This week’s picks from me. Check out more comprehensive listings here and here.

Scott Cowan and Katy Keefe @ The Hills Esthetic Center

Collaborators Scott Cowan and Katy Keefe have put together a stuff installation I’d recommend getting in front of before its gone. Side note: we were trying last week to name as many artist-siblings working, showing, or living in Chicago. I don’t think anyone mentioned the Cowans! Check out Braided Bread this Friday, April 16th from 8-11PM @ The Hills Esthetic Center,  128 N Campbell Ave, G.

Katy Keefe

In a Paperweight and Allison Schulnik @ Tony Wight Gallery

Two shows at the new Tony Wight Space on Washington: a group show about photography (but not necessarily of photography) with work by Walead Beshty, Sebastiaan Bremer, Daniel Gordon, Tamar Halpern, Barbara Kasten, Sara VanDerBeek and James Welling, and a small collection of paintings named Home for Hobo Too from Allison Schulnik, hobo name unknown. Shows open this Friday, April 16th from 5-8PM @ Tony Wight Gallery, 845 W Washington Blvd.

James Welling, H4

Gwendolyn Zabicki @ Spoke

I like Spoke for accepting strange proposals and taking risks with its space (their puppy show deserves mention in this context), and in keeping with this tradition they’ll be hosting Gwendolyn Zabicki‘s rendition of the Hagia Sophia Basilica, slimmed down some to fit just a one person at a time. Squeeze in this Saturday, April 17th from 6-9PM @ Spoke, 119 N Peoria St, 3D.

Gwendolyn Zabicki, Hagia Sophia

hArts for Haiti @ LVL3

There have been and continue to be a lot of silent auctions (there’s another one this weekend at Heaven), but LVL3’s hArts for Haiti has the double benefit of sending cash to UNICEF and putting up some killer work. The list: Blood is the New Black, Milano Chow, Ryan Travis Christian, Alika Cooper, Alex Da Corte, Joel Dean, Cali Dewitt, Austin Eddy,Bea Fremderman, Myranda Gilles, Michael Hunter , Elizabeth Jaeger, Robin Juan, Landon Metz, Rachel Niffenegger, Annie Purpura, Courtney Reagor, Daniel Shea, Brian Sorg, Mitchell Spider, Hannah Stouffer, Fraser Taylor, Porous Walker and Virgil Wong. Save some lives this Saturday, April 17th from 6-10 PM @ LVL3, 1452 N Milwaukee Ave, 3.

Bea Fremderman, i'll be missing you

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