<html><head></head><body>By CGN StaffThis coming Thursday, Friday and Saturday features a number of opening receptions taking place in galleries around Chicago and the greater Midwest!An overview of highlights from this coming weekend can be viewed below, and our full calendar may be <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=openings">viewed&nbsp;here</a>.See you in the galleries!&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418329/mmvvvmmcavhgf0qkx0nk.gif"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/five-works-cathy-hsiao">Five Works: Cathy Hsiao</a>Opening Thursday, January 30 - PilsenMana ContemporaryCathy Hsiao is the next artist in Five Works, a bimonthly project series that features five new and/or recent works by emerging Chicago artists.Born in New York and raised by a Falun Dafa Buddhist mother, Cathy Hsiao grew up between the US and Taiwan. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the recipient of a New Artist Society Merit Fellowship.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418330/kcceqx0yj31cgfyzylsn.gif"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/hive">Hive</a>Opening Thursday, January 30 - U of I, Urbana-ChampaignKrannert Art Museum, University of IllinoisHive&nbsp;is a site-specific sculpture and sound commission by Nancy Davidson and Lakshmi Ramgopal, two artists with distinctive practices collaborating for the first time at Krannert Art Museum.On view for a full year, Hive is housed within and responds to the architecture of KAM’s 1988 Kinkead Pavilion, a postmodern addition to the museum designed by architect Larry Booth.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418331/iql8uj4cxcgxkpxqwvzs.gif"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ceramic-impressions-etc">Ceramic Impressions, etc.</a>Opening Friday, January 31 - EvanstonSpace 900A one-weekend pop-up exhibition featuring an exciting and mutually empowering collaboration between ceramic artist Mariko Ventura and printmaking artist, Bert Menco.&nbsp;The collaborative effort consists of impressions made into clay by Mariko from wood blocks carved by Bert.&nbsp;&nbsp;In addition the exhibition will include Bert’s paper impressions of the same blocks along with personal ceramic work by Mariko.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418332/u6etacluwges03ce78ao.gif"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/candida-alvarez-air-paintings">Candida Alvarez: Estoy Bien</a>Opening Saturday, February 1 – West TownmoniquemelocheThis is Alvarez’s first exhibition with Monique Meloche and her first solo gallery exhibition in Chicago.The work of Candida Alvarez is imbued with both personal and formal aspects which evolve through her relationship to color, light, and architectural elements.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418333/c1pk7gm6jbr00jd05qw8.gif"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/winter-group-show-featuring-leon-keer-julieta-xlf-li-hill-james-knight-fourhundredml">Winter Group Show featuring Leon Keer, Julieta XLF, Li-Hill, James Knight (FourhundredML)</a>Opening Saturday, February 1 – Ukrainian VillageVertical GalleryAfter a January break, Vertical Gallery presents a special five-artist exhibition for their first exhibition of 2020. The Winter Group Show will feature Leon Keer, Martin Whatson, Julieta XLF, Li-Hill, and James Knight (Fourhundred ML). This five-artist exhibition allows each artist to create a full collection of work to show a range styles.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418334/q0f28t4v0i8hqznvsmsf.gif"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/steve-geer-river-ice">Steve Geer: River Ice</a>Opening Saturday, February 1 - EvanstonPerspective Group + Photography Gallery"Deep in the winter, after the water has lost its summer heat, the surface of the river in Chicago freezes. Sunlight and city lights are reflected from the ice and, when it’s newly washed and wet, the frozen water also reflects the cityscape. It’s magical." ~ Steve Geer&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Weekend Art Highlights: January 30 - February 1

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417984/fvpnlxsboqjaibskmiz3.png"><figcaption>Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, is photographed in 2018. AP</figcaption></figure><h3>Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright' Famed Architecture School to Close</h3>The architecture school that architect Frank Lloyd Wright started nearly 90 years ago is closing, officials announced Tuesday.The School of Architecture at Taliesin, which encompasses Wright properties in Wisconsin and Arizona, will shutter in June. The school’s governing board said in a statement the “gut-wrenching decision” was made after no agreement could be made with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to keep operating the school. Specific details about the negotiations between the school and foundation were not disclosed.By AP via Sun Times<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/1/28/21112687/frank-lloyd-wright-architecture-school-to-close-taliesin-arizona">Read More</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417985/pcgh5b0mghfpgm6tlnqc.jpg"><figcaption>© Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke</figcaption></figure><h3>Coronavirus crisis: Hong Kong follows China in shutting museums</h3>Hong Kong is indefinitely closing its public museums and leisure facilities in a bid to contain the novel corona virus, or 2019-nCoV, which developed in Wuhan, Hubei Province in late December. Wearing a face mask, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam also announced yesterday that the special administrative region will be curtailing travel to mainland China, suspending train and ferry services, and limiting flights. Individual travelers will also no longer be able to receive permits to visit Hong Kong from the mainland.By Lisa Movius, The Art Newspaper<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/coronavirus">Read More</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417985/qzvijmzfkwon8ilhxeti.png"><figcaption>This is one of a pair of twin 1880s buildings that are part of Pullman Artspace lofts, on opposite ends of the new building. Each has six apartments.&nbsp;</figcaption></figure><h3>Artists are moving into Pullman’s first new homes in decades</h3>The first eight renters have moved in at Pullman Artspace Lofts, a trio of buildings that contain the first new housing built in the onetime factory town in several decades. Another nine will move in Feb. 1.By Dennis Rodkin, Crain's<a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/artists-are-moving-pullmans-first-new-homes-decades?utm_source=today-s-crain-s&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20200127&amp;utm_content=article13-readmore">Read More</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417986/om4eieccu0xntwvnhpx8.jpg"><figcaption>Naftali Fürst (2019). © Martin Schoeller.</figcaption></figure><h3>On the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, 75 Moving Portraits of Holocaust Survivors Are Going on View in Germany</h3>When two Russian soldiers arrived to the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 27, 1945, the guards were gone but 7,000 survivors remained, including many children. Now, one of those children, Marta Wise, is among 75 subjects in a poignant new photography exhibition that captures the portraits of Holocaust survivors.The show, “Survivors – Faces of Life after the Holocaust,” in Essen, Germany, includes 75 recent photographs by the German-born artist Martin Schoeller.By Kate Brown, Artnet<a href="https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/75th-anniversary-auschwitz-exhibition-1762671">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: January 28, 2020

<html><head></head><body>By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;January is flying by, with another round of openings taking place this coming weekend in multiple neighborhoods throughout the city and behind.&nbsp;Starting Thursday, January 23 and running into Saturday, January 25 a number of spaces open solo as well as group shows to invite the art-loving public in to see what's new. &nbsp;Our overview of highlights from this coming weekend is below, and our full calendar may be <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=openings">viewed&nbsp;here</a>.See you in the galleries!&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418110/pa4stvftr1zpq7rfm9g9.gif"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/william-conger">William Conger</a>Opening Friday, January 24Zolla/Lieberman GalleryNew works by this established Chicago abstract painter are on view at the gallery, in addition to a show of new works by <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/va-depintor">VA de Pintor</a>.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418111/h7f8r52fj5wdtmvh0vsi.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/harold-mendez-the-years-now">Harold Mendez: The Years Now</a>Opening Friday, January 24Logan CenterLos Angeles–based artist Harold Mendez brings together objects, images, and sounds—all with their own multiple and layered histories—culled from sites across the Americas and spanning from pre-Columbian times to the present. Transformed and reconfigured into poetic assemblages, they evoke the body’s connections to histories of violence and erasure on the one hand and renewal and remembrance on the other. Mendez’s exhibition presents a suite of new sculptures and premieres a new sound installation featuring a found recording in which a speaker contemplates a crisis of identity.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418112/gcehszr0bv49o2bgkaqm.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/return-to-the-everywhere">Return to the Everywhere</a>Opening Friday, January 24Weinberg/Newton GalleryPresented in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago, Chicago’s NPR news station, Return to the Everywhere is the second exhibition in the gallery’s new location in River West. The exhibition considers various modalities of communication in an attempt to grasp the broader implications of our current “post-truth” era.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418113/y9j5ny0nk2znlvfukmtq.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/niu-school-of-art-and-design-faculty-biennial-exhibition-37b033e4-b9cc-4584-b40a-171dd61f40b5">NIU School of Art and Design Faculty Biennial Exhibition</a>Opening Thursday, January 23Northern IL Univ.&nbsp;Presented every two years, this exhibition features recent artwork and scholarship by faculty and teaching staff from all divisions of the NIU School of Art and Design and highlights the artistry, research, and world-class instruction found at NIU.<h3>&nbsp;</h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418114/pvlcapndrikkztmvmyvs.jpg"><figcaption>Image: &nbsp;Charles Moore, Fire Hose Aimed at Young Demonstrator, Birmingham, Alabama, May 3, 1963, gelatin silver print. Humana Foundation Endowment for American Art, 2007.031.001</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/snite-salon">Snite Salon</a>Thursday, January 23, 5:30–6:15pmSnite Museum of Art at Univ. of Notre DameSnite Salons encourage close looking and thoughtful conversation with a different work each session. This month, in conjunction with campus Walk the Walk week celebrations, the conversation will focus on Charles Moore's photograph&nbsp;Fire Hose Aimed at Young Demonstrator, Birmingham, Alabama from the Birmingham Campaign on May 3 in 1963. This work will only be on view during this program.<h3>&nbsp;</h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418115/w7xwaziwtrcdiud7lwwe.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/2020-wisconsin-artists-biennial">2020 Wisconsin Artists Biennial</a>Opening Saturday, January 25Museum of Wisconsin ArtEvery two years the Museum of Wisconsin Art is privileged to showcase the most compelling, engaging, inventive, and unique art from a state rich in creative capital. The 2020 Wisconsin Artists Biennial is open to all contemporary artists from throughout the state, representing a wide spectrum of media and creative perspectives.&nbsp;&nbsp;Two notable museum shows are ending this weekend, so now is your last chance to catch them before they're gone:<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418116/zyxushkkqw1yvrjvfzaf.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/andy-warhol-from-a-to-b-and-back-again">Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again</a>thru January 26The Art Institute of Chicago&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418117/ayrxcdok4lloif8ofn8r.gif"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/direct-messages-art-language-power">Direct Messages: Art, Language &amp; Power</a>thru January 26The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA)&nbsp;&nbsp;Top of page key image: Sayward Schoonmaker from Weinberg Newton Gallery's Return to the Everywhere&nbsp;</body></html>

Weekend Art Highlights: January 23–25

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418322/vhjc9gb1exbb1soq07t1.gif"><figcaption>PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE GRAHAM AND PAMELA LEE COLLECTION</figcaption></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Behind the Lens of a Trailblazing Chicago Photojournalist</h3>&nbsp;More than 50 years after his death, the little-known photographer of Chicago’s most historic moments is finally getting his due. From January 24 to March 31, the Poetry Foundation and Newberry Library will celebrate the life of photographer and poet Jun Fujita&nbsp;with a new exhibit entitled Jun Fujita: American Visionary. Believed to be the first Japanese-American photojournalist, Fujita photographed the 1919 race riots, the St. Valentine’s Day massacre, the Eastland Disaster, the 1910 garment workers’ strike, and other pivotal events. His harrowing images have shaped and preserved our understanding of what it means to live in Chicago, warts and all.By Taylor Moore, Chicago Magazine<a href="http://www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture/January-2020/New-exhibition-book-honor-Jun-Fujita-Chicagos-Japanese-American-Renaissance-Man/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418323/pd9rkij3ufujszmmpzzp.gif"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>EXPO Chicago boosting art collector outreach with new hire</h3>&nbsp;EXPO Chicago, the city’s annual international exposition of contemporary and modern art, is adding a new position, head of VIP Relations and Strategic Initiatives, which will be filled immediately by Eboni Gates. She will be tasked with a job that has become increasingly important in the world of art expositions — cultivating deeper relationships with the fair's most important customer base, serious art collectors.By Lewis Lazare, Chicago Business Journal<a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2020/01/21/expo-chicago-boosting-art-collector-outreach-with.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418324/utsptmkmayf3igpyupzc.gif"><figcaption>The 35,000-square-foot Conservation Center is housed in a 19th century warehouse in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood. &nbsp;</figcaption></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Where to Go to Watch the Paint Dry</h3>&nbsp;In the never-ending quest for engagement in a short attention-span world, museums around the world have long looked for ways to spice up visitor experiences. But as after-hours gatherings and dedicated Instagram experiences continue to take off, a time-honored practice has surprisingly gained traction, and become a destination-worthy draw: conservation, or art restoration, done in the public eye.By Lauren Sloss, The New York Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/travel/Open-conservation-art-preservation.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418326/tnyiojivj0noyirbavj7.gif"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>How Käthe Kollwitz Invented a New Art of Protest</h3>&nbsp;In the days following the death of Qasem Soleimani, protestors scrambled to organize demonstrations against possible war between Iran and the United States. Posters, texts and graphics disseminated across social media. One image, attributed to the Iranian graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi, depicted scores of angry agitators in concise black-and-white lines. ‘NO WAR IN IRAN!’ it read. Shortly thereafter, a friend shared a much older image on his Instagram upon which Satrapi’s drawing could have been based: a 1924 lithograph by the German artist Käthe Kollwitz, first published in an issue of the magazine Socialist Worker Youth. In the print, a boy raises his hands, his mouth agape, as German words in tactile cursive slide over a stark, neutral background: ‘Nie wieder Krieg’ – ‘Never War Again.’By Joseph Henry, Frieze<a href="https://frieze.com/article/how-kathe-kollwitz-invented-new-art-protest">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: January 21, 2020

<html><head></head><body>By CGN StaffSaturday, January 17 features a number of openings taking place in galleries around Chicago and Milwaukee!Our overview of highlights from this coming weekend is below, and our full calendar may be <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=openings">viewed&nbsp;here</a>.See you in the galleries!&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418335/usp3xw7wqrlnwiszkxp9.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/3rd-midwest-open">3rd Midwest Open</a>Opening Friday, January 17 - PilsenWoman Made GalleryIn her juror statement, Mia Lopez writes: “I was inspired by WMG’s decades of supporting female-identifying artists through refreshing and inclusive exhibitions. Though the selected artists represent a wide variety of perspectives and approaches, they are unified via thoughtful consideration of form and content. From figurative paintings to conceptual photography, abstract sculptures, and myriad media in between, this annual exhibit demonstrates the incredible diversity of artistic practices in the Midwest.”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418336/tt6b8kumwa6sovtnhh7p.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/meditations-in-an-emergency">Meditations in an Emergency</a>Opening Friday, January 17 - West TownCatherine Edelman GalleryConcurrent with New Formations,&nbsp;Catherine Edelman Gallery is&nbsp;honored to present Meditations in an Emergency, Bettina von Zwehl's&nbsp;latest portrait series inspired by the teenage die-ins that were&nbsp;staged shortly&nbsp;after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,&nbsp;Florida. Von Zwehl presents seventeen portraits of New York City teenagers (the&nbsp;result of the&nbsp;first artist-in-residence&nbsp;at the New York Historical&nbsp;Society) in the classic silhouette profile, describing the photographs as death&nbsp;masks sculpted from life. These seventeen portraits honor the number of victims&nbsp;of the&nbsp;school shooting on Valentine's Day, 2018, and serve as a testament to&nbsp;the endurance and practice of protest and teen activism. Presented in a small&nbsp;quiet room on the gallery's lower level, Meditations in&nbsp;an Emergency offers&nbsp;viewers a moment to reflect and think about the power of protest.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418337/wpzaix923gsvnsrdebiu.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/on-the-nature-of-wisconsin">On the Nature of Wisconsin</a>Opening Friday, January 17 - Milwaukee, WIThe WarehouseFeaturing work from the permanent collection, On the Nature of Wisconsin is a celebration of Wisconsin artists and their relationship with the natural world. A state known for its fresh water, forests, and parks, this exhibition examines the connections artists have made and observed with these surroundings. Works included depict sweeping landscapes, quiet farm life, reimagined&nbsp;plants and animals, and objects exemplifying natural forms. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418337/nak6prae0hogfez4ghfu.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/david-dunlop-landmarked">David Dunlop: Landmarked</a>Opening Friday, January 17 - Milwaukee, WILily Pad Gallery WestDavid Allen Dunlop is a contemporary American painter. His stylized work is characterized by its heavy use of phthalo blue, an intensely blue-green pigment, which he employs to form representational images of city architecture, nature scenes, and figures in motion. Born in 1951, Dunlop received his BA from the College of Wooster in Ohio and MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

January 17 Gallery Openings

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418352/djmvzbazm49znbdi5dsn.gif"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Free Admission Days In 2020 For Chicago Museums</h3>&nbsp;The winter doldrums can best be fought by planning a day out at the museum. Chicago is home to many world renowned museums with many offering the opportunity for you to take in all the sights without making a dent in your wallet.Many Chicago area museums are offering Illinois residents free admission throughout the year. &nbsp;<a href="https://wbbm780.radio.com/articles/free-admission-days-in-2020-for-chicago-museums">Read More</a>Via WBBM News Radio Staff&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418353/ikcyref7hfhqgqgkcqr3.gif"><figcaption>John Soss, Courtesy of Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune</figcaption></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Maybe the debris found on the lakefront could be art — a Chicago photographer opens ‘On the Beach’</h3> &nbsp;A beach can be a lonely place, particularly in winter. John Soss wanders beaches in every season but does so less frequently when the cold comes, and the snow and the ice bury what he is seeking.What he is seeking are remnants of this world, specifically things that have been lost or tossed or otherwise found their way into the waters of Lake Michigan. Thousands of these things eventually wash up along the shore and Soss grabs some, looks them over and takes a few home, there to arrange together in patterns and take a photo.<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-beach-artist-kogan-0112-20200108-gb5dfnfeanemnbje7x7qb3uqhy-story.html">Read More</a>By Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418354/wytgsoxsipqemeem3d0w.gif"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Zor Zor Zor | Discovering Chicago’s graffiti world, creating art while traveling, and&nbsp;more</h3>&nbsp;This week the Cornerstore spoke with Zor Zor Zor about her discovering Chicago’s graffiti world on her own &amp; navigating her way into shows with prominent graffiti artists early in her career, creating art while traveling, her work with Grace Jane Projects and more.<a href="https://wgnradio.com/2020/01/14/zor-zor-zor-discovering-chicagos-graffiti-world-creating-art-while-traveling-and-more/">Read More</a>By Casera Heining, WGN Radio&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418355/dqamvnb2zrc4c7k2laxb.gif"><figcaption>Olowu, photographed at his boutique in London in 2015.Photo: Getty Images</figcaption></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>In a New Exhibition, Designer Duro Olowu Fashions a Portrait of Chicago</h3>&nbsp;“What drives Chicago is still a mystery to me,” says Duro Olowu, speaking by phone from the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art, where lately he’s been pondering such matters as he puts the final touches on the expansive new art exhibition he’s curated, Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, opening February 29.<a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/duro-olowu-chicago-exhibition">Read More</a>By Julia Felsenthal, Vogue Magazine&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: January 14, 2020

<html><head></head><body>By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;Happy new year and welcome to a new year of art. A round of openings take place this weekend, kicking off the winter art season for 2020 and spanning multiple neighborhoods.&nbsp;Much of the new work on view this weekend is very colorful, as well as a means to consider alternative perspectives of individual artists as well as canonical art history.&nbsp;Friday, January 10 and Saturday, January 11 both feature a number of openings taking place in galleries around the city, from West Town to River North, as well as Michigan Ave. and Hyde Park, as many spaces open solo as well as group shows to invite the art-loving public in to see what's new. &nbsp;Our overview of highlights from this coming weekend is below, and our full calendar may be <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=openings">viewed&nbsp;here</a>.See you in the galleries!<h3>&nbsp;</h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417901/xwkblsusqpmhjibml3v7.gif"><figcaption>Left: William Blake; Right: Beth Foley</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/beth-foley">William Blake + Beth Foley: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory</a>Opening Friday, January 10Gallery Victor ArmendarizPerhaps inspired by presidential tweets, news headlines, and evidence of a growingly divided country, Foley finds diverse representatives of the American ideal. &nbsp;Also opening at the gallery the same night is &nbsp;a show of Civil War focused paintings by <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/william-blake-beth-foley">William Blake</a>.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417902/cyye7ly2aa7lo9lcs3ud.gif"><figcaption>Tony Davis, Hell Cats (2010)</figcaption></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/down-by-line">Down By Line</a></h3>Opening Friday, January 10One After 909Down by Line highlights the work of four Chicago-based artists with well-established practices independent of art world trends. While Tony Davis, Jason Lamantia, Paul Lamantia and Tom Torluemke create in many mediums, Down by Line focuses on their works on paper. The figure features prominently in this exhibition, which is subsequently rife with human interactions and expressions, exploring violence and conflict, as well as humor and social commentary.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417903/tiwewih94x5qzcwkhe5s.jpg"><figcaption>Robyn O’Neil</figcaption></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/robyn-o-neil-the-tapestries">Robyn O’Neil: The Tapestries</a></h3>Opening Friday, January 10Western ExhibitionsRobyn O’Neil, known for her epic magisterial drawings, will not be showing any drawings for her third show at Western Exhibitions. For the first time in a gallery, O’Neil will be presenting her tapestries, which she sometimes refers to as “yarn drawings.” The woven narratives are just as enigmatic as O’Neil’s drawings, if maybe just a little warmer. The Tapestries opens in Gallery 2, alongside the group show <a href="http://westernexhibitions.com/exhibition/female-trouble/">Female Trouble</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417903/ddh8vgdl2gpv8wqdnckc.jpg"><figcaption>Alicia LaChance</figcaption></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/terrachroma">TerraChroma</a></h3>Opening Friday, January 10Addington GalleryThis show explores various contemporary approaches to landscape painting juxtaposed in the same space with richly optical color-based abstraction. The result is an exhibition of bracing chromatic shifts, rich tactile surfaces, and deep enveloping spaces. Featuring the work of Kathleen Waterloo, Alicia LaChance, Joanne Mattera and many others.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417904/ke6t6gmo1cyz3pbuvsuw.png"><figcaption>A.R. Ammons</figcaption></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/a-r-ammons-watercolors">A.R. Ammons: Watercolors</a></h3>Opening Thursday, January 9Poetry FoundationWell known as one of the most gifted and prolific poets of the modern era, A.R. (Archie Randolph) Ammons was also an abundant painter. A.R. Ammons: Watercolors focuses on Ammons’s abstract watercolors painted during 1977–1979, a time of intense productivity. The abstraction of these watercolors echo those found in Ammons’s poems and offer an expanded understanding of his art.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417905/couvqr4m7mg1ttuufcjf.jpg"><figcaption>Gordon Parks</figcaption></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/gordon-parks-this-land-is-your-land">Gordon Parks: This Land is Your Land</a></h3>Opening Friday, January 10Rhona Hoffman GalleryFocusing particularly on Parks’ images of African American youth, the exhibition This Land Is Your Land includes works from the 1940s to the 1960s, many of which are being shown for the first time.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417906/yhwfqolawyl71fmupix8.png"><figcaption>Luther Konadu</figcaption></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/tentative-photo-luther-konadu">Tentative Photo: Luther Konadu</a></h3>Opening Friday, January 10Filter PhotoLuther Konadu positions his work as one continuous documentary project centering on the way objective visual documentation ostensibly formulates public perception surrounding collective identities and historic record. Photography, with its attendant history, continues to be an evidential entity used to profile, classify, surveil, speculate, and “understand” different subjectivities and communities.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417907/e6q6wslolqnp1ol1js5r.png"><figcaption>Margie Criner</figcaption></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/margie-criner-mind-over-matter">Margie Criner: Mind Over Matter</a></h3>Opening Saturday, January 11Bert Green Fine ArtMargie Criner makes intimate sculptures which contain miniature dioramas, viewable through a small window on one or more sides of the work. Her intention is to stimulate curiosity and discovery — opening up new worlds to anyone who is willing to look. At once charming, disarming, challenging and provocative, these sculptures make one work a little harder at looking, in an effort to make engagement with the artwork more satisfying.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Top image: Paul Lamantia, Tick-Tock, 2019, Drawing and acrylic on paper, 28.75 x 22.5 inches. Part of Down By Line at One After 909&nbsp;</body></html>

2020's New Decade of Art Begins This Weekend 

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417914/mmftindz3a2qahhzc93e.jpg"></figure><h2>Another Benefit to Going to Museums? You May Live Longer</h2>Researchers in Britain found that people who go to museums, the theater and the opera were less likely to die in the study period than those who didn’t.By Maria Cramer, The New York Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us/arts-health-effects-ucl-study.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417915/pbbhf5fijvbwcvxliltv.jpg"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>What Was the Most Influential Exhibition of the Decade? We Asked Dozens of Art-World Experts for Their Pick</h2>As the turbulent and event-filled 2010s come to an end, we (artnet news) asked more than 100 artists, curators, gallerists, and other art-world figures to tell us their picks of the most influential art and art-makers of the decade. Here is a selection of their responses.Via Artnet News<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/most-influential-show-of-the-decade-1728396">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417916/qoucoabruofb8pua3rje.jpg"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>The colorful creatures in artist Jason Scroggin’s “Massimals” art installation will “hibernate” under the city this winter.</h2>By Mitch Dudek and Jacob Wittich, Chicago Sun Times<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/12/22/21032032/bears-pedway-art-chicago-installation-scroggin">Read More</a>&nbsp;<h2>&nbsp;</h2>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417917/gjhu8ssdzcsqgtirqh0n.jpg"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>These 8 Artists Broke into the Art Market Big Leagues in 2019</h2>Art market headlines were dominated by familiar names in 2019, from Jeff Koons and Claude Monet to KAWS and Banksy. But this year also saw a new set of players achieving major results, from surprising surges into the seven-figure club and sold-out solo presentations in galleries and art fair booths, to repeatedly smashed auction records and power moves onto mega-gallery rosters. These are eight artists who surprised art market observers and broke into the big leagues in 2019.By Benjamin Sutton, Artsy Editorial<a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-8-artists-broke-art-market-big-leagues-2019">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: December 30, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418641/mxiomkttobjwxakw6i7b.gif"></figure>By CGN STAFFFollowing is a list of events and exhibitions that should be on your cultural calendar for 2020. This list represents just a handful of notable shows coming to the Chicago area's museums. From international innovation on display to artistic fashion and two summer blockbusters, there will be a lot to see and talk about in 2020.&nbsp;More exhibitions and events in galleries and museums throughout the region are added to the<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events"> CGN calendar</a> daily, and we will also offer seasonal previews throughout the year.&nbsp;Please sign-up for our <a href="http://lb.benchmarkemail.com//listbuilder/signupnew?om9I%252B75JX6HB6TidKfz3Wv5pwVnAjsSIfmScmCLyVXjtO5iNRn8gS049TyW7spdJ">free newsletters</a> to receive the latest news and events.&nbsp; &nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418642/ao8tcujx1tav1rczpgyw.gif"><figcaption>Image: Lin Tianmiao, Day-Dreamer, 2000, photo courtesy of the artist, © Lin Tianmiao</figcaption></figure><h3>THE ALLURE OF MATTER: MATERIAL ART FROM CHINA</h3>Since the 1980s, Chinese contemporary artists have cultivated intimate relationships with their materials, establishing a framework of interpretation revolving around materiality. Their media ranges from plastic, water, and wood, to hair, gunpowder, and Coca-Cola. The exhibition features 45 monumental works.Feb 7–May 3, 2020Co-presented at the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/smart-museum-of-art">Smart Museum of Art</a> and <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/alphawood-gallery">Wrightwood 659</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418643/au4og7wsm6kofp1rak7v.gif"><figcaption>Duro Olowu, Spring/Summer 2020, Look 1. Photo: Christina Ebenezer</figcaption></figure><h3>DURO OLOWU: SEEING CHICAGO</h3>Duro Olowu, a Nigerian-born British designer, is internationally recognized for his womens wear label. Characterized by unique fabrics, evocative patterns, and impeccable construction, Olowu’s garments are informed by his international background and curator’s eye. Now Olowu focuses on Chicago’s public and private art collections, including works at the MCA, to curate a show that reimagines relationships between artists and objects. &nbsp;Feb 29–May 3, 2020<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/museum-of-contemporary-art-chicago-mca">Museum of Contemporary Art</a><h3>&nbsp;</h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418644/rvmvdsoveawmcagt18dw.gif"></figure><h3> PAR EXCELLENCE REDUX&nbsp;</h3>A commissioned 18-hole artist-designed golf course pays homage to the wildly popular 1988 exhibition Par Excellence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The fully playable course will be conceived and fabricated for the Elmhurst Art Museum by a new group of artists, designers, and architects.May 9–Sept 13, 2020<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/elmhurst-art-museum">Elmhurst Art Museum</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418645/w8buabwhfvnlh5f5pjp7.gif"><figcaption>Stacks of Wheat (End of Day, Autumn), 1890/91, Claude Monet.Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection</figcaption></figure><h3>MONET AND CHICAGO</h3>During Claude Monet’s&nbsp; lifetime, Chicago was the American city that most aggressively acquired his work. This exhibition is the first to explore Chicago’s pioneering connection to the great Impressionist artist. Among the more than 65 paintings—from the Art Institute’s holdings and Chicago-based collections—are beloved major works as well as rarely seen still lifes, figural scenes, seascapes, and landscapes.May 10–Sept 7, 2020<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/art-institute-of-chicago">Art Institute of Chicago</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418646/vjtqfga6erdrg7w8qnkw.gif"><figcaption>Thoughtful Frida, Photo by Hulton Archive and Getty Images</figcaption></figure><h3>FRIDA KAHLO 2020</h3>This presentation of the life and works of the artist Frida Kahlo will feature 26 original pieces on loan from the Dolores Olmedo Museum Collection, as well as an immersive historical exhibit that provides a framework of the life, circumstances and events that led to Kahlo becoming one of the most important painters of the 20th century and of our time.Jun 1–Aug 31, 2020<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/cleve-carney-art-gallery-mcaninch-arts-center">Cleve Carney Museum of Art</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

2020: CGN Culture List

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417808/ur3apkhiby7hlcadlkuf.gif"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Franz Schulze, art critic, educator and biographer of Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson, dies at 92</h3>&nbsp;Franz Schulze, a prolific Chicago art critic and educator who chronicled the lives and work of two of the 20th century’s most consequential architects, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson, died Monday at the Radford Green assisted living facility in north suburban Lincolnshire.By Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-franz-schulze-obituary-kamin-20191210-zajfdzd42zc5rmax6svju4giui-story.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417809/qb4saorquudhjuwxlde3.gif"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>A Belgian Collector Is at War With the City of Gary, Indiana, Over a Picasso Model He Found in Their School Gym</h3>&nbsp;The tale begins with a sculpture created for the city of Chicago, and ends with some angry folks in both Brussels, Belgium and Gary, Indiana.By Brian Boucher, artnet news<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/wooden-model-famous-picasso-sculpture-languished-years-school-gym-spurring-auction-drama-midwest-1728693?utm_content=from_&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=US%2010%3A40%20a.m.%20newsletter%20for%2012%2F11%2F19&amp;utm_term=New%20US%20Newsletter%20List">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417810/iwbi11tyqehxmmabodui.gif"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Science illuminates art in Detroit’s celebration of Bruegel’s The Wedding Dance</h3>&nbsp;To mark the 450th anniversary of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s death, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is showcasing its painting by the Netherlandish master: The Wedding Dance of 1566, acquired in 1930 in a bout of ambitious collecting that helped to vault the museum into world-class ranks.By Nancy Kenney, The Art Newspaper<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/science-illuminates-art-in-detroit-s-celebration-of-bruegel-s-wedding-dance">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: December 11, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418641/cqf7bywjmycr3btdkbzq.gif"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>Elmhurst Art Museum exhibit celebrates its founding member</h2>An exhibition showcasing the works of the late artist-curator Sandra Jorgensen will be on view Jan. 25 to April 12, 2020, at the Elmhurst Art Museum. Jorgensen was the driving force behind the internationally known Elmhurst College Chicago Imagist collection and helped found the Elmhurst Art Museum at 150 S. Cottage Hill Ave. But exhibit organizers say her works often have been overlooked.By Amanda Berrios, Daily Herald<a href="https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20191129/elmhurst-art-museum-exhibit-celebrates-its-founding-member-">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418642/dghviydjsu6phztvlezh.gif"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>Thinking Bigger at Art Basel Miami Beach</h2>Art fairs evolve like any other event, but the changes can be subtle. Even if you are told that striking, thematically linked treasures are on offer in a special sector, rows of gallery booths have a way of blending together. So the organizers of Art Basel Miami Beach, taking place Thursday through Sunday for its 18th edition, are making an effort to create a palpably different atmosphere for a new sector, Meridians.By Ted Loos, The New York Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/arts/art-basel-miami-beach.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418643/wrne4iivc6b0elwn3dfp.gif"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>The Class of 2019? Meet 6 Fast-Rising Artists Having Star Turns at This Year’s Art Basel Miami Beach</h2>As the art world descends on Miami for the annual Art Basel Miami Beach fair and the accompanying constellation of fairs and parties, there can be a lot of noise to distract you from the main event. To keep your focus on the art—and, more specifically, emerging artists worth knowing—we’ve pulled out a few buzzed-about rising talents you should make sure to seek out at the fair this year.Via Artnet News<a href="https://news.artnet.com/market/emerging-artists-art-basel-1715943">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418644/n64dpcywccx92y7k99x6.gif"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>Artist hopes bear sculptures bring 'some play and fun’ to the Pedway</h2>This winter, bears will hibernate throughout the northern woods of Wisconsin and inside caves at Yellowstone. They’ll burrow in Alaskan dens below the snow. In Chicago, you’ll find them in the Pedway.By Morgan Greene, Chicago Tribune<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-hibernating-bears-sculptures-pedway-20191203-f6sh2hweave67a37dy2g4dwvd4-story.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: December 3, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418631/hd4dc3r378onw8rxi11d.jpg"><figcaption>In addition to the openings taking place this weekend, the MoCP Museum Council hosts after-hours party at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/mocp-after-dark-6d6732f1-3990-4495-aa83-4252d7fbd4dc">MoCP After Dark</a> on Friday night 7:30–10pm</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;Friday, November 8 and Saturday, November 9 both feature a number of openings taking place in galleries around the city, from West Town to Ravenswood, as many spaces open major shows that will be their final exhibitions of the 2019.&nbsp;Our overview of highlights from this coming weekend is below, and our full calendar may be <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=openings">viewed&nbsp;here</a>.See you in the galleries!<h3>&nbsp;</h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418632/ir9y7aizulvpvfieaehf.gif"><figcaption>The Garden of Cosmic Violence, 2018. Wood, acrylic, bamboo, paper and Dacron, 66 x 60 inches.</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jacob-hashimoto">Jacob Hashimoto</a>Opening Friday, November 8Rhona Hoffman GalleryUsing sculpture, painting, and installation, SAIC grad Jacob Hashimoto creates complex worlds from a range of modular components: bamboo-and-paper kites, model boats, even astroturf-covered blocks. His accretive, layered compositions reference video games, virtual environments, and cosmology, while also remaining deeply rooted in art-historical traditions notably, landscape-based abstraction, modernism, and handcraft.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418633/h8sewkackp92fkizyvin.png"><figcaption>Mr. Vladimir Putin Overpowers a Shark 2019, graphite, colored pencil, pastel, crayon, and collage on paper, 22h x 15w x 1/2d in &nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/deb-sokolow-profiles-in-leadership">Deb Sokolow Profiles in Leadership, Drawings without words</a>Opening Friday, November 8Western ExhibitionsFor her 4th solo show at Western Exhibitions, Deb Sokolow will present two bodies of work: “Profiles in Leadership” — new narrative drawings that blend fact with fiction and speculate both comically and critically on the foibles of famous men in leadership roles in Gallery 1 and “Drawings without words” — Sokolow’s first ever foray into abstraction in Gallery 2.&nbsp;Sokolow’s drawings incorporate the voice of an unnamed narrator of questionable authority who recounts seemingly humorous, harmless anecdotes on a number of famous men, while also suggesting a more sinister mix of machismo, narcissism and insecurity at play. Lines between fact and fiction blur, and the tone shifts from objectivity to admiration and sarcasm. The viewer is left to decipher how much is true and to determine when, if ever, a narrator can be trusted.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418634/htomurywivkjte9kemzj.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/bureau-spectacular-shadows-of-things-we-wish-we-had">Bureau Spectacular: Shadows of Things We Wish We Had</a>Opening Friday, November 8Volume GalleryIn their first solo exhibition at Volume Gallery, Shadows of Things We Wished We Had presents a selection of designed objects that frames the living room as a still life painting. Within the tradition of painting, the still life is a typology that carries a history where, a curated representation of one’s identity is made public through objects. In still life paintings, collections of inanimate objects are arranged in three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional plane. And through this process, the identity of the individual is symbolically communicated through the staging of said objects.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418635/z9n35rys1i6qbcl4cqia.jpg"><figcaption>Dannielle Tegeder, The Direction of Light and Sapphire Machine Desire, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 60 inches.</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dannielle-tegeder-episodes">Dannielle Tegeder: EPISODES</a>Opening Saturday, November 9Carrie Secrist GalleryEPISODES is the gallery's second solo exhibition by New York City-based gallery artist Dannielle Tegeder. Featuring new paintings, drawings and video, this exhibition continues Tegeder's investigation into the concept of systems and what the medium of painting means in the expanded field.&nbsp;EPISODES presents seven large-format, vertically oriented paintings propped up on artist-designed sculptural pedestals and leaning on a gallery wall painted with triangular swaths of pinks, blues, oranges and greens. Creating a metaphorical series of stations, or episodes, this installation reveals a series of juxtapositions, contradictions and crosscurrents contextualized within the formal atmosphere of a gallery. Through this non-traditional presentation, the resulting immersive environment suggests architecture's ability to both confront and disappear from expectations and experience.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418635/guld16s4aquaboujghkg.jpg"><figcaption>Robert Burnier</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/julia-bland-the-half-that-ties-the-half-that-breaks">Julia Bland and Robert Burnier&nbsp;</a>Opening Friday, November 8Andrew Rafacz GalleryAndrew Rafacz &nbsp;is opening in a new space in West Town on Friday night, at 1749 West Chicago Avenue. Two shows will be on view: The Half That Ties, The Half That Breaks, a solo exhibition of new works by Julia Bland in Gallery One, and Temple, a solo exhibition of new works by Robert Burnier in Gallery Two. The gallery was formerly in the West Loop for many years.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418636/gsmb6scifeys3tf6pdxq.gif"><figcaption>Kerry Hirth, The Coast of Barcelona, 2019, pastel on bonded paper.</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kerry-hirth-man-bartlett">Kerry Hirth: All I Wish to Own</a>Opening Saturday, November 9Bert Green Fine Art&nbsp;Kerry Hirth uses her synesthetic experience of musical harmony as color to create visual music in vibrant linear patterns. Her recent work goes beyond representing the complexities of musical patterns to explore the ways they point to the source of music in life experiences. By engaging the colors of real and enchanted landscapes, her drawings of music gain a unique sense of time, place, and the profound relationship between music and the natural world.The pastel drawings in All I Wish to Own represent the progression of harmonies in a late piano Intermezzo by Johannes Brahms. Essentially, they are visual music, conveying the continuous motion and contours of the music in a linear pattern with consistent correlations between harmony and color.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418637/qmpmrnglq78pdbpcjvpj.gif"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/a-history-a-fragment-a-territory">A history, a fragment, a territory</a>Opening Friday, November 8EXTRA ProjectsEXTRA showcases the work of Rebecca Tanda, featuring mixed media and sculptural work paired with a site specific installation in manufactured materials such as glass and plastics. Topics such as development, neighborhood change and technology are investigated by referencing the history of the exhibition space. Through layers of opacity and transparency rendered physical, Tanda invites us to consider how these concerns might influence our lives now.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418638/yrpsxfvklehl1guryxgc.jpg"><figcaption>Mike Noland</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/it-s-a-small-show-after-all">It's a Small Show After All</a>Opening Friday, November 8Hofheimer GalleryThis show features works under 15" tall by artists Tim Anderson, Betty Cleeland, Colleen Cox, Frances Cox, William Conger, Susan Frankel, Judith Roston Freilich, Chuck Gniech, Lisa Goesling, Susan Hall, Michiko Itatani, Teresa James, Mary Jones, George Klauba, Louise LeBourgeois, Tim Lowly, Catherine Maize, Mike Noland, Karen Perl, Jeanine Coupe Ryding, Nick Sistler, Eleanor Spiess-Ferris, Doug Stapleton, Fred Stonehouse, Bruce Thorn, Chuck Walker.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

November 8–9 Openings Preview

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418621/gv2bvwt19ivyoqjr58da.jpg"><figcaption>In addition to the many openings taking place this weekend, SOFA Chicago's 26th edition will be ongoing at Navy Pier, Thursday through Sunday.</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;Friday, November 1, 2019 will be a big opening night around the city, as many galleries open major shows that will be their final exhibitions of the year.&nbsp;The busy night also coincides with the 26th edition of <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sofa-chicago-2018">SOFA CHICAGO</a>, which takes place on Navy Pier all weekend, Nov 1–3, with the preview party on Thursday, October 31. Following the end of the fair's first day on Friday, art lovers are encouraged to go out into dozens of art spaces throughout the city to see what is new in area galleries. &nbsp;There is also the River North Design District's official after party at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-2019-sofa-expo-after-party">Montauk Sofa</a>.In general it's traditionally a big opening night in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?district=river-north&amp;filter=openings">River North</a>. Additional openings are also happening in West Town on Friday and Saturday, while a handful are also planned in Evanston.&nbsp;Our overview of highlights from this coming weekend is below, and our full calendar may be <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=openings">viewed&nbsp;here</a>.Next weekend, beginning November 8, another slate of openings taking place in West Town, Ravenswood, and beyond will carry us through the final weeks of 2019. We will preview those shows early next week.Don't forget that CGN has a booth (P7!) at SOFA too starting Thursday, so stop by and say hi!&nbsp;See you in the galleries, and at the fair!&nbsp;<h3>&nbsp;</h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418622/qm8kzclztlps0bypcro5.jpg"><figcaption>David Kroll, Bowl and Nuthatch, 2017, oil on panel, 11” x 14”</figcaption></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/david-kroll">David Kroll: New Paintings</a></h3>Opening Friday, November 1Zolla / Lieberman GalleryKroll has described his paintings as fiction or poetry; they are neither of a specific point in time nor slavish records of natural history. His work deals with the fragility of nature, and the tension of our own imaginations—our dream of what nature is—versus the reality of the way we live in the twenty-first century. 'I want to reclaim the wilderness,' Kroll has said, but he recognizes the unlikelihood that most of us will experience nature in anything more than a superficial sense.&nbsp;The gallery also opens a show of work by ceramicist <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jay-strommen-causes">Jay Strommen</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418623/i4ihwity9wks4pmz80bt.jpg"><figcaption>Kahn &amp; Selesnick</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/madam-lulu-s-book-of-fate">Madam Lulu's Book of Fate</a>Opening Friday, November 1Carl Hammer GalleryNicholas Kahn &amp; Richard Selesnick&nbsp;will exhibit photographs and drawings from 'Madam Lulu's Book of Fate', a series that expands on the adventures of the Truppe Fledermaus, a traveling cabaret troupe whose mischiefs and bizarre realities are powered by the effects of climate change. Exploring the concept of the carnivalesque, Fledermaus characters adorned in fantastical costumes and masks jubilantly parade in harsh environments, "finding pleasure amid the florid decay of a world in decline". Five 72-inch panoramic images give vision to the Dance of the Dead while circular photographs lend the viewer a 'peep-hole' perspective into brief moments of the truppe's masquerades. These wild costumes and characters are first envisioned with round drawings of pastel and colored pencil , which will also be on display, salon style, along side the photographs, giving full breadth to Kahn &amp; Selesnick's imaginative process.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418624/gr6ddbk0d2mrw0tnztet.jpg"><figcaption>Indira Freitas Johnson</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/truth-as-a-contested-concept">Truth as a Contested Concept</a>Opening Friday, November 1Woman Made GalleryThis group show, featuring over 40 artists, is curated by Indira Freitas Johnson. “We used to think of 'truth' as being absolute, says Johnson. "That our choices were binary. But today 'truth' is a contested concept. One of the many questions that come up is whether truth is subject to human interpretation. Does truth change according to circumstances so that what is true for a particular time is not true at a different time?&nbsp; Does this mean that truth for one person may not necessarily be the same for everyone? If this is the case then can anyone really know the truth?" Artists in this exhibition are wrestling with the concept of truth looking outward at the world around us and inward toward one’s personal truth. Johnson believes strongly that art and activism are a powerful combination for social change.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418625/ecd1xtfxugj0fy2s3bil.gif"><figcaption>Renee McGinnis</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/renee-mcginnis-in-search-of-symmetry">Renee McGinnis: In Search of Symmetry</a>Opening Friday, November 1Z/G GalleryButterflies, birds, flora, atoms and pearls abound in Renee McGinnis’ second solo exhibition at Zg Gallery, In Search of Symmetry. For McGinnis, each of these symbolic images embodies the essential state of symmetry that ensures the stability of virtually all physical forces and living organisms. Not only does the presence of symmetry bind together this vast spectrum of subject matter both conceptually and formally, it also imbues the artist’s paintings with pervasive tension; without this inherent design, everything – even our solar system – would fail.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418626/vibysvqe3okrfyysudut.jpg"><figcaption>Shawn Rowe</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/shawn-rowe-v">Shawn Rowe: V</a>Opening Friday, November 1Filter PhotoV is a body of work by Shawn Rowe that explores the tension between the queer male body and various forces both natural and societal. The title V describes the ambiguity of the project itself. In ancient times, V was used interchangeably with the letter U. V is the Roman Numeral for five and embodies a downward pointing arrow. For this work, the two lines that create the letter V intersect where the body and the environment exchange forces. These images represent a visualization of this conversation. The installation is emblematic of the work in that the scale, distance, and dimensions are variable. Like the letter V, the artist is asking the viewer to bring their own associations and meanings to the images and the body of work as a whole.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418626/vg1qxkzfqqosnugi1qcv.jpg"><figcaption>Brendan Fernandes</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/brendan-fernandes">Brendan Fernandes: Restrain</a>Opening Saturday, November 2Monique MelocheRestrain is a new body of work by multidisciplinary artist Brendan Fernandes. This is Fernandes’ second solo exhibition with the gallery. Drawing from his history as a trained ballet dancer, Fernandes skillfully intersects the movement and mastery of the body with contemporary art practices, while questioning the canon of ethnographic museum collections.Inspired by his recent performance at the Guggenheim in New York City, Ballet Kink&nbsp;(2019), Fernandes continues to explore the role and status of the body within the contemporary art apparatus through Restrain.&nbsp;This unique series of cast bronze sculptures presents as bound rope, characteristic of the patterns found within Shibari bondage, a form of BDSM that skillfully utilizes ropes, knots, braids, and harnesses to bind and adorn the body, creating patterns that contrast and complement the natural form.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418627/ailu7en6jbtgwoxhz1o5.jpg"><figcaption>Mike Hammer</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/mike-hammer-new-works">Mike Hammer: New Works</a>Opening Friday, November 1Gruen GalleriesMike Hammer's colorful, abstract works of resin on panel open the gallery's November show.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418628/caarxtrsaknyrgqgnqry.gif"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/new-paintings-by-allison-b-cooke">New Paintings, Allison B. Cooke</a>Opening Friday, November 1Addington GalleryAfter a 30-year college teaching career, Allison B. Cooke &nbsp;paints full time in a warehouse in Milwaukee. Every summer Allison travels in Italy, creates from a makeshift tabletop studio and experiences the expansive nature of new environments for inspiration. Allison's paintings explore transformation and its unique presence in the patinas that build up where time worn architectural structures, the human touch and atmospheric effects coalesce. She builds surfaces in both additive and subtractive processes with layered colors, and suggestive drawing/mark making in both experimental and intentional approaches.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418629/ivxqashjwvdympnz0uf5.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/florine-demosthene-between-possibility-and-actuality">Florine Démosthène: Between Possibility and Actuality</a>Opening Saturday, November 2Mariane IbrahimFlorine Démosthène’s first solo exhibition with the gallery celebrates the second presentation at the gallery’s Chicago space. Démosthène sparkly surfaces and amphibious marble-like figures are adorned with aquatic accents. Her contemporary take on the body, in the form of multi-media paintings and collage, represents otherworldly dystopian characteristics, furthering the artists’ study of our divine spirit. Démosthène’s heroines criticize beauty canons through the narrative of her self-made feminine heroes. The duality of her figures consider stereotypical and two-dimensional notions of the black female body. The artist presents her adulation for duplicates by portraying her own body, often duplicated. The existence of twins has provoked curiosity and veneration amongst numerous societies, particularly in West African and Haitian sacred cultures.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418630/rywe3pcurgcgxee3csn5.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/thirst-tamara-wasserman-cynthia-weiss-and-lea-basile-lazarus">THIRST: Tamara Wasserman, Cynthia Weiss, and Lea Basile-Lazarus</a>Opening Friday, November 1Eat Paint StudioThirst is ragged and unslakable. To thirst is to hope. To hope is to seek, to make anew, to live. Basile-Lazarus, Wasserman, and Weiss address the human need for hope and meaning through their work. They seek to find form and content that can create space for a common ground and a shared cultural experience, inviting us to imagine the possibilities of the world we want to live in. The gallery just celebrated its first anniversary this fall.&nbsp;</body></html>

November 1 Openings Preview and SOFA Weekend

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418632/oiaywiifvg37v5gpegv1.gif"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>Chicago’s Shane Campbell Gallery Has Closed, Claiming the Art Industry Has Been ‘Muddled by Unbridled Capital’</h2>&nbsp;Shane Campbell Gallery, a staple in the Chicago art scene for nearly two decades, has closed its doors for good.&nbsp;The gallery announced the news on Instagram on Saturday.&nbsp;“After 18 years as art dealers, we’re retiring,” the post read. “It’s voluntary and positive and we’re ready to take on fun and creative projects whatever they might be. I’ve never wanted to have a real job and the past few years, the gallery has become more of a job than a labor of love and so it’s time for something different.”&nbsp;By Taylor Dafoe, artnet news<a href="https://news.artnet.com/market/shane-campbell-gallery-closed-1691080">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418633/ngjaafpxfpjh3linixv6.gif"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>A Chicago Biennial Is Taking Art Beyond Museum Walls and Into People’s&nbsp;Yards</h2>&nbsp;The Chicago suburb of Oak Park is lined with verdant lawns, many of them dotted with ornaments or “Black Lives Matter” signs. For the next six weeks, however, more unusual decor can be spotted outside several homes: a geodesic dome here, an abstract assemblage there, a bulbous inflatable lodged in an alley. These weatherproof objects are part of the fourth Terrain Biennial, which opened earlier this month, with installations by more than 250 artists showing exclusively in the public-facing areas of private homes, including front yards, facades, and windows.By Claire Voon, Artnews<a href="http://www.artnews.com/2019/10/18/terrain-biennial-outdoor-art/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418634/rwrmfmdavmt0uidretsa.gif"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>The Art Institute of Chicago is doing something remarkable with women artists, and not only with the compelling 'In A Cloud, In A Chair’ exhibition</h2>&nbsp;The Art Institute of Chicago is having a feminist moment. Evidence of this welcome development is on view throughout the museum. It marks a sea change for an institution that has held only one solo exhibition for a woman artist in its main Regenstein Hall over the past 30 years. Astonishingly, nearly every temporary exhibition space in the Modern Wing has been given over to the work of women artists this fall. By Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-mexico-modernists-art-institute-1010-20191008-uhdc3xzwabfctp4m2qx4jgq6ke-story.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418634/palswjuinjcksoyzlc6u.gif"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>Wildfire spread close to the Getty Center, but an official says the art is ‘just fine’</h2>&nbsp;A wildfire that broke out early today on the western side of Los Angeles came within a half-mile of the Getty Center and its priceless art trove, but the situation has “dramatically improved” and the museum is safe, a spokeswoman says.“It’s pretty much under control,” says Lisa Lapin, vice president for communications at the Getty Trust, who said that the fire began near the 405 freeway and spread to the north and west of the museum around 2 am.By Nancy Kenney, The Art Newspaper<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/wildfire-moves-close-to-the-getty-center-but-the-museum-says-the-art-is-just-fine">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: October 29, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image image-style-side"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418621/iplqw0hvq5qizcscr0ue.gif"></figure><h2>Chicago’s West Town Arts District New Home For Major Contemporary Art Gallery</h2>After 15 years in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood, internationally acclaimed <a href="https://andrewrafacz.com/">Andrew Rafacz Gallery</a> is relocating to a new 2,000-square-foot storefront space at 1749 W. Chicago Avenue, an historic building constructed in 1916 in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood.By Julia Brenner, Forbes<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliabrenner/2019/10/10/chicagos-west-town-arts-district---new-home-for-major-contemporary-art-gallery/#68dfbf3ec4f4">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image image-style-side"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418622/ed3f7ypbirl8n9c6ymi6.gif"></figure><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>Nick Cave Is the Most Joyful, and Critical, Artist in America</h2>Using materials that range from twigs to crystals to rainbow-colored hair, the artist makes sculptures that, for all their beauty, are visceral and necessary critiques of racial injustice.By Megan O' Grady, The New York Times Style Magazine<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/15/t-magazine/nick-cave-artist.html">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again exhibition back at The Art Institute of Chicago</h2>This major retrospective-the first to be organized by a US institution in 30 years-builds on the wealth of new research, scholarship, and perspectives that has emerged since Andy Warhol's early death at age 58 in 1987.Via abc 7 Chicago<a href="https://abc7chicago.com/entertainment/andy-warhol-from-a-to-b-and-back-again-exhibition-back-in-chicago/5613582/">Read More</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: October 15, 2019

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418621/gzjrcblzegybg7pporid.gif"></figure><h2>Wicker Park’s Beloved Vivian Maier Mural Was Tagged. Tomorrow, A Homeowner Will Finance Its Restoration.</h2>After two years of brightening up a stretch of North Avenue in Wicker Park, the neighborhood’s beloved mural of Vivian Maier was defaced last month — but neighbors are stepping up to fix it.On Tuesday morning, weather permitting, a mural restoration team will remove the graffiti and restore the original image, painted in 2017 by renowned Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra. The image depicts the late Chicago photographer Maier.By Hannah Alani, Block Club Chicago<a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/10/07/wicker-parks-beloved-vivian-maier-mural-was-tagged-tomorrow-a-homeowner-will-finance-its-restoration/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418622/hymztapjyt74ilgjwp5k.gif"></figure><h2>Chicago project is growing a community for artist mothers</h2>When the Chicago artists Angela Lopez and Sara Holwerda became new mothers, they quickly realised that they had to change how they engaged with their work and their art community. Studio time became limited, as did opportunities to network at exhibition openings, which often occur during at children’s bedtimes. Determined to continue nurturing their creative careers, in 2016 they began Extended Practice, a project to increase the visibility of artist-mothers and to help address their needs, from child-care to securing shows of their work.By Claire Voon, The Art Newspaper<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/chicago-project-tries-make-art-world-more-accommodating-for-artist-mothers">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418623/ctpw1cxjdc2kdplggc32.gif"></figure><h2>The History of the Art Institute Lions</h2>From the Picasso to the Bean to countless city murals, public art is a vibrant part of Chicago culture. But for over a century, Chicagoans have taken special pride in a pair of sculptures watching over Michigan Avenue.By Quinn Myers, WTTW News<a href="https://news.wttw.com/2019/10/02/ask-geoffrey-history-art-institute-lions">Read More</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img></figure><h2>A Look at Russian Money Behind Art Institute Exhibit of Soviet Art</h2>A connection was disclosed but not detailed by the museum in 2017. It's now part of a New York Times expose of&nbsp;Russian influence on U.S. cultural institutions.By Steven R. Strahler, Crain's Chicago&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/nonprofits-philanthropy/look-russian-money-behind-art-institute-exhibit-soviet-art?utm_source=morning-10&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20191008&amp;utm_content=article5-readmore">Read More&nbsp;</a></body></html>

News From Around the Art World: October 8, 2019

<html><head></head><body>By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;It seems September's early openings just happened, but here we in October, and a new slate of exhibitions opens tomorrow evening in galleries around the city.&nbsp;This weekend there are also several special seasonal events happening, including extended hours at Frank LLoyd Wright's Robie House, as well as Intuit. The Chicago Architecture Biennial also has a family festival on Saturday in Garfield Park.Enjoy this start to one of the most festive months of the year. Before you know it, SOFA will be back again at Navy Pier, and we will start to close in on the end of 2019. We are already busy planning the next annual <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/advertise">CGN Arts Guide</a> that will cover 2020 and are reaching out to galleries and advertisers to share their updates and upcoming plans. &nbsp;Obviously there is a lot of great art to see and even participate in; these&nbsp;are just a few&nbsp;highlights from this first weekend&nbsp;of the month around the city.&nbsp;Don't forget to view our full <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events">calendar of events</a>.&nbsp;Enjoy all the art, and we will see you in the galleries!&nbsp;&nbsp;<h3>&nbsp;</h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418621/heuk8ggpd7snbkybne1a.jpg"><figcaption>Elizabeth Burke-Dain's installation, Carnivals, Cotton Candy, and You, at artist Claire Ashley's house for the Terrain Biennial 2019</figcaption></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/terrain-biennial-2019">Terrain Biennial 2019</a></h3>Various locations throughout the Chicago area and country through November 17.Opening weekend: October 4–7Block Party Opening Event: Saturday, October 5, 2–7pm 1150 Block of Lyman Ave, Oak Park, IL, 60304Terrain Exhibitions was founded in 2011 by the late artist, curator, and educator Sabina Ott at her home in Oak Park. The original format of the exhibition space existed as monthly installations in her front yard, from which grew the Terrain Biennial. Ott passed away in the summer of 2018.The Terrain Biennial takes place on lawns, in front yards, on porches, beneath awnings, and in windows. Residents partner with artists to bring striking, contemporary artwork into their communities. The Terrain Biennial challenges the way art is often confined to institutional spaces and class-specific audiences. Building on Chicago’s rich tradition of apartment galleries and artist-run spaces, the Biennial brings contemporary art into the intimate terrain of the front yard, fostering dialogue between neighbors and providing access to new art for a wide range of people. The theme of this year's Terrain Biennial is to take stock of the landscape that people are living in today. What is the terrain that we occupy? What is the topology of our moment? Artists and hosts have been asked to reflect upon the ways in which our environment changes us and how we are changing it.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418622/oomddce089vskvqpdmv1.jpg"></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/george-klauba-last-chance-tattoo">George Klauba: Last Chance Tattoo</a></h3>Hofheimer GalleryOpening Friday, October 4.&nbsp;George Klauba is self-taught fine artist. This show of new work at Hofheimer Gallery is a sort of return from retirement. Klauba was previously represented by Ann Nathan Gallery for many years.&nbsp;Born in 1938 on Chicago's southwest side to parents of Lithuanian descent, Klauba's father was a machinist by trade who moonlighted as a stage magician. His mother introduced him to the Art Institute of Chicago and the Field Museum of Natural History, places Klauba says influenced his education more than traditional schooling. In 1956, just short of his eighteenth birthday, Klauba enlisted in the Navy, serving for three years. After being discharged, he pursued a commercial art career at Chicago's American Academy of Art and he was a graphic designer for the Sun Times for 27 years before becoming a fine artist.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418623/nw0x3f2tfgewv5hmd22x.gif"></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/erwin-overes-round-2">Erwin Overes: Round 2</a></h3>Gallery Studio Oh!&nbsp;Opening Friday, October 4.&nbsp;Erwin Overes was born and raised in the Netherlands, where he worked as an RN.&nbsp; He changed his career path to cultivate his artistic side and moved to the US to go back to school. Erwin tried his hand at interior design, but realized that he was more of a director than a creator. He began to craft furniture that he wanted to place in these planned interiors. Working as a furniture designer/maker on his own for 2 years, he discovered that the restrictions of the need of functionality steered him more towards sculptural work. After receiving his masters, focusing on wood sculpture, he has been privileged to work in his own studio creating pieces with total artistic freedom.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418624/g2y2l2i1xohvyu0fxeq9.gif"></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/cornelia-arts-building-open-studio-f2412f08-64e3-4066-bc89-5d40317001bd">Cornelia Arts Building Open Studio</a></h3>Opening Friday, October 4.Established in 1986, the Cornelia Arts Building is one of the largest all-artist-studio buildings on Chicago’s Northside. CAB is located in the epicenter of three distinct Chicago Neighborhoods: Lakeview, Roscoe Village, and Ravenswood/North Center.More than 40 artists in the building host multiple open studio events throughout the year, featuring painting, photography, jewelry, sculpture, ceramics, metal smithing and more, plus hallway guest artist exhibitions.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418625/rmjmc3foawwrycrqvnk4.png"></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/word-to-mother-solo-show">Word to Mother: Let Love Lead the Way</a></h3>Vertical GalleryOpening Saturday, October 5.&nbsp;“Let Love Lead the Way” assembles paintings created over the past two years in Word To Mother’s seaside studio — a collection of work that examines the virtues of a positive mindset, celebrating moments of happiness and kindness through the lens of primitive characters inspired by 1930's cartoons. The exhibition is split into two bodies — salvaged pieces and layered paintings — featuring cartoon animals united by a shared spirit of perseverance&nbsp;and positivity.&nbsp;A range of textures and objects including rusted metal surfaces and vintage wooden patinas (some in WTM’s personal collection since 2004) provide the perfect backdrop for the artist’s menagerie of characters, which he executes in a&nbsp;limited palette with minimal use of gold leaf. Gestural marks and layers of illustrations form the surfaces of the contrasting pieces, with WTM's singular line work exploring the optimism and joy that the character forms express.&nbsp;&nbsp;Born and raised in an English seaside town, Word To Mother studied illustration in art school, from there expanding into graffiti and tattoo art — pursuits that profoundly shaped his latter-day mixed-media work, which juxtaposes signature flourishes like hand-drawn personal sentiments and&nbsp;tight sign-written letters evoking vintage typography.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418626/xmslx7znnmucqw4einbx.jpg"></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/autumn-after-hours-at-robie-house">Autumn After Hours at Robie House</a></h3>Friday, October 4, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmAutumn in Chicago, when a spectrum of russet colors transforms our surrounding parks and landscapes, is the best time to visit the Robie House. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie-style palette throughout the&nbsp;house exquisitely reflects the season. In this special time of year, the Trust announces a new 8-week program during October and November: Autumn After Hours at Robie House.Each Friday from 5 - 8 pm, guests have the opportunity to make the house their own, moving freely through beautifully restored rooms, socializing with friends, learning about the house from veteran interpreters, enjoying regional wines and seasonal brews, live music, and presentations by local artists and craftsmen. Join us as autumn comes alive at Robie House.Location: Robie House, 5757 S. Woodlawn Avenue, ChicagoAdmission: $40 General, $35 Trust members&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418627/j69mdiqztcz5yirn9xrd.jpg"><figcaption>Marvin Tate: Looking at You From a Distance Not Too Far is on view at Intuit through October 27</figcaption></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/fall-fridays">Intuit Fall Friday</a></h3>Intuit: Center for Intuitive and Outsider ArtFriday, October 4Another recurring Friday evening fall event (through November) is Intuit's new Fall Friday. It's hard to find time to visit your favorite museum, so Intuit is extending its hours each Friday during the fall to give you extra hours to enjoy everything Intuit has to offer. Same affordable admission, same exhibitions you love, now available for you at a convenient time.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418627/cmznyce9c1skte2lts8a.jpg"></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/cps-lives">Positive Slope: Stories of Chicago Public Schools</a></h3>Firecat Projects&nbsp;Opening Friday, October 4.&nbsp;This group show with art by CPS Lives artists features photographs by Marzena Abrahamik, Kioto Aoki, Kris Brailey, Suzette Bross, Doug Fogelson, Scott Fortino, JimIska, Michelle Keim, Carlos Matallana, Janet Mesic-Mackie, Jeff Phillips, Eileen Ryan, Jaclyn Silverman, Sa Schloff, Jan Tichy &amp; Jay Wolke.Read more info about artist Suzette Bross's CPS Lives <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2018/7/cpslives-puts-artists-in-chicago-public-schools">here</a><h1>&nbsp;</h1><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418628/tng4ey0cu5yzuitcupw4.jpg"></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/as-i-am-you-will-be-an-evocative-group-show">As I Am, You Will Be - An Evocative Group Show</a></h3>Chicago Truborn&nbsp;Opening Friday, October 4.&nbsp;This "Evocative Group Show" is inspired by Hunter S. Thompson just in time for The Witching Season. West Town's Chicago Truborn is celebrating with a spooktacular lineup featuring nearly 30 of their favorite artists. Participating artists were asked to create original (20"x20") works inspired only by the infamous Hunter S. Thompson quote "As You Were, I Was. As I Am, You Will Be." Two in store murals will be revealed as the show opens and will be on display through October.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418629/jq6eyuwpmvylbtjuzmvr.jpg"></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/chicago-architectural-biennial-family-festival">Chicago Architectural Biennial Family Festival</a></h3>Saturday, October 5.&nbsp;In case you need a reason to visit the Garfield Park Conservatory, head to the Chicago Architecture Center's Biennial Family Festival, &nbsp;in honor of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, from noon to 4pm on Saturday. Families with children ages 5-12 are invited to come learn about architecture and design through hands-on activities.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418630/e1rdfirmj7maci54woza.jpg"></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/tom-huck">Tom Huck</a></h3>Gallery Victor ArmendarizOpening Friday, October 4.&nbsp;Tom Huck was born on December 9, 1971 in Farmington, Missouri and grew up in nearby Potosi. &nbsp;He received a BFA in drawing from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1993. He currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri where he runs his own press, Evil Prints.&nbsp; Tom Huck is a visual artist best known for his large scale woodcuts. His imagery draws heavily upon the influence of Albrecht Durer, Jose Guadalupe Posada, R. Crumb and Honore Daumier. He is a regular contributor to BLAB! and was the illustrator of The Roots’ Phrenology album art in 2003.&nbsp; Huck’s woodcut prints are included in numerous public and private collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Spencer Museum of Art, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, St. Louis Art Museum. Milwaukee Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Fogg Art Museum and New York Public Library.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Highlights of Early October's Art Events and Openings 

<html><head></head><body>By GINNY VAN ALYEANine years in, Open House Chicago (OHC) has become a highlight of the fall cultural calendar. In the true spirit of Chicago, OHC has inspired so many institutions to open their doors and welcome in the public to experience behind-the-scenes access to buildings across Chicago. There are arts centers, religious buildings, distilleries, corporate offices, schools, artist studios, and so much more.&nbsp;Hosted by the&nbsp;Chicago Architecture Center (CAC)—formerly the Chicago Architecture Foundation, the Center is a gateway for visitors, as well as locals, to explore the city through docent-led tours, exciting programs and imaginative exhibits at its own center at 111 E. Wacker Dr. as well as in hundreds of spaces and neighborhoods in the city and suburbs.&nbsp;In 2018 there were 250+ participating spaces for OHC. Now 2019 counts over 350, proving why people attend this year every year, just hoping to make even a dent in their ever-expanding list of spaces to see and explore, many of which are only open to the public during this once-a-year weekend.&nbsp;We just picked a few sites that looked particularly interesting&nbsp;to us this year and that we did not highlight in previous years.&nbsp;All descriptions and images are courtesy of Open House Chicago and their respective sites.&nbsp;Make your own adventure, and go enjoy this amazing fall weekend in Chicago! If you can't make it this year, then you'll at least enjoy the eye candy featured below and on CAC's website.Note that some sites may be for Chicago Architecture Center members only and require advance registration.&nbsp;Complete details are available on&nbsp;<a href="http://www.openhousechicago.org">www.openhousechicago.org</a><h3>&nbsp;</h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418610/jkw6di9d4wobhbgjhy0i.jpg"></figure><h3><a href="https://openhousechicago.org/sites/site/park-no-571-boathouse/">Park No. 571 Boathouse</a></h3>This is one of two Chicago River boathouses designed by internationally renowned Chicago design firm Studio Gang. The rhythmic design interprets the motions of rowers and beckons to people to engage in new ways with this formerly industrial waterway. Completed in 2016, the boathouse and park have transformed this part of the river into a community-oriented recreational space. The boathouse is actually two distinct buildings that seem, from certain vantage points, splayed apart at the middle like two oars: a boat shed and a community building. The facility is home to several rowing groups, social clubs, and South Side organizations, and is a centerpiece of the 2019 South Branch Framework Plan promoting connectivity to the river for adjacent communities.VISITOR EXPERIENCEBoth the boathouse and community building will be open to the public. Visitors will have a self-guided experience with opportunities to learn about the boathouse and programming offered through partner organizations.mage at top of post is of the hotel's lobby)&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418611/balsh34gjqfithtc9tdw.gif"></figure><h3><a href="https://openhousechicago.org/sites/site/colvin-house/">Colvin House</a></h3>Passersby on Sheridan Road have long wondered about this yellow brick, Prairie Style-inflected American Foursquare mansion. It had fallen into disrepair after years of neglect, but has now been restored and repurposed as a distinctive coworking and event space. While the exterior of the house is quite restrained, the interior features over-the-top plaster ornamentation that was most likely added in the 1920s--it resembles the decor found in the lavish movie palaces of the day. Colvin House was designated a Chicago Landmark in 1994. It was designed by architect George Maher.&nbsp;VISITOR EXPERIENCETour the first and second floors of this renovated historic Sheridan Road mansion, now a one-of-a-kind spot to work, meet or host an event.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418612/sz75yquqspxxm9uvr2nc.gif"></figure><h3><a href="https://openhousechicago.org/sites/site/ingersoll-blackwelder-house/">Ingersoll-Blackwelder House</a></h3>Visit one of the oldest homes in the Beverly Hills/Morgan Park community, located within the Ridge Historic District. The home's original (rear) portion dates to 1874 and was built for real estate magnate John Ingersoll. A Queen Anne style expansion was added the following decade for new owner Isaac Blackwelder, president of the then-independent Village of Morgan Park. His wife, Gertrude Blackwelder, was the first woman to cast a vote in Cook County. The main level’s elegant Victorian spaces are ideal for entertaining, the primary use for the house today. The second level, meanwhile, preserves the rustic light-filled art studio of longtime owner Jack Simmerling. Some of the antiques and built-ins that remain in the home today are items salvaged by Simmerling from long-gone mansions on Prairie Avenue, in Englewood and other Chicago neighborhoods.VISITOR EXPERIENCEExplore this elegant Victorian house decked out with antiques.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418612/ogvoajalqoktfexzw7sk.gif"></figure><h3><a href="https://openhousechicago.org/sites/site/the-palette-chisel-academy-of-fine-arts/">The Palette &amp; Chisel Academy of Fine Arts&nbsp;</a></h3>Chicago's oldest arts academy was formed in 1895 by a group of artists and illustrators. The founders, including the great sculptor Lorado Taft, wanted more opportunities to produce work from live models. By 1921, the club had grown from eight members to 200 and needed a permanent home, so it purchased a three-story Italianate mansion built in 1874 for William Waller. They turned the drawing rooms on the first floor into gallery spaces; the second floor bedrooms into individual studios; and created a large sky-lit studio on the third floor that is ideal for working from live models. Today, the building is still filled with artists creating paintings, drawings and sculpture.VISITOR EXPERIENCEVisit gallery spaces and see artists work in the sky-lit top floor studio.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418614/e7oq2zppsikhx1zuu2lj.gif"></figure><h3><a href="https://openhousechicago.org/sites/site/bkl-architecture/">bKL Architecture</a></h3>bKL Architecture, founded in 2010, is committed to designing projects that enhance the contexts in which they build, responding to the needs of clients, users and surrounding communities, while anticipating future uses and desires. bKL’s offices are located in Aqua, a location that puts the firm in close proximity to some of their notable projects in Lakeshore East. bKL's recent projects include GEMS World Academy, MILA Chicago, Wolf Point West, and Renelle on the River.VISITOR EXPERIENCEVisitors will enjoy a self-guided tour of the bKL studio. See models and designs for past, current, and future projects. bKL architects will be stationed around the studio to answer questions. No photos are allowed throughout the studio, but photos can be taken of the Downtown Chicago context model.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418615/e1alifdadc3bzu6jsd1i.gif"></figure><h3><a href="https://openhousechicago.org/sites/site/adrian-smith-gordon-gill-architecture/">Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture</a></h3>Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) designs high-performance, energy-efficient, and sustainable architecture on an international scale, applying their approach to everything from low to mid-rise residential buildings, mixed-use supertall towers, and cultural centers. In July 2018, AS+GG relocated their Chicago studio to the historic Inland Steel building. The 19-story Inland Steel Building was the first tall building to be completed in the Loop after the Great Depression. Its column-free floor layouts and glass and stainless steel exterior make it an iconic building and a Modernist landmark.VISITOR EXPERIENCEWalk through the studio at your own pace to see futuristic 3-D models, a 15-foot Prysm interactive digital screen and a VR station. Listen in on brief presentations from staff.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418616/ddiw5wmiwvlma0i7jed2.gif"></figure><h3><a href="https://openhousechicago.org/sites/site/fine-arts-building/">Fine Arts Building</a></h3>The Fine Arts Building was originally a carriage assembly plant and showroom for the Studebaker Company. It was designed by Solon Spencer Beman and opened in 1885. An extensive 1898 remodeling converted it into a home for what is now one of the nation's oldest artist communities. Its rented studios, offices and shops have housed some of the city's most illustrious literary and artistic talents, including Frank Lloyd Wright, sculptor Lorado Taft and Wizard of Oz illustrator W. W. Denslow. The interior features stunning Art Nouveau decorative details and murals dating from the 1898 renovation. The building continues to house art galleries, theater and performing arts studios and other arts-related businesses.VISITOR EXPERIENCEAdmire the beautiful Venetian Court, step inside the Studebaker Theatre, and explore ten floors of historic artist workspaces.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418617/f42vbnypbhjf9zlmyyli.gif"></figure><h3><a href="https://openhousechicago.org/sites/site/sky-line-club/">The Skyline Club</a></h3>Perched atop the Old Republic Building, the Sky-Line Club is one of the oldest private membership facilities in the city. Nearly 100 years ago, an old ale house from the Sussex region of southern England was carefully dismantled and shipped to Chicago. It was then reconstructed here on the top floor of one of Chicago's early office towers. Paintings and furnishings from the original pub grace the interior today. From within the stately decor of the club, members have watched the city's skyline evolve into a 21st-century metropolis. The intimate space opens onto an open-air terrace with fabulous views.VISITOR EXPERIENCEWarm up in the cozy fireplace lounge of this transplanted pub, then check out the views from the rooftop terrace.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For more information about Open House Chicago, visit&nbsp;<a href="http://openhousechicago.org">openhousechicago.org</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Open House Chicago 2019: Behind the Scenes in Historic Homes, Boathouses, Design Offices and More

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418610/lwmsordo8pjup7auqd7g.gif"></figure><h2>Christie’s to Offer Art Collection of James and Marilynn Alsdorf</h2>&nbsp;The multi-category collection of James and Marilynn Alsdorf, with an estimated total value of $50 million, will be offered across a series of sales at Christie’s New York beginning November 2019 and continuing into 2020.During their lifetime, the Alsdorfs operated an export and investment business based in Chicago, and James served as president of the Cory Corp., the largest manufacturer of glass coffee equipment that later sold to Hershey Food Corp.By Fang Block, PENTA<a href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/christies-to-offer-art-collection-of-james-and-marilynn-alsdorf-01569616623">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418611/iesvgikmrrermu74j9xb.gif"></figure><h2>What Sold at Expo Chicago</h2>&nbsp;Over its lifetime, and under the leadership of director Tony Karman, Expo Chicago has grown a reputation as a fair where galleries expect to receive institutional support, thereby helping to grow new audiences for their artists. For many, this year did not disappoint.By Claire Voon, ARTSY<a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-sold-expo-chicago-09-23-19">Read More</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418612/axdboknrnwr8octiwu8v.gif"></figure><h2>A future-focused Chicago relies on a new class of collectors</h2>&nbsp;Although top prices were hard to come by at Expo, high-earning young collectors are shoring up the middle market in the Windy City.By Margaret Carrigan, The Art Newspaper<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/analysis/keeping-up-art-fair-appearances">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

News From Around the Art World: September 30, 2019

<html><head></head><body>By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;The September weekend openings continue as the month moves on and we are deeper into the fall. This weekend there are several notable shows opening, and there are also many more receptions taking place citywide as part of EXPO CHICAGO's <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/expo-art-after-hours-gallery-night-28b29d1d-be37-44d0-9799-294f77884b80">Art After Hours</a>.&nbsp;Below for you are the&nbsp;highlights from this coming weekend&nbsp;around the city. Also, in addition to EXPO on Navy Pier, don't forget to check out the new <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/chicago-invitational-presented-by-nada">Chicago Invitational</a>, as well as the <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/american-craft-exposition--2">American Craft Exposition</a> and <a href="http://filterphoto.org/filter-festival/">Filter Photo Festival</a>.&nbsp;The <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/chicago-architecture-biennial">Chicago Architecture Biennial</a> has also just opened this week at the Chicago Cultural Center, and it's on view through the end of the year.&nbsp;View our <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=all">full calendar of events</a> to see all that is happening, and we will see you at <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/expo-chicago">EXPO CHICAGO</a>.&nbsp;See you in the galleries!&nbsp;<h3>&nbsp;</h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418610/gjc0ctsedddiwt4p7eup.png"><figcaption>Glenn Ligon, Study for Negro Sunshine #88, 2012,&nbsp;oil stick, coal dust and gesso on paper, 12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.9 cm)&nbsp;;&nbsp;Collection of Beth DeWoody, NY, Photographer Credit: Luhring Augustine© Glenn Ligon; Courtesy of the artist, Hauser &amp; Wirth, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Thomas Dane Gallery, London and Chantal Crousel, Paris</figcaption></figure><h3>In The Absence of Light: Gesture, Humor and Resistance in The Black Aesthetic</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/in-the-absence-of-light-gesture-humor-and-resistance-in-the-black-aesthetic">Stony Island Arts Bank</a>Opening Thursday, September 19.&nbsp;6760 S. Stony Island Avenue, ChicagoOrganized by Theaster Gates, in collaboration with Beth Rudin DeWoody and Laura Dvorkin, this exhibition seeks to bring together artistic practices that not only reveal some sense of interiority, but by their very nature, reflect distance through laughter, painting gesture and isolation.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418611/incugkmzyecq0bovdehq.gif"><figcaption>Michiko Itatani</figcaption></figure><h3>Faculty Projects</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/faculty-projects">Sullivan Galleries at SAIC</a>Opening Friday, September 20.&nbsp;33 S. State Street, 7th floor, ChicagoFaculty Projects is an annual exhibition that presents work by SAIC Faculty who have recently completed sabbatical and other leave projects, or who are retiring. By sharing their current work with the School community, faculty can communicate how their research and practices relate to the local, national, and international art and design communities. Featuring work by Christopher Baker, Susanna Coffey, Shawn Decker, Richard Deutsch, Andy Hall, Michiko Itatani, Ginger Krebs, Shaurya Kumar, Kirsten Leenaars, Joan Livingstone, Adelheid Mers, Mary Patten, Kerry Richardson, and Shawn Michelle Smith.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418612/poqdv7zlyjyrymz7r1gq.jpg"></figure><h3>III: Annual Members Exhibition</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/iii-annual-members-exhibition">Filter Photo</a>Opening Thursday, September 19.&nbsp;1821 W Hubbard, Ste. 207, ChicagoFilter Photo is pleased to present&nbsp;III, our third annual Members exhibition, juried by Aline Smithson.&nbsp;5 artists were chosen among the submissions for the exhibition at Fogelson Studio.&nbsp; All the submissions can be seen in the online exhibition.&nbsp; Join us for a public reception concurrent with our other exhibitions, <a href="http://filterphoto.org/portfolio/seeing-the-familiar-for-the-first-time/">Seeing the familiar for the first time</a>, and <a href="http://filterphoto.org/portfolio/the-universal/">The Universal</a> on September 20th, 6 – 9 pm during the <a href="http://filterphoto.org/filter-festival/">2019 Filter Photo Festival</a> and Expo Chicago’s Art After Hours.From 6:30pm – 8:30pm there will be The Slide Ride Food Truck in the parking lot of the Hubbard St Lofts.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418613/njg9pfk4hj3nvktxt7kf.png"><figcaption>Ayana V. Jackson</figcaption></figure><h3>Ayana V. Jackson: Take Me To The Water</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ayana-v-jackson-take-me-to-the-water">Mariane Ibrahim Gallery</a>Opening Friday, September 20.&nbsp;437 N. Paulina St., ChicagoTake Me to the Water&nbsp;presents a holistic survey of Jackson’s work to date, a culmination of varied discursive elements present in Jackson’s more than a decade long career. These portraits and movement studies offer a sense of the breadth of her practice, while at the same time taking her into new territories with regard to the range of her performances.Jackson has used the archival impulse to assess the impact of the colonial gaze on the history of photography and its relationship to ideas about the body. She uses her lens to deconstruct 19th and early 20th century portraiture&nbsp; as a means for questioning photography’s role in constructing identities. Her thesis is further complicated by the presence of the artist’s figure. She uses her own body to perform the characters with whom she concerns herself.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418614/vjhxabidptivimlgrjxe.jpg"><figcaption>Jeffery Gibson</figcaption></figure><h3>Jeffery Gibson: Can You Feel It</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jeffery-gibson-can-you-feel-it">Kavi Gupta Gallery</a>Opening Friday, September 20.&nbsp;219 N. Elizabeth St., ChicagoJeffrey Gibson combines Native American traditions with the visual languages of Modernism to explore the contemporary confluence of personal identity, culture, history, and international social narratives. Gibson is a member of the Chocktaw and Cherokee nations. Gibson’s multicultural perspective informed his study of art history, and helped him to develop a personal style that has manifested across several dynamic and diverse bodies of work, in which traditional native materials like animal hides, beads, and tipi poles intermingle with modern mediums like spray paint, acrylics, ceramic and tape. One of his most recognized series involves punching bags that Gibson deftly transforms into aesthetic totems.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418615/s270beb4ypiawnnxcyy5.png"></figure><h3>Outside the Practice II&nbsp;</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/outside-the-practice-ii">Bridgeport Art Center</a>Opening Friday, September 20.&nbsp;1200 W. 35th St., ChicagoIn OUTside THE PRACTICE: MONUMENTS AND PLACES OF MEMORY, Chicago-based architects and designers present distinctive and original visions on the topic, relieved of the constraints of conventional architectural practice.Curated by Stephen Wierzbowski, FAIA, Edward Keegan, AIA, and Lelde Kalmite, works include drawings, paintings, sculptures, photography, watercolors, installations, mixed media, and sketchbooks. Presented by the Bridgeport Art Center, the exhibit is a partner program of the Chicago Architecture Biennial and sponsored by AIA Chicago.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418616/r5x9vzh2pfr2qx3mpnle.png"></figure><h3>Studio Oleomingus: Notes in the Margins of History</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/studio-oleomingus-notes-in-the-margins-of-history-8f9d3210-7e30-4671-a063-42f6a15ae51e">Video Game Art Gallery</a>Opening Friday, September 20.&nbsp;2418 W Bloomingdale Ave., #101, ChicagoBased out of Chala, India, Studio Oleomingus is a two-person game studio known for their visually stunning and narrative-driven games and about the history of India, post-colonialism, and a generative approach toward blending fact and fiction. This exhibition brings together the various parts of Somewhere, a ongoing video game epic in several episodes. Somewhere is a videogame adaptation of an anthology by the Gujarati playwright Mir UmarHassan, about the search for a mythical city called Kayamgadh. Set in nineteenth-century British colonial India, it traces the lives of several people as they search for a fabled journal that charts a route to Kayamgadh. This exhibition will be Oleomingus’ first in America and will include debut work that has not been previously released to the public.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418617/amld3aje8y4i3inrqshg.png"><figcaption> Serious Topics presents a densely curated booth of 23 artists in 3 days at BARELY FAIR</figcaption></figure><h3><a href="https://www.barelyfair.com/">BARELY FAIR&nbsp;</a></h3>Opening Friday, September 20.&nbsp;3311 W. Carroll Ave., ChicagoBARELY FAIR is a miniature art fair hosted by <a href="http://www.juliuscaesarchicago.net/">Julius Caesar</a>. The fair presents a tiny peek inside the programming of two dozen contemporary art galleries, project spaces, and curatorial projects during EXPO Art Week in Chicago. Included spaces will exhibit works in 1:12 scale booths built to mimic the design of a standard fair.BARELY FAIR opens with a vernissage on Friday, September 20, 6–10pm and the fair will run daily through the weekend and be open for weekly gallery hours and by appointment&nbsp;through October 20th.&nbsp; VERNISSAGE<h3>&nbsp;</h3></body></html>

New Gallery Shows Open Art Fair Weekend

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418602/hifiruoox1adsd7eyria.gif"><figcaption>Designed by Vexels.com</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;By CGN StaffAs collector Bob Buford explains <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2019/9/collector-robert-buford-embracing-the-connectivity-of-art">in our interview with him</a> for this issue planning is key to navigating the art world and making the most of art buying. Whether you are coming to an art fair to buy or are just curious to see what is happening, there are a few tips to keep in mind in order to avoid an overload ‘fair-tigue’ that could send you running for Netflix and the anti-social cover of your couch this fall.&nbsp;We promise getting out of the house will be worth it! &nbsp;<h3>CGN’s Art Fair Prep Tips: How To Focus On The Art</h3>&nbsp;• Map it out.Pick up a floor plan or use art fair websites to highlight which booths are where so you can prioritize what to see first. Headed to the galleries? Use CGN’s gallery maps to find out where to go and what else is nearby.• Ask questions.&nbsp;Like what you see? Ask for more. A dealer can steer you to their local space or browse their website with you to show you more works by a particular artist or art by another artist you might also like.• Learn.Art fairs offer unique, high-caliber programming, both on and off-site, such as artist panels and topics about industry news or art practices. You won’t have access to so many experts in one place any other time of the year.• Take notes.Buy a catalogue and mark it up or flag the pages with things to follow up or artists to research.• Keep in touch.Subscribe to the art fair’s mailing list or let a dealer know you want to keep up with their news and exhibitions. Next year you may snag a VIP pass!• Slow Down.Visiting a booth for more than a minute or viewing a work of art sans phone will help you appreciate what you see.• Memorize the secret handshake.Just kidding! Art dealers are nice people! Artists want to meet you! You are not obligated to buy art.&nbsp;Stay focused on the art, and it might change your life. Once the fair is over, visit galleries, attend an art walk, join a museum group, or <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/print-subscriptions">subscribe to CGN</a>!&nbsp;<h3>Fall 2019's Art Fairs in Chicago</h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418603/s2madkkaavqahqfgav2n.gif"></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/expo-chicago">EXPO CHICAGO</a></h3>September 19–22Navy Pier&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418604/uv8pesal5fuhl7yjh9vs.gif"></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/chicago-invitational-presented-by-nada">Chicago Invitational Presented by NADA</a></h3>September 18–21Chicago Athletic Association HotelRead CGN's preview <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2019/9/nada-s-first-chicago-fair-invites-viewers-to-engage-with-art">here</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418605/n0z4twnoyzcpvzoctixh.gif"></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/american-craft-exposition--2">American Craft Exposition</a></h3>September 19–22Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe ILRead CGN's preview announcement <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2019/8/september-s-american-craft-exposition-benefits-northshore-university-healthsystem-s-psychiatric-urgent-care-program">here</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418606/w12lr5qgrgpgldle9e5p.png"></figure><h3><a href="http://filterphoto.org/filter-festival/">Filter Photo Festival</a></h3>September 19–22Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel, Chicago&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418607/mlfpgg32rqn8exzyojvc.gif"></figure><h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/sofa-chicago">SOFA CHICAGO</a></h3>October 31–November 3Navy PierStay tuned for SOFA coverage later this fall.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418608/q0igebdn3snkkborkqd5.gif"></figure><h3><a href="http://cabf.no-coast.org/">Chicago Art Book Fair</a></h3>November 15–17Chicago Athletic Association Hotel&nbsp;More art fairs happen all year long, so bookmark our <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/services/art-fairs">Art Fairs</a> page for more info on what fairs, markets and special expositions are happening where and when.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art Fair Primer

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418602/dmedb7us81bsgtypeblk.gif"><figcaption>Leon Polk Smith, Constel: Blue Red straight line thru three Ovals, 1969, Paint on canvas, 121" x 132"</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;Last weekend was populated with the first cluster of openings of the season, putting gallery-goers in the mood to see new art, meet artists and to take stock of what's fresh and exciting in area galleries. To see some of CGN's images from last week's openings visit our <a href="https://www.instagram.com/chigallerynews/">Instagram</a> feed.&nbsp;The momentum continues this weekend, primarily on the west side in West Town, but also in Pilsen East and River North, as well as beyond the immediate Chicago limits. As we head into the second half of September, there is a lot of important art being shown this month.These&nbsp;are just a few&nbsp;highlights from this coming weekend&nbsp;around the city. We will&nbsp;share more of the season's&nbsp;highlights and coverage as the fall goes on, and don't forget to view our <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar">full calendar of events</a>.&nbsp;Don't forget that next weekend is <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/expo-chicago">EXPO CHICAGO</a>!&nbsp;See you in the galleries!&nbsp;<h3>&nbsp;</h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418603/qj8q9rc8nwbrf0aeegce.gif"></figure><h3>Gladys Nilsson: New Work</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/gladys-nilsson-new-work">Rhona Hoffman Gallery</a>Opening Friday, September 13.&nbsp;1711 W Chicago Ave., ChicagoRhona Hoffman Gallery presents their first exhibition with Gladys Nilsson, one of the foremost Chicago artists of her generation and a member of the Hairy Who, the venerable group that came to prominence through a series of radical exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center on Chicago’s South Side in the late 1960s. Featuring paintings and works on paper made in the last five years, the exhibition highlights Nilsson’s continued experiments with form, color, and figuration.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418604/gjzhxxsjlkzrt5h3nbca.gif"></figure><h3>Leon Polk Smith: Endless Space</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/leon-polk-smith-endless-space">Richard Gray Gallery</a>Opening Friday, September 13.2044 W. Carroll, ChicagoLeon Polk Smith: Endless Space features paintings from the artist’s iconic Correspondence and Constellation series which he produced over a nearly twenty-year span between the late 1950s and the 1970s. Characterized by their interactive multipart compositions, the canvases created during this time period have come to be known as the artist’s most signature works. Endless Space expresses Smith’s nimble and daring shift from rectilinear canvases to shaped supports, and from single-panel works to complex, polyptych installations. Fusing together bright colors at a curved edge, Smith’s compositions push the confines of the canvas.As Smith’s large-scale paintings reveal an abundance of formal ingenuity, they also contain elements of personal narrative that demand further examination. Smith was born in 1906 to mixed, half-Cherokee parents near the territory of Chickasha one year before it was incorporated into the state of Oklahoma. The artist’s Native heritage and proximity to indigenous traditions provide a nuanced background for the role of space and color within his compositions.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418605/k3k04igv8vlmak3skjdw.gif"><figcaption>Dianna Frid, "NYT, June 26, 2003, Fred Sandback," 2014, canvas, paper, embroidery floss, and graphite, 15" x 20"</figcaption></figure><h3>Dianna Frid: ​More Time than Life</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dianna-frid-more-time-than-life">Alan Koppel Gallery</a>Opening Friday, September 13.&nbsp;806 N Dearborn, ChicagoMore Time than Life, an exhibition of new and selected works by Dianna Frid. Situated at the intersection of text and textiles, Frid’s work embraces non-hierarchical relationships between art and craft, and between concept and form. Either explicitly or in nuance, Frid engages themes of time, process, death, and the mutability of matter.For her current show, Frid presents work from three interrelated series: “Words from Obituaries,” “Text Textiles,” and “Evidence of the Material World.”<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418606/irvqvrki9lemc3dt4hq4.gif"></figure><h3>Julia Fish: bound by spectrum</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/julia-fish-bound-by-spectrum">DePaul Art Museum</a>On view beginning Thursday, September 12&nbsp;935 W Fullerton, ChicagoFor three decades, Julia Fish has used her house and its vernacular architecture&nbsp;— a Chicago storefront designed by Theodore Steuben in 1922 — as the basis for a system of mapping color, form, and light in paintings and works on paper. Julia Fish: bound by spectrum presents a survey of the last decade (2009–19) of Fish’s paintings and works on paper while providing new scholarship around her ongoing project that brings together the disciplines of painting, drawing, and architecture. Rendering architectural details at actual size and from observation, she creates a subjective response to objective information, informed by effects of light in space, time of day, the seasons, cardinal direction, and her own physical vantage point. Fish examines and recontextualizes evidence of the house, most recently thresholds between rooms, within paintings, which elude pure abstraction: they are, in fact, depictions of transitional spaces filtered through Fish’s increasingly complex visual logic.Also opening are <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/depaul-university-art-museum--2">Remember Where You Are; and Architectural Annotations</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418607/oemc7osi2yvrhzmrddyf.gif"></figure><h3>Darrell Roberts: New Work</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/darrell-roberts-new-work">McCormick Gallery</a>Opening Saturday, September 14.&nbsp;835 W. Washington, ChicagoThis is the gallery's 5th show in 12 years with Roberts, whose signature style features thickly applied paint in a range of bright colors. The artist's acrobatic dance with luscious oil paint seems to define the theme of the show: succulence.&nbsp; &nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418607/nufhobxcmyjujgvznpqo.gif"></figure><h3>Orkideh Torabi: Heaven on Earth</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/orkideh-torabi">Western Exhibitions</a>Opening Friday, September 13&nbsp;1709 W. Chicago Ave., ChicagoTorabi’s paintings depict caricatures of men, a gender which in many cultures will enjoy and benefit from social freedoms that women are forbidden or discouraged from engaging in.Taking art historical cues from the Western Canon’s portrayal of the figure in landscape, Torabi’s men are seemingly oblivious to their coveted social freedom. Rendered with simple button-eyes, gnarled noses, and alien skin, her unabashedly humorous figures are stuck in an emasculated state of being. She banishes women from her paintings altogether, crafting scenes which offer an eerie parallel to daily life in Iran. Without women, the men are left to coddle their baby boys, care for each other at public baths, and engage in intimate conversations amongst themselves.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418609/vzc0z7y7rhoettlebslf.gif"><figcaption>David Driesbach. La Polina, 2006. Intaglio, ink on paper, (9.875 x 7.875 in.) Collection of the NIU Art Museum. 2017.90. Gift of the artist.</figcaption></figure><h3>Exploring Aspects of War In and Through the Visual Arts</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/exploring-aspects-of-war-in-and-through-the-visual-arts-807f52cf-3940-4c4c-ab64-5ee74bb0b3a2">Northern Illinois University (NIU) Art Museum</a>Opening Thursday, September 12.&nbsp;DeKalb, IL 60115The Visual Arts have served in all cultures and periods to document, motivate, memorialize, facilitate healing, critique and protest military action.Exploring Aspects of War in and Through the Visual Arts considers views on war and military conflict from the perspective of the homefront, the battlefield and back home again.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

Fall 2019 Preview – Part II: Mid–September Openings

<html><head></head><body>By GINNY VAN ALYEA&nbsp;Summer's end may have officially come this past weekend, but at CGN we have had fall on our minds for months, as we have prepared our big fall magazine and promoted all the plans for the September art season. While many people were off enjoying summer vacations, in our office we, along with so many dealers, artists, art fair organizers and others who must unveil their biggest projects of the year this month, were hard at work.&nbsp;Now, the September openings are finally here. This first week of September heralds a new season in the art world. These new shows are just the beginning, and in particular many shows are featuring photography as a means of examining the world as it is, in new ways, or offering chances to look in the rearview mirror again. &nbsp;A&nbsp;host of openings, clustered on the evening of Friday, September 6, mark the traditional start of the season, which happens throughout the area, from River North, to over on the west side in West Town and beyond, and also up into Ravenswood. There are dozens of new exhibitions opening, and many represent the highlight of the gallery's programming for the entire year. More new shows also open on Saturday night on the west side as well as in suburban Evanston.On Friday, River North's fifth annual art and design collaboration, the River North Gallery Walk, takes place in galleries based near Superior and Franklin streets and the dozens of design showrooms from Chicago Ave. to the Merchandise Mart. Gallery artists are matched with designers and showrooms, and many individual galleries are opening their latest exhibitions. There are several special events to attend as well, including a kickoff event an after party. Complete details and a list of RNDD walk participants may be <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2019/7/early-notice-river-north-design-district-5th-annual-gallery-walk-will-swing-in-the-fall">found here</a>.&nbsp;Local dealer <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/celebrating-our-40th-year">Carl Hammer</a> is also celebrating the gallery's 40th anniversary with a group show opening the same night.&nbsp;Obviously there is a lot of great art to see, and these&nbsp;are just a few&nbsp;highlights from this opening September weekend&nbsp;around the city.&nbsp;We will&nbsp;share more of the season's&nbsp;highlights and coverage as the fall goes on, and don't forget to view our full <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events">calendar of events</a>.&nbsp;Stay tuned for&nbsp;Part II of our Fall Preview,&nbsp;featuring shows opening September 13&nbsp;and beyond, including many shows on the city's West Side.&nbsp;The following weekend is EXPO CHICAGO.Enjoy this start to fall, and see you in the galleries!&nbsp;&nbsp;<h3>&nbsp;</h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418602/bgcc1qg2vx5rjina0zta.jpg"><figcaption>Christopher Meerdo, Eigengrau, 2017</figcaption></figure><h3>The Way the Mystic Sees</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-way-the-mystic-sees">Weinberg/Newton</a>Opening Friday, September 6.&nbsp;688 N Milwaukee Ave, ChicagoWeinberg/Newton closed its River North space this past spring and they officially reopen on the west side on Friday night. This exhibition surveys contemporary perspectives and historical approaches to technology and surveillance. Works in the exhibition appear in a range of media – from language to video – to establish a spectrum of the technological. Certain artworks directly elucidate the subject of surveillance, while others begin to locate life beyond being and feeling watched. Artists include Nadav Assor, Mary Helena Clark, Max Guy,&nbsp;Asa Mendelsohn, Christopher Meerdo, Catherine Sullivan, Maryam Taghavi, and Marilyn Volkman. Presented in collaboration with Human Rights Watch of Illinois&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418603/nv7o2m7fqbt2iksmba4k.png"></figure><h3>Sandro Miller: I am Papau New Guinea</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sandro-miller-i-am-papau-new-guinea">Catherine Edelman Gallery</a>Opening Friday, September 6.&nbsp;1637 W. Chicago Ave, ChicagoSandro Miller is one of the most sought-after commercial photographers working today. This success has allowed him to continue working on his personal projects, most notably Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters, a world-wide traveling exhibition, and his most recent body of work, I Am Papua New Guinea.Sandro made three trips to Papua New Guinea over a two-year period, photographing 400 indigenous people from more than a hundred different tribes. At several annual festivals, Sandro set up a studio, inviting hundreds of people to have their portraits taken. For most of the sitters, it was the first time they had ever seen a photograph or what they looked like. The result is a powerful body of work of a thriving culture far removed from its industrialized neighbors.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418604/sx5zntwb6neiupmyl6g7.jpg"><figcaption>Julian Wasser, Steve McQueen</figcaption></figure><h3>Julian Wasser: The Way We Were</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/julian-wasser-the-way-we-were">Hilton | Asmus Contemporary&nbsp;</a>Opening Friday, September 6.&nbsp;716 N. Wells, ChicagoAfter starting his career at the age of 14 as a copy boy in the Washington bureau of the Associated Press news service, Julian Wasser went on to create some of the most memorable images of the past century. While at the Associated Press he met Weegee and rode with famous news photographer as he shot photos of crime scenes in Washington. Eventually Wasser went on to became a contract photographer for Time magazine in Los Angeles doing assignments for Time, Life and Fortune. His photographs have appeared in and been used for the cover of multiple US and UK publications. His photos have also appeared in US Magazine, Vanity Fair, TV guide, Paris Match, Der Spiegel, Oggi, Hello, Playboy, Elle, Vogue, GQ along with exhibitions in galleries and museums. Wasser captured the most authentic and compelling photos of revered artists of the 1960's, 1970' and 1980's.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418604/ht6hyl93vng6wujw2rlh.jpg"></figure><h3>Boom! Jan Pieter Fokkens</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/boom-jan-pieter-fokkens">Gallery Victor Armendariz</a>Opening Friday, September 6.&nbsp;300 W. Superior, ChicagoJan Pieter Fokkens believes in the deep lineage between modern art and the digital image. In essence, there is something foreboding about the way the history of images feeds upon itself. It appears as if reality and images are always competing to see which of the two can be the most unimaginable. His work functions as a bridge between his fascination of reductionist approaches in abstract art and the influence it has on the creation of algorithms that make digital representations of reality. &nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418605/rgkw7xrgcjjfdhrcgska.jpg"><figcaption> Bonnie Lautenberg, 1963, Hud / Andy Warhol, Double Elvis, 2018, Archival Pigment Print, 48 x 64 in.</figcaption></figure><h3>Bonnie Lautenberg: Artistica. Artistica!</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/bonnie-lautenberg-artistica-artistica">Jean Albano Gallery</a>Opening Friday, September 6.&nbsp;215 W. Superior, ChicagoBonnie Lautenberg's latest project is a body of work that explores how one art form might have influenced another. Lautenberg is interested in the relationship between well known works of art and important films from the same year. As an example, is it possible that Pablo Picasso painted his Blue Hat With Red Ribbon in 1939 after he saw the movie The Wizard of Oz? Or could Victor Fleming, the director of the Wizard of Oz, have been influenced by the color palette of Picasso's painting when he began making his movie? You'll have to see for yourself.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418606/tp7by2i51udbmu0gozaw.jpg"><figcaption>Blue Noses Group, Era of Mercy I., 2005-2009, Photograph, 30 x 40 inches</figcaption></figure><h3>Caution! Freedom: Contemporary Art from Russia</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/caution-freedom-contemporary-art-from-russia">One After 909</a>Opening Friday, September 6.&nbsp;906 N Ashland, ChicagoIn 1990, when the Soviet Union was already dying but had not yet collapsed completely, Julia and Marat Gelman opened The Gelman (Guelman) Gallery. It was one of the first private art galleries in the Soviet Union. They were witnesses to the incredible and rapid changes that were occurring in the USSR, and during this time the Gelman’s worked with many political and social artists. They believed art was an expression of freedom, and these artists were accurately documenting the spirit of the times. In 2000 Putin came to power, and all the open doors began to shut.The political and social art the gallery exhibited by Russian contemporary artists like Oleg Kulik, Alexander Kosolapov, and Blue Noses was considered too controversial. This caused them to be targeted by extremist groups as well as the government, which ultimately forced them to close the gallery in 2012. Seven years later Julia Gelman in collaboration with One After 909, will exhibit Caution! Freedom: Contemporary Art from Russia, with complete freedom in Chicago.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418606/fjjst6j6vkfqsi2e7jlb.gif"></figure><h3>Mary Porterfield: in:dependence</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/mary-porterfield-in-dependence">Hofheimer Gallery</a>Opening Friday, September 6.&nbsp;4823 N. Damen, ChicagoMary Porterfield’s drawings are influenced by her work in healthcare. With soft edges and careful rendering, she creates invented spaces and allegorical scenes that attempt to ask: If assistance is warranted, but not wanted, should it be abandoned? Why is a long life given to some, yet denied others? Is it more heroic to accept the uncontrollable or attempt change in the midst of futility or danger? Porterfield’s intention is to provide a balanced perspective between giving and receiving when assisting others.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418608/v4kh9rdyeedaxuiploz7.jpg"><figcaption>David Antonio Cruz, onedayi’llturnthecornerandi’llbereadyforit, portrait of the texas girls, 2019, Oil and latex on wood, 48 x 48 inches</figcaption></figure><h3>David Antonio Cruz: One Day I’ll Turn the Corner and I’ll be Ready For It</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/david-antonio-cruz-one-day-i-ll-turn-the-corner-and-i-ll-be-ready-for-it">Monique Meloche</a>Opening Saturday, September 7.&nbsp;451 N. Paulina, ChicagoDavid Antonio Cruz explores the intersectionality of queerness and race through painting, sculpture, and performance. Focusing on queer, trans, and genderfluid communities of color, Cruz examines the violence perpetrated against their members, conveying his subjects both as specific individuals and as monumental signifiers for large and urgent systemic concerns.Using a vast trove of images mined from the internet, including the personal social media accounts of his subjects, Cruz brings these individuals out of the shadows and into the light. He inserts these individuals’ likenesses into lush, sensuous compositions directly inspired by the aspirational aesthetic of luxury and fashion, creating a dissonance that critically elevates his black and brown subjects while also emphasizing the extreme injustice of their plights. This is Cruz’s first exhibition with the gallery and his first in Chicago.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418609/nlzlmmnaidohmdx7avu0.png"><figcaption>Kayla Mahaffey, That's All Folks</figcaption></figure><h3>Thinkspace presents LAX/ORD 2</h3><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/thinkspace-presents-lax-ord-2">Vertical Gallery</a>Opening Saturday, September 7.&nbsp;1016 N. Western, ChicagoAfter the phenomenal success of LAX / ORD in September 2016, Vertical and Thinkspace immediately discussed collaborating again. “LAX / ORD II” will have more artists than the first edition (100 this time), in what will be the largest collection of artists from the New Contemporary Movement under one roof to date in the Windy City.All the artists have been asked to work within the same space confines of 12×12 inches (30×30 cm) and left to their own devices from there. This collection helps to showcase just how vast and varied the Movement is, from portrait based works to the more fantastical, from landscapes to design based abstract works... ‘LAX / ORD II’ promises to bring your Instagram feed to life and expose you to your new favorite artist.The opening night will feature a special print release from Kayla Mahaffey (pictured above)&nbsp;</body></html>

Fall 2019 Preview – Part I: First September Openings

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418602/n01vaoqlxftqi6re0tjy.gif"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Solveig Øvstebø Steps Down as Executive Director and Chief Curator of Chicago’s Renaissance&nbsp;Society</h3>&nbsp;After seven years, Solveig Øvstebø will leave her position as executive director and chief curator of the University of Chicago’s Renaissance Society museum, one of the Windy City’s most closely watched contemporary art spaces. In a release issued on Monday evening, the Renaissance Society said that Øvstebø will depart in February, with plans to “return with her family to Norway.”By Alex Greenberger, ARTNEWS<a href="http://www.artnews.com/2019/08/26/solveig-ovstebo-steps-down-renaissance-society/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418603/bnqfquhipcaxhsnwpfg4.gif"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Christie’s Asia Week Will Feature Collections From The Art Institute of Chicago</h3>&nbsp;This fall, Christie’s Asian Art Week will include six live auctions and three extended online auctions from Sept. 10-25, featuring over 1,000 lots spanning all epochs and categories of Asian art, from classical Chinese paintings, ceramics, jades, bronzes, to Tibetan gilt-bronzes and contemporary Indian paintings.By Fang Block, PENTA<a href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/christies-asia-week-will-feature-collections-from-the-art-institute-of-chicag-01566849028">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418604/yojcbtbd1v2zbiihnrfg.gif"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Water towers as art: Iconic urban fixtures decorate a Chicago park</h3>&nbsp;Chicago's Navy Pier park is now home to an eye-catching sight: water towers, which are sculptures created by Iván Navarro back in 2014. The artist was inspired by the water towers found throughout New York City, and named his piece after the Woody Guthrie song, "This Land Is Your Land."Via CBS News<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ivan-navarro-this-land-is-your-land-iconic-urban-fixtures-decorate-a-chicago-park/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418605/gzsng0ln2iauopdht5vh.gif"></figure><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Fall Arts Celebration highlights Contemporary Chicago Art</h3>&nbsp;Grand Valley State University will be kicking off this year’s Fall Arts Celebration with the “Art of Today: Contemporary Collections from Chicago” collection. The exhibit is a collection of contemporary art, which combines pieces from GVSU’s own collection with pieces on loan from the city of Chicago.By Jacob Creswell, Lanthorn<a href="https://lanthorn.com/66985/ae/nick-fall-arts-celebration-highlights-contemporary-chicago-art/">Read More</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

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