This week the Midwest’s greatest contemporary art podcast crew have what can only be described as an “encounter” with one of the Midwest’s greatest living artists, Chis Larson! Hailing from St. Paul Minnesota, Larson’s newest body of work started its life in Tennessee and slowly spun and wove its way to Engage Projects, Chicago. Taking up a former manufacturing space Larson asks that we consider our relationship to labor from the intimate to the global supply chain in a triumph of an exhibition. The Residue of Labor, April 8 – May 21, 2022
1. Nyeema Morgan: The Set-Up April 30-May 28, 2022 PATRON: 1612 W Chicago Ave 2. Rachel de Cuba & Hale Ekinci: When or if I was there April 30, 12-4PM Tiger Strikes Asteroid: 2233 S Throop St, #419 3. Ella Rose Flood: Memorial Universe! April 29,...
Gio Swaby is a Bahamian Toronto based visual artist whose work explores and celebrates Blackness and womanhood. Her elegant thread based portraits centres on Black joy as a radical act of resistance. Through love as liberation she explores pathways of healing and empowerment through conversation and observational drawing, allowing the strong and soft to coexist beautifully.
Why does the unicorn have pentagram eyes, Zachary? Because satanism freaks people out Because they are evil Because I worship at the altar of Baudelaire Because “The Good” is a liar, has always been thus Because witches will have their day (and I’ll be burned on a...
1. Springboard April 23, 3-7PM Mayfield: 505 Marengo Ave, Forest Park, IL Work by: Zespo, Yue Xu, Jess Bass, Olivia Comai, Kushala Vora, Devin T. Mays, Cecila Beaven, Joseph Josue Mora, Ricardo Vilas Freire, Jonas Mueller-Ahlheim 2. Monica Ong: Planetaria April...
