December 2016
Jacob Crose
@ Firecat Projects
2124 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 30th, from 7PM - 10PM
Tales From the Sea
@ FLAT
4125 W Melrose St, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, December 23rd, from 8PM - 11:37PM
MCA Studio: The Longest Night
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, December 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
Luis Sahagun: Between Dreams and Kings
@ Terrain Exhibitions
704 Highland Ave, Oak Park, IL 60304
Opening Sunday, December 18th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, January 22nd
Chicago Art Shop Holiday Market
@ Haymarket
737 W Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60661
Opening Sunday, December 18th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, December 18th
Forms of Exchange
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302-2637
Opening Sunday, December 18th, from 1PM - 4PM
Joe Gioia: You Push the Button and We Do the Rest
@ Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave, Evanston, Illinois
Opening Sunday, December 18th, at 4:30PM
Open Studio: Midwest Jewish Artists Lab
@ Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
610 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Sunday, December 18th, from 5PM - 7PM
Erin Smego: Cold Color
@ The Hermosa Walls
2306 N Keeler Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Sunday, December 18th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Wednesday, January 27th
Gather
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 17th, from 7PM - 9PM
Tatsu Aoki Tsukasa: Taiko Legacy
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, December 17th, at 3PM
On view through Sunday, December 18th
Touch Me I’m Sick
@ Beautiful
1801 S Peoria St, Chicago, Illinois 60608
Opening Saturday, December 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
WE REJECT
@ Slate Arts + Performance
3203 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Thursday, December 22nd
Minute Hand Hour Hand
@ Ballroom Projects
3012 S Archer Ave #3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
Cheryl Pope in Conversation with Erin Toale
@ moniquemeloche
2154 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 17th, from 4pM - 5PM
On view through Friday, December 23rd
A Transformation of Things
@ Carrie Secrist Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd
Opening Saturday, December 17th, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, January 14th
Alex O’Neal: Hiding Places In A Dream and Brenda Moore: In Search of Lost Time
@ Linda Warren Projects
327 N Aberdeen Ste 151
Opening Saturday, December 17th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, February 11th
ESS 2016 Artist Residency Program Showcase
@ Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave. Chicago 60660
Opening Saturday, December 17th, from 8PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, December 17th
Michael Wawzenek: NEAR DEAD
@ The Nightingale Cinema
1084 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, December 16th, from 7PM - 9PM
Rational Distance
@ Site Red
3201 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
Walker Blackwell: Piezography PRO Show and Tell
@ LATITUDE
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
50k Open House featuring ChiDM
@ 50,000feet
1700 W Irving Park Rd, Ste 110, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Friday, December 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
Arise and Be Vigilant: A Benefit for Ghost Ship
@ TRITRIANGLE
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 16th, from 7PM - 2AM
On view through Saturday, December 17th
Scotty GoGo: I Invented the Silent Disco
@ ARTSPACE 8
900 N Michigan Shops, 900 N Michigan Ave, 4th floor, Chicago IL 60611
Opening Friday, December 16th, from 8PM - 12AM
On view through Saturday, December 31st
Phantom Limb, Chapter 1: The Relic
@ Public Access
3306 W North Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 16th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 14th
Cancelled: Séance, V. 13: We Call Forth America, the living
@ Iceberg Projects
7714 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, December 16th, from 11:30PM - 1:30Am
On view through Saturday, December 17th
Savage Garden
@ 14 Chairs
2141 W. 21st Street, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 16th, from 7PM - 10PM
Meng Sun: Untitled (it only takes 5 days to sprout)
@ gallery no one
1579 N Milwaukee Ave,RM303, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 16th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, December 18th
Kyle Schlie in Conversation with Jordan Martins
@ The Mission
1431 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, December 15th, from 6PM - 7PM
Crystal Seeing with Dana Major
@ Corner
2912 N Milwaukee Ave (Storefront), Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, December 15th, from 3PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, January 15th
Temporary Holdings
@ Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throop, Chicago, IL, 60608
Opening Thursday, December 15th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, December 16th
Conversation: Author Marianne Malone and Lindsay Mican Morgan
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, December 15th, from 6PM - 7PM
Amale Andraos
@ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Thursday, December 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
DIY Snow Globes
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL, United States
Opening Thursday, December 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
Temporary Art Review Book Launch + Roundtable
@ ACRE Projects
1345 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, December 15th, from 7PM - 9PM
Movement Matters: The Integral Necessity of Dance Criticism
@ High Concept Labs
2233 S. Throop St.
Opening Thursday, December 15th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Streetlight
@ Roman Susan
1224 W. Loyola Ave | Chicago, IL 60626
On view through Friday, December 30th
The Drifting Body: Mythical Selves and Ghosting
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Wednesday, December 14th, from 10 AM - 3PM
DIY Floggers for Feminism: Craft Night at Hume!
@ Hume
3242 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, December 14th, from 6PM - 9PM
Douglas Snider: Using Virtual Reality to Create Empathy of Place
@ Chicago Design Museum
108 N State St, Fl 3rd, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Wednesday, December 14th, from 6PM - 7PM
MCA Screen: Tatsu Aoki, formalism, structuralism, and reduction
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, December 13th, from 6PM - 8PM
MCA Talk: Kimberly Drew and Rashayla Marie Brown
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, December 13th, from 6PM - 7PM
One Night in Bethlehem: Celebration of a Birth
@ Loyola University Museum of Art
820 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, December 13th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Tuesday, December 13th
Wrote One: A Convening of Chicago Writers + Media Makers
@ Rootwork Gallery
645 W 18th Street, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Monday, December 12th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Until, Until, Until with Edgar Arceneaux
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Sunday, December 11th, from 4PM - 6PM
Beauty Breaks: Session 7 | Affirmations
@ F4F 2846
W 21st Street, Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Sunday, December 11th, from 12PM - 3PM
Raúl Ortiz: Landscapes Remixed
@ Noyes Cultural Arts Center
2nd Floor, 927 Noyes Street, Evasnton, IL 60201
Opening Sunday, December 11th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Friday, January 6th
Jenn Smith: Name In Vain
@ The Back Room at Kim's Corner Food
1371 W Estes Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, December 11th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, February 5th
MCA Talk: Dialogue: Crip Culture
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Sunday, December 11th, from 11am - 1PM
MCA Talk: Basim Magdy
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 3PM - 4PM
Tessa Dallarosa: Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick
@ free range
3257 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 6 PM - 9 PM
On view through Sunday, January 7th
John Steck Jr: Pictures of you: Book Launch and Panel Talk
@ LATITUDE
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
Vends + Vibes 2016: An Arts Marketplace
@ Arts + Public Life
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, December 10th
Kirsten Donovan and Irene Trujillio: Author Person Only
@ Friendzone
3323 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 31st
Christopher Schneberger and David Velasco
@ Perspective Gallery
1310-1/2B Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, December 31st
Workshop with Dana Major: Creating yourSelf | Creating yourArt
@ Corner
2912 N Milwaukee Ave (Storefront), Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 12PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, January 15th
Welcome To The End
@ THE FRANKLIN
3522 W. Franklin Blvd. Chicago IL 60624
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, January 28th
Edgar Arceneaux
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 2PM - 3PM
The Crisis of Representation as Illustrated with Plants and Flowers
@ Fernwey
916 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, January 20th
Lana Crooks & Andrew Bell: Night Fall
@ Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery
2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, December 31st
Prints of Unusual Size
@ Hoofprint Workshop
2433 S Oakley Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, December 11th
CUBISM COLLAGE CYBERGRAMS CONCRETE: 4 Artists from Moholy-Nagy’s School
@ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 29th
Environmental Graphiti: The Art of Climate Change
@ Studio Oh!
1837 S Halsted St Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, December 30th
Joyce Pensato: The Godmother
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
1120 N. Ashland Avenue 3rd Floor
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, January 21st
Corey Escoto
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
1120 N. Ashland Avenue 3rd Floor
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, January 21st
Pierce the Veil
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Saturday, January 21st
The QiQi-Underground Tea Party
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 8PM - 10PM
Not Just Another Pretty Face
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, November 5th
Melissa Sue Stanley: Dandelion Wine
@ Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery
2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, December 31st
Andrea R. Sanchez: The Leaving
@ Rootwork Gallery
645 W 18th Street, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, January 22nd
Brian Kapernekas: Below the Ground, Above the Fog
@ 65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 14th
Being There
@ ADDS DONNA
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, December 9th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 14th
Design Apprenticeship Program: Fall Show
@ Arts and Public Life: Arts Incubator in Washington Park
301 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, December 8th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Masculinity/Femininity
@ The Nightingale
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Thursday, December 8th, from 7:30 PM - 10PM
Virginio Ferrari and Marco G. Ferrari: Spirit Level
@ Olympia Centre
737 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Thursday, December 8th, from 4:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Wednesday, April 6th
Steven Green: Scapes, Land and City
@ Uncommon Ground
3800 N. Clark St. Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Thursday, December 8th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, February 12th
Crystal Seeing Event with Dana Major
@ Corner
2912 N Milwaukee Ave (Storefront), Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, December 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 15th
Artists’ Guide to Mental Health
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
217 N Carpenter St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, December 7th, from 5:30 PM - 7:30PM
Advocacy Through Art
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, December 7th, from 3:30PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, December 17th
How To Make It In Chicago’s Creative Industries
@ Chicago Athletic Association Hotel
12 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL60603
Opening Wednesday, December 7th, from 7PM - 9PM
Relations
@ Thomas Masters Gallery
245 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60610
On view through Friday, December 16th
The Rational Dress Society presents A History of Counter-Fashion
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, December 6th, from 6PM - 7PM
Love Liberation: 50 Years of BPP History
@ Saieh Hall for Economics
5757 S University Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Opening Monday, December 5th, from 6PM - 8PM
Maria Cruz: Still Life
@ Old Town Art Triangle
1763 N. North Park Ave, Chicago IL
Opening Sunday, December 4th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Thursday, December 15th
Good Machines
@ Riverside Arts Center + Freeark Gallery
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Sunday, December 4th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Thursday, January 7th
Gil Riley: Arena
@ Julius Caesar
3311 West Carroll Ave., Chicago, IL 60624
Opening Sunday, December 4th, from 1 PM - 4 PM
On view through Sunday, January 22nd
Robyn C. Spencer: The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
@ The Seminary Co-op Bookstores
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, December 4th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
[Old/New] Psychedelic Providence
@ Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, December 4th, from 12PM - 3PM
On view through Friday, January 15th
Jan Tichy: Installation no. 21
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60615
On view through Friday, February 19th
glyph
@ ACRE Projects
1345 W 19th St Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 3rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 31st
iDon’t
@ Slow
2153 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 3rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 31st
Vice Versa Press Holiday Pop-Up Shop GRAND OPENING
@ Spudnik Press
1821 W. Hubbard Suite 302 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 3rd, from 1 PM - 5 PM
On view through Monday, December 23rd
Caroline Claflin and Noel Fetting-Smith: More than a feeling
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 3rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 1st
Holiday Pop-Up Market 2016
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL, 60642
Opening Saturday, December 3rd, from 11AM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, December 4th
Anna Showers-Cruser: Sweet Betweens
@ Hume Chicago
3242 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, December 3rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 1st
ZINE NOT DEAD IV – a new comics reading anniversary
@ Ballroom Projects
3012 S Archer Ave #3, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, December 3rd, from 7PM - 9PM
László Moholy-Nagy’s telehor 1-2
@ The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Department of Art and Technology
112 S, Michigan Ave, 4th Floor, Room 400 Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, December 3rd, from 2PM - 3:45PM
