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@ Heaven Gallery
Friday November 1, 2024
7PM – 11PMOn view November 1 – December 8
Curated by Kailyn Perry
1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2 Chicago, IL 60622
Artists: Nicole Rey Alderson, Meghan Borah, Mel Cook, Flor Flores, Madelyn Turner-Havens, Patrick Wilkins
Often, surrounded in my studio by buckets and paper towels, I wonder what kind Freudian mistake has been made to turn me into a painter- Amy Sillman, On Color
The contemporary world is full of agony, disaster, grief, and pain. Climate change, losing control of our bodies, and war are just a few of our daily realities. Artists may walk into their studio and question their choice to create, if doing so even has meaning at all.
Radical Joy is the act nurturing one’s own happiness, it can be used as the greatest combatant against global uncertainty. This kind of joy is not dependent on outside forces but is within us and within our control. When expressed, it can help us create a change and inspire others to do the same.
When the world is on fire, painting is an act of Radical Joy.
RADICAL JOY is an exhibition of six Chicago painters curated by another Chicago painter, Kailyn Perry. The pieces included examine the radical joy we can find in creating artwork, and the conclusions we come to in the process. The show includes work from: Nicole Rey Alderson, Meghan Borah, Mel Cook, Flor Flores, Madelyn Turner-Havens, and Patrick Wilkins.
RADICAL JOY is an exhibition of six Chicago painters curated by another Chicago painter,
Kailyn Perry. The pieces included examine the radical joy we can find in creating artwork, and
the conclusions we come to in the process. The show includes work from: Nicole Rey Alderson,
Meghan Borah, Mel Cook, Flor Flores, Madelyn Turner-Havens, and Patrick Wilkins.Practices in Proximity features works by Alberto Aguilar, Kayla Anderson, Molly Cranch, Design Studio for Social Intervention, Eseosa Ekiawowo Edebiri, Flor Flores, Katie Giritlian, Kimi Hanauer, Andres Hernandez, Niema Qureshi + Betsy Zacsek, Kirsten Leenaars, Jennifer Mannebach, Jessica Mueller, Timothy David Rey, Emilie Robinson, Greg Ruffing + Brandon Alvendia, Laura Sáenz, Public Collectors, and Gwendolyn Terry.More info
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@ CAPE
5:30PM – 7:30PM
1010 W 35th St, Suite 697, Chicago, IL 60609
Begin your Bridgeport Third Friday Art Walk at CAPE on Friday, October 18 from 5:30-7:30 PM!
Join “Proximities: in conjunction with others,” in the current exhibition Practices in Proximity.
Meet the exhibition’s artists who creatively explore collaboration through arts practices and education. With special performances by Flor Flores, Alberto Aguilar, Jessica Mueller and family, a group reading of the Aesthetic Justice Manifesto by Design Studio for Social Intervention, and a conversation with Josh Rios.
“What does it mean to make work in conjunction with others, whether they be creative collaborators, family members, or mythic beings? This programming session, one of three associated with the exhibition, explores notions of adjacency, working through the capacities of others, and what is at stake as we explore ideas and practices of proximity. ” –Practices in Proximity exhibition curator Josh Rios
Practices in Proximity features works by Alberto Aguilar, Kayla Anderson, Molly Cranch, Design Studio for Social Intervention, Eseosa Ekiawowo Edebiri, Flor Flores, Katie Giritlian, Kimi Hanauer, Andres Hernandez, Niema Qureshi + Betsy Zacsek, Kirsten Leenaars, Jennifer Mannebach, Jessica Mueller, Timothy David Rey, Emilie Robinson, Greg Ruffing + Brandon Alvendia, Laura Sáenz, Public Collectors, and Gwendolyn Terry.
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Perhaps you’ve never wondered what it would feel like to be a monarch butterfly drunk on Aperol Spritz.
Lori Waxman
Perhaps you’ve never wondered what it would feel like to be a monarch butterfly drunk on Aperol Spritz. That’s a shame, but one that can be rectified by allowing Alejandro Jiménez-Flores, also known as florencio, to introduce you to kiki, the subject of a series of radiantly kitsch paintings on view at Adds Donna during the virtual NADA Chicago Gallery Open earlier this fall. The pictures include gouache-on-muslin illustrations of kiki’s fabulously inebriated soirée, featuring shimmery lights of all colors, and a pair of small, psychedelically dyed silk rondels that suggest the exciting but worrisome effect of alcohol on kiki’s eggs. It’s unclear if kiki is florencio’s alter ego, although it seems a strong possibility: in a video on the exhibition website, the artist relays kiki’s story as a poem, told with great empathy and all the gender fluidity of metamorphosis. Besides which, who wouldn’t want to envision themselves gorgeously patterned and dancing through the air under a disco-ball moon?