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