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Image courtesy of Kat Jarvinen
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Image courtesy of Parsons & Charlesworth
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Image courtesy of Michael Cuadrado
Exhibition
The New Earth
2 Sep 2022 – 4 Nov 2022
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 16:00
Free admission
Address
- 2141 W North Ave
- Chicago
Illinois - 60647
- United States
Travel Information
- #72 North Avenue Bus
- CTA Blue Line
The New Earth is a group exhibition that imagines a future on a rapidly changing planet. An of-the-moment event traversing environmental, gender, identity, and technological concerns, the exhibition is a testing ground for addressing the preeminent issues of our time.
About
The New Earth will feature artists who are fearlessly confronting the future, from climate change to artificial intelligence. Artists include:
- Allen Moore (he/him) - His work converses with signifiers of Black culture and personal narrative; bringing to view the underlying themes of racial, emotional and socio-economical conditions.
- Jeremy Bolen (he/him) - An artist, researcher, filmmaker and educator interested in site-specific, experimental modes of documentation and presentation
- John Gelardi (he/him) - An artist and designer who’s always searching to synthesize the synthetic.
- Kat Jarvinen (she/her) - A Chicago-based artist focused on electronic waste and the environmental impacts of technology
- Mich Miller (they/them) - Their practice is informed by a commitment to abstraction and investment in color theory, printmaking, painting, graphic design, queer histories and queer theory.
- Michael Cuadrado - (he/him) A Puerto Rico-born artist who explores the relationship between diagrams and the human condition
- Parsons & Charlesworth (Jessica Charlesworth & Tim Parsons) - Their work advances a form of speculative practice at the blurred boundary between art and design.
- Sam Rolfes (he/him) - Exploring digital performance and image studio specializing in figurative animation, VR and mixed-reality collage.
- Susan Goethel Campbell (she/her) - Her multi-disciplinary work considers the engineered environment as a natural process
- X (he/him) - An Indigenous futurist, multidisciplinary artist and architect specializing in land, architectural, and new media installation.
The New Earth marks the first exhibition at Public Works curated by newly appointed gallery director Nick Butcher, one half of the groundbreaking experimental graphic studio Sonnenzimmer and an active member of Chicago’s experimental music community. Joining the Public Works team, Nick brings an artist-led approach to the gallery model, further honing the gallery mission as a space for experimentation, collaboration, and collectivity.
