Weekend Art Walk: West Town Galleries

When: Saturday, January 25, 2025, 11:00 am–1:00 pm
Where: Meet at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, 1711 West Chicago Ave., Chicago
Member Price: $25 for Basic level members; FREE for all Friend, Patron, and Benefactor level members
Non-Member Price: $30

If you are a Friend, Patron, or Benefactor level member, please register by emailing info@artencounter.org.

Flexible pricing is available for anyone who inquires. Please email sarah@artencounter.org for our “pay what you can” registration form.

We’ll be staying warm for this January gallery walk by visiting four exhibition spaces located within the same building: Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Volume Gallery, Western Exhibitions, and Document Gallery. 

Beginning at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, one of Chicago’s premier spaces representing an array of internationally-recognized artists, we’ll explore a group show of four artists with Chicago connections. We’ll see unique and diverse works using a variety of mediums and materials, including Anne Wilson’s use of hair, Richard Rezac’s crafted sculptures, Julia Fish’s oil paintings based on music, and works on paper by the late feminist artist Nancy Spero.

We’ll then make a stop at Volume Gallery to see This is Not a Plate, a collection of provocative art plates by Howard Kottler (1930-1989), before examining the idiosyncratic portraiture of Julia Schmitt Healy at Western Exhibitions. While viewing the artist’s work made of traditional materials combined with surprising elements like fiber and hair, we’ll discuss the concept of what makes an artwork a portrait. 

We conclude at Document Gallery with Exhibit B, a group exhibition of international artists who bend the use of traditional materials from photography to fiber to create patterns and shapes that reference the history of art, literature, and cultures. Included are artists Julien Creuzet, Natani Notah, John Opera, Tom Schneider, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Kazuhito Tanaka, and Claude Viallat.