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CHICAGO: Where Comics Came to Life (1880-1960)
June 19–January nine, 2022
This exhibition focused on the origins of the comics in popular publishing, the immeasurable importance of African-American cartoonists and publishing, the kickoff woman cartoonists and editors, the first daily comic strip, and finally the art and comics of undeservedly forgotten Frank Male monarch.
A Designed Life: Contemporary American Textiles, Wallpapers, and Containers & Packaging, 1951–1954
June 12–September nineteen, 2021
A Designed Life is an exhibition based on three historically pregnant traveling exhibitions of contemporary, mass-produced, American-designed consumer goods that were commissioned by the U.S. Section of State in the early 1950s. Information technology recreates those early on Common cold War exhibitions — featuring American textiles, wallpapers, containers, and packaging — restating and interpretin part of each brandish as it might have appeared in the early 1950s.
what flies but never lands?
June 2—September 5, 2021
what flies but never lands? presents works that, through their ain logics and affects, resist the recollective slipstreams of the present. Staged in the Michigan Avenue galleries, what flies simply never lands? is gently organized into iii concepts, one for each room: swirl, low-cal, and ground.
NKAME: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón (1967–1999)
Feb 29—May 24, 2020
(Closed early on due to COVID-19)
This landmark retrospective is the first in the U.Due south. dedicated to the work of Belkis Ayón, the late Cuban visual artist and printmaker who mined the founding myth of the Afro-Cuban fraternal lodge of Abaquá to create an independent and powerful visual iconography.
In Flux: Chicago Artists and Immigration
February 15—May 10, 2020
(Airtight early due to COVID-xix)
First presented by 6018 North in jump 2019, nether the title 'Living Architecture,' In Flux is a large-scale, multidisciplinary exhibition that highlights the influence and affect of immigrant artists on Chicago.
Luis A. Sahagun: Both Eagle and Serpent
February 1—April 26, 2020
(Airtight early due to COVID-19)
Known for his intricate and fantastical paintings and sculptures built from silicone, lumber, drywall, concrete and hardware, Luis Sahagun creates symbols that represent working-class immigrants in the Us.
Chicago Architecture Biennial
September nineteen, 2019—January 5, 2020
As the largest exhibition of contemporary fine art, architecture, and design in N America, the third edition of the Biennial featured over lxxx contributors from more xx countries. More 40 sites and 100 organizations beyond Chicago partnered with the Biennial, serving equally host venues and producing independent exhibitions and programs throughout the neighborhoods.
Setting the Stage: Objects of Chicago Theatre
June 29, 2019—May 31, 2020
Design in theatre tin accept many forms, including costumes, lights, sound, props, and sets, among countless other examples. Setting the Stage celebrates the myriad ways design is employed in stage productions.
Stand Up for Landmarks! Protests, Posters & Pictures
February 25, 2017—September 29, 2019
Saving landmarks in Chicago has always been a lively challenge. Over the years, public activism, outreach campaigns and governmental legislation have produced notable graphic designs and striking photographs. This exhibit featured images, artifacts and ephemera relating to this seldom-told story.
National Veterans Fine art Museum Triennial: On War & Survival
May 2–July 28, 2019
With a focus on the visual, literary, performative and creative practices of veterans, the National Veterans Art Museum Triennial explores a century of state of war and survival while challenging the perception that war is something only those who have served in the armed services can encompass.
Bronzeville Echoes: Faces and Places of Chicago's African American Music
April 28–July 28, 2019
Explore Chicago's music legacy through ragtime, jazz and blues in an exhibition that highlights the contributions of of import places and people that shaped the music scene.
Chicago! The Play, The Movies, The Musical...The Murders
January 26–July 28, 2019
The play Chicago originally premiered on the New York's Broadway phase in 1926. Since that time, it has been reshaped into three major motion pictures, and a long-running musical still popular on Broadway today.
goat island annal — we accept discovered the functioning by making it
February 2–June 23, 2019
Throughout the 23 years of its existence (1986–2009), the Chicago-based Goat Island contributed to the conception of nine major performance works, accompanied by publications, film and video projects, workshops, summer schools, lectures and symposia, inventing a circuitous institution bigger than the individual works.
Cecil McDonald, Jr.: In the Visitor of Black
January 19–Apr fourteen, 2019
Over the course of vii years, artist and educator Cecil McDonald, Jr. photographed people he describes every bit "extraordinarily ordinary." As the artist explains, "When it comes to Black people, America is fascinated with extreme poles: either showing victims of violence, pain, and poverty (Blackness misery) or famous athletes and entertainers, and icons of popular culture (Black exceptionalism).
Forgotten Forms
February 2–April 7, 2019
Forgotten Forms is a collaborative exhibition betwixt members of the Chicago Cultural Alliance, the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture and the Ukrainian Establish of Modern Art.
Furtive
February 2–April 7, 2019
Curated past Filter Photo, Furtive is a photography-based exhibition that explores the complexity of retentivity, both personal and commonage.
In Good Visitor
February 2–Apr seven, 2019
In Good Company is a grouping exhibition presented by Arts of Life. This exhibition seeks to highlight the mutually beneficial relationships and connections that develop within the Arts of Life studios.
Everyone's a Designer/Everyone'due south Blueprint
Dec eight, 2018—April 1, 2019
Presented as part of Fine art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Fine art exploring Chicago'southward fine art and pattern legacy, "Anybody's a Designer/Everyone's Design" is a free traveling museum exhibition that explores and celebrates everyday Chicagoans' influence on art and blueprint in the metropolis.
African American Designers in Chicago: Art, Commerce and the Politics of Race
October 27, 2018—March 3, 2019
Featuring piece of work from a broad range of practices including cartooning, sign painting, architectural signage, analogy, graphic design, exhibit design and product design, this exhibition is the outset to demonstrate how African American designers remade the prototype of the black consumer and the work of the black artist in this major hub of American advertising/consumer civilization.
Keep Moving: Designing Chicago's Cycle Culture
October 27, 2018—March 3, 2019
Keep Moving explores how bicycle design in Chicago contributed to the early on popularity of bicycles in America, their survival through the 20th century, and their resurgence today.
Tuned Mass: Jeff Carter, Faheem Majeed & Susan Giles
September 8, 2018—January half dozen, 2019
Jeff Carter works from images of specific conflict zones sourced online and adult a serial of sculptures that explore the "architecture of the barricade". His interpretations rely on forms that limited aggressive dynamics and raw utility, nevertheless are advisedly integrated and intentionally crafted.
Twelvemonth of Creative Youth Exhibitions
August 25, 2018—Jan vi, 2019
As part of the Yr of Creative Youth, the Chicago Cultural Center worked in collaboration with four local community organizations to feature the work of young artists.
OVERRIDE: A Billboard Project
September 17–October 7, 2018
This significant citywide public art initiative featured the piece of work of 12 artists represented by major local, national and international galleries exhibiting at the exposition displayed throughout Chicago'southward Metropolis Digital Network (CDN) of citywide billboards.
Alexis Rockman: The Great Lakes Cycle
June 2–October 1, 2018
This multi-faceted project explores the past, nowadays and future of North America's Great Lakes – 1 of the globe's most allegorical and ecologically significant ecosytems.
Keith Haring: The Chicago Mural
March 3–September 23, 2018
Having rocketed to worldwide fame in the 1980s, graffiti artist Keith Haring worked with 500 Chicago Public School students to paint a monumental mural in Chicago's Grant Park in 1989. This exhibition included a large selection of the mural reflecting the creative person's incisive draftsmanship and unsettling cast of symbolic characters (atomic babe, barking canis familiaris).
Scott Stack: Interior and Exterior
February ten–August v, 2018
This exhibition presents 12 recently completed, large-scale paintings that claiming our perceptual capabilities every bit well equally defy conventional categories and operations of abstract and representational traditions in modern painting.
Cleveland Dean: Recto/Verso — Duality of a Delicate Ego
February 3–July 29, 2018
The abstract and conceptual works by Cleveland Dean are presented through a wide range of prosaic materials executed in mixed-media on panels and sculptures. The charred and highly reflective surfaces, grids, wood, cement and resin create tension-filled objects that invite the viewer to reflect into their own psyche and remind them that they are greater than they may believe.
Xavier Toubes: Descriptions Without a Place. PushMoon4
February iii–July 29, 2018
The exhibition of sculptural ceramics presents work with sensuous possibilities. The deft handling of material and skilful glaze technique is created by the palms simply executed at the back of the heed. The "fluttering inventions" mingle experience with emotions, touching on the real, aware of the historical moment but united nations-consumed by it.
de-skinned: duk ju 50 kim recent work
February 3–July 29, 2018
Chicago-based artist Duk Ju L. Kim was born in Busan, South korea and spent her determinative years in Tehran, Iran. The historical, geopolitical, and current events that shaped her early life and her perception of the globe are present in her paintings.
Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Affluent
Feb 10–May 6, 2018
Nina Chanel Abney: Purple Affluent is the first solo exhibition in a museum for the Chicago-built-in artist. The exhibition is a ten-twelvemonth survey of approximately 30 of the artist's paintings, watercolors and collages.
Chicago Public Schools All-City High School Exhibition
March 22–April 12, 2018
Every bit office of the Year of Creative Youth, the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events will nowadays the annual Chicago Public Schools All-City High Schoolhouse Visual Art Exhibition. This juried fine art exhibition highlights the diverse talent and work of Chicago Public School students in the professional platform of a gallery setting.
Chicago Compages Biennial: Make New History
September xvi, 2017—January 7, 2018
The 2d edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) is the largest architecture and design exhibition in North America, showcasing the transformative global touch of creativity and innovation in these fields.
Chicago Compages Biennial — Chicago's River Edge Ideas Lab
September 16, 2017—January 7, 2018
How can we develop Chicago's riverfront as a cohesive, connected and agile public infinite? Nine international architecture firms respond with innovative visions for improving Chicago's river edge.
Chicago Architecture Biennial — Gerard & Kelly: Mod Living
September sixteen, 2017—January 7, 2018
The City Gallery in the Celebrated Water Tower will showcase the outset 2 chapters of Gerard & Kelly'south Modernistic Living as an installation of 2 videos filmed on location at The Glass Firm and Schindler Business firm. 
Candida Alvarez: Hither
April 29–August 6, 2017
Guest curated by Terry Myers, this showtime major institutional exhibition of the work of Chicago-based creative person Candida Alvarez focused on the artist's painting from 1975 to the present.
Triptych Unloose
May twenty–July xxx, 2017
This exhibition aims to expose the nature of the creative procedure, the environmental of cultural production and to provide a glimpse into the labor of exhibition making.
The Wall of Respect: Vestiges, Shards and the Legacy of Black Ability
February 25–July xxx, 2017
Guest curated by Romi Crawford, Abdul Alkalimat and Rebecca Zorach, this exhibition chronicles how the the Organization of Black American Culture's Visual Artists Workshop designed and produced a seminal landscape for and inside Chicago's Black Southward Side communities.
The Pride & Perils of Chicago's Public Art
January 14–July 30, 2017
Planning and creating public art can be a risky enterprise. For over 200 years, Chicago has been putting art in public places. Sometimes it's loved. Sometimes it'south hated. To farther complicate matters, times alter – and then do people and tastes.
Eugene Eda's Doors for Malcolm X College
January 21–June 25, 2017
Painted in 1971 past one of the primary artists of the Wall of Respect, the monumental doors are a landmark of the Black Arts movement in Chicago.
Artists in Residence and Curatorial Fellows
January ane–May 17, 2017
The Chicago Cultural Center Artists in Residence and Curatorial Fellows were selected by a panel of esteemed jurors post-obit a competitive review of most 200 qualified applicants.
Nicole Marroquin and Andres Fifty. Hernandez: Historical F(r)ictions
Feb 18–May seven, 2017
By critically engaging with archival materials and living testimonies, Nicole Marroquin and Andres L. Hernandez rewrite two narratives of citizen struggle in Chicago. 
50x50 Invitational / The Subject is Chicago: People, Places, Possibilities
Feb 11–April 9, 2017
Six distinguished artists and curators, Miguel Aguilar, Janice Bail, Jesse Lee Cochran, Tempestt Hazel, Nicole Marroquin and Tricia Van Eck selected one creative person from each of Chicago'due south fifty wards. 
Parsons & Charlesworth: Spectacular Vernacular
September 10, 2016—January 22, 2017
Spectacular Vernacular is the first major solo exhibition of work past the blueprint studio Parsons & Charlesworth, formally founded by British husband and wife Tim Parsons and Jessica Charlesworth in 2014 after years of breezy collaboration.
Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis
September 17, 2016—January 8, 2017
The first comprehensive overview of the fine art of Norman Lewis presents this pivotal figure in American art, a participant in the Harlem art community, an innovator of Abstract Expressionism and a politically-conscious activist. 
Tom Denlinger: Ekstatic Edgewater
September 17, 2016—January 8, 2017
Investigating the circuitous social arena of Chicago neighborhood Edgewater/Roger's Park with 70 different spoken languages and a burgeoning LGBT community, Tom Denlinger photographed community places where private property overlaps with public involvement such every bit the spaces betwixt and in front of buildings.
Laura Davis: Jewelry for My Female parent(s) and Other Microaggressions
September 10, 2016—January 8, 2017
Laura Davis uses the intimate and camouflaged forms of jewelry and giftware to look at the struggles faced past women of the baby boomer generation.
Maria Pinto: 25 Years
September 10, 2016—January 8, 2017
Maria Pinto: 25 Years is a commemoration of Maria Pinto'south commencement 25 years of working at the intersection of art and manner in Chicago. Through her creations, Pinto has tracked the irresolute role of fashion in women's lives.
Krista Franklin: Quest for The Marvelous
September three, 2016—January 8, 2017
In this survey of contempo work, internationally-recognized poet and visual artist Krista Franklin appropriates paradigm and text as a political gesture that chisels away at the narratives historically inscribed on women and people of color and forges imaginative spaces for radical possibilities and visions. 
Artists in Residence — Diaz Lewis: 34,000 Pillows
Through Oct 2016
Diaz Lewis are currently working on 34,000 Pillows, a projection in response to the statutory "Bed Mandate" for Immigration and Custom Enforcement (Ice).Moon.
Paul Catanese: Visible From Space
July 9–September 27, 2016
For his premier solo exhibition in Chicago, artist Paul Catanese creates an interdisciplinary artwork that ponders the cosmos of Earthly drawings as seen from the Moon.
OVERRIDE: A Billboard Projection
August 29–September 25, 2016
In this unprecedented citywide public art initiative, EXPO CHICAGO, the International Exposition of Mod & Gimmicky Art, in partnership with DCASE, is featuring the work of 15 artists from major local, national and international galleries on 28 digital billboards located throughout Chicago's City Digital Network.
For The Common Good: Cards Against Humanity
January xx–September iv, 2016
A year-long series of iii exhibitions and related programming, in collaboration with the Chicago Blueprint Museum, "For the Common Adept" looks at Chicago-based independent designers, blueprint firms and entrepreneurs that approach their design work and business to deliver cutting-edge product while addressing a variety of social issues through a myriad of platforms and strategies.
Phyllis Bramson: Under the Pleasure Dome
June iv–August 28, 2016
Phyllis Bramson is an enigmatic and influential artist and professor in the Chicago art globe. Her lush colors, coy figuration and wholehearted comprehend of the decorative in the service of masterfully composed assemblages and paintings that draw the viewer ever further in to many layered stories are continuous threads in her decades long practice of artmaking and teaching.
Kartemquin Films: 50 Years of Commonwealth Through Documentary
May 21–August 20, 2016
For the get-go time in it's history, Kartemquin has sorted through over 30,000 elements to curate an exhibition spanning the evolution of the motion picture collective and of documentary filmmaking itself, including the creation of classic films such as Inquiring Nuns(1968), Hoop Dreams (1994) and The New Americans (2003).
Dan Take chances: Clockwork
May fourteen–August 21, 2016
Dan Take chances'south meticulously crafted paintings and drawings characteristic imagery and vast spaces that reconcile or concur in break both scientific discipline and art, the sublime and the particular, theory and closely observed reality.
Dorothy Hughes: On Grade
May xiv–August 21, 2016
From a career spanning 5 decades of agilely investigating forms with tactile media, the more often than not recent works by Dorothy Hughes are all inspired past the natural environment.
Regin Igloria: How Dissimilar It Is to Be Exterior
May 7–August 21, 2016
Regin Igloria's multi-disciplinary piece of work includes performance, sculpture, photography, drawing and artist'south books. He combines many of these modes to explore the social and consumerist implications of outdoor and endurance sport and leisure.
Carlos Rolón/Dzine: I Tell You This Sincerely…
April 9–July 31, 2016
Internationally recognized for his elaborately crafted paintings, ornate sculptures and site-specific installations that incorporate social do, Carlos Rolón/Dzine returned abode for his commencement Chicago solo exhibition in 12 years.
Pablo Helguera: LibrerÃa Donceles
January thirty–May 29, 2016
Conceived by New York-based artist and educator Pablo Helguera, LibrerÃa Donceles is a traveling Spanish-language bookstore.
Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen
February half dozen–May i, 2016
In the starting time major American exhibition tour, Theo Jansen's wholly distinctive kinetic creations blur the lines of art, applied science, science and performance. The exhibition celebrates the thrill of the Strandbeests' locomotion and shows the processes that have driven their evolutionary development.
Present Standard
Jan 30–April 24, 2016
Guest curated by Edra Soto and Josue Pellot, Present Standard features 25 contemporary artists with Latino Chicago connections. Their works that play with the manifold meanings and forms suggested by the "standard" – as either a flag or a pennant, a measuring tactic or a guiding principle, or a potent symbol of national identity.
Assaf Evron: Athens and Oraibi
October 3, 2015—January 3, 2016
Athens and Oraibi explores art historian Aby Warburg'south concept of simultaneity through the contemporary architectural vernacular. The photographs and photo-based work of Assaf Evron (Chicago, U.South.; Tel Aviv, Israel) focus on the structures and forms of the overlooked, revealing a visual state of both backlog and deficiency.
Chicago Architecture Biennial
October 3, 2015—January iii, 2016
The Chicago Compages Biennial utilized all of the Chicago Cultural Center'due south galleries and public spaces for free exhibitions and newly deputed installations—the first time that the unabridged building has been dedicated to one curatorial project.
Charlie Trotter: Chef, Artist, Thinker
May fifteen–September 27, 2015
Charlie Trotter: Chef, Creative person, Thinker looks at the interests and inspirations which manifested publicly in the chef's thoughtful and artistic handling of cuisine.
Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist
March vii–Baronial 31, 2015
Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist historic twentieth-century American creative person Archibald J. Motley, Jr. (1891-1981) and revealed his continued impact on art history. While considered a major contributor to the Harlem Renaissance, Motley never lived in New York but rather played that role from Chicago – his home for most of his life.
Cheryl Pope: Artist in Residence
Through August 31, 2015
The artist engaged visitors, especially youth, in her artistic practice using the boxing ring equally a performance space for working out conflict in a non-violent way.
Move Your Body: The Evolution of Business firm Music
Through August sixteen, 2015
The exhibition Move Your Body: The Evolution of Business firm Music celebrates more than 30 years of a homegrown art form that is now heard around the world.
Adebukola Bodunrin, Cecil McDonald, Jr. and Mahwish Chishty: Artists in Residence
June 6–August 9, 2015
Pic, video and installation artist Adebukola Bodunrin, lensman Cecil McDonald, Jr. and Painter Mahwish Chishty correspond the inaugural group of DCASE Artists in Residence working in a private studio at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Love for Sale: The Graphic Fine art of Valmor Products
April 25–August 2, 2015
Everybody wants love. And who doesn't desire to have good luck and success in life? Or to look their best? Quietly operating from Chicago'southward Southward Side betwixt the 1920s and 1980s, the Valmor Products Company offered all these things and more than. Perfumes, hair pomades, incense, and a wide diverseness of other products came packaged in small bottles and tins with centre-catching labels affirming the mystical powers of the products within.
Chicago's Gospel Truths
April 15–June 1, 2015
Gospel music has ages-one-time history and traditions. But once gospel met Chicago, it was never the aforementioned again.
Faheem Majeed and Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford: Artists in Residence
Through May 15, 2015
The Garland Gallery studio became a laboratory, examination site and play space for a big-scale multifaceted projection titled "Floating Museum" that engaged a wide variety of community partners.
All-City High School Exhibitions by Chicago Public Schools Students
March 20–Apr 12 & April 17–May 10, 2015
Two juried exhibitions of student artwork. The first features painting, drawing, printmaking, paper arts, ceramics and glass; the second features photography, design objects, moving-picture show, animation, digital media, sculpture, fashion and textiles.
Alison Ruttan: if all y'all take is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
Jan 24–May 10, 2015
In this installation, the artist flanks her earlier photographic and video projection, based on Jane Goodall's disturbing study of Chimpanzee behavior.
Ian Weaver: Black Knights' Archive, Chapter One: Migration
January 24–Apr 26, 2015
The Black Knights' Archive is a fictive construction of the history of the Near West Side Chicago neighborhood known equally "Black Bottom."
Richard Hunt: 60 Years of Sculpture
Dec half-dozen, 2014—March 29, 2015
Richard Chase: Lx Years of Sculpture celebrates the career of the respected and prolific Chicago sculptor on the eve of his 80th birthday. The exhibition features 60 objects dating from 1954 to 2014, drawn mostly from the artist's ain drove.
ROLLED, STONED & INKED: 25 years of the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
November 15, 2014—February 28, 2015
All sorts of inksters have pulled etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, monotypes and screen prints at the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago'southward longest-running independent printshop. The resulting artworks run the gamut from traditional to experimental. This exhibition included prints by Carlos Cortez, Tony Fitzpatrick, David Driesbach, Michael Goro and John Himmelfarb, amongst others.
For the Common Practiced: Run into The Remediators
November 8, 2014—April v, 2015
Nancy Klehm and Emmanuel Pratt
Nancy Klehm and Emmanuel Pratt are leaders in the genre of contemporary art called Social Practice, with meaning involvement in environmental concerns.
All the Names: Patricia Rieger
September thirteen, 2014—January four, 2015
With a twist towards the absurd and theatrical, Patricia isolates characters and spaces to suggest drama while encouraging ambiguity.
Dice WELT (The World): Drury Brennan
September thirteen, 2014—Jan four, 2015
Drury Brennan'south works seeks to recombine music, art and poetry in new ways, seeking to elicit visceral responses from the viewer.
Topography of Tension: Frank Connet
September 13, 2014—January iv, 2015
This recent body of textile and sculptures continues Connet's xx year fascination with the procedure of the dye-resist technique of mokume shibori. Connet's new wall pieces approach a level cartographic exploration, reassembling the compositions into abrupt transitions between pattern and deep indigo fields.
Sabina Ott: hither and there pink melon joy
August 30, 2014—January iv, 2015
Sabina Ott created a site-specific installation of new works that creates a transformative psychic journey, turning three enormously windowed spaces overlooking Millennium Park into a mysterious and mystical hybrid surround.
Jason Reblando: New Deal Utopias
Apr 26–November 2, 2014
During the Great Depression, the U.S. government built three planned communities of Greenbelt, Maryland; Greenhills, Ohio; and Greendale, Wisconsin.
Artist in Residence — Monika Neuland
September 6–Oct thirty, 2014
Artist in Residence, Monika Neuland transformed the Garland Gallery into a vibrant public studio. For her projection, entitled Social Fiber, the artist created a gathering space filled with a variety of looms and hand-made textiles reminiscent of cultures around the world throughout time.
Chicago International Film Festival 50th Anniversary Exhibition
September half-dozen–October 30, 2014
This exhibition includes posters, photos, memorabilia and continuous video loops of moments from winning films.
CHGO DSGN: Recent Object and Graphic Blueprint
May 31–November 2, 2014
CHGO DSGN [Chicago Design] is a major exhibition of contempo object and graphic design by 100+ of the metropolis'due south leading designers.
Hebru Brantley: Parade Solar day Pelting
June 14–September 23, 2014
Hebru Brantley explores the human experience of emotion through the story of Parade Day Pelting.
Chicago's Front Porch: Blues Fest Through the Years
May 10–September seven, 2014
A photography exhibit celebrating dejection musicians and the Annual Chicago Dejection Festival.
100 100s on the I and a Half: Shane Huffman
April 26–August 24, 2014
Shane Huffman is pond to the Moon. If ignorance of the laws of nature is the footing of superstition, there's an element of deliberate superstition in Huffman'southward willful revision of cosmic guild.
Adelheid Mers: Enter the Matrix
April 26–August 24, 2014
From studio critique, a style of conversation most art works, Mers has evolved a generative, productive method of talking near other issues also, by diagramming them onto her Fractal 3-Line Matrix.
AGAIN GONE ~ Miller & Shellabarger
April 26–August 24, 2014
Miller & Shellabarger use gunpowder and black oil sunflower seeds to outline their bodies and easily. Both materials hold immense amounts of energy, even when distilled into diminutive containers, and are utilized for their rich metaphorical connotation. One is used to feed the flame. The other is left every bit feed.
Matthew Girson: The Painter's Other Library
May 24–August x, 2014
The Painter's Other Library is a meditation on silence. The tranquillity of the library is evoked in the paintings also equally the history of the edifice and the galleries that house the exhibit.
CHAIN REACTION: Chicago Biking on the Motility
May sixteen–July 13, 2014
Pedal into the past, present and future of cycling with this bike-inspired exhibit.
Mecca Flat Dejection
February 15–May 25, 2014
Information technology's been more than sixty years since the Mecca Flats edifice stood at 34th and State Street, all the same it remains a prominent story in both architectural and sociological discussions.
35 Years of Public Fine art
February 22–May 4, 2014
This exhibition included a choice of artwork from various satellite locations including libraries, police stations and other public buildings.
Jan Tichy: aroundcenter
February one–April 27, 2014
aroundcenter is a site-specific exhibition composed of nine installations, each of which stands on its own, notwithstanding at the same time relate, deriving from and leading to the others.
Julie Murphy: Escape into Absurdity
January 25–April twenty, 2014
A lifelong doodler, Chicago-based artist Julie Irish potato uses her vast work experience equally inspiration for her drawings.
Wright Before the "Lloyd"
January 1–Apr xi, 2014
This showroom explores seldom discussed early on projects that demonstrate how Frank Loyd Wright's path to becoming a modern architect had deep and far-reaching roots.
Regina Mamou
October 11, 2013—January 19, 2014
Chicago based visual creative person Regina Mamou combines photography with research practices.
Paint Paste Sticker: Chicago Street Art
October nineteen, 2013—January 12, 2014
This exhibit features work from over two dozen artists including Slang, Zore, Ish Muhammad, Hebru Brantley, Uneek, Statik, Brooks Gilt, Chris Silva, Yous Are Beautiful, Oscar Arriola and an overview of projects by Chicago Urban Art Society & Pawn Works and Galerie F.
Ken Ellis: Gathering
September 14, 2013—January five, 2014
Ken Ellis's quilted images embrace an impressive swath of cultural history – from African-American and Native-American feel to nursery rhymes, the history of crime, and the Chicago punk stone scene.
Matthew Groves: Universal Bronze
September 14, 2013—January five, 2014
Universal Statuary is a new trunk of ceramic sculptures from Chicago based creative person Matthew Groves.
Mike Andrews: Not Your Grandma's Future Juice Bar
September 14, 2013—Jan 5, 2014
Fueled by dynamic relationships betwixt vivid and dull colors, hard and soft materials, and range of calibration, this serial of sculptures and tapestries pointedly occupies the gallery space enervating the viewer's attention.
SHIFT — A New Media exhibit by Luftwerk
September 14, 2013—Jan 5, 2014
For more x years, Chicago-based collaborative Luftwerk has been examining the human relationship between light, course, and material through the development of large-scale, site-specific installations using projected video. Their latest new media installation "Shift" incorporates iii distinct, yet interconnected works to immerse viewers in a heightened experience of sight, color, and sound.
Shutter to Think: The Rock & Roll Lens of Paul Natkin
September xx, 2013—January 4, 2014
Paul Natkin is widely considered to exist one of Chicago'due south greatest music photographers. Starting in the mid 1970s, Natkin traveled the world capturing signature moments of drama, excitement, outrageousness, and excess that propelled rock'southward tumultuous history.
Nailed: Handwork
June 22–September 29, 2013
The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events is pleased to present Nailed: Handwork is a solo exhibition of large calibration photographs made past Chicago creative person and educator Helen Maurene Cooper at the Urban center Gallery's Historic Water Tower.
Urban center Works: Provocations for Chicago'due south Urban Futurity
May 24–September 29, 2013
This exhibition is a collaborative attempt by v teams – David Dark-brown, Alexander Eisenschmidt, Studio Gang, Stanley Tigerman, and UrbanLab – adamant to observe potentials for spatial, fabric, programmatic, and organizational invention within the metropolis.
Stefan Sagmeister: The Happy Evidence
July 13–September 23, 2013
Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister not only tests the boundaries between fine art and pattern, he frequently transgresses it through his imaginative implementation of typography.
Spontaneous Interventions: Design Deportment for the Common Good
May 25–September 1, 2013
Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Mutual Good features 84 urban interventions initiated by architects, designers, planners, artists and everyday citizens that bring positive modify to neighborhoods and cities.
Modernism'southward Messengers: The Art of Alfonso and Margaret Iannelli
May 18–Baronial 17, 2013
In this evidence, one discovers non just the love they both had for modernism, just too the love that they had for each other.
Ascent Up: Hale Woodruff's Murals at Talladega College
March 23–June xvi, 2013
"Rising Upwards: Hale Woodruff's Murals at Talladega College" features half-dozen monumentally-scaled murals painted in 1939-42 by African American artist Unhurt Woodruff. Never before seen outside of Alabama'due south Talladega Higher, the murals depict the 1839 mutiny by slaves on the Spanish ship La Amistad and its aftermath.
Animal Kingdom
March nine–June 3, 2013
Animals are the near continuous and aboriginal subject in art. Since creating bisons and horses in the cave at Lascaux artists have connected through today to craft meaning with animate being images.
Shawn Decker: Prairie
February 8–May five, 2013
Shawn Decker is a composer, artist, and teacher who creates audio and electronic media installations and writes music for live performance, pic, and video.
Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina: Indigo
January 26–Apr 27, 2013
Employing off-white trade embroidery artisans from women'south collectives in India and executing their works in indigo blue, Indian artist Shelly Jyoti and US artist Laura Kina's new works draw upon Republic of india'south history, narratives of immigration and transnational economic interchanges.
Claire Ashley
January eleven–March 31, 2013
Oak Park artist Claire Ashley, whose anarchistic work strains the boundaries between not simply painting and sculpture, but betwixt static and mobile.
Manufacture of the Ordinary: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
August 17, 2012—February 17, 2013
While their work takes many forms, it is largely performative and seeking to appoint the viewer equally an inclusive display. The show includes a sampling from over 80 of the Industry of the Ordinary (IOTO) projects displayed with objects, photos and video documentation.
Source: https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/exhibits0.html
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