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Jessica Curtaz's drawings are hyper-detailed studies of naturally occurring patterns which are taken from the observation of plant life. Highly complex and detailed views of hydrangea flower and leaf parts are repeated and recombined to create an overall abstract impression — these artworks reflect the artist's fascination with biological forms and structures. Curtaz uses her considerable skill to...   [more]

Opening: January 12th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The tides of atmosphere are slowly bent. Our familiar ecology is passing away. Here, this drama is halted. The figures are heavy and bowed, huddled together or apart, in the storm already gathered. They assert a humble presence, vaguely comic, loitering, in a hieratic glare. Visibility is left to the immediate as all contexts and purpose collapse. Within this twilight world, only the subtlest connec...   [more]

Opening: December 7th, 2012   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

“In a time of impermanence, where every word is half-joking and every position half-hedged, they picked a self-image, literally and unequivocally. They did it for now and always, and they can never distance themselves from the choice: they carry it with them no matter what accessories they buy, no matter how their profiles change.” -Jonah Horwitz from Body Language: Stories in FleshSchneider Ga...   [more]

Opening: January 11th   5:00 PM - 7:30 PM

In our back gallery, Tony Favarula trains his eye on the domestic. Through juxtaposing portraits of family with images of his home’s interior, the photographs speak to the “physical and psychological effects of social interaction…manifested within the comfort of one’s own home.” Favarula reenacts everyday moments and through his use of light and extreme scale the stripped-down recollections...   [more]

Opening: January 11th   5:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Stephen Daiter Gallery is pleased to present Joseph D. Jachna: Surface Contradictions 1958-1970, the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Initially intended to be a career retrospective, the exhibition narrowed in focus upon our discovery of several storage boxes that held a wealth of previously unseen photographs dating from the artist’s graduate school days at the Institute o...   [more]

Opening: December 7th, 2012   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Mary Patten is a visual artist, video-maker, writer, educator, occasional curator, and political activist. For over 25 years, she has exhibited installations, videos, drawings, prints, and public collaborative projects locally, nationally, and internationally at venues ranging from the Chicago Cultural Center, Gallery 400, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, the Hyde Park Art Center, DOVA Tempo...   [more]

Opening: January 11th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Mathew Paul Jinks is an English Immigrant, living teaching 
and working in Chicago Illinois. He completed his undergraduate 
degree at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland in 2005, studying 
Fine Art Photography, then emigrating to the U.S and completing
 his MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago in Studio Arts, as a University Fellow, 2008.  Whilst currently living and working in C...   [more]

Opening: January 11th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Zolla/Lieberman Gallery is proud to present two concurrent solo exhibitions by two noteworthy Chicago-based artists, Vera Klement and William Conger, the newest addition to our roster. "Early & Late Work," an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Vera Klement, will be the artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery. During her over 50-year career, Klement has placed equal importance on color and comp...   [more]

Opening: January 11th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Zolla/Lieberman Gallery is proud to present two concurrent solo exhibitions by noteworthy  Chicago-based artists, Vera Klement and William Conger, the newest addition to our roster. “New Paintings,” William Conger’s inaugural exhibition at Zolla/Lieberman, features oil paintings on canvas or wood, all created within the past year. Conger continues his lifelong investigation of formal non-rep...   [more]

Opening: January 11th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Nine ceramic artists will collaborate with their choice of hand-rolled chocolate truffle from local Chicago confectionery cake. Each artist created artwork to coincide with their own truffle inspired by the always amazing tastes, textures and emotions we experience when indulging in chocolate. Please join us for this unique opportunity in which you the viewer will be able to also enjoy these culinary de...   [more]

Opening: February 2nd   7:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Working from his studio in the Loop, Chicagoan Tom Bachtell's distinctive drawings and caricatures appear each week in "The Talk of the Town" and other sections of The New Yorker where he has been a regular contributor for some 20 years. Drawings that will be on exhibit at the City Gallery include:  Barack Obama Michelle Obama Hillary Clinton Jackie Kennedy Cornel West Hugh Hefner Picasso Rahm Eman...   [more]

On Sunday, December 2, from 3 to 5 pm, the Hyde Park Art Center invites you to join EPIC SOMETHING’s twelve artists, in their opening exhibition, on a journey to the nexus of text and image, across a multitude of media: drawing, animation, installation, and writing, The Hyde Park Art Center is located at 5020 South Cornell Avenue in Chicago. For more information call 773-324-5520 or visit www.hydep...   [more]

Opening: December 2nd, 2012   3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Immerse yourself in the richly creative environment of one of today's most innovative architectural firms with Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects, the first exhibition in the world devoted to the Chicago-based group headed by MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang. This innovative presentation of the work of Studio Gang Architects (SGA) allows visitors to see how buildings and projects are...   [more]

Opening: October 7th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM