Opening
Saturday, March 8 from 4-7 PM with a 5:30 PM performance featuring
Maria Jacobson, Margaret McCarthy, Paige Naylor, and Veronica Anne Salinas

Open Hours
Mondays, Thursdays, Saturdays 4-7 PM and by appointment

The Sound is in the Telling proposes an incomplete but expansive sonic picture of 1224 W Loyola. Sound exists in sound waves, but also in conversation with (and sometimes inextricable from) meaning, imagination, sight, and touch. Through a series of texts rendered in embroidery, videos, and sound pieces highlighting and responding to the sonic landscape of the gallery’s surroundings, Kohl pays homage to the possibility of mundane sounds to tell us when and where we are.

Lia Kohl is a cellist, composer, and sound artist based in Chicago. Trained as a cellist, she also incorporates synthesizers, field recordings, toy instruments  and radios into her work, searching for a balance between virtuosity and curiosity. She gravitates towards sound practices which reveal and speak to their time and place: field recording, improvisation, radio broadcast and transmission. She often focuses on mundane or pedestrian sounds – sounds which often go unnoticed or under-documented, searching for the profound, unknown, or beautiful in everyday life. For more, visit liairenekohl.com.

Roman Susan Art Foundation celebrates and shares the work of artists in the Great Lakes region. We create cultural engagements that provide resources and paid opportunities for artists. We are Chicago-based. We are artist-led. We are experimental and learning. For more info, please visit romansusan.org.

For further info contact art@romansusan.org

Images courtesy of Lia Kohl

This program is partially supported by grants from the Illinois Arts Council Agency through awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. This project is partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.

Roman Susan Art Foundation NFP is supported in part by 160 individual donors, Gen Ops Plus Grants from The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Hyde Park Art Center Artists Run Chicago Fund, The Reva and David Logan Foundation, The MacArthur Funds for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, 6018North, AD3 Innovation Bootcamp, An Sylvia Exhibitions, Foundation Source, Lucky Pierre, Story Luck, and in-kind support from Cargo Collective, Lawyers for the Creative Arts, and Sloane Communications. To support this ongoing work, please visit romansusan.org/support.

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