Detroit 1978-1983 Photographs and Prints by Eleftheria Lialios
Eleftheria Lialios is a photographer who still thinks she's a scientist. Her first photographs in Detroit were of the people that surrounded her at Wayne State University in the Cass Corridor. This exhibition presents a selection of those photographs, and also the medium format work she titled: Installations to be made, photographed, and then destroyed immediately.
Intuitive Hemispheres: Kelly Reaves and Ellen Holtzblatt
Intuitive Hemispheres is a show that explores the work of two radically different artists whose work visually deals with the representation of subjective psychological and emotional states in dramatically different ways. Both artists by turning deeply inward, plumbing the subconscious and becoming radically in tune with their own emotions, present the viewer with at times lucid, terrifying, and deeply moving representations of the feelings that we all share in two dramatically different visual ways.
You Can Tell Me Anything: Harm Reduction As Art
The Chicago Recovery Alliance (CRA) is a racially and ethnically diverse group composed of people living with HIV and drug use, working in addiction treatment, healthcare, education, law and other assorted areas. CRA is unique as an organization in that our work entails building one-on-one relationships with individuals affected by HIV and drug use and provide them with a wide array of options for achieving any positive change as they define it for themselves. CRA is an organization for those interested in directly serving, supporting, educating and advocating with others for reducing drug related harm.
Andrea Kaspryk: Carrying Burdens
Tracy Kostenbader: Eating Words
Andrea Kaspryk’s work explores psychological burdens, and the process of striving to free oneself of this burden, in scenes set in the realm of the imagination.
A long time activist and founder of AnySquared, Tracy Kostenbader turns the mundane into the sublime with her heroic depiction of everyday items.
Owensby & Walsh
Danielle Owensby and Daphne Walsh present contemplative photography and installation work that explores childhood trauma and transcendent experiences.
A Story I Need to Tell: 3 Comics Artists in Chicago
Ash H.G. is a cartoonist, illustrator, and painter living and working in Chicago, IL.
After completing his raw and visceral 93-page graphic novel, Children of the Black Circus, in 2016, Ash began talking with comics publisher 2dcloud about reworking the story to create a new graphic novel. This new and untitled re visioning of the story is currently underway.
Gene Ha began his career in comics drawing superheroes for Marvel (X-Men, Captain America etc) and DC Comics (Superman, Justice League etc). During this time Gene won 4 Eisners, the highest award in American comics. Three of these were for his work with writer Alan Moore, Top 10 and its prequel The Forty-Niners.
Gene’s latest is Mae, a Young Adult graphic scifi novel set in Gene’s home state of Indiana. Ha is both writer and artist on this project, currently in its second volume.
Gretchen Hasse is a storyteller working in comics, collage, public art, and moving images. She is drawn to stories and images that describe perseverance through pain, and knows that a dark sense of humor, a keen eye for social criticism, and the diligence to work for change are essential tools for survival.
Gretchen is a founding member of Agitator – a co-operative gallery.
ANIMATION: Moving Images Intended to Confound and Delight
As part of our exhibit 3 Comics Artists in Chicago, Agitator Gallery and Sinema Obscura present an evening of work by local animators.
Featuring films by:
Lisa Barcy • Margaret Bialis • Nolan Downs • Jefferey Entwistle • Gretchen Hasse • Logan Kruidenier (musical act) • Cristen Leifheit • Tanner Masseth • Tony Schulz/TTM Films • Rob Steinberg • Paloma Trecka • Eric Zaragoza
Image from The Ephemeral Orphanage by Lisa Barcy
The Southern Black Cat Call Medicine Show
The Southern Black Cat Call Medicine Show is a mixed media exhibit of 10 pieces, each filled with imagery drawing on the vibrant and rich culture of the African American experience and spirituality, the blues of the Mississippi Delta, Folklore, root work, and hoodoo symbolism.
Robert Pitts (aka Black Remus) was born and raised on the south side of Chicago. Pitts’ life has been steeped in his culture, from the soulful gritty music of Chicago blues and R&B, to the stunningly rhythmic works of multi-disciplined artists like Geoffrey Holder, to the literal masterpieces of Zora Neal Hurtson, to the visually captivating ideas of Jacob Lawerence. Pitts has photographed marches and social actions to snapshot of life in Hyberdad, India, but his original love is canvas. Pitts has begun to revisit the music ,folktales, traditions, and religions of his kin. He looks to meld these traditions and his sense of social justice into a newer phase of art for himself under the moniker Black Remus.