Lee E. Dulgar Gallery
“Hegemony of The Fool“
Art work created by Neil Gainer.
Monday, April 14, 2025 – Friday, May 16, 2025
Reception: Thursday, May 1, 2025 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. in the first floor Dulgar Gallery
Neil Gainer is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician in the Chicago Metropolitan area. Born in Hammond, Indiana, he grew up between worlds, from the rural lands of Indiana, and the impoverished and forgotten industry-based communities along the South Shore, to the economic center of the Midwest (Chicago.) This disparity in socioeconomic status directly influenced his upbringing and, thus, art practice. Hegemony of The Fool follows the archetypal “Fool’s Journey,” through a lens of surreal representations of problems facing the United States today. The beauty of the quasi-narrative path of the fool is its non-sequential iteration; akin to the stations of the cross, having no beginning and no end, brought upon by a McGuffin of happenstance.
GALLERY HOURS:
Visit this gallery by appointment only.
Closed on weekends and holidays.
For additional information, or to schedule an appointment, contact Jewlya Sturtevant at (708) 596-2000, ext. 2306.
Dorothea Thiel Gallery
“forever indebted”
Art work created by Veronica Clements.
Monday, March 24, 2025 – Thursday, April 17, 2025
Reception: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. in the fourth floor Thiel Gallery
Veronica Clements is a Chicago-based artist and curator. Her work exists at the intersection of critique and celebration, where the vibrancy of girlhood collides with the fleeting nature of life. Through a visual language rooted in pop culture, nostalgia, and vanitas symbolism, she explores the delicate balance and tension between love and grief, particularly within the feminine experience. Just as an oyster encases an irritant to form a pearl, she considers how mothers, daughters, and women at large absorb pain, transforming it into something precious yet heavy. Clements’s paintings are curiosity cabinets—collections of objects, symbols, and memories that speak to the transitions of girlhood to womanhood to motherhood, and the inevitable complexities of those evolutions. The objects she paints–pearls, butterflies, rain droplets on a window–become artifacts of intimacy, relics of tenderness and loss.
GALLERY HOURS:
Monday — Thursday
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Closed on Fridays, weekends and holidays.
For additional information, or to schedule an appointment, contact Jewlya Sturtevant at (708) 596-2000, ext. 2306.
Photo-Four Gallery
Tim Kowalczyk
Solo Exhibition of Ceramic Sculptures
Monday, March 24, 2025 – Thursday, April 17, 2025
Reception: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. in the fourth floor Photo-Four Gallery
Tim Kowalczyk was born and raised in Morris, IL. He was the first college student in his immediate family. He attended Joliet junior College and transferred to Southern Illinois University Carbondale to complete his BFA in Ceramics and Art Education with a minor in Art History. Tim obtained his MFA from Illinois State University in Normal, IL in Ceramics. Throughout his educational career he developed his trademark style of making trompe l’oeil ceramic “garbage”. This is where his work lives, in the small moments of beauty found and replicated in what others overlook and find useless, he calls garbage.
GALLERY HOURS:
Monday — Thursday
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Closed on Fridays, weekends and holidays.
For additional information, or to schedule an appointment, contact Jewlya Sturtevant at (708) 596-2000, ext. 2306.