Hyde Park Art Center Fall Exhibitions and Programming

Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, is proud to announce its Fall 2024 programming. The free, vibrant offerings showcase artists at every stage in their career, via solo and group exhibitions, artist talks, residencies, a new program for seniors, and more. A highlight of the fall season is a performance by Chicago Poet Laureate avery r. young in the galleries of the critically-acclaimed The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige exhibition as part of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival on Saturday, September 28 at 2:00pm in celebration of the 100th anniversary of American writer James Baldwin’s birthday. Free Exhibitions The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige April 6 – October 27, 2024 This exhibition is a career-spanning survey of legendary textile designer, artist, and educator Robert Earl Paige (b. 1936). With multimedia works made between 1964 and 2024, this solo show is the largest presentation of the Chicago native’s work to date, including rarely seen parts of Paige’s collection that explore the artist’s lifelong quest for beauty and liberation. Raised in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, where he still resides, Paige makes artworks in response to the patterns, colors, and materials of everyday Black life. A highlight of the exhibition, curated by Allison Peters Quinn, is the debut of furnishings and woven textiles Paige made in collaboration with the Weaving Mill, Oscar Isberian Rugs, and sculptor Jeff Robinson, in addition to ceramic sculpture and collage made during the artist’s recent 15-month Radicle Residency at Hyde Park Art Center in 2022-23. Large wall paintings of Paige’s patterns created by muralist Dorian Sylvain unify the exhibition. The exhibition research, production, and catalog is supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Art Design Chicago is a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities. Where a knot begins and ends July 13 – October 6, 2024 This group exhibition considers the ways artists engage with human’s complicated relationship with time, history, and archives. The phrase of its title conveys the challenges faced by the exhibiting artists who represent the 2024 cohort of New Edition, a two-part class developed by the Art Center for artists to learn and make work in a medium new to their practice. Curated by the Program Facilitator, Jeff Robinson, the exhibition will feature the work of Alexandra Antoine, Dawn Brennan, Teresita Carson Valdez, Kittisak (Wa) Chontong, Mary Farmilant, Tanya Gill, Malika Jackson, Kara Cobb Johnson, Caitlin Ryan, and Molly Roth Scranton, each of whom will present work in their characteristic medium alongside artwork made during the 10-week program. Related Program: Artist talk: Where a material begins and ends September 26, 6-8pm Exhibiting artists Teresita Carson Valdez, Molly Roth Scranton, Malika Jackson, and Kara Cobb Johnson explore the ways that material experimentation inspires their practice across various media. Christine Tarkowski, a professor in the Fiber and Material Studies Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will moderate the conversation. Cecilia Beaven: Flickering Cocoon October 12, 2024 – April 6, 2025 Interdisciplinary artist Cecilia Beaven creates mystical environments and narratives through her large graphic wall paintings. Her paintings and sculptures first appeared at the Art Center in Ground Floor (2020) and continued to develop on site during her Radicle Residency (2021). This exhibition will feature a new temporary mural, drawings, and small clay and paper-mâché sculptures by Beaven featuring the women-centered worlds she has been illustrating over the past five years. This exhibition is presented in collaboration with the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, which will simultaneously feature a companion mural and installation by Beaven. Positions: New landscapes October 26, 2024 - February 23, 2025 This group exhibition features works by six Chicago-based artists–Lydia Cheshewalla, Kelly Kristin Jones, Norman Long, zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal, Elsa Muñoz, and Leticia Pardo–who explore the potential of landscape in contemporary art to contribute to timely conversations about relationships between sites and history, place and belonging, and environmental justice and land stewardship. Working in a diverse range of media including photography, sculpture, sound, installation, and painting, the artists in the exhibition curated by Mariela Acuña reinvent the traditional genre of landscape to explore its capacity to intervene in civic dialogs rooted in place. Positions highlights both the artist's unique approach to engaging the landscape and how their individual identities have shaped their perspective on the histories and practices their works address.

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