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Chicago, IL 60657

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Exhibitions

Left: Spray painted flower design set inside of a frame. The frame crisscrosses on top of the floral pattern. Right: A spiderweb shimmering in front of a black background. A light emerges from the web's center.

January 16th 2026 – March 1st 2026

Permeable Images

Jesse Ly & Maven Kennedy

ACRE Projects Lakeview

ACRE is supported in part by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Ruth Foundation for the Arts, Field Foundation, Good Chaos, Ruth Foundation, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, and Illinois Arts Council Agency

Lead Sponsors: Patti Gilford, Valerie Carberry and Richard Wright, The California Clipper, 710 Group, Jay Dandy and Melissa Weber

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Exhibitions

Permeable Images

Left: Spray painted flower design set inside of a frame. The frame crisscrosses on top of the floral pattern. Right: A spiderweb shimmering in front of a black background. A light emerges from the web's center.

Jesse Ly & Maven Kennedy

Fixing the Baroque

Darkly lit photograph of maylar blanket around a mirror reflecting a Black woman in a kitchen mixing flour in a large metal bowl

Carlos Salazar-Lermont

Committee of Six

Still from "Committee of Six." A Black woman wearing glasses and a blazer stares directly at the camera. She sits at a desk in front of wall-to-wall bookshelves. A name plate reading "Kimpton" is on the table in front of her.

Fred Schmidt-Arenales

Positive or Zero: Long Distance Collaboration

Five people standing in a row of chairs in the middle of a meadow. They are passing a red chair down the line.

Frey Michael Austin, Matthew Austin (For the Birds Trapped in Airports), Lois Bielefeld, Andi Crist, Camila Leiva, Liz Roberts, Jamie Robertson, and lee rae walsh /
Curated by Zach Clark & Sara J. Winston

Closeup of pitch pipe device, which includes smushed glass globe and metal mechanics

Tess Oldfield / Curated by Inés Arango-Guingue

Home, Place and Positionality

Triptych with square woven canvases.

Haerim Lee & Fatima Laster

In Remembrance of Us

Grayscale photocopy of vertical stripes with two feet in the top right corner. Text on a red border to the right of the image reads: Lehna Huie: In Remembrance of Us, 3.7 - 4.14.2025; Opening Reception: March 7, 6 - 9pm; Visit during open hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 12 - 4pm or by appointment

Lehna Huie

Hijx De Viboras Doradas

Colorful tufted rug, rectangle with an arched top shows a pink figure in the center sitting next to a fire

Moises Salazar Tlatenchi at UIS Visual Arts Gallery

I Am A Thing That Holds Something Else

Black and white pencil drawing of two candles. One candle sits in a candle holder while the other is held in an outstretched hand. The wicks of the two cancles touch. A second hand holds a lighter that lights both of the candles at once. The drawing is in a brick-patterned frame and hung from two white brackets.

Ray Madrigal

World of Variety Holiday Shop

Shop with a variety of objects and artworks on shelves and tables. A sign reading "World of Variety" hangs from the wall in the top right corner of the image.

A modern, curated variety store by artist and proprietor Stella Brown

Elemental Impressions of Interspecies Care, of Violence

Photograph of two Colts, Moline and Everest grooming each other with their mouths. Moline is dark brown with cream colored hair. Everest is red with a white diamond on his nose. They are standing in green grass, with green confires above their heads.

D Rosen

Beauty, beauty, look at you, I wish to God I had it, too.

Photograph of a rural landscape printed on an artist-made quilt.

Zachary Hutchinson

Chicago Artists for Palestine

Chicago Artists for Palestine Exhibition & Fundraiser, May 18 - June 2, 2024. Jewish Museum of Chicago in partnership with ACRE

The Jewish Museum of Chicago Exhibition + Fundraiser / Curated by Lilli Sher and Gabriel Chalfin-Piney

Consider a Disappearance

a still of a frame of a 8mm film shows a image with muliple exposure, hazy and brown with spots of light we see a hand entering the frame on the left manipulating the faint image of a machine.

Ruby Que at UIS Visual Arts Gallery

OUTMODED SHAPES

Outmoded Shapes at Blanc Gallery curated bu Rohan Ayinde

Ricki Dwyer, John Alleyne, and Zachary Nicol / curated by Rohan Ayinde

Perhaps Blue is a Cool Color, After All

Perhaps Blue is a Cool Color, After All

Eseosa Edebiri

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Jeff Prokash and David Sprecher

A tax on a bag and other landscapes

Photograoh of a Trader Joes bag painted blue by Frances Lee against a white background.

Frances Lee at the University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery

A blue human figure swims against a blue background surrounded by the words 'Water Signs" and the address of the gallery 2439 S Oakley

Margot Becker, Rachel Leah Cohn, Sophia Haid, Nate King, Layla Marcelle, and Better Lovers

Dance to Anything

A black and white image renders with a blue overtone depicts two women in the foreground holding each other's arms as they lean back and spin around. In the background more people are doing the same.

Organized by the Rhythm/Rythmn Society, a flexible cohort in the mire of out of tune-ism formed in 2020 by Breanne Trammell and Chris Reeves.