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𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 & 𝑷𝒖𝒍𝒍: 𝑨 𝑳𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒄𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒑
Open through December 12

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Over the last few months, I’ve been honored to print on-site at a series of exhibitions, starting with Press & Pull: A Legacy of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop at Gallery 400 in September and continuing with Creative Rebellion at the Chicago Cultural Center.

At Gallery 400, Chicago Printers Guild member Gabe Hoare and I led a hands-on workshop exploring color, texture, and experimentation through risography, relief printing, and monotype. Thank you, Gabe, for working and playing with me and making space for collective experimentation through print.

Press & Pull explores the legacy of Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop, founded in 1947 as a space for collaboration and racial integration during a time of segregation. Bringing together archival prints and works connected to Chicago’s printmaking history, the exhibition celebrates the power of shared resources, skill sharing, and collective making. I see this legacy continuing in the spaces we build for artists to learn, experiment, and create together.

Thank you to Aaron Hughes for inviting me to print on-site at the Cultural Center last Friday. Working with materials on hand and images from my archive, we made new prints in response to the exhibition and its histories.

For this session, I used VTC Tatsuro, a sans-serif typeface designed by Tré Seals of Vocal Type. The typeface is based on the handwritten “I AM AN AMERICAN” sign that Japanese American grocer Tatsuro Matsuda hung outside his Wanto Co. store in Oakland, California, on December 8, 1941—the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, just before he and his family were forcibly removed and incarcerated during World War II. Using a typeface rooted in that history felt especially meaningful within an exhibition exploring resistance to war and militarism.

I appreciate these opportunities to bring printmaking into exhibition spaces,not just as a finished object, but as a process of experimentation, exchange, and collective memory.

I’m planning another printing session in November. More to come. To be continued…

Press & Pull: A Legacy of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop

September 11–December 12, 2026

Creative Rebellion March 2027

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Step inside the UIC School of Art for an evening of art, exploration, and conversation. Open Studios invites students, families, artists, and community members to explore our programs and creative spaces, see works in progress, and meet current students to learn about their artistic practices. Visitors can also experience exhibitions and programming presented by UIC Gallery 400 while celebrating the creativity and energy of the School of Art community.

Friday, November 13 | 5–9 pm
Art and Exhibition Hall
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Free and open to the public

#UIC #Art #Chicago #UICArt OpenStudios @Gallery400 @uicmfa

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It was an art filled week as we visited @africanfestchi @chicagosculpture @mocpchi and @gallery400 all with incredible art, photography, sculpture and programming. Read more on this weeks Pigment Newsletter #linkinbio. #pigmentintl #pigmented #blackfineart #blackfineartist

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Artists: John Marriott & Steve Reinke

Title: Vomit Star

Medium: Single channel video

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One of a few collaborations I have had the good fortune to be in with Steve Reinke. While I conceived, shot and acted in vignettes or scenarios, Steve edited them, applied music and made them into something greater.

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Shown as an installation with sculpture and video in:

Steve Reinke: Despair is Audacious Too, Collaboration with Steve Reinke

at Gallery 400, the contemporary art gallery at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Chicago, Chicago, Ill, USA

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Also shown in screenings including:

• Anorak, Berlin, Germany
• Squeezing Sorrow From an Ashtray, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
• Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
• Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
• Wide Open Wide – Coast to coast, cross-Canada video tour in 6 cities, Canada

Distributed by Argos, Belgium:

https://www.argosarts.org/work/2a72162e171e41858c7e37242d35c066

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Copyright John Marriott. All rights reserved.

#conceptart #conceptualart #conceptual #artistoninstagram #contemporaryart #experimentalart #visualart #artoftheday #art #artist #artwork #contemporaryart #lifeofanartist #artfinder #artfollow #dailyarts #creativeartiststudio #artdiscover #artshare #myart #videoart #collaboration

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Each month Sixty editors and our friends at @visualistgo curate Art Picks: a calendar of the art exhibitions, talks, screenings, and community events across Chicago and the Midwest we think you should know about. Check out what's happening in your area at the link in our bio!

The Visualist is an archive of all things related to the practice and purpose of visual arts in Chicago and anywhere Chicagoans happen to be. Learn more at the link in bio.

*Correction: Dakota Mace's talk at Center for Native Futures begins at 5pm, not 5:30.

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This month's featured artist is na forest lim. na forest lim (they/them) is an autistic, queer, and trans artist, film director, and photojournalist from South Korea. They practice sustainable poetic living in Waawiyaatanong and use visual storytelling to tenderly lift up the resilience of marginalized individuals and communities.

Forest's photo for this month's Art Picks is from a series of photographs featuring Iman Payne, a Black queer farmer based in Detroit. In forest’s words: “Black farmers have faced systemic discrimination and violence, which forced many to lose their land or relinquish ownership, leading to a decline in Black-owned farms. Some shifted to sharecropping, while others moved to cities like Detroit in search of better opportunities. Today, efforts continue to reclaim land and advocate for Black farmers’ rights.”

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Images: [1] A close up on a pair of hands gently pulling on a knitted garment. The subject's green nails match the green hue of the ring on their finger. Photo by na forest lim. [2-9] Promotional photos and graphics for various events, courtesy of the venues and artists. Image: A close up on a pair of hands gently pulling on a knitted garment, revealing a tattoo in the shape of a rainbow with the letters R N B O W beneath. The subject's green nails match the green hue of the ring on their finger. Photo by na forest lim.

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Press & Pull: A Legacy of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio! So excited for this exhibition at @gallery400

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@hullhousemuseum @kavigupta_ @gallery400
Heart full. Mind inspired.

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Thank you @gallery400 for including "Reflection" as part of the Streetside Project. On view at West Van Buren and Peoria Street.

Through hand-cut paper collage, photography, and digital drawing created on a phone app, these works reimagine emotional landscapes as spaces for reflection and renewal. In Caught up in my Feelings, My Private Island, and Alone Again, Naturally, layered fragments of imagery become quiet meditations on isolation, resilience, and inner grounding during difficult times. Rooted in both personal reflection and the restorative presence of nature, the works invite viewers to slow down, look inward, and remember the importance of remaining present while continuing forward through uncertainty.

Reflection
(corner of W. Vanburen and Peoria Street)
East window: Caught Up in my Feelings
Central: Private Island
West window: Alone Again, Naturally

#publicart #universityofillinoischicago #collage #digitaldrawing

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I’m excited to announce that @claireburkedain @danielgantner_ and I will be making some sounds in the basement of 400 s Peoria this Thursday evening at 8 pm! This improvised collaboration is brought to you by train windows, car windows, highways and interchange. This is a free event in connection to UIC’s 2026 MFA Thesis programming. Hope to see a bunch of yas! @uicmfa

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YOU’RE INVITED! 📚

Join John Michael Kohler Arts Center (@jmkac) and Tufts University Art Galleries (@tuftsartgalleries) in Chicago with Gallery 400 (@gallery400) for the publication launch of “How do you throw a brick through the window…”, produced alongside the exhibition of the same name. Both the exhibition and publication take inspiration from artist and activist Johanna Hedva’s (@bighedva) question, “How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed?” Hedva’s statement questions the rights and opportunities of individuals with disabilities who navigate forms of protest 🌀

🗓️ May 21, 2026
🕑 6:00-7:30PM
📍UIC Architecture and Design Studios (@uicsoa)
845 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60607
Room 1100

The evening will include a talk by contributing author Amanda Cachia (@amanda_cachia) , who will discuss her essay in the publication alongside related scholarship from her recent book, “Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism” (2025).

Exhibition co-curators and publication co-editors Tanya Gayer (@tanyagayer) and Laurel V. McLaughlin (@lvmclaughlin) will present an overview of the publication, including its design by Body & Forma (@bodyandforma), essays by Amanda Cachia, torrin a. greathouse (@tagreathouse), and Mev Luna (@mev_merized), and the artworks and artists featured in the exhibition: Yani aviles, Chloe P. Crawford (@chlo_faux), Nat Decker (@nat_decker__), Jeff Kasper (@jeffkasperstudio), Carly Mandel (@0carl), Jeffrey Meris (@jeffreymeris), and Libby Paloma (@libbys_arty_party) ✨

Free and open to all. RSVP at the link in our bio by May 7 to reserve your spot 🔗

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Catherine Lyu & Naeemeh Naeemaei: A Collaborative Reading & Unreading

April 23rd
5:30-6:30pm
Gallery 400

A reading of the Song - Sing - Sang by Catherine Lyu in collaboration with a reading of the White Books by Naeemeh Naeemaei. Through a series of quiet, deliberate actions, Naeemeh engages with approximately ten books selected solely for their white covers, regardless of their content. She will be using them to respond to Catherine’s reading of her translations of one of her grandpa’s poems. The echoing of sounds together with the materiality of the objects forms a language of communication between the artists and their memory objects.

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