Visual Art Culture of Chicago and Beyond
This group exhibition features artworks across many mediums that all interpret a broad theme—change. Most of the works included possess a key element that allows the artwork to transform in appearance either temporarily or permanently.
In this small but powerful exhibition, where each photograph is titled “FatherHood,” South Side photographer/activist Eli Williamson tells a tender and necessary story.
“Keeper of the Code” is a career-spanning survey of this eighty-two-year-old composer and musician of avant-garde jazz.
The exhibition is filled with images that express the soul of the last two plus years—aka the COVID years. For this show, entries came from Europe, Asia, and the United States
Jojo has played lots of roles throughout their life. But they’re first and foremost an artist.
Mehrfar, a first-generation Iranian American artist, photographically questions what it is to be an immigrant, to shift shapes and landscapes, to be someone in one place, and someone different in another.
The exhibition represents a pivotal corner in Pryde’s body of work by combining two separate series that head in perpendicular directions, but come together, uniting themselves by touching for a brief moment within this space.
Nineteenth-century processes are fascinating and this work by John Opera has taken the concept to a whole new level in his stunning show.
Julie Cowan’s “Lincoln” draws on historical documents and facts, Julie Meridian relies on the fantasy elements of “Alice in Wonderland,” yet both artists push the boundaries of their individual telling.
To call Mexican-born queer feminist artist Diana Solís a photographer is an understatement. Solís shows herself to be so much more.
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