Lincoln Park Art Night 2024

DePaul Art Museum, gallery 1871, Madron Gallery, Art on Sedgwick, and  Leslie Wolfe Gallery,  are participating in the third annual Lincoln Park Art Night. Five unique art locations have banded together to celebrate their Lincoln Park neighborhood and promote a destination for art lovers that is too-frequently overlooked. 

The event is FREE and open to all. Luxury sprinter vans will circulate the neighborhood offering hop-on/hop-off service for three hours on Thursday, November 14th from 5:30 - 8:30 PM. Riders may start and stop at any of the five participating locations. 

Register today at BIT.LY/LPAN2024 (registration is not required but appreciated).   

DePaul Art Museum On view: Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917–1967 and The Spaces We Call Home. Edgar Miller (1899–1993) arrived in Chicago in 1917, and over the next fifty years, established a successful career as a multi-hyphenate creative practitioner. He worked as an architect, artist, craftsperson, curator, designer, and illustrator during a particularly rich period that saw the ascendancy of modernism across the visual culture of the city. The Spaces We Call Home features six artists and designers based in or with strong ties to Chicago—Azadeh Gholizadeh, Kazuki Guzmán, Ania Jaworska (in collaboration with Zack Ostrowski), Roland Knowlden, Sharon and Guy, and Claudia Weber—whose work straddles, draws from, and complicates divisions between the fields of architecture, design, and fine art. Using a diverse array of materials, techniques, and traditions—from folk art to modernism and twenty-first century technology—these creative practitioners grapple with the complexities of placemaking across time and space, interrogating and reflecting on the layered socio-spatial histories of built environments. DePaul Art Museum enriches DePaul University’s commitments to innovation, diversity and education through the interdisciplinary lens of art.

gallery 1871 On view: Luminous Grace: Work by Bassmi Ibrahim and Jennifer Falck Linssen, an exhibition featuring a collection of mixed media paintings by Egyptian born artist Bassmi Ibrahim (1941-2019) alongside the katagami-inspired hand painted and hand carved paper and metal sculptures of Green Bay based artist Jennifer Falck Linssen.  Born of introspection, meditation and contemplation of the natural world around us, the works in this show speak to the transience and radiant beauty of our external and internal worlds. gallery 1871 exhibits and sells work in a wide range of media with a focus on painting, mixed media, photography and sculpture.

Madron On view: Berenece Berkman-Hunter and Ethel Spears , an exhibition of two Depression Era artists whose work appears to be in a state of juxtaposition rather than a melding of the minds. Berkman-Hunter, a political activist and social realist artist, combined the techniques of Cubism and Expressionism, creating vivid colors, broad lines, and angular forms to capture the struggles of life faced by laborers and immigrants. Spears, a humorist, often used watercolors, pastel palettes, and illustration to capture society at large, on the streets, at work, and in their homes. Madron is home to Madron Gallery, Madron Press, and the Skolnik family’s private art collection, with the en suite exhibition of artwork available for purchase alongside pieces from the private collection.

Art on Sedgwick is exhibiting a new mural by Sam Kirk and an exhibit co-created and co-presented with community partners remembering William Walker’s murals All of Mankind: the Unity of the Human Race (painted 1972; whitewashed 2015). William Walker (1927 - 2011) is considered the founding father of the community mural movement. In 1967, as the organizer of the Wall of Respect -- a mural depicting images of significant black heroes on a two story shuttered tavern at 43rd Street and Langley -- he was the first to create accessible artworks in and for the community as a reflection of the people's aspirations and pride. This helped launch the public art movement in Chicago and is estimated to have inspired at least 1,500 community murals across the country. Art on Sedgwick provides an open and welcoming space for arts programming, belonging, and inspiration, drawing on Chicago’s diverse, world-class artist community to inspire a shared imagination for a vibrant and equitable neighborhood.

Leslie Wolfe Gallery On view: Night Shift, paintings by Ken Minami. Night Shift is a series of paintings exploring psychological states. Although the paintings suggest actual places, Minami has freely altered the architecture and mixed scenes of various cities. His art suggests emotion, and only vaguely references geographics. Ken Minami is a Chicago painter educated in the tradition of the 19th-Century Boston School. He paints still life and figurative works with the intention of faithfully rendering the visual world as it presents itself. These nighttime urban paintings are a departure from that practice. It’s a shift into painting a scene that exists only in his imagination. Leslie Wolfe Gallery is an exhibit space for emerging artists, students, instructors, and established artists.

Participating venues would like to thank Michael Garzel Graphic Design + Photography , Old Town Merchants & Residents Association, and Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce for their partnership and support.