Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, April 20th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, August 4th
Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s
April 20—August 4, 2024
Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Avenue Galleries, 1st Floor East
Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s presents a range of photographic practices that used the medium as a tool for collectivity and empowerment within interconnected lesbian, trans, and queer grassroots organizing. This exhibition reveals the technologies through which influential image cultures were constructed and circulated. The exhibition presents a range of photographic practices to explore the process of learning within alternative schools, workshops, demonstrations, dance clubs, slideshow presentations, correspondences, and community-based archive projects.
Featured artists and collectives include: Diana Solís, Joan E. Biren (JEB), Lola Flash, the Lesbian Herstory Archives, ART+Positive and the Sexual Minorities Archives, among others. Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s is curated by Ariel Goldberg. The exhibition is co-organized by the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY. The exhibition was originally presented as a FotoFocus exhibition on the occasion of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial: World Record September 30, 2022 – February 12, 2023.
1-4pm
Opening Reception with contributing artists in the Michigan Avenue Galleries, Chicago Cultural Center, 1st Floor East
Artists Diana Solís, Lola Flash, Joan E. Biren (JEB ), Frank Franca, and Allan Frame will each conduct 15 minute Q&As about their work with the exhibition’s curator, Ariel Goldberg
7pm-midnight
Opening Afterparty featuring TRQPiTECA at Dorothy, 2500 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60622
7:30-8:30pm
A conversation amongst contributing Images on which to build artists Diana Solís, Lola Flash, Joan E. Biren (JEB ), Frank Franca, and Allan Frame facilitated by exhibition curator Ariel Goldberg
TRQPiTECA9pm-midnight
DJ set by Chicago duo TRQPiTECA
RSVP for the Afterparty https://www.eventbrite.com/e/images-on-which-to-build-opening-afterparty-featuring-trqpiteca-tickets-872645184237
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Gallery Talk
Michigan Avenue Galleries
Wednesday, June 12, 12–1pm
Image info: (Diana Solís, Flexing our Muscles: Gathering of Friends, Greenview Street, Lakeview, Chicago, IL, 1981, Archival Piezography Print, 30×40”, Photo Courtesy the Artist)
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Tags: Allan Frame, Ariel Goldberg, Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center, Diana Solís, Frank Franca, Images on which to build 1970s-1990s, Joan E. Biren (JEB), Lola Flash, Loop, TRQPiTECA
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