Nick D’Alessandro: Universal September
@ Prairie
2055 W Cermak Ave, Chicago IL 60608
Opening Saturday, June 20th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, August 2nd
Chicago-based artist Nick D’Alessandro’s exhibition at Prairie frames the space as a runway of perfect circular destruction, still, as a site for observing change. The weavings hang in a fragile equilibrium, some degraded so far as they are no longer whole objects. D’Alessandro has hand woven each piece on a lap-sized loom, then inversely contaminated it. Now leftovers, cut off from both a past and future, the work is hoarded, enacting a paradox of decay through accumulation. Some hangings attempt to be preserved, rubbered in latex, wax, epoxy, plastic, or foam. The rest have a certain disintegration. There is no end product. In meditating on his own decay, preservation, and mortality, D’Alessandro has let these materials make themselves, be buried, placed under a leak, or soaked in liquid for months. The works let go of the moment of manufacture and instead seek obsolescence in the fabrication of destruction.
Nick D’Alessandro (b. 2000, Massachusetts) received his BFA from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago (2023). D’Alessandro’s work has been exhibited in Chicago galleries such as LVL3 (2025), Sawhorse (2025) , Weatherproof (2025), EXPO (2023). He has also exhibited internationally at EST Galerie, Paris (2026), NADA (2024), Gern En Regalia (2023) and GBA Gallery (2023). His work has been published in Hyperallergic, NewCity, Document Journal, Graphite, and Like a Field.
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