Conrad Freiburg: The Blind Light, the Pyre of Night Project Space: Jason Peot: Addendum Exhibit Runs July 8 – Sept 3, 2011 Following on the heels of his wonderfully sublime, pseudo-scientific solo exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, “It Is What It Isn’t”, we proudly announce the summer opening of Conrad Freiburg’s – “The Blind Light, the Pyre of Night”. In this exhibit, Freiburg continues to expand on his investigation of what he terms, “the void” – the vast and complex subject matter that for him will likely be an on-going, and perhaps life-long inspiration and pursuit. Freiburg’s creative …

Megan Euker: Reenactments Project Space: Juan Angel Chavez Exhibition runs April 15 – May 14, 2011 Opening Reception with the Artists: Friday, April 15th 6-9pm Special Opening Event During Art Chicago/NEXT: Saturday, April 30th, 6-10pm (with music and performance by capoeristas) Linda Warren Gallery is proud to present the opening of Megan Euker’s first solo exhibition at the gallery – Reenactments. Featured will be a selection of new paintings and large-scale sculptures that display her critical focus on gesture, human interaction, body language, and the figure. Conceptually the work can be divided into three different series: Good Intentions, cultural bathing …

Loretta Bourque: Charades Rob Bondgren: All That Glitters March 4 – April 9, 2011 Friday, March 4th, 2011 from 6-9pm, Linda Warren Gallery will be presenting the opening reception of “Charades,” Loretta Bourque’s second solo show at the gallery, and “All That Glitters,” Rob Bondgren’s first. Though vastly visually different, these artists, both close colleagues and comrades in sensibility, look to the human body to explore ideas surrounding identity and how we as a society and culture, give expression to passion, obsession and desire. In both oeuvres, reality is honed through the lens of sexuality, fantasy, and fetish, and objects …

William Eckhardt Kohler: Walking January 21 – February 26, 2011, 2011 Project Space: Shauna Angel Blue: Concrete Village: RUIN Opening Reception: Friday January 21 Linda Warren Gallery is proud to open 2011 with William Eckhardt Kohler’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, “Walking”. On view will be a selection of Kohler’s most recent oil paintings on canvas, both large and small scale, which reveal the most pronounced foray of the integration into abstraction and representation in his work to date. “Concrete Village: Ruin,” the medium and large scale photographs of Shauna Angel Blue opens in the Project Space this month. …

Matthew Woodward: A Loss Like the Rome of Waiting December 10-January 15 Project Space: Jennifer Presant: Surface Tension Opening Reception: Friday, December 10th, 6-9pm Matt Woodward’s first solo exhibition at the gallery “A Loss Like the Rome of Waiting” presents a new body of hand-drawn, large and monumental-scale graphite drawings on paper that explore the ironwork, moldings and finials encountered upon his everyday walks along the streets of Chicago and New York City. These design motifs, vestiges of the American Renaissance and Beaux-Arts architectural movements which arose in this country in the early part of the twentieth century as a …