CURRENT EXHIBITS [139]

The Donald Young Gallery is pleased to announce the sixth and final exhibition in the series In the Spirit of Walser with new work by Rodney Graham and Josiah McElheny. A reception for the artists will take place from 3-7 pm on Saturday, September 22nd and will also celebrate the life of gallery founder Donald Young who passed away on April 12, 2012. The event will mark the release of the publica...   [more]

Opening: September 22nd, 2012   3:00 PM - 7:00 PM

This exhibition documents the historical journey made by people from Africa to the Americas, along with their language and music. In the 1930s, Lorenzo Dow Turner discovered that the Gullah people of Georgia and South Carolina retained parts of the culture and language of their West African enslaved ancestors. Turner’s research produced a living treasury of previously unknown traditions, songs, and...   [more]

Opening: June 15th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Buried Treasures: Art in African American Museums will draw attention to the rich legacy of art produced by African Americans within the collections of 30 African American museums. The exhibition will display approximately 90 works of art including works on canvas and paper, sculpture and mixed media from many noted 19th and early 20th century American artists including Henry O. Tanner, William Edoua...   [more]

Opening: July 14th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

August Wilson was one of the most influential playwrights of his generation; the Century Cycle, his series of ten plays dramatizing African American life in each decade of the twentieth century, continues to be produced in theaters across the country. In this exhibit at the DuSable Museum of African American History, explore the life and career of August Wilson and go behind the scenes of Court T...   [more]

No Rules: Contemporary Clay is the second in a series of three exhibitions at Elmhurst Art Museum exploring ceramic tradition and new creative developments. No Rules focuses on clay-based work of a nonfunctional nature and includes an international group of artists. Taking a variety of forms—from large and small-scale sculpture to community-based walks to performance, video, and photography—the wo...   [more]

Opening: September 7th, 2012   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

In ancient Rome there was a practice of looking at the heavens through a frame, or templum, creating a space for observation. This narrowing of the focus to open up creativity is the theme of this show. Each of the artists have concentrated their attentions, either in nature, math or pattern, creating diverse, intricate sculptures, that ask you to stop, and spend some time with each of them. Yvett...   [more]

Opening: September 23rd, 2012   1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Karen Reimer’s solo exhibition at Gallery 400 comprises a new entry in her on-going project Endless Set, accompanied by a selection of past artworks that illuminate the role spatial concerns have played in work that has often been read primarily through the lens of craft. Curated by Gallery 400 Director Lorelei Stewart, Endless Set #1399 is presented in conjunction with an architecture-based exhibition at the...   [more]

Opening: September 14th, 2012   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Opening: September 7th, 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]

Hyde Park Art Center is proud to announce the artists selected for inclusion in the 2012 Ground Floor exhibition. The exhibition, which opens August 19, introduces Chicago to new talent to watch, spotlighting the most promising artists who have recently emerged from Chicago’s top level MFA programs. The Art Center will host a free public reception for these talented up-and-coming artists on Sund...   [more]

Opening: September 23rd, 2012   3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

An exhibition curated by the Hyde Park Art Center’s Youth Art Board, Dreams and Nightmares, will be on view in Gallery 5 from August 26 until November 11, 2012. This group show will incorporate artwork that explores concepts of dreams and nightmares by members of the Youth Art Board as well as teen artists from Chicago High School for the Arts. The exhibition will include work portraying literal dep...   [more]

Opening: September 23rd, 2012   3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

The exhibition Two Histories of the World, on view at the Hyde Park Art Center from September 16, 2012 until January 6, 2013, features the works of five artists who transform used materials and explore the qualities of found objects as they circulate in contemporary culture. For this final iteration of a two-year exhibition project curated by Karsten Lund, artists Mara Baker, Sara Black & Jillian Soto,...   [more]

Opening: September 23rd, 2012   3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Iceberg is proud to announce the opening of Say Say Say, an upcoming exhibition by Chicago-based artist Dana DeGiulio. Open at least your throat. The text of the body of the bodies of these objects is the whole thing. Economy of means here to indicate elected restraints, to test what's exhaustible, to compel analogies between the visual grammars of drawing and writing. History, annotator of everyt...   [more]

Opening: September 16th, 2012   4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Fragile Relations: Art, Nature and Environment highlights the work of 13 Illinois artists who are inspired by nature and the environment. Artists include: Denise Bellezzo, prints; Barbara Cooper, sculpture; Jeff Crisman, photography; Mary Ellen Crouteau, mixed media; Marjorie David, digital imaging; Donna Hapac, sculpture; Carole Komarek, sculpture; Nora Lloyd, photography; Alex Lopez, installation; Xa...   [more]

Opening: October 5th, 2012   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM