CURRENT EXHIBITS [122]

65GRAND is pleased to present All Myths are True, Jasmine Justice's third solo exhibition with the gallery.   On view is a new body of work made up of paintings Justice thinks of as time machines. Not in the sense that they contain indices of painting's history, but more in the sense of a science fiction story. In Philip K. Dick's novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, people of the future us...   [more]

Opening: May 17th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Missouri artist Ronald Clayton has a long history of exhibiting in Chicago, but strikes out in new, more abstracted territory with his body of geometrically grounded oil paintings.t About the artist: Ronald Clayton's work has been a strong pillar of the gallery since the mid 90s, and with this new body of work, the artist pushes his unmistakable and unique style into exciting new territory. C...   [more]

Opening: April 19th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Linstrum, an Atlanta Artist, offers romantic yet disconcerting images of nature in his visceral, mixed media paintings.   [more]

Opening: April 19th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Daniel Bauer’s work from Israel exposes fissures and rifts in the multiple strains of modernism that have been imported, developed, or mutated in the contemporary Levant. Often focusing on architectural additions and subtractions, Bauer seeks out the spatial, temporal, and conceptual topos between the personal and the collective, each a reflection of the other seen askew. Photographs from the ongoing se...   [more]

Opening: April 27th   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

ANDREW RAFACZ is pleased to announce Psychosexual, curated by Scott J. Hunter, in Gallery One and Gallery Two. Chicago, IL, April 6, 2013– ANDREW RAFACZ continues the spring 2013 season with Psychosexual, curated by Scott J. Hunter. The exhibition includes work by Lutz Bacher, Tom Burr, Edmund Chia, Matthias Dornfeld, Jayson Keeling, Jutta Koether, Nazafarin Lotfi, Jeffry Mitchell, John Neff,...   [more]

Opening: April 6th   4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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

"Design" is simply choice.  Aesthetic choice.   The elements of design can be seen in architectural, graphic or industrial drawings and the products they describe can be buildings, bridges or appliances.   Nowhere are those designs more plentiful than in an advanced consumer society like ours. And ArchiTech Gallery is the one place where those earliest designs can be acquired as works of...   [more]

Aspect Ratio is pleased to present, The Breath We Took, an exhibition of new work by Chelsea Knight. With The Breath We Took, Chelsea Knight continues her exploration of combining documentary, biography, and fiction to examine contemporary society. Knight focuses her lens on the ways motherhood becomes a constructed performance that follows societal norms and practices. The video is a collaboration...   [more]

Bert Green Fine Art is pleased to present our third solo show by San Francisco-based artist Barron Storey. Barron Storey, widely known and admired around the world for his contributions to illustration and the graphic novel tradition, has been creating illustrated journals for many years, from which a pair of books have been published, and which are the source material for many gallery and museum art e...   [more]

Opening: May 11th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Bert Green Fine Art is pleased to present our first solo show by Chicago-based artist Robb Stone. Robb Stone sources images from relentless torrent of social media and the news, selecting those which resonate with his interest in the intersection of classical imagery and contemporary masculinity. Using materials such as bleach and silk, he isolates and simplifies the figural forms, highlighting...   [more]

Opening: May 11th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

  Amy Laskin comes all the way from Kingston, Jamaica to the Carl Hammer Gallery for her first one person exhibition here, but her roots are firmly established in the traditions and history of Chicago art. Having graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and being especially inspired by her master teachers Karl Wirsum, Phil Hanson and especially Christ...   [more]

Opening: May 17th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Michael Kenna is undoubtedly one of the most exhibited and collected photographers working today. With a signature style all his own, Michael Kenna has achieved international recognition for his photographs, which have been exhibited throughout the world and are included in the permanent collections of most major museums. Kenna has proven time and again that his vision knows no boundaries. Whether wo...   [more]

Opening: May 10th   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

The Chicago High School for the Arts. ChiArts is a college-preparatory, pre-professional arts program which offers rigorous training in all aspects of the visual arts. ChiArts began with its first freshmen class in fall of 2009. The art in this show represents the group of graduating seniors and their end-of-year work.   [more]

For some, it’s a city of transition, a literal settlement: the place where we land, finally, after trying on a few others—Detroit or Cleveland; Greenville, North Carolina. It’s close enough to home, but far enough away. It’s the fresh start where we can become anonymous, start anew with a blank canvas. For others, it’s in our blood. We’ve always been here; we’ll never leave. It’s whe...   [more]

Opening: April 4th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Presented by the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, this exhibition of 72 black and white photographs from 1956 to 1987 offers a detailed view of 24 designated Chicago Landmarks.  The exhibit features the work of renowned architectural photographers Richard Nickel, Barbara Crane, Bob Thall and Stephen Beal.     [more]

Opening March 23 at the Chicago Cultural Center and running through June 16, "Rising Up: Hale Woodruff's Murals at Talladega College" features six monumentally-scaled murals painted in 1939-42 by African American artist Hale Woodruff. Never before seen outside of Alabama's Talladega College, the murals depict the 1839 mutiny by slaves on the Spanish ship La Amistad and its aftermath. Newly restor...   [more]

Opening: March 23rd   9:00 AM - 6:00 PM