
A new year always brings an exciting array of new exhibitions landing across the city, spanning time period, medium, and style. In the cold, overcast winter months, there’s nothing better than a day at the museum, taking in a new exhibition. Luckily, we have plenty of exciting exhibitions to choose from, at museums across the city. Here’s just a few that we’re excited to see in 2023.
Open is Tarik Echol’s first solo exhibition, after over 15 years of work with the Center for the Arts at Little City in Palatine. His work often uses repeating words and patterns of letters to form the backbone of a piece, with patterns and lines on top, forming a dense and atmospheric world. He often utilizes crayon, alongside collage, watercolor, and other paints. Despite the simplicity of crayon as a material, Echol is able to use them to complex and nuanced effect, playing with texture, bold line, and brash color.
Not All Realisms is a survey of African photography throughout the 1960s–a turbulent and defining decade for the continent as revolutions and anti-colonial movements spread widely and all areas of life raced to modernize. The exhibit includes studio photography, as well as street photography, showing different levels of realism, both personally and collectively. With a particular focus on Ghana, Mali, and South Africa, this exhibit features photo prints, newspapers, magazines, posters, and other ways in which photographs are reproduced for mass consumption.
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