The Smile Behind the Mask
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, May 18th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, June 24th
The Smile Behind the Mask is about the fantasy in everyday. The process of manipulating appearance is common place in how we dress, act, and construct personal avatars on social media. The painters in this show who engineer a space through real life moments, color, shapes, and people, are no different. They employ bathroom humor, sexuality, body building culture, and drunken shenanigans- all while referencing visual tropes from art history. The works range from tender to unapologetically bragging and hope to champion individuals necessity to reconstruct reality.
The Smile Behind the Mask includes eleven painters all working in Chicago:
Caleb Beck
Chris Capoyianes
Hyegyeong Choi
Katie Hammond
Ellen Hanson
Roland Miller
Amadeo Morelos
Kailyn Perry
Tk Suh
Patrick Wilkins
Bryant Worley
Curated by Kenneth Heyne of Rover and Kailyn Perry
Artist talk date: June 3rd 2018
Exhibition runs May 18 – June 24
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Tags: Amadeo Morelos, Bryant Worley, Caleb Beck, Chicago, Chris Capoyianes, Ellen Hanson, Heaven Gallery, Hyegyeong Choi, Kailyn Perry, Katie Hammond, Kenneth Heyne, Patrick Wilkins, Roland Miller, The Smile Behind the Mask, Tk Suh, West Town
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