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––– 610 n albany ave, chicago
––– 610 n albany ave, chicago
––– open sundays from noon - 4:00
––– open sundays from noon - 4:00
Current
opening: 25 August 2023, 6-10pm
things, us
Abena Motaboli, Aishath Huda, Jules Koreman, Katelyn Patton, Laleh Motlagh, Tulika Ladsariya
Curated by Aishath Huda and Katelyn Patton
August 25, 2023
things, us brings together a selection of works by a group of artists who provide opportunities to attune to the environment rather than responding to it. Interweaving growth, flow and decay, the works mesh together; eliciting questions concerning boundaries, bodies, edges, land, and the role of intimacy and animacy in sharing a world with many worlds.
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Daily Devotion: Humbled Home
SUCROSE: Micah Dillman and Sophia Karina English
June 30, 2023
SUCROSE is pleased to present “Daily Devotion: Humbled Home” a collection of sculptural, video, and performance works reflecting on the last eight years of our collaborative practice.
Our work investigates the ritualistic duty of keeping a home and the complicated familial dynamics contained within.
Through the utilization and exaggeration of commonplace objects and social structures, we seek to both honor and reimagine the traditions of our upbringings.
Let Me Be No Nearer
Andrew Bearnot, Morgan Green, Brian Jucas, Hai-Wen Lin, Jonathan Lanier
Curated by Esther Espino and Jonathan Worcester
April 14, 2023
When body is referenced in this exhibition it is in the context of existing within a singular form. A specific body that is the courier of perception, the thing that meets brutality and receives it, caresses and is caressed; a life vessel. This interpretation of the body is broadly universal and unifying, we all have bodies and we all are bodies. It allows us to sympathetically indulge in the sensual pleasure and discomfort of others, creating interstices that transport us into the lived experiences that exist outside of ourselves. We do it every time we look at art. However, the vicarious arousal of dropping into an artist’s experience is intrinsically colonizing. It is unavoidably mediated by our own bodies, histories and emotions. We can never authentically understand one another’s experiences because the multiplicity of perception is infinite and inimitable.
Let Me Be No Nearer enlists the work of four artists to explore this fissure between body and experience, vessel and perception. Andrew Bearnot, Brian Jucas, Hai-Wen Lin, Jonathan Lanier employ body in ways that stimulate a distinct and intense response from viewers. Their artwork is haptic, intimate, exultant, isolating and vulnerable. Most of all, their work reflects the indexicality of body and consciousness, and spans the unfathomable fault that divides us all.
We Don’t See Our Shadows
Gauri Awasthi, Aashna Singh, Lin Chen,
Che Yeh, Leonardo Pirondi, Vesper Guo, Ruby Que, Eugene Tang, Zhuang Leng, Qingqian Liu
Programmed by Peixuan Ouyang
March 24, 2023
“We Don’t See Our Shadows” echoes the sentiments and reveries of the diasporic experience, showcasing a wide range of moving image experimentations by international artists and filmmakers in the process of obtaining and securing a place to be in the United States, a country that follows a groundhog’s prediction for the arrival of the spring. This program demonstrates what films and videos can take in and break from, with a variety of projects that are personal, self-reflexive, playful and imaginative. With lights and shadows that we create, we make our own announcement:
“Faithful followers, there is no shadow of us and a beautiful spring it shall be.”
Winter Survival
Fengzee Yang, Nanxi Jin, Linhan Zhang, Sam Oh, YuHsin Wu, Yumi Fukuda
Curated by Yue Xu
March 3, 2023
“Winter Survival” features six artists working in ceramics, painting, performance, and sculpture in response to the challenges and obstacles of seeking legal stability, or the immigrant experience. Fengzee Yang, Nanxi Jin, Linhan Zhang, Sam Oh, YuHsin Wu, and Yumi Fukuda are traversing, or have traversed, the harsh terrain of the immigration process, in which their continuing presence in this country is impeded by identity.
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Winter survival is a fertilizer, a repair for the lack of senses, a compression that manifests the suspended belonging and protects the lawn through a long-drawn-out winter until the next spring.
Ullrpaaaiiillllgggrrrrrhrhekoko
Sungho Bae, Jess Bass, Yumi Fukuda, Rob Sohmer, Jasmine Yeh, Yue Xu
Curated by Jess Bass
January 13, 2023
We are excited to present the first exhibition of 2023, featuring new work by Sungho Bae, Jess Bass, Yumi Fukuda, Rob Sohmer, Jasmine Yeh, and Yue Xu.
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In Ullrpaaaiiillllgggrrrrrhrhekoko, each artist has selected an expression to enact. The artists consider assumed bodies, various emotions, and each other. The presented work includes sculpture, video, interactive performance and installation.
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Soft Noise
Academy Records, Betsy Odom, Cathay Hsiao, Eileen Mueller, Elena Ailes, Madeleine Aguilar, Paige Alice Naylor, Peach Miller, Ro Lundberg, Willa Smart
Curated by Chris Reeves and Aaron Walker
November 11, 2022
10 artists working in images, sculpture, sound, performance, and other ever expanding fields etc. constellate around the notions of noise and noisiness: what constitutes as noisy? How do we think about noise as an aberrant to sound? What possibilities might there be in thinking “noisily”? And lastly, how might we go about emasculating the aesthetic domain of noise and its makers?
Noise has historically been the aesthetically unwanted branch of sound, its lack of conformity to both aesthetic and biological norms pits it as something to obscure, destroy, or invalidate. Considering noise as both a literal and metaphorical object, the artists featured have crafted an exhibition built upon the handling of noise, through physical objects, conceptual instructions, archival materials, and, of course, sound. Soft noise is not an attempt at softening the roughness of noise, but rather to explore what it is about noise that keeps it aberrant, and how this occurs in society.
Materiality
Robin Dluzen, Jean Alexander Frater, Rita Grendze, Johanna Moscoso, Melissa Oresky, Todd Reed, Monica Rezman, Jeff Robinson
Curated by: Diana Gabriel
October 1, 2022
Please join us Saturday for "Materiality", an eight-person show exploring the use of banal and familiar materials that are made to perform for the artist and the viewer. Within this exhibition, curated by Chicago artist Diana Gabriel, is a diverse collection of objects such as those made from folded paper, automotive paint, cardboard, fiber, and the detritus of construction. Included artists use techniques such as assemblage, collage, and embroidery to create whimsical and often colorful compositions that address the viewer by questioning their notions of inherent material properties, their function, and their value within the creative process.
From the Center
Christina Ballantyne, Sofía Fernández Díaz, Rose Dickson, Hunter Foster, Judith Geichman, Jasper Goodrich, Sam Jaffe, Deanna Miera, olivier, Leah Ke Yi Zheng
Curated by Noelle Africh
August 5, 2022
THE PLAN is proud to present, From the Center, a group exhibition curated by Noelle Africh featuring painting, drawing, and sculpture works that focus on addressing the center of the object, picture plane, surface, and image. By bringing together works that address the center, this show seeks to identify a wide range of possibilities in and around this basic compositional and formal element. This exhibition poses questions around what kind of momentum can a room of paintings and sculptures addressing the center create? What does it mean for multiple centers to exist simultaneously? What is the potential for the center to function as a hole, a vanishing point, a target, a void, a UFO, an exit, an entry, a position, a force, etc.? Can the center create both distance and intimacy simultaneously? Is the center something shared? How can the center be renegotiated formally, spatially, contextually, optically, materially, socially?
“…..First, the ring, then the wheel of Fortune and finally the Circulus Vitiosus Deus, so many figures what in themselves presupposes a center, a focus, a void, perhaps even a God which inspires the circular movement, and is expressed in it, yet which is kept at a distance. The centrifugal forces never flee the center forever but approach it a new only in order to retreat from it again. Such are the vehement oscillations that overwhelm an individual as long as she seeks only her own center and cannot see the circle of which she is a part. For if these oscillations overwhelm her it is because each corresponds to an individuality other than the one she believes herself to be, from the point of view of the unfindable center. As a result, an identity is essentially fortuitous.”
(Excerpted/altered from Pierre Klossowski on Nietzsche)
Making Space
Noelle Africh, Ryan Burns, Steven Carrelli, Gina Hunt, Matt Irie, Frank Vega, Jonathan Worcester
Curated by Ari Norris and Philip Spangler
June 10, 2022
Artworks in “Making Space” invite the viewer to celebrate the fundamental design elements of painting, including color theory, balance, and technique while addressing their own physicality and object-ness.
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These paintings ‘make space’ by positioning and repositioning the viewer’s POV, dictating how they should stand and the means of observation. To engage with the works is to observe them from multiple angles and proximities, to view them in their parts, and to see them as a whole.
Quartet for the End of Time
A solo exhibition by Ari Norris
Curated by Philip Spangler
April 22, 2022
Ari's artwork often combines humor with hyperreal assemblages of mundane objects. The sculptures within "Quartet for the End of Time" are made with elements of cast bronze, or in this case wood, and are painted with precision.
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Please join us Saturday 22 April for Ari's show and the very first opening of The Plan.