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Deborah Di Vita Glascott
Deborah Di Vita Glascott: BODY LANGUAGE
Opening Reception: Friday, November 1, 2024, 5-8pm
The figurative works in this exhibition are sourced from candid photos and developed organically, drawn directly with paint. Each speaks a language, spirit, mood or personality she feels compelled to communicate. Through traditional methods of indirect oil painting on canvas, Deborah Di Vita Glascott employs elements of color theory, composition, and the use of pattern to contextualize a modern sense of intimacy.
Angela McElwain
Angela McElwain : ReFormation - Collage and Constructs
Opening Reception: Friday, November 1, 2024, 5-8pm
The definition of reformation: noun
1. the act of changing to a better state or character, way of operating, lifestyle, etc.; the correction of abuses and bad habits or practices.
2. an improved state or way of functioning that results from the correction of abuses and bad habits or practices.
The work on view here illustrates my inquiry into the transformative possibilities of the human endeavor to overcome cultural obstacles, blockades, biology or religious tradition in order to attain one’s own sense of Self. The content is particularly apropos to womxn’s experience. The structure of collage and constructs are especially useful for this inquiry because material used in them is re-formed or reinvented to a new meaning whether the source is torn paper, bits of scrap, strands of hair, shards of glass or other detritus. Some materials, hair for instance, are used for their deeply personal meaning. Others assume a new form different from their original use or purpose acquiring a new symbolism.
Fengzee Yang
Fengzee Yang: SOUNDER WIND
Opening Reception: Friday, November 1, 2024, 5-8pm
TSounder Wind is an evocative exhibition that delves into the unspoken depths of emotion, centering on the profound, primordial yearning etched deep within. Through sculptures that embody archetypal forms, Fengzee invites viewers to contemplate the subtle, unnameable desires that persist throughout our existence. These works act as channels between past and present, exploring the intangible realms of memory, time, and loss.
Drawing inspiration from nature’s raw, ancient materials like clay and wood, the sculptures blur the boundary between the familiar and the enigmatic. Each piece—shaped by time and eroded like fossils—serves as a gateway into inner landscapes of longing. The organic textures and hybrid forms reflect an internal search for something unattainable, yet eternally present, embodying an ongoing dialogue between what is visible and what remains concealed.
This exhibition transcends function and context, inviting us to look beyond the tangible and into the quiet, spiritual spaces within. Informed by personal histories of migration and dislocation, Fengzee’s work taps into a collective subconscious where emotions interweave with memory and time. These sculptures evoke a sense of timelessness, acting as mediators between the present moment and vast, uncharted territories of the soul.
BENEATH THE SURFACE: Spirituality in Art
BENEATH THE SURFACE: Spirituality in Art
Curator: Indira Johnson
Opening Reception: Friday, October 4, 5-8pm
There is something deeper than what we see. Energetic undercurrents of power, violence and love. Undercurrents as unpredictable as they are unexamined in mainstream culture. This ebb and flow can push an individual to feelings of intense passion, inspire the greatest works of art the world has seen, and cause abrupt changes in the course of world history.
Let us put a spotlight on the unspoken energy flow operating beneath the surface of our daily life. Let us examine the invisible threads present in a crowd of people that hold our current culture in a stasis of perpetuation.
This show is a subtle examination of energy and spirituality through art. Through this exhibition, we hope to shine a light on the depth of the human condition to inspire greater spiritual awareness and empathy within this historical time.
Amy Zucker + Valerie McCune
Amy Zucker + Valerie McCune: RELATED
Opening Reception: Friday, September 6, 2024, 5-8pm
"RELATED" is an artistic dialogue between Chicago-based cousins and artists, Amy Zucker and Valerie McCune. This collaboration began as an exploration of familial ties through art and evolved into a mutual exchange of inspiration and creativity. Their unique styles reflect their individual journeys, yet blend harmoniously in this show.
Each piece represents a conversation: one artist's creation sparks the other's response, showcasing their evolving relationship. By hanging their works side by side, viewers are invited to witness the interplay of their distinct voices, united by family
Denise Bellezzo
Denise Bellezzo: NEW WORK: ALTERED PAGES
Opening Reception: Friday, September 6, 2024, 5-8pm
NEW WORK: ALTERED PAGES is a series of drawings and notations on and of organic images. Using the base imagery to respond to, I can modify, eliminate, or accent patterns and textures. Contour line is applied and masked and applied again to build up layers of information. Book pages, maps, floor plans, aerial photography are all starting points for my process. From these previous images, I respond using additive and subtractive techniques; counteracting , engaging, modifying until a satisfying conclusion is reached. For me, a sense of whimsy is encouraged as a response to the papers. A continuous layering of pattern, line, or textures allows for a formalist structure to be imposed that helps simplify the end result.
Karen Ami
Karen Ami: WELL-KEPT RUINS
Opening Reception: Friday, September 6, 2024, 5-8pm
Chicago-based artist Karen Ami presents a series of interdisciplinary mosaic works in 'Well-Kept Ruins,' an exhibition addressing brokenness, chaos, and repair in the context of adoption and post-Holocaust generational trauma. These works incorporate inscribed and carved ceramic shards, sculpture, writing, drawing, and collage, an entanglement of her narrative, autoethnographic practice, and art research. This year, several of these selected works were created and exhibited during her PhD dissertation research in Berlin, Germany, the site of maternal and ancestral threads severed by the Holocaust. Ami's works examine feminist identity and familial repair, a re-connection to the remnants and apparitions that remain after loss and disruption. The exhibition's title is inspired by feminist theorist poet Hélène Cixous’s reflective memoir on returning to what remains of the past. The manifestation of these well-kept ruins is about refusing closure, rebuilding imaginary places around the fragments that remain restless yet still before us.
Glen Martin Taylor
Glen Martin Taylor: THE DILEMNA OF BEING HUMAN
Opening Reception: Friday, August 2, 2024, 5-8pm
My work explores the brokenness in trying to be a person, the messy mending of healing, and the dilemma of being human. My work is my interpretation of the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi.
Mandy Cano Villalobos
Mandy Cano Villalobos: DELECTABLE GOODS PROFIT NOT
Opening Reception: Friday, August 2, 2024, 5-8pm
Delectable Goods Profit Not” portrays home as a place just out of reach. A nostalgic mass of glass figurines, frayed linens, and derelict toys play upon Western stereotypes of “grandma”, comfort, and childhood memories (both real and imagined). This domestic hoard symbolizes a place of belonging, a never-changing sanctuary of acceptance and solace. But nothing is permanent. The centerpiece – a vacant chair – suggests absence and death. Red velvet stanchions block access to the familiar items that beckon viewers approach. Our desires for home, and all its associations, remain unfulfilled. In its place lingers alienation and longing.
Nichole Maury
Nichole Maury: LANDMARKS
Opening Reception: Friday, August 2, 2024, 5-8pm
I have developed a complicated, and sometimes contentious, relationship with the idea of home. A life interrupted by frequent movement, especially as a child, has left me with memories that are often uneven and ill-defined. Sometimes there are only fragments, a steep hill, an ugly red-patterned carpet, the sound of plastic on the windows in winter. Home was never a place of permanence or stability. Instead, I found comfort in the classroom, with its clearly defined rules and predictable routines. I performed these requisite and seemingly infinite acts of repetition, these rituals, stretched out on a faded flower comforter in my bedroom or tucked into some quiet corner of the house.
Nancy Fritz
Nancy Fritz: BEING… WITH
Opening Reception: Friday, July 5, 2024, 5-8pm
I have always been a figurative painter. I am unable to paint anything else. For a while I was fascinated with painting faces of people I cared about—trying to capture each unique essence on the canvas. This show takes a different turn—faces are generic; figures are ambiguous and stylized. What links these paintings is the connection between the figures—a person reaching towards another person, figures moving in concert… each part of an ecosystem larger than themselves.
Beth LeFauve
Beth LeFauve: LOST and FOUND
Opening Reception: Friday, June 7, 2024, 5-8pm
I tell myself I’m not a junk collector, that my studio isn’t filled with lost and discarded materials, rather, my studio is filled with possibilities. Working strategically, I relish that creative moment when objects come together to offer a new story. A place where my story meets yours — evoking for you, the viewer, your own personal narrative. My goal is for the work to spark a dialogue with you, to transcend the objects themselves —so that you too are found.
Ceres Gallery
Ceres Gallery New York/ ARC Gallery Chicago
Opening Reception: Friday, May 3, 2024, 5-8pm
Ceres Gallery is a feminist, not-for-profit, alternative gallery in New York City dedicated to the promotion of contemporary women in the arts. Ceres provides an exhibition space that enhances public awareness and helps remediate women’s limited access to commercial galleries. It also serves as a supportive base for a diversity of artistic and political views.
Ruti Modlin
Ruti Modlin: ROOTED
Opening Reception: Friday, May 3, 2024, 5-8pm
Ruti Modlin’s show is inspired by our relationship with trees, who stand as tall, silent witnesses to the evolution of our human existence. Trees breathe life into our shared ecosystem. Our lives are intertwined and symbiotic. The temple-like structured living Conservatories, allow us to experience tranquil meditative escapes, a sense of emotional rootedness while across all cultures, trees symbolize the connection of the earthly and the divine wisdom.
Jessica Gondek
Jessica Gondek: IRONMADES: Dualisms
Opening Reception: Friday, March 1, 2024, 5-8pm
My work endeavors to blur the distinction between hand and machine. “Ironmades” is a nod to the early 20th century Dada movement engaged with machinery and manufactured items. In 1916 Marcel Duchamp coined the term readymades, elevating mass-produced objects to the status of art. Of special note is Man Ray’s “The Gift” created in 1921, a sculpture of an everyday flat iron modified with brass tacks adhered to the sole plate. This transformation subverted the iron’s intended function to smooth clothing. As an artist, I continue building on this tradition to bring it into the digital era of the 21st century as our relationship with technology continues to evolve.
Abigail Engstrand
Abigail Engstrand: MARCH ON
Opening Reception: Friday, March 1, 2024, 5-8pm
As an artist I am always looking at bodies, and reading relationships. I tune in to my senses, trying to really see and understand the world around me. I anthropomorphize and empathize with life I find in nature. I love to tend a garden, and watch life’s cycles.