Pope L., “The Escape”, 2018
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Pope L.: The Escape
(Art Institute of Chicago)
In a series of performances, Pope.L reimagines the dramatic literary work of the freed slave and abolitionist William Wells Brown.
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Jessica Campbell
(Museum of Contemporary Art)
Campbell’s drawings, textiles and cartoons invoke irony and self-deprecation to highlight women’s experiences of sexism.
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Adam Milner and Erin Washington
(LVL3)
Artistic process and its everyday revelations are the crux of this promising pairing.
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The Figure, Humor, and the Chicago Imagists
(Elmhurst Collage and the Elmhurst Art Museum)
This full-day symposium considers the body, humor and how the Imagists deployed both in their art.
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Abigail Zoe Martin
(Zhou B Art Center)
British photographer Abigail Zoe Martin exhibits three years worth of portraits of Chicagoans created while making Chicago her home.
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.
