Work by Carl Baratta, Carolina Wheat, Montgomery Perry Smith, Theodore Darst and Ryan Ingebritson.
Living Treasure is a shadow of Pentagon Gallery's first opening Nemesis, a show that engaged cultural others and darkness in music, film, literature and athleticism. Living Treasure attempts to take note from Nemesis but focuses on current global issues and America's involvement with in them. Each artist transforms ideas of violence, destruction, environment, religion, and sexuality by utilizing different mediums and engaging the viewer to be critical of their own social nature. The show it's self might seem sinister but stays ...
Work by Deborah Stratman, Jim Zimpel, Jesse Avina, Daniel Baird, Jake Myers and the Pentagon Education Collective.
The artwork featured in this exhibition examines the effectiveness and importance of heroics in contemporary American culture. Images and stories of heroic athletes, soldiers, astronauts, cowboys and other saviors are transformed to expose the idiosyncratic, dangerous, sincere and sometimes necessary efforts of American heroes. The Pentagon Saves the World will feature video, photography, sculpture and film. Come early for soup and beverages.
In Palimpsest, Jorge Mujica looks critically at painting and sculpture to create hybrid objects that examine the use of painterly materials and the interaction of space. The hybrid objects are created with hand crafted stretcher bars and commercially bought materials to compose a contemporary perspective examining the architecture of the pentagon gallery. The result is a conceptual intersection between minimalist sculptor Donald Judd and the assemblage work of Jessica Stockholder. Like a palimpsest, the work shows the art historical context he is dealing with and makes room to insert his perspective.
Human curiosity can be described as an internal pursuit to ...
Radical Semantics is a survey of 16mm films by film-makers whose methods stand in opposition to the algorithmic and computer assisted processes that define many contemporary media works. Often working with home-made optics and developing their film in sinks and buckets, these filmmakers create short works that emphasize the expressive and opt for complexity rather than reproducibility and homogeneity. Featuring Eric Stewart, Alex Lake, Ross McFessell, Adam Neese and Randy Sterling Hunter.
This March Pentagon presents Sara Condo and Kate Ruggeri in their very own two artists exhibition. These solo artists have decided to become a duo and pair work to create a solid visual experience. Their artwork romanticizes ideas of the mundane but brings in humor and physical emotion. Sara and Kate are not afraid to create a dialogue with sincerity, personal experience and aspects of femininity with in their artwork. Showcasing photographs, sculpture and painting this show explores different mediums in hope to create continuity with their ideas.
The artwork shown is themed around repressed sexual discourses, power dynamics and untold narratives. The lack of information and open conversation about sexuality often creates ironic, humorous, confusing and sometimes painful situations for those participating. Artists in this show display these manifestations in pop culture, industrial design, sports, the outdoors and the privacy of a bathroom.
Submission will feature painting, mixed media, photography and video by Maria Jönsson, Aaron Ross, Jolie Cota Flink, Laura Boban and Jake Myers.
A group exhibition curated by Nicholas Cueva, Dan Gunn and Heather Mekkelson.
Work by Eric Fleischauer, Chris Edwards, Xavier Jimenez and Liz Nielsen.
Twelve Galleries began as a roving exhibition series featuring the work of emerging artists over the coarse of one year. With each new month, a new location was selected and a new gallery was formed. For its next venture, Twelve Galleries will focus its attention on twelve curators. Every quarter of the next year, within an existing Chicago gallery, three curators will collectively organize a themed exhibition as part of the Quarterly Site Series.
Work by Casey McGonagle, Bret Schneider, Jake Myers, Michael Garcia, Robin Juan and Sam Sieger.
Pentagon gallery is proud to present its first opening with six up and coming Chicago based artists. The title and the artworks featured have themes of oppositional culture and call into question what is socially constructed as evil. Depicting haunting, spectral, forgotten and intimidating themes the show lurks in between moments and memories. Nemesis is a collection of video, installation, and photographic image work.
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