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Carrie Haase / Jesus Torres-Medina

Shared Practice

A collaborative exhibition

SHARED PRACTICE 

Carrie Haase / Jesus Torres-Medina

Lounge Gallery, March 1-31, 2026

Opening reception: Thursday, March 5, 2026

Shared Practice brings together two metal artists whose work emerges from a common foundation of traditional metalsmithing, yet moves in distinct directions. Through jewelry, vessels, and constructed objects, the exhibition highlights how shared processes and material knowledge can lead to varied forms, scales, and intentions. The work reflects an ongoing dialogue between teaching, making, and individual voice.



Elizabeth Wilson painting

Shaping Vision

work by the Lillstreet Drawing and Painting Faculty

Shaping Vision

March 1-31, 2026

Opening reception, Thursday, March 5, 5-8pm

Sarah Bastress, Erik Brown, Melanie Brown, Lydia Cash, Heather Charley, Karen Dana, Caitlyn Doran, John Fleck, Shanti Grandhi, True Markham, Susan Marx, Patrick Miceli, Ken Minami, Amanda Mulcahy, Blue Brooks O’Leary, Tara Sabini, Julie Sulzen, Elizabeth Wilson

This exhibition explores the ways in which teaching artists develop their own work, while also cultivating the education of less experienced painters. The work featured is in a wide variety of techniques taught at Lillstreet such as oil, acrylic, watercolor, collage, gouache, ink, mixed media pencil and charcoal, both realistic and abstract. It is a dizzying array of work by the accomplished teaching artists at Lillstreet.

Image: Elizabeth Wilson, Bison in three quarters, colored pencil, 2025

Dutes Miller

For a Darkend Room

Hidden Gallery

For a Darkend Room

installation by Dutes Miller

March 1 – May 31, 2026

Opening reception: Thursday, March 5, 5-8pm

For a darkend room is a small immersive installation exploiting the particular architecture of the gallery. The space is part cave, part temple, and part bathroom stall, all of which can be small spaces of an intimate but public nature. Elements of the installation include a cast ceramic sculpture, painted spray foam objects, a tinted plaster room divider, dark mylar curtains, small lighting elements, a small corner seat,  and a soundscape.  

Topics of investigation:

How do forms relieve themselves in low-light situations?

How does light work on reflective surfaces in the dark?

How do the ideas of intimacy and voyeurism relate to each other?

Dutes Miller’s work has been written about on artforum, Hyperallergic, the Huffington Post, the Chicago Reader, Time Out Chicago, New City, and the Chicago Tribune and has been included in exhibitions at several national venues including Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York, Lump in North Carolina, White Flag Projects in St. Louis and in Chicago at the Hyde Partk Art Center, Ukrainian Museum of Art, Tiger Strikes Asteroid and The Franklin.

His collaborative work with his husband Stan Shellabarger, as Miller & Shellabarger, won a 2008 Artadia Award and a 2007 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award and has been written about in Art in America, Artforum, Art & Auction, Frieze, Artnet, The Art Newspaper, Flash Art, and the Chicago Tribune. They have work in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, DePaul Art Museum, Indiana University Art Museum, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Spencer Museum of Art, among others. Miller received a BFA from Illinois State University. He is represented by Western Exhibitions in Chicago and lives and works in Chicago.