Current Exhibitions
Color Club is delighted to announce Flowers of Flesh & Blood, an exhibition of recent drawings by Chicago-based artist KRISTEN MICIOTTA. The exhibition runs April 12 through May 5, 2024. Viewing is available during events in the Color Club tavern or by appointment.
Dense, lush, grotesque, and gorgeous, Miciotta’s work draws its power from unassuming scale and materials. Mostly ballpoint pen on lined notebook paper, these drawings could well have started as sketches in the margins. But they unfold as accumulations of elements that load the surface with a flowing frenzy of images and forms culled from horror films, carnivals, gravestones, anatomical illustrations, and architectural ornamentation.
Julius Caesar is pleased to present a solo exhibition of CHRISTINA BALLANTYNE ( b. 1990, Houston, TX) in the Color Club museum. A Los Angeles-based artist, Ballantyne’s work blends the lines between painting and sculpture. “My paintings begin with the outline of a face or shape that is cut, filled, and stitched onto the canvas to create a dimensional, almost sculptural effect,” says Ballantyne. Her paintings are paired with small wooden figurative sculptures on which she paints bright colors.
Ballantyne’s exhibition “See-Through Place” contains both struggle and the antidote. Her paintings embody an imposing-yet-familiar feeling of psychological distress in sensational color and effect, tender craft and touch. Her sculptures roughly chiseled and formed, are immediately recognizable as sympathetic objects of protection. The polarities contained by each work and their combination captures the schisms quintessential to contemporary life.
062 presents Remembering Thomas Kong, a pop-up exhibition of THOMAS KONG (January 16, 1950 – May 1, 2023) at BARELY FAIR in the Color Club ballroom lobby.
Kong was both a Chicago artist and prominent member of the Roger’s Park community where he operated a convenience store. The store, Kim’s Corner Food, would serve as an exhibition space for the prolific artist. Kong would create thousands of collages while he operated the community store, working in collage and assemblage with packaging materials from the goods he sold, then interweaving his works with the products on display.
For this pop-up, 062 will present the work of Thomas Kong that was mailed to the gallerist S.Y. Lim during the pandemic. Recent acquisitions of the artist’s works includes 2000 pieces by Kohler Foundation.
Studio Artists
Building Artworks
Ballroom Lobby Mural
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