CURRENT EXHIBITS [134]

Our summer 2012 exhibition, Night Sky, looks to the heavens for inspiration. Humans have used the night sky to navigate, mark the passage of time, and impart meaning to their lives for thousands of years. As technology has advanced, our connection to the night sky has atrophied—not simply because we have gained greater control of our environment, but also because we no longer can see the Milky...   [more]

Opening: June 3rd, 2012   1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

G.R. N'Namdi Gallery presents "Hidden Essence", a group exhibition portraying the delicately chaotic works of Deborah Dancy, the abstracted language of Antonio Carreño, and the fragmented, colorful stories of Bernard Williams.   Deborah Dancy explores color, absurdity, and encounters with the self.  While her works vary from painting to photography, the exhibited works explore the use of oil on...   [more]

Gallery KH is pleased to present Abstract: A Group Show a collection of colorful abstract paintings by Gallery KH resident artists.  Abstract: A Group Show opens May 4, 2012 through July 10, 2012.   An opening night cocktail reception is scheduled for Friday, June 1, 5-8PM. All gallery events are free and open to the public. “We are always thrilled to present a group show in the gallery.  Wit...   [more]

Opening: June 1st, 2012   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

From a historical perspective, landscape art has been seen as romantic; spurring the viewer onward, to go forth and explore wondrous destinations – places of awe and amazement. To the tourist or day to day resident, these locations have the power to awaken a sense of yearning for utopia, to be a part of an everyday ideal. For my current series of work, I embarked on a virtual globe trek to sever...   [more]

ACRE + HEAVEN GALLERY are proud to present A LONG TIME COMING: works by COLE ROBERTSON, ELINA MALKIN, ELISA "POOPER" HARKINS, MARVIN ASTORGA and VIRGINIA ABERLE the next installment in ACRE's year-long series of exhibitions by 2011 ACRE summer residents. A LONG TIME COMING “Alchemy. Creation. Beginning. Mastery of the four elements of fire, earth, air and water. The Magician is the Master Creato...   [more]

Hinge Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of two solo exhibitions from 6 – 9 pm on May 12, 2012 at 1955 West Chicago Avenue featuring new paintings by David Leggett and new drawings by Kristina Paabus. David Leggett will exhibit new paintings focused on afro futurism and afro pop.  Leggett’s work references cultural and personal relationships and attempts to tackle the many contradic...   [more]

Opening: May 12th, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Hinge Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of two solo exhibitions from 6 – 9 pm on May 12, 2012 at 1955 West Chicago Avenue featuring new paintings by David Leggett and new drawings by Kristina Paabus. Kristina Paabus will exhibit a site-specific installation incorporating new drawings and sculptures.  Paabus’ creates process oriented work through developed systems which investigate the...   [more]

Opening: May 12th, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Opening Reception June 2 from 5 - 8 pm. Exhibition runs through June 30 with a closing reception June 30 from 2 - 5 pm. Hinge Gallery’s inaugural sculpture garden show Garden Party features the work of four artists dealing with the length of time things last. Based on the idea of a formal Garden party, a social gathering centered on a specific floral event, such as a blooming of a rare flower. Cu...   [more]

Opening: June 2nd, 2012   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

A vending machine mysteriously conceals the main entrance to the Hyde Park Art Center’s School and Studio. The repurposed vending machine will be fitted into an existing doorway. Inquisitive visitors to the School and Studios will be surprised when they pass through an innocuous utility door only to emerge from inside the non-functional vending machine. Central to Killoran’s strategy is the ar...   [more]

A site-specific wall painting that rewards those who explore the Art Center’s architecture. Mythology buffs, lovers, and all casual explorers of the art center will enjoy this site-specific, temporary wall painting by Kay Rosen. Rosen is well-known for her conceptually-charged text work that most often deals with the mechanics of language. Located along the building’s clandestine south stairwell...   [more]

The Chicago Project by Omaha, Nebraska-based artist, Watie White, transforms traditional linoleum prints into near billboard-sized vinyl images. As a result, each bold line and cross-hatch the artist used to construct the image is vividly communicated, revealing White’s signature style, which blends gestures of painting, printmaking, and drawing with text to create new visual content. The artworks in the se...   [more]

The group exhibition Hairy Blob presents new works by artists who play with conceptions of time through video, sculpture, drawing, installation, movement, sound, and several participatory events on view at the Hyde Park Art Center from April 22 until July 29, 2012. Participating artists – Becky Alprin, Nadav Assor, Deborah Boardman, Lauren Carter, Ashley Hunt in collaboration with Taisha Paggett, Sa...   [more]

Opening: April 22nd, 2012   3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Trail follows a winding path through the abstract painter’s growing visual language in works on paper and video. Along with nearly 40 painted collages, the exhibition premieres Oresky’s first work in animation (with sound design by Zak Boerger) setting in motion the layered structures common in her paintings, drawings, and collage work. For nearly a decade, Melissa Oresky has been making works...   [more]

Opening: June 3rd, 2012   3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Intricate hand-woven wall hangings and new tulle veil constructions by Turkish artist Ani Afshar return to the Art Center this spring.  Woven Gardens, Shredded Shadows will reveal a selection of acclaimed landscape tapestries Afshar produced in the 1990s and debut artworks and installations created by Afshar since her return to weaving in 2007, which are being shown publicly for the first time....   [more]

Opening: June 3rd, 2012   3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Intuit, in collaboration with the Loyola Universty Museum of Art (LUMA), presents HEAVEN+HELL, an exhibiton exploring the themes of heaven and hell as conceived by outsider, folk and self-taught artists. The content may be beningn or horrific, delusional or commentative on contemporary life, obsessive or minimal in design, but usually on the face of the work, highly interpretative. The two worlds...   [more]

Opening: February 10th, 2012   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

“Illumination”, a special exhibit at Jackson Junge Gallery,  features the uniquely posed and illuminated photography of Kavan Geary.  The ability to contain and utilize light in Geary’s work was inspired initially by classical painting, where cleverly layered translucent glazes give the appearance of being lit from behind.  Geary adapted this idea to photography, and quite literally, has made lig...   [more]

Opening: May 4th, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM