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February Art Picks

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A list of openings, events, talks, readings, and more that you can see in between the ice and fog this month.

Our Art Picks are created in collaboration with The Visualist, Chicago’s leading visual arts calendar, and cross-promoted through Windy City Times, one of the longest locally-published LGBTQ weeklies with a national reach. Click here to get our Art Picks and latest articles delivered to your inbox monthly.

This is a growing list, so check back often for new additions.
Feb 1-4, 7-9pm
Eclipsing: death and transformation
Links Hall: 3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
$20

Fri, Feb 1, 6:30-8pm
Jun Fujita: Oblivion Catalog Release Party
Japanese American Service Committee: 4427 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Free

Fri, Feb 1, 7-10pm
I Am Cuba
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts: 915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Free

Fri, Feb 1, 7-11pm
The world can never be exactly what you want it to be.
Heaven Gallery: 1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Free

Fri, Feb 1, 7-11pm
Small Gestures
Heaven Gallery: 1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Free

Sat, Feb 2, 2-3pm
Artist Dialogue: kg and Betsy Odom
DePaul Art Museum: 935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Free

Sat, Feb 2, 2-4pm
Forgotten Forms
Chicago Cultural Center: 78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Free

Sat, Feb 2, 4-7pm
Maia Cruz Palileo: All The While I Thought You Had Received This
Moniquemeloche: 451 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
Free

Tue, Feb 5, 6-7:30pm
Elmgreen & Dragset
The Art Institute of Chicago: Rubloff Auditorium: 230 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Free

Wed, Feb 6, 6-8pm
Shimon Attie
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ferguson Hall: 600 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Free

Wed, Feb 6, 6:30-8:30pm
In-Session: Imani Elizabeth Jackson & Jo Stewart
Threewalls: 2738 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Free

Thurs, Feb 7, 12-1pm
Secrets of the Collection: Conserving Photographs
The Art Institute of Chicago, Price Auditorium: 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Free

Thurs, Feb 7, 5:30-7pm
Women in the Alcoves
Glass Curtain Gallery: 1104 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Free

Thurs, Feb 7, 7:30pm
Stage: Ingri Fiksdal and Jonas Corell Petersen: State
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
$10-30

Thurs, Feb 7th, 8th & 10th
Miller & Shellabarger: Untitled (Pink Tube)
DePaul Art Museum
Free

Fri, Feb 8, 6-8pm
Christopher Wool
Corbett vs. Dempsey: 2156 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Free

Fri, Feb 8, 6-9pm
Fractured: Digital Topographies
LITHIUM: 1932 S Halsted St, STE 200, Chicago, IL 60608
Free

Fri, Feb 8, 7:30-9:30pm
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Mandel Hall at the University of Chicago: 5720 S Woodlawn Av
Get Tickets

Fri, Feb 8, 6-10pm
Port of Call
Chicago Art Department: 1932 S Halsted #100
Free

Fri, Feb 8, 7-10pm
Ode to FOOD
Ground Level Platform: 2001 S Halsted St
Free

Fri, Feb 8, 6-9pm
Inside the MIND: Control and Conditioning
OPEN Center for the Arts: 2214 S Sacramento Ave, Chicago, IL 60623
Free

Sat, Feb 9, 5-7:30pm
Chinese New Year Celebration and Lantern Procession
Maggie Daley Park: 337 E Randolph
Free

Sat, Feb 9, 12-4pm
Yesenia Bello: My mouth is a motherlode
Tiger Strikes Asteroid: 2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Free

Sat, Feb 9, 2-4pm
Speculative Fashion: building new worlds through what we wear
No Nation – Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab: 1542 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Free

Sat, Feb 9, 6-9pm
Onyx Mandelbrot: Lynchpin
boundary: 2334 W 111th Pl, Chicago, IL 60643
Free

Sat, Feb 9, 3-6pm
12 Openings/Part 7: Opening Reception
Compound Yellow: 244 Lake St, Oak Park
Free

Sat, Feb 9, 6-8pm
STILL | DEATH
The Franklin: 3522 W Franklin Blvd
Free

Wed, Feb 13, 6-7pm
Bess Williamson: Accessible America
Seminary Co-op Bookstore: 5751 S Woodlawn
Free

Wed, Feb 13, 6-7:30pm
Michael Rakowitz: Counter-Histories
The Block Museum: 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Free

Thurs, Feb 14, 4:15-5:30pm
On Inclusivity and Unimagined Types with Dr. Margaret Price
Leroy Neiman Center: 37 S Wabash
Free

Thur, Feb 14, 6-8pm
Naeem Mohaiemen: United Red Army (The Young Man Was, Part I)
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago: 164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
$6-11

Fri, Feb 15, 12-3pm
2nd Floor Co-op Launch Party
Elastic Arts: 3429 W Diversey #208
Chicago, IL 60647

Fri, Feb 15, 6:30-8pm
Gaelynn Lea: An Evening of Conversation and Song
Access Living: 115 W Chicago Ave
Free

Fri, Feb 15, 12-3pm
Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Glass Curtain Gallery: 1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Free

Fri, Feb 15, 7-9pm
Sasha Litvintseva
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
$8-10

Sat, Feb 16, 12:30pm
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years without Images
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago: 164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
$6-11

Sat, Feb 16, 6-9pm
Keelan McMorrow: DETRITUS: life after death
Elephant Room Gallery: 704 S Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL 60605
Free

Fri, Feb 16, 9pm-2am
Undead Valentine
Digital Art Demo Space: 2515 S Archer Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
$7-14

Tues, Feb 19, 6-8pm
Past, Present, Future with Renata Cherlise
SAIC at Homan Square: 906 S Homan Ave, 12th Floor
Free

Wed, Feb 20
Sister Girls and Freedom Fighters
Green Line Performing Arts Center: 329 E Garfield Blvd
Free

Wed, Feb 20, 6-7:30pm
Bouchra Khalili
The Art Institute of Chicago: Rubloff Auditorium: 230 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Free

Thurs, Feb 21, 7-8:30pm
The George E. Kent Lecture featuring Patrisse Cullors
moderated by Cathy Cohen
Reynolds Club: 5706 S University Av
Free

Fri, Feb 22, 6-8pm
Sungjae Lee: The Hair Shop: Whiteyellowwhite
gallery no one: 1579 N Milwaukee Ave, Room 303, Chicago, IL 60622
Free

Sat, Feb 23, 6-9pm
Cloud 9
LVL3: 1542 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Free

Sat, Feb 23, 10pm-2am
223hc (PUPPY)
Unrevealed Location

Wed, Feb 27, 7:30-9:30pm
Artists Live: Brandon Breaux and Nikko Washington
Logan Center Performance Penthouse: 915 E 60th Street
Free

Thur, Feb 28, 6-8pm
Morgan Fisher: Paintings, Photographs, Films
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago: 164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
$6-11

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Featured Image: From Onyx Mandelbrot: Lynchpin, opening at boundary on February 9, 2019. 

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