Exhibitions
Our exhibitions are a vital part to our mission. We hope to find artists who not only identify with madness, or adjacent identities, but who challenge us to consider many aspects of our shared human conditions.
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This exhibition by Meghann Sottile utilizes both literal and abstract forms of oars and paddles as a metaphor in exploring how our bodies are forced to adapt to the inevitable change in psychosocial and physical situations.
Current Exhibition
Sept 13 thru Oct 31
Fri and Sat 11-5
or by appointment
UPCOMING
Meghann Sottile
Meghann Sottile will be exhibiting an array of works, from sculpture to artist book. More information about this exhibition will be made available soon.
Opening reception September 13th 2024 - 5-9pm
Dunning
This exhibition will contain a history of Chicago asylum history, along side ten visual artists and ten poets responding to notions of incarceration.
This exhibition is made possible by a grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Hyde Park Art Center's Artists Run Chicago grant.
Opening Reception Nov. 8th 5-9pm
November and December 2024
Previous Exhibitions
JJ McLuckie
TUNNELS
JJ's exhibition "Tunnels" was the inaugural exhibition at PRESS HERE and consisted of paintings by the artist as well as a unique mural painted in the exhibition space. JJ's artwork explores many topics, some of which include queer identity, eroticism, and madness.
October and November 2022
Hel Martinez
The Passion of Sergius and Bacchus
Hel offered a performance art event titled "The Passion of Sergius and Bacchus" which they described as a "performance based on the tale of two Christian martyred saints from the 4th century. It is a call to reclaim the queerness erased from Catholicism and a reminder that its roots lie in the strength of the oppressed."
November 11, 2022
Clarisse Casalino
Pill Bottles Make Terrible Roller Skates
"Pill Bottles Make Terrible Roller Skates" was a series of collages by the artist which explored pharmacology, feminism, and madness.
February and March 2023
Isabelle Rizo
Madness and Mysticism
Isabelle’s first exhibition with The Center for Mad Culture was a series of watercolor works which examine meaning making through representations of madness and mysticism. As a Romanian political refugee, Isabelle explored connections to her culture and what it means “to navigate being American in Romania and Romanian in America?”
Isabelle's publication "Beyond the Cape of Dracula: Demystifying Transylvania" is available in the Center's library!
April and May 2023
Not Art Therapy
Sandie Yi and Katie O'Neill
Sandie Yi and Katie O'neill will host a collaborative exhibition which asks us to consider the ways we see and discuss disability artwork most frequently as therapeutic instead of culturally important and viable.
October thru December 2023
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