Chicago, IL (Northwest Side)
4252 N Kildare
Chicago, IL
Chelsea Goodwin
Flit & Fantasia
A little collection of mice we know printed with cyanotype on cotton bed sheets. A little fantasy of the works and days from many hands playing out over the course of the exhibition.
@sensorial_fields and http://chelseagoodwin.com
3455 N Lavergne Ave
Chicago, IL
Kimmy Noonen
See Through
The US creates about 10 billion pounds of flexible plastic packaging every year and none of it is accepted in our blue recycling bins. Which means the pliable, colorful materials we interact with every day have a one-way ticket to landfills.. We often call these materials waste, a word that literally means “to use without thought.” See Through is an outdoor installation made by artist Kimmy Noonen, using tossable plastics donated by members of this neighborhood. The artist is inviting us to take notice of our overlooked effects and imagine a world where nothing is wasted.
kimmynotkim.com @kimmynotkim
1250 W Augusta Blvd
Chicago, IL
Michael Workman
Ghost Army: Spectre II
Ghost Army: Spectre II expands my ongoing Ghost Army project, which employs mourning as material for collective memory. Originally a response to COVID-19 losses and dedicated to my uncle Mark Workman, an early AIDS victim, the work memorializes the unmourned and unmarked. Installed at SITE/less, Spectre II is a pastel of my Allen the Chalk-Line Ghost character, evoking nuclear shadows, known as Hibakusha (被爆者), from Hiroshima and Nagasaki—spectral imprints of absence. Silent, the spectre accepts whispered questions from visitors about loss and longing, mapping the condition of loss and absence in their permanence. This installation prepares for Dance of the Lost, an archive of movement inscribing memory into space.
michaelworkmanstudio.com | instagram.com/michaelworkman1studio/
6309 N Le Mai
Chicago, IL
Kathryn Rodrigues
Every Day Has Something In It Whose Name Is Forever
Over three years ago, I began making photographs of the view through a skylight in my house, a welcome ritual which provided a sense of grounding and a moment of transcendence. What began as simple daily documentation has evolved into an exploration of time, perception, and the interplay of constraint and expansion. Presented in a variety of forms, from grids to interactive photo sculptures, this work plays with the notion of time presented as both rigid and fluid. It is an ongoing body of work that invites viewers to enjoy a moment of quiet introspection.
www.kathrynrodrigues.com @kathryn.rodrigues
5210 N. LeClaire Avenue
Paul Hertz
Argosy Patterns
Argosy Patterns are rhythmic visual and sound patterns generated by Paul Hertz’s software library PixelAudio, which changes images into sounds and sounds into images. These prints began as rhythmic pulses mapped to a space-filling curve. In the software, the source material can simultaneously be seen as a patterned image and heard as a rhythm. The prints were developed by applying coloring algorithms to the original images. Some algorithms were coded in custom software, others were found following rules in a paint program. The images were printed in Hertz’s studio.
7147 North McAlpin Avenue
Kara Cobb Johnson
Progress Over Perfection...Every Single Time
This fountain was collaboratively made with glass mosaic tiles and screws on garden pots. The tiles were given to me over 20 years ago and have traveled with my things during that timeframe. I never had a project to include them in until now! Do It Yourself-ing is always on my mind and definitely a part of my material practice and inspiration. I am happy that my neighborhood gets to enjoy and benefit from the water sounds and lights from the fountain at night. The birds and insects are already marking it on their maps to visit on the daily!
www.karacobbjohnson.com @karacobbjohnson
2741 N Drake Ave
Chicago, IL
Charlie Dean
Charlie Dean Postal Service
The Charlie Dean Postal Service is a free postal service that allows visitors to send the contents, essence or gist of any letter or parcel to any individual, known or unknown. Messages are personally delivered to your presumed addressee by Charlie Dean on behalf of the Charlie Dean Postal Service. Mailpieces are uninsured and may be subject to reinterpretation, summarization or editorialization. Are you avoiding an awkward conversation? Trying to get in touch with an old friend? Need to confess your love for someone? The Charlie Dean Postal Service can help.
3816 W. Armitage
Chicago, IL
Laurie LeBreton
Shower
"Do It Yourself” implies using simple components, of improvising with materials already at hand. "Shower” is made with 98 plastic milk jugs, braided nylon cord and spray paint. Because ”Shower” is made of many individual parts, it can be installed in a number of ways.
www.LaurieLeBreton.net, @laurie.lebreton
5252 W Warner Ave
Chicago, IL 60641
Metiche
Taking Shape
As spaces take shape, they reveal new logics once inhabited by many. Taking Shape unfolds in a 1915 Chicago bungalow, where ten artists disrupt domestic rhythms—spaces once private open new forms of encounter. Metiche provides support: a tripod holding a painting, plants beside artworks, borrowed objects forming new arrangements, a hole in the grass. This home becomes a resonating mechanism that no longer shelters the familiar—it cohabitates with the new, the impermanent pulse of becoming. Artists: Alberto Aguilar, Alexis de Chaunac, Richard Hull, Xiaohan Jiang, Zhibo Liu, Luisa Ordóñez, Melissa Pokorny, Daniel Salamanca, Eric Saudi, Christian Proaño.
@meticheprojects
4944 W Cornelia Ave
Chicago, IL
Lindsay Johnson
Sanctuary
Water is powerful: it can give life, yet can also destroy. It reminds us of our humble place in the world. Both magical and mysterious, water engages all the senses, quieting the noise of everyday life and offering a strong embrace. Sanctuary, an outdoor installation created by Oak Park artist Lindsay Johnson, emphasizes that we must intentionally seek out places and relationships that provide solace. We can’t control everything, our worries are temporary, but goodness still exists. The artist invites you to sit in this aquatic cove, find a moment of peace, and ask yourself: Where is my sanctuary?"
2028 W Crystal Street
Chicago, IL
Megan Williamson
A Sense of Gravity
Megan Williamson suspends acrobatic figures on sheer fabric, their bodies tumbling through undefined space. The transparency, the ambiguity of falling, and the material choice are all intentional. Descent here is neither fully controlled nor entirely abandoned. Figures work with and against implied gravity simultaneously, floating in relation to one another yet occupying separate trajectories. The translucent fabric reveals suspension itself: vulnerable, exposed, caught between states. These bodies perform difficult, artful gestures despite resistance, embodying both celebration and precarity. Their ambiguous descent, whether loss of control or controlled flight, mirrors how the world feels: dreamlike and uncertain, yet insisting on grace.
www.meganwilliamson.com / @meganwilliamson__art
2240 N. Springfield Ave
Chicago, IL
Veronica Siehl
Prosperity Porch (no hens big enough)
Prosperity hens are a traditional Indian symbol of abundance–owning a flock of chickens was the difference between poverty and plenty. They’re sewn from fabric scraps and hung in doorways to invite prosperity. I used items collected while volunteering with ZeroLandfill Chicago and what I had—old project fabric, seashells, driftwood, woodworking scraps. I drilled holes, cut straws and twisted wire. I connected with friends who donated supplies. May these hens remind: lean into community, question power systems, find moments of joy amidst chaos and injustice. I wish for prosperity— lofty, but it’s hope, and “hope is the thing with feathers”.
www.veronicasiehl.com @veronica.makes.stuff
Winsome - 3120 N. Milwaukee
Chicago, IL
Pinar Aral
Fleeting Hopes
Fleeting Hopes is a series of unglazed porcelain pieces hung from the ceiling. This work reflects my desire to keep hopes and dreams alive, in times of uncertainty and despair. Through this work, I seek to create a space of awe and wonder—where the viewer can pause, look up, breathe, and feel connected to their own sense of longing and resilience.
https://www.pinararal.com/ | @pinararalstudio
Curated by EXTRA Projects
3924 N Kenneth Avenue
Chicago, IL 60641
Joanna Beu
Chicago Block Party
In Chicago today, hostile forces are attempting to tear away at the fabric of our city. They will not succeed. Chicago’s strength is that we are a city of neighborhoods, and, more importantly, a city of neighbors. The building blocks of our city, neighbors join to celebrate our communities with traditional block parties. This piece reimagines the elements of the iconic, beloved Chicago flag as blocks, reconstructing them and mixing them up to interact with one another in new ways—dancing in the wind just as we dance in the streets at our block party on a late summer evening.
Magnifico Coffee
3063 N Milwaukee Ave
Far Right Roastery Window
Brenda Quetzali
Lemon
This mural installation is inspired directly by pages from my sketchbook. I am going through a part of my healing journey where I am making an effort to be more genuine with myself, carrying that raw, unfiltered, and intimate energy into this project. This piece, to me, was a practice to let ideas come to life without judgment or pressure to be perfect. This casual, sketch-like aesthetic is intentional as it reflects my commitment to being more honest and vulnerable in my creative expression, letting go of the urge to polish or hide parts of myself for the sake of outside approval.
https://Brendaquetzali.com | @brendaquetzaliii
Curated by EXTRA Projects
Uprising Theatre and Cafe
2905 N Milwaukee Ave
Paola Cabal
One Was Already Too Many
This piece centers the children killed in the Gaza Conflict. The four-part window installation is self-luminous, featuring flickering electronic candles. Each of the four windows will display a frame built from foamcore and translucent mylar vellum in addition to the lights. The first window will feature a single name of a child killed in the conflict, accompanied by a single electronic candlelight. The second will feature four names and lights, indicating the rapid escalation in violence and death endemic to this conflict. The third window will feature 16 names, and the fourth will feature 32 names. The multiplication each time of the number of names implies the further tens of thousands of child deaths.
Curated by EXTRA Projects
Hairpin Art Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave 2nd Story Windows
Maria Burundarena
Merging Veil
Merging Veil is a site-specific installation at the Hairpin Arts Center, where the gallery’s fifteen windows become display cases for suspended reflective veils. Located at the intersection of N. Milwaukee, W. Diversey, and N. Kimball, the gesture of covering highlights the triangular corner where three streets converge, tracing the contours of the historic Morris B. Sachs building itself. The piece explores light reflection as a flexible material, able to highlight space by contouring it. This silver interruption addresses those who pass through the intersection—commuters, bus riders, and neighbors—intervening in the everyday landscape. It seeks to question how we experience and understand what we see, and the depth of feeling that emerges through shifts in perception.
Curated by EXTRA Projects
EXTRA Projects
3551 W Diversey Ave
Josue Pellot
City of Conversation
This text-based artwork will join a collection of public text works that can be seen around Chicago and on Josue’s Instagram @josuepellot. When discussing this body of work, the artist, who was recently interviewed by the Chicago Sun-Times, explained: “My first exposure to art was graffiti — text-based, direct, and in the street. That never left me. It’s not just about what’s said — it’s about where and how it lands,”
Curated by EXTRA Projects
3078 N Milwaukee Ave
Azul Nogueron
La flor, el Sol, y Amistad
This work is a depiction of eternal love for community and nature, with influences of my heritage in the works. It’s imperative that we continue building relationships with our community members and practice mindfulness to fully experience the beautiful environment we are in. During such a tumultuous time, our community is how we continue growing, practicing empathy, and moving forward. We cannot enjoy community without taking care of ourselves and the environment around us. This is a love letter to those who inspired me to become the person that I am and appreciate the Earth around me.
Curated by EXTRA Projects