Golden Gallery, which has seen success in Lakeview for the past three years, is opening a franchise in SoHo. The new space debuts with a solo show by Aspen Mays, and the gallery will be run by former Chicago-based gallery director Andrew Blackley. Golden’s Lakeview locale will open September 23 with work by Anthea Behm, whose art fuses “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” with Theodor Adorno’s critical theory. Peregrine Program, operated by artist Edmund Chia, has relocated from the “Spice Barrel District” in Pilsen to the 3300 block of West Carroll Avenue, joining a growing gallery district currently populated by Devening Projects, New Capital, Jackson Junge and Julius Caesar. Peregrine pays tribute to its new Julius Caesar building mates with a show of their artwork. The DePaul Art Museum opens its new three-story space on Fullerton Avenue on September 17 with an exhibition dedicated to a selected history of Chicago visual art, titled “Re: Chicago.”
Several art spaces are saying goodbye this fall season. Spoke, in the 119 North Peoria Street building, housed a gallery, performance space, artist residency and studios. The gallery hosted over forty exhibitions and events since 2008. Walsh Gallery, located in the 118 North Peoria Street building, will host its final show this month and then close its physical space in order to participate in art fairs. Walsh specialized in exhibiting Asian and Indian art for the past seventeen years in Chicago. Fill in the Blank, a gallery and art school founded in January, 2009, in Lincoln Square, closed this summer. Murphy/Hill Gallery, formerly located in 20,000 square feet of the Sears and Roebuck warehouse, is closed until it can afford to relocate. Nicole Gallery, which showed art by Caribbean and African-American artists in the River North gallery district, closed this summer after twenty-five years in operation. The gallery owner, Nicole Smith, also operated a space in Bronzeville, which opened in 2006. (Jason Foumberg)
Across Layers of Reality: A Review of Jacolby Satterwhite at SAIC Galleries The exhibition bills itself as the first major survey of work by the artist. Across its large footprint, audiences can see how Satterwhite’s aesthetic has evolved while maintaining the commitment to personal history and embodied practice that launched his career.
