Hi folks,
Many, Many Thanks to all who came out for the opening of our current exhibition Wild Thing GUEST CURATED BY PIA SINGH, on view through July 10th.
Please reach out to [email protected] for appointments.
Featuring:
Elena Ailes – Chris Austin – Sayera Anwar – Cecilia Beaven – Renata Berdes – Chris Bradley – Zachary Cahill – Isamu Guy Conners – Mari Eastman – Sam Filicky – Joshi Radin Flores – Rosemary Hall – Erin Hayden – Lucy Cash and Mark Jeffery – Lawrence M. – Allyson Packer – Jasmeen Patheja – Carol Pyes – Tongji Philip Qian – Kellie Romany – D. Rosen – Alex Scott – Jacqueline Surdell – Chris Viau – Jean Wilson
Since 2020, Meta’s algorithm has been flooded with snippets of interspecies empathy- animals in different states of crisis have begun to display “human-like” behavior. From birds caring for pregnant felines, to horses rearing rabbits, or the story of a raccoon and dog forming a lifelong bond… existing (and surviving) stressors of climate catastrophe, war, and urban degradation, we quietly watch primates hug one another, refuse abandonment despite human threat, touching and protecting one another in ways that exceed the human affective awareness.
Wild Thing traces these parallel trajectories and continuities, not just between the bipeds and beasts, but more broadly, within the worlds of artists. Seeking visions and eccentricities from Arts of Life’s studio artists paired with contemporaries of our time, Wild Thing will explore the evolution of all animals, some beasts, and other mutants (some more mutant than others) to explore what remains to be learned from our fellow species. At a time when less-than-human empathies and kindness seem to exceed more-than-human cravings for interplanetary domination, worldly greed, and bloodlust, several artists collectively scratch at the uncanny zone between human-animal-nature, questioning hierarchical notions of humans being ‘higher’ or more evolved in our understanding, in the scala naturae.
Guest curator hours:
June 12th, 2026
5:00 – 8:00 pm.
REMINDER!!! Our intrepid guest curator @madelinegallucci will be hosting EXPO walkthrough hours for their exhibition The Threshold Varies this Saturday April 11th, from 5-8 pm.
RADAR is pleased to present The Threshold Varies, a group exhibition featuring artists who engage in perception as something that is variable, contingent, and unstable.
Artists include Elizabeth Allen-Cannon, Michael Cuadrado Gonzalez, Ben Gould, Paul Heyer, Katrina Jackson, Will Krauland, Lawrence M., Susan Pasowicz, Forrest Frederick, Noelia Towers, and Lucy Walsh.
@the_arts_of_life@circlecontemporary !
@aallenc@pichael_@benegould@paulhigher247
#katrinajackson
@see4eva
#LawrenceM.
@susan_pasowicz@forrestfrederick@noeliatowers@lucy_kid_danger_walsh_12_
Special thanks to @latitudechi and @documentspace for the printing and mounting assistance.
RADAR is a curatorial platform supporting artists and their practices in the Midwest, founded by @madelinegallucci . Learn more at radarmidwest.com
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Saturday, April 11th from 5:00-8:00pm
During EXPO ART WEEK, join guest curator Madeline Gallucci—artist and founder of RADAR—for an inside look at the exhibition The Threshold Varies. Gallucci will share insights into the curatorial framework behind the exhibition and discuss RADAR’s mission to support Midwest artists through emerging and collaborative initiatives.
The Threshold Varies brings together 11 artists who treat perception as something that is variable, contingent, and unstable. Featuring Elizabeth Allen-Cannon, Michael Cuadrado Gonzalez, Ben Gould, Paul Heyer, Katrina Jackson, Will Krauland, Lawrence M, Susan Pasowicz, Forrest Frederick, Noelia Towers, and Lucy Walsh, the works in the exhibition operate between containment and overflow, hovering at the limits of visibility and testing how intensity becomes legible.
Hi my dears,
We are very excited to be presenting our next exhibition opening tomorrow Friday March 13th from 5-8 pm.
RADAR is pleased to present The Threshold Varies, a group exhibition featuring artists who engage in perception as something that is variable, contingent, and unstable.
Artists include Elizabeth Allen-Cannon, Michael Cuadrado Gonzalez, Ben Gould, Paul Heyer, Katrina Jackson, Will Krauland, Lawrence M., Susan Pasowicz, Forrest Frederick, Noelia Towers, and Lucy Walsh.
@the_arts_of_life@circlecontemporary !
@aallenc@pichael_@benegould@paulhigher247
#katrinajackson
@see4eva
#LawrenceM.
@susan_pasowicz@forrestfrederick@noeliatowers@lucy_kid_danger_walsh_12_
Special thanks to @latitudechi and @documentspace for the printing and mounting assistance.
RADAR is a curatorial platform supporting artists and their practices in the Midwest, founded by @madelinegallucci . Learn more at radarmidwest.com
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Saturday, April 11th from 5:00-8:00pm
During EXPO ART WEEK, join guest curator Madeline Gallucci—artist and founder of RADAR—for an inside look at the exhibition The Threshold Varies. Gallucci will share insights into the curatorial framework behind the exhibition and discuss RADAR’s mission to support Midwest artists through emerging and collaborative initiatives.
The Threshold Varies brings together 11 artists who treat perception as something that is variable, contingent, and unstable. Featuring Elizabeth Allen-Cannon, Michael Cuadrado Gonzalez, Ben Gould, Paul Heyer, Katrina Jackson, Will Krauland, Lawrence M, Susan Pasowicz, Forrest Frederick, Noelia Towers, and Lucy Walsh, the works in the exhibition operate between containment and overflow, hovering at the limits of visibility and testing how intensity becomes legible.
Hi folks,
Join us this Friday February 27th, 5-8 for the closing of 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 curated by @danbyhanburger
The show features works by:
Sonya Bogdanova – Kacie Lees – Melissa McClung – Susan Pasowicz – John Phelan – Carol Peyes – Tim Stone – Kevin Stuart – Amy Vogel
In the late 1970s, Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan posited two types of sensory-cultural paradigms: visual and acoustic space. According to McLuhan, we in the industrialized West live in visual space. We transitioned to this during the time of the Greeks, and it was reinforced during the Renaissance. He writes that, since, “Western civilization has been mesmerized by a picture of the universe as a limited container in which all things are arranged according to the vanishing point, in linear geometric order.”
He continues, “Such is the power of Euclidian or visual space that we can’t live with a circle unless we square it.”
Acoustic space, he contends, existed for hundreds of thousands of years prior (and still outlives the Greeks in certain cultures). “The world was multicentered and reverberating,” he writes. “It was gyroscopic. Life was like being inside a sphere, 360 degrees without margins; swimming underwater; or balancing on a bicycle.” Acoustic space does not represent things “one-at-a-time” with the “uniform ethos of the alphabet.” Rather, it “comes to us from above, below, and the sides.”
This is not merely a morphological concept. McLuhan implies that whichever paradigm a culture accepts determines in large part that society’s “perception of sanity.” Optical, linear logic tends towards hierarchy, exclusion, and—McLuhan ventures—even violence: “something is either in that space or not.” I think this determination is political in an age of division and persecution.
So this exhibition is a thought experiment: is visual art doomed to visual space? Can visual artists escape the vanishing point and capture the multicentered and reverberating, non-hierarchical aspects of acoustic space?
Hi folks,
Join us tonight 5-8 for the opening of 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 curated by @danbyhanburger
The show features works by:
Sonya Bogdanova – Kacie Lees – Melissa McClung – Susan Pasowicz – John Phelan – Carol Peyes – Tim Stone – Kevin Stuart – Amy Vogel
GUEST CURATOR: Danny Floyd is an artist, researcher, curator, and educator based in Chicago. He holds a BFA in Photography from RISD, an MA in Visual & Critical Studies, and an MFA in Sculpture, both from SAIC. He is an Assistant Professor, Adjunct of Visual & Critical Studies, and the Undergraduate Division at SAIC. He also served as the Exhibitions Director for ACRE. Since 2013, he has been an active part of Chicago’s artist-run space community through two programs, Ballroom Projects and Adler & Floyd. He has held curatorial residencies with ACRE and Chicago Artists Coalition. He was also awarded the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation Curatorial Fellowship in 2017. He has attended studio residencies at ACRE; AS220 in Providence, RI; Earthbound Moon in Eugene, OR; The Residency Project in Pasadena, CA; and The Roger Brown House in New Buffalo, MI. He began his teaching career in 2010 at a self-proclaimed “postmodern art camp” in Western Massachusetts for children aged 11 to 16 whose freewheeling ethos of interdisciplinary experimentation still informs his teaching and art-making.
Hi folks,
Due to extreme temperatures forecast for tomorrow we have decided to postpone the opening reception for our next exhibition. 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 will now open Friday February 6th from 5-8 pm. Stay warm out there folks!
The show features works by:
Sonya Bogdanova – Kacie Lees – Melissa McClung – Susan Pasowicz – John Phelan – Carol Peyes – Tim Stone – Kevin Stuart – Amy Vogel
GUEST CURATOR: Danny Floyd is an artist, researcher, curator, and educator based in Chicago. He holds a BFA in Photography from RISD, an MA in Visual & Critical Studies, and an MFA in Sculpture, both from SAIC. He is an Assistant Professor, Adjunct of Visual & Critical Studies, and the Undergraduate Division at SAIC. He also served as the Exhibitions Director for ACRE. Since 2013, he has been an active part of Chicago’s artist-run space community through two programs, Ballroom Projects and Adler & Floyd. He has held curatorial residencies with ACRE and Chicago Artists Coalition. He was also awarded the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation Curatorial Fellowship in 2017. He has attended studio residencies at ACRE; AS220 in Providence, RI; Earthbound Moon in Eugene, OR; The Residency Project in Pasadena, CA; and The Roger Brown House in New Buffalo, MI. He began his teaching career in 2010 at a self-proclaimed “postmodern art camp” in Western Massachusetts for children aged 11 to 16 whose freewheeling ethos of interdisciplinary experimentation still informs his teaching and art-making.
We will be hosting closing hours for our current exhibition Hail Mary guest curated by @wakeup_maggie_ and @brozgold
Friday January 9, 2026 5:00 – 8:00 pm.
Featuring works by:
Omar Abulsheikh – Marcelo Aguilar –Renata Berdes – Veronica Cuculich – Danny Frownfelter – Amanda Gantner – Ted Gram-Boarini – Michelle Grabner – Ellen Hanson –Stefan Harhaj – Anna Horvath – Aaron Kleeblatt – Rebecca Kubica – Harry Kuttner – Christianne Msall – Ed Oh – Paul Pfeiffer –Andrew Sloan – Tim Stone – Candace Turner – Mary Eleanor Wallace – Maria Vanik
Hail Mary is an exhibition about sport. It examines the complexity and inherent spirituality of participating, watching and being a fan of any sport.
Our current exhibition Hail Mary guest curated by @wakeup_maggie_ and @brozgold is on view through January 9th. Reach out to [email protected] to make an appointment or check out to see install images.
Featuring works by:
Omar Abulsheikh – Marcelo Aguilar –Renata Berdes – Veronica Cuculich – Danny Frownfelter – Amanda Gantner – Ted Gram-Boarini – Michelle Grabner – Ellen Hanson –Stefan Harhaj – Anna Horvath – Aaron Kleeblatt – Rebecca Kubica – Harry Kuttner – Christianne Msall – Ed Oh – Paul Pfeiffer –Andrew Sloan – Tim Stone – Candace Turner – Mary Eleanor Wallace – Maria Vanik
🦇🦇🦇⚰️⚰️⚰️Join us tonight October 30th, 6pm - late, for a costume party as we raffle off each and every work of art.
‘You’re all dead to me’ is an exhibition for Halloween. An homage to the Grand Guignol. A tribute to all cabinets of grotesqueries present and past.
Raffle tickets available via the link in bio as well as in person at Arts Of Life (2010 West Carroll) Deep gratitude and thanks to all of the artists who donated their artwork to this project: Omar A bulsheikh, Renata Berdes, Billy Borgerd, Rachel Bos, Peppi Bottrop, Max Capus, Raina ‘Tokyo’ Carter, Maeve Coughlin, Jessie Darnell, Liza Jo Eilers, Isamu Guy Conners, Rocco Di Caro, Ben Foch, Jake Fagundo, Danny Frownfelter, Manal Kara, James Krone, Lawrence M., Hans-Joerg Mayer, Jack O’Sullivan, Ryan Michael Pfieffer, Scott Reeder, Haynes Riley, Nick Schutzenhofer, Mindy Rose Schwartz, CJ Shaw, Cameron Spratley, Maxwell Volkman, Jean Wilson, and Christina Zion.
Opening tomorrow 5-8 pm. In collaboration with Arts Of Life, M. LeBlanc is proud to announce a special exhibition for the Fall season. ‘You’re all dead to me’ is an exhibition for Halloween. An homage to the Grand Guignol. A tribute to all cabinets of grotesqueries present and past. The exhibition opens September 26th and runs through Devil’s Night - October 30th. Join us on October 30th for a costume party as we raffle each and every work of art.
Join us to support this wonderful organization that has provided studio space and care for countless adult artists with developmental disabilities over the decades.
Raffle tickets will soon be available via the Arts Of Life website as well as in person at Arts Of Life (2010 West Carroll) Deep gratitude and thanks to all of the artists who donated their artwork to this project: Omar A bulsheikh, Renata Berdes, Billy Borgerd, Rachel Bos, Peppi Bottrop, Max Capus, Raina ‘Tokyo’ Carter, Maeve Coughlin, Jessie Darnell, Liza Jo Eilers, Isamu Guy Conners, Rocco Di Caro, Ben Foch, Jake Fagundo, Danny Frownfelter, Manal Kara, James Krone, Lawrence M., Hans-Joerg Mayer, Jack O’Sullivan, Ryan Michael Pfieffer, Scott Reeder, Haynes Riley, Nick Schutzenhofer, Mindy Rose Schwartz, CJ Shaw, Cameron Spratley, Maxwell Volkman, Jean Wilson, and Christina Zion.
Tomorrow September 5th, 5-8 pm the gallery will be hosting open hours for its current exhibition Perennial Hug, please join us.
Featuring works by:
Su Kaiden Cho – Diana ‘Dede’ Decker –Samantha Degucz – Lya Finston – Cole Fox – Nik heusman – Katrina Jackson –Xiaoyi Jiang – Aubrey LaDuke – Anna Lentz – Travis Morehead – Siena Peterson –Cole Pierce – Kelly Reaves – Brian Reed –Lamine Richards – Mina Romero – Charlotte Saylor – Vicente Siso – Anne Skaug –Andrew Sloan – Nanako Kono – Olivia Tousius – Arin Whitmore – Araceli Zuniga
Opening Reception: Friday August 1, 2025 5:00-8:00 pm.
Image:
Anne Skaug
Thank You, 2024
Offset lithograph and stamp on paper
14 x 11 in.
Perennial Hug 3 is on view through September 12. Please contact [email protected] to schedule an appointment.
Featuring works by:
Su Kaiden Cho – Diana ‘Dede’ Decker – Samantha Degucz – Lya Finston – Cole Fox – Nik heusman – Katrina Jackson – Xiaoyi Jiang – Aubrey LaDuke – Anna Lentz – Travis Morehead – Siena Peterson – Cole Pierce – Kelly Reaves – Brian Reed – Lamine Richards – Mina Romero – Charlotte Saylor – Vicente Siso – Anne Skaug – Andrew Sloan – Nanako Kono – Olivia Tousius – Arin Whitmore – Araceli Zuniga
Additional open hours: Friday September 5, 2025 5:00-8:00 pm.
