{"id":158512,"date":"2024-04-20T10:17:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T15:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/?p=158512"},"modified":"2024-03-31T10:30:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T15:30:03","slug":"shapeshifters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/2024\/04\/shapeshifters\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapeshifters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LVL3 is pleased to present <i>Shapeshifters<\/i>, a two-person exhibition of new works from <b>Dan Devening<\/b> (Chicago, IL) and <b>Allison Jae Evans<\/b> (Brooklyn, NY).<\/p>\n<p>Dan and Allison journey through shapes, corporeal gestures, and societal narratives that challenge, evoke, and confront. The intersection of 60s graphic design elements with references to contemporary cultural phenomena, like underground culture and mediated interactions, punctuate the tensions innate in our collective pursuit of connection and cultural advancement.<\/p>\n<p>Shapeshifters is a celebration of rawness and vulnerability, expressing a dynamic interplay of forms that subvert the expected. Harnessing a palette rich with tension, Devening and Evans compel viewers to navigate the buoyancy and despondence within societal frameworks, challenging the gravitas of power and the latent desires that underscore our universal human experience.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"speechify-first-word-listening-nudge-7\">Gallery hours are<\/span> Sundays 1-4 pm and can also be made by appointment. Call\/text <strong>312-469-0333<\/strong>\u00a0to reserve a time outside of gallery hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LVL3 is pleased to present Shapeshifters, a two-person exhibition of new works from Dan Devening (Chicago, IL) and Allison Jae Evans (Brooklyn, NY). Dan and Allison journey through shapes, corporeal gestures, and societal narratives that challenge, evoke, and confront. The intersection of 60s graphic design elements with references to contemporary cultural phenomena, like underground culture<a href=\"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/2024\/04\/shapeshifters\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":158524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,5],"tags":[257892,397,1812,139,177054,21],"class_list":["post-158512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition","category-reception","tag-allison-jae-evans","tag-chicago","tag-dan-devening","tag-lvl3","tag-shapeshifters","tag-west-town","cat-39-id","cat-5-id"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Shapeshifters-Postcard-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158525,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158512\/revisions\/158525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}