Shooting and Collecting the Great Depression: A Review of Photography + Folk Art at the Art Institute
The exhibition charts how folk art came to be sought and understood in the early twentieth century.
Strangeness For Its Own Sake: A Review of Mika Rottenberg at the Museum of Contemporary Art
What is perhaps most impressive about Rottenberg’s high-budget, high-production-value videos is how they manage to do so little with so much.
The Road of Excess: A Review of Darrell Roberts at McCormick Gallery
Each small piece, measuring twelve-inches-or-less on a side, is a maelstrom of strong color in thick pigment.
Magical, Mythical Portraiture: A Review of Ayana V. Jackson at Mariane Ibrahim Gallery
Jackson’s lens is a vessel to explore speculative fiction and to continue to examine her body as a black woman.
Sending Forth Community Action: The Radical Hope of the PO Box Collective
For collective members, it is crucial to foster mutual growth for themselves and the community while working against toxic negativity.
Subverting Space: A Review of Caragh Thuring at Corbett vs. Dempsey
Frequently simple, often simplistic, the paintings in Caragh Thuring’s “Builder” are more complicated than they appear.
Defining Chicago Imagism: A Review of What Came After: Figurative Painting in Chicago 1978-1998 at the Elmhurst Art Museum
What could a transgressive art practice accomplish once it had become the new normal? A new Elmhurst Art Museum exhibition looks at figurative painting post-Hairy Who.
Art Top 5: October 2019
Fall art season is in full swing this October, as evinced by these amibitious group and solo exhibitions.
The World As She Feels It: A Review of Janice Nowinski at Riverside Arts Center
This is a personal, unpretentious body of work, created by someone fascinated by European pictorialism and wanting to make it her own.
Cultural Heirlooms: A Review of Ashley M. Freeby at Hyde Park Art Center
“Plots & Hems” anchors Freeby’s interdisciplinary, labor-intensive practice, which explores her family history and the history of American civil rights.
