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.
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Sixty + Bemis Partnership: New Critic-in-Residence Program
We are thrilled to announce a new partnership with the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts to present a Critic-in-Residence program!
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.
FOLD/UNFOLD: Interview with Iyomi Ho Ken
Iyomi Ho Ken discusses her new runway collection “An Exploration of Self,” which acts as a layered and complex self-portrait.
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.
The Wound
Inspired by the book ‘An Apartment on Venus’ by Paul B. Preciado, Riley Yaxley reflects on and writes about the moments of desire, confusion, and self discovery that have shaped their trans identity.
Snapshot: Interview with Photographer Sarah Joyce
Sarah Joyce discusses her influences, balancing her personal practice and commissioned work, and her approach to giving portraiture the care it deserves.
On Black Presidential Portraits, Punchlines, and Power with Ross Stanton Jordan
Reflections on nearly a century of fictional and speculative Black president portrayals, artists’ responses to the Obama era, and the power of comedy.
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.
Everything And More: On the Makings of Bunny McKensie Mack
Bunny McKensie Mack discusses growing up in Chicago and becoming a trilingual facilitator, educator, activist, researcher, artist, and founder of the MMG EARTH.
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.
May Art Picks
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for May 2022.
Navigating Systems of Support: The Double-Edged Sword of Success as a Disabled Artist
A discussion between five Chicago-based artists and arts administrators discussing the barriers to receiving support, creative solutions, and what they hope you’ll keep in mind when supporting disabled artists.
Open Letter to the Chicago Party Scene
A letter cowritten by a group of disabled queers and allies with the goal of reaching organizers who plan events and cultivate spaces for queer community building and joy.
Changing the Angle of My Face to Become Different Faces
Cindy Sherman’s photographs become a focal point for understanding the author’s myriad selves.
Egg
“This pill is featherlight, made of hormones and grace, but I am heavy with history and you are still asleep.”
What’s There to be Proud of in Indiana?
Haley Glickman talks to different folks about their experiences being queer in Indiana while reflecting on the notion of queer utopia.
(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.
Confounding ‘Finding’
Writer, artist, educator, and mother jina valentine ruminates on the interactions between data collection, its subsequent archiving, and how one might move through them while contending with the intersections of power and advocacy.
Time and Time Again: An Interview with Farah Salem
A conversation with artist Farah Salem on how she uses her art and art therapy practices to honor, challenge, and reimagine rituals and psychologies across generations and geographies.
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.
Fluorescence
A short script about the care and affection between two young characters, Pearl and Janisse.
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.
Notes on Designing Cultural Change
Three founders of local design studios speak about designing for social and cultural change within Chicago’s communities.
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.
Disabled Sanctuary: Interview with Sangi Ravichandran
Sangi Ravichandran talks about life, death, pain, and her current weaving practice.
April Art Picks
Sixty’s selection of art exhibitions and events in Chicago and the Midwest for April 2022.