Exhibitions

ROADMAPS

COOP Gallery / 507 Hagan St. July 26 - 27th

Meg Jordan, Kelly Ann Cunningham, Lizzie Carsello, Courtney Adair Johnson

COOP is pleased to present Roadmaps by Meg Jordan, Kelly Ann Cunningham, Lizzie Carsello, and Courtney Adair Johnson. Roadmaps is an art exhibition in two parts that aims to foster connections between the emerging artists in the local art scenes in the Chicagoland and Nashville areas. Four artists will be in each version of the show. Each artist’s contribution will focus on a theme they explore, for which they will offer a “roadmap.”

Harkening back to the physicality of a roadmap’s original form, the art on display in Roadmaps invites us to reconsider how the obsolescence of roadmap’s physical form functioned differently than its current linguistic use suggests. The art featured in this exhibit celebrates the roadmap as an enabling tool–one that allows us to explore a given terrain rather than fixate on arriving at a particular destination. The important questions this exhibition will explore include: How is navigating what is familiar different from navigating what is unfamiliar? How does art facilitate the process of navigating social change? What can local artists learn from their communities and what can communities learn from their local artists?

See you on Friday July 26th!