David Leggett, “Their Funeral Our Dance Floor, ” 2017. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 16 x 16 inches / Photo: Evan Jenkins
1 David Leggett Shane Campbell Gallery Leggett fills Shane Campbell’s massive space with witty and acerbic collage and painting.
2 Ralph Coburn Arts Club of Chicago The Arts Club hosts a major installation of a little-known abstract master.
3 Arnold Kemp Iceberg Projects Rogers Park’s preeminent carriage house gallery opens an intimate show of works by this painter, poet and sculptor.
4 Jessie Mott Hyde Park Art Center Mott’s weird and wonderful creatures take over the Art Center’s second floor.
5 Whistler’s Mother Art Institute of Chicago The artist’s famous masterwork returns on loan to the Art Institute with supporting works and ephemera from the collection.
Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert is a curator, critic and editor. She is the inaugural Curator of Contemporary Art at the Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University. She was formerly Curatorial Fellow at the Chicago Artists Coalition, Art Editor of Newcity and Assistant Curator at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University.
