Curator and artist Katie Hargrave presents a series of reflections on the promise and failure of communication. The exhibition is a collection of art and non-art projects presented alongside each other that point to the promise, the unexpected nature, and the failures, of various communication experiments. These projects are situated in the mundane with a desire for the transformative. Do they work? Likely no, but collectively these explorations might function as a meter of our desire for real, lasting, meaningful communication. Objects and participants include A Literal Letter Service, Angela Regas, Astrodime Transit Authority, Golden Record, ...

Nina Bovasso will exhibit a special project entitled Kijkshop that consists of a large grouping of small paintings of analog sound systems that were created over the past ten years. The artist describes the work as follows: "Presented with the mystery surrounding ancient objects and their meaning, I think in a great many instances, we have no idea what these things meant or how they functioned in peoples lives or rituals: daily, religious or otherwise. To look at many contemporary objects, at face value, mute and nonfunctioning as we know them to be, what meaning would primitive–or future–man ascribe to ...

He Said She Said presents a special one-night event by Mumbai-based artist Nikhil Chopra. Chopra’s work addresses cultural identity through work that brings together a wide variety of theatrical and visual traditions. The event continues a series in which Chopra assumes the persona of a Victorian-era figure named Yog Raj Chitrakar, who is loosely based on the artist's grandfather. The silent and costumed Chopra will remain in character throughout the evening, while preparing and offering an array of food and drink. Video, slides, and sound components will include the video Memory Drawing II (Mumbai 2007) which documents Chopra in character, ...

He Said-She Said and Britton Bertran are pleased to present a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Bob Linder. Located in the domestic setting of He Said-She Said, a quaint home in the western suburbs of Chicago, Bob Linder’s artwork plays with a variety of conceptual tactics aimed at re-contextualizing the way everyday objects inform the way we interpret living in this, today’s world. Bob Linder works in a variety of accessible mediums - sculpture, video, tie-dying, drawings and prints - to create environments that explore a more or less accessible punk banality. In doing so, viewers are simultaneously exposed ...

Carroll Dunham has been making paintings that draw on the Abstract, Surrealist, and Pop painting traditions since the 1970’s. His works over time have involved tremendous formal experimentation while figurative and quasi-narrative elements have developed at an incremental pace. Dunham’s work is comic at times but equally lurid, often revealing an especially male psychosexual subject. These blunt pictures are often disturbing, aggressive, and anxious while also hysterically funny, blobby, and cartoony. I admire their tough and gritty beauty, their rudeness, and their faith in their own candor.