Sophia Al-Maria, “The Litany “(detail), 2016. Sand, glitter, glass, smartphones, computer screens, tablet computers and USB cables, with multichannel looped digital video (color and black-and-white, sound), Durations variable
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I Was Raised On The Internet
Museum of Contemporary Art
Documenting from 1998 to the present, this major group exhibition exhibits immersive and participatory work by artists influenced by the internet and digital technology.
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Out Of Easy Reach
Gallery 400, DePaul Art Museum, Stony Island Arts Bank
This multi-venue show brings generations of black and brown female-identified artists together to write a new history of abstraction.
3
Charles White
Art Institute of Chicago
Catch this retrospective of a major figure in Chicago’s Black Renaissance before it heads to MoMA.
4
Whitney Bedford
Carrie Secrist Gallery
Bedford paints in the uncanny space between realism and abstraction, oceans and deserts.
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Rachel Niffenegger
Western Exhibitions
Stretched and rippled photos compete with oozing, twisted sculptures for your attention.
Elliot J. Reichert is a Chicago-based curator, critic, and editor. He is a currently a Hatch Projects Curatorial Resident at the Chicago Artist Coalition and Art Editor of Newcity. Formerly, he was Assistant Curator at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University. His writing has been published in The Brooklyn Rail, the Journal of Visual Culture, and Newcity.
