Rafael Soldi: Life Stand Still Here February 15 – March 16 Opening Reception: February 15 | 6 – 9 PM | Artist Talk: 7:30 PM “Life Stand Still Here explores internal dialogues and moments when life and its darkest facets can offer monumental symbolism. Inspired by the writings of Virginia Woolf, Rafael Soldi is interested
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Furtive Daniel Hojnacki, Karolis Usonis, and Krista Wortendyke February 2 – April 7 Gallery Talk: March 15 | 5:30 – 6:30 PM Interactive “Meet the Artists” Events: March 16 | 1 – 3 pm & April 5 | 12 – 2 pm “Curated by Jennifer Murray, Furtive is a photography-based exhibition that explores the complexity
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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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