My picks for this weekend, though the pickings are slim. Check out other listings here and here.

Trew Schriefer and Joanna Goss @ ebersmoore

This month ebersmoore opens double solos from Trew Schriefer and Joanna Goss. When I saw Trew’s work last a few years ago, it was tiny acrylic on wood topographic cute abstractions. Grad school must have enlarged his ambitions and his surfaces and sent some of that tight and fun abstraction energy Goss’ way. Show opens (opened) Friday, May 28th from 6-9PM @ebersmoore, 213 N Morgan St, 3C.

Joanna Goss

Sebastian Vallejo @ Lloyd Dobler Gallery

Sebastian Vallejo presents some retro painting styles before they were common on t-shirts and corporate cafeteria panel art, complete I’m sure with big prismatic sprays, textured paint, and glitter. Check out the opening Friday, May 28th from 6-10PM @ Lloyd Dobler Gallery, 1545 W Division St, 2nd Floor.

Sebastian Vallejo, Light Ballast

The Pentagon Saves The World @ Pentagon

Heroes and heroism are on the table at The Pentagon Saves The World, with input from Deborah Stratman, Jim Zimpel, Jesse Avina, Daniel Baird, Jake Myers and the (possible created for this show) Pentagon Education Collective. Show goes up this Saturday, May 29th from 7-11PM @ Pentagon, 961 W 19th St, 1F. Soups on early.

Jessie Avina, In this mode, we shall live again (still)

UNCOVER, DISCOVER, DISCARD @ Golden Age

Normally describing a piece of art as sentimental is a good polite alternative for calling it fucking awful, but artists Eric Yahnker, McIntyre Parker, Emilie Halpern, Michael G. Bauer, and Sidonie Loiseleux take the plunge into sentimentality and emotional content in artwork. Opening reception Saturday, May 29th from 6-9PM @ Golden Age, 119 N Peoria St.

Sidonie Loiseleux, Plate #1

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