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.
The exhibition is an exploration of Black trans and feminine interiorities, the landscapes of the self, and how those geographies present liminality as possibility.
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.
An exhibition that proposes the body as refuge, the body as a vessel for care, and the body as a site for future possibilities.
Gary LaPointe Jr. uses an altered toolbox to anchor his exhibition, as each surrounding piece references the materiality of the original object.
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.
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for June 2022.
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.
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.
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.
The six artists in FEMME at FLXST Contemporary demonstrate the divine connection that holds the stories of femmes in small, intimate, and bold ways.
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.
Artists Mayumi Lake and Stacia Yeapanis reflect on personal experiences of coping with anxiety and trauma in the creation of their kaleidoscopic assemblages.
Bob Thompson’s searing canvases set the Smart Museum’s galleries ablaze, the same way they lit up galleries almost sixty years ago.
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.
Artist Azadeh Gholizadeh uses geometric abstraction to depict landscapes in tapestries while probing how identities are inextricably tied to the environment.
Challenging and temporal, General Objects at Heaven Gallery is steeped in art objects that disregard, interrogate, and humor the classification of the object itself.
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.
In A.J. McClenon’s exhibition Notes From VEGA, the artist assembles everyday materials of Black life from organic and inorganic matter.
A deep dive into two exhibitions at Dragon Crab Turtle gallery in St. Louis through the aesthetics of “naivety”.
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.”
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for February 2022.
Ally Fouts invites you to explore the works and themes in the exhibition UTENSIL at Comfort Station through a series of prompts and thoughts.
The exhibition Smashing into my heart at The Renaissance Society looks at friendship as a condition, a model, and a metaphor for art.
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.
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 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.
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.
Juleana Enright is an Indigenous queer writer, curator, and DJ living in Minneapolis.
In Man’s Country at Iceberg Projects, Amina Ross crafts an exhibition in response to the duality of underground spaces.
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.