Installation View, A Gathering: Gardens, Portals, Protests, Left to right: Lu Heintz, Kristy Hughes, Eva Zasloff, Kevin Umaña, Liza Bingham, Lu Heintz, Kate Holcomb Hale, Bhen Alan, Dara Benno, Damien Hoar de Galvan. Elizabeth Ellenwood Photography.| Art Spiel
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Installation image of Naomi Okubo: Resonance on a Surface, 2025. Photograph by Ken Lee When Naomi Okubo decides to begin working on one of her enthralling paintings, there is a multistep process that far proceeds the brush gracing the canvas. The careful preparation of materials, digital and physical, allow Okubo to consolidate her thoughts and produce an organic depiction of her personal experience. The authenticity with which this is depicted is a result of the forethought and boundless int...| Art Spiel
Zoe Beloff, Model for Drive-In Dreamland by Albert Grass (c. 1945), 2012, Wood, paint, plexiglass, found objects, 67 × 27 ⁵⁄₁₆ × 19 ³⁄₈ inches, 170 x 70 x 48.5 cm., photo courtesy the artist and Astor WeeksWhen my mother was very old, I wanted to tell her what it was like to be in the art world. I said, “It is a little like joining the carnival.” While not affording her much comfort, I tried to convey the disorderly balancing act of the ridiculous and the transcendent, ...| Art Spiel
Algernon Miller’s work bends space, time, and expectations, redefining what abstraction means when history isn’t optional| Art Spiel
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Jaqueline Cedar, Dusk, 2024, acrylic on panel, 10”x8”At Andrew Rafacz, Jaqueline Cedar’s Slide delivers small paintings with big temporal ambition. In her first Chicago solo show, the artist captures time not as a line but a loop—blurred, fragmented, and thick with atmosphere. Figures flicker in and out of clarity; gestures repeat like memories misfiring. The intimacy of scale invites close-contact peering, while layered forms resist quick comprehension. It’s a slow burn of perceptu...| Art Spiel
Installation view. Photographer Peter JacobsNanette Carter: A Question of Balance at the Montclair Art Museum is an extensive survey of 46 works from throughout the artist’s career curated by Mary Birmingham. Carter is known for her boundless abstractions and innovative works on mylar. This long-awaited show reflects Carter’s long history with the museum, the community, and the town itself. As one enters the show, the first piece is a video titled The Weight from the pandemic days, where ...| Art Spiel