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Riva Lehrer’s Portraits Bring Out the Beauty in Difference
The artist has long been fighting for people with disabilities or marginalized identities, with sincerity, courage, and fierce love for the monsters in us all.
Lori Waxman
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Robert Earl Paige’s Colorful Textile Worlds
The 87-year-old artist is having one of those rare the-art-world-is-paying-attention moments, and it feels joyful and deserved.
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It’s Time for Chryssa’s Neon Art to Shine
Chryssa, it turns out, did everything that the famous Pop and New Media artists did, simultaneously or, in some instances, first.
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The Fetishistically Fantastic Art of Christina Ramberg
Ramberg was one of the lesser-known — but, to my mind, most exciting — artists often grouped together as the Chicago Imagists.
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A Rock and a Fry Pan Walked Into a Gallery
In addition to being some combination of formally delectable, politically astute, and historically poignant, five solo shows currently in Chicago are hilarious.
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Selva Aparicio’s Memorials to Loss and Renewal
Aparicio treats unwanted things with extreme sensitivity, personally gathering and storing them over many years, renewing them with remarkable vision.
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Two Chicago Artists Free Themselves From the Demands of Function
Artists Maryam Taghavi and Travis Morehead push their subjects to the utmost edge of transformation, with humor and grace.
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Deb Sokolow’s Wackadoodle World of Design
Sokolow’s overarching concern in her current exhibition, Visualizing is with the coercive potential of built environments.
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Dala Nasser Builds a Grief Temple in Chicago
Her new exhibition at the Renaissance Society bears witness to infrastructural failure, colonial theft, and disregarded histories.
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Three Shows Celebrate Chicago’s Latine Art Heritage
What better way to celebrate the centennial of Chicago artist and community organizer Carlos Cortéz than with a trio of exhibitions dedicated to the intersections between Latine printmaking and politics?
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Duane Linklater’s Messy Notions of Identity
The Native artist’s simultaneity of diverse references obliterates tidy notions of identity, while being transparently true to his own biography, aesthetics, and heritage.
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A Piece of Puerto Rico in Chicago
Edra Soto's art brings with it the fabulous look and feel of tropical architectural solutions but not always the pain and difficulty of diasporic life.