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Free and open to allDec 12, 2024–Mar 29, 2025At the Newberry – Hanson Gallery<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.newberry.org/calendar/immigrant-printing-in-chicago" target="_blank">Details</a>&nbsp;

Making an Impression: Immigrants  in Chicago's Print Industry

Artist Reception:&nbsp;Sunday, March 9, from 1–3pm in the Main Gallery at The Center for Visual and Performing ArtsSouth Shore Arts proudly presents the 6th Annual Works in Progress Pop-Up Exhibit, showcasing the talent of South Shore Arts students, instructors, staff, and members. This special exhibition features a diverse collection of works that highlight creativity, growth, and exploration in various mediums.

Works in Progress

PATRON is proud to announce&nbsp;the other, our first solo exhibition with Chicago based artist Miao Wang (b. 1988). Wang’s materially committed practice honors a human, physical relationship to the passage, and reality of time. Working largely with materials that hold material connections to historical and contemporary Chinese aesthetic traditions, filtered through the Western monochromatic canon, Wang has developed a unique conceptual language of abstraction. In&nbsp;the other, Wang presents four distinct bodies of work, each representing the artist’s relationship, through repeated gesture, to notions of doubling, kindred beings, or, in her words, “an expression, and it's shadow.”&nbsp; Wang’s delicate watercolor paintings are developed through the repetitive physical engagement with sheets of synthetic YUPO paper, water, and pigment. The layers upon layers of nearly translucent washes, capture minute shifts within the physical conditions and environment of the studio, traces of dust, light, temperature and humidity. Documents of the artist’s experience with it and on it, the surfaces’ abstract marks evidence the environmental and physical conditions that impact the creative process, in the way that our bodies bear the residue of our memories and emotions.&nbsp; In the initial gallery, seven of Wang’s red watercolors form a serial grouping. Using layers of the same mixed pigment on mass-produced paper in predetermined sizes, subtle differences emerge across the paintings’ surfaces, calling attention to the minute details of individuality in each, such as the artist’s finger marks along the edges of the paintings, residue of her process. This communion of similarity and difference disperses in the next gallery, where Wang presents a complete grouping of diptychs– two paintings which are intended to be installed together–oppositionally across the gallery from each other. In producing these diptychs, Wang doubles her process, performing the same gesture twice. Each painting is unique, while echoing and negating the other’s uniqueness.&nbsp; the other&nbsp;coalesces with a series of watercolor paintings formed initially by two pooled black watercolor dots. Through a gentle bending of the YUPO paper, each pool runs across the surface into fragmented limb-like markings. Wang’s forms here begin with two fingerprint-like spots which bleed into the otherworldly, and the tenuous, capital “I” of the self. The tension between the self and the other culminates in a pair of monolithic cyanotypes on drywall panels, developed in ​​an outdoor environment by moonlight. Each surface reveals subtle differences of light, shadow, and atmosphere—distinct experiences within our shared cosmic time against the mass-produced world of language and architecture.&nbsp;

MIAO WANG: the other

Please join us Saturday, March 29 at&nbsp;2:30 PM&nbsp;for an&nbsp;artist talk with Bob Hooper as part of his&nbsp;exhibition&nbsp;The Prime Numbers.Image: Installation view, Bob Hooper, The Prime Numbers,&nbsp;2025

Artist Talk: Bob Hooper

Closing Reception and Artist Walkthrough

New Year, New Work 2025 FeaturingChristina HaglidAhzad BogosianAlbert VidalKeiko Ogawa

New Year, New Work 2025

Vertical Gallery is very proud to present ‘We From the Heavens,’ a solo showcase for Chicago-born, Los Angeles-based painter and illustrator Troy Lee. ‘We From the Heavens,’ which runs March 7-29, heralds a daring new chapter in Lee’s career and creative evolution, shifting the artist’s emphasis from feminine sexuality to masculine vulnerability. The exhibit’s soul-baring paintings and sketches aggressively interrogate the perceptions and realities confronting Black men in contemporary America — how they’re seen in the media, and how they see themselves in the mirror.&nbsp; ‘We From the Heavens’ brings Lee back to Chicago five years after he left the city to live and work in southern California. The native South Sider drew incessantly throughout childhood, and at age 15 he signed up for a Little Black Pearl-sponsored after-school art program, studying under the tutelage of painter and muralist Hebru Brantley, a longtime mentor. Lee interned for Brantley while attending the Art Institute of Chicago, eventually dropping out to focus on his professional pursuits; a pair of local solo exhibits preceded his Vertical debut in 2021. He has since participated in multiple group shows at the gallery. Vertical Gallery launches ‘We From the Heavens’ Friday, March 7, with an opening reception from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.&nbsp; Vertical Gallery, 2006 W. Chicago Ave. #1R Image: Troy Lee

Troy Lee: We From the Heavens

Woman Made Gallery (WMG) is proud to present the 26th International Open.&nbsp;Juried by artist and educator, Savneet K Talwar, the selected works push material and conceptual boundaries, questioning personal and public spaces that women and gender non-binary artists navigate. Spanning painting, weaving, embroidery, sculpture, photography, collage, prints, and video, the exhibition includes works by 40 artists from across the United States and from China, Italy, Qatar, and the UK. Exhibition EventsThe exhibition opens with a reception at Woman Made Gallery, 1332 S. Halsted St. in Chicago, on Saturday, March 1, from 4 to 7 PM. Regular gallery hours are Thursdays through Sundays from noon to 5 PM.Additional events include a Virtual Artist Panel Discussion event with the juror, Savneet K Talwar and select exhibiting artists.The exhibition concludes with a Closing Reception and Artist Walkthrough on Saturday, March 29, from 2 to 4 PM, offering a final opportunity to meet the participating artists in person. Events at WMG are free and open to the public. Exhibiting Artists:&nbsp;Prisma Andrade, Sayera Anwar, Boisali Biswas, Adrienne Brown-David, Elaine Buss, Lauren Callis, Ashley Chan, Martina Dalla Stella, Zenona Darrow, Elizabeth diGiacomantonio, Gabrielle Egnater, Hasadri Freeman, Hanna Glatz, Debbie Grifka, Katharine Joy Houpt, Trang Huynh, Laurel Izard, Natalie Jackson, Cynthia Kerby, Yasmeen Khayr, Katherine Lampert, Seonyoung Lee, Lauren Leone, Siobhan Lesniak, Jen McNulty, Meg Morley, Amber Mustafic, Jennie E. Park, Andrea Picard, Marilyn Propp, Jiselle Ramírez, Charlotte Rodenberg, Fazilat Soukhakian, Wendy L Starn, Fanxi Sun, Araceli Trujillo, Grayson Ticer, Holly Willis, Emilka Wolniewicz, Xena Zhang About the Juror: Savneet K. TalwarSavneet Talwar is a Chicago based American Studies scholar, fiber artist, educator and art therapist. She is currently a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the art therapy and fiber and material studies departments. As an interdisciplinary fiber and feminist artist, her work exists at the intersection of archives, memory, language, feminist politics and questions of resistance. She is interested in the contradictions of feminist labor and archival matters to explore history and memory that questions– what and who is worthy of being a subject of discourse? What colonial narratives and images continue to define matters of the global south? For more information visit Savneet Talwar’s website:&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(145, 82, 23);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://womanmade.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=77610ec6940e4a7c0d652a863&amp;id=d5bcac9170&amp;e=a3993dd90f" target="_blank">https://www.savneettalwar.com/</a><a style="color: rgb(145, 82, 23);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://womanmade.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=77610ec6940e4a7c0d652a863&amp;id=05a044f181&amp;e=a3993dd90f" target="_blank">VIEW THE EXHIBITION HERE</a> Events are free and open to the public.&nbsp;

26th International Open

Perspective Gallery is proud to announce our 15th annual international juried exhibition of photography, LENS 2025.&nbsp;Our Juror, Hamidah Glasgow,&nbsp;is the Executive Director and Curator at the&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://perspectivegallery.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=04a588cae42ffc5c2d944d823&amp;id=b474230c06&amp;e=d73170d386" target="_blank">Center for Fine Art Photography</a>&nbsp;in Fort Collins, Colorado. Hamidah Glasgow has been the Executive Director and Curator at the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado, since 2009. She holds a master’s degree in humanities specializing in visual and gender studies and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. Hamidah was a co-founder of the Strange Fire Collective. She is one of the founding board members of the Colorado Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. ﻿Ryn Clarke: 2 Humming Birds (LENS 2024 Juror’s Award)

LENS 2025

Looking into his personal archive of performance,&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mcachicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c24ba7c5a91cefd699dc985e1&amp;id=9e23f9d136&amp;e=7d7a84135f" target="_blank">Miguel Gutierrez</a>&nbsp;explores how the past can be a blueprint for a more rigorous honesty in the present. <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mcachicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c24ba7c5a91cefd699dc985e1&amp;id=c0ed978b22&amp;e=7d7a84135f" target="_blank">Buy Tickets</a>

Miguel Gutierrez, Super Nothing

Join us at VSG Contemporary on February 15th for the opening of Tempest, a series of 13 new works by&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.jeancate.com/" target="_blank">Jean Cate</a>,&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://marthamae.info/" target="_blank">Martha Mae Art Supplies and Beautiful Things</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://not-a-cult.org/" target="_blank">The Center of Order and Experimentation</a>&nbsp;owner. Jean's current work revolves around the theme of changing atmosphere, drawing inspiration from nature’s dramatic forces—especially clouds. Captivated by the sky, Jean sees it as a visual metaphor for mental and emotional cycles. "For my upcoming show, I’ll be presenting Tempest, which reflects the stages of a storm—three families of paintings that come together as a trinity. I’m painting on raw birch panels using watercolor and gouache. Letting natural forces like water, air, and gravity shape the work."

Jean Cate, Tempest

The Chicago Society of Artists Members Exhibit

The Chicago Society of Artists Spring Member Exhibition

<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1741121991/whjyn5pub3ewhsarmfku.jpg"> Izzy Cho This joint exhibit features new work by emerging artists Izzy Cho and Lainey Peltier. While very different in style and subject, their work is similar in the way that it develops. Their processes often include repetition and mimicry, which serve as ways to dig deeper into the meaning of what each artist is exploring in their art.&nbsp; Cho’s mixed media on paper work is meant to be a commentary on her Korean American heritage, celebrating earnest but humorous attempts to pay homage to her transnational upbringing. Peltier’s work, on the other hand, is focused on what she sees in the world around her. She alters and then rearranges what she observes as part of an open-ended exploration. While Peltier studied printmaking and works extensively in that medium, this body of work is her first foray into painting.&nbsp; ﻿We hope you will stop by to see this wonderful work during the month of March! Key image: Lainey Peltier

Echoes and Locations

Radiance ExhibitionMarch 1st through 30th, 2025 Opening Reception:&nbsp;Saturday, March 1st, 2025 from 5 to 8 PM&nbsp; The “Radiance: Works About Light” Exhibition at the Grove Gallery in Evanston, IL&nbsp;features luminous paintings and drawings made by Midwestern Artists.&nbsp;See artists’ responses to light in various forms: refraction, lasers, nocturnes and the inner light of powerful female figures. The works vary from surreal, imaginative figures to abstract fields of color. Experience sensations of warmth, frigid temperatures, subtlety and expressive qualities in the work. The exhibition was juried by Sergio Gomez, artist and curator of the 33 Contemporary Gallery. He selected 20 paintings from the 250 that were submitted. The selected works vary in media: abstract oils, translucent watercolors, and shiny collage materials. Celebrate that the days are getting longer as we inch towards Springtime. Without light there is no form.&nbsp; Artists: Colette Wright Adams, Michael Bever, Cie Bond, Matthew Braun, Christina Cosio, Ann Coulter, Anna Marie Crovetti, Helen Dannelly, Karen Fike, Cindy Fuller, Alice George, Diana Leviton Gondek, Fletcher Hayes, Robyn Hurtig, Peter Jablokow, Lynne Miller-Jones, Fran Joy, Jim Parks, Jonathan Pruc, Patrick Perry, Karen Remsen, Beth Shadur, Sam Whitaker and Sally Wille.&nbsp; Contact:Sarah Kaiser-Amaralsarah@studio215.orgcell: 773 318 0163 <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1740419315/ckexp3lduewn6y8ltqcd.jpg"> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1740419316/jkifougp3u3pv84zv8je.png">

Radiance

Mongerson Gallery was pleased to host Tightwire: The Work of Harold Neal, a private exhibition showcasing a collection of Neal’s paintings spanning much of his career. Harold Neal (1924-1996) was a crucial figure in the Detroit Black Arts Movement. His paintings reflect both the beauty and tribulations of his life, illustrating the complexities of existence as a Black man in the United States. Neal remains one of the most important artists of twentieth century Detroit, with his work being shown this past summer at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. The exhibit gave a wide audience the opportunity to see Neal’s work up close in a more vibrant setting than the traditional white box gallery. Mongerson Gallery partnered with Cosentino City Chicago, Alexis Goettsch Photography, and Regiment Securities for the one-night event. This was a fantastic occasion to honor Neal's legacy, and we were so happy his family could join us to celebrate. The gallery is open by appointment only. <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.mongersongallery.com/artists/30-harold-neal/overview/" target="_blank">Learn more about Neal</a> Image: Harold Neal,&nbsp;Untitled (Man with Scales), Oil on board, 48 x 36 inches.&nbsp;

Opening of Tightwire: The Work of Harold Neal

The only auction house to offer a category exclusively dedicated to&nbsp;Scandinavian Design, Wright celebrates the exceptional craftsmanship and humanist designs of the region with designated auctions twice each year. It is our pleasure to continue this tradition that has been&nbsp;the mainstay of modern interiors for more than a century, and we proudly present works by Alvar Aalto, Finn Juhl, Mogens Koch, Hans J. Wegner, Barbro Nilsson, Axel Salto,&nbsp;and many more.&nbsp; <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.wright20.com/scandinavian-design" target="_blank">Details</a>

Scandinavian Design

<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.wright20.com/auctions/2025/04/objet/info" target="_blank">Details</a> On April 2nd, Wright and Toomey &amp; Co. once again conjure the elaborate spectacle that is&nbsp;Objet, an auction celebrating fine craftsmanship, exquisite materials, and superb artistry. From decorative arts and silver to timepieces and sculptural works, this sale presents a charming world unto itself. Esteemed makers with examples on offer include:&nbsp;Cartier,&nbsp;Jacques Adnet,&nbsp;Hermès,&nbsp;Jean Després,&nbsp;Van Cleef &amp; Arpels,&nbsp;Gene Moore for Tiffany &amp; Co.,&nbsp;Dunhill,&nbsp;Asprey &amp; Co.,&nbsp;Werkstätte Hagenauer,&nbsp;Bulgari,&nbsp;Gucci,&nbsp;Gio Ponti,&nbsp;Los Castillo,&nbsp;Arman, and others. Auction / Chicago2 April 202511 am central Preview / Chicagoby appointment Additional Information312 563 0020info@toomeyco.com

Objet

In his first solo exhibition in Chicago, Los Angeles-based and Jamaican-born artist Cosmo Whyte situates the architectural archives of his late father as the structural ground for an intervention and interrogation into the spaces and forms of diasporic protest, spectacle, and witnessing. Presented by The Arts Club of Chicago, in The Mother’s Tongue, Pressed to the Grinding Stone the artist reformulates photojournalistic images onto materials ranging from drawings to hand-painted beaded curtains and steel framings of unrealized structures. In so doing, Whyte poetically asks “what makes a witness? And what does it mean to have become one?”&nbsp;Cosmo Whyte received a BFA from Bennington College, a post-baccalaureate at Maryland Institute College of Art, and a MFA from University of Michigan. In 2020 he had solo exhibitions at&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://artsclubchicago.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=502da7c1672081e981f967563&amp;id=f2164fb43f&amp;e=e3c33543d7" target="_blank">MOCA Georgia</a>&nbsp;and ICA San Diego. Whyte has exhibited in biennial exhibitions including Prospect.5 New Orleans (2022) 13th Havana Biennial, the Jamaica Biennial (2017), and the Atlanta Biennial (2016). His work has been included in exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; The Drawing Center, New York, NY; The Somerset House, London, UK; Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles, CA; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; and the National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica. His work is in public museum collections including the High Museum, Atlanta; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; International African American Museum, Charlotte, NC; Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia; National Gallery of Jamaica; and the Pérez Art Museum Miami. In 2022 he joined the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture as an assistant professor. Whyte lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.The exhibition was curated by Arts Club Executive Director and Chief Curator Janine Mileaf. A fully-illustrated catalog with essay by scholar Vera Grant will accompany the exhibition.&nbsp;Since 1916, The Arts Club of Chicago has been a preeminent exhibitor of international art, a forum for established and emerging artists, and a celebrated venue for performers from around the world. For over 100 years, The Arts Club has opened its membership to artists and patrons of the arts, and its exhibitions to the public. At its inaugural meeting, the mission of the Club was defined as: “to encourage higher standards of art, maintain galleries for that purpose, and to promote the mutual acquaintance of art lovers and art workers.”Please direct press inquiries and requests for images to David Merz at&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:press@artsclubchicago.org" target="_blank">communications@artsclubchicago.org</a>&nbsp;or call 312-787-3997.&nbsp;&nbsp; Programming:&nbsp;A conversation between the artist and Jeremiah Matthew Davis will take place on March 8th at 2:00 pm. This event is part of Panafrica Weekend, a city-wide celebration.

Cosmo Whyte: The Mother’s Tongue, Pressed to the Grinding Stone

Join Angel Bat Dawid, acclaimed Chicago performer and former “Chicagoan of the Year in Jazz,” in a celebration of Cosmo Whyte’s exhibition in the Arts Club galleries. She and musical collaborator 9magicforever1 will incorporate voice, movement and multi-instrumental performance into a newly composed, artistically responsive work in the gallery. Whyte and Bat Dawid share a conceptual connection to ancestry and history, which makes for an apt pairing in this compelling and meditative evening. This event will in-person only. <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://artsclubchicago.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=502da7c1672081e981f967563&amp;id=9dda886b95&amp;e=e3c33543d7" target="_blank">REGISTER HERE</a>

Angel Bat Dawid in the Gallery

<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.wright20.com/editions-works-on-paper" target="_blank">Details</a> Offered several times a year,&nbsp;Editions &amp; Works on Paper&nbsp;celebrates the possibilities of the multiple, showcasing&nbsp;editioned works by some of the 20th century's most significant artists. This auction features&nbsp;artists' books, prints, portfolios, sculpture, and more, offered at a variety of price points accessible to every collector.

Editions and Works on Paper

Logan Center for the Arts, Screening Room, 915 60th&nbsp;St.This documentary double feature offers a rare look behind the scenes at the DIY studios of two enterprising filmmakers, one in Uganda and the other in Tunisia—each of them putting their own wild spin on 1980s-style action flicks.&nbsp;Once Upon a Time in Uganda!(2021) introduces us to writer-director Isaac Nabwana, the driving force behind Wakaliga Uganda, and tracks his unlikely partnership with Alan “Ssali” Hofmanis, an American producer and super-fan who moved to Kampala to join him.&nbsp;In VHS – Kahloucha&nbsp;(2006), documentarian Nejib Belkadhi trails amateur Tunisian filmmaker Moncef Kahloucha as he makes his latest feature,&nbsp;Tarzan of the Arabs, with the help of the people around him.

Film Screening: Action! Documentary Double Feature

Tandem Press is pleased to host&nbsp;Grabando Historias, a Master of Fine Arts Qualifier Exhibition by Christie Tirado, University of Wisconsin-Madison MFA Candidate and 2024-2025 Tandem Press Studio Project Assistant. Drawing from her own experience as the daughter of Mexican immigrants, Christie Tirado uses relief block printing to bring visibility to often overlooked narratives of immigrant families. Her work preserves personal and collective histories, capturing transnational migration stories while honoring the labor and sacrifices of those who have shaped communities across borders. Artist BiographyChristie Tirado is a Mexican American interdisciplinary artist and educator from Yakima, WA, currently residing in Madison, WI. As the daughter of immigrants, she navigates the complexities of her heritage, drawing inspiration from the rich tradition of relief block printing. Her work explores the impact of migration on culture, identity, traditions, memories, and histories, with a particular focus on labor-related migration within Mexican diasporas. Deeply rooted in personal familial histories, her practice reflects the resilience and lived experiences of her own family while also&nbsp;grabando&nbsp;both personal and collective narratives. Through cultural exploration and artistic practice, she sheds light on the layered narratives of migration and cultural (in)visibility.Tirado earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, and her Master’s in Teaching from Heritage University in Toppenish, WA. She is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Her accolades include the 2020 Larry Sommers Fellowship through Seattle Print Arts and the 2020 Golden Apple Award for innovative teaching in Washington State. She is also an Education Graduate Research Scholar&nbsp;at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her artwork has been exhibited and collected nationally in museums and galleries such as Davidson Galleries in Seattle, WA; San Francisco State University, CA; Sonoma State University, CA; The Sun Valley Museum of Art, ID; and La Productora Gráfica del Bosque in Oaxaca, Mexico, among others. Additionally, her work has been featured in prominent news outlets and magazines nationwide, including&nbsp;High Country News,&nbsp;ProPublica, and&nbsp;Crosscut.Previously, Tirado worked as an elementary and middle school art teacher in the Yakima Valley, WA, for eight years. She is currently a project assistant at Tandem Press.This exhibition is supported by the Anonymous Fund.

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