CONCURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Highlighting the vast cultural opportunities that Chicago offers collectors, dealers, art enthusiasts and visitors, EXPO CHICAGO—in conjunction with Choose Chicago, the city’s tourism and marketing organization and Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE)—presents EXPO ART WEEK, September 16–22, 2019. With the exposition as its centerpiece, EXPO ART WEEK annually partners with the city’s most prestigious institutions to feature select aligned programming, including museum exhibitions, gallery openings, and more.
Clara Porset. Butaque, about 1955–56. Colección familia Gálvez Guzzy/Casa Gálvez. Photo by Rodrigo Chapa, courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Art Institute of Chicago
In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury
Christien Meindertsma: Everything Connects
Weaving beyond the Bauhaus
Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Touch Sanitation Performance, 1979-80, July 24, 1979-June 26, 1980. Citywide performance with 8,500 Sanitation workers across all fifty-nine New York City Sanitation districts. May 14, 1980, Sweep 10, Manhattan 11. Photo: Deborah Freedman. Courtesy the artist and Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
The Sullivan Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
A Constellation of Instances
Envisioning Justice
Faculty Projects
Re: Working Labor
Image Courtesy of American Writers Museum
American Writers Museum
Bob Dylan: Electric
Tools of the Trade
Image courtesy of the Arts Club of Chicago
The Arts Club of Chicago
Abraham Cruzvillegas: The Ballad of Etc.
Hugo Rivera-Scott, Pop América, 1968. Collage on cardboard, 30 x 21.5 inches (76.5 x 54.5 cm). Image courtesy of the artist. © Hugo Rivera-Scott.
Block Museum of Art
Pop América, 1965–1975
Kelly Kristin Jones. Image courtesy of Chicago Artists Coaltion.
Chicago Artists Coalition
CAC 45th Anniversary Exhibition
Julia Fish, Threshold, SouthEast – Two [ spectrum : orange with grey ], 2010–2011, 2014. Image courtesy of the artist.
DePaul Art Museum
Architectural Annotations: Scores, Plans, and Drawings
Julia Fish: bound by spectrum
Remember where you are
Yinka Shonibare CBE (British/Nigerian, b. 1962) Big Boy, 2002. Wax-printed cotton fabric, fiberglass. The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Susan and Lewis Manilow, 2004.759. Photograph at the Driehaus Museum by Michael Tropea, 2019.
The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
A Tale of Today: Yinka Shonibare CBE
Eternal Light: The Sacred Stained-Glass Windows of Louis Comfort Tiffany
Clearing a Path. Photo courtesy of DuSable Museum of African American History.
DuSable Museum of African American History
Blood in the Water: Chicago's 1919 Race Riot
Clearing a Path for Democracy: Citizen Soldiers of the Fighting 8th in World War One
History@Large: Large Scale Art and Objects from DuSable's Collection
South Side Stories: The Art & Influence of Dr. Margaret Burroughs 1960 - 1980
Artwork by Sandro Miller. Image courtesy of Catherine Edelman.
Catherine Edelman Gallery
Sandro Miller: I am Papua New Guinea
Tony Phillips, The Space Between, 1993. Oil on canvas, 48 x 58 in., Artist Collection
Elmhurst Art Museum
The McCormick House – Past, Present, Future
What Came After: Figurative Painting in Chicago 1978-98
Leon Polk, Constel: Blue Red straight line thru three Ovals, 1969. Courtesy of the artist and Richard Gray Gallery.
Gray Warehouse
Leon Polk Smith: Endless Space
Jeffrey Gibson, YOU BETTER LET SOME BODY LOVE YOU, 2019, Acrylic on canvas, glass beads, artificial sinew, custom wood frames, 80 x 57 in, Courtesy of the artist and Kavi Gupta. Photo: John Lusis
Kavi Gupta
Manish Nai
Jeffrey Gibson
Kennedy Yanko
Gladys Nilsson, Painting Nature, 2018. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Rhona Hoffman Gallery.
Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Gladys Nilsson
Brandon Breaux, Pilot 11, 2017. Oil on canvas, 6 x 4ft.
Hyde Park Art Center
Ashley M. Freeby: Plots & Hems
Intersectional Touch: Center Program 2019 Final Exhibition
The Tokyo Show: Black and Brown are Beautiful
Ayana V. Jackson, Double Goddess… A Sighting in the Abyss, 2019. Courtesy of Mariane Ibrahim Gallery.
Mariane Ibrahim Gallery
Ayana V. Jackson: Take Me to the Water
Image courtesy of Jan Tichy
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Shapeshift 2019: Bauhaus in Chicago
Future/Past: Crossing Lines
An American Bauhaus
The Mies Project
Justin Duerr, Surrender to Survival, 2018. Pen/marker on paper, 19 ½ x 25 ½ in. Courtesy of the artist
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Jerry's Map
Justin Duerr: Surrender to Survival
Dianna Frid, DESBORDAR, 2018. Embroidery, floss, aluminum, paint, paper, canvas, 78 x 60 in.
Alan Koppel Gallery
Dianna Frid: More Time than Life
Assemble group photo, Courtesy of Assemble.
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
Assemble: Tufting Gun Tapestries
Installation view: Seeing Ideas: Sigfredo Chacón and Joe Zucker, Mana Contemporary Chicago, 2019. Photo: Tom Van Eynde
Mana Contemporary
Seeing Ideas: Sigfredo Chacón and Joe Zucker
Nonconforming
Five Works: Moises Salazar
Darrell Roberts, Winter Breeze, 2018. Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in, signed, dated and titled verso.
McCormick Gallery
New Work by Darrell Roberts
David Antonio Cruz, onedayi’llturnthecornerandi’llbereadyforit, portrait of the texas girls, 2019. Oil and latex on wood. 48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm) Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago.
Monique Meloche Gallery
David Antonio Cruz
Hanoi Street Scene, Courtesy of John David Mooney Foundation
John David Mooney Foundation
The Albert I. Goodman Collection of Vietnamese Art
Art Takes a Town Off the Grid
Off-White™ c/o Virgil Abloh, Spring/Summer 2018, Look 11; courtesy of Off-White™ c/o Virgil Abloh. Photo: Fabien Montique
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Can You Hear Me Now?
Chicago Works: Assaf Evron
Ellen Berkenblit
Fragments of a Crucifixtion
Prisoner of Love
Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech
Martha Rosler, Laburnum, Golden Chain, Stuttgart, May 1994. Courtesy of the artist.
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
Martha Rosler: Passionate Signals
Artwork by Mariano Chavez, courtesy of the Ed Paschke Art Center.
Ed Paschke Art Center
Mariano Chavez: Ouroboros
Melissa Ann Pinney, Flower girl with her Mother and Grandmother, 1991. Courtesy of the artist.
Peoria Riverfront Museum
Vantage Points: Contemporary Photography from the Whitney Museum of American Art Museum
Jack Flynn, Chalk Shoal, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Prak-sis
Prak-sis
Endurance: Paintings by Jack Flynn
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Eugene (Red) Adams, Eugene Jr. (Andy) Adams, Bill Adams and Dan Adams, The Last Cruze, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’sEnterprise New York|Rome
The Renaissance Society
LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze
Samson Young, Photographic still from Houses of Tomorrow, 2019, Video and sound installation. Image courtesy of the artist. Photos by Jonathan Loïc Rogers.
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
Samson Young: Silver Moon or Golden Star, Which Will You Buy Of Me?
Tara Donovan: Fieldwork
Henry Taylor, I'm not dangerous, 2015. Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody. Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe.
Stony Island Arts Bank
In The Absence of Light: Gesture, Humor and Resistance in The Black Aesthetic
Rebuild Foundation Archival Collection
Orkideh Torabi, I asked for a hero, 2018. Fabric dye on stretched cotton, 43 x 37 in.
Western Exhibitions
Orkideh Torabi
Ruby T