Lauren Halsey Curates Art "Kiccbacc" at Chicago's Anthony Gallery
Featuring works by Theaster Gates, Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., Renell Medrano and more.
The Chicago art scene is gearing up for this year’s edition of EXPO, and with it comes resonance, a powerful group exhibition curated by Lauren Halsey at West Loop’s Anthony Gallery. Bringing together an exciting lineup of 30 emerging and established artists, Halsey refuses white-cube sterility, and nurtures, as she puts it, “the spirit of a kiccbacc” – an opportunity for pleasure, rekindling old connections and cultivating new ones.
Spanning installation, painting, photography, mixed-media and sculptures, resonance thrives in its multiplicity. Each work takes root in Halsey’s ethos of community-driven creativity, and threaded together by the figuration of people, plants and animals as metaphors for interconnectedness, care and lived experience.
Best known for her large-scale foil collages, Halsey’s immersive installations braid real and imagined geographies to bring forth a mythology of her own. Fusing the raw visuals of South Central with ancient Egyptian iconography, her work culminates in speculative spaces, remixing personal history, ancestral knowledge and lost legacies.
The exhibition will be on view in Chicago from April 23 through May 24. Check out the full list of featured artists below:
Diana Yesenia Alvarado
Michael Alvarez
Mario Ayala
Sadie Barnette
Kevin Beasley
Aya Brown
Jordan Casteel
Barrington Darius
Delfin Finley
Theaster Gates
Sayre Gomez
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.
Chase Hall
Russell C. Hamilton
Hugh Hayden
Shaniqwa Jarvis
Tony Lewis
Eric N. Mack
Renell Medrano
Jasmine Monsegue
Pat Phillips
Adee Roberson
Esteban Raheem Abdul Raheem Samayoa
Alake Shilling
Martine Syms
Mickalene Thomas
Mr. Wash
Jonas Wood
Rikkí Wright
Anthony Gallery
1360 W Lake St,
Chicago, IL 60607
