Walking on an Airy Road
@ Arts of Life and Circle Contemporary
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, October 2nd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, November 6th
Walking on an Airy Road
Circle Contemporary- West Town
October 2 – November 6
Marcelo Aguilar – Melina Ausikaitis – Rick Briggs – Rosanna Bruno – Robert Burnier – Abraham Cone – Veronica Cuculich – Sam Filicky – Erol Scott Harris – Holly Holmes – Julia Klein – Alysha Kostelny – Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu – Laura McManus – Aya Nakamura – Hubert Posey – Brian Reed – Lucy Walsh – Chris Viau
******Guest curated by Anna Kunz and Carie Lassman
The show brings together artists whose practices share a common thread – an engagement with material exploration and a free, gerund, process-oriented approach to finding and making simultaneously. The exhibition frames this through the lens of “flow state” as described by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: the absorbed, generative condition that emerges when a practice is fully inhabited.
Opening Reception:
October 2, 2026
5:00 – 8:00 pm
Closing hours with the curators:
November 6, 2026
5:00 – 8:00 pm
Anna Kunz received an MFA from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Kunz participated as an artist-in-residence in the Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY; The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, and the Monira Foundation at Mana Contemporary, New Jersey. He work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in the public collections. Recent nominations include The Joan Mitchell Foundation and Anonymous was a Woman. Kunz lives and works in Buchanan, Michigan.
Carie Lassman is a Chicago-based painter consumed by color relationships, line, and surface history. Her work hovers somewhere between abstraction and representation—suggestions of landscapes, architecture, plaid—exploring how physical and emotional structures can both support and constrain, where messy personal histories are caught within structural systems. Each painting is a physical record of its own making.
Details
Start: October 2
End: November 6
Event Categories: Art Exhibitions, Circle Contemporary
Venue
Circle Contemporary- West Town
2010 W. Carroll Ave
Chicago, IL 60612 United States
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