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Some details from the Gina Hunt exhibition at 65GRAND. Gina’s solo experience “Mirage” continues through October 5th. Gallery hours are Friday & Saturday 12-6pm or by appointment

TONIGHT! Gina Hunt “Mirage” opens at 65GRAND

Opening reception Friday 9/6 6-9pm. 65GRAND is located at 3252 W Noth Ave in Chicago

Image: Gina Hunt, Time-Telling, 2024, Acrylic on cut canvas and poplar, 47.5 x 47.5 x 2 inches and detail

Opening soon! Gina Hunt’s solo exhibition “Mirage” opens this Friday at 65GRAND

Join us Friday, September 6th from 6 - 9PM for the opening reception

65GRAND is located at 3252 W North Ave in Chicago

65GRAND presents
GINA HUNT
Mirage
September 6 - October 5, 2024

Opening Reception: Friday, September 6th from 6 - 9PM

Image: Gina Hunt, Time-Telling, 2024, Acrylic on cut canvas and poplar, 47.5 x 47.5 x 2 inches

Wonderful afternoon in Robert Hooper’s studio! .hooper

Sneak peek into Gina Hunt’s studio 👀

We’re excited for Gina’s solo exhibition kicking off the new season at 65GRAND. See you September 6th!!

See you in September!

65GRAND will be closed until September 6, 2024 when we reopen with an exciting exhibition schedule for the Fall

Studio visit with Nicholas Szymanski! .szymanski

This is it! Don’t miss the final opportunity to see the group exhibition Paper Per Se at 65GRAND. Friday & Saturday 12-6pm

Allison Reimus lives with her husband and three kids in New Jersey by way of Brooklyn, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Michigan. Her work lives somewhere between painting and fiber art. They are dyed, bleached, sewn, stretched and painted. She explores her relationship with motherhood, labor, patriarchy and domesticity through tactility and abstraction.

Image: Allison Reimus, Pregnant Before Pancakes, 2023, oil, flashe, pumice, glitter, household textiles on folded and sewn paper, 18 x 14 inches and details

Esau McGhee was born in Philadelphia and lives and works in Chicago. McGhee’s works on paper steadfastly refuse acts of classification by any single medium, genre, style, or process. Although his most recent pieces comprise painted marks on collaged screen prints and a variety of other found and re-used papers, McGhee does not consider them paintings. Or rather, he recommends we think of them as paintings to the same extent that they are also sculptures, and also graffiti, and also collages, and also photographs made by and through the artist’s own body, without the use of a camera.

Images: Esau McGhee, Mind Rain No. 2, 2023, collage of screen print, ink and spray paint on archival paper framed in poplar, and wenge by the artist, 31 x 41-1/2 inches and detail

Brian Kapernekas lives and works in the Chicago land area. Slabs and Grids are a collection of found polystyrene fragments that have been further fragmented, re-assembled or left as is. Pigmented paper pulp encapsulates these objects through a variety of applications. A number of responses manifests from these invented forms, from uncanny resemblances to other materials, to fictional artifacts, to something that has caught the corner of his eye. These objects are installed onto surfaces of hand painted grids that are varied and composed out of acrylic washes that have been selectively blotted away with blotter material that is similar to that used in the initial making of the paper pulp. The intention of this installation is to retain an inherent fragmented nature, but at the same time conjure an experience, a survey, a plot of sorts between the familiar and the unfamiliar.

Images: Brian Kapernekas with his installation Slabs and Grids, 2024, pigmented paper pulp, polystyrene and acrylic, dimensions variable. Swipe for details.

This is the final week to see the group exhibition Paper Per Se at 65GRAND. Gallery hours are Fridays & Saturdays 12-6pm or DM to make an appointment for another time this week

Judith Geichman lives and works in Chicago. She is an abstract painter, a physical painter, and her approach into the work is often messy, immediate, intuitive, and experimental. Along the way she has acquired a trusted inner dialogue that directs what stays and what goes as the painting is being built. The materiality of the paint, and the atmosphere of the space/place of where she works is the phenomena that sparks her thoughts, emotions, and imagination that become embodied in the surface of the painting. In all this there is a piling up of painting events, moments of combustion when materials meet, coalesce, settle, and dry. She goes back and forth between accumulation and reduction. While she works, she sees the histories of painting hover, and float by, inspired by her years of looking. And then suddenly, all the marks and fragments combined and saved leave a new history of right now.

Image: Judith Geichman, Untitled, 2023, acrylic and spray paint on Korean Hanji paper, 82 x 58 inches and details

Melissa Scherrer Paré lives and works in Milwaukee, WI. Her work uses the detritus of domestic life to create beauty out of the mundane. Paper from credit card statements, medical records, her daughter’s old schoolwork, receipts, coupons are shredded and mixed as ingredients into paper pulp. The pulp is sculpted over upcycled objects like chianti wine bottles or used skin lotion containers transforming disregarded objects into three dimensional canvases.

Image: Melissa Scherrer Paré, Green Field, 2024, painted paper pulp over upcycled plastic form, sculpted handles, 16-1/2 x 5 in

Images for the exhibition “Paper Per Se” are now online on the 65GRAND website. Link in bio ^

Judith Geichman
Brian Kapernekas
Esau McGhee
Tish Noël
Melissa Scherrer Paré
Allison Reimus

Brian Kapernekas, Slabs and Grids, 2024,
pigmented paper pulp, polystyrene and acrylic, dimensions variable and detail

65GRAND’s summer group exhibition “Paper Per Se” continues through August 3rd with Friday & Saturday gallery hours

Gallery hours this Friday & Saturday 12-6pm. Come by to see the 65GRAND summer group exhibition Paper Per Se

Image: Judith Geichman, Untitled, 2023, acrylic and spray paint on Yupo paper, 26 x 20 inches

Thanks everyone for making Paper Per Se such a lively opening! We missed Judith, but happy to have her back in Chicago now. The exhibition continues through August 3rd. We are open Fridays & Saturdays 12-6pm including this holiday weekend. Come on by!

Tonight’s the night! Paper Per Se opens at 65GRAND. Join us for the reception 6/28 6-9pm

Image: Tish Noël, 2024, acrylic on catalogue page, 10.5 x 7.5 inches

Tomorrow! Join us for the opening of Paper Per Se this Friday, June 28th from 6-9pm. This exhibition features work by Judith Geichman, Brian Kapernekas, Esau McGhee, Tish Noël, Melissa Scherrer Paré, and Allison Reimus

Image: Melissa Scherrer Paré, painted paper pulp over upcycled plastic form, 20 x 13 inches

Friday! Join us for the opening of Paper Per Se, a group exhibition featuring Judith Geichman, Brian Kapernekas, Esau McGhee,
Tish Noel, Melissa Scherrer Paré, and Allison Reimus

The opening reception is Friday, June 28th 6-9pm

Image: Esau McGhee, Love on a Two-Way Street No. 2, 2023, 31.25 x 34.5 inches, collage of textile, screen print, ink and spray paint on archival paper, framed in wenge, padauk, poplar and laminate by the artist and detail

This is the final week to see Bill Conger’s solo exhibition “night drops” at 65GRAND. Gallery hours Friday & Saturday 12-6pm. Gallery talk this Saturday, June 22nd at 2:30pm

Image: Bill Conger, Monstrum, 2024,
acrylic on canvas and metal support,
24 diameter x 4 in

Bill Conger, all the Julys, 2024, acrylic on canvas and metal support, 20 diameter x 4 in.

Better to Shut Up and Experience It: A Review of “Night Drops” by Bill Conger at 65Grand It’s tempting to interpret Conger’s technique as the painted equivalent of a Sunday editorial bemoaning the current state of affairs.

Thank you Alan Pocaro and New City for this wonderful review of Bill Conger’s exhibition “night drops” at 65GRAND. Please follow the link in the bio to read the review online

“Partisans of all orientations will likely agree that our physical, electronic—and not to mention psychic and social—landscapes are so thoroughly polluted with deceptive and superficial façades disguising ulterior motives and antithetical realities, that it’s tempting to interpret Conger’s technique as the painted equivalent of a Sunday editorial bemoaning the current state of affairs; but that’s probably too generous. Better to just shut up and experience it, and hope that whomever you’re with feels the same way.” -Alan Pocaro

Bill Conger “night drops” continues through June 22nd. 65GRANd Gallery hours are Friday & Saturday or DM for an appointment

The exhibition “Night Drops” is Bill Congerʼs second exhibition at 65GRAND and constitutes painterly discovery through the emotional and imaginative tradition of contemporary romanticism. Loosely connected to the visual realizations of traumatic mental states, these paintings take li from the instincts of fear and loss.

As the exhibition title tangentially refers to deep-seeded evolutionary mechanisms honed to stay alive through the night, these paintings are presented as form given to the empty spaces which inhabit traumas physical, mental, real and imagined. The word “drop,” is intended to be reflexive and may simultaneously indicate a portion of liquid such as a teardrop, a fall, an abrupt end without warning or an unpredicted release. All of these interpretations aid in their own way to this presentation as examinations of proximal fear and pain.

The visual connection of the “drop” to the paintingsʼ circularity furthers the idea of time continuum as opposed to the picture plane and all-over strategies of the rectangle. Influences from the halo to Danteʼs “The Divine Comedy” figure prominently while the paintingsʼ wall supports are given primarily to the impact of Byzantine crucifixes of suspended in space.

Images: Bill Conger, mellified man, 2024
acrylic on canvas and metal support
20 diameter x 4 in and detail

Images for Bill Conger’s solo exhibition “night drops” are up on the 65GRAND website. 🔗 in bio

Don’t miss seeing this exhibition in person though. Gallery hours are Friday & Saturday 12-6pm or you can dm for an appointment

TONIGHT!! Bill Conger’s solo exhibition “night drops” opens at 65GRAND. Thank you for including it as a “must see”

Opening Friday, May 17th 6-9pm

65GRAND is located at 3252 W North Ave in Chicago

This is the final week to see Jenal Dolson’s solo exhibition “Radicle Dream” at 65GRAND. Gallery hours are Friday & Saturday 12-6pm or you can DM for an appointment

Image: Jenal Dolson, Night Dive, 2024, oil on wood panel, 14 x 11 x 1-1/2 in

Jenal Dolson Artist Talk at 65GRAND

Please join us Saturday, April 27 at 2:30 PM for an artist talk with Jenal Dolson as part of her exhibition Radicle Dream

65GRAND is located at 3252 W North Ave

Image: Jenal Dolson, Rapid Eye Movement, 2024, oil, glitter paper, and pumice on paper, 60 x 72 in

Hypnagogia: A Review of Jenal Dolson at 65Grand Dolson is suggesting that we are, collectively and culturally, in a trance. Only humane and handmade art that answers the questions of being can rouse us from this slumber. To paint is a creative act. To decide to paint is a radical and revolutionary one.