Thomas Robertello Gallery - Chicago
By Jeriah Hildwine
Chicago-based artists are regularly stereotyped as the modern-day embodiments of the city’s blue collar, working class history. It is an association eagerly seized upon by the self-described “city that works,” although one would be hard pressed to come up with any conclusive evidence that one city’s artists [...]
Rhona Hoffman Gallery - Chicago
By Jeriah Hildwine
“Pin Pan Pun” is Brooklyn-based artist Luis Gispert’s second solo exhibition at Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago. The title is a Cuban slang expression for a foldaway bed, carrying with it connotations of unexpected visits and familial connections. This theme of everyday physical objects with strong [...]
Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago
Curated by Helen Molesworth
By Jeriah Hildwine
Political art risks providing lazy answers to the search for meaning, an undergraduate’s surrogate for personal significance in one’s work. In other cases (Richard Serra’s Stop Bush lithograph from the 2006 Whitney Biennial), established artists put the muscle of their name behind a cause more [...]
