FLATLINE GALLERY

WAVEFORMS IS THIS COMING SUNDAY MAY 17 AT FLATLINE GALLERY (1925 N MILWAUKEE AVE) AT 6:30PM. THERE WILL BE SOUND BASED PERFORMANCES. PLEASE COME.

#ianjames @spa_shorts Featured: Planet with Noosphere, 2013; Direct TV satellite dish, colored pencil, sticker; 36 x 20 x 36 inches 2023 GM108X ~ Galactic-Hermetic MindStream; HP Deskjet F4280 lid, type c print, tape, colored pencil; 14 x 18 inches; 2023 Cosmic Mediumship & Hierarchy; Computer tower side panel, colored pencil; 18 x 18 x .5 inches; 2023 DM flatline gallery or email [email protected] for inquiries _________ _________ Ian James is an artist working in photography and sculpture who lives and works in Los Angeles. He has presented solo exhibitions at Timeshare (LA), Et Al (SF), Five Car Garage (LA), The Fulcrum (LA), Hernando’s Hideaway (Miami), Vacancy, and Self Actualization (Houston), as well as group exhibitions at Lower Cavity (Holyoke, MA), Roberts Projects, The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, the UNLV Barrick Museum, REDCAT, and Holiday Forever (Jackson, WY), among others. He was an artist in residence at ZK/U Berlin, AIR Sandnes, Norway, SÍM in Reykjavik, Iceland and The Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY). His monograph Pyramids: Special Economic Vortex Zones of North America was published with The Fulcrum Press & Special Effects in September 2025. His work is held in the permanent collection at LACMA and he is an adjunct professor at Otis College of Art & Design, Art Center College of Design, and Pasadena City College.

#debsokolow @debsokolow Featured: The Business School Building; graphite, crayon and ink on papers installation,41in x 34.5 in, 2026 Dm flatline gallery or email [email protected] for inquiries _________ _________ Deb Sokolow is a Chicago-based artist and writer whose text-driven, diagrammatic drawings and artist books blend fact, fiction, humor, and critique. Her work often investigates architecture, design, psychology, politics, surveillance, organizational structures, and the social engineering embedded in built environments. Sokolow’s work has been exhibited widely, including at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Drawing Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the 4th Athens Biennale. She is represented by Western Exhibitions @westernexhibitions

#vivienadamian @ehdelaveli Featured: (Multi media drawings, framed) Death of Kikos; 11in x 14in, 2026 Angel’s Dream of a Quick and Painless Martyrdom; 11in x 14in, 2025 (Graphite on door) Untitled (Door), 2025 DM flatline gallery or email [email protected] for inquiries _________ _________ Vivien Adamian is a writer and artist from LA currently based in Chicago. Her work moves between sketch and notation in the form of artist books, zines, drawings, and multimedia assemblages. She is interested in the power of visual / language to signal complex and arbitrary systems in the service of ideological and poetic drives. From geometric proofs to mystic diagrams, she appropriates these architectures to investigate relationality, metalanguage, and conceptions of divine love. She holds an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

#tongpan @tong_pan_ Featured: Beyond the Seven Golden Mountain Ranges; clay, acrylic, pla, soil, stones, live ant colony, 2026 Weapon of Mass Destruction(unloaded); annotated circuit bend, 2026 Weapon of Mass Destruction(loaded); annotated circuit bend, 2026 Note from 4/10/25 (with song on back); pen on paper, framed, 2025 DM flatline gallery or email [email protected] for inquiries _________ _________ Tong Pan is a Chinese American interdisciplinary artist currently based in Chicago. He was born in Guangzhou, China, and migrated to the Bay Area, California. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021. Tong’s paintings and sculptures are playful meditations on fabrics of reality that allure the mysticisms of the ordinary. He stages these happenings by distorting forms and perspectives, toying with perception and expectation of things seen and recognized – landscapes, observations, and sheer imagination – manifesting in the form of an unlikely lost-and-found item, scenes on the road, or a change in the air. Ideas are sketched, written, interpreted, and these speculations form the images. His curatorial, design, and music practices, as forms of intermedia, are direct actions, as a thoughtful-delinquent, catered in response to the world that he knows through the lens of Marx’s dialectical materialism. He views these mediums as avenues to penetrate and debunk such a system with their corresponding forces, in conflict and unity.

#jgracegiordano @grace_gior Featured: -Drawings ink on paper- Poetry/architecture; 18 x 24 in, 2025 Painting/writting; 18 x 24 in, 2025 Painting-function; 18 x 24 in, 2025 -wood- Short single sided arrow; 9.9 x 2 x 6in Leaning curved double sided arrow; 17.75 x 2.25 x 75in DM flatline gallery or email [email protected] for inquiries _________ _________ J Grace Giordano is an artist, writer, and educator from KY and currently based in Boston, MA. They have a BFA in Art and Design from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Painting from Boston University.  Grace works across painting, drawing, installation, writing, and sculpture, exploring meaning making and language through systematic play. The work often takes the form of diagrams and constructed environments that pull directly from the organizational and relational nature of language. Mapping thinking and writing through material systems, Grace considers how the invisible structure of language is foundational to the way we interpret and experience the world.

Paths For the Study of Contingent Dimensions A collaboration with @softsystems On view until May 8th Thursday-Sunday 11-6pm 1925 N Milwaukee Ave @debsokolow @spa_shorts @grace_gior @ehdelaveli @tong_pan_

“Paths for the Study of Contingent Dimensions” opens tonight at Flatline Gallery in Chicago, with a reception from 6 to 9pm. Featuring work by Vivien Adamian, J. Grace Giordano, Ian James, Tong Pan, and Deb Sokolow. Graphic by @tong_pan_

Reading group 2-1 at @__________flatline this Sunday from 2-4pm. Creativity and (in)Computability Text excerpts and rsvp at ⛓️‍💥 in bio Facilitated by @solutionsforpostmodernliving

Join us all day, 11-6pm this Friday, April 10th, for the closing reception of our inaugural exhibition “Gothic Materialism” as well as Chicago Art week. Pregame #expochicago with mimosas and refreshments at Flatline Gallery! 🥂

Soft Systems in collaboration with Flatline Gallery present "Paths for the Study of Contingent Dimensions," a group exhibition of five artists exploring the diagram as narrative. Here, the diagram operates as a vector for world-building, constructing a new type of reality according to the patterns and structures through which the artist thinks, plotting rationality in spatial terms. Featuring work by Vivien Adamian, J. Grace Giordano, Ian James, Tong Pan, and Deb Sokolow. The exhibition will be on view April 17 through May 8, 2026, at Flatline Gallery in Bucktown, Chicago. Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, April 17 from 6 to 9pm. Following the reception, the gallery will be open for regular viewing hours Thursday through Sunday, 11am to 6pm, or by appointment

#benglass @83n.art Featured: Animaectomia, 11in x 18in Aluminum framing, Genmitsu CNC laser vice clamps, industrial hose fittings, vintage hard drive platter casing, media player, lcd screen, preserved lamb fetus DM flatline gallery or email [email protected] for inquiries Photos by @artdocchicago __________ __________ Ben Glass is an artist committed to the development of speculative libidinal technologies. He holds an MFA in art and technology from the School of the Art Institute Chicago. His art work has been shown at Ars Electronica, Chicago Art Expo, Weatherproof Gallery and his design work has been featured in the London design festival, iGEM Art and design festival Paris, and the China iGEMer Community & Synbiopunk Conference