Feature image: Same Difference, Partial Installation View, 2024. Photo: Robert Chase Heishman. By Frank Juárez Connecting with artists, galleries, art museums, and institutions is one of the best ways to navigate the contemporary art landscape. Nowadays, making those connections is as simple as following an artist on social media, subscribing to a gallery’s newsletter, attendingContinue reading “Allison Wade – Place for Awkward Elegance”
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New Works by Amanda Milligan Explore the Intersection Between Painting and Performance
Feature image: Courtesy of Amanda Milligan. By Xiao Faria daCunha On a dimly lit stage, a dancer is seated elegantly in a wooden chair. She fidgets in her seat, stretching her limbs as if slowly waking up from a trance. The movements gradually intensify, but the lady still appears to be invisibly confined within aContinue reading “New Works by Amanda Milligan Explore the Intersection Between Painting and Performance”
Artist Kellie Romany Explores Identity and Connection Through Abstraction
Featured image: Kellie Romany, Hold Me, Artist book, 6.5” x 4.5”, 2023. Courtesy of the artist. by April Behnke For interdisciplinary artist Kellie Romany, materials are a conduit for exploring complex ideas about identity and human connection. Based in Chicago, Romany’s practice spans painting, drawing, ceramics, and bookmaking. In each medium, her work delves intoContinue reading “Artist Kellie Romany Explores Identity and Connection Through Abstraction”
Arts of Life Builds Community and Breaks Barriers for Artists with Disabilities
Featured image: Arts of Life West Town location studio interior. Courtesy of The Arts of Life. Written by April Behnke It’s the first time I’ve visited Arts of Life, but I know exactly where I am. The nonprofit, which works to empower individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities through art, is in Chicago’s West Town neighborhoodContinue reading “Arts of Life Builds Community and Breaks Barriers for Artists with Disabilities”
Switch Grass Paper Offers Chicagoans an Innovative Take on an Ancient Medium
Featured image: Aya Nakamura and Megan Diddie cooking kozo and mitsumata fibers. Courtesy of Switch Grass Paper. Written by April Behnke During many long drives to and from Fresh Press Paper, the papermaking studio at University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Chicago-based artists Megan Diddie and Aya Nakamura dreamed of a place to make paper closerContinue reading “Switch Grass Paper Offers Chicagoans an Innovative Take on an Ancient Medium”
Purple Window Gallery Collective
Featured image: Fuzz, 2023 Installation: Works by 54 fiber and textile artists. Documentation by Amy Shelton. Curated by Lauren Iacoponi and Naomi Elson. Linda Marcus Don’t be surprised if when you visit Purple Window Gallery inside Mana Contemporary in Chicago, Illinois, you won’t find the color purple and there’s no window. The name functions now moreContinue reading “Purple Window Gallery Collective “
Sarah Leuchtner: Processing Skies Past at OS Projects
Submitted Racine, Wisconsin – OS Projects is pleased to present Processing Skies Past featuring work by Chicago artist Sarah Leuchtner. The exhibit opens May 11, 2024, and continues through July 13, 2024. Sarah Leuchtner’s work explores memory, loss and transformation through a painterly lens while reflecting on what it means to be an artist inContinue reading “Sarah Leuchtner: Processing Skies Past at OS Projects”
Assaf Evron: Vision and Landscapes
Artist Assaf Evron. Article written by Linda Marcus. What we see, how we see, and how we understand what we see is the basis of Assaf Evron‘s art. His conceptual practice spans from sculpture to photography with a variety of mediums. He says it’s one of his biggest challenges, how to “package” or explain whatContinue reading “Assaf Evron: Vision and Landscapes “
José Santiago Pérez: Space for Freedom. Written by Linda Marcus.
Featured image: José Santiago Pérez working in his studio. Photo Credit: Lunder Institute for American Art. José Santiago Pérez’s artwork focuses on the body, time, and memory. Pérez is constantly investigating the relationship between materials and what it means to be human. His current body of work centers on baskets, their form and function. According toContinue reading “José Santiago Pérez: Space for Freedom. Written by Linda Marcus.”