worldwide that question and broaden definitions of American art. Grant funding is available for programs that foster exchange and collaboration, such as workshops, symposia, and colloquia. Programs should advance innovative and experimental research and professional practice in American art and address critical issues facing the field. The Terra also welcomes requests for convenings intended to inform projects in their early stages, which will benefit from the learning and practice that can be developed through dialogue. This program is open to organizations within and outside of the United States. Convenings held in person and/or online are eligible for support. <a href="https://www.terraamericanart.org/what-we-offer/grant-fellowship-opportunities/convening-grants/">Apply here.</a>&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 2/4/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419010/g1jvmvdiypifdtnp3dfk.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/houses-of-tomorrow-from-keck-to-today">Houses of Tomorrow: From Keck to Today</a>Opening: Friday, February 4, 4 – 6&nbsp;pmElmhurst Art MuseumHouses of Tomorrow follows the evolution of Chicago architecture firm Keck &amp; Keck – created by brothers George Fred Keck and William Keck – who designed modern, award-winning, affordable homes throughout the Midwest from 1935-1979.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419011/chxygye5kdsg0zkippg4.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/iris-goldstein">Iris Goldstein</a>Opening: Friday, February 4, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC GalleryIris Goldstein, a long-time member of ARC Gallery, is exhibiting colored-pencil drawings at the gallery in February 2022.&nbsp; Goldstein is always interested in the unusual and offbeat.&nbsp; Though she is committed to nonobjective art, she tries to find visual images that are suggestive and allusive, based on real-life objects or places that are transformed through the artist’s imagination.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419011/ugj2ydfpsfwpbbvqyqic.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/buzz-spector-reading-matter">Buzz Spector: Reading Matter</a>Opening: Friday, February 4, 5:15 – 8&nbsp;pmRockford Art MuseumIn Reading Matter the artist will show his large-format Polaroid photographs of books, whether from his own library or from various private or public collections. This rarely exhibited body of work will show the range of Buzz’s interest in the books others read or collect. Also on view will be Buzz’s drawings and prints, dating back to the 1970s. The centerpiece of the show is a new book construction for the museum, using more than 5,000 books donated from the Rockford and Evanston Public Libraries.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419012/gew2zoszpyjvuavgnlnd.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/femme">FEMME</a>Opening: Saturday, February 5, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmFLXST ContemporaryThe artwork presented in the group exhibition Femme captures full-on the idea that femme for many includes thoughts, feelings, and actions that are innate to how they navigate the world. The exhibition also presents the notion that femme connects to a web of other femmes and queer folks—and that femme is a marker of identity.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419013/z1iqylhbffz3i3njhz5e.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-best-part-about-us">Tomokazu Matsuyama: The Best Part About Us</a>Exhibition starts February 5Kavi Gupta - Elizabeth St.The exhibition comes on the heels of the artist’s landmark solo exhibitions at two of China’s largest and most influential private museums, Long Museum Shanghai and Long Museum Chongqing. As with those exhibitions, the visual language Matsuyama deploys in the works in&nbsp;The Best Part About Us&nbsp;reﬂects the experiences of today’s nomadic diaspora—a global, intercultural community of wandering people who seek to understand their place in a world full of contrasting visual and cultural dialects.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419014/m4r4vpnstumxum0xod9a.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/naturally">Naturally</a>Exhibition starts February 5Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA)Fascinated by forces of nature and mind, Judith Roston Freilich and Lilach Schrag examine, each in her own way, essence, energy, and evolution. Judith Roston Freilich’s works on paper and textiles were inspired by her aspirations to integrate the arts into everyday life.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419015/cpn5hjpfttkaff29fcy4.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/2nd-annual-black-lives-matter-ecad95b7-9346-4958-a669-611090852d96">2nd Annual Black Lives Matter</a>Opening: Saturday, February 5, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmDragonfly GalleryThe Second Annual Black Lives Matter Exhibition is a call for artwork that addresses the struggle and the injustice experienced by all minorities.&nbsp; For centuries art has had the power to change the world. Not only can it reflect the world we live in but also inspire and move us to change the world. The artwork can also celebrate identity and culture.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419016/y2qoz2t0kly9urikxky6.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/holly-murkerson-syn">Holly Murkerson: syn-</a>Opening: Sunday, February 6, 12 – 3&nbsp;pmGoldfinchGoldfinch is excited to present the&nbsp;inaugural show of our East Wing gallery: “syn-“ a solo presentation of new work by Chicago-based artist Holly Murkerson.&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start February 4 - 6

<html><head></head><body>By CGN StaffSince Chicago is buried in snow right now, we understand if people may opt to view (and buy) from home once again. An auction taking place after Valentine's Day at Hindman focuses on Outsider art and offers many opportunities to own some unique works of art, many of which would be appealing and affordable entry-level pieces from some under-rated as well as more widely known artists, many of whom have Chicago connections. The auction promises to appeal to those looking to build their collections as well as to those who may be new to buying at auction. <a href="https://hindmanauctions.com/auctions/1001-somewhere-out-there">Somewhere Out There</a> is a curated sale comprised of wonderfully unusual artworks at a range of accessible price points that are all from the more “out there” regions of the imagination. The sale features works by a number of renowned Chicago artists, notably Lee Godie and Gertrude Abercrombie.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419010/itvh3b55ayqmskq7mbjo.jpg" alt="A picture containing water, outdoor

Description automatically generated"><figcaption>Gertrude Abercrombie The Dinosaur, 1964 Estimate: $30,000-50,000</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419011/ppzxpofhxdbtjjqtz8zy.jpg" alt="image002.jpg"><figcaption>Lee Godie Sleeping Beauty and Staying Alive Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;The auction includes eye-opening Surrealist, Outsider, Psychedelic, Street Art, Magical Realist, Avante Garde, Pop, Visionary and Activist paintings, drawings, collages, photographs, prints and sculptures that all include a strange yet sublime aesthetic. Standouts include Joe Coleman’s meticulously detailed Give Me that Old Time Religion (lot 17; estimate: $30,000-50,000) and Abercrombie’s The Dinosaur (pictured above). Coleman’s works rarely come up for auction, offering bidders an opportunity to acquire work by an artist whose clientele includes rock, movie and art star patrons, if that's your thing.Those looking to add obsessively eccentric works to their walls at a more affordable price, according to a Hindman rep, some compelling selections worth perusing include Ray Johnson’s Four (lot 181; estimate: $3,000-5,000, one of five lots by the artist), whose Correspondence School collages are also currently exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago." That show's exhibition catalogue was reviewed in the fall 2021 issue of <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2021/9/book-report-ray-johnson-c-o">CGN.</a> Additionally, there are 7 works by Lee Godie as part of the auction. Godie was a local legend and self-taught artist. Other vibrant selections are Marcel Dzama’s Untitled, 2005 (lot 2; estimate: $1,000 - $2,000) and Terrence La Noue’s dynamic acrylic and mixed media work, Amazonia: Circus Day (lot 50; estimate: $1,000-2,000).&nbsp;Those interested in registering to bid can do so online via Hindman’s <a href="https://bid.hindmanauctions.com/">Digital Bid Room</a> &nbsp;The auction takes place live and online at <a href="https://hindmanauctions.com/auctions/1001-somewhere-out-there">Hindman</a> at 10AM on February 17.&nbsp; &nbsp;</body></html>

Hindman's Feb 17 Auction to Highlight Outsider Artists 

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419010/kenjcikiz997qhhhraiy.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lecture-in-photography-zora-j-murff">Lecture in Photography: Zora J Murff</a>Wednesday, February 2, 6 – 7&nbsp;pmMuseum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP)Zora J Murff is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Arkansas. Murff uses his practice to highlight intersections between systemic social issues and the cultural construct of race. He has published books with Aint-Bad Editions and Kris Graves Projects, and his most recent monograph,&nbsp;At No Point In Between&nbsp;(Dais Books) was a winner of the Lucie Foundation Photo Book Awards. His work is currently on view in American Epidemic: Guns in the United States.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419011/htyhae5qj6hjm8hennm4.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/museum-subjectivities-panel">Museum Subjectivities Panel</a>Thursday, February 3, 1 – 2&nbsp;pmDePaul University Art Museum (DPAM)Museum professionals from different Latin American institutions in Chile, Paraguay, Argentina, and Colombia will speak about long-term relationships that open up ways for subjective and collective transformation. Our panelists include&nbsp;Ticio Escobar, Soledad García Saavedra,&nbsp; William Alfonso López Rosas,&nbsp;Johanna Palmeyro, with moderator&nbsp;Eva Marxen.&nbsp;The virtual event will be in Spanish with simultaneous translation into English by Alejo Magariños.<a href="https://depaul.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a4dd3ab26b18855553526bab9&amp;id=fe18e50b52&amp;e=f0dae82ba8">REGISTER →</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419011/qvad7wn4vqgldkrshyom.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/commonground-a-collaboration-with-poetry-ireland-online">COMMONground: A Collaboration with Poetry Ireland (Online)</a>Saturday, February 5, 1 – 2&nbsp;pmPoetry FoundationThis inaugural online event will probe topics of struggle, motherhood, and the complexities of honouring the past while raising the future. Teri and Doireann will discuss the impact these themes have had on their recent work, and with readings from their highly praised collections, will illuminate those places where their approaches and experiences converge and diverge.<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/216554980777">Register here</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419012/c1udpqeltl2anhmnj8ry.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/opening-reception-for-the-exhibition-who-do-we-say-we-are-irish-art-1922-2022">Opening Reception for the exhibition Who Do We Say We Are? Irish Art 1922 | 2022</a>Opening: Saturday, February 5, 1 – 3&nbsp;pmSnite Museum of ArtThere will be a program in the Galleries beginning at 2:30 p.m. with a talk by the exhibition curator, Cheryl Snay; a reading by poet Julie Morrissy (as a prelude to her <a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/tl7fgf/td1dw8/5mof4w">reading</a>on February 25); and a performance by concertina player Shannon Dunne.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419013/byncqhw9ok5hdzmuuxkr.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/houses-of-tomorrow-exhibition-introduction">Houses of Tomorrow Exhibition Introduction</a>Monday, February 7, 7 – 8&nbsp;pmElmhurst Art MuseumAt Elmhurst Public Library and virtualDuring this sneak peek presentation, participants will hear a survey introduction to the exhibition including how the original glass-walled “House of Tomorrow” at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair led to breakthroughs in architecture and solar power, and consider the possibilities and limitations of “green” buildings.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Talks This Week: February 2 - 7

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419010/evju67ssaxwgkzjprekl.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/richard-norton-gallery">Richard Norton Gallery Is Moving</a>Richard Norton Gallery is in the midst of moving to a new, larger space within the historic Merchandise Mart. As of February 1st you may visit their new suite #14-119&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/hofheimer-gallery">Hofheimer Gallery is Closing</a>Teresa Hofheimer shared on Facebook this week, "It is with regret that I have to inform you Hofheimer Gallery will be closing at the end of February. The decision to close has not been an easy one. Lisa, Ricky and I will treasure the relationship we have had with Chicago artists and collectors."&nbsp;Hofheimer will continue as an art consultant in the Midwest and Asheville, North Carolina. Her namesake gallery has been located on Damen in Ravenswood since 2018. She's open by appt. through Feb 19.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.art.org/intuit-to-receive-150000-grant-from-nea-as-part-of-the-american-rescue-plan/">Intuit Receives ARP NEA Grant</a>Intuit announced it has been awarded an American Rescue Plan (ARP) grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a grant award intended to help the arts and cultural sector recover from the pandemic. Intuit is recommended to receive $150,000 and may use this funding to save jobs and fund operations and facilities, health and safety supplies, and marketing and promotional efforts to encourage attendance and participation. In total, the NEA awarded grants totaling $57,750,000 to 567 arts organizations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Washington, D.C.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/work-in-progress">Chicago Artists Coalition Announces Work in Progress Benefit Date and Awardees</a>CAC shared this week that Work in Progress will take place on May 19, 2022 and the annual benefit will honor artist Candida Alvarez and gallerist Monique Meloche. Details to come!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 1/27/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419010/bxchnne2nvctkovky7xv.jpg"></figure>PIGMENT Launches Art Shopping Site for Fine Art and ObjectsPIGMENT International™&nbsp; has launched a new shopping site&nbsp;titled <a href="https://shop.pigmentintl.com/#/">We Love Art</a>, which offers a fine array of art and objects curated over time.&nbsp;Pigment says, "Collections featured on the site include&nbsp;Fine Art, Fine Art Prints, Objet d’arts, Pigment Magazine, Apparel&nbsp;and items that offer a little lift to your décor without breaking the bank."&nbsp;Fine art originals are available alongside street banners and vintage postcards.&nbsp;&nbsp;Items change regularly, as most are one of a kind.&nbsp;&nbsp;Currently available on the site is a street banner from the&nbsp;Kerry James Marshall&nbsp;exhibition “Mastry.”&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/01/26/former-maxims-de-paris-in-bertrand-goldbergs-astor-tower-set-to-become-private-club/?utm_source=Pico&amp;utm_campaign=d21f3ed02b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_01_06_03_09_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_b6b84a5cee-d21f3ed02b-99488483&amp;mc_cid=d21f3ed02b&amp;mc_eid=c7690bf638&amp;fbclid=IwAR0JSRctJ09yYt17REvbThN9WQXC2A446XysT-sEj08yBzaMZjZMxw-7cPU">Former Maxim’s De Paris In Bertrand Goldberg’s Astor Tower Set To Become Private Club</a>After 22 years as a city-run event space, the legendary interior that once housed Maxim’s de Paris restaurant inside the Gold Coast’s Astor Tower will be revived as a private neighborhood-centered social club.Via Block Club Chicago&nbsp;2022 Lubeznik Arts Festival Call for ArtistsWe are currently accepting artist applications for the 2022 Lubeznik Arts Festival, taking place August 20 and 21 on the grounds of Lubeznik Center for the Arts.&nbsp;Come be a part of Lubeznik's 40th year celebration! Applications are due March 28.<a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Oaavpcg_bUvLvgPtcOLNSSehWY8N4L3bBZWEpEAy8x0Tr9gStmAWGkVziHqjqW6WLPDJsjt6_4ImLsL8_5ovahfOd63guXWVPFeheBBWDA7S8W76j7oKcVmD--fP8MaWW9zbX9F-_MkfCvHrWuiUqNApGMaIsp_4O3Bopn-ci6GzZCWgjfLzwBDRY8p5b5rW&amp;c=6eB2NSK2FsP7a2zsQzi2QAPLubG_o0LxLTMKandP3ZPJSVDAiIQyIw==&amp;ch=18nWqTjWfJYZGHGPr1qiCrV8ZeEPw8gg0390xNu0bZHAPNFI1BH2Zg==">Apply for the Festival!</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1028122?fbclid=IwAR35VYlTPjbHeX-eXzj_ho6_aM_hrYZjvpZQaeF38Q8UOtpt0rk85B6iqMg">Illinois Holocaust Museum launches new virtual reality exhibit 'The Journey Back'</a>Kelley Szany from the Illinois Holocaust Museum talks about their brand new virtual reality exhibit "The Jouney Back" on Holocaust Remembrance Day.&nbsp;Via Fox 32 Chicago&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 1/26/21

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419010/jbe9stnndapohbpbpv3d.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/patricia-rieger-xavier-toubes">Patricia Rieger / Xavier Toubes</a>Opening reception(s): Friday, January 28,&nbsp;4 - 7 pm&nbsp;/ Saturday, January 29, 1 - 4Zolla / Lieberman Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419011/wwagqhs5ccuatrehhp6h.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lauralynn-white">Lauralynn White Solo Exhibition: Naked</a>Opening: Friday, January 28, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmFirecat Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419012/rfn3etyu9dsjzlutffkm.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/a-site-of-struggle-exhibition-opening-events">Opening Conversation (online) | A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence</a>Opening: Saturday, January 29, 2 – 3&nbsp;pmBlock Museum of ArtOriginating at Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art,&nbsp;<a href="https://northwestern.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=904f932038284b4d9eea69636&amp;id=01c808b6c2&amp;e=ec81127d70">A Site of Struggle</a>&nbsp; explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100+ year period.&nbsp;Join us for an online conversation to mark the opening of this exhibition.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419013/pspqjwexi0fyuf3slpmc.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/adam-augustyn-the-sky-is-falling-solo-show">Adam Augustyn "The Sky is Falling" Solo Show</a>Opening: Saturday, January 29, 12 – 5&nbsp;pmVertical Project SpaceAugustyn's work is inspired by animation, mythology, music, cults, horror films, his hometown of Chicago, and the latest obsessions of his three daughters. His paintings play with scale, color, and theme to produce the unexpected (oversized humans, vibrant playful demons) and to emphasize the impact of our choices, actions and moods on the environment around us.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start January 28 & 29

<html><head></head><body><a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/four-star-stories/bronzeville-transformation-retold-crains-four-star-stories-podcast-series?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Marketing_FourStarStories_letterfromJim_20220118&amp;utm_term=Promote-Advertising">Bronzeville: An audio tour of one neighborhood's quiet transformation</a>Bronzeville, a swath of the South Side once known as the Black metropolis and rich in history, received a lot of welcome attention in 2021. Illinois’ two senators introduced legislation to designate the neighborhood a National Heritage Area. The plan to redevelop the long-empty Michael Reese Hospital site into the 48-acre mixed-use development moved forward. And writer Dawn Turner published an insightful memoir, "Three Girls From Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate and Sisterhood."Meanwhile, Crain’s reporter Dennis Rodkin has been documenting a quiet transformation that's going on in Bronzeville.Via Crain's&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419010/tet43jmxymh7nxreisag.png"></figure><a href="https://news.wttw.com/2022/01/24/evanston-artist-s-new-exhibition-showcases-75-years-self-portraits">Evanston Artist’s New Exhibition Showcases 75 Years of Self-Portraits</a>For the first time, self-portraits of Evanston artist Leo Segedin are on display in a solo exhibition.Segedin, 95, painted the self-portraits over the course of 75 years.“The past is my present, in my painting anyway,” Segedin said. &nbsp;Despite raising his family in Evanston for the last 50 plus years, Segedin’s work has always been rooted in his memories of growing up on the city’s West Side.Via WTTW&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/whitney-biennial-2064056">Here Are the 63 Artists and Collectives Participating in the Closely Watched 2022 Edition of the Whitney Biennial</a>The Whitney Biennial, one of the most closely watched—and fiercely debated—exhibitions in America, has revealed the lineup for its next edition, which opens in April. The 63-strong list of artists and collectives chosen by curators&nbsp;David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards encompasses three generations and suggests that the first pandemic-era iteration of the show will have a decidedly conceptual and interdisciplinary bent.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/01/24/simone-leigh-statue-new-orleans-confederate-monument">Simone Leigh statue of African deity installed at former site of Confederate monument in New Orleans</a>Leigh’s sculpture was unveiled at the symbolically charged site in the city centre during the closing weekend of the fifth Prospect New Orleans triennialVia The Art Newspaper&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 1/25/22

<html><head></head><body>Here for you is CGN's short list of upcoming exhibition highlights for the first half of 2022. While we were in production for this year's CGN Arts Guide towards the end of 2021, we combed through various sites and calendars to see what was being promoted as of press time. We expect the exhibitions highlighted here to open on schedule and in person, or virtually if needed, but please check with each individual institution or gallery space prior to visiting. There is a lot to look forward to in 2022!Our full events calendar is available at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events">chicagogallerynews.com/events</a>– CGN&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419006/q65badnrqe4h8jxdrgfu.png"></figure>Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert ColescottThis is the first comprehensive retrospective of one of America’s most compelling and controversial artists, Robert Colescott (1925-2009). In his large-scale paintings, Colescott confronted deeply embedded cultural hierarchies involving race, gender, and social inequality in America with fearless wit and irony.Thru May 22, 2022 • <a href="https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/exhibits.html">Chicago Cultural Center&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419007/nwapn9isaxkysdkzkbks.jpg"></figure>Bob Thompson: This House is MineThe Smart presents the first museum exhibition devoted to the artist in more than 20 years.&nbsp;This House Is Mine traces Bob Thompson’s brief but prolific transatlantic career, examining his formal inventiveness and his engagement with universal themes of collectivity, bearing witness, struggle, and justice.February 10–May 15, 2022<a href="https://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu">Smart Musuem&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419008/ndstescpsfiqyeajhs19.jpg"></figure>Igshaan Adams: Desire LinesThis spring the Art Institute brings Igshaan Adams’ textiles to the foreground. Through the beads, shells, glass, rope, wire, and found objects he uses to compose his weavings, Adams highlights the material aspects of lived spaces along with the personal stories held within them.<a href="https://www.artic.edu">The Art Institute of Chicago</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419009/mrqxgjb936p6igskibpr.png"></figure>NICK CAVE: ForothermoreThe MCA presents the first career-spanning retrospective of the internationally renowned Chicagoan Nick Cave (American, b. 1959), an artist celebrated for projects that blend community building with vibrant works of art across disciplines, including immersive installations, textural sculptures, impeccably crafted fashion, and dynamic videos and performances.&nbsp;May 14–Oct 2, 2022<a href="https://mcachicago.org">The Museum of Contemporary Art</a>&nbsp;</body></html>

2022 Culture Short List

<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/real-estate/elite-street/ct-re-elite-street-driehaus-mansion-sells-lake-geneva-20220117-ky43w3nd7re5dnpit3lcnct34m-story.html?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daywatch&amp;utm_content=911642513817#nws=true">Lake Geneva mansion owned by late investment manager Richard Driehaus sells for $36M, a Wisconsin state record</a>The 12-bedroom pillared Georgian-style mansion late investment manager Richard Driehaus owned on 40 acres in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, sold Friday for $36 million.The sale price, to a buyer whose identity could not yet be determined, is the highest on record in Lake Geneva and the highest in the history of the state of Wisconsin for a single-family home.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://news.yahoo.com/masterpiece-recieve-frame-chicagos-art-011038901.html">Masterpiece will recieve new frame at Chicago's Art Institute</a>"A Sunday Afternoon On the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat is one of the most recognizable paintings in the world. The Art Institute of Chicago now has the daunting task of replacing the painting's frame.Via CBS News&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/new-maya-angelou-quarter-designer-2060027">Maya Angelou Is the First Black Woman to Appear on the U.S. Quarter.</a>The poet, writer, and activist Maya Angelou has become the first Black woman to appear on a U.S. quarter.The U.S. Mint released a coin featuring her likeness into circulation earlier this week; the coin was created as part of the American Women Quarters Program, through which a series of special-edition coins honoring American women will be minted over the next four years.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/arts/design/nazis-antiquities-looted.html">New Research Tracks Ancient Artifacts Looted by the Nazis</a>When the Nazis invaded Greece in 1941, Julius Ringel, a major general in the German army, took an active role in initiating illegal excavations on the island of Crete, where Minoan culture had flourished more than 3,000 years earlier.Though the cinematic exploits of Indiana Jones in the 1980s provided a popular, fictional view of a Nazi lust for antiquities, the art world has, understandably, focused considerably more attention on the seizure of art from Jews.But the topic of the Nazi role in antiquities looting is increasingly drawing attention, in part through the work of scholars who are peeling back the mysteries of what happened to the objects that were excavated or seized eight decades ago.Via the New York Times&nbsp;&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 1/18/21

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419006/riln5qcbfszzjmdbuqmk.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/photos-at-zoom-american-epidemic-themes-in-the-mocp-collection">Photos at Zoom: American Epidemic Themes in the MoCP collection</a>Friday, January 21, 12 – 1&nbsp;pmMuseum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP)Get to know the museum's collection with this series of public virtual print viewings. Curatorial Assistant Erica McKeehen will lead a discussion on works in the permanent collection that relate to themes in the current exhibition,&nbsp;American Epidemic: Guns in the United States.&nbsp;Drawing on techniques of photojournalism, documentary, landscape, and forensic photography, the artists presented in this session address guns in American culture either directly or indirectly, by questioning the roles of photography pertaining to memory, the media, and evidence in instances of violence.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419007/erzkeusttzn8iravs0x7.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/nate-young-cameron-downey-in-conversation">Nate Young &amp; Cameron Downey in Conversation</a>Friday, January 21, 6 – 7&nbsp;pmENGAGE ProjectsLearn how Cameron came into her artistic practice through her interactions and mentoring from Nate. Cameron Downey is a part of our current two person exhibition&nbsp;Intersections&nbsp;which is on view through Saturday, January 22, 2022.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419007/d8hxmpgacdxmgpketnnn.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/artist-lecture-frances-lightbound-virtual-program">Artist Lecture: Frances Lightbound (Virtual Program)</a>Friday, January 21, 7 – 8&nbsp;pmBianca Bova GalleryFrances Lightbound’s work addresses the architectural condition through abstraction.The artist will be joined in conversation by Bianca Bova, with an audience Q &amp; A to follow.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419008/vlj7uof3x08rnqarphmi.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/exhibition-curator-gina-costa">Exhibition Curator: Gina Costa</a>Sunday, January 23, 2 – 3&nbsp;pmPerspective Photo GalleryThis exhibition provides a small glimpse to how a mobile device is not only a convenient device in one’s pocket, but also a powerful creative tool harnessed by these artists to redefine how we understand picture-making. The question before us now is: What is the next technical advancement mobile photography is paving the way for?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419009/x0jo4dmwdp644fdnjhsg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/tony-fitzpatrick-in-conversation-with-steven-conrad">Tony Fitzpatrick In Conversation with Steven Conrad</a>Sunday, January 23, 3 – 4&nbsp;pmThe Cleve Carney Museum of ArtThe conversation, moderated by Conrad, will take place on the McAninch Arts Center’s Belushi Performance Hall stage. Topics will include and Fitzpatrick’s connection to Chicago, his current CCMA exhibition Jesus of Western Avenue, his social and political concerns and our shared changing reality.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Talks This Weekend: January 21 - 23

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/art-mental-health-11641387911">Is Looking at Art a Path to Mental Well-Being?</a>During a dark period in his youth, Bill Murray thought about killing himself while wandering the streets of Chicago. “I was ready to die,” the actor said at a press conference several years ago. That day he decided to visit the Art Institute and found himself in front of Jules Breton’s 1884 painting The Song of the Lark, which depicts a young woman looking skyward, sickle in hand, a violent orange sunrise behind her. Suddenly, Murray felt hope. “I just thought, Well, there’s a girl who doesn’t have a whole lot of prospects, but the sun’s coming up anyway and she’s got another chance at it,” he said. “That gave me some sort of feeling that I too am a person, and get another chance every day the sun comes up.” Murray credits the painting with saving his life.Via WSJ&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/italian-collectors-instagram-fakes-2057952">Four Italian Collectors on Instagram Have Been Unmasked as Catfish Accounts. Was It a Scheme to Pump Emerging Artists?&nbsp;</a>“It all starts at a fair, or by word of mouth from collector friends, or wandering around Instagram,” the collector Carlo Alberto Ferri&nbsp;<a href="https://it.reafair.com/post/collector-s-view-collezione-carlo-alberto-ferri">recently told</a>&nbsp;an Italian art blog. “Then, I get in touch with the gallery before I buy.”It sounds like a typical response. What’s unusual is that Ferri is not actually a collector, or even a real person. And there are others like him, prowling the internet purporting to be Italian collectors, according to a&nbsp;report published in the newspaper Il Sole 24 Oreyesterday.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-visual-art-chicago-winter-2022-preview-20220106-k6q7ncoz2vc3jg5fv45ze6oq3y-story.html">Top 10 for Visual Art in Chicago: Big shows, big messages in the first months of 2022</a>As museums carry on showing pandemic holdovers too good to cancel, the embarrassment of riches continues. So many great shows, so little space to mention them all!By Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://news.wttw.com/2022/01/08/showcase-african-and-african-american-artists-comes-prudential-plaza">Showcase of African and African American Artists Comes to Prudential Plaza</a>A unique collaboration is bringing Black art to a popular Chicago building.It’s a first of its kind exhibit happening now at <a href="http://onetwopru.com/gallery-guichard-exhibition/">One Two Pru, also known as Prudential Plaza</a>, located in the Loop. It’s not unusual to see art in downtown lobbies, but most of the pieces in this art exhibit are from <a href="https://www.galleryguichard.com/">Gallery Guichard</a>, a Black-owned art gallery in Bronzeville.Via WTTW&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 1/11/21

CAC Announces the 2022-23&nbsp;BOLT Artist Residents<a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-cdybkd-dlvzir-y/">Michael Cuadrado</a> <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-cdybkd-dlvzir-j/">Tulika Ladsariya</a> <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-cdybkd-dlvzir-t/">Sal Moreno</a> <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-cdybkd-dlvzir-i/">Laleh Motlagh</a> <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-cdybkd-dlvzir-d/">Lola Ayisha Ogbara</a> <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-cdybkd-dlvzir-h/">R. Treshawn Williamson</a>BOLT is a one-year juried residency program for emerging and mid-career Chicago artists offers onsite studio space and monthly visits by influential artists and art professionals.⁠Learn more about CAC's current community of artists&nbsp;<a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-cdybkd-dlvzir-k/">here</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://news.wttw.com/2021/12/28/new-book-reveals-secrets-chicago-nanny-who-was-world-class-photographer">A New Biography Aims to Answer Some of the Many Questions About Vivian Maier</a>There has always been an air of mystery surrounding the life of Vivian Maier.Maier, was a North Shore nanny who quietly pursued another endeavor – in her spare time she took extraordinary photographs.Her body of work — 140,000 images — was discovered in a Chicago storage locker in 2007. And the photographs were not attributed to her until she died two years later. Our own Jay Shefksy first reported on the phenom before her life became the subject of a 2014 documentary. Now a new biography aims to answer some of the many questions about Maier.&nbsp;It’s called “<a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vivian-Maier-Developed/Ann-Marks/9781982166724">Vivian Maier Developed — The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny</a>.”&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/01/05/i-have-been-hacked-collector-loses-more-than-dollar2m-of-nfts-overnight?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=ec3795a7c6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_01_05_11_10&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c459f924d0-ec3795a7c6-61117077">‘I have been hacked’: collector loses more than $2m of NFTs overnight</a>More than $2.2m worth of NFTs were stolen from the New York-based art collector and gallerist, Todd Kramer, according to a series of now-deleted tweets. Kramer, of Ross+Kramer Gallery, called for help via social media in the early hours of 30 December, saying: “I have been hacked, all my apes [have] gone." He described the night as the "worst of his life". The 15 NFTs which disappeared from his wallet were from the highly prized Bored Ape Yacht Club and the Mutant Ape Yacht Club collections, in what is believed to have been a phishing scam.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;&nbsp;

CGN Art World Recap: 1/6/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418996/yuktotpneghtpzkst8cb.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lee-godie-sincerely">Lee Godie: Sincerely...</a>Opening: Friday, January 7, 5:30 – 8&nbsp;pmCarl Hammer GalleryForty-three years ago, on the eve of the grand opening of the Carl Hammer Gallery at 620 N. Michigan Avenue, a first-time encounter with Chicago’s iconic street artist took place.&nbsp;Now, twenty-eight years since her passing, Carl Hammer Gallery takes a look back at the remarkable, inventive eye of one of Chicago’s most widely collected artists – Lee Godie.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418997/sneztxsw3zgofsnhcdev.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/for-spacious-skies">for spacious skies</a>Opening: Friday, January 7, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmChicago Artists Coalition (CAC)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418998/z7zqebyhqlk1ofhdkjso.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/patrice-s-nelson">Patrice S. Nelson</a>Opening: Friday, January 7, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418998/adfmsjjjb9o0ef0hcqrn.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/wunderkammer-victor-s-cabinet-of-curiosities">Wunderkammer: Victor's Cabinet of Curiosities</a>Opening: Friday, January 7, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmGallery Victor ArmendarizWunderkammers, or cabinets of curiosities, arose in mid-sixteenth century Europe as repositories for all manner of wondrous and exotic objects, sometimes filling entire rooms. These collections mark the intersection of superstition, science, and man-made objects and are precursors to museums.&nbsp;To celebrate our five-year anniversary, Gallery Victor Armendariz will transform our space into a modern Wunderkammer featuring artists: Marcos Raya, John Seubert (AKA John Dolly), Rick Farrell,&nbsp;Ivan Markovic and many more!&nbsp;Including the Kupjack Miniature Rooms.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418999/fpeyq5tayj1jrwbyfy6k.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/colorful-language">Colorful Language</a>Opening: Friday, January 7, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmAddington Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419000/b8dsmcznlxikxb6sylwk.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/anneke-eussen-blank-pages">Anneke Eussen: Blank Pages</a>January 8DOCUMENT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419001/uyhrpdrhh0husjivu0at.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/through-a-new-lens-works-from-the-world-wide-mobile-photography-movement">Through a New Lens: Works from the World-Wide Mobile Photography Movement</a>Opening: Saturday, January 8, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmPerspective Photo GalleryThis exhibition provides a small glimpse to how a mobile device is not only a convenient device in one’s pocket, but also a powerful creative tool harnessed by these artists to redefine how we understand picture-making. The question before us now is: What is the next technical advancement mobile photography is paving the way for?&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419001/xv0zoxawvlyx2umiwszo.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dan-gunn-of-the-land-behind-them">Dan Gunn: Of the Land Behind Them</a>January 8&nbsp;Monique Meloche GalleryGunn’s work relies on the imagery, aesthetics, and craft traditions of the American Midwestern vernacular and investigates their ideological function in politics and for the formulation of male subjectivity.&nbsp;His practice mines materials for their unconscious associations and emotional potential. Woodworking and ceramics are used for their historical connection to Midwestern mythologies in&nbsp;an attempt to construct a counterfactual folk art, one not riddled with nostalgia but more accurate to the current state of affairs.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start January 7 & 8

<a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/artist-maps-englewood-homes-where-land-sale-contracts-denied-black">Artist maps Englewood homes where Black residents were denied ownership</a>In January, signs will start appearing in front of houses that were part of an onerous period in Chicago’s housing history, the mid-20th century era of land sale contracts, when Black households were allowed tantalizingly close to homeownership without attaining it.Via Crain's Chicago&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/obituaries/wayne-thiebaud-dead.html">Wayne Thiebaud, Playful Painter of the Everyday, Dies at 101</a>Wayne Thiebaud, the California-based painter whose lush, dreamy landscapes and luminous pictures of hot dogs, deli counters, marching band majorettes and other charmed relics of midcentury Americana were complex meditations on life and painting, and represented one of the most affecting and individual variations on 20th-century Pop Art, died on Saturday at his home in Sacramento. He was 101.Via The New York Times(Thumbnail image: “Untitled (Three Ice Creams),” 1964.Credit...Wayne Thiebaud /Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/01/04/new-caravaggio-workonce-estimated-at-euro1500-and-now-worth-millionsoffered-to-spain">New ‘Caravaggio’ work—once estimated at €1,500 and now worth millions—offered to Spain</a>The regional government of Madrid will have the opportunity to buy a newly discovered work thought to have been painted by the 16th-century artist Caravaggio. The work, known as The Crowning of Thorns, was withdrawn from an auction in Madrid last spring after curators from the Museo Nacional del Prado said there was “sufficient stylistic and documentary evidence” to suggest it could be an original Caravaggio. The regional government recently granted the work protected status, declaring it an item of cultural interest.The piece was due to go under the hammer at Ansorena auction house on 8 April with a guide price of just €1,500. The small-scale painting was included in the online catalogue of Ansorena with an attribution to the “circle of [the 17th-century Spanish artist] José de Ribera”. The Spanish government subsequently imposed an export ban on the work.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/armory-show-latinx-latin-american-art-2022-1234613288/">Armory Show Plans Fair-Wide Focus on Latinx and Latin American Art for 2022&nbsp;Edition</a>For its upcoming edition next fall, the Armory Show will focus its special programming on Latinx and Latin American art. Three of the fields’ leading curators will oversee those events: Mari Carmen Ramírez, Tobias Ostrander, and Carla Acevedo-Yates.Via ARTnews&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 1/4/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418996/yjnpmzdyvbfknuihgyvn.jpg"><figcaption>Oskar Friedl, far right, with the Zhou Brothers (3rd from left and 5th from left)</figcaption></figure>Former Chicago Art Dealer and longtime curator Oskar Friedl has DiedOskar Friedl passed away after a battle with COVID-19. He would have turned 66 this week. His son shared details on his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/oskar.friedl">Facebook</a> page. Friedl was also a collaborator with the Zhou Brothers, as well as an editor of their books.&nbsp;More information on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/oskar.friedl">Facebook</a>&nbsp;Work In Progress: Eighteen Months Ago, Woman Made Gallery Started An Overhaul in the Wake of a Racially Charged UnravelingIt’s been over a year since the nation’s art institutions released their promises, statements and commitments, in various verbiages, to “do better” with racial justice. Some have stayed the course, others veered back to business as usual. Most are somewhere in the middle and have spent the past year-and-a-half adjusting to a new standard of equity and inclusion.Woman Made Gallery is a nonprofit exhibition space that focuses on women and non-binary artists. In June of 2020, Woman Made Gallery’s newly appointed director left, citing “racism in the organization and microaggressions in the workplace,” according to a statement from the gallery. Then a staff member quit, for similar reasons. Then a board member left. Ultimately the gallery ended the summer with full staff turnover and a much-reduced board.Via <a href="https://art.newcity.com/2022/01/03/work-in-progress-eighteen-months-ago-woman-made-gallery-started-an-overhaul-in-the-wake-of-a-racially-charged-unraveling/">Newcity</a>&nbsp;Susanin's Sold Its Auction Building and is Now Doing Art AdvisorySean Susanin shared: "2022 marks a fresh start and the chance to reset ourselves. Our flagship building in downtown Chicago has been sold.&nbsp;We will no longer be conducting traditional English style auctions.&nbsp;As we all know, the art and auction industry has seen tremendous change...With 40 years experience navigating the art and auction world, our mission at SUSANIN'S will continue to bring confidential, trusted advice, solutions and phenomenal results for all your art-related needs" with Susanin's Art Advisory Group.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 1/3/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418996/y0hfjvj2nohrjcbxj0oj.jpg"><figcaption>Megan Williamson created a hundred portraits based on interviews she saw on newscasts. (WTTW News) &nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://news.wttw.com/2021/12/20/chicago-artist-paints-100-zoom-portraits?fbclid=IwAR2XorTpgtMFHaz4EEspaLhvneF-iCjslK9rGWVOo9G4n7jVkh1UAINBy48#.YcIpK2k0NtI.facebook">Chicago Artist Paints ‘100 Zoom Portraits’</a>A landscape artist is ditching the dirt for some more formal paintings in a new series titled “<a href="http://www.meganwilliamson.com/">100 Zoom Portraits</a>.”What started out as 300 screenshots of Zoom interviews from her favorite newscasts, has since transformed into a declaration of the times.&nbsp;Via WTTW&nbsp;<a href="https://news.wttw.com/2021/12/20/embattled-thompson-center-lands-buyer-plans-overhaul-reuse?fbclid=IwAR0xhm6HaVf5Pmv9VU0AQF6t62kDpFxYLAe6v9lZjvXLBKRPxMtWwHFyh2A">Embattled Thompson Center Lands Buyer With Plans For Overhaul, Reuse</a>A reprieve for the Thompson Center.Late last week, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a deal to sell the love-it-or-hate it state building downtown to the Prime Group for $70 million. The development firm plans to overhaul the Helmut Jahn-designed structure rather than demolish it and start anew, as others had proposed.Via WTTW&nbsp;<a href="https://michiganave.mlchicagosocial.com/faust-art-installations-chicago?fbclid=IwAR1Ak23fhqyoIykpI3b810hGDttqv-LF-VBgYdawvZMi4hHpkaPm7KpvlT8">Bob Faust's Latest Art Installations See Chicago All Wrapped Up</a>“I am blessed that my work and life places me regularly in many of our city’s great neighborhoods, rich with color, texture and surprising juxtapositions,” acknowledges Bob Faust, principal and creative director of his eponymous Chicago-based art and design studio Faust (<a href="http://faustltd.com/">faustltd.com</a>). “I have made it part of my practice to catalog inspiring images when I come across them.” These images are the main medium in Faust’s most recent installations, with all, and still… and Rapt on The Mile, two distinct projects connected by the artist’s style and intent.Via Michigan Ave. Magazine&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/rashid-johnson-deciders-2022-1234613116/?fbclid=IwAR1oNn88tMB0RdVBySO2lAItlELlSssmLrXdB3pAsPFot0lKi5q-W1juezw">From Outside In: Rashid Johnson Has Plied His Status as an Art Star to Effect the Kinds of Change He Wants to&nbsp;See</a>After meeting at a neighborhood bar a little more than a decade ago, <a href="https://www.artnews.com/t/rashid-johnson/">Rashid Johnson</a> and Joel Mesler became such fixtures together on New York’s Lower East Side—where Johnson lived and Mesler owned a gallery—that one day Mesler half-jokingly said to his friend: “‘Look, man, we’ve got to divide Orchard Street properly.” Mesler decided that he would commandeer the thoroughfare two blocks south of Grand Street, while Johnson would take control of the blocks to the north. After quickly becoming the unofficial mayor of his zone, Johnson would “sit out on his porch, on the steps, and smoke cigarettes—and he just knew everybody,” Mesler recalled.Via Artnews&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 12/21/21

<html><head></head><body>By CGN StaffThere are just a few days left in 2021, and if you're in town for the holidays, consider stopping by area galleries to catch these notable exhibitions before they close soon.&nbsp;Of course please call before you visit to make an appointment or check for holiday hours. And bring your mask! &nbsp;Goodbye 2021!&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418988/wb3yzye6nhmmpkwdsxdf.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/par-excellence-redux-the-back-9">Par Excellence Redux. The Back 9</a>In a unique collision of recreation and art, the&nbsp;Elmhurst Art Museum joins forces with Colossal founder Christopher Jobson to curate two 9-hole golf courses made by artists.The Back 9 closes January 2, 2022.&nbsp;The fully playable course, designed by artists and architects from the Midwest and beyond, pays homage to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s wildly popular 1988 exhibition, Par Excellence. Tee time reservations are made online and available at <a href="https://www.elmhurstartmuseum.org/golf">elmhurstartmuseum.org/golf</a>.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418989/znbrx0l66qgtby43sxwd.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jin-lee-views-scenes-054f9e14-7daa-428e-a9a2-0e6604cedfa7">Jin Lee: Views &amp; Scenes</a>At the Chicago Cultural Center thru January 2, 2022This one-person exhibition by highly respected Chicago photographer <a href="https://jinleephotography.net/">Jin Lee</a> features a series of photographs that closely examine landscapes and built environments around Chicago. The exhibition brings together four bodies of work: Train Views – images made during the artist’s weekly 2-hour Amtrak commute between Chicago and Bloomington/Normal; Great Water – views of Lake Michigan taken from a single location on the South Side of Chicago; Salt Mountains – images of piles and mounds of salt and dirt found on storage sites around the city; and Weeds – a collection of portraits of wild plants that grow in alleys and empty lots in a neighborhood.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418990/wfc07ylepe1yo9x8bv6p.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/atrium-project-orkideh-torabi">Atrium Project: Orkideh Torabi</a>At the MCA thru January 2, 2022Orkideh Torabi rendered a vividly detailed bathhouse filled with characters based on men she encountered during her upbringing and visits to Iran. Inspired by traditional Persian miniature paintings, Torabi depicts the rooms of the bathhouse in a split-scene style. After transferring paint dye onto cotton fabric, Torabi dries it with an everyday hairdryer, resulting in the saturated colors in her artworks. For this exhibition, in which her work is presented at a larger scale than it has been before, Torabi’s work on cotton fabric has been transferred to vinyl.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418991/gdqzskjivhnxgrcr4l5x.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jeffrey-gibson-beyond-the-horizon">Jeffrey Gibson: Beyond the Horizon</a>Thru January 8, 2022 at Kavi Gupta. Also viewable <a href="https://kavigupta.com/exhibitions/349-jeffrey-gibson-beyond-the-horizon-kavi-gupta-chicago-il/">online</a>.&nbsp;Gibson’s aesthetic position is rooted in the spaces where narratives collide. The work recontextualizes relationships between popular culture, identity politics, personal experience, memory, and canonized versions of history, inviting viewers to question the myths and assumptions that empower contemporary social structures.For Beyond the Horizon, Gibson brings together four&nbsp;bodies of work, integrating a broad mix of source content, including a dazzling&nbsp;new series of Quilt Block Paintings.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418991/ijvm8ivgjv3f2tiuissp.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/rachel-harrison-assorted-varieties">Rachel Harrison: Assorted Varieties&nbsp;</a>Thru January 8 at Corbett vs DempseyIn Assorted Varieties, Rachel Harrison unveils four major sculptures and three wall works. Of these large-scale pieces, three are in theory monochromatic – red, blue, and yellow – however their variegated hues almost chide the idea of the monochrome, revealing a subtle pandemonium of hues and temperatures residing in craggy surfaces, torqued volumes, and inset objects. The wall works roughly map onto the color scheme of the sculptures, recast in three different media – a set of post-it notes, an enigmatic abstract photograph (titled "Photograph"), and a blown-up screen grab of a frozen cherry pie with associated Tweet. Everything in Harrison's artistic ecosystem is buzzing with latent meaning – nothing is arbitrary, but nothing is obvious.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

These 2021 Exhibitions are Closing Soon

<html><head></head><body>By CGN StaffThe new CGN 2022 Arts Guide will be out after Christmas, and we're busy now filling the calendar for 2022. Here for you are a handful of exhibitions opening in the early days of the new year. Check out calendar daily for new additions and updates!&nbsp;Happy new year!&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418996/msdp4jxve23escktwz9r.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/colorful-language">Colorful Language</a>&nbsp;Jan 7 – Feb 5Addington GalleryFeaturing work by Joanne Mattera, Cat Crotchett, Kathleen Waterloo, Alicia LaChance, Joan Holleb, Julia Katz, Michael Hoffman, David Versluis, Rebecca Crowell, Allison B. Cooke, Lisa Pressman&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418997/oxkjpj6k8h9qrkzuf5lx.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-rounds">The Rounds</a>Jan 7 – Feb 17Chicago Artists Coalition<a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-ciiulhy-ftuikdrju-y/">The Rounds</a> is a duo exhibition featuring new works by current CAC HATCH 2021-22 artists-in-residence <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-ciiulhy-ftuikdrju-j/">Osée Obaonrin</a> and <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-ciiulhy-ftuikdrju-t/">Nayeon Yang</a>, and curated by <a href="https://news.chicagoartistscoalition.org/t/i-l-ciiulhy-ftuikdrju-i/">Yi Cao</a>. The Rounds captures the repeated tries, recurring counter-actions, and recursive tensions existing amid the perpetual state of motion in societies, between relationships, and within one’s mental landscape.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418998/m6sce4iknljypswx9nvg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dan-gunn-of-the-land-behind-them">Dan Gunn: Of the Land Behind Them</a>Jan 8 – Feb 19Monique MelocheGunn’s work relies on the imagery, aesthetics, and craft traditions of the American Midwestern vernacular and investigates their ideological function in politics and for the formulation of male subjectivity.&nbsp;His practice mines materials for their unconscious associations and emotional potential. Woodworking and ceramics are used for their historical connection to Midwestern mythologies in&nbsp;an attempt to construct a counterfactual folk art, one not riddled with nostalgia but more accurate to the current state of affairs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418999/o9640xjrbd0uboppabui.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/anneke-eussen-blank-pages">Anneke Eussen: Blank Pages</a>Jan 8 – Feb 27DOCUMENTDOCUMENT presents Anneke Eussen's&nbsp;first&nbsp;solo exhibition at the gallery. Eussen lives and works in the Netherlands. She studied at the Academy of Maastricht followed by a post-graduate residency at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts, Belgium.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419000/k3vu9seu2xizqqzpzydh.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/un-disclosed">(un)disclosed</a>Jan 8 – 261100 Florence(un)disclosed is an exhibition of select Fall 2020 Journal Series weavings. These weavings are an alternative to handwritten journals that document Bibbs’ day-to-day life through the intuitive use of color, textures, and material.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419001/upz4rkvrzcqhzmurk2di.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/through-a-new-lens-works-from-the-world-wide-mobile-photography-movement">Through a New Lens: Works from the World-Wide Mobile Photography Movement</a>Jan 6 – 30Perspective GalleryThrough A New Lens is an exhibition by seven internationally-recognized iPhoneographers. The exhibit, curated by museum professional, art historian and photographer, Gina Costa, demonstrates a broad range of styles and approaches used by mobile technology. Works range from traditional, “straight” photographs, to abstract and highly “apped” works of art. Visitors to the exhibition will observe the incredible span of possibilities mobile technology permits.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Preview of First Shows of January 2022: Part I

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418988/hfbvptxn2ty8wnvyvmiw.png"><figcaption>Jason Pickleman&nbsp;</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;By CGN StaffWe are welcoming 2022 with open arms, even as we may not know entirely what to expect in terms of COVID and its ever-changing ways. Below is a preview of the many events that will be taking place over the course of 2022, from international art fairs to gallery openings, walks, and more. We are also sharing some news about galleries that are new to CGN as well as those that have anniversaries to celebrate this year!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ART FAIRS<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/expo-chicago">EXPO CHICAGO</a> is back and returning to its place on the spring calendar, April 7–10, after taking place in September since 2012. The original Art Expo first took place in Chicago in May 1980. This year’s calendar change will shift much of the art world’s focus from September to April, with Chicago galleries planning their spring shows in accordance with the energy that comes along with the fair. Watch for lots of buzz.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/chicago-antiques-art-design-show-176f8db2-f169-4dcc-92cf-d75145c7359e">The Chicago Antiques + Art + Design Show</a> is set for May 12–15, 2022 at the Merchandise Mart after two years off.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/57th-street-art-fair">The 57th Street Art Fair</a> is planning a return to in person as well, when they will finally celebrate their 75th anniversary in June at the Hyde Park fair.&nbsp;As of press time, the end of 2021, we are still waiting to hear about dates and plans for Intersect Chicago (formerly SOFA) as well as The Other Art Fair (which did take place in 2021 but will switch venues in 2022).&nbsp;&nbsp;WELCOMESCGN’s annual list of galleries has tied a record in 2022. We are proud to share nearly <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations">100 galleries, museums and art spaces</a> in these pages this year, a testament to just how much art there is to see in our part of the country and to the resolve to keep making and showing art no matter the obstacles. We also have more Wisconsin spaces listed than ever. Pick a street, neighborhood, suburb or city within 100 miles, and CGN can direct you towards art to find.&nbsp;We encourage you to read each listing’s program description and discover new spaces, artists and services, as well as revisit those who blazed trails early on. Each one is a small business or nonprofit dedicated to art, design and creativity, and there is something for everyone at every level in the art world.&nbsp;Galleries and Art Services new to our '22 pages for the first time:• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/adams-appraisal-llc">Adams Appraisers</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/blue-moon-gallery">Blue Moon Gallery</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/dragonfly-gallery">Dragonfly Gallery &amp; Creative Spaces</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/elephant-room-gallery">Elephant Room Gallery</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/engage-projects">ENGAGE Projects</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/graphic-conservation-company">Graphic Conservation</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/the-martin">The Martin</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/os-projects">OS Projects</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/parkside-galleries">Parkside Galleries</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/peterson-picture-co">Peterson Picture Company</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/pilsen-arts-community-house">Pilsen Arts &amp; Community House</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/racine-art-museum--2">Racine Art Museum</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/rosenthal-fine-art-inc">Rosenthal Fine Art</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/sculpture-milwaukee">Sculpture Milwaukee</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/stola-contemporary-art">Stola Contemporary</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/tandem-press">Tandem Press</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/alphawood-gallery">Wrightwood 659</a>&nbsp;‘22 ANNIVERSARIES• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/museum-of-contemporary-art-chicago-mca">Museum of Contemporary Art</a>: 55 years• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/catherine-edelman-gallery">Catherine Edelman Gallery</a>: 35 years•<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/carrie-secrist-gallery"> Carrie Secrist Gallery</a>: 30 years• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/vale-craft-gallery">Vale Craft</a>: 30 years• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/woman-made-gallery--2">Woman Made Gallery</a>: 30 years• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/elmhurst-art-museum">Elmhurst Art Museum</a>: 25 years• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/document">DOCUMENT</a>: 10 years•<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/engage-projects"> ENGAGE</a> (formerly Aspect / Ratio): 10 years• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/gallery-victor-armendariz">Gallery Victor Armendariz</a>: 5 years&nbsp;GOING BIG• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/flxst-contemporary">FLXST Contemporary</a> is opening FLXST601 at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/mana-contemporary">Mana Contemporary</a> in 2022• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/kavi-gupta">Kavi Gupta Gallery</a> expanded into the 1st floor at 835 W. Washington and opened a space in New Buffalo, MI• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/alan-koppel-gallery-north">Alan Koppel</a> opened a suburban space in Glencoe• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/vertical-gallery">Vertical Gallery</a> opened <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/vertical-gallery-project-space-and-studios">Vertical Project Space</a> at 2006 W. Chicago Ave.&nbsp;&nbsp;OPENING RECEPTIONSOpening night receptions have returned in area galleries. Some galleries now have longer, open house style hours, while others open for a couple of evening hours, hopefully with the artist present. Either way you can make a day or a night of it, taking a road trip or enjoying dinner after some openings. Keep in mind that many openings happen in district clusters, where and when possible, but most weekends there is an opening happening somewhere, so check <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=openings">Chicagogallerynews.com</a> often to find out what’s newly on view.&nbsp;Key DatesThe art world follows a seasonal rhythm, whether in Chicago or elsewhere. There are openings clustered around the beginning of the year in January, and then again in spring, then mid-summer, followed by September, and usually November. There is also a lot to see in alternative and artist run spaces at any given time as well.&nbsp;&nbsp;Art WalksHere are just a few area walks to check out – some are monthly, others quarterly or annually.• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?district=river-north&amp;filter=openings">River North Gallery Nights</a>: January, July, September, November• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/river-north-design-district-rndd">River North Design District</a> Annual Gallery Walk in Early September• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/bridgeport-art-center">Bridgeport Open Studios</a>, 3rd Fridays, 7–10• <a href="https://gallerynightmke.com">Gallery Night Milwaukee</a>, Two nights, quarterly (Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct)• <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/ravenswood-artwalk-raw">Ravenswood Art Walk</a>, September• <a href="https://www.westtownchamber.org/westtownartwalk">West Town Art Walk</a>, late September&nbsp;</body></html>

2022: A Full Art Year in Real Life

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418988/flama1khtltluxdmo3gt.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/mike-egan">In Memory Of: New Works by Mike Egan</a>Opening: Friday, December 17, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmFirecat Projects"For my latest show “In Memory Of” I wanted to continue exploring classic themes from my past and the thoughts of getting older. As I continue to age I'm constantly battling the idea of religion and how it shows up in my art and in my life. I also continue to explore themes of death and how as I get older what that means to me. There are also elements of relationships in these works. As I continue on with life people can slowly go away, people die, friendships and relationships end, etc. I like to think that my paintings are a bit of a photograph or diary entry that I can look back at well of course get older."&nbsp;Mike Egan&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418989/dzdhcuegfygl40zxix6m.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/idol-hands">Idol Hands</a>Opening: Friday, December 17, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the ArtsA group show dedicated to craft at Epiphany Center for the Arts.Chicago-based artist, muralist, and sculptural fabricator Czr Prz is pleased to present Idol Hands, the latest group show of his own curation. Dedicated to craft, fabrication, and structure, this exhibitionpresents new and original works by fifteen artists from across the United States, each selected for their unique approach to 3D and material-based work.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418990/ztv5spqxwofkefhtemet.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/where-art-works-artist-communities-and-creative-placemaking-how-a-northside-studio-building-became-a-community-anchor">“Where Art Works: Artist Communities and Creative Placemaking,” How a Northside Studio Building Became a Community Anchor</a>Opening: Friday, December 17, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEat Paint StudioSixteen artists whose studios are located at the Cornelia Arts Building in Roscoe Village will participate in a group exhibition at Eat Paint Studio.In addition to maintaining their private art practices at The Cornelia Arts Building, each of these artists participates in the larger Chicago community through teaching, public art projects, lectures, coordinating group exhibitions and art experiences, open studio events, and other professional creative practices. Being an artist requires entrepreneurial skills but, unlike operating a small business, commercial activity is not the end goal in the studio. Rather, the artist’s studio is a third place -- a space to experiment and discover, to envision the future, and to manifest connections.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418991/kh01vwdundmwomyu5fdp.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/3rd-arc-pauline-kochanski">3rd-Arc: Pauline Kochanski</a>Opening: Friday, December 17, 5 – 10&nbsp;pmOliva GalleryThis 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.”&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start December 17 & 18

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418988/vgbiaqtf1uwhvk76lupp.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/gallery-talks-with-daniel-schulman-dcase-director-of-visual-arts">Gallery Talks with Daniel Schulman DCASE Director of Visual Arts</a>Wednesday, December 15, 12:15 – 1&nbsp;pmChicago Cultural CenterArt and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott is the first comprehensive retrospective of one of America’s most compelling and controversial artists, Robert Colescott (1925-2009). In his large-scale paintings, Colescott confronted deeply embedded cultural hierarchies involving race, gender, and social inequality in America with fearless wit and irony.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418989/ecttkzapkanshe0pyfwz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/discussion-with-christopher-schneberger">Discussion with Christopher Schneberger</a>Thursday, December 16, 7 – 8&nbsp;pmPerspective Photo GalleryPerspective Gallery presents “The Wanderers” by Christopher Schneberger. This new series of semi-narrative tableaus imagines a band of young explorers traversing the land. The young women in the series portray both the fantasy of imagined childhood expeditions and illustrate the idea of getting lost and finding one’s way&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418990/qqyugdbx6xhvsslwdewl.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/mirrors-and-misconceptions-gallery-talk-collage-activity">Mirrors and Misconceptions: Gallery Talk + Collage Activity</a>Saturday, December 18, 2 – 4&nbsp;pmStony Island Arts BankParticipants will view the Toward Common Cause exhibition, in collaboration with Smart Museum, at Stony Island Arts Bank. The exhibition includes several works focusing on Black identity as well as Wilson’s sculpture, Act V. Scene II Exeunt Omnes. A gallery talk will follow to identify themes witnessed in The Tragedy of Othello that resonate with this work. Following this conversation, guests of all ages will participate in a collage activity to make their own art in creative response.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418990/jeral6xkcpxxi58gdvvc.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/hilma-s-ghost-solstice-rituals">Hilma’s Ghost: Solstice Rituals</a>Tuesday, December 21, 2 – 3&nbsp;pmCarrie Secrist GalleryFounded by Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray, Hilma’s Ghost is a feminist artist collective that seeks to address existing art historical gaps in abstraction through sustained methods of praxis, research, and pedagogy. Hilma af Klint’s exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (October 12, 2018 – April 23, 2019) served as a reckoning for abstraction by women, trans, and non-binary peoples, whose narratives have been subsumed by dominant modes of western art history.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Talks This Coming Week: December 15 - 21

<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-chicago-climate-change-art-initiative-tt-1208-20211208-mllqfajk2behlbnxq5ksepyafu-story.html?fbclid=IwAR3gOgWJtSpBAl3Fmbatw5CglEz_2Xlnhk4FuFn9ELDyLZNmp7z8c5xHBf4">E(art)H Chicago offering $300K for art that addresses climate change</a>A citywide community-based art initiative called E(art)H Chicago (Earth Art Chicago) seeks to raise awareness, create dialogue and inspire action on climate change, natural resource use and environmental justice. The program is giving $300,000 in grants to artists and community organizations to produce artworks that stimulate community engagement on climate change and environmental justice from the Southeast Industrial Corridor to the North Branch of the Chicago River.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/12/jumpei-mitsui-great-wave-lego/?fbclid=IwAR1Lx0SukzxnPHT5NgqdQy4kKAkHrR8mkp1cHrU8W2nOOZQD_OybHBc4lYE">An Undulating Sculpture Recreates Hokusai's Great Wave in 50,000 LEGO Pieces</a>Japan-based artist <a href="https://twitter.com/Jumpei_Mitsui">Jumpei Mitsui</a> is one of just 21 <a href="https://www.lego.com/ja-jp/aboutus/lego-certified-professionals">LEGO Certified Professionals</a> in the world—this means his full-time job is to create artworks with the plastic building blocks—and is the youngest of the renowned group. He’s fulfilled this title most recently with a sculptural recreation of Katsushika Hokusai’s “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa">The Great Wave off Kanagawa</a>.” During the course of 400 hours, Mitsui snapped together 50,000 cobalt and white LEGO into an undulating wave that mimics the original woodblock print.Via Colossal(Thumbnail image by <a href="https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/jumpei-mitsui/">Jumpei Mitsui</a>)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/forum-ideas-culture/fuel-chicago-artists-investor-grade-seed-funding?utm_source=morning-10&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20211130&amp;utm_content=article8-readmore">Fund artists to create a new market of ideas</a>At <a href="http://www.6018north.org/">6018North</a>, an experimental contemporary art space I founded and run within a repurposed 1910 mansion, we connect diverse artists and audiences through uniquely engaging cultural experiences. 6018North promotes connections and risk-taking not only to advance the state of art, but to percolate civic imagination and expand possibilities. If we connect people and take risks, others are encouraged to do so.Tricia Van Eck via Crain's Chicago&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

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