Current:
Thương Hoài Trần: "Cho Gia Đình: For Family"
Reception: 6-9 p.m. Thursday, June 13
Virtual Artist Talk: 6-7p.m. Wednesday, July 3
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June 10-July 3
"Cho Gia Đình: For Family" is an exhibition by Thương Hoài Trần that utilizes personal photographic archives to explore the narratives of being a Vietnamese American immigrant. This exhibition is in honor of the artist’s family while offering a glance into the intimate details of their lives, culture and experiences in the United States.
2023-2024 Season
Fall 2023
Art + Design Alumni Exhibition
Juror: Olly Greer
Aug. 21-Sept. 22
Showcase of artwork by Northeastern Illinois University Art + Design Alumni
Olly Greer
"Tranifestations"
un:cover :: Re:member
Sept. 29-Oct. 20
"Tranifestations" is a solo exhibition/installation by Olly Greer. Within the space, care is a medium, and trans magic is honored through Olly's menagerie of materials. Their installation saddles joy on top of grief and melts it back into joy through a cycle of un:covering and re:membering. This work is made by trans hands for trans folx, while all are welcome to come feel the glow and take time to be enveloped by this inward turning space titled on a very gay axis.
Frank Trankina: "Gallery of Galleries"
Oct. 30-Dec. 1
"Gallery of Galleries" is a solo exhibition of Frank Trankina’s oil paintings. In this new series, action figures, statuaries, and dolls become viewers of abstract and figurative paintings that tower over the toys in the picture plane, and occupy a variety of gallery spaces. Paintings of salon-style hung galleries abound in art history, from the time that the French Royal Academy began hangings recent graduates work, as dense as the walls would allow. Paintings like "Gallery of the Louvre," referenced in Trankina’s work "Gallery of Gallery Paintings" pull the viewer into a space they can’t inhabit, but are drawn into with lush details. These exhibition halls are a layer removed and shifted in context with their mass produced miniature figures as consumers. What is on display is not only the work on the walls but the viewers themselves. The playful figures in many of these works are a stand in for us as gallery visitors.
Student Holiday Art Sale
Dec. 4-8
A weeklong sale of unique holiday gifts created by Northeastern Art + Design students. All proceeds go directly to the students.
Spring 2024
Aaron Coleman: Delicate and Filled with dynamite
Jan. 16-Feb. 9
Delicate and Filled with Dynamite is about the past, yet it still embodies the present. Aaron S. Coleman’s exhibition is about how wounds from injustice can be transformed into a vehicle to transport those inflicted with scars into a better future, or at least a more hopeful one.
This vessel is constructed with discarded basketball court flooring from the gym at the Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis campus. This basketball court's eventual location was in downtown Indianapolis, and the construction and development of the city's downtown area displaced a massive and vibrant Black population. Coleman rebuilds from the pieces of disruption and displacement while bringing attention to the pervasive acts of racial injustice. The boat is adorned with the remnants of an abandoned playground found on Coleman’s property, a memorandum to childhoods lost.This exhibition is a continuation of his previous work, In the Wake, which draws a conceptual anchor from Christina Sharpe’s book of the same title.
Mariel Harari: "Settling through the palm"
Feb. 19-March 15
"Settling Through the Palm" is a multimedia installation that explores stages and modes of healing through an investigation of holes. Featured works include fragmented figurative soft sculpture, projected video, and delicate hanging sculptures that create soft, slow movement through the space, marked by gently colorful, tactile surfaces, intimate details and cyclical repetition. Each piece contains a hole, presenting progressions between loss, extraction, soothing, openness, portals and growth.
Annual Art + Design Juried Student Exhibition
March 25-April 26
A juried exhibition of work in all media created by Northeastern students with a declared major in Studio Art or Graphic Design or a declared minor in Interaction Design, Photography or Studio Art.
Instituto Grafico de Chicago: Pathways Through Printmaking
May 6-31
The Instituto Gráfico de Chicago (IGC) is dedicated to maintaining the critical activist tradition of Latino printmaking that unites communities of struggle around the world. We are inspired by the socio-political art of Mexico's Taller de Grafica Popular (The People's Print Workshop) and use our art as a platform to inform and generate community discourse about urgent social issues. We believe that art is not separate
from public life. The IGC advances the legacy and vitality of printmaking by fostering collaboration and solidarity amongst print artists through transnational dialogue and art-making. We also create programming outside formal education settings that celebrates and demystifies printmaking techniques and processes for the public.
Our praxis responds to the social conditions that impede equity and access to art-making and critical consciousness.
Participating Artists
Atlan Arceo Witzl, Antonio Pazaran, Carlos Barberena, Chema Skandal, Jose Luis Gutierrez, Salvador Jimenez- Flores, Cynthia Juarez, Eric Gasca, Alex Veazquez Brightbill, Ricardo Serment, Eric J. Garcia, and Vanessa Sanchez.
Summer 2024
Thương Hoài Trần: "Cho Gia Đình: For Family"
June 10-July 3
"Cho Gia Đình: For Family" is an exhibition by Thương Hoài Trần that utilizes personal photographic archives to explore the narratives of being a Vietnamese American immigrant. This exhibition is in honor of the artist’s family while offering a glance into the intimate details of their lives, culture and experiences in the United States.
