1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL
January 18, 2025 - February 2, 2025
Reception Saturday, January 18 from 4-7 PM
Open Hours Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays 4-7 PM
You, of course is a show put together by Kevin Stuart to celebrate the work of five artists he has admired for years. Some of these are friends who helped him immeasurably through the years, all whose work has something to do with relations, love, circumstance, and an indefinable and constantly changing humanity and world. If nothing is left, then of course we are all that remain, and we are all eventually carried, and where we end up is of course, with you.
Elena Ailes (she/her) is concerned with the encounters, intimacies and discordances found between human (actions, bodies, histories) and nonhuman (thing, being, astral) worlds. She has presented her texts, videos, and installations widely, including at Apparatus Projects, the SculptureCenter, Randy Alexander Gallery, Sector2337, Ski Club, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and 4th Ward Project Space. She received her MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute. She is interested in that which makes her a better person and a worse person, especially in theory. In reality, she is an artist and writer living and working in Chicago, and currently teaches at SAIC. For more information, please visit elenaailes.com.
Sarah Bastress is a dyke and painter from West Virginia who lives and works in Chicago. She also lives in resolute silliness with her cat and her wife, and shows at RUSCHMAN. When Sarah first met Kevin over a decade ago, she thought wow, this is what a real artist looks like, this is the kind of artist I want to be like, and that has turned out to be beyond true. She loves Kevin very much. For more information, please visit sarahbastress.com.
Sarah Crow was born in Santa Cruz, California in 1984. She earned her BFA in Painting with a minor in Creative Writing from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2013, and her MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016, where she has also taught as a lecturer in the Painting and Drawing department. She has exhibited in numerous national juried exhibitions and has done commissioned work for private institutions and clients throughout the United States. She currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois, where she is Artist-in-Residence at St. Gregory’s Hall and Adjunct Faculty in the Art & Design Department at Saint Xavier University. For more information, please visit sarahcrowart.com.
Nathanael Jones is an Afro-Caribbean Canadian writer and artist currently based in Montreal. He holds degrees in fine art and writing from NSCAD University (BFA 2014) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA 2017). He has exhibited and performed his work in Canada, the US, and the UK, and has been published online and in print with DREGINALD, Ghost Proposal, Aurochs, Heavy Feather Review, and TIMBER, among others. His debut poetry collection, Aqueous, is out now through The Porcupine's Quill. For more information, please visit theporcupinesquill.com/nathanael-jones.
Sabeen Omar (b. 1987) is a Colombo-based artist who contemplates what can infuse everyday, discardable objects, like cardboard boxes and garment fragments, with the value of a precious family heirloom. She juxtaposes geometric motifs from Islamic architecture against a soft, ever-shifting sky to allude to the duality of meaningless yet preciousness in her work. She holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BSc in Mathematics with Economics from University College London. Sabeen's first solo exhibition, Tiger Balm & Other Boxes, was at Cornell University in 2022. For more information, please visit sabeenomar.com.
Kevin Stuart is a painter who lives and works in Chicago. He also runs a carl. For more information, please visit kevin-stuart.com.