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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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Bimbola Akinbola’s Postcards From Grief Island
Though the show is a response to a period of intense personal mourning in the artist’s life, it’s also achingly universal.
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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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Police Arrest Dozens Protesting for Gaza at Art Institute of Chicago
The demonstrators symbolically renamed the school “The People’s Art Institute.”
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Wrightwood 659 Hosts Chryssa & New York
Chryssa’s long unseen neon sculptures shine again in a new groundbreaking exhibition. On view now through July 27 in Chicago.
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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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The Productive Messiness of Expo Chicago 2024
The art felt as if it was trying to find the language to merge emotion with content, to harness the energies of the search within the courage of experimentation.
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Nicole Eisenman’s First Major Survey Comes to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
What Happened showcases Eisenman’s ability to take on contemporary events with a style, vision, and anarchic sense of humor entirely her own.
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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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Miranda Forrester’s Soft Portraits of Black Queer Women
Faceless women and interiors on transparent plastic highlight the nuanced identity politics of Black female and queer spaces.
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The Black Girlhood Altar Implores Us to Remember
Lighthearted at some points, soul-crushingly poignant at others, the exhibition, organized by A Long Walk Home, embodies the wistful nostalgia of time past.
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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.