Artist Talk, Sat., Dec. 14 from 2-3 pm; Chicago Reader Best of Chicago 2024

In conjunction with SoNa Chicago’s first group show, Lightness and Being, we are hosting an Artist Talk featuring two of the artists in the show. See more information in next article. Refreshments will be served!

We are thrilled with our first group show, Lightness and Being. All works in the show are wonderful and are priced at less than $1500, with half at $500 or less. We also have a new grouping of tiles and coasters in the gallery by Sharon Bladholm - great for holiday gifts!

And thanks to all of you we made it to the short list in Chicago Reader’s Best of 2024! Now it is time to vote. Please vote for us in two categories: Best Art Gallery and Best Art Group or Collective at https://bestof.chicagoreader.com/arts-and-culture

See you at the gallery!

Laura Botwinick & Molly O’Donnell

Natalie Jackson & Glen Gauthier, Sat., Dec. 14 from 2-3 pm

This coming Saturday, we are hosting an Artist Talk with two of the artists in the Lightness and Being show. Refreshments will be served!

Natalie Jackson wrote for her group show entry: As a Black photographer, I focus my prime lens on the often-overlooked beauty and dignity of my subjects…. My photography seeks to place us front and center, bathed in the glowing light that has been denied us for too long….”

Glen Gauthier wrote, “My medium is collage, utilizing printed ephemera to serve as a kind of time machine…. These materials with a history have fascinated me since childhood. I’m the youngest of five siblings who grew up in a home with overwhelmed parents
in south Louisiana….Through this work, I’m having a conversation with myself through time as a boy, a man, and the future version of myself. It doesn’t all make perfect sense yet, but clarity is slowly setting in.”

Image: My Transmutation by Natalie Jackson

Lightness and Being - Group Show Artists

Open through January 11, 2025, come see the wonderful artwork by all the exhibiting artists in the show and read their statements of how the work relates to the theme, Lightness and Being. Read the description of the show here.

Exhibiting Artists: 

Pinar Aral, Sharon Bladholm, Monica J. Brown, reisling dong, Alan Emerson Hicks, Robert Fields, Mirentxu Ganzarain, Glen Gauthier, Markus Giolas, Fletcher Hayes, Anne Hughes, Ethan Hutchinson, Natalie Jackson, Damien James, Kathleen King, Pauline Kochanski, Loralyn Kumlin, Kim Laurel, Beatriz Ledesma, Antwane Lee, Michael Miller, Rosalina Perez, Corinne Peterson, Diane Ponder, Renee Robbins, Tom Robinson, Julian Sarria, Nicholas Sistler, Paul Gerard Somers, Eve Sopala, Gerardo Villarreal, Kathy Weaver, Glenn Wexler