Stasias Gallery is pleased to present eyemind, a two-person exhibition with Chicago based painters, Anne Harris and Noelle Africh. Stasias is located at 44 E. Cedar St. in Chicago, IL. The exhibition will run from May 4th – June 8th, 2024. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, May 4th, 5-9 pm. Free and open to the public.

Anne and Noelle exchanged words (and bits of favorite poems):
presence
flesh
poetry
face
subtlety
intensity
nuance
touch
uncanny
ephemeral
anticipation
transition
contradiction
ghosts keep speaking
The absence of the Witch does not
Invalidate the spell–
Harbingers warn
embitterment
Hints, suggestions, digressions
things are not what they seem
benefit of the doubt
Blindingly sharp
arrow of sheer light
I know not what
ritual of Reexamination
waiting
waiting
Where’s the body?

Anne Harris (b. Cleveland, 1961) lives and paints in Chicago, IL. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Art and her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has been exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery (NYC), DC Moore Gallery (NYC), Goldfinch Gallery (Chicago), to the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, the Portland Museum of Art, and Espacio Andrea Brunson (Santiago, Chile). Her work is in such public collections as The Fogg Museum at Harvard, The Yale University Art Gallery, The New York Public Library and The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Garden. Grants and awards received include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an NEA Individual Artists Fellowship. Harris is an Associate Professor in the Painting and Drawing Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her next upcoming solo show is Anne Harris WIP, at Serious Topics (Los Angeles), opening May 18, 2024.

Noelle Africh (b. Chicago, 1992) lives and works in Chicago. They received their MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Their work has been exhibited at Galerie Gisela Clement (Bonn, Germany), RUSCHWOMAN (Chicago, IL), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL), The Plan (Chicago, IL), SHED Projects (Cleveland, OH), The Green Gallery – West (Milwaukee, WI), Switch-Hook Projects (Chicago, IL), Patient Info (Chicago, IL), and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They are currently a Lecturer in the Painting and Drawing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Forthcoming exhibitions include an upcoming solo exhibition at Slow Dance Gallery (Chicago, IL) in June 2024.

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