2–3 7–10 10–12 Use this guide to explore Art Design Chicago offerings throughout the city and beyond. Whatever catches your interest, we encourage you to #JustGoSeeIt. Visit ArtDesignChicago.org for the most up-to-date information and a full calendar of events. Note: Program information is subject to change. Exhibitions and events that are free of charge are indicated as such; all others have an admission fee or optional donation. Please visit ArtDesignChicago.org for links to ticket information. Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation EXHIBITIONS for American Art, is a spirited celebration of the 2 unique and vital role Chicago plays as America’s crossroads of creativity and commerce. Throughout 2018, EXHIBITIONS Art Design Chicago presents a dynamic convergence BEYOND CHICAGO of more than 25 exhibitions and hundreds of public 18 programs, along with publications, conferences, and symposia. Together, they tell the stories of the artists and designers who defined and continue to propel PROGRAMS & EVENTS Chicago’s role as a hub of imagination and impact. 20 From art displayed on museum walls to mass-produced GALLERIES & MORE consumer goods, Chicago’s singular creative contributions 26 are showcased in this citywide partnership of more than 50 museums, art centers, universities, and other cultural organizations both large and small. MAPS 28 FREE Jan 11–Mar 25, 2018 Jose Guerrero, Presente: A Memorial Print Portfolio DePaul Art Museum 935 West Fullerton Avenue, Chicago 773.325.7506 Jose Guerrero was an artist who had an EXHIBITIONS impact on his community through print- making, mural painting, and activism. He is best known for his work in the Pilsen neigh- Visit ArtDesignChicago.org borhood, where his studio and workshop for the most up-to-date information was a hub for art classes, mural tours, and political organizing. This exhibition features and a full calendar of events. a portfolio of prints created in Guerrero’s memory by 25 Chicago artists as well as works on paper by Guerrero. « Héctor Duarte, Según Jose Guerrero (detail), 2016. DePaul Art Museum. FREE Nov 5, 2017–Apr 8, 2018 FREE Jan 11–Mar 25, 2018 Bill Walker: Urban Griot Barbara Jones-Hogu: Hyde Park Art Center Resist, Relate, Unite 1968–1975 5020 South Cornell Avenue, Chicago DePaul Art Museum 773.324.5520 935 West Fullerton Avenue, Chicago 773.325.7506 William (Bill) Walker was a prolific mural- ist best known for creating the iconic Chicago-based artist Barbara Jones-Hogu Wall of Respect on Chicago’s South Side was a central figure of the Black Arts in collaboration with the Organization Movement and a founding member of the of Black American Culture (OBAC) in 1967, African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists which inspired community-based public (AfriCOBRA). Throughout her career artworks in other U.S. cities. Urban Griot she worked in painting, printmaking, film, explores Walker’s artwork beyond the and education, and contributed to major wall, much of which has rarely, if ever, been projects, including Chicago’s Wall of Respect displayed. The exhibition showcases his mural. This is the first solo museum exhi- contributions as a political thinker, social bition dedicated to the artist and features activist, and skilled artist. her woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, and screenprints. » William Walker, For Blacks Only #16 (detail), 1979–82. » Barbara Jones-Hogu, Unite (detail), 1969. Chicago State University Foundation. Lusenhop Fine Art. 2 EXHIBITIONS 3 FREE Mar 23–Aug 19, 2018 May 4–Aug 5, 2018 Arte Diseño Xicágo: Flesh: Ivan Albright at Mexican Inspiration from the the Art Institute of Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition Art Institute of Chicago to the Civil Rights Era 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago National Museum of Mexican Art 312.443.3600 1852 West 19th Street, Chicago 312.738.1503 Chicago native Ivan Albright remains one of the most provocative artists of the 20th Mexican craftspeople and artists visited century, a “master of the macabre” famous or migrated to Chicago at the turn of the for his richly detailed paintings of ghoulish 20th century. Some came to exhibit, subjects. Albright portrayed the body’s some to work, and others to witness the vulnerability—to age, disease, and death. labor organizing by the rising unions. This exhibition, the first of Albright’s Through photographs, artifacts, and works work in over 20 years, explores how of art dating from 1893 to the 1970s, this his uncompromising vision challenged exhibition surveys the early artistic involve- conventional notions of art and beauty, ment and creative influence of Mexican earning him fame as well as notoriety. travelers and immigrants in Chicago. » Ivan Albright, » Errol Ortiz, Astronaut Targets (detail), 1965. Picture of Dorian Gray (detail), 1943/44. Corbett vs. Dempsey. The Art Institute of Chicago. May 12–Oct 28, 2018 Apr 28–Dec 30, 2018 Never a Lovely so Real: Photography and Picture Fiction: Kenneth Josephson Film in Chicago, 1950–1980 and Contemporary Photography Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago 220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago 312.443.3600 312.280.2660 This exhibition looks at artists who worked Chicago-based photographer Kenneth across Chicago from the 1950s through Josephson changed the way we think the 1970s and commented in images about pictures. His so-called conceptual and film on the life of the communities photography pushes the boundaries of to which they belonged or were granted the medium, demonstrating that photo- intimate access as outsiders. Using the graphs are not neutral; on the contrary, Art Institute’s photography collection they convey an idea in addition to a pic- as a springboard, Never a Lovely so Real ture. This exhibition considers Josephson’s presents personal and public narratives influence on artists of all kinds, high- that defined the city during some of the lighting links between him and other most pivotal cultural and social transfor- contemporary artists working in photo- mations. Seen together, these works reveal graphy, film, and sculpture. Chicago’s character: lovely and real. « Kenneth Josephson, « Billy Abernathy, Mother’s Day Matthew again (detail), 1980. (detail) from the series Born Hip, 1962. Stephen Daiter Gallery. The Art Institute of Chicago. 4 EXHIBITIONS 5 Jun 7–Aug 17, 2018 FREE A Home for Surrealism: Fantastic Painting in Mid-Century Chicago Rogue foosball The Arts Club of Chicago 201 East Ontario Street, Chicago 312.787.3997 This exhibition explores a select group captains- of Chicago painters who, in the 1940s and 1950s, planted domestic roots for the surrealist idiom. Working in and around the city, Gertrude Abercrombie, turned- Ivan Albright, Eldzier Cortor, Julio de Diego, Harold Noecker, Dorothea Tanning, Julia Thecla, and John Wilde portrayed their “fantastic,” psychic visions with precise detail, making them tangible to astronauts a Midwestern audience. « Dorothea Tanning, Avatar (detail), 1947. Private collection. © 2018 Artists narrowly Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. escape Jun 8–Sep 3, 2018 Charles White: A Retrospective Art Institute of Chicago laser-blasting 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago 312.443.3600 Charles White, born and educated in jewel. Chicago, was one of the preeminent artists to emerge during the city’s Black Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s. A passionate mural and easel painter, and a superbly gifted draftsman, White pow- erfully interpreted African American Maybe you should history, culture, and lives in striking works of expressive, highly accessible realism. just go see it. Presented on the 100th anniversary of White’s birth, this exhibition unites a selection of the artist’s most important paintings, drawings, and prints. » Charles White, Harvest Talk (detail), 1953. Can you find the art in this guide that matches The Art Institute of Chicago. the description above? (Answer on page 27.) 6 EXHIBITIONS 7 Jul 12–Sep 14, 2018 Jun 28–Sep 30, 2018 FREE FREE Sculpting a Chicago Artist: A Johnson Publishing Story Richard Hunt and his Teachers Stony Island Arts Bank Nelli Bar and Egon Weiner 6760 South Stony Island Avenue, Chicago Koehnline Museum of Art, 312.857.5561 Oakton Community College Founded in 1942 by publisher and art 1600 East Golf Road, Des Plaines collector John H. Johnson, the Johnson 847.635.2633 Publishing Company (JPC) rose to promi- Internationally-renowned sculptor nence due to the widespread popularity Richard Hunt developed his talent in the of its magazines, including Ebony and 1950s at the School of the Art Institute Jet. Through books, periodicals, ephem- of Chicago with the guidance of two era, paintings, sculptures, and custom- dynamic teachers: Nelli Bar and Egon designed office furnishings from the Weiner. Bar and Weiner were both of a gen- JPC archives and collections held by the eration of artists who fled Europe after Rebuild Foundation, this exhibition the rise of the Nazi regime and made explores the enduring role of Johnson and Chicago their new home for their artistic JPC in defining and popularizing a black ambitions. Featuring works by all three aesthetic and identity around the globe. artists, this exhibition explores creative » Furniture and objects installed in influence across generations. the Johnson Publishing Building in 2015. » Richard Hunt in Chicago (detail), 1962. Photo: Jacob Hand, 2016. Courtesy of Richard Hunt. Jun 29, 2018–Jan 6, 2019 FREE Aug 3–Sep 30, 2018 Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow Intuit: The Center for LIONS: Founding Years Intuitive and Outsider Art of UIMA in Chicago 756 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art 312.243.9088 2320 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago 773.227.5522 Chicago has a unique history of robust recognition and acceptance of self-taught This exhibition explores the history of artists and outsider art. Drawn from 30 the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art collections and featuring 10 Chicago icons, (UIMA), established in 1971 and located including Henry Darger, Lee Godie, and in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village neighbor- Joseph Yoakum, this exhibition explores hood.