4401 N. Ravenswood Ave
Chicago, IL.
Bishal (Bhaikaji) Manandhar
Sense of Home
"Sense of Home" is a construction of tapestry with a burlap rice bag, which gives me a comfort from every senses. It's a home.
5453 N. Wayne Ave.
Chicago, IL
Cathleen Cramer
A Petal Is a Prayer, May the Clarity of Light Be Yours
Having lost a connection to the religious practices of my upbringing, I’m looking for the divine in everyday life, and inventing my own spiritual practices. I’m particularly interested in ways that different spiritual traditions allow for the sacred in the home. My life as a mother is dominated by routine domestic work, primarily done in the kitchen. “Kitchen altars,” small devotional spaces in the household, can be found in various religious traditions including Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. They provide a portal to escape the temporal and enter the realm of mystery and magic. Using highly personal imagery and ephemera, found wood and old paint, I’ve constructed my own “kitchen altars”, gateways that allow the caregiver, the food-maker, the house-cleaner, to transcend the mundane.
www.cathleencramer.com / @cmcramer.art
5412 N Magnolia
Chicago, IL
Deirdre Colgan Jones
Screen – Flotsam & Jetsam from the Domestic Realm (A Family Archive)
This installation transforms discarded packaging—cardboard voids, tags, and labels collected from 2020–2025—into a hand-perforated screen. Each circle traces the outline of everyday items like Chlorox wipes and toilet rolls, marking the flow of objects that sustained a family of three. Installed on a front porch, the work serves as an ephemeral archive: fragile, porous, and shifting with light and air. Once waste, these fragments now stand as relics of domestic life, holding memory, care, and loss in their delicate forms.
www.deirdrecolganjones.com @deirdrecolganjones
110 W Madison St
Chicago, IL
Jerry Bleem
A Banner From the Abandoned
Made of flattened aluminum cans from the streets of Chicago and used single-use plastic bags, “A Banner From the Abandoned” continues Jerry Bleem’s interest in detritus. Responding to the 2025 Terrain Biennial’s theme of DIY, Bleem approached the pastor of St. Peter Church in downtown Chicago to propose a festive hanging above the church’s doors. Will the time spent cutting hundreds of plastic bags into lines, crocheting them into a surface and embellishing them with giant street sequins make us more mindful of our trash? Bleem keeps hoping and thanks all who helped gather bags for this project!
1656 W. Wallen Ave
Chicago, Il
kg
I Want (Flowers In A Window)
Before Chicago artist kgs' parents fled Poland for the United States in 1984 they traded lace on the black market to survive. The artist continues working with lace in the Polish tradition, focusing on making decorative floral lace in the laziest, low-class mode of production, crocheted lace. Using the simplest crochet stitch to create chains forming the crochet object called a “lazy daisy”, kg honors and critiques traditional lacework’s associations with class and labor. These “lazy daisys” forms are often either thrown on the floor by the artist or now experimentally hung from steel craft wire mimicking actual plants in planters.
@sneakydallop @thedonutshop
4923 N. Oakley Avenue
Chicago, IL
Meg Guttman
DIY Surrealism
2024 marked the 100th anniversary of Surrealism. I've chosen 3 paintings to reinterpret in assemblage: Leanora Carrington, Self Portrait; Gertrude Abercrombie, Between Two Camps; Dorothea Tanning, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. These are not exact reproductions. I used the skills I possess and whatever bits and pieces washed up on my shore from thrift stores, alleyways, and basements. In the gaps between my work and theirs lies the mystery and amusement, in the spirit of Surrealism: "the chance meeting of an umbrella and a sewing machine on a dissecting table"--per the "Compte de Lautreamont," whose poetry anticipated Surrealism.
megguttman @ Instagram
3829 N Sawyer Ave.
Chicago, IL
MotherArt: Revisited (MA: R)
On the Line: Messages of Care
Inspired by the 1970s Mother Art collective, MA: R artists use art to confront sociopolitical crises through mothering—disrupting norms and building collective care. We resist isolation, erasure, and systems that devalue caregiving and collective power. As authoritarianism casts its shadow, we assert: care is a radical, urgent act. Every decision now pulls us toward or away from the bureaucratic sublime. We ask: Do we hold the line, cross it, draw it, or weave it into protection—when everything we are is on the line? These messages are not just gestures—they are calls for recognition, survival, and unwavering solidarity.
https://motherartrevisited.com @motherartrevisited @jessicamuellerart
Printers Row Necessary & Sufficient Coffee 728 S Dearborn St
Chicago, IL
Tuong Anh (Kim) Millspaugh
Cut and Glare
Crochet Islands of various yarns weave and undulate looking like the labor of language and beauty. Works transform across media, and prints of collages are available as well.
HTTPS://foleywork.net and @foleywork on insta
703 S. Dearborn
Chicago IL
Larissa Rolley
Dream It Yourself (DIY)
Drawing upon images of French Polynesia, Larissa Rolley arranges moments and fragments - purau (hibiscus) blossoms, water, sunsets, boats, and people - into a vertical grid of small prints anchored with a large photograph visible from the street. In the DIY spirit of the Terrain Biennial, the installation invites viewers to dream their own vision of paradise.
www.LarissaRolley.com @larissarolley
5314 Lakewood
Chicago, IL
Amanda Mulcahy
Terra Forma
Reimagining natural processes of deposition and erosion, Terra Forma is inspired by the interplay of weather and small biological organisms coming together to slowly transform inert rock into vibrant organic matter capable of supporting life. Over the span of a summer month, I layered paints and ground up pigments on the surface of these boards. I left them exposed to the Chicago weather where the sun and rain baked, moved, and even partially washed away paints to create these vibrant terrains.
3239 W Leland Ave.
Chicago IL
Lilach Schrag
Phoenix
The Phoenix myth is told across the world from ancient Egyptian and Greek to Chinese, Japanese, Jewish and Christian cultures. Depicted as a long-lived bird, the phoenix sets itself on fire only to be reborn from the ashes. Often associated with natural elements such as rain and the moon, it represents the cycle of life and death, immortality, resurrection, and the human spirit. Studying myths, focusing on magical beings, and working in nature are central in my artwork. This fall, in an urban residential setting, my fiery Phoenix emerges from the ashes taking its fanciful flight of hope and resilience.
Movement on Montrose
2951 W. Montrose
Pinar Aral
Connections
Connections is my first-ever 6-foot sculpture, created for Terrain Exhibitions 2025. One of my dreams has been to make public art. This year’s theme, DIY, inspired me to become a DIY Public Artist. I built the sculpture from recycled cardboard tubes from Movement on Montrose, a new event space in my neighborhood. Sixteen hours after installation, it was knocked down. Heartbroken but determined, I repaired it as an act of resilience and resistance. Its scars now tell a deeper story—life’s fragility and strength. Join me Oct 16, 4–6pm, at Movement on Montrose to celebrate connection and hope.
https://www.pinararal.com/ @pinararalstudio
5414 n magnolia
Jill Nahrstedt
Cactus Heart: Part of being Human
The cactus prints on various substrates, blowing in the breeze, nestled in the trees, cascading down the landscape, are a reflection of an artist's heart practice.There is a cactus where my heart should be, it guards my sensitive soul. It keeps me safe while I seek out the chaos and the beauty. I have an overwhelming urge to share my joy, but that can invite unintended responses. So I keep it protected. Prickly. How will this art, my heart, fare in the elements?
Lillstreet Art Center
4401 N. Ravenswood
Front Lawn
Pinar Aral
State of Affairs
“State of Affairs” is a reaction to the unjust treatment imposed by those in power. This sculpture does not strive for beauty; instead, it confronts the viewer with the raw and unsettling truth about the current state of affairs.
https://www.pinararal.com/ @pinararalstudio
The back porch
2619 W Leland
Chicago, IL 60625
(visible from the Brown Line Rockwell station)
Vida Sacic
Margins of Records
Installed on the back porch of 2619 W Leland (visible from the Brown Line Rockwell station), this site specific project transforms the everyday act of hanging laundry into a gesture of public publishing. A line of prints, fluttering, temporary, and open to the elements, features language gathered from conversations with artists about unrecorded works and fleeting moments. Produced as digital and letterpress prints on transparent and white rain proof paper, the pieces shift, fade, and sometimes disappear, reflecting rhythms of loss and renewal. The work invites quiet observation from passing trains, merging daily transit with moments of poetic visibility.
www.vidasacic.com @vidasacic