ARTISTS
2025
Most conceived gallery spaces tend toward the white cube. It鈥檚 one of the commandments.
The German word Wunderkammer translates to a 鈥渃hamber of curiosities鈥濃�攁 perfect title for Renee Robbins鈥� current show at Epiphany Center for the Arts.
Last year ended on an extraordinary note, with the Art Institute-led Panafrica series of exhibitions filling spaces around the city.
2024
Since 2011, Holly Holmes has explored the tension between abstraction and representation.
With a penchant for color and contrast, Ortiz combines a variety of colors, patterns, and forms from multiple sources such as ethnographic patterns...
Unwrapping Lumpia: Deconstructing the Filipino American Identity聽is presented in true 鈥淏ayanihan Spirit鈥� by Conde Art Project, Epiphany Center for the Arts, Likhaya, and Sinag Chicago Arts.
AUTOMATA is a body of work that explores the mind, body, and soul as it relates to the impending technological future, and what that means for human spirituality.
Alex Vel谩zquez Brightbill鈥檚 ETHNIC BODIES collage series explores ideas of beauty, colonialism, and sexual identity.
201 S. Ashland Avenue, Chicago聽 60607 Currently concentrating on portraits and figurative work sometimes combined with architectural elements, Tony Armendariz presents the subjects in his paintings in the classic realist tradition, either as portraits or in scenes of life.
Chicago artist Ginny Sykes created 100 Women: Collaborations Beyond the Veil to immortalize women of different ages, ethnicities, and backgrounds.
Since opening in 2019, the South Asia Institute has been a major cultural touchpoint and space for exciting artistic developments in Chicago.
The problem of having a body was the central theme of Nancy Lu Rosenheim鈥檚 magical realist exhibition 鈥淗arpy 鈭� Human 鈭� Hybrid 鈭� Beast.鈥�
To say that veteran photographer Howard Simmons has been around is an understatement.
Distorted expressions of agony, rage and release line the walls one after the other. Mouths open mid-howl. Teeth gnashed mid-growl. The faces of women.
Guild Room: Aeron Maxwell鈥檚 art combines fantasy, futurism, and surrealism, exploring the subconscious connections to imagination and self-identity.