September 14-September 21

A four-person exhibition featuring Peter Brötzmann, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Roscoe Mitchell, and Sun Ra. The grouping demonstrates the gallery's commitment to improvised music and hearkens back to the gallery's third show, Eye & Ear: Artist-Musician, a massive round-up of people working across the musical and visual arts, mounted in 2004. Peter Brötzmann, who died in 2023, gave a solo saxophone concert during the exhibition and his work was part of the show. Over the years, CvsD worked extensively with Brötzmann, both in Chicago and elsewhere, also releasing several CDs of his music. Here the titanic improvisor is represented by two small sculptures and an early wall-hanging metal landscape. Fred Lonberg-Holm is an internationally acclaimed cellist, as well as a visual artist; five of his radiant stained glass works, all of which refer to the iconic image of an LP, are on display. CvsD was honored to present the first gallery exhibition of legendary musician and composer Roscoe Mitchell in 2023. In this context CvsD presents six vivid new paintings of Mitchell's, previously unseen. And the intergalactic trickster Sun Ra is represented by a vitrine of subtly decorated tape reels and boxes dating back to the 1950s, when Ra was living and working in Chicago.

This presentation is the first of seven week-long, rotating exhibitions on view in the North Gallery during the twentieth anniversary exhibition, Hubcap Diamond Star Halo: Corbett Vs. Dempsey at Twenty.

Image: Fred Lonberg-Holm, Glass Record #5, 2017, stained glass, 13 x 12 1/2 inches.