Last week, we offered a (very partial) guide to some theater and dance events (as well as pop-up performances, playwrights, and artist-activists) that our writers and some curators in the community are excited about this fall. This week, we’re following up with tips from two visual arts curators, as well as ideas for getting out of your house and enjoying some views of other homes and landmarks through (socially distanced) architectural tours. In the case of galleries, we suggest checking ahead before you plan your visit, as hours may be subject to change and some venues are only open by appointment.
Chicago Elevated
From chunky paintings to mammoth-sized colorful canvas works, Roland Santana is preoccupied with color, texture, and shape as they relate to contemporary painting and sculpture. Santana is eclectic in his use of tools and artistic mediums, which range from mixed media paintings to silicone, mortar mix, and other industrial materials. Santana’s most recent works exist somewhere between painting and sculpture as colorful slabs cut into organic shapes.
Sarah Dupré
Up now/up next: Cleaner Gallery + Projects is currently showing Fruitless: Paintings by Christian Campos, through 10/24 The next exhibition by Kelly Reaves and Mel Cook will run 11/6-12/12. Cleaner Gallery + Projects is taking part in Artist Run Chicago 2.0 at Hyde Park Art Center.
Up next: 10/12-10/16: Sarah Skaggs and Constanza Mendoza Guerra present I can see my house from here, featuring new collaborative work by F.M.7, Eliane Adela Padrón, and Margarita Lizcano Hernandez. This residency will be a reunion of collaborators and friends currently dispersed around the world and immobilized by pandemic in New York, Havana, Chicago, and Amsterdam. 10/26-10/30: DIVINE, featuring programming by DIVINE cocreators Ry Douglas and Sebastian Olayo. In their residency, Douglas and Olayo will be exploring spirituality through a critical queer, trans, BIPOC lens by producing workshops, dialogues, and performance(s).
