when the sun fills your throat: split my sides at The Luminary
The exhibition is an exploration of Black trans and feminine interiorities, the landscapes of the self, and how those geographies present liminality as possibility.
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Approaches and Strategies within Hospitality: An Interview with Curator Sylvie Fortin
Sylvie Fortin speaks about her methodologies during her curatorial residency developing “I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality” at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.
Review: I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality
An exhibition that proposes the body as refuge, the body as a vessel for care, and the body as a site for future possibilities.
Review: D O W N S H I F T at Roman Susan
Gary LaPointe Jr. uses an altered toolbox to anchor his exhibition, as each surrounding piece references the materiality of the original object.
A Tribute to the Sustenance of Friendship: Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems at the Grand Rapids Art Museum
The exhibition Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue offers community and friendship as a framework; a mutual regard and a shared set of values rendered visible.
June Art Picks
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for June 2022.
Our Wild Zones Make Us Real
The queer “wild zone” is defined and interpreted through Jess T. Dugan’s portraiture and Ryan Patrick Krueger’s pre-Stonewall archival exhibition On Longing.
Review of A Vibe Called Death: The Black Afterlife at Cleaner Gallery + Projects
In his solo show A Vibe Called Death: The Black Afterlife, Allen Moore determines how Blackness can be used through the lens of Afro-Futurism.
Sutures: An Interview with Michael Khuth
Michael Khuth, a queer Khmer-American lens-based artist and independent curator, speaks about intuition, the parallels between collage and curation, and working with unconventional gallery spaces in pandemic times.
Review: FEMME at FLXST Contemporary
The six artists in FEMME at FLXST Contemporary demonstrate the divine connection that holds the stories of femmes in small, intimate, and bold ways.
Review: Space to Say at Heaven Gallery
In “Space to Say,” artists Yesenia Bello, Salvador Dominguez, and Yasmeen Nematt Alla hold space for people to speak, listen, feel, and flow within the in-betweenness of language.
(Re)Materializing Dread: An Interview with Mayumi Lake and Stacia Yeapanis
Artists Mayumi Lake and Stacia Yeapanis reflect on personal experiences of coping with anxiety and trauma in the creation of their kaleidoscopic assemblages.
Review of This House Is Mine by Bob Thompson
Bob Thompson’s searing canvases set the Smart Museum’s galleries ablaze, the same way they lit up galleries almost sixty years ago.
Opal Pools of Milk and the Luzhin Defence: Review of This Too Shall Pass
In This Too Shall Pass at Ralph Arnold Gallery, the artists’ works speak to the knotty impossibilities of living and dying in a world marked by capital and consumption.
Looking Forward by Looking Back: Dawn to Dusk by Azadeh Gholizadeh
Artist Azadeh Gholizadeh uses geometric abstraction to depict landscapes in tapestries while probing how identities are inextricably tied to the environment.
The Object as a Lightning Rod For Meaning: A Review of General Objects
Challenging and temporal, General Objects at Heaven Gallery is steeped in art objects that disregard, interrogate, and humor the classification of the object itself.
Review: Crip* at Gallery 400
The exhibition Crip* at Gallery 400 buzzes with pride, celebration, vulnerability, and reclamation from a group of artists identifying as disabled or a non-normative identity.
Our Message in a Bottle, Notes from VEGA: A.J. McClenon
In A.J. McClenon’s exhibition Notes From VEGA, the artist assembles everyday materials of Black life from organic and inorganic matter.
Review: Two Exhibitions at Dragon Crab Turtle
A deep dive into two exhibitions at Dragon Crab Turtle gallery in St. Louis through the aesthetics of “naivety”.
Makeup, Mortification, and Memory: A Review of “Evidence” by Bimbola Akinbola
Bimbola Akinbola’s performance series “tells stories about the unspoken truths bodies reveal in space centering on shame, alienation, and the lingering nature of our existence.”
February Art Picks
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for February 2022.
Review of UTENSIL: Annas’ Exhibition at Comfort Station
Ally Fouts invites you to explore the works and themes in the exhibition UTENSIL at Comfort Station through a series of prompts and thoughts.
Smashing the space between us
The exhibition Smashing into my heart at The Renaissance Society looks at friendship as a condition, a model, and a metaphor for art.
Review: 12 Kalpas from Terrestrial to Celestial and Everywhere in Between
12 Kalpas from Terrestrial to Celestial and Everywhere in Between grapples with complex topics like gender identity and our relationship to the environment by investigating the Buddhist myth-folktale Twelve Sisters.
Irresistible Forces at the Tarble Arts Center
Force Majeure at the Table Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University traces the history of video and technology as media that amplified the voices of feminist discourse.
The Power of Black Joy, an interview with artist Ariel Dannielle
The exhibition We Outside at Monique Meloche Gallery is an ode to Black women, the ones who start the trends with their multicolored hair, laid edges, and stiletto nails, the modern party girl, and survivor of a pandemic.
Desde los archivos: Why DEMO Matters
Celebrando una nueva era para nuestra publicación, presentamos una nueva serie Desde los archivos. Este proyecto ha sido creado para volver a visitar una selección de artículos e historias realizadas por la artista y poeta Natalia Villanueva Linares.
biskaabiiyang: An Interview with Juleana Enright
Juleana Enright is an Indigenous queer writer, curator, and DJ living in Minneapolis.
It is Gone, but it’s Not Over: A Bathhouse Underground
In Man’s Country at Iceberg Projects, Amina Ross crafts an exhibition in response to the duality of underground spaces.
How to View a Solar Eclipse: Both And at Tiger Strikes Asteroid
Both And at Tiger Strikes Asteroid traces and cultivates a dialogue between five contemporary artists and Chicago-based artist Miyoko Ito through their use of color, time, form, and space.