Join us in the Annex Gallery for the opening reception of Stacey Lee Gee’s Let the walls bleed out / A vaulted room for future feelings

Stacey Lee Gee is a Chicago-based artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Iowa and is the current president of the historic feminist gallery A.R.C. in Chicago. Stacey’s work is an extension of the energy that leaks from her fingertips, a reconfiguration of objects past their appropriate era. Her art reorders the past to prepare for the future. She believes art is a service meant to perpetuate the healthy psyche of society.

From the printed walls of the past to a vaulted room of possibility, this work opens a passage between what was inherited and what might yet be imagined.

Together, Let the Printed Walls Bleed Out and A Vaulted Room for Future Feelings trace a movement from inherited and fixed cultural scripts toward the possibility of open, self-determined space. The first body of work confronts the permanence of mid-century dollhouse interiors—miniature worlds imprinted with the values and stereotypes of their time. The second imagines what might emerge if those walls were wiped clean, offering a vaulted room where curiosity and future feelings could take root. Seen together, these works ask how the past continues to shape us, and what might unfold if we dared to reimagine it.

An exploration of metals, techniques and ideas by the Lillstreet Metals department.

Although Lillstreet is widely known for Ceramics, the Metals department developed alongside clay classes and has existed at Lillstreet since 1979. The backbone of the Metals department has always been the instructors, monitors and technicians who keep the department running, growing, and teaching each new generation of Metalsmiths. 

The work in this exhibition ranges from experimental jewelry pieces to sculptural pieces incorporating mixed media, to fine jewelry.

Artists: Peter Antor, Linda Bernasconi, Anna Busalacchi, Stephanie Brohman, Ralph Skunkie Davis, Darby Douglas, Darlys Ewoldt, Lily Frazer, Kitt Gallagher, Abi Gonzales, Carrie Haase, Maria Hawkins, Susanne Henry, Cindy Heinemann, Rachel Perlman, Diane Serakos, Deborah Solomon, Linda Spielman, Camille Steinmetz, Rachel Stork, Sishi Wang, Janna Weddle