Bad at Sports welcomes Ashanté Kindle and Josie Love Roebuck from LatchKey Gallery and their exhibition “CROWN” at Expo Chicago 2022.
Working from a place of healing, “CROWN” explores and rejoices in the legacy of Black hair. The exhibition, named after the CROWN Act – a law that prohibits race-based hair discrimination which is the denial of employment and educational opportunities because of hair texture or protective hairstyles including braids, locs, twists or bantu knots – luxuriates in the scope, range, beauty, and legacy that is black hair.
Besides being one of Chicago’s most noteworthy and prodigious painters, William Conger is a repository of the city’s history, and a probing aesthetician. His knowledge and implementation of the historic complexity of abstract painting, the particular twists and turns...
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.
