EXPO Chicago: April 24th – 27th

Curated for the second year by Rosario Güiraldes, Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, EXPOSUREspotlights solo and two-artist presentations from galleries ten years and younger. This year’s focus includes galleries from Latin America, particularly Argentina and Brazil, alongside emerging Chicago-based galleries.

• A selection of iconic early photographs by Rashid Johnson alongside works by Ebony G. Patterson, presented by moniquemeloche.
• A selection of works by Sergio Sister and Thiago Barbalho presented by Nara Roesler. The booth features works produced by Sergio Sister between 1967 and 1971, created during his confinement as a political prisoner during Brazil’s military dictatorship.
• An installation by acclaimed interdisciplinary artist Deborah Oropallopresented by Catharine Clark Gallery.
• A solo presentation by ACA Galleries of multimedia Afro-Caribbean American portrait artist, Kandy G Lopez, in her first exhibition in Chicago.
• A solo presentation of renowned artist Juanita Guccione by Weinstein Gallery.
• A solo booth of new sculptures and prints by Vietnam-born artist Vy Trinh who lives and works in Philadelphia, presented by Galerie Quynh.

• A thematic presentation of artists Melanie Flood, Amanda Ross-Ho and Evan La Londe by ILY2 considering the prop as a tool of destabilization.
• Michael Rosenfeld Gallery will present the work of Romare Bearden, Bob Thompson, Betye Saar and Beauford Delaney.
• A presentation by Rhona Hoffman of politically engaged artists centered around three themes: Nature & the Environmentwith Spencer Finch, Julia Fish, Jacob Hashimoto, Judy Ledgerwood and Martha Tuttle; Mass Media & Identity with Derrick Adams and Amanda Williams; and War, Violence & Inequality with Gordon Parks, Bassim Al-Shaker and Brian Maguire.
• Prints by esteemed contemporary artists Katherine Bernhardt, Elizabeth Peyton, Tschabalala Self, Cecily Brown and Mel Bochner, presented by Two Palms.
• Works by color-field artists Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland presented by Yares Art.
• A presentation of  work by historic 20th century artists Agnes Pelton, Louise Nevelson and Raymond Johnson, focusing on desert transcendentalism, presented by Addison Rowe Gallery.
• A presentation of historic Afro-Brazilian artists Agnaldo Manuel dos Santos, Mestre Didi, Heitor dos Prazeres and Rubem Valentim alongside contemporary artists Lídia Lisboa, Maxwell Alexandre, No Martins and Sidney Amaral, considering ancestral power of the Black community in Brazil, presented by Millan and Almeida & Dale.
• A selection of works by prominent Australian First Nations artists Emily Kam Kngwarray, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Rover Thomas Joolama, Barbara Weirand Naata Nungurrayi paired with legendary Dutch artists Karel Appel and Marcel Pinas, presented by SmithDavidson.
• A reimagination of the 1946 art brut installation at Galerie Rene Drouin, inspecting Jean Dubuffet’s relationship to Chicago and Chicago’s relationship to ‘outsider’ art, presented by The Gallery of Everything.

• Digital prints by YOON Hyangro that transform pop culture imagery into abstraction by erasing characters and text presented by ONE AND J. Gallery.
• PYO Gallery will present The Stillness of Water: Tschang-Yeul Kim’s Final Reflections on the Flow of Life, prominently featuring the artist’s images of water droplets and the contemplations on the concept of water itself.
• A group exhibition From Blindness to Awareness presented by Lee & Bae featuring mixed media works by atelierJAK, Hyojin Park, Lee Sangmin, Jinwook Yeom and Janghee Jang that explore transformation and perception, including Yeom’s labor-intensive embroidery-like paintings.
• Works by Korean artists Jimok Choi, Suzanne Song, Lee Jaeseok and Kim Doki, Belgian artist Koen Van Den Broek, and Japanese artist Yuichi Hirako, presented by Gallery Baton.
• Abstract paintings by Kwak Hoon and Lee Jung-ji that explore human affairs through layered textures and expressive forms presented by Sun Gallery.
• Masterpieces of six Korean masters Park Seobo, Lee Ufan and Yun Hyongkeun, presented by WELLSIDE Gallery.
• The works of Yoo Geun-young, a mid-career artist from Daejeon who captures Korea’s turbulent history through unfamiliar shapes, vivid colors, and contrasting textures, presented by Gana Art.
• Oil and mixed media impasto paintings by Lee Jaehyun that use thick layers of matiere to evoke personal memories and emotional landscapes presented by GalleryJoeun.
• Hyper-realistic oil and sand paintings on board by Kangyong Kim that simulate photographic realism while questioning perception and illusion presented by The Columns Gallery.