CGN Spring/Summer 2023 Magazine

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COVER ART: ANNA KUNZ
SPRING / SUMMER 2023

CHICAGO GALLERY NEWS
FORECAST FORM
ART IN THE CARIBBEAN DIASPORA, 1990s –TODAY
Donna Conlon and Jonathan Harker, Tropical Zincphony (Zincfonía tropical) (still), 2013. HD video (color, sound); 1 minute, 45 seconds. Courtesy of the artists and DiabloRosso, Panamá.
CLOSING APRIL 23, 2023

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MARCH 21, 2023—FEBRUARY 4, 2024
CALLING
ON THE
PAST
SELECTIONS FROM THE
COLLECTION
Opening Celebration
Tuesday, April 11, 7–9 pm
Presented as part of EXPO ART WEEK
THROUGH JUNE 4, 2023
NOT ALL
REALISMS
PHOTOGRAPHY, AFRICA,
AND THE LONG 1960S
Amir H. Fallah, Calling on the Past, 2018, Acrylic on canvas. Smart Museum of Art,
The University of Chicago, Gift of the 2018 Northern Trust Purchase Prize, 2018.46.
Ernest Cole, From “House of Bondage,” 1960s, Gelatin silver print. Smart Museum of Art,
The University of Chicago, Gift of the Estate of Lester and Betty Guttman, 2014.224.
© Ernest Cole / Magnum Photo.
Smart Museum of Art | The University of Chicago | 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue | Chicago, IL 60637 | smartmuseum.uchicago.edu
A dazzling electronic art installation combining ancient poetry and modern
anime—part comic book, part motion picture, part meditation on history.
SHAHIDUL PATRIC
ALAM: McCOY:
SINGED BUT TAKE MY
NOT BURNT PICTURE
Renowned photographer and Traveling Chicago by bike, always
activist Shahidul Alam exposes the with his camera, Patric McCoy
resilience of Bangladeshi people captures 1980s Black gay Chicago,
and their continued struggle for creating a poignant marker of
freedom over four decades. place, time and memory.
WRIGHTWOOD APRIL 14 - JULY 15, 2023

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CHICAGO
IMAGE CREDITS: (KONGKEE) The Singer, 2018, by Kongkee (Kong Khong-chang 江記; b. 1977, THESE EXHIBITIONS ARE PRESENTED BY
active Hong Kong and London). Courtesy of the artist and Penguin Lab. Copyright CGN | Spring / Summer 2023 | 7
ALPHAWOOD EXHIBITIONS AT WRIGHTWOOD 659
© 2018 the artist. Detail. (ALAM) Woman Wading in Flood, 1988, by Shahidul Alam, Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk is organized
Courtesy of the artist. (McCOY) Jeff, 1985, by Patric McCoy, Courtesy of the artist. by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
DALLAS | NEW YORK | BEVERLY HILLS | CHICAGO | PALM BEACH
LONDON | PARIS | GENEVA | BRUSSELS | AMSTERDAM | HONG KONG
Joan Mitchell | Sunflowers I, diptych, 1992 | Color lithograph on two sheets | Est. $40,000 - $60,000. © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
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Floyd Newsum, Sirigu Janie's Journey (detail), 2018. Oil and acrylic on paper, 55 x 95 inches. Photo by Mason Rankin. Courtesy of the Artist.
FLOYD NEWSUM: EVOLUTION OF SIGHT

May 20–October 8, 2023 • Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
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Two-Faced Blues, 2021, Yamaha acoustic electric guitar parts. Stanley Museum of Art,
Mark Ranney Memorial Fund, 26.2023. Willie Cole
Photo: Joy Whalen. Image courtesy of Alexander and Bonin, New York
CHICAGO’S 76TH ANNUAL
57th
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Art Fair
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Tony Fitzpatrick, “Cinderella Blackbird,” 2023 series, Drawing, Collage, Watercolor, ink, paper ephemera.
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A TRIO OF JAUME PLENSA FIGURES AT FREDERIK MEIJER SCULPTURE GARDENS IN MICHIGAN.
CONTENTS
22 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
22
Notable exhibitions in galleries + museums
24 GALLERY OPENINGS
26 ON VIEW: APRIL – AUGUST
Galleries, museums, exhibitions, maps
FEATURES
38 36 The Many Colors of Anna Kunz

40 An Interview with MCA Dir. Madeleine Grynsztejn
43 New Installations at The Fashion Outlets
44 Five to Talk to: Anticipating The Season’s Art
47 Highlights of EXPO CHICAGO’s 10th Anniversary
48 Artist Richard Hunt; Sculpting at 87
51 ARC Gallery; A Women-Led Art Program Turns 50
52 Collector and Connector: Dealer William Lieberman
48
56 Take a Road Trip to Southwest Michigan
57 Diasporal Rhythyms: Two Decades of Advocacy
58 Suburban Spotlight: Skokie and Glencoe
FROM TOP: ANDY WARHOL: PORTFOLIOS AT THE
CLEVE CARNEY MUSEUM OF ART IS ONE OF SEVERAL
59 Spring ‘23 at Auction
EXHIBITIONS IN AREA MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES;
A Q&A WITH MCA DIRECTOR MADELEINE GRYNSZTEJN;
AN INTERVIEW WITH SCULPTOR RICHARD HUNT AT 87. 60 COLLECTOR SERVICES

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SPRING / SUMMER 2023

CHICAGO GALLERY NEWS
Happy spring. It’s great to be alive.

This Season’s Highlights
VAN GOGH AND THE AVANT-GARDE:

THE MODERN LANDSCAPE
Between 1882 and 1890, five artists—Vincent van Gogh, along
with Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Emile Bernard, and Charles
Angrand—flocked to villages on the fringes of Paris. More than
75 paintings and drawings from this intensely creative period—
many from private collections and rarely publicly displayed—
come together for this insightful presentation.
The Art Institute of Chicago • May 14–Sept 4, 2023 • artic.edu Vincent van Gogh, Factories at Clichy, summer 1887,
Saint Louis Art Museum, Funds given by Mrs. Mark C. Steinberg by
exchange, 579:1958
GARY SIMMONS: PUBLIC ENEMY
This first comprehensive career survey at the MCA of the work of

multidisciplinary artist Gary Simmons (b. 1964, New York, NY; lives
in Los Angeles, CA) is the most in-depth presentation of Sim-
mons’s work to date. The exhibition covers 30 years and encom-
passes approximately 70 works. Since the late 1980s Simmons has
played a key role in situating questions of race, class, and gender
identity at the center of contemporary art discourse.
Museum of Contemporary Art • Jun 13–Oct 1, 2023 Gary Simmons, Hollywood, 2008. Pigment, oil paint, and cold wax on
• mcachicago.org canvas; 84 × 120 in. (213.4 × 304.8 cm). Courtesy Rubell Museum,
Miami. © Gary Simmons.
OLGA ZIEMSKA:
OF THE EARTH
Five large-scale sculptures by Polish American artist Olga Ziems-
ka, created exclusively for Of the Earth at The Morton Arboretum
in suburban Lisle, aim to remind people that “everything in life
is derived from the same basic elements that form everything in
nature, including ourselves. There is no separation.” In Polish,
Ziemska means “of the earth.” The artist’s work will be created
from reclaimed tree branches and other natural materials gath-
ered from throughout the Arboretum’s 1,700 acres.
Olga Ziemska, Stillness in Motion, 2002. Locally reclaimed willow
branches, wire, metal armature. 6 ft x 9 ft x 12 ft (183 cm x 274 cm
The Morton Arboretum • May 26 thru 2025 • mortonarb.org x 366 cm). Temporary Indoor and Outdoor Sculpture Centre of Polish
Sculpture, Chapel Gallery, Oronsko, Poland

PATRIC MCCOY:
TAKE MY PICTURE
In the 1980s, Patric McCoy traveled around Chicago on his bike,
always with his camera, finding no shortage of Black men who
wanted their picture taken. The exhibition is a selection of 50
photographs from this rich document of 1980s Black gay
Chicago. HIV/AIDS hit Black men especially hard. Thousands
would die by the end of the decade. Take My Picture is marker
of place, time, and memory. It is an altar to those lost.
Patric McCoy
Wrightwood 659 • Apr 14–Jul 15, 2023 • wrightwood659.org
EDRA SOTO:
DESTINATION/EL DESTINO
Destination/El Destino: a decade of GRAFT is the largest
exhibition to date of Puerto Rican artist Edra Soto. Rooted in
themes of cultural hybridity, the exhibition addresses the unsung
influence of Afro-diasporic cultures on Puerto Rico’s decorative
architecture. An exhibition highlight is a new, large-scale
commission of the artist’s GRAFT series with porous sculptures,
documentary photographs, drawings, and games that activate
the Art Center’s indoor/outdoor main gallery.
Edra Soto Hyde Park Art Center • Apr 22–Aug 6, 2023 • hydeparkart.org
THE ART OF ELIZABETH CATLETT,

FROM THE COLLECTION OF
SAMELLA LEWIS
Elizabeth Catlett (1915 – 2012) was a celebrated African American
artist known for her depictions of 20th century Black American
experiences, which also often focused on women. This exhibi-
tion features 30 prints and sculptures by the artist and honors a
half-century of her artistic activism in support of women, African
Americans, and Mexican laborers.
Elizabeth Catlett
Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI • Jun 10–Sept 3, 2023 • krasl.org
ANDY WARHOL PORTFOLIOS:

A LIFE IN POP / WORKS FROM THE
BANK OF AMERICA COLLECTION
The Warhol Exhibition includes 94 works from Andy Warhol
Portfolios: A Life in Pop/Works from the Bank of America
Collection on loan through BofA’s Art in our Communities
program, and over 11,000 sq. ft. of interactive experiences
including a Biographical exhibit, Video installation, 150+ photos
taken by Warhol, Children’s Print Factory, Studio 54 experience
and a Central Park-inspired outdoor space.
Andy Warhol, Flowers (10 of 10 in Suite from
Flowers Portfolio) (1970) © 2022. The Andy Warhol Cleve Carney Museum of Art • Jun 3–Sept 10, 2023 • theccma.org
Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Openings
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• RIVER NORTH • MICHIGAN AVE • SUBURBS
APRIL
1 11 • moniquemeloche 15
• Vertical • Smart • P•L•H•K • Weinberg/Newton
• Madron 12 • PATRON 18
• Firecat • Povos • David Salkin • Heritage
• Perspective Photo 14 • Volume 20
6 • EXPO Art After • Western Exhibitions • gallery 1871
• Pistachios Hours • Addington 21
7 • Chicago Artists • Carl Hammer • Bridgeport Art
• GRAY Coalition • Heritage • Lily Pad | West
• Rhona Hoffman • DOCUMENT • Gallery Victor 28
• Koppel • ENGAGE • Alma • DOCUMENT
• FLXST • Goldfinch • Elephant Room • Volume
• Oliva • GRAY • MoCP
• Tandem Press • Kavi Gupta
10 • Hindman
• Heritage • Mariane Ibrahim
MAY
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• Pistachios • Vertical Project Space • Pistachios • Firecat
5 • Woman Made 19
• Corbett vs. Dempsey 12 • Rhona Hoffman
• Addington • Oliva • Zolla/Lieberman
• Gallery Victor 13 • Bridgeport Art
• Lily Pad | West • OS Projects 20
• Tandem Press • Chicago Truborn
JUN
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• ENGAGE • Christopher, Prairie • Corbett vs. Dempsey
3 State College 30
• M. LeBlanc 16 • Lily Pad | West
9 • Gallery Victor
• Oliva • Bridgeport Art
• Elephant Room • Alma
10 17
• moniquemeloche • Woman Made
• Chicago Printmakers
JUL / JUL 7 15 28 AUG 11

AUG • Addington • Chicago Truborn • Elephant Room • Oliva
• Gallery Victor 21 29 12
• Oliva • Bridgeport Art • M. LeBlanc • OS Projects
14 22 18
• ENGAGE • Woman Made • Bridgeport Art
• Zolla/Lieberman 27 19
• Pistachios • Chicago Truborn

In The Galleries
Michiko Itatani: JAUME PLENSA:
Infinite Hope FORGOTTEN DREAMS
JEAN ALBANO
GALLERY
April 5–June 3
Opening April 14
The Lunch Drawings:

Tony Fitzpatrick
POVOS GALLERY Through 21 cast aluminum doors and 21 cast aluminum

heads Plensa wants us to confront the poetry and
beauty of the individual articles and text in the Universal
April 12–May 21
Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), drafted and
adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.
• April 7–June 3 GRAY
BRYANA BIBBS: NUMB

Xie Hongdong
ENGAGE PROJECTS
June 2–July 8
Sandra Yagi, Yokai Alone Against It All, 2022. 5.5’ x 5.5’. Hand-felted wool, handwoven hand-spun
wool, angelina fiber, bamboo fiber, silk, and recycled sari silk.
BERT GREEN FINE ART

Bibbs has said that numb was how she felt during
traumatic experiences she went through for nearly a
July 15–August 25 decade. This exhibition is a creative means of moving
forward for herself and hopefully for others as well.
• April 7–May 6 OLIVA GALLERY

Art Listings:
April–August 2023
CGN CALENDAR
WEST TOWN • David Salkin Creative • Rhona Hoffman Gallery

KINZIE CORRIDOR 1709 W. Chicago (60622) 1711 W. Chicago (60622)
UKRAINIAN VILLAGE www.davidsalkin.com www.rhoffmangallery.com
GARFIELD PARK Thru Apr 22: Assaf Evron: Apr 7–May 13: Spencer Finch: La Grande Jatte
Collages for Mies van der Rohe May 19–Jun 24: Julia Fish: Hermitage Threshold/s —
scores + bricks
• DOCUMENT
• ARC Gallery 1709 W. Chicago (60622) • Mariane Ibrahim Gallery
1463 W. Chicago (60642) www.documentspace.com 437 N. Paulina (60622)
www.arcgallery.org www.marianeibrahim.com
Thru Apr 22: Meg Lipke
Celebrating 50 years in 2023 Apr 28–Jun 17: Anya Kielar French-Somali gallerist, Mariane Ibrahim has established
herself as a leading Chicago and international art dealer
• Chicago Artists Coalition • ENGAGE Projects through her spotlight on artists of the African diaspora.
864 N. Ashland (60622)
2130 W. Fulton (60612) Apr 12–May 17: Patrick Eugène, 50 LBS
www.engage-projects.com
www.chicagoartistscoalition.org May 27–Jul 8: Carmen Neely, sometimes a painting
Apr 14–May 26: Adam Daley Wilson: This Is Text Based Art is a prayer
CAC is a non-profit organization that supports Jun 2–Jul 8: Xie Hongdong
contemporary Chicago artists and curators by
offering residency programs, exhibitions, professional
Jul 14–Aug 26: Adia Sykes Guest Curated show • Intuit: The Center for
development and resources.
• Goldfinch Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N. Milwaukee (60642)
319 N. Albany (60612)
Thru Apr 20: www.art.org • 312–624–9487
goldfinch-gallery.com
BOLT: Enduring Roots, Tulika Ladsariya;
HATCH: High Maintenance, Chloe Munkenbeck & Founded in 1991, Intuit is a premier museum of outsider
Thru Apr 15: Gallery 1: Irene Wa: Crisálida de Sal;
SUNGJAE LEE, curated by Nicky Ni and self-taught art. Its mission is grounded in the ethos
Gallery 2: A Flatfiles Show;
that powerful art can be found in unexpected places
East Wing: Sarah Leuchtner: Sequential Escapes
and made by unexpected creators.
• Chicago Truborn Apr 22–Jun 3: Gallery 1: Iris Bernblum: Various
Pleasures; Gallery 2: Lovesick on the Floor, group
1741 W. Chicago (60622)
www.chicagotruborn.com
show curated by Iris Bernblum • Mongerson Gallery
Jun 10–Jul 22: Gallery 1: Gallery Artists Group Show; 2251 W. Grand (60612)
Gallery 2: LaNia Sproles www.mongersongallery.com
Chicago Truborn is a non–traditional gallery dedicated
to supporting emerging and established artists with an
emphasis on street art/graffti. • The Golden Triangle Mongerson Gallery specializes in paintings by
Surrealists Gertrude Abercrombie and Julia Thecla,
2035 W. Grand (60612)
and Black artists Charles McGee and Harold Neal.
Through Apr 22: Nicolas Jimenez Solo Show goldentriangle.biz
May 20–Jun 24: Ras Terms Solo Show
Jul 15–Aug 12: Sean Hannaway Solo Show
Aug 19: Chicago Truborn’s 10 Year Anniversary Show
• GRAY • Monique Meloche Gallery
2044 W. Carroll (60612) 451 N. Paulina (60622)
featuring Jay Turner / “Lie” www.richardgraygallery.com www.moniquemeloche.com
• Circle Contemporary (Arts of Life) Apr 7–Jun 3: Jaume Plensa: Forgotten Dreams Apr 1–May 26: Maia Cruz Palileo: Days Later, Down River
Chicago: 2010 W. Carroll (60612) Apr 13–16: EXPO Chicago
North Shore: 1963 Johns Dr., Glenview (60025) • Hindman Jun 10–Jul 29: Antonius Bui
www.artsoflife.org 1550 W. Carroll, Ste. 106 (60607)
May 5: Neon Dreams Benefit Auction

www.hindmanauctions.com • Paris London Hong Kong
1709 W. Chicago (60622)
Hindman operates more U.S. salesrooms than any other
www.parislondonhongkong.com
firm and conducts over 100 auctions annually in categories
• Corbett vs. Dempsey such as fine jewelry, fine art, modern design, books and
manuscripts, furniture, decorative arts, couture, Asian art,
Thru Apr 22: Pedro Vaz: Lived Landscape
2156 W. Fulton (60612)
arts of the American West, and numismatics.
www.corbettvsdempsey.com
• PATRON
Thru Apr 29: Sam Gilliam: Driftless; 1612 W. Chicago (60622)
Jimmy Wright: Down Home www.patrongallery.com
May 5–Jun 17: Robert Lostutter; Jeff Perrone
Jun 23–Aug 5: Omar Velázquez; Thomas H. Kapsalis Apr 1–May 27: Mika Horibuchi; Kay Hofmann
Jun 3-Jul 15: Lucas Simões

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1541 W. Chicago (60622) 1016 N. Western (60622) 1440 W. Hubbard (60642)
www.povoschicago.com www.verticalgallery.com www.wright20.com
Apr 12–May 21: The Lunch Drawings: Tony Fitzpatrick Apr 1–29: 10 Year Anniversary Show featuring Wright is the industry’s leading auction house
AlexFace, Martin Whatson, Flog, 2CHOEY, Hama specializing in 20th century art and design.
• Carrie Secrist Gallery Woods, Sergio Farfan, Collin Van Der Sluijs, Mr. Kreme,
Mau Mau, and Pipsqueak Was Here!!!
New West Town location at Hubbard and Wood
coming in spring 2023
www.secristgallery.com • Vertical Project Space WEST LOOP
2006 W. Chicago, 1R (60622)
• Toomey & Co. Auctioneers www.verticalprojectspace.com
• Kavi Gupta Gallery
1440 W. Hubbard (60642)
May 6–27: Launch, Group Show 835 W. Washington and
www.toomeyco.com
219 N. Elizabeth (60607)
www.kavigupta.com
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers is a premier specialty auction
house, conducting auctions of 20th century art and • Volume Gallery
design since 1987. 1709 W. Chicago (60622)
www.wvvolumes.com
• McCormick Gallery
835 W. Washington (60607)
www.thomasmccormick.com
• Ukrainian Institute Focusing on design and art, with a strong emphasis
of Modern Art (UIMA) placed on emerging contemporary designers and artists. Thru May 6: Kim Piotrowski, Joy Experiment
2320 W. Chicago (60622) Summer 2023: works from the Estate of
Apr 28–Jun 17: Tanya Aguiñiga Maurice Golubov
www.uima-chicago.org
UIMA preserves and promotes contemporary art as • Weinberg/Newton Gallery • Randolph Street Market
a shared expression of the Ukrainian and American 688 N. Milwaukee (60642) 1350 Block of W. Randolph
experience and develops, utilizes and encourages www.weinbergnewtongallery.com www.randolphstreetmarket.com
artistic talent through programs serving the cultural
needs of our community and city. Thru Apr 15: For Those Without Choice May 27 and 28
Apr 1: Amplify Teen Night, 5–7pm July 29 and 30
Apr 15: Artist Conversation & Closing Party, 7-10pm Sept 23 and 24
Nov 4 and 5
• Western Exhibitions Dec 2 and 3
1709 W. Chicago, 2nd Floor (60622)

www.westernexhibitions.com
Thru Apr 22: Richard Hull: Mirror and Bone CGN | Spring / Summer 2023 | 29
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VICTOR VALE ROSENTHAL
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The River North

Design District (RNDD)
features design
ONTARIO showrooms from
Chicago Ave. to the
Merchandise Mart
• Pistachios Jewelry
OHIO 716 N. Wabash (60611)
www.pistachiosonline.com
HERITAGE JOHN DAVID
222 W. HUBBARD
MOONEY Thru Apr 2: Pistachios Artist Series III
FOUNDATION
Apr 6–May 7: Nicole Jacquard: Stories from Scotland
RICHARD 114 W. KINZIE
NORTON May 11–Jul 3: Between Realms
14–119 MERCHANDISE Jul 27–Sep 10: Earrings Galore
MART PLAZA
RIVER NORTH • Carl Hammer Gallery • Richard Norton Gallery

740 N. Wells (60654) 14–119 Merchandise Mart (60654)
[email protected] • 312–266–8512 www.richardnortongallery.com
• Addington Gallery www.carlhammergallery.com
Founded in 2000, Richard Norton Gallery offers a diverse
704 N. Wells (60654)
www.addingtongallery.com selection of notable American and European Impressionist
Thru April 30: Fred Stonehouse: EMBLEMS
and Modern paintings, drawings and sculpture from the
Thru Apr 30: Group exhibition: In Pursuit of Spring 19th and early 20th Centuries. Also offering consultation,
May 5–Jun 30: Tread Lightly, New oil on copper • Heritage Auctions appraisal, consignment and purchase of artwork.
paintings by Joan Holleb. Late Spring River North 222 W. Hubbard (60654)
Gallery Walk www.ha.com Annual participant in EXPO CHICAGO
Receptions held first Friday of May, July, Sept, Nov.
Fine Art and Collectibles Auction House • Rosenthal Fine Art
• Jean Albano Gallery Apr 10–15: Modern & Contemporary Art
210 W. Superior (60654)
215 W. Superior (60654) www.rosenthalfineart.com
W–Sa, 11–4 and by appt Apr 18–20: Fine Jewelry and Luxury Accessories
www.jeanalbanogallery.com Apr 27–28 and May 1–2: American Art
May 16–18: Watches and Fine Timepieces
• Vale Craft Gallery
230 W. Superior (60654)
Apr 1–Jun 3: Michiko Itatani: Infinite Hope www.valecraftgallery.com
Opening Reception April 14, 5–7pm
• Hilton | Asmus Contemporary Contemporary American fine craft objects and
River North: 716 N. Wells (60654)
• Gallery VICTOR Also in Bridgeport: 3622 S. Morgan (60609)
sculpture. Works in clay, fiber, metal, glass, and wood.
300 W. Superior (60654) www.hilton-asmus.com
Thru Jun 17: SPRING VALE SALE!
www.galleryvictor.com
*Note the gallery is closing in late June
Apr 7–29: Art Shay/Richard Shay: Father and Son
• John David Mooney Foundation
Photographers. Opening Apr 14, 5-9pm
114 W. Kinzie (60654)
www.mooneyfoundation.org • Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
May 5–Jun 3: Brian Driscoll: 56 Weeks 325 W. Huron (60654)
Opening May 5, 5-8pm www.zollaliebermangallery.com
Jun 16–Aug 26: Pat Vale collaboration with Cubs
Player Ian Happ: A Day at Wrigley. Opening Jun 16,
• Alan Koppel Gallery Thru Apr 29: Shai Azoulay; Rhonda Gates; Derek Walter
806 N. Dearborn (60610)
5-9pm. May 19–Jun 30: Igor and Marina; Jay Strommen
342 Park, Glencoe (60022)
Jul 7: Midsummer Opening, 5-8pm Jul 14–Aug 19: Group exhibition featuring: Meredith
www.alankoppel.com Kopelman, Lynn Neuman, James Ostrander, Ruth
Poor, Margaux Siegel, Zachary Weber, Ben Wilkinson
Apr 7–Jun 30: Gregory Crewdson: Eveningside
DOWNTOWN
INTL. MUSEUM OF
OAK SURGICAL SCIENCE
N.
NEWBERRY
• LES ENLUMINURES
LAK
LIBRARY
WALTON • SOTHEBY’S
ES
GRAY
MICHIGAN AVE DELAWARE
HO
GOLD COAST
RE
CHESTNUT
DR
MUSEUM OF
THE LOOP / SOUTH LOOP PEARSON CONTEMPORARY
ART (MCA)
CHICAGO
• The Arts Club of Chicago SUPERIOR
201 E. Ontario (60611)
www.artsclubchicago.org DRIEHAUS HURON
FAIRBANKS
MUSEUM
FAIRBANKS
Thru May 20: Jessi Reaves:
DEARBORN
All possessive lusts dispelled ERIE
May 1–Oct 7: Garden Project: Yasmin Spiro:
WABASH
AVE
STATE
RUSH
Groundation
Jun 14–Aug 15: Brenda Draney: Drink from the river ONTARIO
THE ARTS CLUB
• The Art Institute of Chicago
MICHIGAN
OHIO
111 S. Michigan (60603)
www.artic.edu
AVE
GRAND
• The Chicago Cultural Center NAVY PIER
MICHIGAN
78 E. Washington (60602) ILLINOIS
www.chicago.gov
HUBBARD
• The Richard H. Driehaus Museum KINZIE

40 E. Erie (60611)
www.driehausmuseum.org WACKER
Thru May 21: Capturing Louis Sullivan:
What Richard Nickel Saw LAKE
Begins Jun 22: Hector Guimard:
Art Nouveau to Modernism CHICAGO
RANDOLPH CULTURAL CENTER
• Elephant Room Gallery WASHINGTON

704 S. Wabash (60605) MILLENIUM PARK
www.elephantroomgallery.com SAIC SULLIVAN MADISON BERT GREEN
GALLERIES
Thru April 22: Yams, Ways and Actions MONROE
MICHIGAN AVE
Apr 28–Jun 3: Cujo Dah & Dredske, Synthesis THE ART

WABASH
COLUMBUS
STATE
Jun 9–Jul 22: Yuqing Zhu ADAMS INSTITUTE

Jul 28–Sep 9: Chantala Kommanivanh OF CHICAGO
JACKSON
• Les Enluminures VAN BUREN GRANT PARK
980 N. Michigan, Ste. 1330 (60611)
www.lesenluminures.com
www.textmanuscripts.com CONGRESS
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY
Mar 30–May 9: The King of Beasts, an Exceptional HARRISON PHOTOGRAPHY (MOCP)
Renaissance Gem from the Marlborough Collection.
Les Enluminures NY
Apr 27–30: The NY International Antiquarian Book Fair ELEPHANT ROOM BALBO
• GRAY • Museum of Contemporary Art • International Museum of

Downtown: 875 N. Michigan (60611)
West Town: 2044 W. Carroll (60612) Chicago (MCA) Surgical Science (IMSS)
www.richardgraygallery.com 220 E. Chicago (60611) 1524 N. Lake Shore (60610) • www.imss.org
www.mcachicago.org
Thru Apr 23: Deborah Simon: Embroidered Morphologies
• Bert Green Fine Art Thru Apr 23: Forecast Form: Art in the
Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today
Thru May 7: Fabrizzio Subia: Año Nuevo (2023)
Thru Sep 4: Strips & Needles—A Day in the Life
8 S. Michigan, Ste. 620 (60603)
Thru Apr 29: Firelei Baez Mar 31–May 14: Alexander Gonzalez: Process
Fridays 12–4 pm and by appt. other days
Thru Jul 23: Enter the Mirror May 12–July 23: Megan Euker: BODIES III
www.bgfa.us
Thru Sep 3: Duane Linklater: mymothersside
Contemporary Fine Art and Prints
Thru Nov 26: Mona Hatoum: Early Works
Jun 13–Oct 1: Gary Simmons: Public Enemy
• Newberry Library
60 W. Walton (60610) • newberry.org
Apr 29–Jun 16: Jeff Gillette, Art History Shacks;
Laurie Hassold, New Sculptures • Museum of Contemporary Thru May 26: Surviving the Long Wars:
Jul 15–Aug 25: Sandra Yagi, Yokai
Photography (MoCP) Residues and Rebellions
Thru July 15: Pop-Up Books through the Ages
Columbia College Chicago
Jun 20–Sept 23: Wheels
600 S. Michigan (60605) • www.mocp.org
Apr 13–Aug 6: Shift: Music, Meaning, Context • Sotheby’s Chicago

980 N. Michigan (60611)
www.sothebys.com
NORTH SIDE FOSTER
LIN
LINCOLN SQUARE / EDGEWATER
CO
CHICAGO
RAVENSWOOD
PRINTMAKERS
MAR
LN
COLLABORATIVE
INE
LAWRENCE
• Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
4912 N. Western (60625) • 773 293 2070 LINCOLN
www.chicagoprintmakers.com UPTOWN
SQUARE RAVENSWOOD
CLARENDON
Chicago’s longest-running community printshop,
with gallery featuring international printmakers, classes, MONTROSE
RAVENSWOOD
and events.
Thru May 27: GRABADO POPULAR:

Prints for the People, featuring Carlos Barberena,
Atlan Arce-Witzl, CHema Skandal!
Apr 13–16: EXPO CHICAGO, Editions + Books,
Booth #407 IRVING PARK
Jun 10–Aug 26: CLOSE TO TRANSPORTATION
BRO
• Bojitt Studio
CLAR
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BOJITT STUDIO
3759 N. Ravenswood #226C (60613)
0/
94
www.bojittart.com
LAKE SHORE DR.

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AY
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Ongoing: WOMAN TO WOMAN. On view at 3044 N.
ST
Eltson Ave., in partnership with XCĒD Design Build.
ON
ROSCOE
WESTERN
IN NE R LA KE SH OR
BUCKTOWN / LOGAN LAKEVIEW
ASHLAND
SQUARE / WICKER PARK BELMONT
SHERIDAN
CENTRAL PARK
• Firecat Projects
HALSTED
RACINE
CALIFORNIA
2019 N. Damen (60647)

www.firecatprojects.org DAMEN DIVERSEY
KEDZIE
E
April 1–May 21: We Are All Vessels: Beth Herman Adler WRIGHTWOOD
WRIGHTWOOD 659
May 27–Jul 22: Kurt Herrmann
Jul 28–Sept 23: Dmitry Samarov BUCKTOWN
M. LEBLANC
LINCOLN
• Oliva Gallery LOGAN FULLERTON
PARK
3816 W. Armitage (60647)
CL
www.olivagallery.com SQUARE PAGODA DEPAUL

M
YB
FIRECAT RED ART

I LW
OLIVA PROJECTS MUSEUM

Thru Apr 2: Juxtaposed: Darren Oberto and
O
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Jesus Monsivais. Curator: Kate Roth.

AU
ARMITAGE
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Apr 7–May 6: Numb: Bryana Bibbs

KE
May 12–Jun 3: Secret Life of Plants: Jim Newberry. WICKER PARK GALLERY
1871
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Curator: Kate Roth.

Jun 9–Jul 1: Truth Be Told: Pinar Aral and Corinne D Peterson.
Jul 7–Aug 5: The Ocean Between VI. Curator: OLD TOWN
Marianna Buckwald, Cem Koc and Janet Trierweiler NORTH AVE T.F. PROJECTS STUDIO 6F NORTH AVE
MADRON
Begins Aug 11: Body [ ] Space. Curator:
Elizabeth Hatton
• Studio 6F
1834 W. North (60622) • Gallery 1871 • Madron Gallery
www.studio6f.org 1871 N. Clybourn (60614) 1000 W. North , 3rd Fl. (60642)
www.chicagoartsource.com www.madrongallery.com
(Formerly Chicago Art Source Gallery)
• T.F Projects / The Dime

Our extensive inventory showcases the breadth and
Thru Apr 15: New Directions: Featuring New Work by depth of art in the U.S. between 1890–1940, as well as
1513 N. Western (60622) Lisa Ridgers, Allison Svoboda and Ana Zanic a growing inventory of modern and contemporary artists.
[email protected] Apr 20–Jun 24: Cynthia Bjorn, Shar Coulson and
Sara Mast. Opening reception April 20th 5-7pm Thru Jun 16: Working Memory:
New work by Erin Garrity-Duffey
• M. LeBlanc
LAKEVIEW / LINCOLN PARK 3514 W. Fullerton (60647) • Pagoda Red
/ OLD TOWN mleblancchicago.com 1740 W. Webster (60614)
www.pagodared.com
Apr 15–May 27: Israel Aten, Zoe Barcza, Sven Loven,
• DePaul Art Museum (DPAM)

Isabelle Frances Mcguire, Mindy Rose Schwartz
Jun 3–Jul 15: Yves Scherer • Wrightwood 659
935 W. Fullerton (60614) Jul 29–Sep 2: Hans-Jörg Mayer 659 W. Wrightwood (60614)
https://resources.depaul.edu/art-museum Th 1–8; F 12–7; Sa 10–5
www.wrightwood659.org
Thru Aug 6: Art for the Future: Artists Call and
Central American Solidarities Apr 14–Jul 15: Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk;
Patric McCoy: Take My Picture;
32 | CGN | Spring / Summer 2023 Shahidul Alam: Singed But Not Burnt
PILSEN / CHINATOWN /
BRIDGEPORT / BRONZEVILLE SOUTH SIDE
18TH ST BRIDGEPORT /
PROSPECTUS
18TH ST PILSEN / CHINATOWN
PILSEN EAST
19TH
• Alma Art and Interiors
19TH ST 3636 S. Iron (60609)
Open Su 12–5
PRAIRIE www.olivagallery.com
NATIONAL PILSEN
MUSEUM OF
MEXICAN ART 19TH PL
DISTRICT Apr 14–Sept 1: Alma IV
CULLERTON
• Bridgeport Art Center
MICHIGAN AVE
CULLERTON 1200 W. 35th (60609)
CANAL
STATE
www.bridgeportart.com
RT Thru Apr 23: 2023 IHSAE Exhibition

WOMAN MADE
PO HALSTED May 19–Jul 7: 11th Annual Art Competition
GALLERY
A L
AN 3rd Friday receptions take place monthly.
MORGAN
C CERMAK
• FLXST Contemporary
RACINE
– MANA 2251 S. Michigan, Suite 220 (60616)

CONTEMPORARY FLXST www.flxst.co | 773-800-1470
– FRACAS GALLERY 23RD ST
CHINATOWN Apr 7–May 14: DONNIE NIE: Envisaged Potentials;
ASHLAND
Group Show: Quality Control

Apr 14–May 21: DAVID WILLBURN:
26TH ST Traits, Tendencies, and Acts
R • Hilton | Asmus Contemporary

C HE
R BRIDGEPORT Bridgeport: Morgan Arts Complex:
A 3622 S. Morgan (60609)
Also in River North: 716 N. Wells (60654)
31ST ST www.hilton-asmus.com
BRIDGEPORT ART CENTER • National Museum of Mexican Art

1852 W. 19th (60608)
www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org
35TH ST
Thru Aug 27: Los huecos del agua, Recent Indigenous
Art from Mexico
ALMA
– HILTON | ASMUS BRONZEVILLE Ongoing: Giving Shape: Yollocalli Artistic Practice
– MORGAN ART COMPLEX Through the Years
SOUTH SIDE
COMMUNITY
PERSHING ART CENTER • Woman Made Gallery
2150 S. Canalport, Ste. 4A3 (60608)
www.womanmade.org
Thru Apr 22: 24th International Open; juried by

Pritika Chowdhry
May 6–Jun 3: Woman Life Freedom; juried by
Shahrbanoo Hamzeh
Jun 17–Jul 8: Indrani Nayar-Gall and Madelyn Turner |
43RD ST Two Women Show
Jul 22–Aug 19: Absurdity: In Dada We Trust;
juried by Kelly Hensen and Beate Minkovski
CANARYVILLE
GRAND BOULEVARD
47TH ST

HYDE PARK / UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO / HYDE PARK / DORCHESTER
DORCHESTER • DuSable Museum of
African American Art
740 E. 56th (60637)
HYDE
PARK ART www.dusablemuseum.org
51ST ST HYDE PARK BLVD CENTER
CORNELL
Thru Jul 16: Diaspora Stories: Selections
from the CCH Pounder Collection
SMART MUSEUM
• Hyde Park Art Center

OF ART
WASHINGTON
WOODLAWN
PARK 5020 S. Cornell (60615)
UNIVERSITY
DUSABLE
56TH ST HYDE PARK www.hydeparkart.org
MUSEUM
Thru Jul 9: SURVIVING THE LONG WARS:
KENWOOD
MUSEUM OF Unlikely Entanglements
SCIENCE AND Apr 22–Aug 6: Edra Soto: Destination/El Destino:
INDUSTRY
a decade of GRAFT
Apr 13–16: LandForms at EXPO CHICAGO
58TH ST Apr 22–Aug 13: Amuleto
ORIENTAL Jul 22–Oct 29: William Estrada: Multiples and Multitudes
INSTITUTE
• The Oriental Institute

RENAISSANCE
SOCIETY
COTTAGE GROVE
University of Chicago
MIDWAY PLAISANCE
STONY ISLAND
1155 E. 58th (60637)
DORCHESTER oi.uchicago.edu
ELLIS
60TH ST
• The Renaissance Society
MLK DRIVE
5811 S. Ellis, 4th Fl. (60637)
63RD ST www.renaissancesociety.org
WOODLAWN Thru Apr 16: Aria Dean: Abattoir, U.S.A.!
Apr 1: Whitney Johnson Concert
Apr 22-23: Intermissions: Özgür Kar
67TH ST
STONY
ISLAND ARTS
BANK • Smart Museum of Art
5550 S. Greenwood (60637)
www.smartmuseum.uchicago.edu
Thru Jun 4: not all realisms: photography, Africa,

and the long 1960s
Thru Jul 9: The Metropol Drama
Ongoing: Haegue Yang: Quasi-Legit
Ongoing: Calling on the Past:
Selections from the Collection
• South Side Community Art Center

3831 S. Michigan (60653)
www.sscartcenter.org
• Stony Island Arts Bank

6760 S. Stony Island (60649)
www.rebuild-foundation.org

SUBURBS + • Evanston Art Center
1717 Central, Evanston (60201)
THE NORTH SHORE AND
NORTHWEST SUBURBS
MIDWEST
www.evanstonartcenter.org
The Evanston Art Center is a non-profit that inspires

art education, exhibitions and expression for all. Our
• The Art Center – Highland Park
1957 Sheridan, Highland Park (60035)
EVANSTON galleries exhibit contemporary artwork by emerging and www.theartcenterhp.org
established artists, and are committed to providing a
venue for new artistic ideas and forms. Apr 14–22: Central Suburban League Annual Exhibition
• Art Encounter May 5–Jun 17: The Passion Project
927 Noyes, #222, Evanston (60201) Apr 1–May 7: Matthew Dicks: 23; Jun 23–Aug 5: Absurdity: In Dadaism we Trust
artencounter.org Rebecca Keller: All The Water That Ever Was, Now Is Beginning Aug 11: Partition Anti-Memorial Project:
Apr 15–May 21: Artmakers North: The Artist’s Voice Pritika Chowdhry (Center Gallery)
Thru May: Monthly, Thurs. 7:00 pm: Night Visions
Apr–Jun: Weekly, Weds. 11:00 am & 1:30 pm: • Perspective Group • Art Post Gallery
Expanding Visions
Jun 1: Kaleidoscope Spring Benefit and Art Auction
+ Photography Gallery 984 Willow, Ste. G, Northbrook (60062)
1310-1/2 Chicago, Evanston (60201) www.artpostgallery.com • 847–272–7659
(224) 200-1155
For nearly 42 years, Chris Bates has helped clients create
www.perspectivegallery.org
beautiful and unique fine art collections. She is especially
• Block Museum of Art, April: Perspective Members Anthony Iacuzzi
proud of the gallery’s reputation for art expertise and
Northwestern University and Dianne Kittle
good design sense. Offering one of the largest selections
of original art in Chicagoland. Specializing in large/
40 Arts Circle, Evanston (60208) May: Student Perspectives (Chicago area High School oversized pieces.
W–Fr 12–8, Sa and Su 12–5, Closed M and Tu Students), juried by Aimee Beaubien, Assoc. Professor
www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu of Photography at SAIC
June: Perspective Members Kurt Kramer and • Blue Moon Gallery
Thru July 9: The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Howard Hart 18620 Belvidere, Grayslake (60030)
Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto; July: Vicinity 2023, juried by Kristin Taylor, Curator www.thebluemoongallery.com
The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at of Academic Programs & Collections,
Northwestern University Apr 22–May 7: Les Scott
Museum of Contemporary Photography,
Apr 22–Jun 11: William Weidner & Samira Gdisis
August: Perspective Members Iris Lutz and Tobin Fraley May 27–Jul 9: June Ambro
Jun 24–Aug 6: Frank Fitzgerald & Mimi Peterson
Jul 22–Sep 10: Trace Chiodo
NORTH SHORE + NW SUBURBS Aug 26–Oct 15: Darlene Bock & Paul Pinzarrone
• Illinois Holocaust Museum

& Education Center
9603 Woods, Skokie (60077)
www.ilholocaustmuseum.org
• Alan Koppel Gallery – North

342 Park Ave., Glencoe (60022)
Sa 11–5 and by appt
www.alankoppel.com
• Anne Loucks Gallery

309 Park Ave., Glencoe (60022)
www.loucksgallery.com
Anne Loucks Gallery, celebrating our 23rd year, specializes

in contemporary American painting, photography, and
works on paper. The gallery curates six exhibitions annually.
• (northern) Western Exhibitions

7933 Lincoln Ave., Skokie (60077)
www.westernexhibitions.com
EVANSTON
Thru May 6: Miller & Shellabarger: Photography

– (northern) Western Exhibitions
SKOKIE
– WHO Modern
– IL Holocaust Museum • Who Modern
7933 Lincoln Ave., Skokie (60077)
www.whomodern.com
O’Hare Who Modern offers rare and unusual decorative objects,

furniture, and art from the mid-20th C. to today.

WESTERN + SOUTH SUBURBS
• Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park
Governors State University, 1 University Pkwy.,
University Park (60484)
www.govst.edu/sculpture
Voted Best Sculpture Park 2021, USA Today, 10 Best

Readers’ Choice! Open dawn to dusk 365 days a year,
free admission and parking.
Apr 22: Earth Day Fresh Air Walk at the Nate,

Saturday, 2–4 pm
Jun 17: Juneteenth at theNate, Saturday, 4–9 pm
Jun 20: Summer Solstice - Sip, Shop and Stroll,
Wright in Kankakee Friendraiser, Tuesday, 5–8 pm
GREATER ILLINOIS
• Krannert Art Museum (KAM)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign (61820)
kam.illinois.edu • Tu–Sa 10–4 • Free Admission
On view: Pattern & Process and

The Ink Wash Paintings of Shozo Sato
Apr 8-22: 2023 Art & Design MFA Exhibition
May 6-14: 2023 Art & Design BFA Exhibition
• Northern Illinois University (NIU)

Art Museum
Altgeld Hall, 1st Fl., West End, DeKalb (60115)
www.niu.edu/artmuseum
Thru May 13: Perspectives on collecting: Americans

in Burma: The Art of Collecting; Local Visions II
April 15 and 29: Meet the Collectors: Collector talks with
WESTERN SUBURBS • Kavanagh Gallery at four of the featured collectors in Local Visions II, 2pm,
Fine Line Creative Arts Center South Gallery
37W570 Bolcum, St. Charles (60175) April 20: Objects Worth Keeping: Poetry/short story
• Cleve Carney Museum of Art www.fineline.org readings about collecting, 7–8:30 p.m., Altgeld Hall 125
College of DuPage Beginning Aug 29: Things that seem needed: Dialogue;
425 Fawell, Glen Ellyn (60137) Thru May 12: Environments: Exploring the Mourning
theCCMA.org
Concept of Environments.
Jun 3–Sept 10: Warhol, featuring Andy Warhol
Portfolios: A Life in Pop. Works from the
May 18–Jun 23: Art 2023: It’s What We Create.
Jun 29 – Aug 9: From the Earth: Functional & • Rockford Art Museum
Decorative Art. 711 N. Main St., Rockford (61103)
Bank of America Collection. www.rockfordartmuseum.org
• Elmhurst Art Museum SOUTH SUBURBS The RAM Permanent Collection focuses on modern/
contemporary, photography, studio glass, African
150 S. Cottage Hill, Elmhurst (60126)
American, and regional art; exhibits change throughout
www.elmhurstartmuseum.org
• Christopher Art Gallery the year.
May 6–Jul 31: Superheroes in Wilder Park, at Prairie State College
an outdoor public art installation 202 S. Halsted, Chicago Heights (60411) Thru May 28: Outer Harmonies
May 28–Aug 20: Marvelocity: The Art of Alex Ross, prairiestate.edu/christopher-art-gallery/index.aspx Apr 21–Jul 9: Deb Newton Retrospective
celebrating one of the greatest artists in the field of May 19–Sept 24: Ken Hoffman: Ten More & Bigger
comic books Apr 24–May 17: Never Forget: Holocaust Awareness; Begins Jun 9: Fatherless Print Posse
Annual Spring Student Show
• Expression Gallery of Fine Art Jun 5–Jul 19: The Mix: A Sculpture show. Artists:
Kim Matthews, Jesse Hickman, David Richards and • Tarble Arts Center
10 E. First, Hinsdale (60521) Eastern IL Univ., 2010 9th St., Charleston (61920)
Darlys Ewoldt. Reception: Tuesday, June 13, 4-6:30 pm
wwww.expressiongalleries.com www.tarbleartscenter.org
Since 2005 our gallery has specialized in 19th, 20th century Thru May 6: Falling Into Milk;
works on paper by Masters, contemporary French painters Apr 1–May 6: 2023 EIU Undergraduate Art Exhibition
like Coulomb, Moiras, Millan, and paintings by living
2023 EIU Master of Arts in Studio Art Exhibition
Master Nikolay Blokhin. Known for works by Renoir, Klimt,
Picasso, Miró and others.

ILLINOIS, IOWA, MICHIGAN, WISCONSIN
• Milwaukee Art Museum
700 N. Art Museum Dr., Milwaukee, WI (53202)
www.mam.org
• OS Projects
601 6th St., Racine, WI (53403)
www.osprojects.art
OS Projects is a contemporary art gallery featuring visual

artists in solo and small group exhibits. The gallery’s
primary focus is on artists living and working in the
Chicago-Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee urban corridor.
Thru Apr 8: Carey Watters: Sharp Points

May 13-Jul 15: Lisa Englander
Aug 12-Oct 14: Jerrold Belland and Andrew Larson
• Racine Art Museum

441 Main St., Racine, WI (53403)
www.ramart.org
Home to America’s largest contemporary craft collection,

RAM organizes 15–20 intriguing exhibitions each year
featuring its holdings of 11,000 pieces.
• Saint Kate Arts Hotel

139 E. Kilbourn Ave., Milwaukee, WI (53202)
www.saintkatearts.com
• Sculpture Milwaukee
Various locations. Milwaukee, WI
www.sculpturemilwaukee.com
Sculpture Milwaukee is a non-profit organization

transforming downtown Milwaukee’s cultural landscape
IOWA WISCONSIN every year with an outdoor exhibition of contemporary
sculpture that serves as a catalyst for community
engagement and economic development for locals,
• John Michael Kohler tourists, and art lovers alike.
• Stanley Museum of Art – Arts Center Open at no cost to visitors we make sculpture accessible
University of Iowa 608 New York Ave., Sheboygan, WI (53081) for everyone to enjoy 24/7, 365 days a year.
160 W Burlington St, Iowa City, IA (52242) www.jmkac.org
stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu Thru October 2023: Nature Doesn’t Know About Us,
guest curated by Ugo Rondinone
Ongoing through July 2025: Homecoming
• Lily Pad | West
215 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, WI (53202)
www.lilypadgallery.com • Tandem Press
MICHIGAN Lily Pad | West is a contemporary art gallery that
1743 Commercial Ave., Madison, WI (53704)
www.tandempress.wisc.edu
presents artwork from over 70 artists. Visit our
• Krasl Art Center website to view more information and our full
exhibition schedule.
Thru April 14: Cullen Houser: Singularity
Reception: Friday, April 7, 5-8 pm
707 Lake Blvd., St. Joseph, MI (49085)
www.krasl.org April 24–May 19: Sophie Loubere: Trespasses
Thru Apr 30: In a Place of Dreams. Reception: Friday, May 5, 5-8 pm
Thru Apr 9: The Galleries: The World After Us: Closing Reception: April 21, 5–9 pm.
Imaging techno-aesthetic futures France Jodoin artist talk at 7pm
Thru Apr 16: The Lab: Sasha Stiles
Apr 15–Jun 4: The Galleries: Andy Sweet’s May 2–Jun 25: Tonalism Now
South Beach Opening Reception: May 5, 5–9pm
Apr 22–Jun 25: The Lab: Excursions by Jun 27–Aug 27: Forward: A Wisconsin Artist
Marat Paransky Exhibition. Opening June 30, 5–9pm
Jun 10–Sept 4: The Galleries: The Art of Elizabeth
Catlett, from the Collection of Samella Lewis
Jul 1-Sept 17: The Lab: Theda Sandiford:
Triggers, Truth and Transformation
• Mahogany Gallery
1422 Washington Ave. Racine, WI (53403)
www.mahoganygallery.com
• The J. Petter Galleries
161 Blue Star Hwy, Douglas, MI (49406)
www.JPetterGalleries.com
Located in Douglas, Saugatuck & Holland, MI

Flagship Gallery at 161 Blue Star Highway, Douglas MI
THE MANY COLORS OF
ANNA KUNZ
is to continually reinvent
themselves,” I thought, that
would be a great job.
CGN: I read that your

father worked at the Art
Institute of Chicago and
you used to sit in front of
the Rothko painting and
watch visitors’ reactions.
What did you observe?
AK: Yes. My father was in

the hospitality industry.
I’d have to go to work
with him as a kid, and
I’d sit in the gallery that
housed a Rothko painting.
People would stop to look,
sometimes laugh, get
angry, become emotional.
It made quite an impression
upon me–how color,
and the “exterior form”,
painting, could invite all of
that in the viewer.
CGN: You have talked

about choreographing
color - what does that
mean to you?
ABOVE: ANNA KUNZ, UNSEEING GREEN, 2021, 66” X 60,” ACRYLIC ON CANVAS. PHOTO: DARIO LISAGNE NYC
AK: I always feel like I

understand dance, poetry
BY ALISON REILLY explained that she wants Press at EXPO Chicago,
and music better than
to use her work as an artist told me about her process,
painting. Choreography
In 2022, Anna Kunz to help others. During inspirations, and other new
and dance use the
stepped down as Associate our recent conversation, projects.
body as material and
Professor in the Art and I found myself wishing I
turn ritual actions into
Art History department could have sat in on one of CGN: When did you know
a kind of poetry. It is
at Columbia College. her color theory courses. that you wanted to be an
very similar to the way
Throughout her 20 years at Her warmth, compassion, artist?
I approach my process.
the school, she mentored and creativity were evident
Colors are stand-ins for
many young artists as they during our time together. AK: I loved to listen to the
relationships I observe
began their careers. As Kunz, who recently WFMT radio show hosted
in nature’s structures, or
part of her legacy, Kunz created an ambitious and by Harry Bouras (the Harry
even the social sphere. I
generously established a immersive solo exhibition whose name inspired the
think of color as a body
scholarship called the AK at Berggruen Gallery in artist group the Harry Who)
that generates forms and
Prism Award. “For ambition San Francisco and will be called “On Art and Artists‚“
creates relationships and
and kindness, my initials showing with McCormick when I was a teen. When
movement. My approach to
- AK,” she told me. She Gallery and Manneken he said, “An artist’s job
choreography in painting
“COLORS ARE
STAND-INS FOR
RELATIONSHIPS
I OBSERVE
IN NATURE’S
STRUCTURES
OR EVEN THE
SOCIAL SPHERE.”
- ANNA KUNZ
INSTALLATION VIEW, COLOR CAST, THE HYDE

PARK ART CENTER, CHICAGO, IL 2018. MIXED
MEDIA, SOUND BY BETH BRADFISH, 20’ X 40’
X 125’. PHOTO: TOM VAN ENDYE CHICAGO
means I pay attention to time and space on the surface to I also love to work with water as a material. If there’s a water
generate compositions. There is a word choreographers source that I am around, I can incorporate that, but even
use–kinesphere–the arena or the space around the body. the paintings in my studio are very water based. Instead of
I translate this in painting to be the canvas or architectural thinking of the water as just as vehicle to send paint, I think
space (in the case of my installations). about the water as a material, as a life force.
CGN: What is a typical day in your studio like? CGN: What are some of your earliest memories making
art?
AK: I arrive early and begin each day by moving around
many works in progress to create new conversations AK: My grandfather worked at the Hammermill paper
between the paintings. I decide on color. I work usually with factory in Erie, Pennsylvania. He was a pulp stirrer, and every
one or two specific hues at a time and apply it in a ritualistic time he’d visit me, he would gift me a ream of paper and
way. I play to develop new approaches and processes in new Crayolas. I would think of it as the best present and
another area of the studio with smaller paintings or paper, or color every sheet. I got very good at inventing colors and
collages. If I’m in my studio in Michigan, I work outside and arranging the drawings on the floor.
let unexpected things happen.
CGN: And you still work on the floor, right?
CGN: Tell me more about your studio in Michigan.
AK: Yes, in my studio I have several large paintings going at
AK: Yes, it’s in Buchanan, Michigan. My husband, Bryan, and once because I envision them as one continuous work. Even
I bought the property about 16 years ago. Little by little though they all end up as individual paintings, in my mind,
we’ve been transforming it into a sanctuary space. There I’m still thinking about building this immersive environment.
are a lot of building projects going on, so I work in a space I work on the floor‚ 360°, turning them. It’s extremely
that’s pretty raw. I have a very large deck, so I can work in physical work. There’s arranging, and a rearranging, so I can
sunlight or outside. A lot of times I try to do some things see what kind of conversations are generated through the
more experimentally, like work in the forest, or see the work different relationships I create. I also work on planks, which
juxtaposed with nature. Sometimes I leave work outside and allow me to perform on top of the painting, if you will, or
chance things happen – leaves will fall, or insects, or rain. traverse the painting. I also use them as a measuring device
Things will fold in the wind differently. And I take a lot of sometimes.
photographs of my work in different situations. That helps
me get ideas for new work. Outside is more unruly.

CGN: Can you describe your
approach to designing and planning
an exhibition?
AK: I like to take a lot of time thinking

about any exhibition. I never like
to make work for a show, so I just
keep a continuum in my studio of
lots of different kinds of work. Bryan
is an exhibit designer and has an
architecture studio. We have had
many conversations about space and
scale. Planning an exhibition always
starts with a small to scale model and
a feeling for what kind of experience
I want to present to the viewer. I do
really look at the site lines of painting
to painting and the relationships
so that the viewer’s perception is
wholly engaged, not just on a head-
on vision of looking at a painting. I
consider what might be happening in
the periphery of vision, and multiple
viewpoints.
CGN: What are you working on in

your studio now? What projects do
you have coming up for this spring
and summer?
AK: I just closed a large show of

paintings and works on paper at
INSTALLATION VIEW, 2O22, ANNA KUNZ, DRAWING WITH SCISSORS GROUP EXHIBITION, HERE, HALF OCEAN, INK
AND DYE ON SILK, 14’ X 8 X 3’ D. BERGGRUEN, SAN FRANCISCO, CA. PHOTO: GLEN CRERITON IMPART PHOTOGRAPHY, Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO.
In April at EXPO CHICAGO I’ll show
monoprints at Manneken Press, and
CGN: And you are working mostly little more ephemeral and meant to paintings with McCormick Gallery. I’ve
on canvas along with paper? be suspended in space. I was given an worked with Tom [McCormick] forever
opportunity at Hyde Park Art Center – I’ve known him for more than 25
AK: Yes, I work in different scales. But and it’s this giant space. I looked back years. I’m also planning another show
the scales are all specific to my body. at the last 10 or 15 years of my artistic at McCormick for the fall, which will be
If I work on paper it’s usually 11 by output and reassigned new material more experimental.
13” or 13 by 15”, which are my head identities to some of the work I’ve
size and neck size. Sometimes I work done. For example, a small, intimate And I’m planning to make two
in a small format like the palm of my work on paper, gouache on Sakamoto different books. One is a project that
hand. Sometimes I work in 60 by 66, paper, would then inform a new large is an homage to artists who have lost
which is my personal wing span, my work on silk. The vocabulary would their mothers. I also have some non-
body measurement. They’re all scaled stay the same. It’s a way for me to commercial projects to think about.
according to my body proportions. almost have my own retrospective.
I reinvented my previous work to CGN: Can you tell me more about
CGN: Have you always worked that inform the larger and more ephemeral the homage?
way? work. Everything in that show was
familiar to me from a previous version The writer Ocean Vuong has written
AK: It started out intuitively with my or iteration. Instead of just showing that after losing his mom, he is “half”
works on paper. Sometimes those working from the past, I reinvented my forever more. I’m just using that
paintings end up as fabric work or they old work in new forms. spiritual event, the right of passage
inform fabric works that are a that we all go through, or will have in

common, to inform some of his artwork. The thought of the friends who had caregiven their mothers had been gifted
mother as the creator. Honoring mothers for the gift of life, their mother’s jewelry collection when they passed on.
but also modeling creativity. I started to experience through This book, which is in the preliminary stages, is exploring
friends, artist friends, women friends, their thoughts about that. The artist Judith Brotman and I will see where we
their personal losses and how they use them and try to find find commonalities and similar feelings. We both had the
a way to transition sorrow into something more meaningful extraordinary experience of caregiving our moms. A lot of
for their artwork. other artist friends have also expressed that once you lose
your mom you’re never really the same.
My mom was a really amazing reconstructive surgical nurse.
She worked a lot in volunteer groups. One was called CGN: What impact has Chicago had on your formation
Operation Smile, which would take surgical helicopters as an artist?
into different parts of the world where children were
suffering facial deformities. She taught me a lot about the AK: My family has been in Chicago since 1885. They came
transformative power of using your creativity. That is always here with nothing. I feel pride about belonging here,
in my mind when I think about why I am an artist, how did I reflecting on the many generations before me over near
arrive at this. Wayne Avenue. The city’s grid, its hospitality, the traditions
in theater and comedy all end up in my mind when I’m
When my mom left the planet, she left behind an enormous asked about Chicago. There is a work ethic here and an
amount of costume jewelry. She was a pretty eccentric attention to craft and style that I think about.
person! I had the jewelry, and then I noticed a lot of women
INSTALLATION VIEW, ANNA KUNZ: WITH RAYS, 2021, ALEXANDER

BERGGRUEN, NYC. PICTURED, L TO R: SAVED HOUR, DIFFICULT
RHYTHM, EARLY. EACH 66” X 60”, 2021, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
PHOTO: DARIO LISAGNE NYC

ON CHICAGO AS FLASH POINT AND FLASHLIGHT
MCA DIR. MADELEINE GRYNSZTEJN
BY ANNA DOBROWOLSKI
Madeleine Grynsztejn is a leader on

a mission. Since starting her tenure
at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago in 2008, Grynsztejn has been
committed to presenting art ‘you don’t
yet know you love.’
Today as she enters her 15th year as

MCA director, she says she is ready to
prove that contemporary art is enter-
ing a golden era, and Chicago is its
crucible.
When the MCA’s doors were shut in

2020 due to the onset of the pan-
demic, the museum joined the mass
migration to digital programming out
of a commitment to stay connected
to audiences locked out of physical
institutions and stuck at home. The
three years that followed left the world
craving reconnection that Grynsztejn
strongly believes can be facilitated not
only through the art found in institu-
tions, but also through the institution
itself. Criticism that bubbled up in 2020
– from outside as well as within – was
ultimately a catalyst for real change.
During a recent candid conversation,

Grynsztejn tells us some of the most
significant lessons she gleaned from
steering the MCA through a pandemic
amid local and global unrest, from
how she listened to and genuinely re-
sponded to criticism while embracing
collaborative opportunities. Each is a
lesson she says will not be forgotten.
CGN: Where do you see the biggest

shift between then (pre-pandemic)
and now? Is it in the type of art on PRITZKER DIRECTOR MADELEINE GRYNSZTEJN
view, differences in programming and
exhibition themes, or something else? creating and presenting art. Not only house is as ethical as the messages
can they enlighten our learnings about of the works of art on the walls and
MG: The biggest shift has actually issues such as systemic racism, but on our stage. Where there were
been consistency. Artists and audi- they have also shown us how attuned differences, there were credibility
ences continue to care deeply about they are to whether our back of the gaps.
INSTALLATION VIEW FROM “FORECAST FORM: ART IN THE CARIBBEAN DIASPORA, 1990S–TODAY.”
CGN: So artists acted as a voice of consciousness and a This is the same with many of the MCA’s changes imple-
kind of auditor? What happened behind the scenes? mented during the pandemic. [Artists] have become much
It was important for the MCA to listen and respond. more attuned to wanting to be with institutions that reflect
the learnings that we have all taken in. They want to support
MG: Much of our work since COVID has been very important those institutions that want to change internally as well as
but relatively invisible. We have intentionally put a DEI lens externally. That’s the answer.
on our institution. We launched our first fully bilingual major
exhibition, “Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, CGN: You noted that the MCA is acquiring women-iden-
1990s–Today.” It’s what Chicago should do, especially since tified and BIPOC artists’ work at 7 times the rate of any
we have a population that is 18% Spanish-speaking. other museum in the country (according to the Burns
Halperin report). This is happening in Chicago. What
What we do administratively and systemically is part of what drives you to continue being invested in this city?
it means to be a good contemporary art museum. It’s not just
how we show up on the outside; we are only as good as our MG: What I’ve always said about Chicago is that it is a
people. flash point and a flashlight. Which means that it’s a leader,
and it is incumbent upon us to set the terms by which a
CGN: At the time of writing, MCA’s staff is at 40% great contemporary museum is defined.
BIPOC, which is a 5% increase over the last year.
Chicago is currently experiencing a Golden Age specifically
MG: On the public side, since 2020, nearly 70% of our for black art, on a par with the Harlem Renaissance of the
collection acquisitions have been by women-identified or 1920s. It’s also a Golden Age of what might be considered
BIPOC artists. We have actually been 50% women-represent- socially engaged art, which is one of the most important art
ed in all of our programs since 2015. We are part of this new movements since the 1990s. There is no other city that can
wave and generation of feminism that is starting to finally be boast the likes of Theaster Gates, the Rebuild Foundation,
able to make permanent–not cosmetic–material differences, Emmanuel Pratt and the Sweet Water Foundation,
changes that are a part of our daily practices and will Amanda Williams, Michael Rakowitz, Faheem Majeed and
continue to be. the Floating Museum, and so many others the world has

noticed. There is no other city that can against the worst part of the last 36 learn that it clears economic, geo-
boast a community of artists at that lev- months: the divisive black and white graphic and ability hurdles in ways that
el of excellence. This community lives ideology structure we are actively the physical museum space does not.
at the intersection of art, architecture against. You always have to ask yourself, not
and design. We really celebrate that. only what extraordinary art offering
will change people’s lives and hearts
CGN: Borrowing your flashlight and minds, but what is an ethical way
metaphor here, what is something in which you execute that exhibition
you want to illuminate for visitors “CHICAGO IS CURRENTLY or program? Since COVID what we’ve
returning to the MCA? EXPERIENCING A GOLDEN learned is that it is an extraordinary,
AGE SPECIFICALLY FOR and much more welcome, way of work-
A welcome. There is no single word to ing when you partner and collaborate
capture the past 36 months. I guess BLACK ART, ON PAR WITH with an institution on an exhibition like
there was the overused ‘unprecedent- THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE Nick Cave or a full day symposium in
ed’ but there’s not really a word for OF THE 1920S.” partnership with DEEM journal, a bian-
what we all have gone through and are nual print journal and online platform
still emerging from. We are now seeing focused on design as social practice.
people coming back together ‘post-
COVID’, and it is the most beautiful, CGN: Looking back on 2022, for CGN: What have been some proud
heartwarming and important thing. instance thinking back to Nick Cave moments?
and “Forothermore”, what were some
The MCA wants to reward our commu- of the challenges you faced then, MG: Creating gorgeous exhibitions,
nity’s courageous return with won- even with some stunning program- like launching our first major bilin-
der. Our offering is to first make you ming? How did you overcome them? gual exhibition with “Forecast Form”
curious, then facilitate that understand- or making an extraordinary show by
ing, which naturally leads to bridging MG: Well, I can speak to the challenge Chicago-based artist Nick Cave happen
differences, and that naturally leads of maintaining pre-COVID level pro- and see it travel to New York. Hosting
to change. And when you ask me that gramming momentum and audience an unbelievable performance festi-
question, it really comes down to: we engagement. We continue to see the val called Chicago Performs. I’m also
want to be the place that catalyzes art. benefits of a museum that is as strong proud of how we do it – so often we do
I think that’s when it becomes an act online as it is onsite, because we did
MARTON ROBINSON,
LA CORONACIÓN
DE LA NEGRITA (THE
CORONATION OF LA
NEGRITA), 2022, CHALK-
BOARD PAINT AND CHALK
ON CANVAS, SIXTY PARTS.
INSTALLATION VIEW.
PHOTO: MICHAEL DAVID
ROSE.

this in partnership with other organizations we are hon-
ored to work with and mutually elevate.
Our mindset has shifted very productively in the wake of

the last 36 months. At the same time we have always been
connected – as a contemporary art museum – to emergent
thinking, doing and being.
Looking forward, our exhibition this summer is a retro-

spective of the great artist Gary Simmons curated by our
Chief Curator René Morales and Assistant Curator Jadine
Collingwood. It is gorgeous work and its subject matter
focuses on those hidden histories, particularly around
race, that permeate our culture and that we need to con-
tinue to talk about. The first survey show Simmons ever
did as a young artist was at the MCA in the early ‘90s.
In August the MCA will open a show called “Entre ABOVE: ART BY CANDIDA ALVAREZ;
Horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and RIGHT: ART BY IVELISSE JIMÉNEZ
Puerto Rico” that examines the intersection between

art and social justice movements between the Puerto
WHERE ART
Rican diaspora and Chicago.
CGN: It’s clear that no institution is an island. Ongoing

public discussions about institutions call for critical
review of the communities involved in their existence:
MEETS FASHION:
Who can take part? Who is it serving? You’ve men-
tioned that some artists have recently returned to
THE COLLECTION’S
the MCA. They are actively a part of MCA’s history,
present, and future. What can you tell us about the NEW COMMISSIONS
partnerships and collaborations?
Two Chicago-based artists have been commissioned to
MG: You’re so right. Another example I love is that the create new works at THE COLLECTION: Where Art Meets
MCA gave Lorna Simpson her first survey show in 1992. Fashion, a multifaceted contemporary art program locat-
Today she is one of our trustees, actively influencing the ed in an unconventional setting: within Macerich’s Fashion
organizational direction of the museum. Outlets of Chicago in suburban Rosemont, IL. On site are
19 permanent commissions as well as a rotating exhibition
We also did this wonderful exhibition with the DuSable series. Other artists with work on site to date include Daniel
Museum recently, a relationship that will continue. The Arsham, Derrick Adams, Matthew Hoffman, and more.
MCA enters into such partnerships with humility. We try to
always go about our work in the right way in Chicago, as The program’s latest site-specific installation is a two-story
a cultural and civic agent. Part of that responsibility is to abstract mural by Puerto Rican-American artist Candida
remain internationally significant and cosmopolitan. Alvarez. “Much like clothes in the closet that we love and
[For example, we recently] negotiated the gift of a pull out to wear from time to time, ‘zip me up’ is a return to,
historic collection of installation art from the 1990s to the and remix of, an earlier painting of a dahlia flower that lived
present from the collection of Dimitris Daskalopoulos, on a Chicago rooftop,” said Alvarez. “This commission by
which we are co-owning with the Guggenheim in NYC. Fashion Outlets was a wonderful opportunity to dive back
into my own archive and remix this painting to give it a bold,
Obviously this is not accomplished alone. We are in a evocative new life.”
moment when I believe the MCA is having a huge impact
locally, nationally and internationally. And it’s thanks to A new rotating exhibition, featuring sculptural works
a magnificent alignment between staff and board that is by Puerto Rican artist Ivelisse Jiménez, is also now on view.
committed to fully manifesting this museum on behalf of “Fading Through Gradations” will fill THE COLLECTION’s
its artists and its public. three rotating exhibition cases through May 2023. Playing
upon the experience of color and its afterimage as an ele-
We are here to welcome every person that comes in the ment that produces constant change for our eyes, Jiménez’s
door and to learn with and from them. Chicago is a full works speak to the transformative space of process and the
partner in MCA’s growth, in heart and mind. transitory merging of traces.

ANTICIPATING A SEASON OF ART
FIVE TO TALK TO
SPRING IS ONCE AGAIN THE SEASON OF THE
VISUAL IN CHICAGO. KNOWING THAT ALL EYES
WILL BE ON THIS YEAR’S ART FAIRS, MARKETS
AND NOTABLE EXHIBITIONS, WE SPOKE TO
FIVE ART COMMUNITY LEADERS ABOUT WHAT
THEY’RE WORKING ON NOW AND LOOKING
FORWARD TO NEXT.
“As we approach our tenth anniversary edi-

tion, I am deeply proud of both our legacy,
and the future of EXPO CHICAGO. Our
annual exposition activates our great city
in collaboration with, and in service of, our
institutions, galleries, artists, and the broader
cultural tourism and hospitality communities.
Our core programs – /Dialogues, Curatorial
Forum & Exchange, Override, In/Situ and
In/Situ Outside – and the Directors Summit
continue to grow, while providing opportu-
nities for international artists and generat-
ing important discourse for the global arts
community. I remain proud that we make an
annual contribution to the global image of
our diverse, innovative and vibrant city and
that we generate direct support to Chicago’s
civic and cultural ecosystems.”
EXPO CHICAGO runs April 13-16 at Navy Pier.

expochicago.com
Tony Karman,
Founder
PHOTO BY AUDIA
EXPO CHICAGO
“I can’t believe how much the West Loop
has grown – especially at the West end and
Fulton Market area, just since we had to
shut down for the pandemic in 2020. Since
we reopened Randolph Street Market last
summer, so many new visitors are coming
who have never been to an antique flea
market before. Art is actually the top pur-
chase now, next to vintage fashion. I think
no matter the size of a city dwelling, these
buyers want to adorn their walls.
We’re happy to give them a lot to choose

from. What makes the Randolph Street
Market so unique is the depth and quality
of our vintage “pickers” who hit all the fan-
ciest estate sales and flea markets through-
PHOTO BY M. LINDSAY PHOTOGRAPHY

out the U.S., plus dealers who bring global
textiles and artifacts from France, Germany,
Poland, Senegal, Ghana, Kenya, Columbia,
Argentina, Guatemala, Turkey, Syria, Mexi-
co and elsewhere.”
Randolph St. Market returns May 27 and 28.

randolphstreetmarket.com
Sally Schwartz, Founder

Randolph Street Market
“The South Side Community Art Center’s
(SSCAC) exhibition, “where the light cor-
rupts your face,” features artists Andres L.
Hernandez, Roland Knowlden, and Tonika
Lewis Johnson and is curated by Lola Ogba-
ra, SSCAC Exhibitions Manager and Curator.
These incredible Spatial griots – historians
and storytellers – invite you to consider how
socio-economic and geographic oppres-
sions impact the way we see (or don’t see)
our environments. Hernandez uncovers
embedded histories and systems of pow-
er within built and speculative landscapes
to imagine these spaces otherwise. Lewis
Johnson advocates for urban communities
by documenting disparities among Chicago
residents who live on opposite ends of the
same streets across the city’s racial and eco-
nomic divides. Knowlden critically decon-
structs the elements of our urban fabric and
its architectural histories to reassemble them
as cartographic abstractions and imagined
landscapes. Gwendolyn Brooks, a brilliant
author, poet, and life-long resident of the
historic Bronzeville, becomes the Mecca of
these stories as this exhibition interrogates
Monique Brinkman-Hill, Exec. Dir.

dilapidation, buried histories, and what it
could mean to be Black in space.”
South Side Community Art Center More info at sscartcenter.org

“Intermissions at the Renaissance Society
is an ongoing series of new performances
staged twice a year in our empty cathe-
dral-like space in between exhibitions. For
the tenth installment in the series—on April
22nd and 23rd—I’m excited to present a
new installation by the artist Özgür Kar that
pushes the boundaries of what qualifies as a
performance. Özgür creates striking black-
and-white animations that lean into the idea
of live performance, but a bit uncannily,
without human actors. His works are effec-
tively deconstructed theater pieces and
multipart soundscapes: figures isolated on
their own video screens become performers
in looping scenes that are both austere and
emotion-filled, with existentialist overtones.
He has developed his own memorable style,
but familiar things echo around inside too:
hints of early animated film, Saturday morn-
PHOTO BY MEG T. NOE.

ing cartoons, experimental theatre in the vein
Samuel Beckett, or danse macabre like in
medieval drawings. For one weekend, visitors
can wander around freely in Özgür’s installa-
tion or settle in like you’re watching a play.”

Karsten Lund, Curator More info at renaissancesociety.org
The Renaissance Society

“LVL3 just opened up a show celebrating
our 13-year anniversary as an artist-run
space. It’s a tradition of ours to bring back
several artists we have exhibited over the
years, and this year’s roster made all new
work I couldn’t be more excited about.
At Arts of Life we have a small survey exhi-

bition going on with INTUIT. Arts of Life will
also be presenting work for the 2nd year in
a row at EXPO CHICAGO. We are thrilled
that one of our artists, Susan Pasowicz, is
having her first solo show open up EXPO
weekend at Ruschman Gallery.
I’m staying busy as usual with multiple

projects, but everyone should save the
date, as I am in the middle of planning
Arts of Life’s annual Benefit auction and
dance party that is not to be missed, May
5th, where we will be honoring the one
and only Jason Pickleman.”
Neon Dreams Benefit Auction takes place May 5.

More info at artsoflife.org
Vincent Uribe, Gallerist More info lvl3official.com
LVL3 and Arts of Life

A DECADE IN:
EXPO ART WEEK SPANS THE CITY
For EXPO CHICAGO’s keynote
conversation on opening night,
Chance the Rapper and artist
Hank Willis Thomas will each
look at recent public art projects
and their community building
potential. April 13. Navy Pier.
Michele Rizzo navigates the

transformative power of contem-
porary techno music in HIGHER.
xtn, his first-ever U.S. perfor-
mance. April 14, 3pm. Navy Pier
W. Terrace, Lower Lvl. Screen- EXPO CHICAGO marks its 10th
ings, April 13-16, Booth #451 anniversary this spring. Borne from
the city’s multi-decade legacy of
Derrick Adams’ Funtime Uni- ground-breaking, internationally
corn, April 13–June 25 at Navy
Pier’s Polk Bros Park, is a contin- recognized art fairs, EXPO CHICA-
uation of Adams’ focus on play GO’s founder and President Tony
and leisure in the Black commu-
nity. His nightly projections are Karman forged a new era a decade
also part of Art on theMART. ago through his vision to return the
fair to Navy Pier, where it all began,
Neo Chicago, presented by
The Peninsula Chicago, features
and carefully tend to the quality of
highlights from the Beth the exhibitor list and curatorial pro-
Rudin DeWoody Collection.
AMY SHERALD
The installation will be dis-

gramming. Since 2012 he has grown
played throughout the hotel’s EXPO despite significant obstacles,
public space April 14 thru May. fostering countless opportunities and
securing EXPO’s reputation as an
Art in Common presents Boil,
Toil + Trouble, featuring work international, Chicago-based fair.
by over 50 artists examining
water through the lens of
magic, ritual, and the role of Hundreds of exhibitions, openings
the ‘witch’, in contemporary art. and more are planned. Many events
April 12–23. 400 N. Peoria.
are open to the public but some are
Kenny Schachter’s immersive for VIPs only. Please check dates and
installation combines text and details in advance.
images to create a forward-look-
ing video covering history and
popular culture, put through the EXPO ART WEEK runs April 10—16
blender of artificial intelligence.
150 N. Riverside. Apr 13–Jun 30. EXPOCHICAGO.COM

HARD AT WORK AT 87
RICHARD HUNT
“PUBLIC
SCULPTURE
RESPONDS TO
THE DYNAMICS
OF A COMMUNITY,
OR OF THOSE IN IT,
WHO HAVE A USE FOR
SCULPTURE. IT IS THIS
ASPECT OF USE, OF
UTILITY, THAT GIVES PUBLIC
SCULPTURE ITS VITAL AND
LIVELY PLACE IN THE PUBLIC
MIND.” - RICHARD HUNT

BY ANNA DOBROWOLSKI
Encountering Richard Hunt’s monolithic sculptures around

Chicago is much like running into an old friend, someone
you recognize no matter how much time has passed. Hunt’s
large-scale public works are out in the elements, soaring
into the skyline. Each one signifies you’re in the presence
of something distinctly from Chicago, with characteristics
that mirror the city’s famed architecture – structures are
imposing yet delicately rendered, sturdy but changeable,
familiar as well as innovative, raw but refined. The artist’s
vision plus hard work is manifested in wrought steel that is
put on display to stand the test of time.
Millions of people glimpse Hunt’s sculptures regularly when

arriving at and departing from Midway Airport. Additional
commissions have been installed on the campuses of the
University of Chicago, Divinity School and the University of
Illinois Chicago (UIC), as well as on the rooftop of the Art
Institute of Chicago. Many have become landmarks in their
own right. The creator of these magnificent sculptures has
been hard at work since 1955. He isn’t slowing down. There
is still more to imagine and to make real.
Hunt has said about his work, “Public sculpture responds

to the dynamics of a community, or of those in it, who
have a use for sculpture. It is this aspect of use, of utility,
that gives public sculpture its vital and lively place in the
public mind.” He has contributed a great deal to Chicago
and its legacy of public art. Other cities and towns around
the country each bring a little bit of Chicago to their own
community when a Hunt sculpture is installed.
When we sat down this winter, inside his Lincoln Park studio
that was once a transit power station, the stage was set for
an industrial fireside chat about his nearly 70-year career.
Warming up beside a space heater – like the ones used
for outdoor cafes – in our periphery a massive steel bird
manages to materialize from the pages of an open book.
Titled “Book Bird,” he explains, the work will join the long
list of Hunt’s sculptures in Chicago when it is installed in a
courtyard reading space at the Obama Presidential Center,
slated to open in 2025. “Book Bird” illuminates how
reading and learning allow readers to enter new places and
fly free. The work was the first commissioned piece of art
for the Obama Center.
Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett said, “Mr. Hunt’s

personal story and creative vision embodies the uplifting
experience visitors will find at the Center. Having known
Richard most of my life, we are so proud to honor his work
here.”
ABOVE: RICHARD HUNT, LIGHT OF TRUTH: IDA B. WELLS NATIONAL MONUMENT,
UNVEILED IN 2021 IN BRONZEVILLE, CHICAGO. HISTORYFAR, CC BY-SA 4.0
OPPOSITE PAGE: PORTRAIT OF RICHARD HUNT BY SANDRO MILLER.

RICHARD HUNT AT WORK IN HIS LINCOLN PARK STUDIO.
PHOTO COURTESY RICHARD HUNT STUDIO.
Born and raised in Chicago, Hunt had’ in New York. Along with friends like collections of metal, with dead-
says he was greatly influenced by of mine in art school we asked ends stacked with metallic sheets,
his mother, an artist and librarian, ourselves, ‘What would we have in inroads leading to maquettes, tools,
and he spent much of his childhood New York that we don’t have here?’ I papers filled with notes. It is both an
enjoying museums and opera ultimately decided not to move there.” archive and treasure trove.
performances, fostering his passion for Instead, he was successful taking his
the arts. “I grew up with my parents works on paper, prints and sculpture to Recently, approximately 50 of his
on the Southside, near Woodlawn local exhibitions and Chicago galleries. monumental works (a dent in his 130
and Englewood,” Hunt notes. “When Eventually Hunt says he was interested and growing oeuvre) went on view at
I was around 13 I would go down to in gallery representation in New York, KANEKO in Omaha, Nebraska. Hunt
the Junior school, as they called it, of and he notes he still travels there, but explains that with such a vast number
the Art Institute on Saturday to take it’s clear that his life, work and artistic of works to his name, each piece comes
classes.” He was soon captivated inspiration has thrived in Chicago. with a unique set of challenges: one
by sculpture, even building his own needs a larger base, another needs to
bedroom art studio where he could Hunt is currently represented by Kavi be sanded smooth, and yet another
sculpt with clay long before he Gupta Gallery. His work has been must be engineered to hang on a wall.
discovered wax and soldered wires, exhibited in more than 100 solo Today, at 87, Hunt continues to meet
and eventually sheet metal and found shows around the country, and he has artistic challenges and work on a range
objects like automative scrap that he received numerous distinctions and of notable commissions, following
could transform into abstract magic. accolades, including being the first variable paths to creating art. He
African-American artist to have a major tells me that no matter what a certain
Hunt went on to pursue an Art solo exhibition at New York’s Museum piece may require individually, a strict
Education degree at the Art Institute, of Modern Art. The impressive breadth timeline to delivery or space to develop
and it was here as a student that he of Hunt’s work is not just the result of a organically, each one becomes what it
began his groundbreaking career. While very long career but also a remarkably is intended to be. Hunt explains “I tend
he undoubtedly found his love for art prolific work ethic and a seemingly to have several things in some stage
in Chicago and received his formal endless well of material. In Hunt’s of development, and others that move
education there, the decision to remain studio, paging through catalogs of his forward in a chain. Art is something
in his hometown, despite the pull of work I come across a photograph of that starts to grow until it reaches
the art world nucleus forming in New a young Hunt, climbing a mountain- maturity. It just becomes what it is.”
York in the 1960s, did not come without high pile of scrap metal in Lincoln Park Much like a career that started with
sacrifices. Hunt reflects, “I investigated where General Iron’s metal shredding clay sculptures in a bedroom art studio,
the possibilities I had, or ‘should have and recycling facilty once was. Hunt’s Hunt has become the artist he was
cavernous studio houses similar maze- meant to be.
A HALF CENTURY OF FEMINIST ART LEADERSHIP
ARC GALLERY AT 50
PICTURED: THE FOUNDING MEMBERS OF ARC GALLERY WERE DALIA ALEKNA, JAN ARNOW, GERDA MEYER BERNSTEIN, JUDY LERNER BRICE, ELLEN FERAR, IMFRIEDE HOGAN
LAGERKVIST, MAXINE LOWE, MARY MIN, KAY ROSEN, CIVIA ROSENBERG GINA ROSENBLUM, SARA SKOLNIK ROSENBLUTH, LAUREL ROSS, MYRA TOTH, AND MONIKA WULFERS.
IMAGE FROM THE 2ND ANNUAL MEMBERS’ EXHIBITION.
By JACQUELINE LEWIS ARC is the only surviving, not-for-profit, women’s cooperative

gallery in the Midwest and has exhibited the work of over
It is no small thing to make a gallery last for five decades, 6,000 unique artists from around the globe. Exhibition op-
and this year ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation is turn- portunities for innovative and emerging artists exist today to
ing 50. To celebrate the history of one of the country’s oldest an extent unheard of for women 50 years ago. ARC’s current
co-ops of its kind ARC has a fall exhibition planned as well and ongoing commitment gives exposure and support to
as opportunities to invite the art community and the general countless artists through mentoring and by donating exhibi-
public to ensure its next 50 years. tion space to underserved regardless of gender-identity to
help subsidize the costs of solo exhibitions.
ARC was first opened in 1973 at 226 E. Ontario, across from
the original location of the Museum of Contemporary Art. To publicly celebrate ARC Gallery will mount a 50th Anniver-
Today it is based in the vibrant West Town neighborhood. In sary Exhibition showcasing artwork from past and present
the ‘70s, amidst a climate of ending sexism and conformity, gallery members. Current exhibition dates to plan for are
ARC provided a professional exhibition space for women September 28-October 21, 2023, with an opening during
artists who were left out of the mainstream art scene and the West Town Art Walk on September 29. Exhibiting artists will
commercial gallery system. Women across the country were lead discussions at a special reception and speak about their
compelled to overtly challenge the dominance of men in the art and the impact that ARC has had on their career and life.
art world, and in society, through art. The gallery, still operat- ARC also plans to host a lecture led by art historian Johanna
ed as a cooperative nonprofit run by its women-led member- Gardner-Huggert on the past 50 years of feminist art. Addi-
ship, continues to maintain strong links with its legacy of fem- tionally there will be a panel of representatives from several
inist art leadership through the cultivation an inclusive and female-run spaces and art historians discussing the future of
welcoming space for exhibitions, workshops, and discussion. feminist art titled “The Next 50.” Dates are still to be deter-
Via the women-run space, ARC exhibits work by artists of all mined as of press time, so please check arcgallery.org and
genders. CGN’s calendar for updates.

THE ART DEALER AS
COLLECTOR AND CONNECTOR
WILLIAM LIEBERMAN
PICTURED: LEFT: JIM LUTES (ON WALL), DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD; CENTER: DAN RAMIREZ, ROXY PAINE, BRUCE NAUMAN; RIGHT: SUSANNE DOREMUS. PHOTOS BY TOM VAN EYNDE
By GINNY VAN ALYEA works in a fresh setting. Taking in the tiate. After moving back to Chicago,
abundantly-filled walls, I asked him he continued to develop both his
When I spent an afternoon this how he chose the art that he lives with, pottery and trading skills in Northeast-
winter with William Lieberman, knowing that every day at the gallery ern Illinois University’s ceramic studio.
owner of Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, it he strives to build other people’s Art collecting is a highly personal
was not to discuss his role as an art collections. Lieberman shared that he pursuit, undertaken with as much
dealer. Instead, it was to see his per- began to collect art while studying emotional as financial investment. Col-
sonal collection, which he had recently studio pottery at Grand Valley State lectors can spend years acquiring and
installed in his new Streeterville condo University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. curating their collections which hold
overlooking Lake Michigan. At first, Lieberman did what artists of- personal meaning as well as reflect
ten do with their peers: he traded art. their particular tastes. Some may have
Lieberman had just moved from a Trading helped him meet other artists, significant cultural and historic value,
house in East Ukrainian Village and get to know their work, refine his own and provide a window to the evolution
was eager to highlight hundreds of practice and, of course, learn to nego- of artistic movements.

In Lieberman’s case, he grew up as much as if it had sold, and forgo his entire collection at the gallery
surrounded by art. While he was a the gallery’s portion. Not only did this while he moved from one apartment
college student, his mother Rober- practice support individual artists, it to another. On April 15, the building
ta Lieberman, together with Robert also allowed Lieberman to start his on Huron Street, housing Z/L and
Zolla, opened a contemporary gallery collection and refine his own eye. many other galleries, burned to the
in 1976 that specialized in paintings, Later, he began to make yearly trips to ground. Though works by artists such
drawings and sculpture. Three years New York, where he stayed with artists, as Susanne Doremus, David Nash and
later, while still intent on becoming a fed himself on the gallery’s $25 per Michael Nakoneczny could never be
professional potter, he began working diem, and “pounded the pavement” replaced, some offered pieces to Lieb-
part-time at the gallery. as he went to studios, galleries and erman to begin a new collection.
museums. With insurance money that he
By the 1980s, Lieberman worked at received, Lieberman bought a
the gallery full time, although some Gradually, Lieberman built a person- 1,400-square foot house in 1990 and,
of his compensation came in the form al, thoughtful and carefully acquired as he recalls, “I started to buy a lot
of art. His mother and Zolla would collection. It would not, however, last of art. Nothing too expensive but I
have him pick a piece, pay the artist very long. On April 1, 1989, he stored started over.”
Hanging works vertically, salon style,

he quickly filled his home. He commis-
sioned Paul Coffey to paint a mural on
the 35-foot high atrium over the dining
area. The six-month project used Rand
McNally map color schemes to depict
an ambiguous location in Ireland. The
mural even incorporated the atrium
skylight. Over time, Lieberman’s home
became an inviting artistic destination,
serving as a bridge between white
exhibition walls and a residential setting.
“I brought people to see how I lived
in East Ukrainian Village,” he explains,
“and they liked the environment that I
created.” As his life at work and at home
continued to meld, he hosted dinners
to promote gallery artists like Deborah
Butterfield, John Buck, Josh Garber and
Jay Strommen. A few times, says Lieber-
man, he had as many as 50 guests, with
four Weber grills going in the backyard
and people enjoying their meal in every
room of the house.
Following these dinners, clients often

bought or commissioned art, though
Lieberman emphasizes that he never
sells pieces from his personal collec-
tion. Lieberman actually found his
current condo thanks to a client rela-
tionship that emerged from gatherings
in the East Ukrainian Village house.
When collector Anne Finkelman
learned that a unit in her building was
up for sale, she passed the tip along to
Lieberman who made a swift decision
to buy it.
PICTURED AT LEFT: TOP AND BOTTOM:

ENRIQUE CHAGOYA, MIDDLE, LEFT: LORA FOSBERG,
RIGHT: ROBERT ARENSON

The move from a house to a condo welded copper, indicative of Lieb- at Grand Valley State University, points
meant leaving behind site-specific and erman and Butterfield’s 45 years of out. “William works endlessly to maxi-
other large-scale pieces. However, the working together. mize the role of art in our lives and has
new space is more than twice as big enabled us to acquire an incredible
(3,000 square feet) and many works A row of painted Artforum covers contemporary collection to share with
have found a new pride of place. by artist Conrad Bakker, bordering our community.” Among many contri-
Collector and friend Arlene Richman a doorway, speaks to Brian Gillham’s butions to his alma mater, Lieberman
gifted Claes Oldenburg’s Bat Spin- role in finding just the right place has promised GVSU – which awarded
ning at the Speed of Light, published for each work of art in Lieberman’s him an honorary doctorate in 2014 –
by Landfall Press, to William for his collection as well as in the gallery. At the gift of his ceramic vessels, platters,
60th birthday. Oldenburg’s 100-ft. tall home he applied his signature skill of teapots and sculpture.
sculpture has graced Chicago’s skyline bringing order to chaos, singlehand-
since 1977 and, given William’s love edly rehanging the entire collection. Often after decades of buying art,
of softball and baseball, Richman says Gillham has worked for Z/L since 2004. a collector slows down. So far, Lieb-
she delights in seeing this print now “Brian didn’t guess,” says Lieberman erman has not taken his foot off the
prominently displayed. when asked about the Artforum covers pedal and doesn’t want to part with
and other groupings. Discerning ties anything that gives him so much com-
Liberman does not have lot of fur- between concepts – from Herman fort and joy. Recently, he says that he’s
niture in his new home yet, and the Aguirre’s paintings to Jay Strommen’s been prompted to buy more. “It diver-
clutter from living in one place for ceramics – and taping out arrange- sifies my collection as well as ensuring
years hasn’t taken hold, but the pres- ments on the floor, Gillham placed that it has a higher level of museum
ence of so many vibrant works of art works without disrupting the charm quality. And as far as my relationships
imbues the condo with a lived-in feel. and affection that they generate as a with artists, it helps that I continue to
The placement of several sculptures of whole. invest and believe in their work. It’s my
varying scale also add levels of dimen- life.”
sion, including two by Butterfield, one Lieberman has already begun to plan
cast bronze and the other for the future, as Nathan Kemler,
Director of Galleries and Collections
PICTURED: LEFT WALL, TOP: CONRAD BAKKER, MIDDLE: VERNON FISHER, LOWER RIGHT: ED PASCHKE, ROGER BROWN;
MIDDLE WALL, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: CLAES OLDENBURG, XIAOZE XIE, LORA FOSBERG, DONALD MCFAYDEN, JOHN BUCK; RIGHT: JANE HAMMOND

ABOVE: LEFT: STEPHEN DE STAEBLER, JIM NUTT, DAVID KROLL, ERNESTO NETO;
MIDDLE: XIAOZE XIE;
RIGHT: BOTH WORKS BY JIM LUTES
LIBERMAN IS PICTURED
IN A ROOM IN HIS NEW HOME
WITH THE FOLLOWING WORKS:
LEFT: LESLIE WU, TOP;
JIM LUTES, BOTTOM;
ABOVE CERAMICS: HERBERT MURRIE,
LEFT; DAVID LOZANO, RIGHT;
CERAMICS BY WILLIAM LIEBERMAN,
BOTTOM: GLENN WEXLER

SEEKING ART ACROSS THE LAKE
SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN
Southwest Michigan Pavilion and Guest House, built in The Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph is
is a scenic and creative 1977 with Brown’s partner George a hub for contemporary art, showcas-
destination just a short Veronda, now hosts a year-round ing a range of exhibitions, workshops,
drive from Chicago’s residency for students of the and events. They host the lively Art
city limits but School of the Art Institute. Fair on the Bluff each July. KAC also
refreshingly publishes an online Sculpture Map
a world away. East of New Buffalo is the featuring public art throughout St. Jo-
On the town of Three Oaks, a seph and Benton Harbor. Two soaring
other side “picker’s” dream for sourcing sculptures by Richard Hunt, who has a
of Lake vintage finds and studio nearby, greet visitors to KAC.
Michigan, antiques. Several
the area is galleries are located Saugatuck and Douglas are popular
known for here as well. all year long, in part because there are
charming Arbor3arts so many galleries and creative oppor-
small towns opened in 2020 tunities. Through its affiliation with the
and beautiful and celebrates School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
GRAND RAPIDS
beaches. Its contemporary the more than 100 year-old Ox-Bow
S. HAVEN
unique art BENTON HARBOR KALAMAZOO female artists offers one and two-week credit and
/ ST. JOSEPH
scene offers creating afford non-credit courses for beginning,
SAWYER
some stellar / HARBERT able art and intermediate, and advanced students.
exhibitions LAKESIDE
working in a range The Saugatuck Center for the Arts
UNION PIER
and dynamic NEW BUFFALO THREE OAKS of mediums. Many focuses on contemporary art that en-
institutions. have Chicago gages with social and cultural issues.
connections, from Jessica Tampas to
PAINTING BY MICHAEL HEDGES, WHOSE STUDIO IS
– GV IN LAKESIDE, MI And on the “Art Coast of Michigan”
Janis Kanter and Maggie Meiners. in Douglas J. Petter Galleries blends
New Buffalo, over the border from Next door is Trilogy Antiques; across wine with art, featuring a collection of
Michigan City (which is in Indiana), is the street is Judy Ferrara Gallery. paintings, drawings, sculptures, jewelry,
a historic Lake Michigan beach town and glass plus boutique wines, artisan
that has seen rapid development in Travel north along the lakefront cheeses, and hand-poured chocolates
recent years as many Chicagoans opt through Union Pier, Lakeside, in the onsite wine bar and shop.
to use the freedom of remote work, Harbert and Sawyer along the Red
or retirement, as an excuse to spend Arrow Highway where many side trips Many Chicago-based artists have ties
more time in Michigan, just 70 miles and diversons beckon. Judith Racht to the area, such as Michael Hedges,
from Chicago’s downtown. Plans are has long led the way for serious art in whose colorful painting fills out the
in the works for Kavi Gupta to open the area; her eponymous gallery’s fo- Lower Peninsula of Michigan pic-
a gallery outpost in summer 2024, cus has been on Outsider Art for years. tured on this page. Candida Alvarez
just a mile from the late artist Roger Local Color Gallery, housed in a opened a studio in Baroda, MI during
Brown’s home and studio. The River converted barn in Union Pier, has the pandemic. And Anna Kunz has a
featured local artists since the ‘80s. home/studio in Buchanan.
The immensley impressive Frederik scale bronze horse from 1998 was as
Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Gar- captivating as the history behind the
dens in Grand Rapids is conveniently commission. Additional sculptures by
right off of I-96. The welcome center’s Deborah Butterfield, Roxy Paine,
mezmerizing figurative marble walls Keith Haring, and many others invite
were sculpted by world reknown artist visitors to wander the grounds and en-
Jaume Plensa (pictured at left). The joy fabulous, accessible works meant
sculpture park, inside and out, amazed to be enjoyed in all seasons and by
PHOTO BY CGN
at each turn. Nina Akamu’s large everyone who visits.
DIASPORAL RHYTHMS HOME TOUR GUESTS ON A VISIT TO COLLECTOR AND DIASPORAL RHYTHMS CO-FOUNDER PATRIC MCCOY’S SOUTH SIDE HOME.
PRESERVING ART FROM THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

DIASPORAL RHYTHMS
By JACQUELINE LEWIS further opportunities. In the years since Diasporal Rhythms
has consistently worked to provide programs and opportuni-
When art collector Patric McCoy spoke with CGN 10 years ties that amplify the voices of Black artists and collectors, all
ago, he shared the story of how a collecting group based on while providing a platform for art enthusiasts of all levels to
the South Side of Chicago had started a decade prior. Dias- engage learn, and network.
poral Rhythms, he explained, represented a different concept
of collecting in Chicago, “Our organization is charged with Kate Lorenz, the former Executive Director of Hyde Park Arts
how to redefine the term ‘collector.’ In America it has this Center sums up 20 years of impact in Chicago:
meaning of being wealthy, private, academic - having the
magic ability to know the future value of something. That’s “Diasporal Rhythms has helped create a deep, vast, and
what the majority of people in this country believe. We’re authentic network of reciprocal support and admiration be-
saying none of that has to be true. Particularly in our commu- tween artists and the community that defies categorization.
nity on the South Side, we have to be the first voices.” As mainstream arts organizations and philanthropic organi-
zations are called on to address racial justice and embrace
This year Diasporal Rhythms is marking 20 years of exhibiting community as part of their mission and work going forward,
and preserving art from the African Diaspora for the people there is much to learn from Diasporal Rhythms.”
of Chicago, and they have plans to celebrate in a big way.
Diasporal Rhythms will present Perspective 2023 at Navy Pier
Founded in 2003 Diasporal Rhythms is the result of a spirited to commemorate their anniversary. Perspective occurs yearly
panel discussion at the South Side Art Center’s Collector’s but this year’s edition will specifically honor and celebrate
Forum regarding the need to expand the appreciation of 20 years. It will run from October 6, 2023–January 31, 2024.
contemporary art to include the artists of the African Dias- An auction fundraiser is planned for October 15 & 23, and
pora. Founders McCoy, Daniel Parker, Carol Briggs and Joan an Intimate Spaces Home Tour for October 7 & 8.
Crisler saw a need to create more equitable opportunities
and a space for Black artists to showcase their art and access Tickets and details are at diasporalrhythms.com

SKOKIE AND GLENCOE
SUBURBAN
SPOTLIGHT
MILLER & SHELLABARGER INSTALLED AT

(NORTHERN) WESTERN EXHIBITIONS
SKOKIE Angelo Mangiarotti, Enzo Mari, Poul,

Kjaerholm and Hans Wegner, shown
WHO MODERN
In downtown Skokie, north of Chicago alongside contemporary designers.
but still on the city’s CTA, (northern) Williams says he will add modern and
Western Exhibitions is Western Ex- outsider art to the mix as well. By
THERE IS AS hibitions’ second location. Its primary sharing the building, the two spaces
space is on Chicago Ave. in West Town. complement each other’s offerings and
MUCH ART TO SEE
The Skokie space will have around five can draw from the mix of visitors who
IN THE SUBURBS specially curated exhibitions a year fea- come for art as well as vintage design.
SURROUNDING turing works by artists from the gallery’s
CHICAGO AS IN THE 20-year history. The second exhibition GLENCOE
CITY THESE DAYS. at the space to date, on view through
May 6, features work by married artist Anne Loucks Gallery at the corner of
collaborators Miller & Shellabarger, who Green Bay Rd. and Park Ave. in Glen-
use self-portraiture, laborious material coe opened in 2001 and specializes
processes, and considered in contemporary American painting,
craftsman ship to meditate on photography and works on paper by
love and death. emerging and mid-career artists in a
range of styles and mediums, most no-
The gallery is one half of a tably abstract art and rural landscapes.
renovated single-floor bow truss Many, but not all, gallery artists come
building that is also part store – from the surrounding suburbs.
occupied by the also-newly
opened Who Modern, a mid- Down the same block is Alan Koppel
century modern-focused vintage Gallery’s second location, which brings
source co-run by Donald bring modern and contemporary master-
Schmaltz, formerly of auction works as well as furniture and design to
houses Toomey & Co. and the North Shore. Koppel has long been
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Williams, who owns the building. North Shore exhibitions have included
Who Modern offers rare and Diane Arbus: A Secret about a Secret,
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