Love Blooms Here Plaza, 3601 W Douglas Blvd
Chicago, IL 60623
Serena JV Elston
Abjecting MCM
Abjecting MCM is a furniture-like sculpture grown from native Red Reishi mushrooms. This work locates Mid-Century Modern Design as a tool in the invention of whiteness as a modern American ideology and reveals its grotesque history. The production of the work as a biological piece illuminates this idea as an ideology and not a truth, an anti-monument, an effigy. The mushroom subverts this history and cross-pollinates with local fungal bodies, helping develop more genetic diversity in the subterrain microbiome. Abjecting is the mycological term for the release of spores by a fungus; and the shock when what was once hidden all around us is revealed.
3605 W Douglas
Chicago, IL 60623
Daya Tiye
When the Seal Breaks
When the Seal Breaks is a visual imagining of what a mycorrhizal network for human connection might look like. Artist Daya Tiye invites visitors to contribute to the piece’s forming by sharing a moment in which you have felt connection to others.
Finishing touches being placed on the mural.
1330 S Millard
Chicago, IL 60623
Red Line Service Institute
A Space of Symbiosis
This mural, Whatever She Planted Grew as if by Magic, was designed by Red Line Service Institute artist Samantha Caldera and painted by community members and the general public on October 1, 2023. The mural is one part of a longer-term term project in which Red Line Service artists turn a vacant lot in North Lawndale into a thriving indigenous garden called A Space of Symbiosis. The painting of the mural, as well as an art-making event on October 14 to decorate seed shakers, sculpt earth balls, and plant the indigenous seeds are all Red Line Service’s contribution to Terrain Biennial 2023.
3335 W Douglas Blvd
Chicago, IL 60623
Eva Neuharth
Tree’s Drawings
Tree’s Drawings is an out-door instillation that consists of various drawing tools suspended from the branches of trees. The drawing tools are hanging just low enough to make gentle marks on paper laid flat on the ground. As wind moves the tree branches the drawing tools are also moved and make small marks on the paper. The more time passes, the denser and more complex the drawings become.
Del-Kar Pharmacy, 3726 W 16th St
Chicago, IL 60623
Robert Owens
Billie Hollidae
Artist statement coming soon!
1926 S Christiana Ave
Chicago, IL 60623
Nanxi Jin
Nature’s hand, The five elements dance
I have always held a profound belief in the incredible power and beauty of nature. This work is rooted in the five fundamental natural elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space. These elements, each with its own unique characteristics and energy, serve as both my muse and my medium. They embody the very essence of life itself, shaping our world, our experiences, and our existence. Through my art, I strive to capture the essence of these elements, to reveal their timeless influence, and to create a bridge between the tangible and the ethereal.
2106 S Kedzie Ave
Chicago, IL 60623
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.
2347 W 21st St
Chicago, IL 60608
Millicent Kennedy
Tendril Bearer
Tendril Bearer is a site responsive artwork sewn around wrought iron gates common to the Pilsen neighborhood as well as the hosts garden and vines growing nearby. After screenprinting images that combine the human hand and the pattern of leaves, sheer fabric is hand sewn on either side of the hosts metal fence. This process quilts around architectural details, both highlighting and holding them tight.
2518 W Iowa St
Chicago, IL 60622
gordon fung (//sense)
and the home of the [placeholder]—S1E2ohklahomo
We invite over 50 //sense artists to make works that explore the concept of “home.” There are three-part in this exhibition at Ohklahomo: 1) community board showcase (10/1–11/15, multiple rotations), 2) interactive and immersive installation exhibition in the basement (10/27–11/15, two rotations), and 3) two experimental theater x happening performances (11/4 and 11/12).
3311 W Potomac Ave
Chicago, IL 60651
Caroline Robe
Wayside
Wayside is the national park service term for informational signage. The official manual on wayside exhibits recommends, “The orientation wayside is strategically placed along the natural flow of pathways at the point where the decision to explore, or not to explore, is made.”
Typical waysides contain information about the space around them. This wayside contains information about the viewer as well as the space around them. This wayside is both reflective and translucent, connecting the neighborhood with the person standing in front of it.
4100 W Grand
Chicago, IL 60651
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.
4353 W Hirsch St
Chicago, IL 60651
Avery Booth
bindweed around bittersweet nightshade
things get tangled up in the fences and boundaries. shrubs and bushes push up against it. moss and seed settle in the cracks of the pavement. honeysuckle, bindweed and morning glory, virginia creeper, bittersweet nightshade weave incessantly within. ecological maintenance. when trees outlive fences, and when fences shape trees. nothing is ever finished, they vine and create through lines. substance is reused and repurposed. and there’s being disappointed in yourself but maintaining some slack. and the debris that gets caught up in the in between.
(tulle, embroidery floss, maple leaf, packing tape, shopping bags, willow fronds)
2224 N Kilpatrick Ave
Chicago, IL 60639
Frank Vega
4:02 Counting The Rain Drops
4:02 Counting The Rain Drops is a project that centers around the importance of trees for a thriving ecosystem. Using the shape of Little Trees Air Freshener as a familiar object “4:02 Counting The Rain Drops” presents notions of movement and industry. Transportation and technologies allow for innovation but have other effects that deplete many resources and change stabilized ecologies. Enlarging these tree shapes and changing their materiality is done to make them present and permanent. Together these shapes of varying sizes become wind claims, the tree shapes clash, creating unrestricted sounds. The project brings together 42 cutouts of Little Tree Air Fresheners hanging from an unstable material like rubber bands. These shapes will continue to fall during the duration of the exhibition.