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HELEN MIRRA Spread out on the malt brown floor of the Renaissance Society this summer were 110 equilateral triangles of indigo cloth partially sewn together in a segmented field: Helen [...]

RHONA HOFFMAN GALLERY The films of Mark Lewis are earnest, disarming, and seditious. In construction they couldn't be more straightforward: Each of the two films shown here unfolds in real [...]

BETTY RYMER GALLERY SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Robert Blanchon, who died in 1999 at thirty-three from AIDS-related illnesses, was the ultimate accelerated man. Whether sending out press [...]

COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO CENTER FOR BOOK & PAPER ARTS One of the founders of Fluxus in the early '60, Dick Higgins (1938-98) lived long enough to witness the '90s revival [...]

ZOLLA/LIEBERMAN GALLERY INC. As this recent show demonstrates, painting can still serve as color's laboratory, with pattern one of its most powerful investigative tools. Anoka Faruqee breaks down painstakingly observed [...]

Still impish after all these years, Karl Wirsum's whimsical trove of figural invention continues to mesmerize. He's been at it since the '60s, this meticulous yet goofy rearticulation of the [...]

MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM The idiosyncratic and evocative work of Remedios Varo (1908-63) constitutes a superb but little-recognized episode in the history of Surrealism. This exhibition of seventy paintings [...]

BODYBUILDER & SPORTSMAN Harvey Opgenorth knows that one way to consider the many legacies of modem painting is to step into its shoes. Opgenorth begins the works in his ongoing [...]

Nina Bovasso revs her paintings right up to the point where the riotous starts to dribble over into the giddy. But the swirling up-tempo pacing of her works, their curvy [...]

RHONA HOFFMAN GALLERY Walter Niedermayr's wall assemblages of panoramic photographs record both the spectacular profile of his native region of the Italian Alps and the results of its relentless colonization [...]

TBA EXHIBITION SPACE The title of Stephen Lapthisophon's exhibition, 'Defense d'Afficher,' refers to signs forbidding the posting of printed materials on public walls ('post no bills'). But a deliberate mistranslation [...]

PETER MILLER GALLERY Julie Heffernan provides precisely the kind of thing one might expect from fin-demillennium painting (though it's pretty rarely found): a mannered, even claustrophobic engagement with canonical Western [...]

Post-arcadian, neo-romantic, and curiously classical, Rodney Graham's seemingly contradictory investigations of nature negotiate the seditious terrain between criticality and homage. His signature large photographs of inverted trees (perhaps less an [...]

On the Lawn at Graduation 2001, a seven-minute looped video of a woman's high-heel-shod foot swinging aimlessly to and fro, assumes added interest when accompanied by the martial rat-a-tat-tat rhythms […]