ACRE Projects
2921 N Clark St
Chicago, IL 60657

Exhibitions

Black and white pencil drawing of two candles. One candle sits in a candle holder while the other is held in an outstretched hand. The wicks of the two cancles touch. A second hand holds a lighter that lights both of the candles at once. The drawing is in a brick-patterned frame and hung from two white brackets.

1.17.25 – 2.28.25

I Am A Thing That Holds Something Else

ACRE Projects Lakeview

ACRE is supported in part by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Good Chaos, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Arts Work Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, and Illinois Arts Council Agency

Lead Sponsors: Ann Meisinger and Chris Woodbury, Julia and Larry Antonatos, Patti Gilford, Valerie Carberry and Richard Wright, Jay Dandy and Melissa Weber

Event Sponsors: DOCUMENT, OtherPeoples Pixels, Driehaus Museum, ARTPOWER, Marz Brewing, Citadelle Gin, Planteray Rum, Vineyard Brands, Apologue Liqueurs, Exfolia Botanical, Schlep

Exhibitions

In Remembrance of Us

Grayscale photocopy of vertical stripes with two feet in the top right corner.

Lehna Huie

Hijx De Viboras Doradas

Colorful tufted rug, rectangle with an arched top shows a pink figure in the center sitting next to a fire

Moises Salazar Tlatenchi at UIS Visual Arts Gallery

I Am A Thing That Holds Something Else

Black and white pencil drawing of two candles. One candle sits in a candle holder while the other is held in an outstretched hand. The wicks of the two cancles touch. A second hand holds a lighter that lights both of the candles at once. The drawing is in a brick-patterned frame and hung from two white brackets.

Ray Madrigal

World of Variety Holiday Shop

Shop with a variety of objects and artworks on shelves and tables. A sign reading "World of Variety" hangs from the wall in the top right corner of the image.

A modern, curated variety store by artist and proprietor Stella Brown

Elemental Impressions of Interspecies Care, of Violence

Photograph of two Colts, Moline and Everest grooming each other with their mouths. Moline is dark brown with cream colored hair. Everest is red with a white diamond on his nose. They are standing in green grass, with green confires above their heads.

D Rosen

Beauty, beauty, look at you, I wish to God I had it, too.

Photograph of a rural landscape printed on an artist-made quilt.

Zachary Hutchinson

Chicago Artists for Palestine

Chicago Artists for Palestine Exhibition & Fundraiser, May 18 - June 2, 2024. Jewish Museum of Chicago in partnership with ACRE

The Jewish Museum of Chicago Exhibition + Fundraiser / Curated by Lilli Sher and Gabriel Chalfin-Piney

Consider a Disappearance

a still of a frame of a 8mm film shows a image with muliple exposure, hazy and brown with spots of light we see a hand entering the frame on the left manipulating the faint image of a machine.

Ruby Que at UIS Visual Arts Gallery

OUTMODED SHAPES

Outmoded Shapes at Blanc Gallery curated bu Rohan Ayinde

Ricki Dwyer, John Alleyne, and Zachary Nicol / curated by Rohan Ayinde

Perhaps Blue is a Cool Color, After All

Perhaps Blue is a Cool Color, After All

Eseosa Edebiri

Glossolalia_Jeff+David_02/23

Jeff Prokash and David Sprecher

A tax on a bag and other landscapes

Photograoh of a Trader Joes bag painted blue by Frances Lee against a white background.

Frances Lee at the University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery

A blue human figure swims against a blue background surrounded by the words 'Water Signs" and the address of the gallery 2439 S Oakley

Margot Becker, Rachel Leah Cohn, Sophia Haid, Nate King, Layla Marcelle, and Better Lovers

Dance to Anything

A black and white image renders with a blue overtone depicts two women in the foreground holding each other's arms as they lean back and spin around. In the background more people are doing the same.

Organized by the Rhythm/Rythmn Society, a flexible cohort in the mire of out of tune-ism formed in 2020 by Breanne Trammell and Chris Reeves.

Image of the artist dressed in a colorful costume wading in water. Test over the image gives the details of the screening "She's landed a migration story, performative series by Zitlali"

Zitlali Yunuhem Adame and Rigoberto Gomez-Carmon

Our Mothers' Gardens

Text detailing the opening of the exhibition, Our Mothers' Gardens, is overlaid on the image of a beautiful pale blue sky full of cumulus clouds.

Antonia B. Larkin and Jova Lynne / Curated by Gee Wesley

Kickin' The Can

Photograph depicting an asphalt road with lush greenery surrounding it.

Jada-Amina, Jermaine Jet Carter, Ayana Zaire Cotton, Kenyssa Evans, Janelle Ayana Miller, Shala Miller, Breanna Robinson, Sydney Elexis Vernon, and R. Treshawn Williamson // Curated by Anisa Olufemi and R. Treshawn Williamson

A still image of Johanna Winter's shadow puppet piece, "Untouching" featuring a silhouette of a hand reaching to a silhouette of two small feet

A solo exhibition by Johanna Winters

A Cunning Array of Stunts

Still image from video work featuring a blurred figure upside down doing a front flip

A solo exhibition featuring Annelies Kamen / curated by Stephanie Koch

PHOSPHORESCENT FOSSILS

Detail shot of a quilt made by Stamm featuring a row of shells, a rainbow, and text stating "WE ARE THE MOST PRECIOUS OF ENDANGERED SPECIES."

Leena Joshi and Janie Stamm / Curated by Sarita Hernández