<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418988/webvjwvnrkh3ua3fczet.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-life-and-death-of-charles-williams">The Life and Death of Charles Williams</a>Opening: Friday, December 10, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmIntuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider ArtThe Life and Death of Charles Williams, an exhibition featuring a breadth of work ranging from sculptures to comics by the late artist Charles Williams, stretches across two galleries of Intuit and opens to the public on Friday, December 10.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418989/er2cyldkmcigdse1zkgp.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jeffrey-wolin-faces-of-homelessness">Jeffrey Wolin: Faces of Homelessness</a>Opening: Friday, December 10, 5 – 7:30&nbsp;pmCatherine Edelman GalleryFor more than 30 years, Jeffrey Wolin has combined photographic portraiture with auto-biographical texts, exploring issues about memory, identity, and trauma. Beginning in 1985, Wolin turned the camera on himself, writing personal stories directly on photographs that related to his life. Soon after, he began photographing residents at a housing project in Indiana, Holocaust survivors, and American and Vietnamese war veterans, combining portraits and personal histories directly on the photographic surface. His newest series, Faces of Homelessness, examines the homeless crisis and its complicated realities.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418990/uwqswxzkc04yjpcg31zz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jeffrey-wolin-faces-of-homelessness">In Southeastern France</a>Opening: Saturday, December 11, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmLily Pad | WestAndy Newman creates dynamic landscape and figurative works inspired by European architecture and countryside.&nbsp;Newman studied in London, earning his degree in Modern History at Trinity College, Oxford. He then went on to hold a successful career as a lawyer in Washington, D.C. before deciding to exchange his briefcase for a paintbrush at the age of 36. Since then, Neman has maintained his studio practice, and currently resides between Concord, MA and Cavillargues, France with his family.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418991/xb5phjmgcjcozretyabk.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lydia-ourahmane-and-alex-ayed">Lydia Ourahmane and Alex Ayed: LAWS OF CONFUSION</a>Opening: Saturday, December 11, 3 – 6&nbsp;pmThe Renaissance SocietyLAWS OF CONFUSION is the second collaboration of Lydia Ourahmane and Alex Ayed, whose individual practices converge in a choreography of movements. Together, they contend with ideas of displacement and the friction between personal histories and wider narratives–­–geopolitical, mystical, speculative, technological. This new exhibition hinges on interceded or interrupted communications in various forms.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418992/bt698rxvgsrzfjrld62s.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/atomic-number-13-group-show-curated-by-artbuilds">Atomic Number 13 | Curated by ArtBuilds</a>Opening: Saturday, December 11, 12 – 6&nbsp;pmVertical GalleryVertical Gallery is very proud to present ‘Atomic Number 13,’ a year-end holiday group show featuring new work from a local, national, and international roster of artists, curated by Chicago-based art services and custom framing company ArtBuilds.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start December 10 - 11

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418988/tchhh1jdivx58lhdu6fu.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/emanate">Emanate</a>Opening: Friday, December 3, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418989/srjlt2qfayen58ek30hz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/it-s-a-small-show-after-all-9435c412-8da2-4722-bc35-2eae30febc3d">It's a Small Show After All</a>Opening: Friday, December 3, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmHofheimer Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418990/ymzmm5cbry3orln856e4.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/first-friday-event">First Friday Event</a>Friday, December 3, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmLubeznik Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418991/atjiwo6hvu9bb8huw7rm.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/being-bipolar-in-a-polarized-world-and-the-thin-line">Being Bipolar in a Polarized World and The Thin Line</a>Opening: Friday, December 3, 5:30 – 7:30&nbsp;pmThe Art Center Highland Park&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418991/kvpsxjqssiubsirpb3fz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-32nd-annual-international-small-print-exhibition-holiday-sale">The 32nd Annual International Small Print Exhibition &amp; Holiday Sale</a>Opening: Saturday, December 4, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmChicago Printmakers Collaborative&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418992/ee13ztz1h9qxwjqshqdh.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/plein-air-painters-chicago-annual-group-show">Plein Air Painters Chicago Annual Group Show</a>Opening: Saturday, December 4, 4 – 8&nbsp;pmPalette &amp; Chisel Academy of Fine Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418993/gbmz9wkkxmduy0szcte4.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kac-members-show-40014d5c-3c91-42b6-82d6-7a4b5a486c1d">KAC Members’ Show</a>Dec 4, 2021 – Jan 9, 2022Krasl Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418994/h7obtaa7ydmuroc0iuuw.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/christopher-schneberger-the-wanderers">Christopher Schneberger: The Wanderers</a>Opening: Saturday, December 4, 6 – 7:30&nbsp;pmPerspective Photo Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418995/ofz85ayjlgdef9hmgtar.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/rituals-brenton-good-mandy-cano-villalobos-marissa-voytenko">Rituals: Brenton Good, Mandy Cano Villalobos, Marissa Voytenko</a>Opening: Saturday, December 4, 12 – 4&nbsp;pmUkrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418995/z7vu1wagzwipukbu7wz4.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dreaming-of-flowers">Dreaming of Flowers: Susan Kraut, Jaclyn Mednicov, and Jeffrey Janson</a>Opening: Saturday, December 4, 1 – 4&nbsp;pmAddington Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start December 3 & 4

<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/ct-virgil-abloh-dies-chicago-20211128-3bwhs526xva6zd4iujwpdmoagm-story.html">Virgil Abloh, prolific Illinois-born fashion designer and Louis Vuitton men’s artistic director, dies at 41</a>Virgil Abloh, a famed Illinois-born fashion designer who founded the Off-White label and became men’s artistic director of Louis Vuitton, has died from cancer at the age of 41.LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton announced the designer’s death Sunday and said he had been battling cancer privately for several years.According to The New York Times, Abloh died in Chicago.&nbsp;Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://www.immersive-frida.com/?utm_source=sendgrid.com&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=website">Another Immersive Exhibition is Coming to Chicago&nbsp;</a>On the heels of Immersive Van Gogh, Lighthouse Immersive and Maestro Immersive Art have set their sights on the art and life of Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). FRIDA: IMMERSIVE DREAM features some of the artist’s best-known works “brought to life” by the Italy’s Massimiliano Siccardi,accompanied by composer Luca Longobardi’s resonant score. Vittorio Guidotti is the Art Director. FRIDA: IMMERSIVE DREAM arrives to Lighthouse ArtSpace at Germania Club (108 W. Germania Pl) Feb. 24 through May 28, 2022. Tickets are <a href="https://www.immersive-frida.com/?utm_source=sendgrid.com&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=website">on sale today</a> starting at around $40&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/omicron-fails-to-halt-art-basel-miami-as-people-crave-normalcy/ar-AARgxAx">Omicron Fails to Halt Art Basel Miami as People Crave Normalcy</a>Art Basel Miami Beach kicks off this week, bringing a massive fair and tens of thousands of visitors from around the world to southern Florida just as scientists are weighing the public-health implications of the new omicron Covid-19 variant.“It’s important that this happens, and I believe that Art Basel is hosting this responsibly and in a way that creates the safest environment possible,” Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber, a Democrat, said in an interview Monday.Via Bloomberg&nbsp;&nbsp;

CGN Art World Recap: 11/30

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418979/dxgd7odeboujj3srgseg.jpg"><figcaption>William Swislow, left, and Aron Packer have a new book, "Lakefront Anonymous" about overlooked art along the shoreline; they're at Foster Beach in Chicago on Nov. 9, 2021. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-lakefront-art-gallery-kogan-1128-20211125-6m66aitw5zfurmidgyd32awiwu-story.html">Aron Packer and William Swislow's ‘Lakefront Anonymous’ is the latest appreciation of amateur art that lines Chicago’s lakefront</a>In his new book, William Swislow writes, “Hidden in plain sight on Chicago’s Lake Michigan shoreline is one of the world’s great public art treasures.”He is not referring to the Navy Pier Ferris wheel, which does offer, I guess, some modest pleasures, but rather to a new book, compiled with his friend Aron Packer, the former gallery owner and artist who currently represents artists and holds events.Via Chicago Tribune&nbsp;<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/metro-state/2021/11/22/22797349/art-institute-workers-united-museum-school-union-afscme-vote-election">Art Institute employees say management trying to block their unionization efforts</a>Employees of the Art Institute of Chicago say museum management is trying to hinder their attempt to collectively bargain — and they are demanding officials step aside and allow unionization efforts to proceed without interference.Staff from the institute’s museum and school filed paperwork earlier this month to hold a federally run election that will decide if they can form a union. But management has intimidated workers and held meetings to obstruct unionization, workers charged at a rally Monday on the institute’s famous front steps on Michigan Avenue.Via Chicago Sun Times&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/art-angle-podcast-re-air-van-gogh-experience-2038591">The Art Angle Podcast Re-Air: How High-Tech Van Gogh Became the Biggest Art Phenomenon Ever</a>Even if you aren’t spending the weekend visiting one of the many immersive Van Gogh experiences that have popped up across the country and around the globe, chances are someone at your Thanksgiving table has already been. As of mid-September, Lighthouse Immersive, the company behind just one of these touring Van Gogh shows, had sold 3.2 million tickets…&nbsp;that’s 700,000 more than the number of tickets sold for Taylor Swift’s 2018 Reputation tour.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/24/china-museums-commercial-galleries-exhibitions">How China's museums are cosying up to commercial galleries for big-ticket exhibitions</a>As new museums have proliferated in China over the past decade, they have spent lavishly on impressive architecture and, sometimes, blue-chip art acquisitions. But many have scrimped on staffing, leaving a gap in curatorial expertise that commercial galleries are eager to fill. Top international galleries, which have launched operations in Hong Kong and increasingly the mainland over the same period, have imported Western models of sponsorship for museum exhibitions of their artists but the traditional boundaries between museums’ curatorial control and the market’s commercial interests are far more blurred in China.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/reviews/caravaggio-st-jerome-theft-pbs-1234611354/">PBS’s ‘Secrets of the Dead’ Recounts the Thrilling Recovery of Malta’s Stolen&nbsp;Caravaggio</a>How do you recover a stolen masterpiece? As most experts will tell you, it’s not as easy as you might think. In fact, scores of stolen works over the years have never even been recovered. That’s the case with famous heists—for example, the 13 masterpieces from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990—as well as lesser-known ones. But there are fortunate cases where the works were indeed found, and one involves a Caravaggio and Father Marius Zarafa, a Maltese priest and art historian.Via ARTnews&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 11/26/21

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418979/zx18olgpis0maq4mt4xi.jpg"><figcaption>Photo by Alan Kozlowski / Credit South Asia Institute and the Ravi Shankar Foundation</figcaption></figure><a href="https://news.wttw.com/2021/11/09/ravi-shankar-retrospective-display-south-asia-institute">Ravi Shankar Retrospective on Display at South Asia Institute</a>The Beatles, jazz great John Coltrane, composer Philip Glass – all of these music giants and many more felt the influence of Ravi Shankar. “Chicago Tonight” toured a pandemic-delayed exhibition about the sitar virtuoso.&nbsp;Read more via <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2021/11/09/ravi-shankar-retrospective-display-south-asia-institute">WTTW</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418980/a3vzxhwv3hpyaeelrudc.jpg"><figcaption>Auctioneer Oliver Barker conducts Sotheby’s first sale of the Macklowe collection in New York on 15 November 2021. Photo courtesy Sotheby’s</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/16/sothebys-macklowe-auction-646m-record?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=daca109513-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_11_15_01_03&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c459f924d0-daca109513-61117077">Macklowe collection auction brings $646m, the highest sale total in Sotheby’s history</a>Divorce, one of the three “Ds” that result in major art collections going to auction, brought a deluge of another “D”—dollars—to Sotheby’s at the first of two <a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/09/09/sothebys-wins-dogfight-to-sell-dollar600m-art-collection-of-harry-and-linda-macklowe">court-ordered auctions</a> of Linda and Harry Macklowe’s art collection on Monday night in New York. All 35 lots found buyers, making for a white glove sale that brought in a total hammer price of $588.7m, near the high end of the pre-sale estimate of $439.4m-$618.9m (estimates do not include the buyer’s premium). With fees, the evening’s total take was $676.1m, making it the most valuable sale in Sotheby’s 277-year history.Read more via <a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/16/sothebys-macklowe-auction-646m-record?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=daca109513-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_11_15_01_03&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c459f924d0-daca109513-61117077">The Art Newspaper</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418980/ilcyitw8m8kbqer1sake.jpg"><figcaption>Credit: Sotheby's</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.cnn.com/style/article/frida-kahlo-self-portrait-auction-intl-scli/index.html">Frida Kahlo self-portrait fetches a record $34.9 million</a>A self-portrait by <a href="https://cnn.com/style/article/frida-kahlo-birthday-trnd-style/index.html">Frida Kahlo</a> has become the most expensive work by a Latin American artist ever to sell at auction, fetching $34.9 million in New York on Tuesday.Read more via <a href="https://www.cnn.com/style/article/frida-kahlo-self-portrait-auction-intl-scli/index.html">CNN</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: November 18th

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418979/zz5aifbftlbisadzlyb6.jpg"><figcaption>Gupta's home gallery also displays works by Theaster Gates, Sam Gilliam, and Jessica Stockholder, among others. © 2021 Sam Gilliam / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.Photography by Gianni Franchellucci</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/step-inside-this-art-insiders-chicago-family-home">Step Inside This Art-Insider's Chicago Family Home</a>West-loop local art dealer Kavi Gupta transforms the loft above his gallery into a family haven that’s ready for guests and art.Read more via <a href="https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/step-inside-this-art-insiders-chicago-family-home">Architectural Digest</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418980/vbtiuxxc4nschtw5tqsl.png"><figcaption>At the celebratory banquet Berliner secession: Writer Meier-Graefe, Ms. Hugo Simon, Painter Eugen Spiro, art collector Fritz Schoen, Ms. Meier-Graefe, Ms. Spiro. (ca. 1929) (Photo by bpk/Salomon/ullstein bild via Getty Images)</figcaption></figure><a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/history-lesson-1920s-art-scene-2030894">What Was the Art Market Like During the Real Roaring ’20s? History Offers Some Lessons as We Enter Another Decade of Decadence</a>Gertrude Stein held vibrant salons in Paris. Diego Rivera traveled from Mexico City to Moscow to paint murals. Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden, whose families had moved north as part of the Great Migration, fueled the vibrancy of the Harlem Renaissance in New York.Read more via <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/history-lesson-1920s-art-scene-2030894">ArtNet</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418981/m6tq0wngky3czh7uuips.jpg"><figcaption>Photo courtesy of Geneva Lakefront Realty</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/richard-driehaus-estate-lake-geneva-under-contract-buyer?utm_source=breaking-news&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20211111&amp;utm_content=hero-readmore">Richard Driehaus' estate in Lake Geneva under contract to a buyer</a>The late financial guru's Glanworth Gardens estate was on the market just three weeks, while its $21 million next-door neighbor has sat unsold since February.&nbsp;Read more via <a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/richard-driehaus-estate-lake-geneva-under-contract-buyer?utm_source=breaking-news&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20211111&amp;utm_content=hero-readmore">Crain's</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: November 11th

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418979/s7piuz0tqgazjepgsr39.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jan-pieter-fokkens">Jan Pieter Fokkens</a>Exhibition begins November 10PAGODA REDChicago-based artist Jan Pieter Fokkens uses his work as a means of processing the incomprehensible. Navigating the relationship between algorithmic abstraction and the tangible qualities of pattern and color, Fokkens meditates on how reality is mediated by digital image.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418980/gcemhz1kjx1493mvblnu.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dusti-bonge">Dusti Bongé</a>Exhibition begins November 11McCormick Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418981/wol6owfsgastjpfzpplc.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/big-bowl-of-wonderful-jeff-garlin">Big Bowl of Wonderful: Jeff Garlin</a>Opening: Thursday, Nov 11, 7 – 11&nbsp;pmThe Rangefinder Gallery / Tamarkin Camera&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418982/iguvhqlnmcbqi7l9srhq.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/john-paul-berry">John Paul Berry</a>Opening: Friday, November 12, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmLily Pad | West&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418983/eqag80vhmbertrso1cba.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lauralynn-white-journey">Lauralynn White: Journey</a>Opening: Friday, Nov 12, 5 – 10&nbsp;pmOliva Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418983/nmabfppya697issdc9wb.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/new-work-by-andrew-steiner">New Work by Andrew Steiner</a>Opening: Friday, Nov 12, 2021 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEat Paint Studio&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418984/mpdzezmba7egb8fw6xts.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jeffrey-gibson-beyond-the-horizon">Jeffrey Gibson: Beyond the Horizon</a>Opening: Saturday, Nov 13, 2021 4 – 7&nbsp;pmKavi Gupta - Elizabeth St.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418985/bizmq129i7nb28km5tph.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kirk-henriques-alexandra-antoine-gastropoetics">Kirk Henriques &amp; Alexandra Antoine: Gastropoetics</a>Exhibition begins November 13FLXST Contemporary&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418986/gawo5jot01mxbg0mj9kk.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lauren-asta-solo-show">Lauren Asta Solo Show</a>Exhibition begins November 13Chicago Truborn&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418987/o2o06fkbl7xn7xob9kum.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/mari-eastman-night-life">Mari Eastman: Night Life</a>Opening: Sunday, November 14, noon – 4&nbsp;pmGoldfinch&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start November 10 - 14

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418979/ebdrupdyifwgtk1ldsad.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/programming-for-deep-cuts">Programming for Deep Cuts</a>Wednesday, November 10, 6 – 7:30&nbsp;pmChicago Artists Coalition (CAC)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418980/yn9wctzjcpcickzozl55.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lecture-in-photography-nancy-floyd">Lecture in Photography: Nancy Floyd</a>Wednesday, November 10, 6 – 7&nbsp;pmMuseum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418981/nskgumjsiqfch6ddbanb.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/visualizing-a-lead-free-environment-the-eisenhower-foundation-explores-how-art-intersects-with-community-activism">Visualizing a Lead Free Environment: The Eisenhower Foundation Explores How Art Intersects with Community Activism</a>Thursday, November 11, 5:30 – 6:30&nbsp;pmEXPO CHICAGO&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418982/jeqjorsitvxvhdouu6x1.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/a-conversation-with-gordon-segal-online">A Conversation With Gordon Segal (Online)</a>Thursday, November 11, 6 – 7&nbsp;pmTerra Foundation for American Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418982/ik3zdrbm2fayolvyu5bj.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/poetry-reading-at-the-gallery">Poetry Reading at the Gallery</a>Thursday, November 11, 7 – 8:30&nbsp;pmPerspective Group + Photography Gallery, Ltd.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Talks This Week: November 10 - 14

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418979/vtzjympvztro6igf69gi.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jessica-campbell">Jessica Campbell: Gigantomachinations</a>Opening: Saturday, November 6, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmWestern Exhibitions&nbsp;Prior to this exhibition, Campbell’s work was woven from elaborate, humorous, and politically pointed narratives, fitting for an artist who is a well-regarded cartoonist with 2 published graphic novels and another forthcoming.&nbsp;Her process has since changed. This exhibition is a response to the stress of a move from Chicago to Green Bay to help care for her ailing in-laws, stress from her own family, stress from making a living in upper Wisconsin, stress from the ongoing pandemic and a myriad of political and social crises. The work combines both the tradition of crazy quilts and pareidolia, the experience of ascribing meaning to visual phenomena (like seeing figures in the clouds). For Campbell, this method of working intuitively and formally, as opposed to starting with a clear idea and executing it, is “the only sustainable way for me to work in this current moment through a constant brain fog.”&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418980/hmpjhbgofmnbpbtm8whr.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dan-attoe">Dan Attoe: Pandemic Paintings</a>Opening: Saturday, November 6, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmWestern Exhibitions&nbsp;Throughout his 20+ years of painting, Attoe has challenged himself to offer as much detail as possible: “I’ve always enjoyed finding the limits of my abilities and comprehension. For me, there’s something in hitting the end of the jar, the point where earnest representation meets awkwardness, where processing of reality meets metaphor, that is entertaining and telling about an artist’s psychological makeup.”&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418980/lpyvzdrurwjikgctmj3p.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sung-jang-given">Sung Jang: Given</a>Opening: Saturday, November 6, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmVolume Gallery&nbsp;In his second solo exhibition at Volume Gallery, Chicago based designer Sung Jang presents symbiotic combinations of found stones buttressed by lattice bases. The deliberate combinations are analogous to humanity’s relationship with nature—rock and grid representing nature meeting human reasoning. With their light touch, the pieces reflect a traditional Korean dynamic with nature, one of appreciation and respect.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418981/npyafwszxpud1algh9fy.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sara-greenberger-rafferty-346b8c5d-0528-4477-b022-995b07025368">Sara Greenberger Rafferty: Views from Somewhere</a>November 6DOCUMENT&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418982/nkmcc0gpzlzbqxfk5bsm.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ravi-shankar-ragamala-to-rockstar">Ravi Shankar: Ragamala to Rockstar</a>Opening: Saturday, November 6, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmSouth Asia Institute&nbsp;Legendary sitar pioneer Ravi Shankar, whom George Harrison called the “Godfather of World Music”, was instrumental in bringing Indian classical music to mainstream audiences in the west. Shankar became a pop culture superstar and a celebrity unlike anyone who looked&nbsp; or sounded like him before. South Asia Institute is very pleased to announce the debut of the art and music exhibition, “Ravi Shankar: Ragamala to Rockstar - A Retrospective of The Maestro's Life in Music”. The exhibition is an opportunity to experience the legendary musician’s groundbreaking career in music through an unprecedented collection of&nbsp; rare concert posters, psychedelic art prints, flyers, photographs, videos, record covers and personal artifacts.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418983/cefvgsyxh24mvysssewv.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ariel-dannielle">Ariel Dannielle</a>November 6Monique Meloche Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418984/a8lw2svfaslymshcjpoq.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/richard-haley">Double Life / Flayed Beings / Hidden Counterparts</a>Opening: Saturday, November 6, 2 – 5&nbsp;pmBert Green Fine Art&nbsp;In this exhibition, artists Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Richard Haley, Trisha Holt and Bailey Scieszka engage in experiments in "saliency detection"* at the intersection of the human soma and the lens-based technologies that saturate our environment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418985/cinwfj8so9cb4mtz4dtb.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sergio-farfan-5-years-solo-show">Sergio Farfan: 5 Years</a>Opening: Saturday, November 6, 12 – 6&nbsp;pmVertical Gallery&nbsp;‘Five Years,’ which runs from Nov. 6-24 at our 1016 N. Western Ave. location, caps off the first half-decade of Farfán’s professional career while introducing daring possibilities for the next phase of the artist’s evolution. The show features new canvases and sculptures as well as a unique video installation intercutting animations of Farfán’s original characters with clips from the classic cartoons, films and music videos that inspired his formative efforts.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418986/eevtdxmrse1gz16vafoe.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/haiku-by-wilda-morris-i-follow-my-shadow-home">Haiku by Wilda Morris: I follow my shadow home</a>Opening: Saturday, November 6, 5 – 7:30&nbsp;pmPerspective Group + Photography Gallery, Ltd.&nbsp;Perspective Gallery Presents the Premiere Showing of "Poetry and Photography" by The P2 Collective. In the summer of 2019, a group of Chicago area photographers and poets met to discuss the idea of pursuing an ekphrastic conversation between poetry and photography, a conversation in which one art-form inspires the other. For example, a photograph might inspire a poem, which in turn inspires another photograph, which then inspires another poem and so on.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418986/zytsfia5cddb1cjsvy4q.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/david-antonio-cruz">David Antonio Cruz</a>November 6Monique Meloche Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/bassim-al-shaker-solo-exhibition">Bassim Al Shaker: Solo Exhibition</a>November 6FLXST Contemporary&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418987/nlj5trpinmrmg1yps876.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/agave">Agave!</a>Opening: Sunday, November 7, 4 – 6&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;Mezcal has been part of Mexican life, gastronomy and culture for centuries. The Spaniards called the agave plant “the tree of wonders”. Agave evolved in southern Mexico over six million years ago and Oaxaca is its center of diversity. Mezcal’s popularity exploded in recent years, transforming it from a local spirit to one that is known internationally. Patrons in New York, Los Angeles and everywhere in the world were now saying “with mezcal please”, and mezcal fever exploded, causing its demand to grow exponentially. As a result, people in Oaxaca began to produce more and more of it and a thriving international market was born. Every community and hill in the state was soon surrounded with agaves that were destined for mezcal.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start November 6

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418973/pemoyt5f30n0m1uf0psq.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dan-ramirez-sheets-of-space-finding-place">Dan Ramirez: Sheets of Space / Finding Place</a>November 5Zolla / Lieberman Gallery John Coltrane’s “sheets of sound,” with its blazing chordal arpeggios compressed into musical space and time, often described as Coltrane’s response to a connection with the cosmos and the spiritual, suggested to me new ways to look at a substrates (wood or canvas) potential for creating “sheets of space” through light and reflection. In this new work, layers of light and space, either imagined or posited visually, create the illusion of a compressed space that uses the sides of the substrate as well to push the idea even further.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418974/ypl4rbefcoethwiu0g5x.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/imagined-landscapes">IMAGINED LANDSCAPES</a>Opening: Friday, November 5, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmCarl Hammer Gallery&nbsp;Opening at&nbsp;Carl Hammer Gallery,&nbsp;November 5, 2021, from 5 pm to 8 pm, our new exhibition,&nbsp;IMAGINED LANDSCAPES,&nbsp;features artists Francois Burland, Joseph Parker, Grace Graupe Pillard, David Sharpe, Hollis Sigler, Kahn and Selesnick, and Mary Lou Zelazny.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418975/xvdcrs4qywcjuztvrraz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/herman-aguirre-39848e04-2f1c-453f-8285-4437e2cacddd">Herman Aguirre: Agua y Aceite</a>Opening: Friday, November 5, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmZolla / Lieberman Gallery&nbsp;His newest body of work, Agua y Aceite, includes canvases of various sizes, many irregularly shaped, as well as preparatory ink drawings. To create his impasto, canvas surfaces, the artist 'works intuitively' with paint skins and oil and acrylic accumulations to build up the three-dimensionality, resulting in work that straddles the line between painting and sculpture.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418975/if1uy1crsnuzchpzfg9t.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/alicia-lachance-solo-exhibition">Alicia LaChance: New Village</a>Opening: Friday, November 5, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmAddington Gallery&nbsp;My paintings are a personal declaration aimed at ameliorating our modernity. When I paint, I compose visual anthropological essays that bridge the past and present for a contemporary acculturation. The colors and symbols I use are adopted from many stations, ranging from folk traditions to street art. Further manipulation recontextualizes them as both graphic ornament and Esperanto. Initially, these paintings were organized according to open-source graphs describing patterns of social human interaction. They have become a way for me to filter the urgency and collective scramble of contemporary life.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418976/c6vn5ogeart56crdnnmh.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/at-the-table">At the Table</a>Opening: Friday, November 5, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmVale Craft Gallery&nbsp;Join us at Vale Craft Gallery on Friday, November 5 from 5 to 8 pm for the opening of our group exhibition&nbsp;At the Table.&nbsp; The show will feature&nbsp;functional ceramics and glass by Chicago and Midwestern artists including&nbsp;bowls, plates, cups, vases, serving platters and more.&nbsp; Find great gifts for your loved ones (or even yourself) while supporting local artists.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418977/brdafyzmygq9zswtqtef.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/obsession-bunny-hoppel-jeanine-coupe-ryding">Obsession: Bunny Hoppel &amp; Jeanine Coupe Ryding</a>Opening: Friday, November 5, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmHofheimer Gallery&nbsp;OBSESSION is a 2-person exhibition featuring works by Bunny Hoppel and Jeanine Coupe Ryding who have both spent several years fixating on one subject, utilizing one type of medium or method to interpret their inspiration that ultimately became an obsession.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start November 5 

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418973/xemkue8ds6a7tdoopkb9.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/allison-zisook">Allison Zisook</a>Opening: Thursday, October 28, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmJean Albano Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418974/iefuzvjmaxdlsr4klyi0.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/alan-lerner">Alan Lerner</a>Opening: Friday, October 29, &nbsp;7 – 10&nbsp;pmFirecat Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418975/n0yobuhwjkp5fz1bfrwh.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jessica-gondek">Jessica Gondek</a>Opening: Friday, October 29, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC GalleryMy work endeavors to blur the distinction between hand and machine. The title of the exhibition, Ironmades, is a nod to the early 20th Century Dada movement engaged with machinery and readymades.&nbsp; As an artist, I continue building on this tradition to bring it into the digital era of the 21st Century as our relationship with technology continues.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418976/audkxow8ioj7mtvuwle8.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/nancy-rubins">Nancy Rubins</a>Begins October 29Rhona Hoffman GalleryRhona Hoffman Gallery is pleased to present a new body of sculptures from Nancy Rubins’&nbsp;Fluid Spaceseries, alongside new works on paper. Throughout her decades-long career, Rubins has been interested in forms and materials, often known best for her gravity-defying large-scale sculptures. In her most recent sculptural series, Rubins continues her practice of assembling found objects through the use of wiring. She has further developed this sculptural series by abstracting her found materials, and, working on a much more intimate scale, created calligraphic sculptural forms. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418977/bszaa3gx1whxmehanjx3.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/both-and-alex-chitty-julia-fish-miyoko-ito-avery-z-nelson-and-brittney-leeanne-williams">Both And (Alex Chitty, Julia Fish, Miyoko Ito, Avery Z. Nelson, and Brittney Leeanne Williams)</a>Opening: Saturday, October 30, 12 – 4&nbsp;pmTiger Strikes AsteroidTiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago is thrilled to present&nbsp;Both And,&nbsp;featuring nuanced abstract paintings by Chicago-based artist Miyoko Ito (1918–1983), alongside contemporary sculptures and paintings by Alex Chitty, Julia Fish, Avery Z. Nelson, and Brittney Leeanne&nbsp;Williams.&nbsp;Each artwork is powerful in its ambiguity, containing contradictions in terms of spatial illusion and reference(s) which obliterate any supposed binary between “abstraction” and “representation.”&nbsp;By situating Ito’s work in relation to that of the artists working today, the exhibition opens up a dialogue around abstraction that calls attention to distinctive engagements with color, space, timelessness, and form.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418977/ol10qcg6rshrwoqyvg52.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/blake-jones-presents">Blake Jones &amp; Friends: Doublespeak</a>Opening: Saturday, October 30, 12 – 5&nbsp;pmVertical Project Space&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start October 28 - 30

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418973/ynqhf8rp5ccmmug9svko.jpg"></figure>Jaume Plensa's Water's Soul, 2020 Unveiled In NJWater’s Soul, a new site-specific sculpture by internationally renowned artist Jaume Plensa, was officially unveiled on October 21 in Newport on the Hudson River waterfront in Jersey City, New Jersey. This monumental installation depicts the serene face of a young subject holding a finger to her lips in a state of silent contemplation. The sculptural portrait, though monumental in scale, humbly gestures for quietude, a beckoning towards empathetic self-reflection. Plensa’s installation serves as a tribute to the Hudson River, aligning with the artist’s ongoing interest in bodies of water as proxies for humankind.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418974/vxv0bicurwboti8yenpc.jpg"></figure><a href="https://link.chicagobusiness.com/click/25430109.45690/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2hpY2Fnb2J1c2luZXNzLmNvbS9yZXNpZGVudGlhbC1yZWFsLWVzdGF0ZS9yaWNoYXJkLWRyaWVoYXVzLWxha2UtZ2VuZXZhLWVzdGF0ZS1zYWxlLWFsbW9zdC00MC1taWxsaW9uP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9YnJlYWtpbmctbmV3cyZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj0yMDIxMTAyMiZ1dG1fY29udGVudD1oZXJvLWhlYWRsaW5l/5f4c3915c90d524d8471bc4aCd5afd95b">Richard Driehaus’ Lake Geneva estate for sale at almost $40 million</a>The financial star and historic preservationist, who died earlier this year, presided over many press-worthy parties and fireworks shows at the lavish estate, one of the biggest properties on the lake.&nbsp;<a href="https://link.chicagobusiness.com/click/25430109.45690/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2hpY2Fnb2J1c2luZXNzLmNvbS9yZXNpZGVudGlhbC1yZWFsLWVzdGF0ZS9yaWNoYXJkLWRyaWVoYXVzLWxha2UtZ2VuZXZhLWVzdGF0ZS1zYWxlLWFsbW9zdC00MC1taWxsaW9uP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9YnJlYWtpbmctbmV3cyZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj0yMDIxMTAyMiZ1dG1fY29udGVudD1oZXJvLXJlYWRtb3Jl/5f4c3915c90d524d8471bc4aD9fb4f73f">READ MORE&nbsp;</a> via Crain's&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418975/y2ghgojcm1r6fcsuxitx.jpg"></figure><a href="https://3arts.org">2021 3Arts Awards Will be Largest to Date</a>3Arts, the Chicago-based nonprofit grantmaking organization, will award Chicago artists with nearly $1 million in unrestricted cash grants during the 14th annual 3Arts Awards, taking place virtually on Monday, November 1, 2021, live on YouTube. The virtual event is free to the public and features three world premiere performances by past 3Arts awardees. Registration is <a href="https://3arts.org/event">required</a>Since 2007, 3Arts has supported more than 1,200 artists—representing 70% women artists, 67% artists of color, and 14% Deaf and disabled artists—and distributed $4.5 million in grants and services. On November 1, 3Arts will be awarding 134 artists including:· Ten 3Arts Awards recipients who will receive $30,000 in cash grants.·&nbsp;121 artists selected by past 3Arts awardees will receive $4,000 each in unrestricted grants, through a major one-time expansion to Make a Wave—3Arts’ artist-to-artist grant program—with support from Make a Wave Presenting Partner The Joyce Foundation, sending a bigger “wave” than ever through Chicago’s cultural core.·&nbsp;Recipients of the second annual 3Arts Next Level/Spare Room Award—a $50,000 unrestricted cash award given to three women visual artists who are past awardees.These announcements—together with $230,000 in emergency relief grants given to 3Arts artists in 2021—make this the largest award year in 3Arts history.&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 10/22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418973/p6opya8qtu8no9sr7ju5.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/alex-katz-the-white-coat">Alex Katz: The White Coat</a>Opening: Friday, Oct 22, 2021 5 – 7&nbsp;pmGray WarehouseCreated between 2020 and 2021, Katz’s White Coat paintings are based on the likeness of Vivien Bittencourt, a photographer and filmmaker, and the artist’s daughter-in-law. Across these eleven portraits, Katz paints Vivien in a variety of dynamic compositions unified by a brilliant light blue ground color. With a discerning eye for color, form, and economy of line, Katz upholds the immediacy of portraiture while balancing the specific and abstract, intimate and remote, geometric and gestural.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418974/zxkspmee94xl9jgaigj6.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/there-is-still-magic-here-a-solo-exhibition-of-oil-paintings-by-jennifer-cronin">There is Still Magic Here: A Solo Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Jennifer Cronin</a>Opening: Friday, Oct 22, 2021 6 – 10&nbsp;pmElephant Room Gallery“There is Still Magic Here” is a new series of paintings illustrating everyday, overlooked landscapes as an agent for exploring the wonder in our daily lives. Over the past year, Cronin began the habit of taking daily walks. It was during these walks that she would stop to photograph seemingly mundane urban surroundings which in that moment, beckoned to her. The resulting paintings are a rich representation of the magic the artist felt when viewing these landscapes.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418975/lm84mih04rdv63jcvqhe.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-balm-art-for-black-women-s-wellness-6385ba85-b706-40f7-b255-a48a279588ed">The Balm: Art for Black Women’s Wellness</a>Opening: Friday, Oct 22, 2021 6 – 8&nbsp;pmSouth Side Community Art CenterThe Balm: Art for Black Women’s Wellness&nbsp;emerged as a collective artists’ action. Eight women who engage the time-honored tradition of using their artistic practice to give vision and form to our healing have contributed work across a variety of media and points of view. Themes emerged organically, with works that stand in both testimony and conversation.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418976/b7sp3afqv25b1awnudoy.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ryan-licht-sang-bipolar-foundation">Ryan Licht Sang Bipolar Foundation</a>Oct 22 – 24, 2021Zolla / Lieberman GalleryThe juried artwork in INSIGHTS IV, as well as those from the previous exhibitions, has been generously donated to the Foundation’s Permanent Exhibition Collection by the artists.&nbsp; Now comprised of more than 70 pieces, including paintings, photographs, sculpture, jewelry, ceramics and textiles, the Permanent Collection will be the basis of traveling exhibitions to give voice to artists with Bipolar Disorder and to reduce the stigma associated with it.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418977/keubkepoh6lvqi3fx23y.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/nontraditional-materials-exhibition">Nontraditional Materials Exhibition</a>Opening: Saturday, Oct 23, 2021 6 – 9&nbsp;pmDragonfly GalleryNontraditional Materials Exhibition showcases artwork that is beyond classical painting and sculpture. Dragonfly Gallery will highlight artists experimenting with unexpected materials and unconventional methods of creating. Transforming the materials to create extraordinary artwork.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418978/srakirxbfhnlqkx2hxvb.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jessica-stockholder-specific-shapes">Jessica Stockholder: Specific Shapes</a>Opening: Saturday, Oct 23, 2021 5 – 8&nbsp;pmKavi Gupta GalleryStockholder's&nbsp;work is created in response to, and incorporates, the contemporary flood of consumer products made with industrial materials and processes; it inhabits and confronts a world where those who make and consume such objects are also hyper-aware of the threat they pose to human existence. Stockholder leverages the ways our use of technology has altered our relationship with the surfaces of our devices, which disguise their internal mechanisms. Incorporating these concepts and objects into her compositions, she allows for myriad meanings and references to accumulate, resulting in works that remind us how important form is to all areas of life and that it has political resonance.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start October 22 & 23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418973/qobzlbb2assvtifwlj3g.png"></figure><a href="https://hilton-asmus.com/on-the-road-again/?v=32aec8db952d">Hilton | Asmus Contemporary Hosts Splashy Party with Cindy Crawford in the Name of Charity and Art&nbsp;</a>Hilton | Asmus Contemporary hosted an exclusive evening with supermodel Cindy Crawford and world- renowned British fine art photographer David Yarrow to celebrate the opening of their exhibition CHANGING LANES on Oct. 9 in their new, second space in Bridgeport at the Morgan Arts Complex. The presentation featured Yarrow's newest works, including a re-creation of Cindy's iconic 1992 Pepsi ad, with proceeds benefiting the UW Kids Cancer Program, where Crawford's brother was once treated for Leukemia. Hilton | Asmus is also located in River North.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418975/k2t1se2zzu0sjvsm7x9q.png"></figure><a href="https://wgntv.com/morning-news/around-town/around-town-checks-out-par-excellence-redux-the-back-9-at-elmhurst-art-museum/?utm_source=EAM+Mailing+List&amp;utm_campaign=e50235730f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_24_08_17_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_2e43eedea7-e50235730f-374555725&amp;mc_cid=e50235730f&amp;mc_eid=9f943455be">WGN Around Town checks out ‘Par Excellence Redux: The Back 9’ at Elmhurst Art Museum</a>WGN News gives a preview of this unusual, interactive art exhibit at Elmhurst Art Museum. Par Excellence Redux: The Back 9&nbsp;promises an unusual twist on a familiar pastime. Book a tee time for the second edition of this show.&nbsp;Via WGN&nbsp;Zhou Brothers Unveil New Sculpture&nbsp;On October 12 the Zhou Brothers unveiled Red Angel statue, a gift to Chinatown in memory of the late Bernie Wong, founder of the Chinese American Service League (CASL). The sculpture is at the corner of Princeton Avenue and Tan Court, in front of the Chinese American Service League&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 10/18

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418973/kjbxh18rdkha9azmxgp6.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/michelle-wasson-on-feronia">Michelle Wasson: On Feronia</a>Opening: Friday, October 15, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418974/af49jpfhhgtu526nweim.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lily-pad-showcase-five-year-anniversary-a6dd7cfa-74c0-43a1-be0d-f461cca7e126">Lily Pad Showcase: Five Year Anniversary</a>Opening: Friday, October 15, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmLily Pad | West&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418975/qzdxevx7akh9jgx9fxb1.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/weekend-bash-studio-sale">Weekend Bash &amp; Studio Sale</a>Opening: Saturday, October 16, 12 – 5&nbsp;pmCircle Contemporary (Arts of Life)&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418976/ca2vmnxixrlhtpy4lsxr.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kandinsky-the-rediscovered-bauhaus-sketchbook-1c01d593-1fe1-4520-865d-ded48eca3834">Kandinsky: The Rediscovered Bauhaus Sketchbook</a>Opening: Saturday, October 16, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmUkrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA)&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418976/uma7a1hsrbgbtxzo6go8.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/georges-coulomb-play-on-color">Georges Coulomb: Play on Colour</a>Opening: Saturday, October 16, 3 – 8&nbsp;pmExpression Gallery of Fine Art&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418977/qesoo953hj92nuagq5f0.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/still-life">Still Life</a>Opening: Saturday, October 16, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmThe Franklin&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418978/zfmraibai0atefssmmla.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dan-oliver-afire">Dan Oliver: Afire</a>Opening: Sunday, October 17, 1 – 4&nbsp;pmEvanston Art Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start October 15 - 17

<html><head></head><body>By CGN StaffThe Great Chicago Fire began on the evening of October 8, 1871 and raged for two more days.&nbsp;The fire is a legend around the world, the stuff of stories and history books, far from the reach of modern day life, though we live its after effects every day without even knowing it.&nbsp;Around the city several arts institutions are marking the century and a half since fire through immersive, creative exhibits. Some highlights and related shows are below.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418973/nbu7abq4kpflmqj0hcpk.jpg"><figcaption>The Currier &amp; Ives lithograph shows people fleeing across the Randolph Street Bridge. Thousands of people literally ran for their lives before the flames, unleashing remarkable scenes of terror and dislocation. "The whole earth, or all we saw of it, was a lurid yellowish red," wrote one survivor. "Everywhere dust, smoke, flames, heat, thunder of falling walls, crackle of fire, hissing of water, panting of engines, shouts, braying of trumpets, roar of wind, confusion, and uproar."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currier_and_Ives">Currier and Ives</a> - Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-23436)</figcaption></figure>Chicago History MuseumThe Chicago History Museum has been under construction for months now but is reopening in time to mark the anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire and to welcome visitors back to new spaces and an expansive exhibition covering the history of the fire itself.&nbsp;Chicago's busy streets were taken over by flames for three days, overwhelming a city built of wood and causing severe destruction. After the fire died, recovery efforts exposed deep social and economic inequalities when more than 100,000 people became homeless, and society placed blame upon the Irish immigrant O'Leary family. The devastation also sparked change and regrowth in Chicago by introducing new fire safety guidelines and rebuilding as the resilient city known today.  &nbsp;One hundred and fifty years later, City on Fire: Chicago 1871  guides visitors through the crucial events and conditions before, during, and after the fire—many of which draw striking comparisons to today's social climate. This family-friendly exhibition features more than 100 artifacts from the Chicago History Museum's collection, interactive and multimedia elements, and personal stories from survivors of the fire. The exhibition is designed for families to&nbsp;learn, explore, and&nbsp;discover&nbsp;the impact the Great Chicago Fire had on the city and the people who lived here. Featured in the City on Fire: Chicago 1871 exhibition is a 40-feet-long painting study created as a guide for a larger Chicago Fire Cyclorama painting, which was displayed in Chicago in 1892-93 in a round building constructed for visitors to have an immersive experience.Full exhibition info available at the museum's special website <a href="https://www.chicago1871.org/about">Chicago1871.org</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418974/q51fznfs7cqgydivfe2r.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://driehausmuseum.org/programs/detail/fiery-night">The Driehaus Museum</a>Part of the museum's Story Time: Fiery Night on Saturday, October 9 at 9:30 am and 11:00 am.&nbsp;A child-friendly introduction to the Great Chicago Fire in a historic setting. Guess who’s coming to the Marble Palace for tea? Chicago’s own Mrs. Catherine O’Leary and the Nickersons’ neighbor, Mrs. Anna Tree! History comes alive during Story Time as kids meet these historical figures to hear a personal account of their experiences in 1871 and about the fire that changed everything. Mrs. Tree will recall one unforgettable incident through a reading of Fiery Night: A Boy, His Goat, and the Great Chicago Fire, by Sally M. Walker and Kayla Harren - a true story of strength, courage, and love that is part of the history of the Driehaus Museum neighborhood.<a href="https://46316.blackbaudhosting.com/46316/tickets?tab=3&amp;txobjid=358ab190-20b4-4968-821e-06fb7f996bd3&amp;mc_cid=4b5e10917f&amp;mc_eid=UNIQID">BUY TICKETS </a>$15 for one adult and child; $5 for each additional child&nbsp;Wrightwood 659On view now is <a href="https://wrightwood659.org/exhibitions/romanticism-to-ruin/">Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright</a>, an exhibition that &nbsp;attempts to conjure the essence of two long-gone masterpieces. Louis Sullivan’s Garrick Theatre Building in Chicago stood for only sixty-nine years and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Building in Buffalo lasted only forty-four years,The <a href="https://e.wordfly.com/click?sid=MTQ0MV8xMjY4XzEwNDZfNzM4MA&amp;l=2e95df88-6c26-ec11-a826-0050569d9d1d&amp;utm_source=wordfly&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=RomanticismtoRuinweek3&amp;utm_content=version_A">Great Chicago Fire</a> actually had an impact on the design of the Larkin Building in Buffalo, NY, some 30 years later.The threat of fire held a special significance for John D. Larkin,&nbsp;who was&nbsp;an eyewitness to the vast destruction&nbsp;of&nbsp;the Chicago fire of 1871.&nbsp;The original Larkin &amp; Weller soap-manufacturing business was located on Halsted Street in Chicago, a couple of blocks from the edge of the fire. Larkin&nbsp;insisted&nbsp;that Frank Lloyd Wright design an&nbsp;"absolutely fire-proof construction." In response,&nbsp;Wright created a&nbsp;steel-framed building that was clad in brick inside and out. Of course in the end, it wasn't fire that destroyed the Larkin&nbsp;Building,&nbsp;but mankind's blinding urge for&nbsp;"progress," resulting in the 1950 demolition of Wright’s masterpiece to make room for a truck barn.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

150 Years Since the Chicago Fire – Marking The Anniversary Through Art

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721420196/ohwv120qgfyxjunp40le.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/opening-celebration-for-smart-to-the-core-medium-image">Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago</a><a href="https://uchicago.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aba2086a45b4ee8391b89447b&amp;id=9f5daebdbf&amp;e=00938adab1">Smart to the Core: Medium / Image&nbsp;</a>Opening: Wednesday, Oct 6, 2021 5 – 7&nbsp;pmExplore the social and perceptual impact of visual culture at this special opening of Smart to the Core: Medium / Image. With the exhibition designed and curated around the University of Chicago’s popular “Media Aesthetics” course, the opening will include a gallery walkthrough, remarks from curators and faculty, light refreshments, and a unique visual experience.<a href="https://uchicago.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aba2086a45b4ee8391b89447b&amp;id=20610feb6d&amp;e=00938adab1">RSVP for the opening</a><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418963/ixd5hbtvtstizvalx98m.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/common-gesture">Oliva Gallery</a>&nbsp;Common GestureOpening: Friday, Oct 8, 2021 5 – 10&nbsp;pmSlow 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.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418964/qz6ewc1etuixzirp6vid.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/shahidul-alam-we-shall-defy">Wrightwood 659</a>Shahidul Alam: We Shall DefyOct 8 – Nov 27.&nbsp;Wrightwood 659 presents&nbsp;Shahidul Alam: We Shall Defy. We Shall Defy includes photographs by Alam and his community of artists and activists, as well as illustrations, verse, and more by three additional artists: Amal Akash, a singer-songwriter and visual and performance artist based in Dhaka; Alam’s niece Sofia Karim, an architect and visual artist in London; and New York-based filmmaker, writer, photographer, and installation artist Naeem Mohaiemen and the King Kortobbyo team. Together, their work explores the turbulent path that Alam and his team have navigated in their struggle to achieve justice and equity.The primary focus of the exhibition is a series of 9 large banners that are inspired by an ancient form of Bangla art—Patachitara, cloth scrolls containing detailed depictions of mythical narratives. The banners in the exhibition are printed with photographs by Alam and 14 artists, thereby integrating the contemporary and ancient methods of storytelling while expanding on the turbulent experiences of the Bangladeshi people.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418965/moj2ty7xhrjnuil6ejr1.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/spirits-of-the-sand-and-sea-george-klauba">Hofheimer Gallery&nbsp;</a>Spirits of the Sand and Sea: George KlaubaOpening: Friday, Oct 8, 2021 5 – 8&nbsp;pmSpirit Sailors roamed the dry sandy deserts of Australia, finding kinship with Aborigines through their tattoos and totems.&nbsp; They came from battles in the Pacific during WWII, their souls searching together for home and the heavens.All artwork is inspired by the book "The Walkabout of Sailor Jim" by Judith Lloyd Klauba and George Klauba.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418966/kawggjcek4kekjq3r4yp.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/thinkspace-presents-at-vertical-gallery">Vertical Gallery</a>‘LAX / ORD III: Growing the Focus’October 9 – 30. Opening reception Saturday, October 9, 12–6pm.Featuring a mural installation from Langston Allston plus a group show featuring 3 small works from 24 additional artists. LAX / ORD is a group exhibition showcasing new small format works by some of the most relevant and exciting artists working in the New Contemporary Art Movement. Connecting the West Coast art scene to that of the MidWest’s, this survey exhibition will feature local and international artists curated by one of the movement’s most active and respected proponents: Los Angeles’ Thinkspace gallery.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418966/gzj7t0e4wahqnzec6uai.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/indira-freitas-johnson-the-resonance-of-emptiness">Evanston Art Center&nbsp;</a>Indira Freitas Johnson: The Resonance of EmptinessOct 9 – Nov 14In <a href="https://www.evanstonartcenter.org/exhibitions/indira-freitas-johnson-resonance-emptiness">The Resonance of Emptiness</a>, Indira Freitas Johnson explores the concept of emptiness and the interconnectedness of all things offering viewers an aesthetic experience of emptiness and stillness while exploring the shifting distinctions between strength and vulnerability, permanence, and decay, and the extraordinary and mundane.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418967/fb0oqzw6nzgds8l1wnim.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/american-society-of-marine-artists-north-regional-exhibition">Krasl Art Center&nbsp;</a>American Society of Marine Artists North Regional ExhibitionOct 9 – Nov 28The American Society of Marine Artists is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to recognize, encourage and promote marine art and maritime history. Their National Exhibition travels to KAC’s galleries this fall to highlight the beauty in and around water.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418968/sxa2lwmczutfrh5t0azk.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/5th-midwest-open-juried-by-alison-wong">Woman Made Gallery</a>5th Midwest Open, juried by Alison WongOctober 7 – November 6. Reception: October 9th, 4 – 7 PMArtist Walkthrough: November 6th, 3:30 PM&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions October 6–9

The Art Institute's Docent Firing Drama in two parts (so far)&nbsp;• Original editorial from the Chicago Tribune: <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-art-institute-docents-firing-20210927-dfrho66bjba2bp27phz2yndwzu-story.html">Editorial: Shame on the Art Institute for summarily canning its volunteer docents</a>• Response Op-ed from the Chair of the Board of Trustees: <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-art-institute-docent-change-response-20210930-himtjin2xne2jkkkb7hzz5xpra-story.html">Op-ed: The Art Institute — and its critics — must embrace change</a>• <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/letters/ct-letters-vp-092921-20210928-gbyhrtorv5dm5p35ymvdzitpai-story.html">Letters in response</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/09/30/old-town-developers-tap-world-class-architect-to-design-projects-in-the-neighborhood/?utm_source=cred-thursday-alert-dealmaker&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20210930&amp;utm_content=article4-readmore">Old Town Developers Tap David Adjaye to Design Projects In The Neighborhood</a>Developers have recruited architect David Adjaye to overhaul several properties in Old Town, including the site of the old Treasure Island Grocery Store.Adjaye, known for projects like the National Museum of African American History and Culture, was selected to design buildings owned by Fern Hill and Moody Church, a historic non-denominational Christian Church at 1635 N. LaSalle Drive.Via Block Club&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/10/04/lucas-museum-acquisitions">Museum of Star Wars creator George Lucas goes on buying spree with international, if not intergalactic, focus</a>When the filmmaker George Lucas announced his plans to build the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art nearly a decade ago, the idea of “narrative art” seemed as flimsy as a makeshift Hollywood stage set. To many, it simply seemed like a superficial way of grouping the comics, illustration art and Norman Rockwell paintings that Lucas has long collected along with some beloved Star Wars art, costumes and other artefacts from the extensive Lucasfilm Archives. &nbsp;But these days, with construction of the museum in Los Angeles well under way (the projected opening is in 2023) and a string of recent acquisitions, the museum’s interest in visual storytelling and mythmaking—as well as myth-busting—is evolving. The focus is extending well beyond the fantasy of an innocent white America featured in Rockwell’s work to include art by major Black and Latino artists.Via The Art Newspaper&nbsp;&nbsp;Thumbnail image: A docent and tour group consider "American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman), 1968" by David Hockney, in the Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago on Aug. 25, 2014. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)

What We're Reading: 10/4/21

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418963/i4ehsk0l47awssqnq9a5.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;By CGN StaffSaatchi Art's The Other Art Fair is back in Chicago this week for its third edition in the city. After bouncing around to a couple venues and seasons the fair is now part of the fall calendar and is coming to the West Loop to Revel One, an expansive site on Fulton Market.&nbsp;As always TOAF differs from other international art fairs because of its emphasis on independent artists and affordable art.&nbsp;We will be checking out the fair in advance on Thursday, but here for you, courtesy of the fair organizers, is a list of the top 10 things to experience at The Other Art Fair Chicago. Plan ahead and then see everything for yourself!&nbsp;One item not on the list, but which of course should be, is that CGN will once again have a fair booth on-site (booth #109). Stop by to see us in person, say hello, or pick up a copy of the 2021 CGN Arts Guide and the fall 2021 magazine!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1. Sneak Peek at The Hoxton<a href="http://www.thehoxton.com/">The Hoxton Hotel</a> will display works of art from four Chicago-area artists including <a href="https://www.saatchiart.com/elliscollage">Allie Ellis</a>, <a href="http://www.britnimara.com/">Britni Mara</a>, <a href="https://www.saatchiart.com/account/profile/1750821">Yoora Lee&nbsp;</a>, <a href="https://www.saatchiart.com/kaisersmith">Yvette Kaiser Smith</a> as a preview to the Fair’s opening.&nbsp;&nbsp;2. Meet the Artists and SHOPShowcasing works by over 120 talented artists, all of whom have been specially selected by an expert-led selection committee. The Other Art Fair provides art lovers with the opportunity to discover and buy art directly from the very best independent artists. For a full list of artists, visit <a href="http://chicago.theotherartfair.com/">http://chicago.theotherartfair.com</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;3. Special Exhibit: Arts of Life x Duck Feet<a href="https://artsoflife.org/">Arts of Life’s</a> Ricardo Partida is a Mexican-born, Chicago-based painter who will make his curatorial debut at the Fair to create Duck Feet. The exhibit will feature 20 artists currently living and working in Chicago, a city that champions individuality and each artist is influenced by the inevitable hybridities found in the art styles of their community.&nbsp;&nbsp;4. Up and ComersAs part of The Other Art Fair’s continued mission to break down traditional barriers of the contemporary art world, New Futures, presented by <a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/">Colossal</a> is designed to launch the careers of talented emerging artists including free exhibition space and mentorship. Chicago-based Artists include: <a href="https://www.saatchiart.com/andreacoleman">Andrea Coleman</a>, <a href="https://www.saatchiart.com/ashleybradley">Ashley Bradley</a>, <a href="https://www.saatchiart.com/tiannabracey">Tianna Bracey</a> and Francine Almeda.&nbsp;5. Screen Printing<a href="http://www.allstarpresschicago.com/">All Star Press</a>’s installation will pull back the curtain on the screen-printing process. Attendees of the Fair will get an inside look at the messy, chaotic process of printmaking, this process will draw contrast with the beautiful, error free final prints that the process makes possible. Artists <a href="http://www.griffingoodman.com/">Griffin Goodman</a>, <a href="http://www.kellyknaga.com/">Kelly Knaga</a> and <a href="http://www.sentrock.com/">Sentrock</a> will each paint a new piece, which will then be deconstructed to create a series of totally unique limited edition monoprints.&nbsp;6. FriYay! Friday Late with AMFMJoin The Other Art Fair and <a href="http://www.amfm.life/">AMFM</a> on&nbsp;Friday October 1, 6:30-10pm&nbsp;for Friday Late. Enjoy a curated program of music, performances and special events including a DJ set by <a href="http://www.joshuadubman.com/fire-aux">DJ Fire Aux</a>.&nbsp;7. Illustration Corner with Society6Each day of the Fair, the Illustration Corner will feature a series of talented illustration artists from across Chicago creating 60 second illustrations. Lucky attendees will take home a free, original work of art!&nbsp;First come, first serve.&nbsp;8. Interactive Mural by Emmy Star BrownChildren under 12 gain FREE entry to the Fair. Let kids unleash their artistic flair and participate in creative art activities suitable for all ages including a mural wall created by Chicago-based painter and muralist, <a href="http://www.emmystarbrown.com/">Emmy Star Brown</a>, known for her bold use of color. The mural will have shapes and lines open allowing attendees to join in on the creative process.&nbsp;&nbsp;9. Photo FinishView and shop a collection of works by emerging Photographers, Lois Bielefeld, Stephanie Taiber and&nbsp;Jonathan Castillo. <a href="https://www.filterphoto.org/">Filter Photo’s</a> mission is two-fold: first, to serve and support the photographic communities of Chicago and the Midwest; and second, to highlight Chicago as a vital center of the national photographic community.&nbsp;10. Soul &amp; Smoke Food TruckCalling all foodies, <a href="https://soulandsmoke.com/">Soul &amp; Smoke</a>, will be serving their delicious, slow roasted meats and sides outside the Fair so you won’t go hungry while shopping and exploring art.&nbsp;SHOW HOURS AND FAIR DATES Thursday, September 30: 6pm – 10pm Private View // Preview Evening Friday, October 1: 3pm – 10pm Saturday, October 2: 11am – 7pm Sunday, October 3: 11am – 5pm&nbsp;For more information, to view the&nbsp;Safer Fair Plan&nbsp;and to purchase tickets, please visit&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theotherartfair.com/chicago/">https://www.theotherartfair.com/chicago/</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

The Other Art Fair Returns to Chicago This Weekend 

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418963/yjntxveqqv0ww4nefgap.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/hannah-levy-surplus-tension">Hannah Levy: Surplus Tension</a>Opening: Thursday, Sep 30, 6 – 7:30&nbsp;pmArts Club of ChicagoCrafted of such evocative materials as steel and cast silicone, her forms at once evoke inanimate decor and sensual beings. In Hannah Levy: Surplus Tension, Levy departs from the specificities of the Arts Club’s Miesian aesthetic of shiny terrazzo, travertine cladding, or sumptuous silk and velvet drapery to reflect upon the underside of mid-century modern. She delves into the details of an architectural moment that is commonly held to be characterized by clean lines and white walls to find corsetlike leather ties around tubular metal chairs or mirror surfaces in black marble akin to reflecting pools. Levy further calls into question the gendering of that aesthetic by acknowledging the contributions of Mies’s longtime collaborator Lilly Reich, who early on used textile to inventively demarcate space as Mies did in his design for The Arts Club rooms.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418964/do865vlknxzx2islzqrs.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/pop-up-exhibition-and-book-signing-kirill-polevoy-chasing-light">Pop-Up Exhibition and book signing Kirill Polevoy, Chasing Light</a>Opening: Thursday, Sep 30, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmGallery Victor ArmendarizA self-taught photographer, Kirill Polevoy, first started making photographs with an old Russian film camera "Zorki"&nbsp;in 2003. In 2010, he switched to the digital format and primarily works in black and white. Kirill currently resides in Chicago, where he concentrates on street photography with an occasional landscape.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418965/nlxcokjnlj4uc0ct128q.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jason-brooks-forever-golden-memorial-exhibition">Forever Golden: The Life and Times of Jason Brooks</a>Opening: Friday, Oct 1, 6 – 10&nbsp;pmElephant Room GalleryElephant Room Gallery presents an October 1st - 15th retrospective exhibition honoring legendary graffiti and street artist Jason “The-7-ist” Brooks Golden. The event will memorialize and pay tribute to the 7th year of his passing by sharing previously unreleased works including paintings, drawings, wheat pastes, zines, letters, photos of tags and murals, some of which will be available for sale.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418965/nxjrqv0aycc7kbaywri9.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/looking-up-photographer-henri-dauman">Looking Up: Photographer Henri Dauman</a>Opening: Friday, Oct 1, 5:30 – 8&nbsp;pmThe Art Center Highland ParkThe Art Center Highland Park in partnership with The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Arbor Terrace Highland Park is thrilled to be bringing the incredible work of internationally renowned Life Magazine Photographer, Henri Dauman, to our galleries.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418966/kuwu42cdnuwh35yaqcil.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/a-form-by-which-to-be-possessed">A Form By Which To Be Possessed</a>Opening: Friday, Oct 1, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmChicago Artists Coalition (CAC)In this exhibition, Taghavi’s multitude of paintings exploit a single character: a sigil, an occult letter-form believed to cast a spell upon its viewer. The sigil derives from a book of talismans, The Secrets of Qasemi, by the 15th-century Persian poet and scholar, Hussein Va’ez Kashefi, in which the power of flight is promised to its viewer.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418967/rkutgv4bvz86rdgpoezz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kina-bagovska-song-after-song">Kina Bagovska: Song After Song</a>Opening: Friday, Oct 1, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC GalleryKina&nbsp;studies&nbsp;and explores the symbols of handmade&nbsp;embroidery from Bulgaria and how they are transmitted across generations. In her most current series of paintings, she attempts to reevaluate the aesthetics of the traditional craft and how its assigned value changes nowadays. To emphasize the semantics she combines symbols from Bulgarian embroidery and texts from modern poetry.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418968/jms3tewnaelfai5vgpqp.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/anjali-srinivasan">Anjali Srinivasan</a>Oct 2 – Nov 7Ken Saunders GalleryThe originality and force of these works is nearly breathtaking. The artist’s Quiver Bowls are created from a combination of silicone and super reflective blown glass that result in forms that are biomorphic, soft, shapeless. The artists mirror paintings and fabric sculptures are fiercely original kaleidoscopic explosions that strongly reference the opulent interiors of the 17th century Indian architectural history.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418969/bxfb2mntccpmo6dlpntz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/steve-geer-stories-to-be-written">Steve Geer: Stories To Be Written</a>Opening: Saturday, Oct 2, 6 – 7:30&nbsp;pmPerspective Group + Photography Gallery, Ltd.In his series “Stories To Be Written,” objects discovered by chance by walking the sidewalks of Chicago are shown in their found context – the ground on which they rest and the towering environment around them. Their unwritten stories are like latent images waiting to be developed with the experience and personal bias of the viewer.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start September 30 - October 2

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418963/wlwt4iksk32wxqnjl0i4.png"></figure><a href="https://www.architecturalrecord.com/women-in-architecture">Amanda Williams Receives 2021 Architectural Record Women in Architecture Design Leadership Award</a>RECORD has announced the 2021 winners of its&nbsp;<a href="https://rhoffmangallery.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ef43352ef9557e0524662970b&amp;id=4dbd5f26f8&amp;e=c50eb07ba1">Women in Architecture Design Leadership awards</a>, which recognize and promote the role of women in the profession in the U.S. across five categories: Design Leader, New Generation Leader, Innovator, Activist and Educator. Now in its eighth year, the award’s winners for 2021 are Design Leader Annabelle Selldorf, New Generation Leader Amanda Williams, Innovator Julie Bargmann, Educator Deborah Berke, and Activist Tamarah Begay. Through their efforts in design and in tackling broader social challenges, these five women have proved to be inspiring leaders in the field of architecture and beyond.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418964/twy4dpbas9hwebevz7ws.jpg"></figure><a href="https://terrainexhibitions.org">Terrain Biennial is Back</a>The 2021 Terrain Biennial runs from October 2nd - November 15th, 2021 in the Chicagoland area and satellite locations nationally including New York and internationally in India.&nbsp;This year, the Terrain Biennial aims to find spaces of joy and community essential for collective healing in these times of isolation, public reckonings, and mourning. Sharing much of the same sentiment as yearbook signatures and pen pal letters, this year’s biennial theme is K.I.T. (keep in touch). After more than a year of lockdown, participants are encouraged to consider how their projects serve communities, encourage lived experiences of art, and facilitate deepening friendships and new connections.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://www.wpr.org/sites/default/files/styles/embed-landscape/public/design_submission_of_shinsaku_munemoto_of_shinsaku_munemoto_associates_architects_.jpg?itok=KY2OHA1z" alt="Rendering of a possible Cold War memorial in Kenosha County"><figcaption>This is a rendering of one design. Rendering courtesy of Tawani Enterprises</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.wpr.org/chicago-billionaire-pritzker-bringing-cold-war-campus-wisconsin">Chicago Billionaire, Pritzker, Bringing Cold War Campus To Wisconsin</a>Design teams from the United States, Italy, Japan, and Jordan are competing to build a Cold War monument in western Kenosha County.Design teams from Japan, Jordan, Italy and the United States are competing to build a Cold War memorial in Kenosha County, Wis.&nbsp;The competition is part of a larger plan to create a campus on nearly 290 acres in Somers to commemorate the Cold War.Chicago billionaire and founder of the Chicago-based Pritzker Military Museum &amp; Library retired Col. Jennifer Pritzker is behind the project.&nbsp;<a href="https://chicagoscomeback.org/?utm_source=CNL%20Art%20Consulting&amp;utm_campaign=61e7cf11d8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_01_05_43_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_99ec04cd2a-61e7cf11d8-107428223">Chicago's Comeback Mural</a>Cortney Lederer and CNL Projects worked with Sport for Good Chicago (an initiative of <a href="https://cortneylederer.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=209edfd3257df90385f531e52&amp;id=996b7d1efb&amp;e=a71d7765a5">Laureus USA</a>) to curate and facilitate the production of a traveling mural by Chicago artist <a href="https://cortneylederer.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=209edfd3257df90385f531e52&amp;id=9df75154b4&amp;e=a71d7765a5">Damon Lamar Reed </a>with fabrication support by artist and designer <a href="https://cortneylederer.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=209edfd3257df90385f531e52&amp;id=b1d4791be9&amp;e=a71d7765a5">Caroline Robe</a>. Painted for the month-long Chicago's Comeback campaign, We Play, We Heal, We Grow! the mural was first unveiled at the Crosstown Classic, uniting Chicagoans around the power of sport to help kids heal and thrive. The mural is now traveling around Chicago nonprofits focusing on sports and youth.&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 9/28

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418963/xivwlzggyldzkllsijjv.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/crip">Crip*</a>September 23Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418964/n3bn0jlbb8wccqjnlvqn.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/smart-to-the-core-medium-image">Smart to the Core: Medium / Image</a>September 23Smart Museum of Art&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418965/x9neawos2vfd0hyiuy3k.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/romanticism-to-ruin-two-lost-works-of-sullivan-and-wright">Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright</a>September 24Wrightwood 659&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418965/qhxmd4qhd93qf0tuygpg.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/yoko-ono-mend-piece">Yoko Ono: Mend Piece</a>September 24Tarble Arts Center&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418966/qurabsfjj8opue8u6kvf.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/toward-common-cause-art-social-change-and-the-macarthur-fellows-program-at-40-wendy-ewald-and-amalia-mesa-bains">Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40 Wendy Ewald and Amalia Mesa-Bains</a>Opening: Saturday, September 25, 2 – 5&nbsp;pmWeinberg/Newton Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418967/d3gm94z7nzbbzuudebc0.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dimitri-pavlotsky">Dimitri Pavlotsky: Portraits Inside Out</a>Opening: Friday, September 24, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmFirecat Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418968/mmvfpxrtgrdrckjm5nyi.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/group-show-curated-by-kennedy-yanko">Surface is Only a Material Vehicle For Spirit</a>Opening: Saturday, September 25, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmKavi Gupta Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418969/c9i5yzqscjv9rzwjyv4t.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/woody-de-othello-hope-omens">Woody De Othello: Hope Omens</a>September 26John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start September 23 - 26

<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christo-wrapped-arc-de-triomphe/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6i&amp;linkId=132392163&amp;fbclid=IwAR1NzVoorBf6BUVZrsYNc1FqsIzlIBCRoNEv0YC5XoxBJcjQJn3aNKKd_Ec">Christo's dream unveiled: A wrapped Arc de Triomphe</a>In Paris this weekend, traffic stopped and crowds gathered to see the Arc de Triomphe transformed: the huge monument wrapped in shimmering, fabric, tied in place with red rope – the colors subtly emulating the French flag.&nbsp;It's the creation of the artist known simply as Christo. But when Christo died last year at 84, finishing the project became a mission for Christo's small team of three: his nephews, Vladimir Yavachev and Jonathan Henery, and studio manager Lorenza Giovanelli."All the design was done," said Henery. "Every rope, every fold, every pleat, is exactly, exactly and precisely the way Christo designed it. It will be his baby. We're just finishing it for him."Via CBSThumbnail image: Christo's long-planned dream of the wrapped Arc de Triomphe.&nbsp;CBS NEWS&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/raisin-exhibit-brings-seminal-chicago-play-to-life/357a5b9e-1dc4-4045-9c09-328f835116a4?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=Web-Share&amp;fbclid=IwAR3xcdDqWm1xpa8UTf7naYKkG6B0tHQjwLa7IjGMkxNx0dhvNZ6HhMVUeVQ">Artists Bring Themes From ‘A Raisin In The Sun’ Home To Chicago</a>A new art exhibition explores themes from “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry — the seminal play set in Chicago — where local and global artists wrestle with the theme of “home.”Via WBEZ&nbsp;<a href="https://news.wttw.com/2021/09/16/sounds-18th-street-unites-mexican-artists-across-us-new-music-festival">‘Sounds of 18th Street’ Unites Mexican Artists From Across US in New Music Festival</a><a href="http://nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/">The National Museum of Mexican Art</a> will hold its first ever music festival with help from Mexican artists around the country. It’s called Sonido Dieciocho or <a href="https://nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/events/sonido-18-fest">Sonido 18 Fest</a>,&nbsp;and&nbsp;the theme “Sounds of 18th Street” pays homage to its location.“For a lot of the South Side Mexicans and Latinos, it wasn’t known as Pilsen it was known as La Dieciocho,” says Jorge Valdivia, the museum’s director of performing arts. “That’s how it was commonly referred to way back in the day. Now ‘Pilsen’ is used to refer to it a lot more. So it’s sort of paying homage to La Dieciocho and how we used to identify Pilsen as.”&nbsp;Via WTTW&nbsp;<a href="https://lit.newcity.com/2021/09/20/a-boone-for-poetry-in-conversation-with-the-foundations-new-president/?fbclid=IwAR1Zi3iaHF80krxpRc8nYl5D0KfIqTME4S3vecmW1HmSHyrrbzaQ8Cm0WZ8">A Boone for Poetry: In Conversation with the Foundation’s New President</a>In a 1999 profile published in the New Yorker, the writer Malcolm Gladwell described the “Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg.” Weisberg was the city of Chicago’s first commissioner of Cultural Affairs, serving from 1989 to 2011, when she retired at the age of eighty-one. The essence of the story was that she was one of those people who knew everybody—a “connector”—for jobs, for collaboration, for friendship.The irony is that if Gladwell’s story were to be written today, it would be about the woman who stepped into Weisberg’s formidable—and legendarily extravagant—shoes when she succeeded her as the Commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Michelle Boone.Via Newcity&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

What We're Reading: 9/20

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418963/tumi4qjtooflhfyk53c1.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jacob-hashimoto-11df96fa-ba58-4b51-9445-6e9d90e55885">Jacob Hashimoto</a>Exhibition begins September 17Rhona Hoffman Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418964/clhsjfn7wpazsgwbanxv.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/a-la-francaise-the-french-way">A La Française: The French Way</a>Exhibition begins September 17Springboard Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418965/eod4rdkyd8kovfdgpzua.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lea-lund-erik-k-nomads">LEA LUND &amp; ERIK K: Nomads</a>Opening: Friday, September 17, 5 – 7:30&nbsp;pmCatherine Edelman Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418966/w7cnswxai7cav96gik60.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lauren-wy">Lauren Wy | AUTODESIRE: Volume 1</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmWestern Exhibitions&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418966/byiwyqqocdgcecv3g8q8.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jonathan-muecke">Jonathan Muecke</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmVolume Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418967/cjvnsuqtbtjvamtcv1b6.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/mara-baker-new-monotypes">Mara Baker: New Monotypes</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 3 – 5&nbsp;pmBert Green Fine Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418968/yxa48yzf9oy4vvkvsj8p.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/melanie-schiff">Melanie Schiff: Blind Spots</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 3 – 7&nbsp;pmPATRON&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418969/xxnezp2h2wtt45aof4rb.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/aron-gent-ice-dye-tie-dye">Aron Gent: Ice Dye Tie Dye</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmDavid Salkin Creative&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418969/npbeazsvhycjfjqbljhq.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/was-is-ought">Was/Is/Ought</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 12 – 5&nbsp;pmCarrie Secrist Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418970/tfqitxmflyt0qqndrcrz.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/david-shrobe">David Shrobe</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 11&nbsp;am – 6&nbsp;pmMonique Meloche Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418971/tqgms9bv6fav90juawgg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/intersections-3-generations">Intersections: 3 Generations</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmStola Contemporary Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418972/wfyi6wifkkdou5uqq2wo.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/chicago-textile-week">Chicago Textile Week: Deep, Far, Home</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the Arts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418972/u1xeeudp5sjhn7sd01xr.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/tongue-in-cheek-irreverence-in-print">Tongue in Cheek: Irreverence in Print</a>Opening: Saturday, September 18, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmChicago Printmakers Collaborative&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

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