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GALLERY | CHICAGO | FACTORY
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EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT
CURATED BY: October Sharify
RAN FROM: Oct 18th to Nov 22nd
EXHIBITION STATEMENT:
Chemical X offers a dose of the unreal in an age already poisoned. The artists gathered here, as they mirror back the grotesque comedy of our world. Sovereignty appears not as order but as chaos held in tension, a chemical reaction on the edge of explosion. Tradition is boiled, spliced, fed through machines, and returned as something unrecognizable yet potent. What becomes of tradition when it is reimagined through satire, violence, whimsy, and play?
CHEMICAL X
FEATURING:
Sabrina Zhao (@sasponella)
Brooke Raven (@r4444ven)
Zoë Chen (@z0ech3n)
Sade Coffman (@fkadog)
Isaiah Lee (@isaiahleeart)
Dante Moore (@zante2222)
Xavier Potts (@eck.savier)
ARDEN (@arden_glue)
October Sharify (@impology)
ABIOTIC
CURATED BY: Fabian Sotelo & Hex Parsons
RAN FROM: Sep 13th to October 4th
EXHIBITION STATEMENT:
Abiotic is an exhibition about the quiet details that keep us alive: the daily rituals, the familiar paths, the textures of safety, and the objects we keep close. In ecology, “abiotic” refers to the non-living components of an ecosystem: air, light, metal, plastic, concrete, fabric. But in our emotional lives, these materials carry meaning. They are charged with memory, joy, grief, desire.
This show turns inward. Each work is an artifact from an artist’s personal ecosystem, an offering shaped by routine, intimacy, and the longing to find sweetness even in collapse. These works ask: How do we translate feeling into form? How does art bear the rhythm of our lives?
In a world where urgency and instability are ever-present, Abiotic is a meditation on survival through beauty. It’s about the things we build to sustain ourselves, and the material language of the soul.
FEATURING:
Anwar Mahdi (@boi_venus)
Anna Rafalowski (@biedronka_dla_ania)
Day Brièrre (@biomorphia)
Isaiah Lee (@isaiahleeart)
Juan Arango Palacios (@juuuanitx)
Liz Von Hagen (@muddymaychi)
Marcela Adeze Okeke (@maoke._)
Rana Huwais (@ranahana___)
Yani He (@yanihe.art)
HyperREAL
CURATED BY: Fabian Sotelo & Hex Parsons
RAN FROM: April 17th to May 10th
EXHIBITION STATEMENT:
Surrealism has always been a movement of transformation, a refusal to accept reality as fixed, an insistence on constructing new worlds through fragmentation, exaggeration, and dream logic. HYPERREAL presents a contemporary surrealist landscape, where the club kid movement is a central force in expanding the boundaries of selfhood, materiality, and embodied expression.
Through multi-media works including sculpture, painting, photography, film, and performance, this exhibition explores surrealism’s evolution beyond the canvas and into lived experience. In the club, the self is sculpted, remixed, and multiplied. Identity becomes an assemblage of mask and persona, the grotesque and the divine, the synthetic and the ephemeral. Club kids materialize surrealism onto their bodies, using fashion, found objects, and movement to construct hyper-exaggerated figures that exist outside conventional reality.
This exhibition also pays tribute to JoJo Baby, a Chicago icon whose presence in the underground scene embodied the surrealist ethos of self-invention. Their work, like that of so many club kids before and after, transformed the body into an artwork, dissolving the line between the real and the imagined, the ordinary and the otherworldly.
FEATURING:
VICTOR EDWARDS (@ultraspacecadet)
LANIA SPROLES (@laniasprolesartist)
GABRIEL CHALFIN-PINEY-GONZALEZ (@citrus.history)
ÁLE CAMPOS (@celestes.wrld)
JEREMY PLOTKIN WONG (@jeremy_pw)
JAVI GUTIERREZ (@javi.x.gutierrez)
KEROSENE (@kerosene.333)
BERNARD COLBERT (@bernard_colbert)
LECHEDEVIRGEN (@lechedevirgen)
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