Aug 7th 2026

DEATH MAGIC

@ Circle Contemporary

2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612

Opening Friday, August 7th, from 5PM - 8PM

On view through Friday, September 25th

DEATH MAGIC

Circle Contemporary- West Town
August 7 – September 25

Opening August 7th, 2026, guest curator Ryan M. Pfeifer presents DEATH MAGIC, a group exhibition at Arts of Life featuring artists Ron Athey, Marquis Von Bayros, Rachael Bos, Jamie Fletcher, Danny Frownfetter, Norbet Kox, Billy Lilly, Monika Plioplyte, Sun Ra, Philipp Schopke, Jon Serl, Bronislaw “Bruno” Sowa, Maria Vanik, Jean Wilson, and Albert Zahn.

Opening reception:
August 7, 2026
5-8pm

This exhibition runs through September 25, 2026.

******Guest curated by Ryan M. Pfeiffer

Ryan M. Pfeiffer is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and curator based in Chicago, IL. His artworks have been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Singapore), Breese Little (London), Abbaye Saint–Magloire (France), Come Again (Berlin), The International Museum of Surgical Science (Chicago), Western Exhibitions (Chicago), Andrew Rafacz (Chicago), LAXART (Los Angeles), 80 WSE Gallery (New York), Indiana University (Indiana), among others. His works and exhibitions have been published in The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Fulgur Press, The New City, the Journal for Extreme Anthropologie, and the Religious Studies Review Journal. In 2022, he co-curated the first Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956) exhibition in the United States at Iceberg Projects (Chicago), celebrating the centennial anniversary of a rare folio of drawings from the Kinsey Institute’s collection. His current curatorial project is ORGANGRINDER at M. LeBlanc Gallery (Chicago).

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