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Art Top 5: March 2018

by Elliot Reichert | February 28, 2018

by Elliot Reichert
February 28, 2018April 9, 2018Filed under:
  • Drawings
  • Installation
  • Mixed Media
  • Painting
  • Top 5 Lists

Howardena Pindell, “Night Flight,” 2015–16/ Garth Greenan Gallery

1
Howardena Pindell

Museum of Contemporary Art
Pindell’s first major survey takes a long look at a lifetime of experimentation and ceiling-shattering in painting and politics.

2
Mounira Al Solh
Art Institute of Chicago
Al Solh’s ongoing drawing and embroidery series focuses on her conversations with Syrians and others displaced by the ongoing Syrian Civil War.

3
Clare Rosean
Zg Gallery
Between playful and eerie, Rosean’s paintings and drawings will delight those of a certain sensibility.

4
Rupert Glimm
Firecat Projects
Shapes and colors collide on Glimm’s constructivist paintings.

5
Roni Packer
Chicago Artists Coalition
Packer pushes the limits between painting and sculpture with things that sit between both.

Elliot Reichert

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.

www.elliotjreichert.net
Tagged:
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Chicago Artist Coalition
  • Firecat Projects
  • Howardena Pindell
  • Mounira Al Solh
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
  • Roni Packer
  • Rupert Glimm

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