Life Imitates Art
@ Anthony Gallery
1360 West Lake Street Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, February 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
We are pleased to present Life Imitates Art a group exhibition curated by artist, activist, and cultural organizer Hank Willis Thomas.
Life Imitates Art is anchored by eight works by Hank Willis Thomas, comprising lenticular works and new and recent retroreflectives. Presented together, these works foreground Thomas’s ongoing investigation into how images move between personal, political, and collective realms. Interwoven throughout this central presentation are works by a broader group of artists, whose practices engage Thomas’s curatorial prompt and the exhibition’s title, Life Imitates Art, operating as a collective dialogue, complementing and extending the exhibition’s exploration of representation, history, and cultural inheritance.
Life Imitates Art brings together a diverse group of artists engaging with the shifting boundary between representation and reality. Participating artists reflect on how the images, symbols, and motifs that circulate through culture come to define our experience of the world. The exhibition considers appropriation not only as an artistic gesture, but as a broader cultural condition where meaning is continually borrowed, reframed, and reasserted.
Thomas’s curatorial approach emphasizes the fluid movement of images between personal, political, and collective spheres. Rather than presenting a singular thesis, the exhibition highlights the multiple ways that representation shapes, and is shaped by, everyday life. The artists assembled here propose that influence, authorship, and interpretation unfold in shared space, where art and reality are mutually informing.
Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, February 12th from 5-8pm.
Mario Ayala
Cristine Brache
Caitlin Cherry
Alec Egan
Esiri Erheriene-Essi
Shaniqwa Jarvis
Tony Lewis
Tomokazu Matsuyama
Joel Mesler
Okey Ofomata
Andrew J. Park
Adam Pendleton
Pat Phillips
Umar Rashid
David Salle
Laurie Simmons
Hank Willis Thomas
Michael C. Thorpe
Masaomi Yasunaga
Nate Young
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Tags: Adam Pendleton, Alec Egan, Andrew J. Park, ANTHONY GALLERY, Caitlin Cherry, Chicago, Cristine Brache, David Salle, Esiri Erheriene-Essi, Hank Willis Thomas, Joel Mesler, Laurie Simmons, Life Imitates Art, Mario Ayala, Masaomi Yasunaga, Michael C. Thorpe, Nate Young, near west side, Okey Ofomata, Pat Phillips, Shaniqwa Jarvis, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Tony Lewis, Umar Rashid
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