Drawing and Painting Artist-in-Residence Lydia Cash presents Violet. Her work bridges the gap between her visual art and music through her most recent collection of paintings, named after her upcoming album, “Violet”.

At its core, “Violet” is about healing one’s inner child. Vulnerable, honest, and defiant, it is a glittering ode to radical self-love and female empowerment. Each of the ten paintings are inspired the ten songs on the album. Cash views the act of painting itself as a healing practice, through risk-taking, play, and intuitive mark making.

Artist talk : Feb 27, 2026 5 PM

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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.