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

Preview of First Shows of January 2022: Part I

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

These 2021 Exhibitions are Closing Soon

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

What We're Reading: 12/21/21

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

2022: A Full Art Year in Real Life

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418988/flama1khtltluxdmo3gt.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/mike-egan">In Memory Of: New Works by Mike Egan</a>Opening: Friday, December 17, 7 – 10&nbsp;pmFirecat Projects"For my latest show “In Memory Of” I wanted to continue exploring classic themes from my past and the thoughts of getting older. As I continue to age I'm constantly battling the idea of religion and how it shows up in my art and in my life. I also continue to explore themes of death and how as I get older what that means to me. There are also elements of relationships in these works. As I continue on with life people can slowly go away, people die, friendships and relationships end, etc. I like to think that my paintings are a bit of a photograph or diary entry that I can look back at well of course get older."&nbsp;Mike Egan&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418989/dzdhcuegfygl40zxix6m.png"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/idol-hands">Idol Hands</a>Opening: Friday, December 17, 6 – 8&nbsp;pmEpiphany Center for the ArtsA group show dedicated to craft at Epiphany Center for the Arts.Chicago-based artist, muralist, and sculptural fabricator Czr Prz is pleased to present Idol Hands, the latest group show of his own curation. Dedicated to craft, fabrication, and structure, this exhibitionpresents new and original works by fifteen artists from across the United States, each selected for their unique approach to 3D and material-based work.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418990/ztv5spqxwofkefhtemet.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/where-art-works-artist-communities-and-creative-placemaking-how-a-northside-studio-building-became-a-community-anchor">“Where Art Works: Artist Communities and Creative Placemaking,” How a Northside Studio Building Became a Community Anchor</a>Opening: Friday, December 17, 6 – 9&nbsp;pmEat Paint StudioSixteen artists whose studios are located at the Cornelia Arts Building in Roscoe Village will participate in a group exhibition at Eat Paint Studio.In addition to maintaining their private art practices at The Cornelia Arts Building, each of these artists participates in the larger Chicago community through teaching, public art projects, lectures, coordinating group exhibitions and art experiences, open studio events, and other professional creative practices. Being an artist requires entrepreneurial skills but, unlike operating a small business, commercial activity is not the end goal in the studio. Rather, the artist’s studio is a third place -- a space to experiment and discover, to envision the future, and to manifest connections.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418991/kh01vwdundmwomyu5fdp.jpg"></figure><a href="https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/3rd-arc-pauline-kochanski">3rd-Arc: Pauline Kochanski</a>Opening: Friday, December 17, 5 – 10&nbsp;pmOliva GalleryThis exhibition is the third show in a series of four presentations, beginning in 2017 with “The Past is Still With Us”, continued in 2018 with“Reflections” and now in 2021 with “3rd-Arc.” The series will culminate with a fourth exhibit, dates to be decided. This cycle of work reflects my interest in the pain and suffering caused by the Holocaust in Europe and other holocausts where people are considered else less than by others. While the circle of my life continues to expand, this exploration, this circle closes with the final exhibition tentatively titled, “Roots.”&nbsp;&nbsp;</body></html>

New Exhibitions Start December 17 & 18

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

Talks This Coming Week: December 15 - 21

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

CGN Art World Recap: 12/14

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418988/iggk22k2sgt2jptqwgdm.jpg"></figure>&nbsp;VIA PR &nbsp;CHICAGO [December 8, 2021]—The Chicago-based <a href="https://gddf.org/">Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation</a> (the Foundation)—which supports land conservation, artistic vitality, and regional collections for the people of the Chicago region and the Lowcountry of South Carolina—is proud to announce the 11 recipients of the Foundation’s groundbreaking “Broadening Narratives” initiative which aims to fund specific collections projects that bring forward underrepresented stories. The eight Chicago-based organizations are the Bronzeville Black Chicagoan Historical Society, Chicago History Museum, Chicago Public Art Group, Lewis University, Muslim American Leadership Alliance, Puerto Rican Arts Alliance, South Side Community Art Center and Trickster Cultural Center while the three organizations based in the Lowcountry of South Carolina to receive the grant are Clemson University, Gibbes Museum of Art and The Educational Foundation of the University of South Carolina Lancaster.This announcement represents the second round of organizations to receive the Broadening Narratives grant. All projects promote BIPOC communities, LGBTQ+ perspectives, working-class narratives, small community experiences, as well as other underrepresented groups and viewpoints. Additionally, the Foundation renewed its $25,000 grant to each of the five Broadening Narratives advisory groups that assisted with the formation of the Broadening Narratives funding initiative: Black Metropolis Research Consortium, Chicago Collections Consortium, Chicago Cultural Alliance, the College of Charleston’s Lowcountry Digital Library, and the Southeastern Museums Conference.“While the purpose of collections is to ensure that stories are preserved, many narratives are overlooked because of decisions based on race, gender, sexual identity, educational background, economic or social status, or because they are perceived to be outside the conventional thinking of the day,” said David Farren, Executive Director of the Foundation. “We are thrilled to announce these grant recipients and want to thank these organizations for being part of this new way forward in collections thinking that focuses on telling broader and more inclusive narratives.”&nbsp;The Chicago-based organizations and projects to be funded by Broadening Narratives:·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bronzeville Black Chicagoan Historical Society (BHS) will work with a metadata specialist to better understand, code, and describe their collection which has been scattered between several storage units for the past 20 years. Funds will also support BHS’ transition to their newly opened space in the historic Parkway Ballroom building. This work will help create additional historical resources about the African Americans who helped shape Chicago and America be made available to children and a broader audience.“Bronzeville is recognized as one of the most vibrant, historic and culturally important African American communities in Chicago,” said Founder Sherry Williams. “Clearly, the Foundation recognized the importance of preserving our archive holdings and thanks to the Broadening Narratives grant, photographs and documents in the archive will soon reach thousands via our new metadata project.”&nbsp;·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Chicago History Museum (CHM) will collaborate with community partners to recover and integrate missing voices into its permanent exhibition, Chicago: Crossroads of America, that aims to provide a full representation of the people who are part of Chicago's history and future. A new signature exhibition will showcase and interpret CHM's collection in ways that are compelling and accessible to a diverse public and preserve access within the communities represented by avoiding extracting materials from their rightful places.“The Broadening Narratives initiative is a rare, yet critical, grant model that supports the deep community engagement required for any organization hoping to reflect our history back to us in meaningful and accessible ways,” said Senior Vice President John Russick. “We are grateful for the support of the Foundation and understand the responsibility we carry as the city's history museum to seek and share a full and inclusive story of Chicago.”&nbsp;·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chicago Public Art Group (CPAG) – a 49-year-old organization that has contracted artists to create murals across a span of Chicago neighborhoods and gave birth to the Chicago mural movement – will catalog their archive of community murals and the artists who worked on them, making the information accessible to the public. "CPAG is grateful for this funding and opportunity to analyze and organize its archives with the goal of sharing the research to the public, including the history and language of Chicago's communities," said Executive Director Chantal Healey. "With CPAG's 50th anniversary starting in 2022, this grant could not have come at a more important time as CPAG plans to unveil its archives at an exhibit at Chicago Art Department in September and October 2022."&nbsp;·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lewis University was selected by the Council of Independent Colleges to join a collaborative group that will surface the unheard narratives of Black communities along the Illinois and Michigan Canal, with an emphasis on Joliet, as part of the Legacies of American Slavery project. The digitization of pertinent materials will ultimately result in a digital exhibition and two traveling physical exhibitions with accompanying public programs developed to bring greater awareness of these narratives.“The 20th&nbsp;century history of African Americans in Joliet includes the prominent role of Black churches, which serve not only as religious institutions, but also as hubs for the region’s civil rights movements,” said Dr. Laura Franklin, Dean of General Education and College of Humanities, Fine Arts &amp; Communications at Lewis University. “This grant will make it possible to recover first-hand narratives of this period, and also to engage new audiences in learning about this history.”&nbsp;·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Muslim American Leadership Alliance (MALA) will enhance its oral history project, Muslim American Journeys, with additional stories from Chicago's Black Muslim community. In addition to recording up to ten new interviews, MALA will revisit past Chicago interviewees to record updated testimonials. "MALA's goal is to use the power of storytelling to amplify the voices of Black Muslims in Chicago and broaden the cultural narrative to be more inclusive, diverse, and equitable,” said Deputy Director and Co-FounderAhmed Flex Omar. “We are honored to have the support of the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; this funding will empower MALA to embark on a more robust approach to oral history work that will allow the voices of Chicago's Black Muslim communities to receive the recognition, respect, and consideration they deserve."&nbsp;·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Puerto Rican Arts Alliance (PRAA) will plan for the expansion of its El Archivo Project with images and stories of Chicago's Puerto Rican/Latinx LGBTQ community, in partnership with the Association of Latinx Action (ALMA), Chicago’s only Latinx LGBTQ organization. The funds will support a preliminary scan of available materials and themes, engage community stakeholders, and help form an advisory committee to move the project forward.&nbsp;“The Puerto Rican Arts Alliance is excited to receive funding from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation,” said Founder &amp; Executive Director Carlos Hernandez. “This special support now allows PRAA to deepen its El Archivo Project research and meaningfully connect with first voice LGBTQ+ Latino(a) pioneers and other leaders. Our El Archivo Project would be incomplete without this inclusion, and the important narratives this community will bring to the table.”&nbsp;·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC) will conserve and digitize works by Black women artists and organizers affiliated with this important organization. The project will stabilize select artwork and assemblages of historic materials, which will then be digitized and made available on the University of Chicago's Visual Resources Center and on SSCAC's website through a platform that creates interactive historical narratives incorporating images from the archives and collections.“Since its founding in 1940 by artists and community members including Dr. Margaret Burroughs, the South Side Community Art Center has always been a haven for the work of Black women as both artistic creators and community organizers,” said Executive Director Monique Brinkman-Hill. “We are especially grateful for the support that will enable us to present their work in its full glory.”&nbsp;&nbsp;·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Trickster Cultural Center – a creative and community hub for Native peoples in Chicago's northwestern suburbs – will create a series of videos that document the traditional use of plants in Native American healing and wellness practices. The project will interview Native elders on practices unique to their communities as well as document the planting, maintenance, and harvesting of a medicine garden. The videos will be made available on Trickster's website.&nbsp;“We are grateful to the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation for helping us inform the general public about traditional Native American plant medicine, and to be able to share this knowledge and cultural practices with our community,” said CEO Joseph Podlasek. “This project supports our vision of serving as an authentic first voice of Native American veterans and cultural arts.”Organizations and projects located in the Lowcountry of South Carolina to receive the Broadening Narratives grants are: Clemson University’s project to preserve and share the story of the Seashore Farmers’ Lodge, a historic site founded by the African American Settlement Community of Sol Legare in the 1800s; Gibbes Museum of Art’s exhibit on artist Ned Jennings and the work of queer artists and writers during the 20th-century Charleston Renaissance; and The Educational Foundation of the University of South Carolina Lancaster’s research efforts at the Native American Studies Center to identify and preserve the largely undocumented traditions and stories of Native American tribes in the Lowcountry.&nbsp;About Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley FoundationThe Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation supports land conservation, artistic vitality, and regional collections for the people of the Chicago region and the Lowcountry of South Carolina. &nbsp;For over five years, the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation has convened five advisory groups to assist with the formation and execution of the Broadening Narratives funding initiative by providing important feedback, keeping the Foundation apprised of trends in the field, and serving as valuable connectors and conveners. The groups include Black Metropolis Research Consortium, Chicago Collections Consortium,Chicago Cultural Alliance, the College of Charleston’s Lowcountry Digital Library, and the Southeastern Museums Conference.For more information on the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, visit <a href="http://www.gddf.org/">www.gddf.org</a>.</body></html>

Donnelley Foundation Announces Grant Funding to Illuminate Underrepresented Stories

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

New Exhibitions Start December 10 - 11

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

New Exhibitions Start December 3 & 4

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

CGN Art World Recap: 11/30

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

What We're Reading: 11/26/21

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418979/kqv8gtbus3psduvynanl.jpg"></figure>Sally Schwartz had to put her beloved Randolph Street Market on hold in the West Loop during 2020, and in 2021 the market's site at Plumber's Hall has been under construction.&nbsp;But in December Randolph Street Market is BACK as a Holiday Pop-Up event for three weekends of shopping galore! The event runs 10am-5pm CST daily.The Pop Up is located at 830 N. Michigan Ave. and the entrance is down the block at the back of the space on E. Pearson St.&nbsp;As Schwartz shared, "There’s a Christmas miracle happening on the Mag Mile, and it features incredible vintage and antique dealers – all your faves and some great newbies too."For more info, visit <a href="https://www.randolphstreetmarket.com/tickets/">https://www.randolphstreetmarket.com/tickets/</a>&nbsp;</body></html>

Pop! Randolph Street Market is Back This December

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

What We're Reading: November 18th

Via PRToday, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) announces the appointment of two new leaders to their curatorial team, René Morales as the James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, and Jamillah James as Manilow Senior Curator. Both Morales and James will assume their roles at the MCA in January 2022.“We are building a curatorial team for the MCA’s next chapter, one that is committed to telling an inclusive art history, engaging with our community, and expanding the breadth and diversity of experience on the team. Both René and Jamillah are passionate about investing in Chicago’s community of artists, cultural stakeholders, and audiences, and their collaborative practice and open and authentic approach will be transformative for the MCA,” states MCA Pritzker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn.Born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, and raised in Miami, René Morales is an award-winning curator and significant presence in Miami's art scene. He brings over 25 years of curatorial experience, previously serving as Director of Curatorial Affairs and Chief Curator at the <a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rnu-DRBAkOIRSUhqOVzH1qpeK4mn4TInS1YKQtOYPPXuM4qt8iD8TjXWe9Gy3wiJQ6Kj5R2m_2GOOq_RkzG8syRMntpmoqEv6IaEl3QBjAu7ZK0BPGyk_6zPRo7SgGTznoF03sGmXVQ=&amp;c=gAJjxa2v2AdKGqi0IkVbRMOiJ3-h6a3z01NFuuBhVhk1MUS4p8Vxiw==&amp;ch=IFS66JgNdOAVHWDI0pkh0DFwH8GlAwkqprKk9PlwY33_oJV6hQvk9A==">Pérez Art Museum Miami </a>(PAMM). At PAMM, his work has focused on exhibitions and projects that reflect Miami's diverse community and pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. His current project, Gary Simmons: Public Enemy, the first comprehensive career survey of the multidisciplinary artist known for works that apply strong aesthetic and conceptual strategies to questions of race, class and gender identity, is originating at PAMM and will travel to the MCA in 2023.In his role as Alsdorf Chief Curator, Morales will lead the MCA’s artistic division, reconsidering the MCA’s exhibition, performance, program, learning, and collection plans through a transcultural, inclusive and integrative lens. His emphasis on collaboration and the development of curatorial talent will strengthen the impact of the museum’s curatorial team which hails from across the globe, including the new voices of Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator, Carla Acevedo Yates; Curator, Performance and Public Practice, Tara Aisha Willis; Pamela Alper Associate Curator, <a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rnu-DRBAkOIRSUhqOVzH1qpeK4mn4TInS1YKQtOYPPXuM4qt8iD8TjXWe9Gy3wiJ_A0KNqRl6wIIm7nhoNkTLO6njT_qdZIHYdC_fvnyB8ZYI3UOEXIaV6EGeupOTRPPjSmIpkyVDP81I_OTyKqUGJrBHbU1wN5JF1Ec4mNSiYSeC4Hs2Y5y4MZyMAOSZunmCqbwi1JbxRI=&amp;c=gAJjxa2v2AdKGqi0IkVbRMOiJ3-h6a3z01NFuuBhVhk1MUS4p8Vxiw==&amp;ch=IFS66JgNdOAVHWDI0pkh0DFwH8GlAwkqprKk9PlwY33_oJV6hQvk9A==">Bana Kattan;</a> Assistant Curator, Jadine Collingwood; and Assistant Curator, Performance and Public Practice, Gibran Villalobos."As a longtime fan of the MCA and Chicago's radiant community of artists and art professionals, I am honored to join the museum at this pivotal time. I am looking forward to drawing from Chicago's complexity and dynamism to craft a unique program hand in hand with MCA's brilliant team," says Morales.Before his role at PAMM, Morales worked at the Museum of Art, <a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rnu-DRBAkOIRSUhqOVzH1qpeK4mn4TInS1YKQtOYPPXuM4qt8iD8TjXWe9Gy3wiJ1XV1SbzJ9ZtIiodsXY38qILwdSp0TG8C4_5KyeKPh-1Yd4HooSIIlzElMijtJC8D3AJgXAcZpYsnzyysDxAAEg==&amp;c=gAJjxa2v2AdKGqi0IkVbRMOiJ3-h6a3z01NFuuBhVhk1MUS4p8Vxiw==&amp;ch=IFS66JgNdOAVHWDI0pkh0DFwH8GlAwkqprKk9PlwY33_oJV6hQvk9A==">Rhode Island School of Design </a>where he organized and co-organized numerous exhibitions, including Island Nations: New Art from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. Morales studied at Swarthmore College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in biopsychology and art history, and Brown University, where he received a Master of Arts in art history, focusing on the work of Odilon Redon. &nbsp;In a long line of exhibitions spanning more than a decade, his projects include Meleko Mokgosi: Your Trip to Africa (2020); Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands, 1980–83 (2018); Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger (2017); Sarah Oppenheimer: S-281913 (2016); Susan Hiller: Lost and Found (2016); Marjetica Potrc: The School of the Forest (2015); Nicolas Lobo: The Leisure Pit (2015); Victoria Gitman: The Desiring Eye (2015); Bik Van der Pol: Speechless (2015); Global Positioning Systems: Selections from PAMM’s Collection (2014–15); Amelia Peláez: The Craft of Modernity; A Human Document: Selections from the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry; and Monika Sosnowska: Market (2013–14).Morales spearheaded the acquisition of over 300 works from the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry for PAMM’s collection, with the support of the Knight Foundation, as well as major works by artists including Hélio Oiticica, Tania Bruguera, Virginia Jaramillo, and Robert Morris. In addition, he has extensive experience purchasing works for the PAMM collection via the museum’s Collectors Council, the Jorge M. Pérez Fund for Latin American Art, and the Fund for Black Art.&nbsp;He has taught museum history and theory and curatorial practice at Florida International University and held teaching assistant roles at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. In addition to authoring numerous exhibition catalogues, his writing has been published in New American Paintings, ArtLies Quarterly, and Cabinet: A Quarterly Magazine of Art &amp; Culture.Morales is the 2019 recipient of the prestigious Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellowship and served as a juror for the Whitney Museum's 2019 Bucksbaum Prize. He sits on the board of the City of Miami Art in Public Places and the Professional Advisory Committee of the Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places.As Manilow Senior Curator, Jamillah James will lead the museum's visual arts department and be a driving force behind the MCA’s curatorial programming. She has built her reputation through deeply researched, beautifully presented exhibitions focused on supporting emerging and underrecognized artists, a concentration that will further the MCA’s own historic commitment to new art histories.&nbsp;“The MCA is an institution that I have long admired and where, as a student in Chicago, I had many formative experiences with contemporary art and artists. Visiting the MCA helped me realize the possibilities of curating and of museums. The city of Chicago is home to an incredible community of artists, and I am humbled by the opportunity to be an advocate for them as part of the MCA’s team. A leader in the field, the MCA is a true 21st century institution that is engaged with the most important discussions of the day, willing to reflect on its position and on what museums can do, and work towards what they should be—and I’m excited to be a part of its history,” says James.&nbsp;James was previously Senior Curator at the<a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rnu-DRBAkOIRSUhqOVzH1qpeK4mn4TInS1YKQtOYPPXuM4qt8iD8TjXWe9Gy3wiJ2-Md9tw3U9kOHR99gp7GLDs6QzAAd3KiPnzyT5M551wtSCPPiI9-WdPDJQA8jeOewiYdnCO-PVOEMhlKEn0-q_1CYRaNqGGeBUu-s7Hi25WAZZil4Wb5HMphOwWepcW1nu7RnJZWr2Y=&amp;c=gAJjxa2v2AdKGqi0IkVbRMOiJ3-h6a3z01NFuuBhVhk1MUS4p8Vxiw==&amp;ch=IFS66JgNdOAVHWDI0pkh0DFwH8GlAwkqprKk9PlwY33_oJV6hQvk9A=="> Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles </a>(ICA LA). She is also co-curator of <a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rnu-DRBAkOIRSUhqOVzH1qpeK4mn4TInS1YKQtOYPPXuM4qt8iD8TjXWe9Gy3wiJzSNEdJ3Kqm84YQJZGI_u23JkCqnVZgqYCVEd6yHwDsjkL_aGhtcJHEuK4MIKs0NT10pNNLxjdjHoZodUccF7pzwG-OBHaYpqhz7VxX1Pu50yh5lFoyXPaIh_eTBGefrK9jOKBLc-uhLYiSyzyJG5eM4f5txE1yjQ&amp;c=gAJjxa2v2AdKGqi0IkVbRMOiJ3-h6a3z01NFuuBhVhk1MUS4p8Vxiw==&amp;ch=IFS66JgNdOAVHWDI0pkh0DFwH8GlAwkqprKk9PlwY33_oJV6hQvk9A==">Soft Water Hard Stone,</a> the 2021 edition of the<a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rnu-DRBAkOIRSUhqOVzH1qpeK4mn4TInS1YKQtOYPPXuM4qt8iD8TjXWe9Gy3wiJ2VgO9zlBJZqQFgnoM5vgXKLEBL_IIO-HQ4g77DHAlzAU9X8-VQGlxULRgq1a2jYGJ8xt2ZeADW5nK2xGCjqgOB3B3ReNf7f63fgPSBFisedr004QtAZ78SqT3bj10HIa4WC6g5heJ7k=&amp;c=gAJjxa2v2AdKGqi0IkVbRMOiJ3-h6a3z01NFuuBhVhk1MUS4p8Vxiw==&amp;ch=IFS66JgNdOAVHWDI0pkh0DFwH8GlAwkqprKk9PlwY33_oJV6hQvk9A=="> New Museum</a><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rnu-DRBAkOIRSUhqOVzH1qpeK4mn4TInS1YKQtOYPPXuM4qt8iD8TjXWe9Gy3wiJzSNEdJ3Kqm84YQJZGI_u23JkCqnVZgqYCVEd6yHwDsjkL_aGhtcJHEuK4MIKs0NT10pNNLxjdjHoZodUccF7pzwG-OBHaYpqhz7VxX1Pu50yh5lFoyXPaIh_eTBGefrK9jOKBLc-uhLYiSyzyJG5eM4f5txE1yjQ&amp;c=gAJjxa2v2AdKGqi0IkVbRMOiJ3-h6a3z01NFuuBhVhk1MUS4p8Vxiw==&amp;ch=IFS66JgNdOAVHWDI0pkh0DFwH8GlAwkqprKk9PlwY33_oJV6hQvk9A==">Triennial, </a>the highly influential international exhibition in New York devoted to emerging artists from around the world, providing an important platform for a new generation of artists who are shaping the current discourse of contemporary art and the future of culture. Her work on the ICA LA's Barbara T. Smith survey opening in 2023 was recently awarded the <a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rnu-DRBAkOIRSUhqOVzH1qpeK4mn4TInS1YKQtOYPPXuM4qt8iD8TjXWe9Gy3wiJEBUndbmu54gAd8cuxIx61JGHNfGIghcxBKFX9ctwrMBdJn6KK1k4Yt5d7OaN81PaxuHi8q820s2ceEnOHgQXt9HeZlmcb0bwfopAWDUOu5FrnOPcIX6LfAgfwtXAsTgIc8CEsf_VIRI=&amp;c=gAJjxa2v2AdKGqi0IkVbRMOiJ3-h6a3z01NFuuBhVhk1MUS4p8Vxiw==&amp;ch=IFS66JgNdOAVHWDI0pkh0DFwH8GlAwkqprKk9PlwY33_oJV6hQvk9A==">Foundation for Contemporary Arts annual Ellsworth Kelly Award.</a>&nbsp;Prior to joining ICA LA in 2016, James was Assistant Curator at the<a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rnu-DRBAkOIRSUhqOVzH1qpeK4mn4TInS1YKQtOYPPXuM4qt8iD8TjXWe9Gy3wiJt04rgpG4ZXjVXKo9-VfBycklkaTqegim2IK8u88siJGfkd7-ehiLEdh8ShrFjI4IZcRWm4V4cU9nBSCSz-Jc1jHKOK7dxFaMpUWJataUaKmM2pE0FL26RSkW9nhhKmRLk4WuxyFkIR0=&amp;c=gAJjxa2v2AdKGqi0IkVbRMOiJ3-h6a3z01NFuuBhVhk1MUS4p8Vxiw==&amp;ch=IFS66JgNdOAVHWDI0pkh0DFwH8GlAwkqprKk9PlwY33_oJV6hQvk9A=="> Hammer Museum,</a> Los Angeles, and organized exhibitions and programs&nbsp;at<a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rnu-DRBAkOIRSUhqOVzH1qpeK4mn4TInS1YKQtOYPPXuM4qt8iD8TjXWe9Gy3wiJd7r7cRlo6HoakriIv63Db75ma2IX0Q_fmTt5JryI2GD7paJg46KruJaENzADkmrrFOW25cAMGg0VGCnasbG_qDANAsY0srruNTbWgXebbzgM-WLM43sMAxbM3tW1AwkMGnS3QMi5nCk=&amp;c=gAJjxa2v2AdKGqi0IkVbRMOiJ3-h6a3z01NFuuBhVhk1MUS4p8Vxiw==&amp;ch=IFS66JgNdOAVHWDI0pkh0DFwH8GlAwkqprKk9PlwY33_oJV6hQvk9A=="> Art + Practice,</a> an arts and social services nonprofit in Leimert Park, Los Angeles established by artist <a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rnu-DRBAkOIRSUhqOVzH1qpeK4mn4TInS1YKQtOYPPXuM4qt8iD8TjXWe9Gy3wiJCHL4MtbAmtvSU305UBoYnmMfJYOF1ZWZlwa2pVwg9bXvOtI3xh87NRXFRSapIoo2s1iToBOEbT5XnPOocqeJJk9ho3xSWrndF9e8D_V2_GGIG2b7GQNklXOdr9kdYC4izvEnNuVj68VzvlKNFKpB6aZGe2kGi1qY&amp;c=gAJjxa2v2AdKGqi0IkVbRMOiJ3-h6a3z01NFuuBhVhk1MUS4p8Vxiw==&amp;ch=IFS66JgNdOAVHWDI0pkh0DFwH8GlAwkqprKk9PlwY33_oJV6hQvk9A==">Mark Bradford, MCA 2011 Artist in Residence.</a> She has held curatorial positions at the<a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rnu-DRBAkOIRSUhqOVzH1qpeK4mn4TInS1YKQtOYPPXuM4qt8iD8TjXWe9Gy3wiJ1fBlEC5Xmnlqv2kIPRyE11NkxSP5j0EQAnDrrikHIto76z7TWbxl_sY7vNtVlJOZOpf90k6jzQeNyFw2QnMB-hP1k-bEjz6w9HigwFOcQwShqork_4KriB8xOGXan2QG0X4A-g0F90o=&amp;c=gAJjxa2v2AdKGqi0IkVbRMOiJ3-h6a3z01NFuuBhVhk1MUS4p8Vxiw==&amp;ch=IFS66JgNdOAVHWDI0pkh0DFwH8GlAwkqprKk9PlwY33_oJV6hQvk9A=="> Studio Museum in Harlem </a>and<a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rnu-DRBAkOIRSUhqOVzH1qpeK4mn4TInS1YKQtOYPPXuM4qt8iD8TjXWe9Gy3wiJq9PMjLcxzlL7HP6d5wLsbwumgc9_mYN1788mq6TVgTBDLQkezipX881V2AQUTP7R9fh-dbwt2RYC4xS34SOLKFpcwYPOqukp_-U9c_QHarfDjbi8dJDp6Kk0NU6jrlkCiIBArSVwFKA=&amp;c=gAJjxa2v2AdKGqi0IkVbRMOiJ3-h6a3z01NFuuBhVhk1MUS4p8Vxiw==&amp;ch=IFS66JgNdOAVHWDI0pkh0DFwH8GlAwkqprKk9PlwY33_oJV6hQvk9A=="> Queens Museum,</a> New York, and produced exhibitions and programs at various alternative and artist-run spaces throughout the United States and Canada since 2004. James’ appointment marks a return to Chicago, as she was part of the first class of Art History graduates at Columbia College in 2005 and organized music performances and other programming as a former resident of the exhibition space now known as <a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rnu-DRBAkOIRSUhqOVzH1qpeK4mn4TInS1YKQtOYPPXuM4qt8iD8TjXWe9Gy3wiJkwp_I8dsEvMcxH3EOqZSaw0qFUSOwv5p7wVkua3Kn9ud4P0uIsTV5YGaj9qBPvD88QVbU0FIqax9KlXloo_HB23JiL0LwI41Bv4ifUsKJe-d60ZjMN-9VA==&amp;c=gAJjxa2v2AdKGqi0IkVbRMOiJ3-h6a3z01NFuuBhVhk1MUS4p8Vxiw==&amp;ch=IFS66JgNdOAVHWDI0pkh0DFwH8GlAwkqprKk9PlwY33_oJV6hQvk9A==">Archer Ballroom.</a>&nbsp;James’ current exhibitions include presentations of Sara Cwynar and Rebecca Morris, opening in 2022. Recent exhibitions include Harold Mendez: Let us gather in a flourishing way (2020), Stanya Kahn: No Go Backs (2020), No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake (2019), andThis Has No Name, the first U.S. museum survey of B. Wurtz (2018). James also organized the Los Angeles presentations of the touring exhibitions Kenneth Tam: Silent Spikes (2021), Ree Morton: The Plant That Heals May Also Poison (2020), Patty Chang: The Wandering Lake, 2009–17 (2019), and Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush (2018). She has curated several thematic group exhibitions, including, A Shape That Stands Up (2016) and Sisters and Brothers (2014), as well as solo exhibitions of Lucas Blalock, Sarah Cain, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Alex Da Corte, Abigail DeVille, Rafa Esparza, Maryam Jafri, Ann Greene Kelly, and Simone Leigh.&nbsp;James has contributed texts to Artforum, The International Review of African American Art, and various institutional exhibition catalogues. She is a recipient of the inaugural Noah Davis Prize from the Underground Museum, Los Angeles and Chanel Culture Fund (2021), a curatorial research fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (2021), and a curatorial fellowship from the VIA Art Foundation (2018). James regularly lectures on contemporary art, curating, and professional development for emerging artists and is a visiting critic in the graduate department at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena.&nbsp;Image Credits: (Left) René Morales, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator. Photographer: Karli Evans. (Right) Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator. Photographer: Jasmine Clarke.&nbsp;&nbsp;

MCA Chicago Announces Appointment of New Curatorial Leadership

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

What We're Reading: November 11th

&nbsp;$13.8 million already secured, including generous $1 million+ gifts from Builders Initiative and the Guida Family Foundation, along with other foundation grants and individual donors with concentration from its South Side community. Public campaign phase is now active.&nbsp;Via PRCHICAGO -- The Board of Directors of Hyde Park Art Center proudly announces that, effective Spring 2022, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side will shift to a tuition-free model in its core curriculum education programs, making it the nation’s first contribute-what-you-can visual art school for all ages. This radical move culminates Hyde Park Art Center’s ambitious five-year strategic plan dedicated to ensuring more equitable access to artmaking, education, and community engagement for years to come.In 2018, the Art Center Board initiated the $16 million ART MAKES capital campaign, the largest in its 82-year history, to secure a tuition-free education model, establish an endowment, and increase funding for general operations and artist investment in coming years. The ART MAKES campaign, co-chaired by Cynthia Heusing, Walter &amp; Shirley Massey, and Richard Wright, has raised $13.8 million to date, thanks in large part to three generous lead gifts: over $2 million provided from <a href="http://www.buildersinitiative.org/">Builders Initiative</a>, $1 million from the Chicago-based Guida Family Foundation, and $500,000 from the Chicago-based David C. and Sarajean&nbsp;Ruttenberg&nbsp;Arts Foundation. The Art Center’s Board of Directors has been critical to the campaign’s success, committing more than 25% of the total funds raised to date. Further support has been received from local and national foundation and corporate grants, in addition to gifts from dozens of donors from around Chicago and the Art Center’s own South Side neighborhood. The remaining funds are now being sought to complete the campaign; for more information on supporting Chicago artists and arts education with a donation of any size, please visit <a href="http://www.hydeparkart.org/art-makes">www.hydeparkart.org/art-makes</a>.“As we found ourselves planning, we heard that people value Hyde Park Art Center’s legacy, our support of Chicago artists, and how the institution contributes to the local community’s identity. Importantly, we heard that our programs are making an impact— teens are developing their voices, artists are tackling bold and ambitious projects, and families are finding a creative home. Our neighbors, artists, students, and volunteers reinforced the unique role the Art Center plays in bridging social networks, sparking civic dialogue, and exemplifying the best of our city. We also heard that we can do more and the Campaign is allowing us to do so,” said Justine Jentes, Hyde Park Art Center board chairman.Added Kate Lorenz, Hyde Park Art Center executive director, “We know that artists are essential to a flourishing society, and we aim to invest in Chicago’s art community at all levels by removing tuition as a barrier, making our public programs richer and more engaging for everyone, and increasing support for artists. This is truly a pivotal moment in our history.”&nbsp;Increasing access to art for allHyde Park Art Center’s Oakman Clinton School &amp; Studios annually serve nearly 2,000 students of all ages and skill levels with nearly 200 courses across the visual arts. Core curriculum classes comprise about two-thirds of all offerings and include staple Art Center programs at all learning levels and across all artistic&nbsp;media, from ceramics, painting and drawing to printmaking and digital photography. &nbsp;So as to provide students from all backgrounds the means to participate, create, and benefit from the dynamic learning environment and community at the Art Center, with the Spring 2022 registration, all of the Art Center's core curriculum classes will be offered without a set tuition price and all participants will be asked to contribute how they can, at whatever level they are able. This restructuring of the School and Studios will result in Hyde Park Art Center proudly becoming Chicago’s – and the nation’s – first tuition-free visual art school for all ages.In addition, monies raised through ART MAKES will be dedicated to investing in the Art Center’s ongoing Pathways Programs delivering broader access to visual arts for some 700 K–8 students in in its neighboring communities—Bronzeville, Hyde Park, Kenwood, Washington Park, and Woodlawn – along with supporting more than 150 teen and young adult artists through its arts and professional training both for high school and post-high school (18-25- year-old) youth. Further engaging the community, the Art Center currently hosts a robust series of artist talks, exhibition openings, free artmaking workshops, and other creative events; increased funding for public programs will provide an even greater platform and space for artists, community members, and peer organizations to collaborate and contribute to civic dialogue and social awareness.&nbsp;Increasing investment in artistsEqually critical is a deeper investment in professional artists. Among the current Hyde Park Art Center initiatives that will benefit from increased funding are faculty/teaching artist development for its current 50 faculty members via additional resources and trainings for the development of studio work and pedagogical practice, as well as provide professional opportunities for artists growing their careers, both inside the building and beyond, through valuable mentorship and exhibition programs such as the Center and Bridge offerings.Further, the Art Center’s Jackman Goldwasser Residency currently provides local artists access to long-term, rent-free studio space, and international artists the opportunity to live and work in Chicago. Building on this, the residency program will expand its international presence by building on exchanges where Chicago artists travel abroad and connect to the global stage while international artists and curators visit Chicago to connect with our local artists. And finally, the Art Center will invest in new work, supporting artists and the creation of ambitious new work to ensure artists, particularly artists of color and women, can mount career-changing exhibitions.&nbsp;About Hyde Park Art CenterHyde Park Art Center, at 5020 South Cornell Avenue on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, is a hub for contemporary arts in Chicago, serving as a gathering and production space for artists and the broader community to cultivate ideas, impact social change, and connect with new networks. Since its inception in 1939, Hyde Park Art Center has grown from a small collective of quirky artists to establishing a strong legacy of risk-taking and experimentation and emerging as a unique Chicago arts institution with social impact. The Art Center functions as an amplifier for today and tomorrow’s creative voices, providing the space to cultivate and create new work and connections. For more information, please visit <a href="https://www.hydeparkart.org/">www.hydeparkart.org</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Hyde Park Art Center to Become Nation's First Tuition-Free Art School

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

New Exhibitions Start November 10 - 14

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

Talks This Week: November 10 - 14

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

New Exhibitions Start November 6

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

New Exhibitions Start November 5 

<html><head></head><body><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418973/dlvweb8olufj8pjylqd2.jpg"></figure>By GINNY VAN ALYEA2021 is racing along, and it's hard to believe we're looking at the end of another unusual year. Despite ups and downs and many changes in the local as well as global art world – including the absence, for the most part, of international art fairs – there have undoubtedly been opportunities and changes for innovation. After all, ours is a creative community.&nbsp;When dealer Kimberly Oliva knew that this year's Intersect Chicago (formerly SOFA CHICAGO) was not going to take place, she drew on her own art history, connections and experience in the vintage market to come up with a new event and creative gathering.&nbsp;Alma, Art and Interiors is an exhibition of 30 leading Chicago artists, presented by Oliva Gallery and Architectural Anarchy. Exploring contemporary art alongside distinct antiques and modern design, Alma, Art and Interiors reimagines the gallery as the spirit of the home. In 18,000 sq. ft. of 20th century loft space, Kimberly Oliva of Oliva Gallery and Gosia Korsakowski of Architectural Anarchy have curated dozens upon dozens of vignettes, each consisting of a few pieces, drawn from a variety of artistic disciplines and time periods — antique furniture, vintage lighting, modern ceramics, contemporary painting, fiber artists, photography, sculpture wood work, metal art, and more.&nbsp;Rather than a traditional gallery setup, the choice to stage mixed media vignettes rescues the works from seeming isolated and spiritless. Furniture and ceramics paired with visual art and vintage lighting produces the effect of a living home. “An interior without art is like a place without soul. We want to create the feeling of people who live there,” Gosia explains. “A painting or a sculpture brings another level to every home, and each vignette invites you to visualize the spirit of your own home, in all its levels.”Beyond returning spirit to the gallery, Alma, Art and Interiors also restores the highly missed conveniences of in-person furniture and art dealings, following more than a year of show cancellations, supply-chain delays, and exorbitant freight costs. “I’ve been holding back my premier pieces in hopes of the return of large scale exhibitions, and Alma is a vision of what I would’ve exhibited if SOFA — now Intersect Chicago — had taken place at Navy Pier in 2020 and 2021,” says Kimberly Oliva. “Alma is the very latest extension of the Chicago arts community that I’ve fostered at Oliva Gallery.”&nbsp;With exhibitions no longer stuck in the midst of an indefinite hiatus, all of the art and vintage furniture at Alma, Art and Interiors is available for cash and carry. Works include ceramics from Nathan Mason, Chris Heck, Zachary E. Weber, and Louise Pappageorge; fiber artists Melissa Leandro, Yasmin Spiro, and Macus Alonso; sculptures from Mia Capodilupo, Beth Lefauve, and Salvador Dominguez; wood work from Michelle Peterson Albandoz; metal artist Eric Gushee; photography from Sean Williams; paintings from Tony Fitzpatrick, Thomas Masters, Lucca Colombelli, Cormac Steinbock, Madeleine Finley, Juan Arango Palacios, Griffin Plumer, William Schaeuble, Nathalie Gribinski, Stanley Dean Edwards, Marc Benja, Jane Barthès, Anthony Adcock, Valeria Terrazas, Melissa Leandro, Bojana Ilic-Bojitt, Curtis Anthony Bozif, Sarah Dupré, and Walter A. Fydryck.&nbsp;•&nbsp;Years ago Oliva got her start selling out of a vintage red Cadillac at Chicago's Randolph Street Market and quickly became a veteran dealer of the city's market scene. Alma, Art and Interiors brings her career full circle. As a young dealer herself, she worked hard to create a network of collectors and fellow dealers to achieve her dream of selling vintage full time. Fast forward to 2016 she launched <a href="www.olivagallery.com">Oliva Gallery</a>, a contemporary fine art gallery in Logan Square. Oliva continues to launch vintage and modern art as well as consulting, trade shows and exhibits across the country.She told CGN, “Gosia and I met at Chicago Randolph Market over 13 years ago. As a source for Bill Rawski from Zap Props, the largest Prop House in the Midwest Gosia appreciated the vintage offerings I presented. We became clients, colleagues and friends.”Oliva has also kept up with Randolph Street Market's Sally Schwartz, who shares, "For anyone who loves both contemporary art and one of a kind vintage furnishings and decor, ALMA looks like the place where one gets to witness the combined talents of two pros creating exciting stage sets -- I can't wait for the eye candy!&nbsp;&nbsp;•<a href="mailto:AlmaArtInteriors@gmail.com?subject=Alma%20CGN">AlmaArtInteriors@gmail.com</a>1.224.522.4525Alma, Art and Interiors opens Saturday, November 6, 11:00am - 7:00pm3636 S. Iron St., Chicago, IL 60609Additional shows will be on November 7, 11:00am - 5:00pm, and the following weekend (Nov. 13–14) during the same hours. Visit by appointment any day of the week throughout November.&nbsp;&nbsp;Wine and cocktail service will be provided during the first two weekends. A portion of opening night sales will go to the Infant Welfare Society.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721418974/yxpy58onemcko2x00t8x.jpg"></figure></body></html>

Dealer Kimberly Oliva Adds her Own Endeavor to a Changing Fall Calendar: Alma, Art and Interiors: 30 Artists. One Soul 

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

New Exhibitions Start October 28 - 30

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

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