The Hyde Park Art Center is the oldest alternative contemporary art venue in Chicago. Presenting innovative and challenging approaches to the visual arts, the Art Center showcases work that traverses all forms of media and encourages creative collaboration. Our exhibitions, installations, artist/curator talks, discussions and events invite visitors to experience the unexpected and explore untraditional topics in a stimulating and fun environment.
Here's Looking At You Looking At Me Kid
February 3 - May 4, 2008 Foyer
An optically challenging wall installation by Geoffrey Todd Smith.
Howard Fonda: Nothing To Live Up To
February 17 – May 4, 2008 Gallery 5
Recent paintings that attempt to contextualize the relationship between nature, time and human existence.
Disinhibition: Black Art and Blue Humor
April 13 – June 22, 2008, Gallery 4
Work by Elizabeth Axtman, Michael Paul Britto, David Leggett, Dave Mckenzie, Jayson Musson, William Pope. L, and Tamasha Williamson. Curated by Blake Bradford.
Jesse Seay: Mechanical Tide
April 25 - July 6, 2008
More information to come. Image: Mechanical Tide, 2007, wood, metal, motor, 2 × 5 × 8 feet…
Rebecca Keller: Victory Garden for the New Millennia
April 26 - September 15, 2008, outdoor installation
Truly a garden for the oil-focused war of the 21st century!
Kelly Kaczynski: 'Olympus Manger,' Scene II
April 27 - July 6, 2008, Gallery 1
A new interactive wooden installation by Kelly Kaczynksi.
Faster Cheaper Bolder
May 4 - July 27, 2008 Gallery 2
Work on objects, fabric and paper by students in the Art Center’s silkscreen class.
DIRTY: Work by Paul Nudd and Casey Wasniewski
May 4 – July 20, 2008 The Cleve Carney Gallery
New work by Chicagoland artists Paul Nudd and Casey Ann Wasniewski.
Selected Shots by Young Artists
May 4 – July 20, Gallery 5
Our second-annual exhibition of photography by Chicago-area high school students.
David Lozano: Queer Interiors and Phthalo Blue
May 18 - November 18, 2008, Foyer Project Space
Queer Interiors and Phthalo Blue, a series of new site-specific wall paintings by David Lozano, will enliven the foyer of the Art Center for the summer. The title references the electric color phthalo blue or Phthalocyanine, a synthetic pigment that…
Videodance: works from the Centre Pompidou
June 21 - July 20, 2008 Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery & Black Box Gallery
The US premiere of over 30 video works from the Centre Pompidou’s collection blending cinematography and movement by some of the world’s most important dancers, choreographers and visual artists.
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Language Art
February 10 – April 27, 2008, The Cleve E. Carney Gallery & Gallery 2
The exhibition will feature new work made in collaboration between teaching artist Suzanne Sebold-Suso, preschool students, and their parents in the Art Center’s Discover Art class focusing on the words “peace”, “love” and “understanding”.