Dawoud Bey: Night Coming Tenderly, Black January 11 – April 14 Opening Reception & Artist Talk: January 11 | 6 – 7 PM “Dawoud Bey’s latest body of work is a series of black-and-white photographs that reimagine sites along the last stages of the Underground Railroad. The result is a series of 25 large-scale photographs,
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Whit Forrester: Domesticating the Numinous January 11 – March 1 Opening Reception: January 11 | 5 -7 PM “Interested in how the Divine is embodied through light, Forrester references the golden halo common to religious iconography as a means to elevate the ordinary and often neglected. Forrester’s gilded portraits of everyday houseplants call into question
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Michael Abramson: Dandies, Debutantes and Dancers: Southside Chicago Nightclubs in the 1970s January 4 – February 23 Opening Reception: January 4 | 6 – 9 PM “Michael Abramson (1948-2011) was an acclaimed Chicago photographer who produced a large body of artistic and commercial work. He established his reputation during the mid- to late-seventies with his
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Rana Young: The Rug’s Topography January 11 – February 9 Opening Reception & Book Launch: January 11 | 6 – 9 PM | RSVP “This series began with me photographing my intimate partner of six years. Simultaneously, we were facing an internal conflict: how we identified as individuals differed from the roles we occupied in
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Michael Kenna January 11 – March 16, 2019 OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, January 11 5:00 – 8:00 pm “Concurrent with Michael Kenna’s show, the gallery will rotate a selection of artists who have helped define CEG’s legacy. The CEG Salon will include work by more than 40 current and past represented artists, hung salon style in
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Nelson W Armour and Michael Kreuser: Pre-Existing Conditions December 14, 2018 – January 5, 2019 Opening Reception: December 14 | 6 – 10 PM “Pre-Existing Conditions combines portraits and stories of those with pre-existing conditions in an effort to personalize the healthcare debate by showing the impact of pre-existing conditions on individual people. During the
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Kenneth Josephson: Squared December 7, 2018 – March 2, 2019 Opening Reception & Book Signing: December 7 | 5 – 8 PM “This survey exhibition presents a cross-section of Josephson’s two-and-a-quarter inch negative works, beginning in the late 1950s up to the 2010s. Though the photographs themselves originate from the various series in Josephson’s oeuvre—most
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Colleen Keihm and Nicole Mauser: Break Here December 7, 2018 – January 5, 2019 Opening Reception: December 7 | 6 – 9 PM | RSVP Artist Talk: December 15 | 2:30 PM “In this collaborative two-person exhibition, Keihm and Mauser use photography, painting, collage, and installation to construct abstract disoriented spaces – making marks by
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Jessica Labatte: Shade Garden November 2 – December 22 Opening Reception: November 2 | 5 – 8 PM “Shade Garden continues Labatte’s explorations into paradoxes and illusions within photographic images. Labatte’s two interrelated series of color photographs explore photographic notions of the visible and the invisible, the present and the withdrawn, as they champion beauty
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Fred Teifeld and David Tepper: Where We Are: Mental States November 2 – December 21 Opening Reception: November 2 | 6 – 9 PM “This show is an exploration of the emotions and memories by photographers Fred Teifeld and David Tepper. Fred’s imagery depicts his growing up and living with the effects of domestic violence.
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