625 N Kingsbury St
Chicago, IL 60654
Juan Eduardo Flores
Bridges
Bridges is composed of two live-feed videos of the Paso Del Norte Bridge between Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas. The bridge built in 1967 is one of the most active bridges between the United States and Mexico with more than 10 million people crossing each year. Making use of machine learning which estimates the likely presence of a human using a 0-100 scale, Flores highlights the relationship between hyper-surveillance and anonymity in border zones, where individuals are carefully watched and judged, while simultaneously disregarded and faceless in our social conscious.
3425 N. Claremont Ave
Chicago, IL 60618
Clay Castellano + Jennifer Traina-Dorge
Core Sample
Coring is a method of collecting rock and sediment samples for geological research that inspired the arrangement of this work. Since childhood, I’ve been curious about what is beneath the earth’s surface. My favorite geological site is a gorge in upstate New York with narrow canyon walls running at least fifty feet high. The rocks are cut with the precision of an architect’s section, demarcating a continental collision. Over the millennia, a water channel has exposed the time-story of the layers of rock in this monumental formation. Nature fascinates me in its ability to reveal truth over time.
3425 N Claremont
Chicago, IL 60618
Jeff Phillips
Stare With Your Ears
As city dwellers, many of us have become accustomed to the deafening din of urban life. Some may even cease to hear it. Shape-shifting ribbons of light sense the cacophony of environmental noises in real time. They appear to flinch, tremble, and express agitation. Can you see what you hear?
1411 W Irving Park Rd
Chicago, IL 60613
Shelby Rodeffer
I Feel What You Feel
“I Feel What You Feel” is a hand-sewn and hand-painted banner celebrating the interconnectivity of mycelium, and a reminder of the interconnectivity of all living things.
1923 W Berteau Ave
Chicago, IL 60613
BLOOM by Dana Parisi
Mycelium BLOOM
I use bright color, irregular shapes and variable textures to encourage viewers to explore my BLOOM installations up close. While these artworks often consist solely of handmade textile flowers, for Mycelium Connection Terrain Biennial 2023 I added other elements to further the fungal aesthetic.
My installations are intended to evoke thoughts of barnacles and similar organic processes of life taking over manmade materials. Despite futile human efforts to control it for our means, nature is always moving back toward balance. It is our responsibility to harmonize with it and more effectively integrate our civilization with our natural surroundings.
4401 N Ravenswood Ave
Chicago, IL 60640
Tallulah Cartalucca
Wind Logs
These four logs can fly — they twirl, inflate, and follow currents of the wind. Inflatable logs spiral and dance lightly despite the heaviness of their inspiration. Just as tree branches blow and rustle in the wind, so too do these logs.
2858 W Belle Plaine Ave, #3
Chicago, IL 60618
David Sundry
SHIFT
Artist statement coming soon!
4319 N Spaulding
Chicago, IL 60618
Eseosa Ekiawowo Edebiri
Weeping Window
After spending my time seeking the fantastical and daydreaming, it was exciting to have the term magical realism handed to me as I've spent over the past year creating portals. I saw this public art installation as an opportunity to add a window where there otherwise wouldn’t be, creating a threshold to gaze through. While you can peer through it, the image is obscured and the frame warped. I enjoy playing with space, time, and a sense of what could be, where or when are you going, or are you coming? Raindrops turn to tear drops.
3239 W Leland
Chicago, IL 60625
Laurie LeBreton
Reciprocity
“Reciprocity” speaks to the integration of opposing elements. The form of the forty sculptures is simple, a flat sheet with grooves that are cut out and folded down. Each sculpture highlights the contrast of positive and negative space. The mutual dependence of these two elements is another reflection of Terrain's theme of Mycelium Connection. The liveliness of the installation reflects the pleasure that is often part of reciprocity.
5021 N Francisco Ave
Chicago, IL 60625
Michael Workman
Unacknowledged Legislators
My yard sign installation takes its title from the widely-quoted 1821 essay “In Defense of Poetry” where Percy Bysshe Shelley claimed that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
Utilizing 20 Ghost Army yard signs, this installation highlights the usually invisible presence of the socially-conscious artist in a society obsessed with art as merely a form of entertainment, decoration or commodity.
As an expansion of my Ghost Army project’s efforts to spotlight the lives lost to willful neglect, including the AIDS crisis and COVID, this iteration highlights the erasure of meaningful artistic labor in societies threatened by independent thought.
4942 N Washtenaw Ave
Chicago, IL 60625
Kara Cobb Johnson
Earth Calling Universe
My neighbor threw away a pile of used
Tomato cages
Probably yielded dozens
Heirlooms
And cherries
And steaks
I was called to create a “Sputnik”
Coalesced-a wiry array
I wrapped them in reflective paracord
To activate during low light
So no one would trip
Just consider
It
Shiny lines
Glowing white
Against
Night
I performed on Instagram with this work. I climbed a stepladder to photograph the entire piece framed against the blue sky above. This is about deciding to reuse and make small changes as a tiny piece of a magnificent everything.
4939 N Oakley
Chicago, IL 60625
Meg Guttman
Alfred Goes Under the Sea
This piece is part of an ongoing project, a life-size version of “My Book House”--a dollhouse I made a few years ago. Each interior surface was a collage of vintage book illustrations, and each room had its own theme. This panel is from the bathroom, which is all about Water.
I plan to exhibit several rooms in the next year, and let visitors immerse themselves, alone or with others---making new connections to, and through, “My Book House.”
921 W Gunnison
Chicago, IL 60640
Claire Ashley & Joshua Patterson
Phone Tag
5413 N Magnolia
Chicago, IL 60640
Kimmy Noonen
Sanctuary
Sanctuary is an immersive, site-specific outdoor painting. Viewers are invited to participate by moving into and under the painting as it dances with wind and light. Sanctuary visualizes the often underappreciated mycelium root systems with equally dismissed physical materials, inverting what we cannot see within the soil into our lived space. Interdependence has the capacity to bind us together in our many differences. When that web of mutuality is given the opportunity to expand, the result is not only a safety net for the individual but also a shelter in which we can create a new kind of home together.
5555 N Sheridan Rd
Chicago, IL 60640
Fran Sampson
Beachscapes
Human imposition can be seen on every landscape, whether fabricated or merely observed in a relatively natural state. Fran Sampson’s paintings capture that signature human mark by employing abstracted shapes, symbols, and even at times, bar codes, as stand-ins for humans. Her Beachscapes series in shades of pink, echo the signature “sunset pink” façade of the historic Edgewater Beach Apartments, and colorfully reference the playful beach vibe of the Edgewater neighborhood’s equally iconic beaches.
5555 N Sheridan Rd
Chicago, IL 60640
Bryan Northup
Webs We Weave - Trails We Leave
Bryan Northup is a Chicago-based environmental artist who uses single-use plastic as an art medium. He creates abstract wall reliefs, sculptures, and installations to imagine how plastics interact with living systems at the deepest level, while advocating for social change in plastic consumption. Northup believes that plastics will ultimately become an undeniable marker in the fossil record of humankind, and his artwork is positioned as a focal point for education, conversation, and changemaking. Northup’s rootlike and branching installation in three retail windows of Chicago's historic Edgewater Beach Apartments is comprised of one month’s worth of plastics collected by Edgewater Beach Apartment residents.
5555 N Sheridan Rd
Chicago, IL 60640
Margot McMahon
Aviary
Amidst the whimsical sculpted topiary in the Edgewater Beach Apartments garden courtyard, Margot McMahon’s Terrain installation Aviary pays homage to the variety of bird species that visit the western shores of Lake Michigan by way of the Mississippi Flyway, North America’s largest superhighway for avian migration. Each year, millions of migratory birds depend on coastal habitats along the Great Lakes for shelter, rest, and nourishment for their long journeys. When ecosystems are impacted by carbon emissions and water and air quality worsen, birds disappear, and their very existence is threatened.
6018 N Kenmore
Chicago, IL 60660
Melissa H Potter
Circle Garden: Solastalgia
CIRCLE GARDEN: SOLASTALGIA features plants native to this land pre-Colonial settlement, which was swampy marsh and prairie. Solastalgia is a neologism meaning homesickness for our environment blighted by climate change. Over the course of two years, the plant’s historical uses and current locational outcomes are studied, recorded, and posted for viewers to follow. In addition, an interactive artists’ book presents international circle gardens to further inform this project. CIRCLE GARDEN: SOLASTALGIA will culminate in a series of circular garden design plans to be shared as printed and online material freely with the community.
6018 N Kenmore
Chicago, IL 60660
Julie Carpenter & Jane Norling
Plastics S.O.S. (Save Our Shores)
Plastics S.O.S. is an eco-art mural made from plastic toys found along Osterman, Foster, and Montrose beaches. It raises awareness about environmental cleanup initiatives that remove trash from beaches, lakes, rivers, and oceans to reduce waste and plastic pollution. These abandoned children’s sand toys engage viewers in the experience of slow-looking at things accidentally left behind when in a hurry. Hopefully Plastics S.O.S. can increase stewardship of public beaches and parks.
1850 W Thome Ave
Chicago, IL 60660
Misericordia Home
Mercy Mushrooms
Our project aims to bring beauty hidden in nature into focus by creating oversized mushroom forms out of wood, ceramic, and upcycled material. Each structure is detailed in paint, colorful mosaics, and collected odds and ends. We used found objects and discarded materials to recycle and repurpose into artwork. Our mushrooms reflect our community as it celebrates individualism while allowing us to come together in collaboration. Though each of us may be a piece of the whole, each piece is vital to the overall structure. Hidden Wonders connects us back to our relationship with nature and with each other.
The Donut Shop, 1656 W Wallen
Chicago, IL 60626
Liz Weinstein
untitled
7314 N Bell Ave
Chicago, IL 60645
Bishal (Bhaikaji) Manandhar
Fibrous Plastic
7729 N Ashland Ave
Chicago, IL 60626
Deirdre A Fox
Another World In This One
Artist statement coming soon!