An Ode to Owoko: A Review of ebere agwuncha at Comfort Station
“My work cannot just exist in a white cube. I don’t think it’s responsible.”
The Things We Carry: A Review of Flattened Flora at Roots & Culture
There is a tension here difficult to achieve in a two-person show; earth vs. air; corporeal vs. abstract; the natural environment vs. a garishly constructed one.
Refuse, Reused: A Review of Kiah Celeste at Document
Where a critic could easily argue this collection of sculptures is about our waste and how much of it there is, Celeste provides us the opportunity to quit worrying and find a better use for the refuse, ourselves.
Light and Space: The Magic of Sonja Thomsen’s Experiential Art
I’ve come to understand that my practice is really about responding to a body in space and the way we move through that space, the way light activates that space.
Velvet Dusk: A Review of Zohra Opoku at Mariane Ibrahim
She is reassembling herself, and we bear witness through imagery pregnant with the promise of spring.
Heaven Can’t Wait: Equity Arts Aims to Reestablish Wicker Park as an Arts Hub
We don’t want to keep moving around because we know that wherever we go, our presence will become weaponized against the working class.
Constructing Identity: A Review of Brandon Breaux at Blanc Gallery
In “Big Words,” Brandon Breaux explores his Chicago roots in a tangible way, with pride and integrity; the city is lucky to have him.
Rewilding the Future: Jenny Kendler Makes the Anthropocene Tactile
Some of the work that we need to be doing as culture makers is to try to propose alternate structures for our culture.
Much Ado About Small Things: The Return of Barely Fair, Chicago’s Tiniest International Art Fair
While the art fair format can engender a fleeting scan over a lackluster expanse, here, the artworks, barely there, nevertheless command a closer look.
Difference and Discontinuity: A Review of Rebecca Morris at Corbett vs. Dempsey
Like that first taste of the unfamiliar on an expectant tongue, these are paintings that you have to work for.
