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Artist’s Statement I am a fine arts photographer.  My work explores feminine identity and the passage of time.  My style is characterized by photographing miniature scenes composed of dolls, plaster figures and sculpted forms in large format.  The black and white photographs are tone and sometimes painted.  The affect is surreal and mysterious. “Time and Remembering” is a series of sepia-tone...   [more]

Opening: May 4th   4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

In a series of 18 striking images, the words of Jewish luminaries from Maimonides to Susan Sontag are newly interpreted and graphically transformed by renowned artists and designers including Milton Glaser, Carin Goldberg, Seymour Chwast, and Chicago's Art Paul. An initiative of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, Voices & Visions elicits the power of art to communicate great ideas and inspire reflection and conversati...   [more]

Lecture

Join curator David Van Zanten (Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History, Northwestern University) and catalogue contributors Ashley Dunn and Leslie Coburn for an in-depth discussion of the exhibition.   [more]

Artist talk

Dana Major in collaboration with 33 Contemporary Gallery present: Shadow Matrix Evolution, Summer 2013 is a continuously changing, walk-through, interactive installation of light and shadow.  Artist Dana Major uses LED technology to cast an immersive, responsive shadow environment through woven metal sculptures. Shadow Matrix Evolution, Summer 2013 will show for four consecutive months, beginnin...   [more]

Other

The Midwest Collage Society exhibit "Off Balance-Balance" explores the concept of balance and imbalance from both an individual and universal perspective. Collage and mixed media artists examine the origins of imbalance, its effect on themselves, society, and its remedy.  Balance is defined in the dictionary as a state of equilibrium, equal distribution, emotional stability, habit of calm behavior and...   [more]

Opening: May 17th   6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Mequitta Ahuja translates performance documentation photographs into dense mixed-media drawings. Working across artistic histories, referencing myths and her mixed ancestral heritage (Ahuja is African American and South Asian-American), she creates invented landscapes for her large-scale self-portraits.  War Baby / Love Child was curated by Laura Kina, Vincent DePaul Professor of Art, Media an...   [more]

Artist talk

Beyond Influence features 11 artists, who over the past 20 years, have been creating work at the Little City Center for the Arts (Little City) in Palatine, Illinois. Included are pieces from artists who have exhibited both nationally and internationally, including Harold Jeffries, Tarik Echols, and Wayne Mazurek. The broad scope of work being created by these artists ranges from paintings to multime...   [more]

In the West Wing, Corbett vs. Dempsey presents two venerable figures in the history of Midwestern surrealism: Gertrude Abercrombie and Julia Thecla. Abercrombie is perhaps the best known painter in this mode, having issued legions of brilliant small paintings from her home studio in Hyde Park from the 1930s until her death in 1977.  Classic Abercrombies are often set in the flat Illinois landscape,...   [more]

Opening: May 17th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM