is an art gallery/curatorial umbrella founded in 2022, with an office space (Annex/Cointelpro) in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood, and a vitrine (Hole) in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. The gallery's program focuses around first presentations of ambitious and challenging work in a site-responsive and collaborative manner, alongside exhibition-specific ephemera.
Directed by Milo Christie and Sam Dybeck.
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work wear blues
April 23rd, 2025 - June 1st, 2025
Liliane Puthod was born in Annemasse, France; lives and works Dublin, Ireland. Her recent projects and exhibitions include Temple Bar Gallery + Studios off-site at Dublin Port (2024); Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin (2023); Skerries Art Trail (2023); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2022); Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (2020); The Complex, Dublin (2019), Pallas Projects, Dublin (2019); PS2, Belfast (2019).
Michael Hill is Programme Curator at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland, and one half of the curatorial team that represented Ireland at the 59th Venice Biennale 2022.
He is an invited participant of the Curatorial Exchange at EXPO Chicago.
Weatherproof is pleased to invite you to the opening of work wear blues, a solo exhibition of work by Liliane Puthod curated by Michael Hill on Wednesday April 23rd, from 6-10PM.
This exhibition is part of a citywide series of exhibitions and public events that debut the work of artists Liliane Puthod, Áine Mac Giolla Bhríde and Amanda Rice to Chicago audiences, presented by Ireland’s Askeaton Contemporary Arts.
Developed by curators Michael Hill, Noelle Collins and Mark O’Gorman, alongside artist Devin T. Mays, the programme is supported by exhibition partners Good Weather, 4th Ward Project Space and Weatherproof and by Culture Ireland, Consulate General of Ireland, EXPO Chicago, Independent Curators International and The Complex, Dublin.
In linking artist-led activities between Ireland and the American Midwest, Askeaton Contemporary Arts acknowledge the openness and welcome for Irish artists and curators from a new generation of independent art spaces, each upholding a decades-long tradition in Chicago of ambitious ingenuity and egalitarian attitude to the shaping and sharing of culture.
Register here for the program launch at the Consulate General of Ireland in Chicago.