<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419292/f8wfgd335ekafltdev3k.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/italian-excellence-illustrations-for-italo-calvino">Italian Excellence: Illustrations for Italo Calvino</a>Exhibition begins October 19Istituto Italiano di CulturaIn response to the theme "Italian language and sustainability" the exhibition provides an insight into the Calvinian world and nature, through the contemporary interpretation of young illustrators from around the world.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419293/kycygqlkeys7mqyvjhw4.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/affen-segun-for-we-are-kings-timeless-transfers-of-generational-joy-happiness-and-swag">Affen Segun: For We are Kings: Timeless Transfers of Generational Joy, Happiness and Swag</a>Opening: Friday, October 20, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmElephant Room GalleryAs an artist, Affen is heavily inspired by culture, motherhood, family and love. For this exhibition in particular, he has found inspiration through the people he has met and has felt compelled to tell their stories. Each piece contains a character reimagined by Affen, accompanied by thoughtfully placed objects, patterned backgrounds or abstract elements, all within a setting or occasion. Incorporating color, strong composition and Ankara patterned fabrics, Affen’s art is visual poetry, bursting forth with relentless energetic expression.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419294/htcqoyhfsokxtdmos7mo.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/no-artificial-ingredients">No Artificial Ingredients</a>Opening: Friday, October 20, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmEast Erie GalleryFeaturing nine Chicago area based artists showcasing their painting, collage, sculpture, pastel, glass, and watercolor.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419295/my2sve8yekvsw2qnrjgj.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/reception-for-masters-of-different-eras">Reception for Masters of Different Eras</a>Opening: Saturday, October 21, 3 – 8&nbsp;pmExpression Gallery of Fine ArtPresenting Masters of Different Eras featuring paintings by Nikolay Blokhin, and graphics by Pierre- Auguste Renoir. View the evolution of Impressionism, tradition and expression from the 19th century to modern day.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419296/k3lvwselhouj4nnxywli.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/don-t-close-your-eyes">Don’t Close Your Eyes</a>Opening: Saturday, October 21, noon – 4&nbsp;pmUkrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA)The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art is proud to present Don’t Close Your Eyes, a collection of work by 26 artists responding to the war in Ukraine. How do artists depict war?&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Open Oct 19 - 22

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419292/zwalbtpe5nsvnqfqpbwl.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ARCGalleryChicago">ARC Gallery Fundraises Following Vandalism in West Town</a>ARC Gallery posted over the weekend that their street facing window had been totally smashed and there was damage to the gallery. Their 50th anniversary exhibition is currently on view. Just a few weeks ago, a few blocks west on Chicago Ave., Andrew Rafacz Gallery had a truck drive through the front of their space.&nbsp;The gallery shared on Facebook: "ARC Gallery was vandalized late last night. This is the 2nd time this year that the windows of the gallery have been broken! We are saddened by this incident during the 50th Anniversary of this Women's co-operative gallery. Please support our mission to continue for the next 50 years!" <a href="https://qrco.de/beR3wJ?fbclid=IwAR2ijw1ooTtUkRgesREtCBdmuuaTDzkj4oHNty1PrsMrATixFBA8r82m_4c">https://qrco.de/beR3wJ</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image image-style-side"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419293/sixskgnmorn5wqtaednf.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.newberry.org/news/tantillo">Newberry Names New President</a>The Newberry Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Astrida Orle Tantillo as its tenth President and Librarian. Tantillo was named following an international search that employed the executive search firm Isaacson, Miller. She joins the Newberry from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), where she served as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) from 2012 to 2022 and is currently Professor of Germanic Studies and History. As Dean, Tantillo oversaw a budget of $100 million, 25 academic departments and programs, approximately 700 tenure and non-tenure track faculty members, and more than 200 staff members. She was recruited to the Newberry's Board of Trustees in 2022 due to her extensive experience in academic administration in Chicago.&nbsp;&nbsp;During her tenure, LAS supported a variety of new centers and initiatives, including the Freshwater Lab, an interdisciplinary freshwater policy and research initiative; the Inter-University Program for Latino Research/UIC Mellon Fellows Program; and the Center for LatinX Literature of the Americas. She raised $50 million as part of IGNITE: The Campaign for UIC, while strategically investing in faculty hiring, recruitment and retention, and expanding the number of endowed chairs and professorships. She strengthened and expanded collaborations with cultural institutions including the Field Museum and Chicago Humanities.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="www.wndrmuseum.com/artistday">WNDR Museum Announces Free Day for Artists</a>WNDR Museum, Chicago’s original immersive art and technology experience will celebrate International Artist Day on Wednesday, Oct. 25 with free admission at all three locations. For one day only, WNDR will open its doors and welcome visitors to experience more than 20 interactive artworks by cutting edge artists, collectives, technologists, designers and makers from around the world. Hours vary by location.&nbsp;Guests visiting WNDR Museum on International Artist Day on Wednesday, Oct. 25 are encouraged make reservations in advance via <a href="https://u56787.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=NrnrG0O-2BDJoeMfmwX6fgM8kgDAm3a4IUVIpi91dSY6YExgErCqAu3yC-2Bo5DsBQywSwhbfwhm1rRhiw7teegmHLhLtx-2BF8JXy39s3CxZJKojhwL7iGCTGK4uf1JPE3-2BfVGWF4546iFbstYMSf6SB3QQ-3D-3D24qP_xxAoLhAhtcHLpzoert8wLdy8LhslUpMxoeAEp22rbZeZNuvURfS1ekW5Lf-2FQ7lrRTMvPAEYjJomxeqK6QjbnoC23UM94NYkaFTuNpMmIXARmZnLWrsey7MF7qhU-2FA53xp5IU3D7DMDXkvWiwmKh876Rh4oqicridU-2Bz-2Bp50iKvVlb32Zyvca6tfuKoBojVccM2P-2FebNrWrdtNYp-2F0jPxfJja74YNcFgE-2B8-2BwEZlQQIdU60SiuICo4DvqmeS5h-2F55DWXO1XRP0OAO4VUko8DFiPfH0swcexT-2BI6Qg5LHNk8NKmj8woU-2BCUivARpqYlTvncP4CKjWFrvS-2BW4eg4-2FnDaGe9pLLjJX-2B9NXctUuCwficVjndfiacCZHYyDmTaC6VoAk91MJKFMxbHaOKswQSqFOe7eIYhFAG9C5KKx7SSm4d7T5LNNnw1cyLfsUHQanJzxUHhAcgv1hRC5pAeccsxLFRwEmdK5B6fjlCSiR6aVTt9iEkTFI9OGPZtDlXR1Jn3S4lPfd-2Fy-2BfmM6-2BqsijagAqj1BKLcMqOsgu9IPrmGXE485vvNBcyozh8-2FJenK4KbfMyE9TLuxMFtFgNOVF1-2B-2BB5YXT6ksmukxlEKTj3Ips4Mza7uTbV-2F-2FcSQkiVxcw3p4nYmClTdY505U0drV7X7QKQ-3D-3D">www.wndrmuseum.com/artistday</a> to guarantee entry. Walk-ups are welcome on a first-come-first-serve basis as space allows.WNDR Museum International Artist Day Hours Wednesday, Oct. 25, 12 to 8 p.m.WNDR Museum Chicago, 1130 W Monroe St.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419294/rbpk706p2yxwakeuqozm.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bacachi.org">Renamed Black Arts &amp; Culture Alliance of Chicago</a>The nonprofit African American Arts Alliance of Chicago has announced a new name, effective immediately: the Black Arts &amp; Culture Alliance of Chicago.President Charlique C. Rolle and Vice President Vershawn Sanders-Ward spoke at a recent event of the service organization’s 26-year legacy and mission to support, showcase and advance excellence in the vibrant Black arts and culture sector in Chicago.&nbsp;“We are immensely grateful to our founders for creating this space for us. As the next generation of Black voices and artists in Chicago, our goal is that the Black Arts &amp; Culture Alliance is truly a hub for artists and voices of the diaspora, where we can see ourselves represented through all of the nuances of our history and our future. Art-making and storytelling have always been a vital tool for liberation in our community and a driver of our cultural experience and community-building efforts. The Alliance will continue to build and support the intersections of how Black artists influence and stimulate our culture, society and economy,” said President Charlique C. Rolle.In 1997, African American Arts Alliance co-founders Jackie Taylor, Joan Gray, Chuck Smith and Ron O.J. Parson saw a great need for community interaction and development, and incorporated the African American Arts Alliance to build upon the rich history of the original Black Theatre Alliance, expanding the organization to serve the needs of Black performing, visual, literary, technical and design art forms.&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 10/12/23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419286/n7qpeuaw4jfcocyo8aax.jpg"><figcaption>Offices of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture. Inland Steel Building, Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill, 1958. During OHC 2023 visitors will be escorted through the lobby to the elevators and sent directly to the 4th floor where they can explore the space. Employees will be on hand to answer any questions. Pop-up-style presentations will be given throughout the weekend featuring many of the firm's innovative projects. &nbsp;<a href="https://openhousechicago.org/sites/site/adrian-smith-gordon-gill-architecture/#controls">More info.</a></figcaption></figure>&nbsp;By CGN StaffChicago hardly needs to add to its architectural bonafides, but the Chicago Architecture Center's free annual public festival, Open House Chicago, is an opportunity to focus attention on what has given Chicago its global reputation as a progressive and dynamic city. For one free weekend, a rich range of the city's architectural treasures are open to the public in celebration of the city's very special, and beautiful, history and architecture - showcasing its past and future.One of the largest events of its kind, 2023’s OHC in-person visits occur October 14 and 15 and highlight more than 20 neighborhoods. Visitors will encounter themes of neighborhood investment, community engagement, historic preservation and more. talks and programs, and behind-the-scenes access to 150 architecturally, historically and culturally significant sites. For free visitors gain access to some of the city’s most historically, culturally and architecturally important sites in 170+&nbsp; locations across 20+ Chicago neighborhoods. Normally many of these sites are closed to the public during the year.&nbsp;Additionally, for the first time, the CAC will host two Friday events, including one exclusively for CAC members. On Friday, October 13, a kickoff party takes place at the CAC, where visitors can experience the Center’s exhibits for free and purchase official OHC merchandise. CAC members will also be invited to an opening night party on the 33rd floor of the Willis Tower. The event will feature light bites and a performance of an original piece of music inspired by the Willis Tower and commissioned by CAC (so become a member now!)&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419287/udo13d4flfolh7dcvn7k.jpg"><figcaption>2022 site Avondale Bowl</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;The rest of the weekend will feature self-guided tours across the city’s diverse neighborhoods, allowing OHC participants to experience Chicago’s deep architectural history firsthand. This year’s program will enable visitors to tour the childhood home of Walt Disney in Hermosa and the National Cambodian Heritage Museum in Ravenswood. Also new to OHC this year is Uptown’s historic Riviera Theater, an ornate concert venue originally built in 1917 as a movie theater.&nbsp;“Open House Chicago makes architecture and design accessible and is a free program for all,” said Eleanor Gorski, CEO &amp; President, Chicago Architecture Center. “The event is a true community venture, and we’re thrilled to collaborate with chambers of commerce, neighborhood organizations, arts and culture organizations and historical societies across the city to bring the festival to life.”&nbsp;In addition to the tours, Open House Chicago sites will also host programming and activations during the weekend. This year, CAC has enhanced the festival experience by launching a new app that provides information on programming and allows attendees to create their own itineraries of OHC sites.&nbsp;&nbsp;Open House Chicago runs Oct 13–15, 2023Details at <a href="https://openhousechicago.org">openhousechicago.org</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419288/kesfcoouvlh6qllgdb70.jpg"><figcaption>Edgewater Beach Apartments. Photo Allix Rogers.&nbsp;</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;#</body></html>

Open House Chicago Celebrates Architecture Oct 14 and 15

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419287/ilnzurzxhiujez52vp2a.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/stitched-time">Stitched Time</a>Opening: Friday, October 13, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmOliva GalleryThis exhibition highlights the idea of extreme kinship between artists separated by time and space. The showing artist found cultural phenomena from different corners of the world that feel to them like home. They re-use, morph, reinvent concepts and ideas, created, heard, tasted, and sung somewhere else or during some other time.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419287/mvfum60ffmvbalilwyif.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/difference-machines-technology-and-identity-in-contemporary-art">Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art</a>Exhibition begins October 13Wrightwood 659Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art addresses the complex relationship between the technologies we use and the identities we inhabit. The exhibition presents the work of seventeen contemporary artists who ask some of the most urgent questions we face today: How is technology changing the way we see ourselves, and each other? In what ways does it contribute to—or allow us to resist—prejudice and systemic forms of oppression? What role should it have in our lives and in our communities?&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419288/xxuenatqjepxnmfdbhoj.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/time-memory-mythos">Time Memory Mythos</a>Opening: Saturday, October 14, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmWoman Made GalleryJuror Monica Brown said, “Memory is an abstraction. It holds our entire history, but how much of that is our “real” story? What stories do we tell ourselves about this story? Which stories do we own and which ones own us? And how do we break free of those that don’t serve our greatest good? In what ways do time and memory inform the larger mythos that shapes life philosophies and religious beliefs?”&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419289/mbkiyd5hoxd8oqt0if6d.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/a-cornucopia-of-prints">A Cornucopia of Prints</a>Opening: Saturday, October 14, 3 – 5&nbsp;pmBert Green Fine ArtA collection of works both new and recently exhibited at the gallery by a variety of our artists, including works on paper published by the gallery in recent years. The newest works are by William Powhida, Sandra Yagi, Eleftheria Lialios, Laurie Hassold and Doug Fogelson.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Open Oct 13 - 15

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419286/gtdklyqkox71erb73ton.jpg"><figcaption>Artist Jennifer Presant, Credit: Yancey Hughes</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;This weekend there is a lot happening in Evanston just north of Chicago. Openings and tours are taking place in multiple venues and many are centered around the 9th annual Evanston Made, a self-guided tour of over 40 studios in Evanston. The event is a fantastic opportunity to meet artists in their studio, learn about their practice and build or start a collection around these local working artists.&nbsp;The event spans Evanston, and a helpful Google map marking each studio and artist is provided so you can plan your tour at <a href="http://evanstonmade.org/">evanstonmade.org</a>&nbsp;Key events taking place as part of Evanston Made are:&nbsp;OCTOBER 6:&nbsp;Studio&nbsp;Tour Preview &amp; Pop-up: 1100 Florence 3–8pmOCTOBER 7:&nbsp;Open Studio Tour: Self-guided tour across Evanston, 12-5pm&nbsp;First Saturday Evanston Art Events, 9am-8pm&nbsp;OCTOBER 8:&nbsp;Maker's Market at 1800 Maple Ave. Garage, 12-5pm&nbsp;&nbsp;More events are highlighted below.&nbsp;– CGN&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419287/t19iavqyqdpschdne9wd.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/annie-briard-mary-farmilant-kellie-klein-renee-robbins-nina-weiss">Annie Briard, Mary Farmilant, Kellie Klein, Renee Robbins, Nina Weiss</a>Opening: Sunday, Oct 8, 1 – 4&nbsp;pm On view Oct 7 – Nov 5<a href="/organizations/evanston-art-center--3">Evanston Art Center</a>This group show of work by women artists offers photography, digital art, painting and more.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419288/wx1nhqbpfk9zat16skd9.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/my-downward-gaze">My Downward Gaze</a>Opening: Saturday, Oct 7, 5 – 8&nbsp;pm On view Oct 7 – 29<a href="/organizations/perspective-group-photography-gallery-ltd">Perspective Photo Gallery</a>Perspective Gallery is proud to present a new show ,"My Downward Gaze",&nbsp; that incorporates two of Bob Tanner's related projects: "At Ocean's Edge" and "At Winter's Edge".&nbsp; Peering from above, the artist captures ephemeral patterns in the ebb and flow of wind, tides, and water, and more improbably, in the residue left by the coming and going of traffic in a parking garage. In viewing images that reproduce&nbsp;&nbsp;and enhance these patterns, we are led to a place of meditation where we can contemplate impermance and transition in our own experience of the world.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419289/y7eaplbceli759ldtuoe.jpg"><figcaption>Art Encounter Evanston Mural Arts Program mural in Downtown Evanston by Jeff Zimmermann</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/downtown-evanston-mural-tour">Downtown Evanston Mural Tour</a>Saturday, Oct 7, 11&nbsp;am – 12:30&nbsp;pm<a href="/organizations/art-encounter-a452ddc8-ae2e-43d9-b388-5e0489a313fe">Art Encounter</a>Want to learn more about the artists and stories behind Art Encounter’s Evanston murals? Art Encounter Executive Director and mural program co-founder Lea Pinsky will take you on a mile-long guided tour of our Evanston Mural Arts Program murals, where you will look closely at several of the large-scale artworks that have transformed the center of Evanston, including pieces by Shawn Bullen, Ruben Aguirre, Jeff Zimmermann, Anthony Lewellen, Molly Z., Cheri Lee Charlton, Max Sansing, Dalek, and more.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artencounter.org/downtown-evanston-mural-tour">Register here</a>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419290/tulybsrpxnpmbkkhcijt.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/john-wangendo-and-yancey-hughes">John Wangendo and Yancey Hughes</a>Oct 7 – Nov 5<a href="/organizations/evanston-art-center--3">Evanston Art Center</a>These two exhibitions present the works of John Wangendo and Yancey Hughes as an intimate portrait of African youth and culture. Drawing inspiration from their cultural origins and surrounding environment, their distinctive mediums and perspectives offer a dynamic view of contemporary youth in Africa. This exhibition was curated by Fran Joy&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419291/k9xbvq4grtpkyg9vovwl.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/rosalie-favell-facing-the-camera">Rosalie Favell: Facing the Camera</a>On view through Dec 3<a href="/organizations/block-museum-of-art">Block Museum of Art</a>The Block presents the first Chicago presentation of <a href="https://rosaliefavell.com/portfolio/facing-the-camera/">Rosalie Favell: Facing the Camera</a>. Rosalie Favell (b. 1958) is a photo-based artist who draws inspiration from her Métis heritage and family to create complex self-portraits and portraits. For her series Facing the Camera (2008–18), Favell photographed Indigenous members of arts communities in North America and Australia, producing 500 photographs. This work is a rewriting of history and a living art history—a critical intervention in expanding the visibility of contemporary Indigenous artists and arts professionals.&nbsp;Facing the Camera strives to present the diversity of arts communities and to push beyond stereotypical and one-dimensional representations of Indigenous peoples. The black and white photographs reference the problematic relationship between Indigenous cultures and the camera, which has historically been used as a tool of domination.Also on view at the Block: <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/for-one-and-all-prints-from-the-block-s-collection">For One and All: Prints from The Block’s Collection</a>&nbsp;</body></html>

Weekend Spotlight: Evanston

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419286/dja4hykpwu7a4ltttmgs.jpg"><figcaption>In Milwaukee, a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house is for sale after 68 years in the same family. ANDREW MILLER &nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/frank-lloyd-wright-in-milwaukee-for-sale-4b4defb3">A Frank Lloyd Wright Home in Milwaukee Lists for the First Time in Almost 70 Years</a>When Barbara and Robert Elsner bought a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in 1955, they wrote the famed architect to ask if he had designed any landscaping for the house. Wright responded that he hadn’t, but told them that their 1917 home was “a good house of a good period for a good client.”&nbsp;Since then, the Elsner family has carefully preserved the Milwaukee house, returning the interiors to their original paint colors and buying back the home’s custom-made furniture.Now, however, the family is ready to hand the house over to a new steward, according to the Elsners’ daughter Margaret Howland, who lives in the home. They are putting the property on the market for the first time in 68 years, asking $1.5 million.Via WSJ&nbsp;<a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/10/01/bronzevilles-the-forum-uncovers-century-old-hand-painted-scenic-theater-backdrops/?utm_source=Pico&amp;utm_campaign=81f50152a9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_10_02+Morning+List+3&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-cbdb1cc15c-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&amp;mc_cid=81f50152a9&amp;mc_eid=9fac193df8">Bronzeville’s The Forum Uncovers Century-Old, Hand-Painted Scenic Theater Backdrops</a>A trove of historical theater backdrops have been discovered in the attic of The Forum, the long-vacant Bronzeville treasure that’s being restored to its glory.Forum owner Bernard Loyd said the backdrops were found by contractor Michael Beaver, who was working at the site several weeks ago as part of an extensive renovation effort of the venue at 318-24 E. 43rd St.Via Block Club&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/arrested-great-wall-of-china-shortcut-2368758">The Great Wall of China Has Suffered ‘Irreversible’ Damage After Two Workers Excavated a Shortcut Through the Cultural Relic</a>Two suspects accused of digging a hole to create a shortcut over the Great Wall of China have been arrested for causing damage to the world famous heritage site.Last month, police received an alert reporting that the hole had been dug in the Great Wall in Yang Qianhe Township, about 215 miles west of Beijing, the Youyuxian County Public Security Bureau <a href="https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/PNWdmbZXS7esmGQiUZqurw">said in a statement</a>. Investigators called the historic site “severely damaged.”Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://news.wttw.com/2023/09/27/through-his-work-chicago-artist-shines-light-invisible-disabilities">Through His Work, Chicago Artist Shines Light on Invisible Disabilities</a>Arts Midwest, which presents an annual award to Midwestern artists with disabilities, recently announced its 2023 awardees.Visual artist Matt Bodett is the only Chicago recipient. He said his work gives him a voice.“That power given back to me, I think, was that moment of transition for me,” Bodett said.That power Bodett is referring to comes as a result of hard work, after being diagnosed with what’s described as an invisible disability.Via WTTW&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 10/2/23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419279/k2cwemv8aftxnsef13o4.jpg"><figcaption>Floating Museum's Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, avery r. young, Faheem Majeed, and Andrew Schachman at the Chicago Cultural Center Credit: Cory Dewald</figcaption></figure><a href="https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/biennial-as-experimentation-chicago-architecture-biennial-floating-museum-this-is-a-rehearsal/?fbclid=IwAR0Zgf_T8Gt_jEgiMSQgXl3-l1gqldzaH_fzjW-uMjFGArqsA12l2rBeqa8">Biennial as experimentation</a>In 2017, a barge drifted along the Chicago River. It wasn’t carrying the usual Ozinga concrete or gravel; instead it floated a museum. Produced by the Floating Museum, an interdisciplinary collective comprised of architect Andrew Schachman, artists Faheem Majeed and Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, and poet avery r. young, the museum barge showcased artwork from dozens of local and national artists. But for those lingering along the Chicago Riverwalk, the barge’s approach was announced by song: every Wednesday night, the group would float up the river, transporting a chorus led by young.&nbsp;Today, the Floating Museum has ascended from participants to artistic directors of the 2023 edition of the CAB, which opens September 21. Borrowing from their experience in 2017, they’ve named this year’s biennial theme, “This Is a Rehearsal.”Via The Chicago Reader&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/picasso-anniversary-celebration-museums-2174113">It’s Pablomonium! A Bonanza of Major Picasso Shows Will Hit Dozens of Museums in 2023 to Mark 50 Years Since the Artist’s Passing</a>April 8, 2023, will mark the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death, and to celebrate the incomparable artist’s legacy, museums around the globe are staging a bonanza of shows.A commission organized by the French and Spanish governments has coordinated 42 exhibitions at top European and American institutions, from the Centre Pompidou to the Mint Museum in North Carolina, all under the banner “Picasso Celebration 1973-2023.”The effort “aims to highlight the career of an essentially European artist who, with a deep knowledge of the heritage and principles of tradition, as well as an understanding of both classicism as an ethical value and of modern issues in art, has projected throughout the world universal symbols,” reads a statement from the commission.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/belinda-tate-director-indianapolis-museum-of-art-newfields-1234680000/">Newfields, Still Reeling from Controversy, Names Indianapolis Museum Director After Lengthy&nbsp;Search</a>Newfields has appointed Belinda Tate as the next director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfield, concluding a nearly four-year hiring process and crisis of identity for the 140-year-old institution.Tate comes to Indianapolis from Michigan’s Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, where she has served as executive director since 2014. She will begin her tenure on November 6 and be the first at Newfields to hold the title Melvin &amp; Bren Simon Director, which was established in February 2021 as the not-for-profit museum revamped its executive structure.Via Artnews&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 9/27/23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419287/ixscheuobmyhnppxprsa.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/william-buxton-modern-paintings">William Buxton: Modern Paintings</a>September 28Richard Norton Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419288/zbd4makbfy3u6adfpwtr.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/karl-jahnke-solo-show">Karl Jahnke: All Over the Place</a>Opening: Friday, September 29, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmChicago Truborn&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419289/dilmsiktjocg5vlxjubk.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/steve-krakow">The Secret History of Steve Krakow</a>Opening: Friday, September 29, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmFirecat Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419289/anfbbzhebonto0qonlkg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/zach-weber-then-now">Zach Weber: Then(now)</a>Opening: Friday, September 29, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmThe Golden Triangle&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Open Sept 28 - Oct 2: Part I

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419286/tii4iind9sjw30xlt8y4.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/to-be-continued">To Be Continued...</a>Opening: Friday, September 29, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmChicago Artists Coalition (CAC)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419287/phhgw4hbfakilldqyl0a.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/arc-members-50th-anniversary-exhibition">ARC Members’: 50th Anniversary Exhibition</a>Opening: Friday, September 29, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmARC Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419288/n6ozasbnxyvid0hyj4bi.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/rodney-smith-a-leap-of-faith">Rodney Smith: A Leap of Faith</a>Opening: Friday, September 29, 5 – 7:30&nbsp;pmAnne Loucks Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419289/nutgwrcfqvergx7tbrbo.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/rebecca-morris-2001-2022">Rebecca Morris: 2001-2022</a>September 30Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419289/kntftyt4nyogfbmzgtvc.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/rosy-petri">Rosy Petri</a>October 2Wadsworth Family Gallery at Lewis University&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Open Sept 28 - Oct 2: Part II

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419279/h4ryyi1sntgzrxtn8hgr.jpg"><figcaption>Wanted: More Eyes On John D. Graham, 2023.</figcaption></figure>Manneken Press Hosts Collaborative Exhibition of Works by Richard Hull and John YauManneken Press, based in downstate Bloomington, IL, is an independent fine art press publishing limited editions, unique prints, artist’s books, portfolios and drawings by leading contemporary artists, many with Chicago connections. Art critic and poet John Yau and artist Richard Hull produced a series of prints this past spring that are now part of the exhibition at Manneken on Artsy.&nbsp;Manneken co-founder Jonathan Higgins shared, "Yau and Hull are &nbsp;longtime friends and have both engaged in collaborations with others, but never until now with each other. Loosely following the format of “Wanted” posters of outlaws from the old Wild West for this project, Yau provided pithy phrases which he sketched directly onto rectangular plates. Hull used the texts as prompts, drafting abstracted portraits on a larger square plate. The three plates were placed together and printed once for the initial impression, then a second cognate or “ghost” impression was pulled, a pattern followed throughout the series.Each of the prints contains a message. Some call for more attention to under-recognized artists like John D. Graham, and Miyoko Ito. “Wanted: The Lost Movies of Anna May Wong” (2023) is a lamentation for the first Chinese-American film star whose career was diminished due to stereotyping and Hays Code censorship."The exhibition is <a href="https://www.artsy.net/partner/manneken-press">online through February 4, 2024</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.arcgallery.org/exhibitions-archive/50th-anniversary-exhibition">ARC Gallery to Open 50th Anniversary Exhibition This Weekend</a>Artist Residents of Chicago (ARC) was founded in 1973 as a women-run artists’ cooperative organization at a time when the art world refused to take women’s voices seriously. ARC in 2023 still brings innovative, emerging and experimental visual art to a wide range of viewers. As a non-commercial gallery, we are able to provide a unique atmosphere of continued artistic experimentation and dialogue.&nbsp;The public is invited to attend a reception with ARC as its members celebrate with a 50th Anniversary Members' Exhibition. For this milestone celebration, ARC presents work by members past and present. Featuring an installation piece by founding member Gerda Meyer-Bernstein, now 100 years old. One of the original alternative Chicago galleries of the 1970’s, along with Artemisia, and N.A.M.E., ARC is now the last of these great names still standing.Opening Reception Fri.&nbsp; Sept 29, 5-8pmRead CGN's feature on ARC's anniversary <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2023/6/arc-gallery-at-50">here</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419280/etyf0ypws6zd5a843jeu.jpg"><figcaption>Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977), Snared, Oil on masonite, 8 x 10 inches &nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://mailchi.mp/mongersongallery/new-to-the-gallery-gertrude-abercrombie?e=d4bddc3732">Mongerson Gallery Offers a classically enigmatic work by Gertrude Abercrombie.</a>The gallery shared the acquisition of a work by the celebrated surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie. Painted in 1967, Snared showcases Abercrombie’s penchant for dreamlike tableaux and haunting symbolism. A lone figure stands in a desolate night landscape, reaching out towards the owl before her. Behind her, her long hair is caught in the keyhole of a ghostly door— she is in limbo, snared between what she reaches towards and what holds her back. The piece was exhibited at the The Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL. Gertrude Abercrombie: An Exhibition. July 28 - October 25, 1991.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419281/cqxc4bhoopgsmirnxgxd.jpg"></figure><a href="https://andrewrafacz.com/exhibitions/chicago-exhibition-weekend-2023/">CXW &amp; ANDREW RAFACZ present Chicago Community Board</a>Andrew Rafacz Gallery announced that their now-boarded up facade on the ground floor of 1749 West Chicago Avenue, which was seriously damaged when a truck drove through the gallery window a few weeks ago – will be repurposed as a physical information board and nexus for any and all exhibitions and scheduled events citywide in the arts this fall.The gallery shared in a message, "We encourage all of our fellow galleries, institutions, artists, performers, writers and collectives to post their related show announcements, posters, maps, texts, images and memorabilia to our community board facing a bustling stretch of Chicago Avenue.The visual palimpsest of our city’s dynamic, layered arts community will continue to evolve throughout the fall season, as the gallery rebuilds behind the scenes."They Community Board launches September with Chicago Exhibition Weekend and continues once CXW is over.&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

CGN Art World Recap: 9/25/23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419279/oc6dnngxybadnuixxmsc.png"></figure><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/21/bob-ross-painting-for-sale-auction/70917462007/">Bob Ross' 1st painting from famed TV show up for auction. How much is it?</a>Happen to have $10 million lying around?If so, the first-ever painting that legendary artist Bob Ross created on his show could be yours.Via USA Today&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/nfts-are-worthless-1234680119/">Your NFTs Are Totally&nbsp;Worthless</a>A team of&nbsp;researchers have crunched the numbers to explain why you don’t see people hawking ugly cartoon apes on the internet as much anymore:&nbsp;NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, once vaunted as a revolution in&nbsp;crypto&nbsp;and digital&nbsp;art, are largely worthless.Via Artnews&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/van-gogh-museum-pokemon-tease-collaboration-in-new-trailer-2364365">The Van Gogh Museum Enters the Pokémon Universe, Teasing a Collaboration With the Beloved Pocket Monsters</a>The Van Gogh Museum and Pokémon Company have released a teaser trailer for a new and unexpected collaboration set to begin on September 28.In the video, Pikachu and Eevee can be seen running through a field of sunflowers before something in the sky catches their attention. The pocket monsters look up and see the sun and clouds transforming into the painterly style of Vincent Van Gogh—with loose brush strokes, swirls and all.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2023/09/22/chicago-architecture-biennial-2023">Thompson Center transformed for Chicago Architecture Biennial</a>Artistic directors of this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) say they're disrupting the traditional way art and architecture are presented. Though the Biennial celebrates Chicago's global reputation for architecture, the event's main goal is to highlight creativity in our neighborhoods and reimagine well-known spaces.CAB is making closed spaces more accessible and interesting, including those at the Thompson Center, closed to the public since July 2022.<ul><li>As part of the Biennial, the public will be invited inside to experience "HygroShell," a curved sculpture made of malleable timber, at the center's LaSalle entrance.</li><li>Artists are also transforming an abandoned Sprint store there into an art gallery. Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama is using natural materials to drape artwork around the steel, austere structure of the building.</li></ul>Via Axios&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 9/22/23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419279/di7oa09v6boqjcck5d99.jpg"><figcaption>JNL Graphic Design studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil. &nbsp;</figcaption></figure><a href="https://mascontext.com/observations/jnl-graphic-design-celebrating-a-studio-that-sculpted-the-visual-and-cultural-landscape-of-chicago-and-beyond">JNL Graphic Design: Celebrating a Studio that Sculpted the Visual and Cultural Landscape of Chicago and Beyond</a>As JNL Graphic Design closes its doors, we want to celebrate the remarkable contributions by Jason and Leslie with the voices of many who admire their work as clients, collaborators, and friends.Via Mas ContextJust a few of the contributors:&nbsp;<ul><li><a href="https://mascontext.com/contributors/natasha-egan">Natasha Egan</a></li><li><a href="https://mascontext.com/contributors/andrew-fenchel">Andrew Fenchel</a></li><li><a href="https://mascontext.com/contributors/tony-karman">Tony Karman</a></li><li><a href="https://mascontext.com/contributors/donnie-madia">Donnie Madia</a></li><li><a href="https://mascontext.com/contributors/john-mckinnon">John McKinnon</a></li><li><a href="https://mascontext.com/contributors/zo%C3%AB-ryan">Zoë Ryan</a></li><li><a href="https://mascontext.com/contributors/david-salkin">David Salkin</a></li><li><a href="https://mascontext.com/contributors/tony-tasset">Tony Tasset</a></li><li><a href="https://mascontext.com/contributors/richard-wright">Richard Wright</a></li></ul>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/arts-entertainment/warrant-issued-seize-schiele-drawing-art-institute-chicago">Warrant issued to seize an allegedly stolen Schiele drawing at the Art Institute</a>New York authorities have issued a warrant to seize a watercolor and pencil drawing by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele from the Art Institute of Chicago. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office issued a series of warrants last week seeking to seize three artworks created by Schiele that it believes to be stolen.Via Crain's&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jens-haaning-empty-frames-museum-loan-2364634">A Court Has Ordered an Artist to Repay a Danish Museum $72,000 for Submitting Two Empty Frames for a Commission</a>A Copenhagen court has ordered a Danish artist to repay the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art nearly $72,000 after he delivered two empty frames in lieu of a commissioned artwork in 2021, claiming that the frames were a new conceptual piece, provocatively titled Take the Money and Run.The museum had loaned the artist, Jens Haaning, 534,000 krone ($84,000) to recreate a 2007 sculpture, in the form of banknotes, titled An Average Danish Annual Income, which represented the salary using krone bills affixed to a canvas. A 2010 version used euros to represent a typical Austrian income.Via Artnet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/arts/design/van-gogh-returned-dutch-museum.html">Stolen Van Gogh Painting Is Returned in Ikea Bag</a>A Vincent van Gogh painting stolen from a Dutch museum in March 2020 was returned on Monday by a tipster, who delivered it encased in Bubble Wrap and tucked in an Ikea bag to the home of a private Dutch art crimes detective.Via NYT&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 9/20/23

<html><head></head><body>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419279/veeqo9agvpoxrs5iffcb.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/under-the-cherry-moon-solo-exhibition-by-chicago-artist-ashkon-haidari">Under the Cherry Moon: Solo exhibition&nbsp;by Chicago artist Ashkon Haidari</a>Opening: Friday, September 22, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmPovos GalleryDrawing on a deep relationship with ancient history as well as his Persian heritage, Ashkon tells contemporary stories. In layered spaces that reference centuries of graphic art, he contributes uniquely to the legacy of surrealism.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419280/en3fsy9gu4nqunx4vagw.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ben-stone-sports">Ben Stone:&nbsp;Sports!&nbsp;</a>Opening: Saturday, September 23, 5 – 8&nbsp;pm(northern) Western ExhibitionsA survey of Ben Stone’s athletics-themed work,&nbsp;SPORTS!&nbsp;opens at our second location, (northern) Western Exhibitions, in Skokie, Illinois with a free public reception on Saturday, September 23, from 5 to 8pm. Gallery hours at nWX are Wednesday to Saturday, 12-6pm and Sundays 12-4pm. The show will be accompanied by an essay by Abraham Ritchie.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419281/exvye9qacil6swcv3j8s.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/letters-lost-series-by-drago">Letters, Lost Series by Drago</a>Opening: Friday, September 22, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmT. Mari GalleryDrago captures the moment in time, his thoughts, and who he is as an artist. His focus is to express the beauty and create what inspires him like the innocence of a hug or a feeling from a kiss. Everything he produces resonates with an inner conception, a passionate introspection. What he designs is personal, innocent, and unrestrained.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419282/upbg44eppv9nvvbslw4q.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/bruno-surdo-tree-spirits">Bruno Surdo: Tree Spirits</a>Opening: Saturday, September 23, 2 – 5&nbsp;pmPAGODA REDWe are thrilled to announce that Bruno Surdo, the acclaimed painter and teacher, will be exhibiting for the first time at PAGODA RED.TREE SPIRITS is a recent body of work that manifests Surdo's mastery of classical portraiture in the deeply personal twists and turns of burls and branches.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419283/nzdldvnzbro9aawpvqqm.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/janet-trierweiler">Janet Trierweiler</a>Opening: Saturday, September 23, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmBlue Moon GalleryJanet’s work is in collections worldwide. Collectors include: Northwestern University, The Illinois Institute of Art and Fifield Companies. Her work has been featured in Voyage Chicago, Chicago Tribune, Evanston Magazine, Sheridan Road Magazine and Northwestern News.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=upcoming">VIEW CGN'S FULL CALENDAR HERE&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Open Sept 21 - 23: Part II

<html><head></head><body>By GINNY VAN ALYEAChicago’s architectural influence and legacy is known around the world, its lakeside site and modern skyline fascinating admirers of architecture and design throughout the decades and dazzling tourists every day. The city’s skyscrapers are progressive ideas and daring made real, defining the modern city and climbing to heights that continuously defy what we think could be the limits of engineering, design and physics. Two major city-wide events take place this fall: The 5th edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial opens in September and the return of Open House Chicago, put on by the Chicago Architecture Center in October.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419272/orlq6lwgs76i1w5rqv7e.jpg"><figcaption>The CAB5 curatorial team</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;Chicago Architectural BiennialThis fall the city will be the nexus of ideas about how architecture can do far more than skim the atmosphere and sell boat tour tickets when the fifth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial opens September 21. Co-led by Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, Faheem Majeed, Andrew Schachman and avery r. young–the team behind the art collective Floating Museum–CAB5: This is a Rehearsal takes an expansive view of design as an iterative rehearsal process to explore architecture, cities, and the different social, ecological, economic and political forces that shape them.&nbsp;The Biennial has examined the roles of architecture and public space since its founding, and this edition will be no different, except that the global city of 2023 is quite altered from the city of 2021, and certainly 2019. This year CAB5 is a large-scale, multilayered art exhibition that invites the public to participate in a meeting of the minds in order to consider just what is possible today that builds upon what was created in the past.&nbsp;The Chicago Architecture Biennial runs Sept 21–Jan 2, 2024<a href="https://chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org">chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org</a>&nbsp;*</body></html>

Beyond the Dazzle: Inspiration,  Admiration and Lessons in Chicago’s Architecture This Fall

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419279/kjm0n9kyjytqzzk0xyls.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/gregg-bordowitz-tetragrammaton">Gregg Bordowitz: Tetragrammaton</a>Opening: Thursday, September 21, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmCorbett vs. DempseyCorbett vs. Dempsey is honored to present Gregg Bordowitz, Tetragrammaton, featuring a selection of recent monotypes. This is CvsD’s first exhibition with Bordowitz and is the artist’s debut in a commercial gallery.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419280/mmcpjuyrludykgknmdy6.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/josiah-mcelheny-red-black-to-black-from-blue-black-to-black">Josiah McElheny: Red Black to Black, from Blue Black to Black</a>Opening: Thursday, Sep 21, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmCorbett vs. DempseyFrom Red Black to Black, from Blue Black to Black, a suite of new works including a sculpture, an installation, and four paintings by Josiah McElheny. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. &nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419280/tt5wbnesxmueqjontopv.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/deborah-stratman-laika">Deborah Stratman: Laika</a>Opening: Thursday, Sep 21, 2023 6 – 8&nbsp;pmCorbett vs. Dempsey&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419281/smqwhvkvyiafrnkpfpey.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/scottish-artist-frances-lightbound">Scottish Artist: Frances Lightbound, Tectonics</a>Opening: Thursday, September 21, 5:30 – 7:30&nbsp;pmJohn David Mooney FoundationTectonics&nbsp;is about things in process; objects out of place and/or out of time. About buildings as condensations of human and non-human activity. About navigating tides of sensation while being occasionally anchored to islands of familiarity; about objects and spaces that rhyme.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419282/irtv5awpubp9nvsdjikj.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/day-of-an-affair-owen-spryszak">Day of an Affair: Owen Spryszak</a>and<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/winter-salon-works-by-over-50-gallery-artists-be8e7ec6-c996-4231-938c-bd81ac3186d5">The Psalms: New Work by Tony Fitzpatrick</a>Both opening: Thursday, September 21, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmT.F. Projects and The Dime&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419283/qxcu1rqv7f4bfxhyfoms.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ruth-duckworth-life-as-a-unity">Ruth Duckworth: Life As a Unity</a>Opening: Thursday, September 21, 6:30 – 8:30&nbsp;pmSmart Museum of ArtThe Smart Museum of Art presents the first monographic museum exhibition devoted to Ruth Duckworth in nearly twenty years, foregrounding the artist’s sculptural production across a prolific period in Chicago and at the University of Chicago.&nbsp;*Read CGN's fall issue feature on the exhibition <a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2023/9/a-transcendant-sculptural-legacy-ruth-duckworth">here*</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419284/jqsxnzd2aepeg1vpthuc.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sequence-of-a-dream">Sequence of a Dream</a>Opening: Friday, September 22, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmChicago Printmakers CollaborativeFeaturing work by Kouki Tsuritani, Kumi Obata, and Alberto Cruz&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=upcoming">VIEW CGN'S FULL CALENDAR HERE&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Open Sept 21 - 23: Part I

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419279/gsz2boddys7iueksfzyt.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/rock-paper-scissors">Rock, Paper, Scissors</a>Alma Art &amp; InteriorsOpening: Friday, Sep 15, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmSep 15 – Nov 3 • BridgeportElizabeth Burke-Dain features a series of artworks made from ceramics, paper, and textiles in a solo debut. These works are presented in an immersive art installation setting that reflects the color, geometry, and architectural features found in her ceramic paintings. Designed to encourage participation from the owner, these artworks may be arranged in any configuration preferred, based on personal taste and available space.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419280/wwwhufwjykycmr6ibj5y.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/no-martins-encontros-politicos-political-encounters-part-2">No Martins: Encontros Políticos (Political Encounters)…Part 2</a>Mariane Ibrahim GallerySep 15 – Oct 28 • West TownNo Martins’ newest body of work confronts Brazil’s aspirational thesis of racial democracy. Through a series of nine large scale canvases, Martins depicts dark skinned Black people of varying genders, body types, friend groups, and familial dynamics in varying states of repose and interaction. Their gaze is turned towards each other, the ocean, or whatever thing they’re focused on - but never towards the viewer. Intentionally, Martins’ figures have no concern for anyone but themselves and the experience of sun, salt, and sea. In this manner, Martins gifts the Black people in his paintings an agency that is not recognized by the broader Brazilian society.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419280/jsqs7any0rk09edvhxx3.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/data-nasser-adonis-river">Dala Nasser: Adonis River</a>The Renaissance SocietyOpening: Saturday, Sep 16, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmSep 16 – Nov 26In the fall of 2023, the Renaissance Society will present the first institutional solo exhibition of Beirut and London-based artist Dala Nasser, featuring a new site-specific commission responding to the expansive height and volume of the Ren’s exhibition space.As an artist working through abstraction and alternative forms of image-making, Nasser applies an interdisciplinary approach through painting, performance, and film. Her indexical paintings of land, made through direct contact on location, stand in opposition to the sweeping vistas offered by traditional landscape painting.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419281/q1ustqtm6ur9utvryxhg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/cydney-m-lewis-beauty-amongst-the-darkness">Cydney M. Lewis: Beauty Amongst the Darkness</a>Elephant Room GalleryOpening: Friday, Sep 15, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmSep 15 – Oct 14 • South Loopydney Lewis is a multimedia artist with a multi-disciplinary and distinguished background. Currently living in Chicago, her art practice highlights the transformation and manipulation of materials. As a self-described “visual archaeologist,” Mrs. Lewis considers the intersection of the natural, spiritual, and scientific worlds. Through our current landscape, she observes nature’s perseverance and ability to adapt, and asks how we might coexist in harmony. Pattern, repetition, and constant movement form the foundation of her work. By weaving nature, technology, destruction, and beauty, she presents her intuition of the surreal and the real.&nbsp;The fluidity of her ability to transform materials reflect her mastery of ballet as well as her endeavors in film.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419283/huvql0srctnbwo8khdjh.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ornament-is-arguments-on-ornament-in-design">ornament IS – Arguments On Ornament in Design</a>Bridgeport Art CenterOpening: Friday, Sep 15, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmSep 15 – Nov 3 • Bridgeport“ornament IS”&nbsp; will document through drawings, paintings, essays and artifacts, the dominant and discarded movements of architecture and design, as well as the diverse resources of architectural ornament throughout the world history. The other goal is to exhibit an exploration of new possible theories of ornament in architecture and design and to display them as renderings, writings and artifacts.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419283/oeqbzcejmjaykpbihlpr.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-stop-motion-worlds-of-joe-baughman">The Stop Motion Worlds of Joe Baughman</a>Krasl Art CenterSep 16 – Nov 26 • St Joseph, MIImagine a production studio: You walk past the set of an attached garage – a car, workbench, and sofa inside. You can see up the steps and through the open door that the rest of the house is missing. In the background, someone is working on the battery-powered lights to some street lamps. Around the corner is a nature scene with a giant fake tree in the middle. An otherworldly creature – a cross between a bird and a bear – is resting near the tree. Beyond that, you see painted mountains. Now, imagine all of this inside someone’s home.These miniature worlds form the basis of artist Joe Baughman’s stop-motion animations, the likes of which you might have seen in music videos for Wilco, The Roots, and Julien Baker as well as his own band, Joe Baughman and the Righteous Few.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419284/ti5yiisdaqpth0ov34a6.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/through-our-eyes">Through Our Eyes</a>Istituto Italiano di CulturaSep 16 – Oct 8 • Michigan Ave.“Through Our Eyes” is a long-term photography project which launched in 2019. So far, it has involved 156 children aged 9 to 17 in Samos, home to one of the Greek islands' hotspots for migrants, in North-West Syria, in the internal displacement camps of Ad-Dana, and in the Mathare slum in Nairobi where roughly 500,000 people live in extreme poverty.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419285/zjouobipwhlloakt0pty.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/mardy-sears">Mardy Sears</a>Evanston Art CenterOpening: Saturday, Sep 16, 1 – 4&nbsp;pmSep 16 – Oct 29Mardy Sears is an Evanston artist and a member of the Evanston Made art community. She is a printmaker, ceramicist, and artist book maker. After graduating with a Masters in Fine Arts from The Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago in 2006, she began working as a Conservation Technician with a focus on paper at The Art Institute of Chicago.Mardy’s visual language includes images of animals, primarily birds and sea creatures. Her animals tell stories of humanity and connect our everyday lives to the environment we live in. She incorporates text and poetry into her image making, that is often presented in book format.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=upcoming">VIEW CGN'S FULL CALENDAR HERE&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Open Sept 15 and 16

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419272/r1yum3kc9au7s53ubxz2.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/sanford-biggers-back-to-the-stars">Sanford Biggers: Back to the Stars</a>moniquemelocheOpening: Thursday, Sep 14, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmSep 14 – Oct 28 • West TownBack to the Stars, the Biggers's fourth solo presentation with the gallery, showcases new artworks from his ever-evolving Chimera and Codex series, which juxtaposes figurative marble sculptures and quilt compositions. These new works bring aesthetic, poetic, and social insights to the intertwining stories embedded in material culture. Biggers’ creative processes recognize and conflate syncretic impulses between aesthetic expressions from seemingly disparate societies and histories, transforming them into rigorously formal and conceptual new works.Biggers’ Chimera sculptures combine various African and European masks, busts, and figures that explore historical depictions of the body and their subsequent myths, narratives, archetypes, perceptions, and power.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419273/nxsaahxczy8oqcfie0oa.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/anna-kunz-rosy">Anna Kunz: ROSY</a>McCormick GalleryOpening: Thursday, Sep 14, 2023 5 – 7&nbsp;pmSep 14 – Oct 27 • West LoopROSY is a new body of work featuring thirty small oil paintings and eight works on paper.&nbsp;Anna has also installed one of her beautiful diaphanous, curtained installations — layers of dyed and printed textiles hanging from the ceiling before the gallery’s front window. The conversation between the arrangement of small oils and the undulating curtain of color serves as a reminder that immersiveness, architectural intervention (“softening,” as she puts it), and shared experience are crucial themes for Kunz. She intends her installations to create a social space that encourages reflection and invites multiple points of view — "Compassionate Geometry."&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419274/mefqwlqwhlmsqy2zz4pl.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/harriet-monroe-the-open-door">Harriet Monroe &amp; the Open Door</a>Poetry FoundationOpening: Thursday, Sep 14, 7 – 8&nbsp;pmSep 14 – Jan 13, 2024 • River NorthHarriet Monroe (1860–1936) was a poet, a critic, and the founding editor of Poetry magazine whose steadfast commitment to the art form and its creators altered the course of American literary history.&nbsp;Harriet Monroe &amp; the Open Door maps the evolution of Monroe’s editorial philosophy, locating it within the cultures and structures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This exhibition includes original artwork by Lilli Carré alongside archival photographs, letters, and other documents from Monroe’s life.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419275/k0ojtwhaklggsktkn68v.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/not-just-another-pretty-face">Not Just Another Pretty Face</a>Hyde Park Art Center&nbsp;Opening: Thursday, Sep 14, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmSep 14 – Nov 5The exhibition commemorates the 2020 and 2023 installments of the Not Just Another Pretty Face project. The triennial program, created by Hyde Park Art Center in the mid-1990s, allows the Art Center to play matchmaker for artists and potential art buyers. This dynamic project facilitates a fun and accessible commissioning process that builds lasting relationships between artists and patrons, creates a new base of support for artists, and invests in the vitality of Chicago’s cultural community. The completion of each installment is celebrated by an exhibition, a catalog documenting the process, and a lively event to unveil the finished pieces, which will make their way to the patrons’ homes following the exhibition.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419275/uiuzwfmxliwchhz4gg0c.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/material-revolution-ii">Material Revolution II</a>Pistachios Contemporary Jewelry Gallery&nbsp;Opening: Thursday, Sep 14, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmSep 14 – Nov 12 • River North&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419276/mju1154ufkejuzgfgujf.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-resilience-of-hope-new-works-by-carrie-seid">The Resilience of Hope: New Works by Carrie Seid</a>gallery 1871Opening: Thursday, Sep 14, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmSep 14 – Nov 14 • Lincoln ParkSeid's colorful squares of acrylic, mylar and vinyl reflect the light and offer an image of hope.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=upcoming">VIEW CGN'S FULL CALENDAR HERE&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Open Sept 14

<html><head></head><body><a href="https://news.artnet.com/market/nicole-berry-armory-show-2023-plans-2354456">Armory Show Director Nicole Berry on Hiring Women Curators to ‘Challenge the Canon,’ and What’s in Store for the Fair Now That It’s Owned by Frieze</a>The unexpected news that the international art fair conglomerate Frieze would acquire the Armory Show and Expo Chicago in July set the art world wondering what changes might be afoot for the upcoming New York fair, which has been an art world mainstay since its founding in 1994.“It will be business as usual,” fair director Nicole Berry told Artnet News, noting that when the sale went through, “everything was already well in place” for the fair’s 2023 edition, which opens this week at the Javits Center on Manhattan’s West Side.Via Artnet&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419263/syplxqw0qxxumln7y46r.jpg"><figcaption>Credit: The Obama FoundationObama Presidential Center construction</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/nonprofits-philanthropy/obama-presidential-center-chicago-south-side-tour">Inside and around the Obama Presidential Center as it rises in Jackson Park</a>It’s still far too early to tell whether it indeed will be a transformative project, one that will raise Chicago’s profile and change the direction of a big chunk of the South Side for better — or, according to a few critics, for worse.But after years of planning and raising well over $1 billion, the Obama Presidential Center finally has emerged from the ground as a physical presence in Jackson Park, just across the street from Hyde Park Academy High School and a quick walk from the University of Chicago campus.Via Crain's&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/british-museum-cataloging-debacle-2356464">A Weak Cataloguing System Made It Easy to Steal From the British Museum. Institutions Around the Globe Are Reckoning With the Same Vulnerabilitie</a>sGreece’s culture minister Lina Mendoni wrote a blistering commentary in response to the ongoing scandal at the British Museum, where it has come to light that more than 1,500 items from the collection were stolen by a staff member.“The thefts by the responsible curator, but also the proud silence of the leaders who neither take care of their collections nor implement the appropriate security measures, proves that the ‘hospitality’ provided to the Parthenon marbles at the British Museum has always been flawed, incomplete, and problematic,” she stated in opinion piece for <a href="https://www.tanea.gr/print/2023/08/29/opinions/praksi-dikaiosynis-cri-epanenosi-ton-glypton-crtou-parthenona-stin-athina/">Ta Nea</a>.Via Artnet&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 9/10/23

<html><head></head><body><h3>September 9</h3>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419272/u3ahidebn8ylhipnuwak.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/danny-j-martinez-aka-van-dam-one-leopard-brains-solo-show">Danny J Martinez (aka Van Dam One) "Leopard Brains" Solo Show</a>Vertical GalleryOpening: Saturday, Sep 9, 12 – 5&nbsp;pmSep 9 – 30 • West Town‘Leopard Brains,’&nbsp;features more than two dozen new paintings and sketches, all exquisitely rendered in Martinez’s colorful pop-surrealist style.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419273/vxvytljbvywcvagypjkg.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/cameron-spratley-violets-and-daisies">Cameron Spratley: Violets and Daisies</a>M. LeBlancSep 9 – Oct 29 • Logan SquareM. LeBlanc is proud to present its second solo exhibition with Richmond-born, Chicago-based Cameron Spratley, Titled ‘Violets and Daisies’, the exhibition brings together a body of work Spratley has been developing over the past two years.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419274/adurq9fuefjwwtgqbmmz.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/deborah-maris-lader-the-air-water-show">Deborah Maris Lader –&nbsp;The Air &amp; Water Show</a>Bert Green Fine ArtOpening: Saturday, Sep 9, 3 – 5&nbsp;pmThru Sep 30 • Michigan Ave. / The LoopDeborah Maris Lader is the founder and director of the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative. She makes prints, drawings, and mixed media artworks, primarily driven by representational styles but with an eye for experimentation. Thematically, her diverse output emphasizes the fragility of life, while celebrating it at the same time. This show is a selection of many years of her printmaking, some of which utilizes non-traditional materials and methods.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419275/hohwnys9ivsh9mafiufp.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ghosts-of-displacement">Ghosts of Displacement</a>Opening: Saturday, Sep 9, 5 – 7&nbsp;pmSep 9 – Oct 1 • EvanstonPerspective Photo GalleryThis poignant series delves into the artist's family history, where the echoes of displacement and survival resonate deeply.&nbsp;&nbsp;Through her exploration of photographs, papers, and cherished objects carried by her family across an ocean, Frangos enters a profound connection with the ghosts of the displaced. In each composition, she seeks communion with these spectral figures, honoring their legacy while sharing a post-war migrant experience that resonates with countless others. The series&nbsp;serves as a reminder of the profound impact our family histories have on shaping who we are today.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419276/j269rsomdbsg4qni7ojm.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/gallery-closing-event">Closing Celebration for Weinberg/Newton Gallery</a>Weinberg/Newton GallerySaturday, Sep 9, 6 – 9&nbsp;pm • River WestJoin the gallery for a celebratory closing party to commemorate the hard work and creativity of the Weinberg/Newton Gallery team and the numerous exhibiting artists, who worked hard to engage the Chicago community through a wide range of social justice issues through art. Food and refreshments will be served. <a href="https://weinbergnewtongallery.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=13d5172bf37bbf601de9678f4&amp;id=e450e3b5d8&amp;e=dd04d0a94f">RSVP here</a> &nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419277/odvrtp1kpsfmb2snhgih.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/kaveri-raina-songs-of-silence-yet-bluebirds-hum">Kaveri Raina : Songs of silence, yet bluebirds hum</a>PATRONOpening: Saturday, Sep 9, 5 – 7:30&nbsp;pmSep 9 – Nov 4 • West TownKaveri Raina’s multilayered paintings emerge from the artist's unique approach to narrative construction; a performed collection of gestures and events that evoke a chorus of abstraction coiled through the threads of visual storytelling. While referencing various sources of imagery from the personal to the art historical, her visual language of recurring, abstract forms are culled from a net of art history, cinema, and fantasy. Painted entirely on heavy, pigmented burlap, Raina transforms the agrarian material into a diaphanous screen across and through which she pours and contours acrylic paint that is then further obfuscated through layers of loose graphite, oil paint, and pastel. Visible on both sides of the porous, rough fabric, the compositions appear as fleeting, momentary constellations of information.&nbsp;<h3>September 10</h3>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419278/rscfra1mh8tcg8jrtdvc.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/scott-wolniak">Scott Wolniak: Crosscurrents</a>GoldfinchOpening: Sunday, Sep 10, 2 – 5&nbsp;pmSep 10 – Oct 21 • East Garfield ParkWolniak's newest&nbsp;paintings can be seen as outward projections of interior spaces,&nbsp;manifesting the artist’s interest in the ways that abstraction can convey a sense of rhythm, transformation, groundlessness, and internal movement. These lively, densely-layered works oscillate between their indexical, physical surfaces and illusory fields of depth, cultivating a non-objective visual language that embodies the energy of natural phenomena, without explicitly depicting it.<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=upcoming">VIEW CGN'S FULL CALENDAR HERE&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;#</body></html>

New Exhibitions Open Sept 9 & 10

<html><head></head><body>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419272/jkzuenshxfarddgbnzah.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/maria-tomasula">Maria Tomasula</a>Zolla / Lieberman GallerySep 8 – Oct 14 • River NorthOpening: Friday, Sep 8, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmAs long ago as the 1990s Maria Tomasula's paintings incorporated motifs still present in her work including spaces closed off by hanging draperies or textured walls, and cultural artifacts often depicted in midair. What has evolved in her output is the deliberation she brings to rendering her apparitional arrays. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419273/mwluun3j17sicfjghwxn.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/seeing-race-before-race">Seeing Race Before Race</a>Newberry LibrarySep 8 – Dec 30 • Gold CoastRace is a powerful and challenging concept. When, where, and why did conceptions of race come into being? How might learning about its history help us better understand the complex role that race plays in our lives today?&nbsp;&nbsp;Centuries before the term race came into popular use, people around the world used distinctions like language, dress, class, geography, and religion—in addition to traits like skin color or facial features—to categorize each other. Seeing Race Before Race explores these early expressions of race in medieval and early modern Europe between 1100 and 1800.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419273/mecn0ykc3rblbqrspcoa.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/the-outsider-in-celebration-of">THE OUTSIDER/ In Celebration Of</a>Carl Hammer GalleryOpening: Friday, Sep 8, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmSep 8 – Dec 16 • River NorthA group show of work by historically significant artists within the “Outsider” and self-taught genres, including internationally renowned artists Henry Darger, Bill Traylor, Joseph Yoakum,&nbsp;Lee Godie and others.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419274/qarzzjzcp6yjv8frrgpc.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/robin-denevan-portals-and-passages-new-encaustic-paintings">Robin Denevan: Portals and Passages, New Encaustic paintings</a>Addington GalleryOpening: Friday, Sep 8, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmSep 8 – Nov 1 • River NorthThroughout his career, Robin has been inspired by his travels to a few of the world's great rivers. Many of his paintings are based on drawings he did of the Yangtze River in an area that has since been dammed and flooded. It was a unique opportunity to see such a magnificent and haunting landscape. He did these studies during the dry season when sandbars and islands cut the river into many paths.Eschewing the use of a camera as a tool of reference, Denevan relies solely on the charcoal and sketchbooks he brings with him as he and a guide explore these mighty rivers together in small boats and canoes.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419275/wffe0zjyqsbkbtdiidhr.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/bruno-surdo-new-paintings">Bruno Surdo, New Paintings</a>Gallery VictorOpening: Friday, Sep 8, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmSep 8 – 30 • River NorthSurdo strives to communicate a message to the viewer – to engage the person in a conversation between what he puts forth and what he or she can then interpret. The interchange of response and curiosity are goals the artist set when composing his ideas. Surdo believes art is a continual form of expression and he feels committed to search for a language that brings his thoughts and feelings to the surface.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419276/ckny93awtcxms4k0np8b.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/adonis">Adonis: This is How Love Arrives</a>Opening: Friday, Sep 8, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmSep 8 – Dec 30 • River NorthHilton ContemporaryThis is How Love Arrives is the debut solo exhibition of original works on paper by 93-year-old Syrian Nobel Prize-nominated poet, critic, essayist, and translator, Adonis. Born in Syria in 1930, ADONIS (nee Ali Ahmad Said Esber) is considered “the greatest living poet of the Arab world.” A secularist, he was imprisoned as a young man in Syria for his political views. In 1956, he fled to exile in Lebanon, where he led a modernist movement that revolutionized Arabic poetry. He moved to Paris in 1985 where he has lived for nearly 40 years. In 1997, the French government awarded him the Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, one of the highest honors by the French Ministry of Culture, and in 2012 named him Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honor) for not only his poetry, but for his contributions as a thought leader.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419277/jsj70r4teid9ruhlwo4s.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/paul-brourman-chicago-looks-good-on-you">You Wear It Well: Paintings by Paul Brourman</a>Opening: Friday, Sep 8, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmSep 8 – Oct 14 • River NorthJean Albano GalleryWorking mainly in the medium of oils, Paul Brourman’ssubjects include portraiture, landscapes, western subjects related to Montana’s rich history. His works are a product of classical training in contemporary realism with hints of impressionistic brushwork. The works in this show also have a distinctly Chicago theme.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=upcoming">VIEW CGN'S FULL CALENDAR HERE&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;#</body></html>

New Exhibitions Open Sept 8: Part II 

<html><head></head><body>Publisher's Note:&nbsp;The start of the fall art season is arguably the biggest of the year. Nearly every gallery and museum opens a major exhibition and there is an energy that is unmistakable. We encourage you to try to see what interests you, visit old favorites and discover and explore new ones too. There is simply no way to see every new show on opening night, so don't limit yourself to which spaces have receptions and free wine. Visit when it's quieter on a Saturday morning or leave work early during the week and go with a friend. Galleries are also more than happy to set up private appointments and tours as well.&nbsp;For these early September exhibition previews we are indicating opening dates as well as neighborhood so that you can plan as best as possible.&nbsp;Happy gallery hopping and enjoy the fall!&nbsp;– CGN&nbsp;<h3>September 7</h3><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419263/gi8c3nedvcnyjo9hinj0.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/love-still-not-the-lesser-d319b8f0-5cc0-4537-b973-2fb4204326ad">LOVE: Still Not the Lesser</a>Museum of Contemporary PhotographySept 7–Dec 22 • &nbsp;South LoopOpening Sept 7, 5–8pmLOVE: Still Not the Lesser brings together 12 international artists uniting across communities to share the ways they’ve encountered and understand love. Together, these artists explore dynamics within sensual eroticism, romantic partnership, family structures, social utopia, and life and death. The exhibition presents a world where love as a universal value of respect and care for all humans has been fully achieved.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419264/kaxtlxk8mdjhmyv9qtec.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/life-cycles">Life Cycles: Learning Studio</a>DePaul University Art Museum (DPAM)Sept 7, 2023 – Feb 11, 2024 • Lincoln Park“Life Cycles” will include artworks from the DPAM's permanent collection in conversation with contemporary Chicago artists who are not yet represented in the collection. With more than 50 artists, “Life Cycles” will feature paintings, sculptures, video, photography, drawings, installation and other multi-media work. Museum staff collaborated with DePaul University undergraduates to select artworks from the collection, write educational texts, and plan public programs.&nbsp;<h3>September 8</h3>&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419265/nsfkij1eoviwuxqqp2fy.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/chris-cosnowski">Chris Cosnowski: Morality Play</a>ENGAGE ProjectsSep 8 – Oct 14 • West TownOpening: Friday, Sep 8, 5:30 – 8&nbsp;pmCosnowski takes his hard-edged hyperrealism to another level using allegory, historical reference, and mass-produced objects to question today’s guidelines for moral development. Pairing real objects together to recreate symbols of nationalist ideologies, religious influences, and social constructs, Cosnowski dismantles propaganda simply by asking questions with paint. The title Morality Play references Cosnowski’s light-hearted representations of cultural objects that elucidate just how fragile, yet persistently ubiquitous these ideas can be.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419266/fwonm4jbfuxj50gga7do.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lauren-wy-the-runner">Lauren Wy: The Runner</a>Western ExhibitionsSep 8 – Oct 28 • West TownOpening: Friday, Sep 8, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmThe Runner, a new animated film and project series by Lauren Wy, foregrounds her second solo show at Western Exhibitions. Taking a cue from late 60’s and early 70’s films, especially Le Weekend by Jean-Luc Godard, the animation and its attendant sculptural edition distill the spirit of fantasy escapism, of running away into a dream.Wy’s animated film is a surrealist collage experiment utilizing analog processes with digital tools and altered frame rates to create a time-based pseudo-narrative drawing that embraces a raw provisionality. The short film is presented alongside a series of large-scale drawings and paintings on thin, mechanically flat synthetic surfaces.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419267/atdijkptj7hwkxlgmuzx.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/bassim-al-shaker-four-minutes">Bassim Al Shaker: Four Minutes</a>Rhona Hoffman GallerySep 8 – Oct 21 • West TownOpening: Friday, Sep 8, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmBassim Al Shaker is an Iraqi&nbsp;artist&nbsp;based in the United States. Bassim was born and raised in Baghdad, Iraq, during a period of political conflict and humanitarian torment. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Baghdad College of Fine Arts, with a focus on drawing and painting. His style is the culmination of a background in academic drawing and painting techniques and exploration in contemporary&nbsp;art.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419268/wjyhazj80qvemh5k8nb3.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/in-the-mist-of-a-great-fall-the-niagara-paintings">In The Mist of a Great Fall: The Niagara Paintings</a>Oliva GallerySep 8 – Oct 7 • Logan SquareOpening: Friday, Sep 8, 5 – 9&nbsp;pmIn this, his third solo-exhibition, Curtis Anthony Bozif broadens the scope of his recent work, informed by environments of the Great Lakes, to include the falls at Niagara. This new series of large-scale abstractions, rooted in observation and in place, assay tone and the prismatic color spectrum.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419268/euh41mcl7jim2bfzcvxd.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/stephen-burks">Stephen Burks: Spirit Houses</a>Volume GalleryOpening: Friday, Sep 8, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmSep 8 – Oct 28 • West TownA series of modern altars, Spirit Houses builds upon Burks’ radical design speculation in the form of six unique typologies contemplating spirituality in our contemporary lives. The accompanying essay “On Cosmologies: Stephen Burks Approaches the Sacred” by Najha Zigbi Johnson, offers deeper reflection into the religio-spiritual origins of Burks’ newest body of work.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419269/nmvxu86vji4wefoali1l.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/jimmy-desana-suburban">Jimmy DeSana: Suburban</a>DOCUMENTOpening: Friday, Sep 8, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmSep 8 – Oct 28 • West TownDeSana's series Suburban not only challenges the divide between artistic and commercial photography that was still prevalent in the 1970s, but also a range of other commonly held binaries such as male and female, gay and straight, domination and submission, suburban culture and private self-exploration, standardized domesticity and the subjectivity of sexual pleasure, among others. Yet, by staging puzzling domestic scenarios with nude figures under colorful tungsten lights, DeSana did not intend to step into the territory of erotic photography. Instead, he used the body to resignify daily objects and spaces, ultimately shedding light on the strangeness of suburban lives dominated by consumerism.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419270/iwfmh6qejmfpqjwxxxay.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/lee-stanton-out-of-the-blue">Lee Stanton: Out of the Blue</a>ARC GalleryOpening: Friday, Sep 8, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmThru Sept 23 • West TownAccording to Buddha, “When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”White on blue. A line.&nbsp;An identifiable path created by a point moving in space. Look up! Lines,&nbsp;a trail of condensed water from an aircraft at high altitude, a white streak&nbsp;across&nbsp;the sky. Intangible,&nbsp;the&nbsp;sky&nbsp;has no surface; it&nbsp;cannot be turned into a thing or given a quantity. It may represent infinity, eternity, immortality, transcendence, or simply inspiration.&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419271/qkbxf4bfnip2vq2c4srn.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/reception-tom-robinson-loralyn-kumlin">Tom Robinson &amp; Loralyn Kumlin</a>SoNa Chicago Art GalleryOpening: Friday, Sep 8, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmSep 8 – Oct 14 • Wicker Park / BucktownIn the early months of isolation during the pandemic, artists Tom Robinson and Loralyn Kumlin began renovating a huge vintage dollhouse that they found discarded in a Chicago alley. They collected and furnished the rooms with miniature furniture and accessories and then made miniature copies of their full-scale artwork to adorn the walls of the dollhouse. Wonderful work emerged from that effort as they moved on to create their own structures, paintings, and miniatures. Their new work and the dollhouse are featured in the exhibition.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events?filter=upcoming">VIEW CGN'S FULL CALENDAR HERE&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;#</body></html>

New Exhibitions Open Sept 7 & 8: Part I

<html><head></head><body><a href="https://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-randolph-street-market-celebrating-20-years/9390?fbclid=IwAR3e_7vL_z8z1XkfCI56VytYKV_0J9JlBG6LRAqxMWF3KyhxpKno2C3CW9E">The Randolph Street Market: Celebrating 20 Years</a>Asked to describe her creation, Chicago entrepreneur Sally Schwartz put it this way: the Randolph Street Market is “a unique fancy antiques and vintage market with emphasis on vintage fashion, decorative arts, and arts of all kinds,” she said. But there’s more, and this is key. “It is a city market, for a demographic that is urban, richer, and younger.”Via Maine Antiques Digest&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/09/01/the-week-in-art-british-museum-in-crisisan-in-depth-look">The Week in Art: The British Museum in crisis—an in-depth look</a>In the first episode of this new season of The Week in Art, we talk to Martin Bailey, The Art Newspaper’s London correspondent, about the <a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/keywords/british-museum-thefts">thefts scandal at the British Museum</a> and its implications for the museum in the future.Via the Art Newspaper&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419263/s7mdpfqqhvxehf8q61r8.jpg"><figcaption>Dale Chihuly at the Boathouse, his Seattle studio. Photo ©Chihuly Studio. &nbsp;</figcaption></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/dale-chihuly-the-boathouse-studio-2356390">Step Inside Artist Dale Chihuly’s Stunning Seattle Studio, Filled With an Epic Antiques Collection and His Otherworldly Glass Forms</a>You may think you know all there is to know about <a href="https://www.artnet.com/artists/dale-chihuly/">Dale Chihuly</a>, master of glass, whose delicate handblown creations take the medium to the realm of fine art.But stepping inside the Boathouse, the former Seattle boatbuilding workshop on Lake Union that has served as the headquarters of his artistic production since 1989, reveals a museum-like space that celebrates not only Chihuly’s curvaceous, colorful glass forms, but the artist’s many decades of collecting both art and antiques.Via Artnet&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 9/5/23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419263/ivl8nor2z0xo3lhqx7qq.jpg"><figcaption>Barbara Rossi, 1973. Photo: Mary Baber/Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.</figcaption></figure><a href="https://www.artforum.com/news/barbara-rossi-1940-2023-90936">Barbara Rossi (1940–2023)</a>Barbara Rossi, a former Catholic nun whose passion for painting led her to join the amorphous, irreverent group of artists who rose to prominence in the late 1960s and ’70s as the Chicago Imagists, has died at eighty-three.Via Art Forum&nbsp;<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/8/27/23805042/folk-art-chicago">Folk art across Chicago offers glimpse into pure creativity</a>If you ask someone where to go to see art in Chicago, they will likely direct you to the Art Institute, or perhaps to the Daley Plaza Picasso and its nearby cousin, Alexander Calder’s Flamingo in Federal Plaza.But to the junkyard at 30th Street and Kedzie? Probably not, even though this extravaganza of hand-painted advertising is one of the city’s most glorious examples of public art. To the thousands of stone carvings that line the Lake Michigan shore? Only a bit less unlikely, despite being the city’s most massive repository of outdoor sculpture.Via Chicago Sun Times&nbsp;<a href="https://hyperallergic.com/841064/the-trump-mug-shot-memes-are-here/">The Trump Mug Shot Memes Are Here</a>The world was waiting with bated breath for the release of Donald Trump’s mug shot after he was arrested at Fulton County Jail for felony charges over alleged attempts to overthrow the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia. The long-anticipated photo graced the internet Thursday night, August 24, setting both conservative and liberal spheres ablaze with immediate merchandising opportunities, strong emotions, and confirmation of the general un-seriousness of American politics by the way of memes — so let us ring in this historic moment with a curation of the finest.Via Hyperallergic&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

What We're Reading: 8/29/23

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419263/ueuwvmgcijmuw4l363q4.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/ground-truthing-a-solo-show-by-doug-dewitt">Doug DeWitt: Ground Truthing - Promises, Laments and Tipping Points</a>Exhibition begins August 31Kavanagh Gallery at Fine Line Creative Arts Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419264/jdawefi9a16fuamcgnnx.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/storywork-the-prints-of-marie-watt">Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt</a>Exhibition begins August 31Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419265/jr44vupk23ujwhiv8xqu.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/impressions">Impressions: Sammir Sammoun &amp; John C. Traynor</a>Opening: Friday, September 1, 5 – 8&nbsp;pmLily Pad | West&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419266/kivfjuqhdv4s2pckitp3.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/dan-friedman-stay-radical">Dan Friedman: Stay Radical</a>Exhibition begins September 2The Art Institute of Chicago&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419267/y5iycatru1cr9bln2wn3.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/6th-midwest-open">6th Midwest Open</a>Opening: Saturday, September 2, 4 – 7&nbsp;pmWoman Made Gallery&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

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