2010
Pellot Gonzalez Rios
May 30 - August 22, 2010, Cleve Carney Gallery
Recollections of family members and common mementos of Puerto Rican popular culture have inspired emergent Chicago-based artist Josue Pellot to create this new body of sculptures, photographs and paintings.
Jennifer Mannebach: Pantheon Wave
May 23 - August 22, 2010, The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
A new adhesive installation on the glass facade of the Art Center.
Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism
May 23 - August 8, 2010, Gallery 1 & Blackbox Gallery
A major touring exhibition of international contemporary art drawn from the French regional contemporary art collections (the Frac).
POV
May 4 - 14, 2010, The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
Work by Columbia College students: James Patrick Gordon, B.J. Kraiberg, Timothy Kuttruff, Alexa Loftus, Ryan Meher, David O’Connor, Janet Rooney, Nic Ruley, and Tamale Sepp.
Selected Shots from Young Photographers
April 25 - August 15, 2010, Gallery 2
The fifth annual exhibition featuring the best new photography from nearly 30 budding young artists enrolled in Chicago Public Schools.
Ps & Qs
February 28- June 6, 2010, Gallery 4
This group exhibition curated by Shannon Stratton and Jeff M. Ward showcases work by seven American artists making formal, non-objective work in painting, sculpture and photography.
Notes to Nonself
February 11- May 2, 2010, Gallery 1 & the Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
Navigate through a bombardment of virtues, vices, and resulting neuroses common to the American experience in the latest collaborative installation by Diane Christiansen and Shoshanna Utchenik featuring a new animation by Diane Christiansen with Shelley Dodson and Matt Marsden.
Flow Interrupted
February 1 - March 1, Black Box Gallery 2nd Floor
Featuring work by Brett Ian Balogh, Grégory Chatonsky, Luis Felipe Carli, chdh collective, Claudia Hart, Aaron M Higgins, Terry Nauheim, and Alessandro Perini.
Stan Chisholm: ThingsThatNeverReallyHappened
January 31 - June 6, 2010, Gallery 5
Juxtaposing the fake and the real, Stan Chisholm builds a new site-specific figurative/landscape work that experiments with different narrative sources, genres and materials.
Aspen Mays: From the Offices of Scientists
Janurary 24 - April 25, 2010, Cleve E. Carney Gallery
A new installation of photography and sculpture by Aspen Mays imagining what Knowledge might look like.
Andreas Fischer: Ghost Town
January 17 - April 18, 2010, Gallery 2
Ghost Town features a series of recent oil paintings by Andreas Fischer held in conjunction with a related show at the Gahlberg Gallery/McAninch Arts Center at the College of DuPage.
2009
The Way Things Are
December 20 - April 8, 2010
A temporal, site-specific installation by Bob Peters and David Schutter.
Close Encounters
November 8, 2009 -January 24, 2010 Gallery 1 & 5
Participating Artists: Daniel du Bern, Tania Bruguera, Walter Hood, Truman Lowe, and Wayne Youle
(Re)Collect
October 18, 2009 - February 14, 2010, Gallery 4
An exhibition bringing together work by more than 20 of the Art Center’s faculty that challenges the reliability of memory.
Just Good Art 2009
October 3 - October 24, 2009, Gallery 1
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Joanne Trestrail: Piecework
September 27 - January 17, 2010, Cleve Carney Gallery
Hyde Park Art Center student Joanne Trestrail exhibits a focused series of clay vessels inspired by basketry and forms found in nature.
Friedhard Kiekeben: Loop
September 27 - January 10, 2010, Gallery 2
A site-specific installation using non-toxic print techniques
Jason Salavon: Spigot (Oracle's Reflection)
September 23 - February 6, 2010, Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
A new large-scale digital work using the artist’s Google searches to generate the image. This exhibition is held in honor of Deone Jackman.
Shanghype!
September 20 - December 13, 2009
Recent film and video work by 15 international artists exploring Shanghai’s rapidly evolving urban culture curated by Davide Quadrio and Dan S. Wang.
MoneyBags
September 8 - October 10, 2009
A satellite exhibition presented on CTA Loop trains October 10th as part of ART ON TRACK.
Visual Learners: Outreach Collaborations
August 9 - November 1, 2009, Gallery 5
A showcase of two separate art projects made by North Kenwood Oakland Charter School students led by artist Shannon Kerrigan and Mary Tepper.
Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture
July 19 - September 20, 2009, Gallery 1
This exhibition offers a provocative look into the current trend of mixing notions of end times and euphoria in contemporary art, thought, and sound.
Mindy Rose Schwartz: Macramé Intervention
June 20 - August 14, 2009
A temporary outdoor installation reimagining the overwhelming power of craft.
Spellbound
June 7, 2009 – October 4, 2009, Gallery 4
Work by Michele Feder-Nadoff, Lora Fosberg, Yvette Kaiser Smith,and John Miller.
Matthew Harris: Beyond China
May 31 - July 26, 2009, Gallery 5
Ceramic busts and tiles with a graphic edge by this emergent artist address the changing economic climate in the world today.
Cody Hudson: Let's Do Some Living After We Die
May 11 - October 4, 2009, Foyer Project Space
A 2-floor installation held in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture.
Artists Run Chicago
May 10 – July 5, 2009, Gallery 1
An exhibition showcasing the energy and audacity of notable artist-run spaces in the Chicagoland area over the past decade.
Fang Ling-An: The Whole World Celebrates Together
May 3 – July 12, 2009, The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
This new installation on the catwalk using paper, metal and plastic, raises questions regarding the political, economic and cultural implications of human capital in contemporary China.
Julian Williams: Recent Paintings
April 25 - June 28, 2009
New landscape paintings by Chicago-based artist Julian Williams.
Selected Shots by Young Artists
April 12 - June 28, 2009, Gallery 2
Our third-annual exhibition of photography featuring the best work from budding artists enrolled in Chicago Public High Schools.
Linda Cohn: Night Train
February 8 - May 24, 2009, Gallery 5
Artist and HPAC instructor Linda Cohn introduces a new series of mixed media paintings.
Altogether Mutable: The work of Mary Lou Zelazny
February 1 - April 12, 2009, Gallery 1
A mid-career retrospective of Chicago painter, Mary Lou Zelazny
Glenn Wexler: Transit 2
February 1 – September 27, 2009, South Stairwell
A photograph-based installation of lightboxes capturing the blur of traveling to other countries and experiencing other cultures.
Sandra Rosas Ridolfi: Highrise
February 1 – April 12, 2009, Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
A new video work that distorts our perception of architecture and the urban grid.
Broad Shoulders and Brotherly Love
January 18 - March 29, 2009, Gallery 2
Anchor Graphics at Columbia College and Philagrafika choose an outstanding variety of work from the other’s residency program or invitational portfolio collection demonstrating the experimental trends in printmaking today.
Ancillary Ancestry: An ulterior genealogy by Chris Garofalo
January 18 – March 29, 2009, Lobby
A ceramic installation creating a canopy of sculptural creatures floating in our glass stairwell.
Abandoned Demolition: New painting by Andy Paczos
January 18 – May 24, 2009, Gallery 4
Andy Paczos paints local abandoned industrial sites that are being re-inhabited in unexpected ways.
2008
Jose Ferriera: Anatomy of an Archive
December 20 - February 28, 2009 2nd floor studios/project space
Resident artist, Jose Ferriera uses the studio space to develop his current project concerning colonialsim in South Africa.
Stan Shellabarger
November 23 - April 12, 2009 : Foyer Project Space
Stan Shellabarger gives the Art Center’s north entrance a prickly makeover by creating a two-story installation comprised entirely of pine needles.
Elke Claus: As Above, So Below
November 2 - February 1, 2009 Gallery 5
New silkscreen prints and etchings made by artist and educator Elke Claus.
Omar Vera: Cold Eels and Distant Thoughts
October 26, 2008 – January 11, 2009, The Cleve Carney Gallery
New sculpture and animated video work intersecting history, current popular culture, and 20th century American design by emerging artist, Omar Vera.
Mark Booth: Spanish Still Life or A Large List of Merged Animals
October 26 - January 4, 2009 Gallery 4
An audio and visual installation by Chicago-based artist Mark Booth inspired by a still life painting by 17th Century artist, Juan Sanchez Cotan.
Not Just Another Pretty Face
October 18 - January 11, Galleries 1 & 2
New work by over 70 artists involved in the Center’s project to bring together artists and patrons.
Joeff Davis: Political Frenzy
October 12 – November 16, 2008, Mueller Meeting Room
If these photos from the 2008 American Presidential Campaign Trail didn’t motivate you to vote November 4th, we don’t know what would have!
The Emergence Project
October 11 - January 2, 2009 The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
Mark Herald and Daniel Sauter created a computer-generated artwork produced in real-time by a live-feed to the 2008 Chicago Humanities Festival.
Glow: work by photographers on faculty
August 3 – October 12, Gallery 2 & 5
Photography by Ollie Dantzler, Adam Ekberg, Katharine Lion, Krystal Meisel, and Anna Ressman. Curated by Karen Irvine.
Catherine Forster: They Call Me Theirs
August 3 - November 23, 2008, Black Box Gallery, 2nd floor
Outside and inside collide in They Call me Theirs, a sculpture, sound and video installation by Catherine Forster.
Monica Herrera: Strings
July 27 – October 19, 2008 The Cleve Carney Gallery
An interactive sound installation by Chicago-based Mexican artist, Monica Herrera.
Are We There Yet?
July 20 - September 28, 2008, Gallery 1
Work by Howard Henry Chen, Alan Cohen, Christine DiThomas, Aron Gent, Rula Halawani, Surendra Lawoti, Curtis Mann, Oscar Palacio, and Adriana Rios. Curated by Dawoud Bey.
Kiss on the Cheek: Portraits by Dale Washington
July 6 - October 12, 2008, Gallery 4
A new series of portraits in a variety of media documenting the personalities in the current moment in Chicago’s art collecting community on the South Side.
Clothesline: Movement
June 21, 2008
A one day uncurated open art exhibition featured work by dozens of chicago area artists.
David Gista: Flamenco and Flames
June 21 - July 20, 2008 Outside the Black Box Gallery
Fire drawings by Parisian artist David Gista was on view at the Hyde Park Art Center outside the Black Box Gallery from June 21 - July 20, 2008.
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.
David Lozano: Queer Interiors and Phthalo Blue
May 23 - November 14, 2008, Foyer Project Space
A new 2-floor painted installation and paintings that converged ideas of homoeroticism, architecture, and color.
Selected Shots by Young Artists
May 4 – July 20, Gallery 5
Our second-annual exhibition of photography by Chicago-area high school students.
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.
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.
Kelly Kaczynski: 'Olympus Manger,' Scene II
April 27 - July 6, 2008, Gallery 1
A new interactive wooden installation by Kelly Kaczynksi.
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!
Jesse Seay: Mechanical Tide
April 25 - July 20, 2008
Kinetic wood and metal sculpture by Chicago-based artist Jesse Seay
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.
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.
Language Art
February 10 – April 27, 2008, The Cleve E. Carney Gallery & Gallery 2
The exhibition featured 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”.
Chuck Walker: Through A Glass Darkly
February 3 – April 6, 2008, Gallery 1
A survey exhibition of work by Chicago artist Chuck Walker that investigate race, sexuality and relationships in a provocative and celebrated style. Curated by Margaret Hawkins.
Here's Looking At You Looking At Me Kid
February 3 - May 4, 2008 Foyer Project Space
An optically challenging wall installation by Geoffrey Todd Smith.
Drive By
January 25 – April 20, 2008, The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery, 3 -10 pm daily
Seven collaborative video works by artists in the MFA program at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Art and Design.
Soft Life
January 20 - March 30, 2008, Gallery 4
Work by Aviva Alter, Danny Mansmith, Miller & Shellabarger, and Rebecca Ringquist.
2007
Double Walkers: Transfigurations Thru Fashion
December 7 - 16, 2007
A Fashion, Performance, and Art Exhibition presented by the Fall 2007 students of Defining 20th + 21st Century Dress from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Kariann Fuqua: On Unstable Ground
November 18 - February 9, 2008, Gallery 5
Emerging artist Kariann Fuqua presented 14 new acid-hued paintings of Chicago’s energetic and gritty cityscape.
STANDARD(S)
November 15 - 29, 2nd floor studio space
Eleven works produced by current DePaul visual arts education students taught by Jim Duignan. The group unites with explorations of pedagogy, communications, aesthetics, and activism in Chicago.
Alice Shaddle: Fragments in a Fractured Space
November 4, 2007 - February 3, 2008, The Cleve Carney Gallery
Recent collage work by Alice Shaddle focuses on the processes of destruction and fissure, exploring tragedy and chaos.
Consuming War
November 4 - Janury 20, 2008, Gallery 1
Curated by Barbara Koenen, the exhibition presents new artworks that explore the various ways war has been consumed - as a commercial product, as an obsession, or literally digested - by the American public over the past 10 years.
Impossible Violence: A History of Selves
October 27 - January 6, 2008, Gallery 4
An exhibition exploring our exposure to violence and our complicity in it, our vulnerability to loss, both great and small, both personal and global, and the challenge of mourning that follows.
Just Good Art 2007
October 8 -20, 2007, Gallery 1
Over 100 artists participate every year in this unpredictable and fun benefit auction / exhibition. Proceeds go towards the Art Center’s exhibition and education programs.
Figure, Form and Observation
September 23 - November 17, 2007, Gallery 2 & 3
A showcase of the paintings, drawings and sculpture from the Art Center’s students working with the figure in the form of gesture, portrait and observation.
Sandra Binion: Seasons
September 2 — November 2, 2007, The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
Sandra Binion presents a five-channel video for the façade that slowly sifts through altered seasonal landscapes incorporating sound artist Lou Mallozzi’s dissembled reworking of Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” as played by cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm.
Plate Convergence
September 2 – November 11, Gallery 5
The exhibition features a new project by Theaster Gates that aims to situate the complexity of the material - clay - into the larger context of contemporary art practice by emphasizing the relationships that develop as a result of the use of the material, not the material itself.
Another Story
August 12 – October 7, Gallery 4
Curated by Pat Swanson, this exhibition examines the range of conceptual, abstract, and figurative approaches that artists use when the book or its surrogate at the heart of their investigations.
Pedagogical Factory: Exploring Strategies for an Educated City
July 22 - September 23, 2007 Gallery 1
The Stockyard Institute, led by Jim Duignan, will use the gallery as an incubator for ideas for artist and teens to work collaboratively and make socially progressive projects. Gallery 1
Constellation: A Faculty Show
July 15 - September 16, 2007, The Cleve E. Carney Gallery & Gallery 3
A selection of work from artists on the Art Center’s faculty curated by Michelle Beckett, Studio Manager at the Art Center.
Impart Process
June 17 - August 26, 2007, Gallery 5
Curated by Philip Nadasdy, this exhibition will feature work by Art Center students. Rather than focusing solely on finished pieces, Impart Process exhibits Art Center students’ creative process during a regular 10-week session.
Interiority
June 10 - July 29, 2007, Gallery 4
A group exhibition curated by Stuart Keeler and organized by the Contemporary Arts Council.
Stacza Lipinski: Hang Up
May 20 – September 16, 2007
Chicago based emerging artist, Stacza Lipinski will make a new installation that activates the two-story glass stairwell using cut vellum paper, acrylic paint and filament wire.
Selected Shots
May 20 - June 24, Gallery 2
A Kenwood Academy high school student show of outstanding photography
Bionic Threads
May 20 – June 24, Cleve E. Carney Gallery (Gallery 3)
Both Christy Matson and Sabrina Gschwandter create works that enhance textiles with electronics and vice versa.
Speaker Project
April 28 — July 8, 2007, Gallery 1
Juan Angel Chavez will create a multi-directional, multi-layer sound experience by building a large-scale speaker out of found material.
THERE: University of Chicago MFA Thesis Exhibition
Opening Reception: April 28, 6-8pm, HPAC Artist Studios
There features work by the University of Chicago’s Department of Visual Arts MFA students.
Rise & Set
April 15 – November 2, 2007, North Staircase and Foyer
The entrance to the Art Center transforms into a narrative adaptation of a sunrise and sunset with a two-story installation by Ken Fandell and Diana Guerrero-Maciá.
For Public Consumption
April 11 — May 27, 2007, The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery, on view daily from 2 pm until 10 pm
The Art Center collaborates with Links Hall (Chicago) to present a group exhibition of digital projection works.
*This exhibition has been shortened due to projector difficulties. A closing screening will be scheduled in July 2007
The Embedded Body
April 8 - May 27, 2007, Gallery 4
NOTICE: The Embedded Body has been canceled due to technical difficulties.
Exquisite Rivers: Artworks by Canter Middle School students
April 1 – June 3, 2007, Gallery 5
Led by Art Center teaching artist Mary Tepper, over 50 students from Canter Middle School developed this series of small drawings and paintings responding to nature over the 2006-7 school year.
The Adventurous Type
March 18 - May 13, Gallery 2 & The Cleve E. Carney Gallery
Art works that play with the psychology of adventure while questioning the reality of personal discovery.
A+ Videos
February 4 - April 15, 2nd floor studio screening room
The Chicago Art Department presents a selection of work from their star pupils.
God's Punk
February 4 — April 8, 2007
The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery & Gallery 1
A new media opera by Max King Cap that questions the conditions of our shared humanity and the limits of compassion.
Luscious: Paintings by Darrell Roberts
January 21 — March 25, 2007, Gallery 4
A new selection of abstract vibrant cityscapes by faculty member Darrell Roberts documents the constant rebuilding of the city as documented by the artist over the past three years.
Lorraine Peltz: Cosmic Hostess
January 14 - March 25, 2007, Gallery 5
As a Cosmic Hostess, Lorraine Peltz serves us up with paintings that journey out into the cosmos, through deep and sometimes troubled waters, and into orange daydreams.
Dale Washington: Sunrise
January 7 - March 11, 2007, Gallery 2
A selection of works from Dale Washington, a Hyde Park Art Center teaching artist, that turn the sunrise over South Shore into a seductively sensual experience. Washington is a returning faculty member and has been exhibiting throughout the Midwest for over 15 years.
Angela Lee: Marking the Body
January 7 - March 11, 2007, Gallery 3
New works in sculpture, drawing and painting by Angela Lee explore how the body has been marked in various cultures and societies, both past and present.
2006
Converging Patterns
December 8-17, 2006, 2nd floor studio
Converging Patterns inspects the global climate change due to human activity. The objective of the exhibition is to illustrate how the unusual weather will affect the way we dress.
Fraser Taylor: Reverse Transcriptase
November 13 - February 13, 2006, In the Loop Gallery
at In The Loop Gallery, a satellite exhibition space for the Art Center located at 69 W. Washington Blvd. in downtown Chicago.
Interstellar Low Ways
October 15 — January 14, 2007, Gallery 1 & 3
An exhibition in conjunction with the Sun Ra art, music and ephemera exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago in October 2006.
Le Conqueroo: Part 3. Defeat! Thus the Magpie, Rider of Leviathan, Herald of Saturn - the 9 choirs
October 15 — December 17, 2006, Gallery 2 & 3
Academy Records will produce a unique metaphysical installation incorporating film, mixed media, and live and recorded drums exploring the effects of rhythm and its relation to the physical space.
John Himmelfarb: Inland Romance: Gary, Indiana
September 30 – December 17, Gallery 5
65-foot long painting created onsite at the Savannah Art Gallery on the Indiana University Northwest Campus in Gary.
Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-68
October 1 — January 14, 2007, Gallery 4
The exhibition will showcase a diverse, provocative and by-and-large never seen range of materials related to composer, mystic, philosopher and Afro-Futurist, Sun Ra during his years in Chicago.
Just Good Art
September 18 - 30, 2006, Gallery 1
Over 100 artists will participate in this unpredictable and fun benefit auction / exhibition. Proceeds go towards the Art Center’s exhibition and education programs. We just can’t get rid of this one - its too good.
Doppelgänger
September 12 — October 12, 2006, The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
An interactive installation by Luftwerk (Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero) using sound, video and motion sensors to literally illuminate the other in order to consider the individuals we choose or refuse to acknowledge in relation to ourselves in everyday life.
Wanna be part of the human race
September 3 — October 8, 2006, Gallery 3
Artist, Shane Huffman will revisit his ideas in sculptural form that explore the concept of time as an impartial force impacting natural objects and beings.
Vera Scekic: Bilateral Symmetry
August 14 — November 4, 2006, In The Loop Gallery
at In The Loop Gallery, a satellite exhibition space for the Art Center located at 69 W. Washington Blvd. in downtown Chicago and in the foyer of the Art Center’s 5020 S. Cornell building.
Mel Watkin: Reclamation
July 30 — August 27, 2006, Gallery 2 & 3
For the Art Center, Mel Watkin will exhibit a selection of her International map drawings in addition to a new wall drawing.
Ruby Satellite
July 16 — September 17, 2006, Gallery 4
The art works in this exhibition curated by Ciara Ennis, explore the diverse forms and complex drives of authority, with particular emphasis on obsessive and often perverse forms of behavior linked to such power structures and belief systems.
Scott Wolniak: Drawing With Outer Space
July 15 – September 4, 2006, Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
A large-scale paper installation in the Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery.
Jennifer Greenburg: Recalling Americana
July 2 — September 10, 2006, Gallery 5
Chicago photographer Jennifer Greenburg presents her most recent series of contemporary portraits.
Home of the Free
June 25 — September 3, 2006, Gallery 1
Independent curator and Director of the ICA, London, Jens Hoffmann, will organize an exhibition of American artists that investigates whether there is such a thing as a definitive form of freedom.
Material Science
June 18 — July 23, 2006, Gallery 2 & 3
Over 35 practicing artists instruct hands-on studio programs at the Art Center and partner sites.
Mary Tepper: Citycape
May 15 — August 5, 2006
at In The Loop Gallery, a satellite exhibition space for the Art Center located at 69 W. Washington Blvd. in downtown Chicago.
Random Sky
April 24 — July 9, 2006, The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
Inigo Manglano-Ovalle with Mark Hereld and Rick Gribenas created this large-scale digital projection for the catwalk gallery that can be viewed from the inside and outside of the building.
Takeover
April 24 — June 11, 2006
Thirty-nine Chicago-rooted artists will create new artworks that incorporate the unique features of the Art Center as a resource for making art and inspiring ideas.
For Real
March 15 — April 28, 2006
The artists interrogate the relation between the prosaic and poetic, use value and aesthetic value, clock time and natural time, the specific and the universal, epistemological limits and the longing to transcend them.
2005
Hints for the Tourist: The Opinions of James Garrett Faulkner
November 20, 2005 – January 8, 2006
The first survey of collages, sculptures and paintings by Chicago-based artist James Garrett Faulkner curated by Michael Rooks.
Just Good Art 2005
October 24 – November 12, 2005
The Art Center’s benefit auction and exhibition was hosted by Hamza Walker.
Bernard Williams:
The Ornamental System of Louis Sullivan
August 28 – October 8, 2005
Bernard Williams exhibited a new series of dynamic sculptures and drawings intertwining familiar architectural icons with raw urban forms of Louis Sullivan.
Homegrown - Selected Produce
June 26 - August 6 2005
Homegrown: Selected Produce, was an exhibition of artwork by over 50 artists enrolled in its adult studio art classes.
Molehill
April 24 – August 13, 2005, CCAB Space In the Loop
Molehill was a site-specific exhibition at our space IN THE LOOP utilizing the height and darkness particular to this gallery space to create a cavernous environment.
INterACTION
April 24 - June 11, 2005, Ruth Horwich Gallery
Featuring work by Granite Amit, Melinda Fries, Patrick Killoran, Ginger Krebs and Ben Stone Curated by Judy Kim and Allison Peters INterACTION, a playful and unscripted exhibition, encouraged viewers to touch the artwork that was on view at the Hyde…
Robert Amft: Paintings for Particular People
March 6 to April 16, 2005, Ruth Horwich Gallery
The selected paintings highlighted the outlandishly prolific and pop-inspired talent of the Chicago native Robert Amft. Born in 1916, Amft graduated from the School of the Art Institute in 1938 and exhibited extensively through the next fifty years. He is still painting today. The Art Center presented the first comprehensive retrospective of Amft’s oeuvre in Chicago. This exhibition gave overdue exposure to an under-recognized local modernist.
Portrait and Group Paintings
January 31 – April 23, 2005, CCAB Space IN THE LOOP
A collection of paintings by Michael O’Briant shown at our CCAB Space IN THE LOOP.
The Wonderful (Lost) Achievements
January 16 - February 20, 2005, Ruth Horwich Gallery
For this exhibit, Alatalo drew from the history of the area as the site of the 1893 Columbian Exposition to present a mixed media installation of fictional lost exhibits.
2004
Fine Words Butter No Cabbage
August 29 to October 2, 2004
Fine Words Butter No Cabage, celebrated the 26th Anniversary of the Chicago-based art and language journal WhiteWalls by presenting over forty art projects ranging across media, from photography, to performance and video art, to drawing and writing. Rather than showing…
The Fourth "R": Reading, Writing, Arithmetic...aRt
June 27 August 7, 2004
The Fourth ‘R’ was a unique collaborative venture spearheaded by the Hyde Park Art Center in partnership with seven leading Chicago arts organizations. This ambitious project brought together dozens of classroom teachers and hundreds of elementary students from across the…
HUBRIS
May 2 - June 12, 2004
HUBRIS, a group exhibition orchestrated by curatorial collection The Pond opened May 2 at the Hyde Park Art Center
I Read it for the Art: Chicago, Creativity and Playboy
March 7 to April 2004, 2004
I Read it for the Art: Chicago, Creativity and Playboy opened March 7 2004 at the Hyde Park Art Center presented in collaboration with Playboy, Inc.
Administrative Bunker + Root
January 11 – February 21, 2004
A site-specific installation for the architecturally elaborate former home of the Art Center at the Del Prado Hotel at 5307 South Hyde Park Blvd.
2003
Not Just Another Pretty Face
November 9- December 13, 2003
A benefit and the culmination of a year-long initiative matching artists with patrons.
Comix Chicago
August 24- October 4, 2003
A group exhibition that examined the early stages of production, revealing thought, process, and the urban landscape as integral aspects of the artwork of comic book artists. Curated by Britton Bertran.
Operation: Human Intelligence
May 4- June 14, 2003
An exhibition of works that presented traditional themes about the intelligence community as meaningful, public, cultural objects. Arranged by the Contemporary Arts Council in collaboration with the Curatorial Intelligence Agency.
Zounds
March 9 - April 19, 2003
A group exhibition that examined the fascination and devotion of the wound in contemporary art and society.
Patrick McGee: U7
January 12 - February 28, 2003, Ruth Horwich Gallery
A site specific installation that used geometric structures inspired by R. Buckminster Fuller.
2002
Cut, Pulled, Colored & Burnt
August 25-October 5, 2002, Ruth Horwich Gallery
Work featured examined issues of representation, cultural identity, and assertion through photography, painting, drawing, sculpture and assemblage. Curated by Michael Rooks.
The Human Presence
May 5- June 15, 2002 Ruth Horwich Gallery and the Student/Faculty Gallery
A group exhibition of six photographers who investigated the human presence through different methods of photography. Curated by Dawoud Bey.
Prestar=Borrow + Lend
March 10-April 20 2002 Ruth Horwich Gallery
Juan Angel Chavez, Dianna Frid, Diana Guerrero-Macia, and Marcos Raya used borrowed pictures, words and forms from history, literature and popular culture to lend a new meaning to reconfigured materials. Curated by Cynthia Weiss and Annie Morse.
Rupturing Beauty
January 13 - Febuary 23, 2002, Ruth Horwich Gallery
A group exhibition that addressed, questioned, and critiqued the influence of Bataille’s text Formless through an assemblage of media. Curated by Chuck Thurow and Pat Swanson.
2001
Wedding Video: Projection
December 2-December 19, 2001, Ruth Horwich Gallery
The video installation that exaimned acts of love and ritual in the context of the American Family.
Doug Ischar and Achim Wollscheid in conjunction with the Experimental Sound Studio's Outer Ear Festival
November 1 - 20, 2001 Ruth Horwich Gallery
An exhibition of sound work by Doug Ischar and a performance by Achim Wollscheid in conjunction with the Experimental Sound Studio’s Outer Ear Festival.
The Autonomous Territories of Chicago
October 14, 2001 Ruth Horwich Gallery
The Autonomous Terrirtories of Chicago brought together a variety of political and artisitic radicals to incite discussion for the purpose of producing socially conscious works, and the networking of activists.
Cold Comfort
August 25 - October 6, 2001 Ruth Horwich Gallery
Artists Karen Reimer and Constance Bacon offered a three-fold examination of the conflicted nature of identity through the transformation of the Ruth Horwich gallery.
HOMEGROWN KIDS
June, 10 - July, 28 2001, Ruth Horwich Gallery and Faculty Gallery
Featured work by young adults from the south and west sides of Chicago involved with the Art Center’s youth programs.
Compound Fracture
March 25 - May 19, 2001 Ruth Horwich Gallery
Work featured in this group exhibition examined the theme of “guts” in terms of human tissues, organs and organic matter.
Transcultural Visions: Polish American Contemporary Art
January 14 - March 3, 2001, Ruth Horwich Gallery
The exhibition addressed identity from global cultures by investigating how American artists of Polish heritage relate to their own ethnic identity.
2000
Les Chemical Carnales
November 19 - December 16, 2000 Ruth Horwich Gallery
Curated by Ed Paschke the exhibition featured work in distinctly different styles by four contemporary artists.
Just Good Art
October 28- November 4, 200 Ruth Horwich Gallery
The 2000 Just Good Art annual benefit auction continued the tradition of catering to both novice and seasoned art collectors with over 100 Chicago artists exhibited.
Chester and the Sheriff: "The Men Who Sold the World"
August 27-October 7 2000 Ruth Horwich Gallery
This performance-based collaboration featured artists working in new ways with performance and photography in two and three dimensional forms.
Simparch: Free Basin
May 7 - June 24, 2000: Ruth Horwich Gallery
This exhibition presented an architectural/sculptural project using skateboarding forms by the collaborative group SIMPARCH.
3 1/2 Months of Sundays at the Whale
March 5-April 15 2000, Ruth Horwich Gallery
The exhibit featured artworks created by members of the Lamprey.
Some Assembly Required
January 9-February 19 2000 Ruth Horwich Gallery
This group exhibition explored the junction between human and machine.
1999
Howl
November 21-December 18 1999 Ruth Horwich Gallery
In conjunction with the city’s millennium celebration’s the Center presented artists who embody legacies of the past 1000 years that all societies would benefit from their disappearance.
SEXTABLOS
August 28-October 16 1999 Ruth Horwich Gallery
The exhibition featured 60 artists utilizing the form of the Mexican retablo to explore themes of sex and sexual taboos.
Linda Kramer Retrospective
May 16-June 30 1999 Ruth Horwich Gallery
Linda Kramer’s retrospective spanned Linda’s career starting with early watercolors and documenting her most recent body of sculptural work in 1999.
Seeing the Unseen
March 14-April 28 1999 Ruth Horwich Gallery
This exhibition featured photography by Chicago documentary photographer Ron Gordon and students enrolled in Marwen’s documentary photography course, Postcards from the Neighborhoods.
Votive Offerings
January 10-February 24, 1999 Ruth Horwich Gallery
This group exhibition featured photography, painting, sculpture, and multi-media installation art as part of the Center’s inaugural exhibition for its 60th year.
1998
Janina Started All of This, The Hyde Park Art Center's Members' Show Commemorates its Origins
November 15-December 16 1998 Ruth Horwich Gallery
The exhibition provided Art Center members the opportunity to exhibit their work in a gallery setting and compete for awards given by a jury.
10th Annual Just Good Art Aunction
October 31-November 7 1998 Ruth Horwich Gallery
Over 90 Chicago artist contributed to the annual Just Good Art benefit aunction at the Hyde Park Art Center.
Artscape
October 17, 1998
Artscape ‘98 - was an interactive-on-the-street art competition in Hyde Park, October 1-4, 1998.
Artscape
October 1-October 19 1998 Ruth Horwich Gallery
Artscape brought together local and national artists to paint, sculpt, and photograph their impressions of Hyde Park.
Potluck
August 30-October 14 1998 Ruth Horwich Gallery
The exhibition featured painting and sculpture by artists working in multiple themes.
HOMEGROWN!
July 19 - August 19 1998, Ruth Horwich Gallery and Faculty Gallery
The exhibition featured works by faculty, staff, and students of the Hyde Park Art Center.
Not In My Lobby, You Don't!
May 21-June 27 1998 Ruth Horwich Gallery
This exhibition showcased fifteen Chicago based artists who worked collaboratively or solo on site-specific installations across the city.
10,000 Lincoln Cheese Logs: Something Different from MN, IL and WI
January 11-February 25 1998 Ruth Horwich Gallery
This exhibition presented work by Midwestern artists who work in a variety of media to examine visual humor in contemporary culture.
1997
ILLUMINATING: Light as Context
November 23-December 17,1997 Ruth Horwich Gallery
Curator Esther Saks brought together eight artists who transcend material reality by harnessing light as a medium of revelation, illusion, penetration and spirituality.
r Emote
Setempber 14-October 22,1997 Ruth Horwich Gallery
Work featured examined issues of politics, gender, identity and consumerism as it related to assumptions of emotional control.
Present
June 8, 1998 - July 16, 1998 Ruth Horwich Gallery
Present, was an exhibition by seven emerging artists whose work explored the terrain of interaction.
Penetralia
April 20-May 28,1997 Ruth Horwich Gallery
Curated by Jenny Kraus this exhibition featured works by artists Ulrike Johannsen and Yvette Kaiser Smith.
Latent Exposure
March 2-April 9 1997 Ruth Horwich Gallery
Six recent graduates from the University of Chicago were featured in this group exhibition that spanned media, and interpretations of beauty, humor and historical and technical conventions.
How to Describe a Suspect
January 19-February 19 1997 Ruth Horwich Gallery
This group exhibition featured seventeen artists whose visual expressions span a variety of visual languages.
1996
Don Baum Says: Chicago Has Famous Artists
November 17 1996-January 4 1997 Ruth Horwich Gallery
This retrospective featured works by well known Chicago artists who exhibited at the Center between 1956-1996.
HOMEGROWN: Hyde Park Art Center's Annual Student & Faculty Show
August 26 - September 1996, Ruth Horwich and Faculty Galleries
The exhibition featured works by faculty, staff, and students of the Hyde Park Art Center.
1992
Really Cool Artists We Thought You'd Like To See Again!
March 8-April 25 1992 Ruth Horwich Gallery
The invitational exhibition featured current work by fifteen artists who showed at the Center during the late eighties and early nineties.
1991
Hyde Park Art Center Annual Holiday Show & Sale
December 7-December 20, 1991 Ruth Horwich Gallery
The Annual Holiday Sale featured works in a variety of media.
Haitian Art: Selections from a Chicago Collection
October 27 - November 30, 1991 Ruth Horwich Gallery
More than 100 paintings and sculptures by 47 noted artists of Haiti comprise this unique showing from the collection of Donald Garrabrant.
Being Women Sculptors: A Dialogue of Views
September 8-October 5 1991 Ruth Horwich Gallery
The exhibition featured artists whose gender played a significant role in the development of their work.
Annual Student/Faculty Exhibition
August 4-August 31 1991, Ruth Horwich Gallery and Faculty Gallery
The exhibition featured works by faculty, staff, and students of the Hyde Park Art Center.
16th Annual Hyde Park Art Center Members' Show
June 23-July 20 1991 Ruth Horwich Gallery
The exhibition provided Art Center members the opportunity to exhibit their work in a gallery setting and compete for awards given by a jury.
BOATS AND TRAINS: Francois Viscontini at the Hyde Park Art Center
April 28-June 8 1991 Ruth Horwich Gallery
This exhibition featured the work of Swiss artist Francois Viscontini.
Essential Form
March 10-April 14 1991 Ruth Horwich Gallery
This exhibition featured the work of four Chicago area artists exploring reductive issues in abstraction.
Engulfed
February 17-March 17 1991 Ruth Horwich Gallery
This exhibition featured 32 pin-hole self-portrait photographs and accompanying texts by students of the U of C Lab School.
1990
Hyde Park Art Center Annual Holiday Show & Sale
December 9, 1991, Ruth Horwich Gallery
The Annual Holiday Sale featured works in a variety of media.
Ectoplasmic Desires
October 28-December 1, 1990 Ruth Horwich Gallery
This exhibition featured art that incorporated the use of light as a medium.
Between The Lines
September 9-October 6 1990, Ruth Horwich Gallery
This exhibition featured four emerging artist from Chicago.
Annual Hyde Park Art Center Members' Show 1990
June 10-July 7 1990, Ruth Horwich Gallery
The exhibition provided Art Center members the opportunity to exhibit their work in a gallery setting and compete for awards given by a jury.
Altered States
April 15 - May 26, 1990, Ruth Horwich Gallery
This exhibition featured seventeen Chicago artists working with found objects.
Beneath the Skin
February 25-April 8 1990 Ruth Horwich Gallery
Artists in the exhibition explored themes related to notions of vulnerability.
Crisp and Clean
January 14 - February 17 1990, Ruth Horwich Gallery
This group exhibition featured sculpture, photography and works on paper.
1989
Hyde Park Art Center Annual Holiday Show & Sale
December 8, 1989 Ruth Horwich Gallery
The Annual Holiday Sale featured works in a variety of media.
Insights
October 1-November 5 1989, Ruth Horwich Gallery
This exhibition featured three sculpture/installation artists.
Incredible Variety: An Exhibition of Current Student Work
August 27-September 17 1989, Ruth Horwich Gallery and Faculty Gallery
The exhibition featured works by faculty, staff, and students of the Hyde Park Art Center and honored Gungor Guner.
Annual Hyde Park Art Center Member's Show 1989
June 11-July 2 1989 Ruth Horwich Gallery
The exhibition provided Art Center members the opportunity to exhibit their work in a gallery setting and compete for awards given by a jury.
H.P.A.C. or Bust
January 8-February 12, 1989, Ruth Horwich Gallery
This exhibition featured five young Chicago artists working in the genre of portraiture.
1988
The Refrigerator Door Show
November 20-December 18, 1988, Ruth Horwich Gallery
This exhibition featured eighteen artists who invited to create masterworks that incorporated a refrigerator door.
IL BRONZETTO
October 2-November 6, 1988, Ruth Horwich Gallery
The exhibition featured 30 artists from Chicago and Illinois who produce small scale bronze sculpture.
Annual Hyde Park Art Center Member's Show 1988
July 10-August 7, 1988, Ruth Horwich Gallery
The exhibition provided Art Center members the opportunity to exhibit their work in a gallery setting and compete for awards given by a jury.
In The Dark
May 22-June 26, 1988, Ruth Horwich Gallery
This exhibition modified traditional lighting found in exhibition spaces to present possible alternatives to the viewer’s experience.
Disparate Elements
February 21-March 27, 1988, Ruth Horwich Gallery
This exhibition presented the work of eight artists who used created objects that expressed their own artistic intentions.
1987
Edward C. Flood Retrospective 1967-1985
October 4 - November 14, 1987
For most of us in Chicago, Edward Flood will always be associated with that stellar group of artists who burst onto the art scene in the mid-sixties at the Hyde Park Art Center. With exhibition titles like the False Image,…
Drawings of the Chicago Imagists/The Chicago Imagist Print/Edward C. Flood:Retrospective 1967-1985
October 4-November 21, 1987, Ruth Horwich Gallery
The three exhibitions featured work of Chicago Imagists.