Join us Sunday, February 25, for the release of Shorefront's latest project, Colorful Legacies. Meet the artist, Andrew Walker III , and see all of the original art from the coloring book, along with a few original works.
We’re on the West Village Art Crawl during Evanston Made’s First Saturday Evanston Art Events. Click here for citywide listings and a Google map.
1100 Florence Gallery presents Remission, a photography exhibit by Christine Huck
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 1, 5-8p
Artist Talk: Sunday, July 9, 3-5p. The Artist talk will be facilitated by Barbara Diener, Collection Manager and Research Assistant in the department of Photography and Media at the Art Institute of Chicago. RSVP here.
Closing Reception: Sunday, July 30, 3-5p
Exhibition Statement
In February of 2022, Christine Huck was diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Christine's treatment included chemotherapy every other week from March through August. In April of that year, following her fourth treatment, she was told she was in remission after a PET scan, and continued the subsequent eight treatments as directed by her care team. This body of work, titled Remission, explores her perspective from the time of diagnosis through treatment and into remission. It contains imagery and text related to her everyday experience while in medical care over this period of time, including after she returned to work in mid-September.
Since 2013, Christine had sponsored Lizbeth, an Ecuadorian child through Children International. Lizbeth died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the age of 18 in February of 2022, the same month Christine was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s. All artist profits for this exhibition will go to Lizbeth's family.
Christine Huck graduated from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 2003, with a BFA in painting. She also received an MFA in 2009 from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in Visual Studies, with a focus in photography, sculpture, and painting. Her primary focus as of late is photography, and she shares much of her work on easily accessible platforms such as Instagram in order to reach audiences both inside and outside of formal art venues.
Summer Gallery Hours; Saturday 12-5p, Sunday 12-5p
Private viewings available, (847)544-8205 or 1100florencegallery[at]gmail.com
1100 Florence Avenue, Evanston, IL 60202
Join Artist and caregiver, Safi Alia Shabaik, as she shares her father’s end-of-life journey with Parkinson’s disease, dementia and sundowner's syndrome. Saturday, April 15, 10a
On Saturday, April 15, there will be an afternoon of special programming titled “Personality Crash: The Intersection of Art and Science in PD,” featuring a presentation by Shabaik and moderated conversations on topics including PD and creativity, family caregiving, patient advocacy, end-of-life care, and dying with dignity. The webinar program, which begins at 10:30 a.m., will be live-streamed, and following the event, the public is invited to visit the gallery in person from 1 – 5 p.m. for an artist meet and greet. The exhibition runs through April 30.
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Join Artist and caregiver, Safi Alia Shabaik, as she shares her father’s end-of-life journey with Parkinson’s disease, dementia and sundowner's syndrome. This event will also include conversations with experts and people living with Parkinson’s on topics such as family caregiving, creativity and Parkinson’s, end-of-life care, and dignified death.
The images in this exhibit and the program discussion may generate a wide variety of reactions and emotions. It is one family’s journey and does not reflect everyone’s experience. Our goal is to bring awareness and understanding, through art and storytelling, to topics that may not always be discussed.
There is no charge to attend, but registration is required.
This event is part of the Artist’s exhibit that includes photographs, audio recordings and objects documenting her father’s end-of-life journey with Parkinson’s, dementia and sundowner's syndrome. The exhibit opens on Saturday, April 1 at 3 p.m. and continues through April 30 at 1100 Florence Gallery in Evanston.
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays & Fridays 5-8 p.m., Saturdays & Sundays 12-5 p.m. Private viewings at 1100florencegallery[at]gmail.com
Review by Jonathan Blaustein in The New York Times of SAFI ALIA SHABAIK's body of work photographing the end of her father's life. Click here to read.
This powerful work is on exhibit this April, at 1100 Florence Gallery in Evanston during Parkinsons Awareness Month
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Parkinson’s Foundation.
CLOSING DAY of Personality Crash : Portraits of My Father Who Suffered from Advanced Stages of Parkinson’s Disease, Dementia and Sundowners Syndrome
SAFI ALIA SHABAIK
SUNDAY, APRIL 30 @ 12-5 PM
Dark Days, Brighter Nights Pop Up Art Exhibit
Work that inspires, created by people who identify as 35 years and under. Curated by Scott Greenberg. March 17 - 19, 1100 Florence Ave.
Join us for an afternoon with author and artist Linda Gent Johnson, Sunday, March 12, 1-4p, at 1100 Florence Gallery.
Join Aron Packer for a one-day event, book signing and sale of “Lakefront Anonymous: Chicago’s Unknown Art Gallery”. Saturday, Dec. 17, 12-5p, one day only at 1100 Florence, Evanston, Illinois.
Body Double and The Martyrs / Zach Mory curated by Aron Packer Projects at 1100 Florence Gallery. See graphite works, blacklight tapestries and ink drawings on display over two weekends. Zach Mory is committed. He is driven to draw more than anything. He has taken the distraction of doodling in his high school ledger book and turned it into an obsession. Opening reception, Friday, Sept. 30, 6-9p
To create this body of work, Bibbs uses the repetitious techniques of hand-carding, hand-spinning, and weaving as a form of cathartic release and storytelling. Immerse yourself in this unique, experiential form of journaling.
Join us for an opening reception, Friday, June 10, 6-8p. There will be a short, special guest movement performance at 7p by Moonwater Dance Project and Mo Naughton. This reception is free to attend and open to the public.
everything must go! is a fundraising exhibition. 50% of all sales at everything must go! will be donated to Artists Book House and Evanston Made.
1100 Florence Gallery is thrilled to host art, new books and an installation by artist Cécile Trentini, April 8 - 25, 2022.
Evanston Made’s First Saturday Evanston Art Events invite the community to explore Evanston’s Creative Community, at openings and events across Evanston. Build your art-filled day using this Google Map
Meet artist Yeefah Thurman, Oct. 31, 1-3p, to learn more about her Terrain Bi-ennial installation, What you see / What we see.
Panel Discussion: Making Art About Horrific Subjects, Oct. 10, 2-4p.
“Making art about horrific subjects is challenging,” says Rose Camastro-Pritchett who has been making art for the past 8 years about the 200,000 “comfort women” used by the Japanese military for sex during WW ll.
Presenters:
Rose Camastro-Pritchett, international artist, Evanston based
Sung Sohn, co-founder and executive director of the Education for Social Justice Foundation, San Francisco
Jeri Frederickson, poet and creative director of Awakenings Gallery, Chicago
