April 20 through August 4, 2024
Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Avenue Galleries, 1st Floor East
“Images on Which to Build, 1970s-1990s” presents a range of photographic practices that used the medium as a tool for collectivity and empowerment within interconnected lesbian, trans, and queer grassroots organizing. This exhibition reveals the technologies through which influential image cultures were constructed and circulated.
A full set of the original THING magazines, on loan from Gerber/Hart, will be on display.
The exhibition presents a range of photographic practices to explore the process of learning within alternative schools, workshops, demonstrations, dance clubs, slideshow presentations, correspondences, and community-based archive projects.
Featured artists and collectives include: Diana Solís, Joan E. Biren (JEB), Lola Flash, the Lesbian Herstory Archives, ART+Positive and the Sexual Minorities Archives, among others.
“Images on Which to Build, 1970s-1990s” is curated by Ariel Goldberg. The exhibition is co-organized by the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY. The Chicago Cultural Center is located at 78 E. Washington St., Chicago, IL 60602.
Special Events
Saturday, April 20, 2024
1-4 p.m. – Opening Reception with contributing artists in the Michigan Avenue Galleries, Chicago Cultural Center, 1st Floor East. Artists Diana Solís, Lola Flash, Joan E. Biren (JEB ), Frank Franca, Morgan Gwenwald, and Allan Frame will each conduct 15 minute Q&As about their work with the exhibition’s curator, Ariel Goldberg.
7 p.m. until midnight – Opening Afterparty featuring TRQPiTECA at Dorothy, 2500 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60622. RSVP for this free event at www.eventbrite.com.
7:30-8:30 p.m. – A conversation with contributing artists Diana Solís, Lola Flash, Joan E. Biren (JEB ), Frank Franca, Morgan Gwenwald, and Allan Frame facilitated by exhibition curator Ariel Goldberg.
9 p.m. until midnight – DJ set by Chicago duo TRQPiTECA
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
12-1 p.m. – Gallery Talk, Michigan Avenue Galleries, 1st Floor East
