EXTRA Projects, 3551 W Diversey
Chicago, IL 60647
Mae Vitali
City Quilt
“City Quilt” is inspired by barn quilts which are often visible in rural areas off the side of the road, and are meant to be bright and eye-catching to passersby. Vitali hopes to share her love of quilting with the community and anyone who drives past and invites them to enjoy an important part of her practice and steeped in family tradition.
Curated by EXTRA projects
Hairpin Arts Center, 2810 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60618
Laura Collins
Britney Spears’ 2020 Pride Message Animated
On view 6:30PM-6:00AM - This Britney Spears animation is made up of 524 handmade drawings using the technique of rotoscoping. Each cell is traced in colored pencil, digitally scanned, and played back in the same order, creating an animated version of the original video. Filmed against a screen in her home, and posted to Instagram in June of 2020, the video offers an intimate glimpse into Spears’ personal life during the pandemic. She wishes her fans a happy Pride Month, and thanks the LGBTQ community for all their support over the years. The animated version is a mediation and commemoration of Spears’s appreciation for her LGBTQ fans.
lauracollins.com | @lauracollinsart
Curated by EXTRA projects
2818/2820 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60618
Jaclyn Jacunski
You and Me
You and Me reflects on the promises and wishes in friendship. The work makes obvious our care for one another with large-scale patterns, and joyful adornments, in the antagonistic space of a vacant lot and chain link fence among an active neighborhood. How is the scale of friendship, care, and joy measured to our other forms of public life? This work shifts perceptions of a vacant lot in exchange for a vibrant connection. In the spirit of the exhibition, Jacunski uses perceived aggressions between the constraints of non-functioning, empty, and undeveloped urban space and then actively shifts psychological structures by layering forms and symbols of friendship to explore their impressions on the space—an assertion of the importance of communities’ social fabrics.
jaclynjacunski.com | @JaclynJacunski
Curated by EXTRA projects
Corner, 2912 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60618
Robin Dluzen
Drawing of a Drawing My Mom Made (Cranesbill)
“Drawing of a Drawing My Mom Made (Cranesbill)” is a continuation of my years-long engagement with the botanical illustrations my mother created during her 30-year career as a horticulturalist. In this installation, my mother’s drawing of cranesbill clusters, a flowering plant also known as pelargonium and geranium, has been hand cut in adhesive vinyl --the medium I use most in my day job as a union graphics installer. The all-over pattern of my mother’s cranesbill recalls Warhol’s silkscreened hibiscus blooms, and at the same time imparts a powerful metaphor of its own. A variety of ground cover, cranesbill grows with an interconnected root system, capable of regrowing even after being pulled, via the bits and pieces remaining underground. Through both the cranesbill’s floriography and its personal significance, this installation is an homage to that which binds us, connects us, and keeps us flourishing from below the surface.
robindluzen.com | @robindluzen
Curated by EXTRA projects
Magnifico Coffee, 3063 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60618
Diana Gabriel
Precioso (para Don Julito)
Inspired by magical childhood memories in her grandfather’s Colombian coffee farm, the artist wants to share with patrons of the Magnifico coffee Shop, the experience of drinking coffee while surrounded by the majestic mountains from where this coffee is sourced.
The love for the land and the connection to coffee was instilled by the artist's grandfather, Don Julito, who took much pride and joy growing and processing coffee to feed his family.
Precioso came from the connection to this precious liquid, as well as the love for Pre-Columbian gold, which are symbols of Colombian heritage and patrimony. Colombian land is precious and so is everything that comes from it. ¡Que Viva el Café!
dianapgabriel.com | @dianapgabriel
Curated by EXTRA projects
Winsome, 3120 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60618
Zehra Khan
Mushies and Buggies
Mixed-media installation: hot glue on gold leaf, sticks and string.
Artist Zehra Khan weaves hot glue through a framework of reclaimed clothing from her personal collection, displayed in the window front of the clothing boutique Winsome. The windows each feature a translucent hot glue drawing. Scattered around those suspended panels are a chaos field of fungus and buggies.
Curated by EXTRA projects
5226 W Belmont Ave
Chicago, IL 60641
Alberto Aguilar
Land + History
A two part work on the facade of Bim Bom Studios based on the research and acknowledgement in the Land and History section of their website which speaks of the land that the building resides on, the history of the building and the origin of its name.
6156 W Nelson St
Chicago, IL 60634
SeaChi Projects
ins and outs: shUFflEd StaCks
The shuffled stack grew out of an interest and collaborative response to the work of artist Robert Gober’s Newspaper 1992. It began as a stack with the idea that pieces could be cut away, subtracted, leaving what was hidden and what was to be discovered. Through a mailing process back and forth from Seattle to Chicago, the pieces shuffled and changed into new stacks, eventually cannibalizing one another until the work transformed into several different malleable stacks and constructions.
These works continue to grow in scale, meaning and source material. For this 2023 Terrain Exhibition, SeaChi artists worked together onsite for the first time. The individual work specific to this project was primarily done in private studios, later assembled and changed on site to create new works.
4039 W Addison St
Chicago, IL 60641
Hubcap Collective
Roadkill
Roadkill is a hubcap collector's dream, dwelling in the nightmares of commuters.
The Chicago streets claim another hubcap: a car bumps along lonely, missing a tooth. As a Hubcap Collective, we spot and claim these trash treasures, gathering with friends to paint and pass hubcaps-turned-relics. To be in on the magic is to start to see hubcaps everywhere. Roadkill speaks to not only our collection and passion, but to hubcap collectors across the country. With glowing stoplight eyes, the beast lunges out of the automotive fantasies of artists and friends: Ruth McManus, Katherine Skwira-Brown, Darien Ridenour and Ella Fainaru-Wada.
3926 N Ridgeway Ave
Chicago, IL 60618
Stacey Lee Gee
a portal in neon pink, and another one to punctuate my folly
What if, instead of seeing your reflection in a mirror you caught a glimpse of an alternate world?
The original mirror was used to reveal an alternate reality. The reflected view was treated as spiritual; a world contained within a small object.
I’ve replaced the mirror of a child-sized vanity with neon pink plexiglass to mimic the magic of the first mirrors. Open the drawer full of pennies to pay your passage though the neon portal. Look though and see a new sky. Watch color form on leaves like neon spay paint. There is magic everywhere.
4717 N Laramie Ave
Chicago, IL 60630
S-H projects
having it all worn, having it pulled
Switch Hook Projects furthers the role of ‘space as facilitator’ - Installing 3 works accompanied by a host specific to each site. A gesture of public infrastructure as addition, pointing towards the potential of exchange between each defined neighborhood. The inevitable archiving of its interactions with itself, eachother, the work installed, the negation of its temporal presence, or the questioning of its contents - the hands that skim the work’s exterior encased; once said exhibition ends, each box remaining sealed as a means of keeping the intimate encounters between the viewer and the moment of contact.
5210 N LeClaire
Chicago, IL 60630
Nancy Gildart
This is for You
Since 2017 I’d been contributing knitted blankets to Welcome Blanket, a crowd-sourced textile action that collects hand made blankets and distributes them to people arriving in the U.S. as migrants and asylum seekers.
In 2022 I found myself with plenty: plenty of time, lots of materials, and a headful of ideas.
I wanted to share these riches–via Welcome Blanket– with people who no longer felt safe in countries that were once their homes. So I make quilts for them. I use joyful colors and prints that suggest shelter, abundance, and possibility: houses, fruits and vegetables, fish, stars and planets.
Photo credit: Sara Peak Convery
5752 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60646
Gina Lee Robbins
Soft Network
What defines our existence?
Our days are made up of social, professional and familial events, interspersed by a series of brief, random interactions with the strangers whose own events intersect ours. Although these moments seem insignificant, their value can be elevated depending on where they fall in our continuum–where are we heading, or coming from? What line of thinking did this meeting interrupt? Have we met before somewhere? Will we meet again?
Some of the lessons that most expressly define who we are come from these "soft" connections: when strangers become familiars, or teach us things that we share with family or friends. This is the network that can sustain us, heal us and reveal to us our innate value.
Soft Network is a site-specific fiber installation that incorporates coils of reclaimed yarn on single-use plastic waste nestled in a web of spun wool.
6128 N Keystone Ave
Chicago, IL 60646
Kelley Clink
Family Ties
As a collage artist, I frequently work with found family photographs. I don’t know the people in any of these photographs. I (usually) don’t know where or when they were taken. Divorced from details, these subjects are free to stand in for every/any family. “Family Ties” makes visible the deep human connections that are the roots of these photographs. Pictures don’t last. People don’t last. But, just like mycelium, the connections we make with each other and our planet nourish present and future generations.