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Rivers Qinnan Zhu
Rivers Qinnan Zhu: Thread’s Return along the Equinox
Opening Reception: Friday, August 1, 2025, 5-8pm
I come from a lineage of four generations of female artisans, with a strong tradition of lace-making in Xiaoshan, China. Lace, with its intricate yet fragile structure, carries a tension between visibility and absence, labor and ornamentation, history and transformation. Lace-making is not just about preserving techniques; it’s about understanding them as shifting, unstable, and deeply connected to the people who practice them.
Thread’s Return along the Equinox asks how traditions continue— by preserving sameness or through adaptation? Lace becomes a way of holding time, of returning through making.
Jessica Swank
Jessica Swank: Muscle Memory
Opening Reception: Friday, August 1, 2025, 5-8pm
Muscle Memory is a meditation on the significance of labor and the body in a time increasingly shaped by automation and post-biological ideals. This series represents an extension of my own body detached from myself, exploring how the body may become detached from consciousness in the digital age.. Through repetitive processes and actions, I think of my labor in creating this work as itself an act of resistance against the idea that human beings can be reduced to machines. While the work is not directly performative, I consider the labor embedded in the making of these works as a quiet performance.
Jasmine Elizabeth
Jasmine Elizabeth: Love, Lies, and Everything Else We’ve Ever Done Wrong
Opening Reception: Friday, August 1, 2025, 5-8pm
It can be compelling to think we understand something, to assert that we understand what a story is, and have that be what defines us. Art should never be clear. It should never have an easy conclusion.
Love, Lies, and Everything Else We’ve Ever Done Wrong implores the viewer to look closer than is comfortable. Subjects reduced to their most basic forms narrate the quiet moments: moments of contemplation, otherness, and selfhood. In this series of paintings, the amount of visual information stripped away in each painting varies, allowing the viewer to bring in their own conclusions about what they are seeing.
Diane Jurado
Diane Jurado: The Ambiguous Narrative
Opening Reception: Friday, September 5, 2025, 5-8pm
My painting is a process of discovery. It becomes a metaphorical construct of personal experience and memory. Abstract shapes emerge, evoking a sense of movement and interaction; creating an implied narrative that is both ambiguous and surprising.
Charlie Goss
Charlie Goss: Inner Beauty, Outer Expression
Opening Reception: Friday, September 5, 2025, 5-8pm
This collection of figurative oil paintings delves into the complexities of the human form, challenging conventional beauty standards and celebrating the power of inner strength. By employing bold colors, expressive gestures, and the evocative power of the face, these works invite viewers to engage in a profound and personal dialogue with the subjects depicted.
Ultimately, this collection seeks to inspire viewers to appreciate beauty in all its forms, to challenge societal norms, and to embrace unique identities. These paintings aim to leave a lasting impression, empowering viewers to see themselves and others in a new light.
Lisa Walcott
Lisa Walcott:
Opening Reception: Friday, July 11, 2025, 5-8pm
For Dear Life grapples with and makes light of the perils of daily life. Inspiration is derived from domestic spaces—a space that can be hauntingly dull as well as safe and protective. I look for comparisons and rely on the uncanny, such as a flushed baby swing mechanism moving a broom to sweep the floor, referencing the monotony and ingenuity of motherhood.
Monica J. Brown
Monica J. Brown: The Biomythography of Jaybird & The Queen of Hearts
Opening Reception: Friday, July 11, 2025, 5-8pm
“Biomythography” is a term coined by Audre Lord defined as “combining elements of history, biography and myth” within literature. My exploration of this idea is a continuation of the ongoing series of paintings, collages and poetry in my Mythical Memory series. This body of work combines Afro-surrealism, abstraction, and elements of pop art aesthetics. This overlap and intersection of genres is used to create a dialogue around the abstract qualities of time and memory, the liminality of the dream space and the way in which personal narratives can create a mythology. Time and memory are components of history. The mythology enters as the realm where the dream space and memory coincide. Love is the enduring force that weaves it all together.
Margaret Archambault
Margaret Archambault: Affect the Effect
Opening Reception: Friday, July 11, 2025, 5-8pm
Artist Talk: TBD
“Affect the Effect” is a series of paintings that act as a direct reflection of my experiences and my desire to share the truth about the power we possess to overcome doubt and express ourselves in ways that are both unique and universal at the same time. We are the creator and we truly can “Affect the Effect” in and of our lives and sculpt them into that which we desire.
HOME
Group Exhibition: HOME
Curator: Fiona Cashell
Opening Reception: Friday, June 6, 5-8pm
What does it mean to call a place home? How does the act of moving—leaving, arriving, migrating—shape a person? When we think of our relationship to place, there are many complex experiences to consider, and many questions to ask. Perhaps the thread that connects us all, is the desire to belong.
Pat Stephens
Pat Stephens: Earthy Stories
Opening Reception: Friday, May 2, 2025, 5-8pm
I am interested in how information is realized, interpreted, and shared. My work is inspired by my surroundings and observations of transitory states in the environment. Viewers should think they are looking at a familiar object when in fact they are not; I love the reversal of expectations. These ceramics serve no utilitarian purpose other than to express the world around me. The inspiration for my pieces comes from the eight-block daily dog walk, which includes shadows reflecting off street signs, thrown away to-go containers littering the street, discarded boxes run over by cars, and telephone poles having graffiti, pipes, and wires attached to them.
A.R.C. Affiliate: Member Show
A.R.C. Affiliate: Member Show
Opening Reception: Friday, May 2, 5–8 PM
Join the Affiliate Member artists of A.R.C. for an exhibition showcasing their artwork. Affiliates of ARC have served in the past as working volunteer members of the gallery.
Artists Residents of Chicago (A.R.C.) was founded in 1973 as a women-run artists’ cooperative at a time when the art world largely dismissed women’s voices. In 2025, We continue to champion innovative, emerging, and experimental visual art, reaching a broad audience—including our wonderful West Town community. As a non-commercial gallery, we foster an environment of artistic experimentation and dialogue.
Exhibiting Affiliate Members : Amy Zucker, Jessica Gondeck, Granite Amit, Virginia Carstarphen, Jane Stevens, Nancy Bechtol
Raissa Bailey
Raissa Bailey: Venus Rising, Axiom Schema
Opening Reception: Friday, May 2, 2025, 5-8pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, May 3, 1:00pm
Raissa Bailey’s upcoming solo show, “Venus Rising, Axiom Schema,” delves into the concepts of consciousness and evolution. This innovative showcase blends installation and mixed media art, inviting viewers to explore connections between prehistoric and modern modes of creation.
A.R.C. Collective: Member Show
Join the working members of A.R.C. for a special exhibition showcasing their own artwork.
Opening Reception: Friday, April 4, 5–8 PM
Meet the dedicated member-artists who regularly contribute time, skill, and support to the daily operations of A.R.C. Gallery. Come celebrate our long and distinguished history as a cultural institution in Chicago. One of the original alternative galleries of the 1970s—alongside Artemisia and N.A.M.E.—A.R.C. is the last of these pioneering spaces still standing.
Exhibiting Member Artists: Raissa Bailey, Monica Brown, Abigail Engstrand, Nancy Fritz, Stacey Lee Gee, Iris Goldstein, Cait Hardie, Diane Jurado, Beth LeFauve, Elyse Martin, Ruti Modlin, Cheri Reif Naselli, Randi Shepard, Lee Stanton, Michele Stutts, Michelle Williams
Nicole Havekost
Nicole Havekost: Proliferate
Opening Reception: Friday, March 7, 2025, 5-8pm
Proliferate, by artist Nicole Havekost, is of a series of ten works on paper. Made with traditional drawing materials, the artist pokes holes through the paper, creating a white, swollen perforation on the front. Using ovoid forms, the artist references voids and tears, and interiors and exteriors through accumulated gestures. The work speaks to unseen labor, the passage of time, and transformation.
David Najib Kasir
David Najib Kasir:Math of Four Minute Warnings
Opening Reception: Friday, March 7, 2025, 5-8pm
Math of Four Minute Warnings is an exhibition that interrogates the role Western media plays in constructing cultural narratives, while centering a caring and concerning lens on the destruction of Syria and its people through large-scale paintings. For Kasir, the works start from a personal place. “Iraq is my father’s country, and Syria is my mother’s as well as the second home of my youth. It is where my aunts, uncles and cousins were living. It is where there are buildings where I slept in and streets where I played tag and other games as a child. I’ve witnessed years of destruction of my countries from US invasion, with very little regard from Western mainstream media to civilian casualties.”
Jill Wells
Jill Wells: Sewn From Resistance
Opening Reception: Friday, March 7, 2025, 5-8pm
SEWN FROM RESISTANCE: Deconstructing Black Disability Narratives in America is a site-specific, multi-sensory installation by Jill Wells that critically examines the intersection of Black and Disability histories within the American context. This work challenges stereotypical portrayals of Black disability identities while celebrating the resilience and resistance embedded within these lived experiences. Through a fusion of installation, painting, sound, and tactile sculpture, Wells engages sensory elements that shape how individuals' access and engage with information.
Mel Watkin
Mel Watkin: BIRDLAND
Opening Reception: Friday, February 7, 2025, 5-8pm
The Birdland series is an exhibition of drawings on collaged security envelopes – envelopes used for bills, bank statements and other mailings requiring privacy. Different environments and environmental concerns strongly influence my imagery and the materials I work with. The Birdland series reflects my recent travels to the mountain west, rust belt cities like St. Louis and the Shawnee National Forest surrounding my home in Southern Illinois. Birds play a role, as our old farmhouse lies along one of the largest migratory bird routes in the country—the Cache River Flyway.
CV Peterson
CV Peterson: OVERLOOKING POSSIBILITIES: A NATURALIST’S DREAM
Opening Reception: Friday, February 7, 2025, 5-8pm
"Overlooking Possibilities: A Naturalist's Dream" is a series of environmental observations portrayed in a colorful, whimsical way. I use scientific research as inspiration, allowing me to dream of the what-ifs and current possibilities. The good and the bad of Climate Change and humanity's role in it.
Jeanette May
Jeanette May: CURIOUS DEVICES
Opening Reception: Friday, February 7, 2025, 5-8pm
Jeanette May’s still lifes reveal our complicated relationship with obsolete technology by juxtaposing the seductive designs and the inner workings of Curious Devices. Her photographs display a reverence for finely crafted merchandise, industrial design, and scientific wonders. The technological tableaus span antique stereoscopes and art deco clocks to Bluetooth headphones. Each object’s style, color, and construction epitomize a period of both aesthetic and technological advancement. May opens some devices to expose the archaic gears of movie projectors and the enigmatic architecture of circuit boards. What becomes of the beloved tech that stops working or can’t be updated?
Deborah Di Vita Glascott
Deborah Di Vita Glascott: BODY LANGUAGE
Opening Reception: Friday, November 1, 2024, 5-8pm
The figurative works in this exhibition are sourced from candid photos and developed organically, drawn directly with paint. Each speaks a language, spirit, mood or personality she feels compelled to communicate. Through traditional methods of indirect oil painting on canvas, Deborah Di Vita Glascott employs elements of color theory, composition, and the use of pattern to contextualize a modern sense of intimacy.