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Bert Green Fine Art is pleased to present our first solo show by California born, Chicago-based artist Morgan Sims. Morgan Sims makes paintings and neon sculptures which playfully manipulate color and light. Sims’ paintings process and distort symbols and images into near abstraction, retaining just enough of the image to retain a rudimentary recognition. He thoughtfully extends the reach of met...   [more]

Opening: July 13th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

2 of a kind is a group show consisting of eight pairs of collaborating artists. The exhibitions focus is to review the goals of the gallery through ideas of collaboration. The significance of collaboration lies in the process where two or more people work together to realize shared goals. Each pair of artists were asked to submit two collaborative pieces to be displayed during the exhibition. In ad...   [more]

Opening: June 29th   6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

The President's Gallery at Harold Washington College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago presents a solo show by Nigerian artist Dayo Laoye.  This exhibition includes a variety of work spanning three decades including watercolors, oil paintings and charcoal/pastel portraits.  His recent pieces focuses on the African experience in the United States. Closing reception on August 9th, 2013 5:30-7:30...   [more]

Opening: June 13th   9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Articulating the Edge features new drawings, photography, prints, and collages by teens participating in the Hyde Park Art Center’s in-house arts mentorship program, Art Shop. Art Shop develops the artists of tomorrow by allowing teens to explore a career as visual artists today. The program gives youth access to free training in the visual arts, assisting them in building their portfolios by pr...   [more]

Homebodies presents work by contemporary artists who examine the space of the home, both literally and metaphorically, as an integral site for making art. Featuring an expansive range of artworks, some made of materials found in the domestic sphere and others that represent or re-create a sense of domesticity, Homebodies demonstrates a new understanding of how the domestic context has influenced the creation and interpreta...   [more]

Opening: June 29th   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Daniel Clowes is an acclaimed comic book artist and graphic novelist—although he prefers the designation “cartoonist”—with nearly fifty publications to his credit. He is also a highly reputed magazine illustrator (and regular cover artist for the New Yorker) and an Oscar-nominated screenwriter for the film adaptation of his 1997 graphic novel Ghost World, which is widely credited with establishin...   [more]

Opening: June 29th   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

This conversation highlights MARSHALL BROWN's current show here at Western Exhibitions, Center of the World, Chicago. The cornerstone of the show, Brown's 15-minute digital animation The Center of the World: Histories of Chicago's Future, whose title also acts as thesis for the show, presents three scenarios for not just the future of Chicago, but the future of the United States and beyond. The pr...   [more]

Artist talk

The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events is pleased to present Nailed. Nailed is a solo exhibition of large scale photographs made by Chicago artist and educator Helen Maurene Cooper at the City Gallery’s Historic Water Tower, June 22-September 29. Opening reception is June 21 from 5-7pm.    Cooper has been obsessed with nail art since 2008 when she began getting her own nails done...   [more]

Opening: June 21st   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Corbett vs. Dempsey presents Cellar Door, a special installation created for the West Wing by Los Angeles-based artist Matt Nichols.  Nichols intervenes in the architecture of the gallery, interposing a faux wall and introducing wooden sculptural objects (both leaning and free-standing) to the intimate space, calling to mind the perverse spirit of Richard Artschwager.   [more]

Opening: June 28th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

In the words of the Persuaders:  it’s a thin line between love and hate.  In Chicago in the early 1970s, Robert Donley created a group of drawings and paintings featuring orgiastic scenes.  Highly detailed and expressionistically painted, these Bosch-like landscapes describe specific situations—Sodom and Gomorrah, Babel, Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine—that are densely populated with cavo...   [more]

Opening: June 28th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM