Date: Thursday, September 29, 2022.
Location: Studio#820, 8th Floor, Mana Contemporary, 2233 S. Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Door Opens: 6:00 PM CT
Talk Starts: 6:30-7:30 PM CT
RSVP / Zoom Registration: bit.ly/3w5ygzS

Join us for a talk with artist Frank Vega about their work exhibited at MdW Fair. Talk will be conducted in person at Vega’s studio where the works will be re-installed to view. It will be moderated by curator John H. Guevara with a Q&A section at the end. Event will also be broadcasted via Zoom.

RVSP for in person and/or register for online via the Zoom link. Talk will be recorded but will not be posted online. Closed caption available. Mask required to enter Mana Contemporary.

Please email info@chuquimarca.com with any questions, accessibility request, or for further information.

Frank Vega (b.1992, Cuenca, Ecuador) is an artist based in Chicago. He received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Vega’s practice includes collaging and assembling objects, ceramics, paintings, and sound materials into hybrid structures that resemble bodies, architecture, and garments. Vega has received the Leroy Neiman Fellowship at Ox-Bow School of Art and has been featured in New American Paintings Magazine Issue #159, 2022. He has exhibited at The Green Gallery (Milwaukee, WI), The Franklin (Chicago, IL), Patient Info (Chicago, IL), Casa Lü (Mexico City, MX), Galeria 54 (Mexico City, MX), and has an upcoming solo show at Devening Projects (Chicago, IL).

MdW is an artist-run art fair founded ten years ago returning in 2022 with a renewed mission to convene alternative artist platforms in Chicago from across the Midwest. MdW is FREE, all-ages, and open to the public. Over 100 artist-led projects will convene to present their projects at Mana Contemporary Chicago to support each other across hyperlocal scenes and build pathways for lasting coalitions of purposeful, artist-led action. Two giant floors of the building will be filled with pavilions from 6 central midwestern states, art booths, publisher tables, and installations will be interspersed with open programming platforms like a print lab, screening space, presentation space and more.

John H. Guevara is a curator and art organizer raised and based in Chicago. They are currently the HATCH 22-23 Curatorial Resident at Chicago Artists Coalition and featured in Newcity’s Art 50 2022 list of Chicago’s top art workers. They founded and currently direct Chuquimarca, an art library project.

Chuquimarca is an art library project tasked to gather and share resources related to contemporary art and art histories. They offer a seasonal research group program known as Tanda and a summer art writing program known as Muña. Chuquimarca is based in Chicago, IL.

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