DPAM will be closed for DePaul University's Holiday Break from Monday, December 23 - Wednesday, January 1. We wish you all rest and relaxation during this time, and look forward to seeing you in the new year! ﻿DePaul Art Museum (DPAM) is a world-class museum located in the heart of Lincoln Park on DePaul University’s campus. DPAM is open to the public and presents three to five temporary exhibitions per year with a permanent collection of nearly 4,000 objects with strengths in international modern and contemporary art, particularly highlighting the voices of marginalized artists and communities. DPAM enriches the university’s commitments to excellence, diversity and social concerns by connecting people through art and ideas that explore the vast range of human experience and expression. We provide an inclusive platform for innovative artistic voices with a program that bridges local and global concerns.&nbsp;Image caption: Selva Aparicio.&nbsp;East of Eden, 2023. Dandelion seeds and discarded teddy bear from a child’s grave. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Daniel Delgado.

In his first solo museum exhibition in Chicago, artist, musician, and back-road drifter Beverly Fresh takes on the incongruities, social rituals, and archetypes of the rural Midwest. Pulling from age-old performance traditions, juvenile graffiti, backyard debauchery, adult social clubs, amateur&nbsp;living room theater, and pig wrestling, &ldquo;Really Somethin Else&rdquo; is a keyed-up regurgitation of rural Midwestern symbols, behaviors, and vernacular. His immersive installations take visitors through peripheral elements of American culture.

Image: BEVERLY FRESH,&nbsp;OUTSKIRTS, Performance still, 2013. Photo Credit: Travis Roozee.

BEVERLY FRESH: Really Somethin' Else

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