Monique Meloche Gallery

Monique Meloche Gallery Sanford Biggers: Back to the Stars
Luke Agada: Arms, Feet, and Fitful Dreams
Open Sept. 14 - Oct. 28
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Brendan Fernandes has been selected as one of the Walder Foundation’s inaugural Platform Awards recipients! The grant wi...
06/20/2024

Brendan Fernandes has been selected as one of the Walder Foundation’s inaugural Platform Awards recipients! The grant will create cross-disciplinary connections between Chicagoland performing artists to enhance and strengthen the city’s entire arts community.
 
Fernandes is a multidisciplinary artist who examines issues of cultural displacement, migration, labor, and q***r subjectivity through installation, video, sculpture, and dance. Always looking to create new spaces and new forms of agency, his projects take on hybrid forms: part Ballet, part q***r dance party, part political protest... always rooted in collaboration and fostering solidarity.  
 
This September, Fernandes will create an upcoming performance and installation for the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis; a video projection for Chicago’s Art on the Mart, and participate in Prospect.6, New Orleans, in February 2025 with a closing performance and celebration.
 
Congratulations to Brendan on this incredible achievement!
Learn more about the awards at 



Images:
2. Brendan Fernandes. Photo: Michael Salisbury
3. Brendan Fernandes, New Monuments | Chicago, 2024, General John Alexander Logan Monument, Grant Park, Chicago, IL. Presented by Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum in association with the Chicago Park District, as part of EXPO CHICAGO’s IN/SITU Outside program. Architectural Intervention by AIM Architecture. Courtesy the artist and Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum. Photo: Matthew Reeves Photography  
4. Brendan Fernandes: Returning to Before, 2023, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA. Photo: Bill Hebert
5. Brendan Fernandes, 72 Seasons, Lurie Garden 2021. Dancers: Katlin Bourgeois, Brian Martinez, Michelle Reid, Kara Hunsinger, Meghann Wilkinson. Photo: Dabin Ahn. Curated by Ellen Hartwell Alderman and Stephanie Cristello
6. Brendan Fernandes, Contract and Release, 2019, Isamu Noguchi Museum, Queens, NY. Courtesy of the artist and Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, NY. Photo: Nicholas Knight

Saturday June 8, 1pmJoin us for a panel discussion with Collage Culture artists Genevieve Gaignard, Helina Metaferia, Mo...
06/05/2024

Saturday June 8, 1pm
Join us for a panel discussion with Collage Culture artists Genevieve Gaignard, Helina Metaferia, Monika Plioplyte, and Nyugen E. Smith as they offer insights into the diverse techniques and creative processes that they employ in their work. Moderated by Lisa Wainwright, Rauschenberg scholar and art historian at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, who is also writing a scholarly essay for the publication of this exhibition.
Free to attend, RSVP encouraged (link in bio)

Images:
1. Nyugen E. Smith, photo by Erica McLean
2. Genevieve Gaignard, photo by Charlsie Gorski
3. Helina Metaferia, photo by Tommie Battle
4. Monika Plioplyte
5. Lisa Wainwright

Tonight Arvie Smith is officially awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts, underwritten by actor Robert De Niro i...
06/04/2024

Tonight Arvie Smith is officially awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts, underwritten by actor Robert De Niro in honor of his father the painter Robert De Niro Sr., a 1968 Guggenheim Fellow.

Smith’s brightly colored, intimately detailed paintings are steeped in American pop-cultural images and historical references, and deal with race and political relations, often searingly, and always with a satiric thrust. They can seem playfully inviting, even humorous, inviting viewers in and then on closer examination, delivering a vision pocked with vulgar and uncomfortable images from American history.

“I speak unfettered of my perception of the Black experience. By critiquing atrocities and oppressions, by creating images that foment dialogue, I hope my work makes the repeat of those atrocities and injustices less likely. These are the reasons I paint.” - Arvie Smith

Swipe to see a few works by Arvie, who will present his second solo exhibition with the gallery in 2025.

Images:
1. Arvie Smith in his studio
2. ‘The Three Graces’ 2023
3. ‘Black Athena’ 2023
4. ‘Bacchus’ 2022
5. ‘Fine Sugar Hill’ 2023

moniquemeloche is pleased to present Collage Culture, a group exhibition that delves into the multifaceted realm of coll...
05/28/2024

moniquemeloche is pleased to present Collage Culture, a group exhibition that delves into the multifaceted realm of collage as a hybrid process, presenting a selection of artists whose practices traverse diverse visual languages. The works on view contribute to a rich tapestry of hybridity, weaving together narratives of personal histories, cultural identities, and societal critiques.

Featuring:
Sanford Biggers
Antonius-Tín Bui
Genevieve Gaignard
Kathia St. Hilaire
Sheree Hovsepian
Yashua Klos
Helina Metaferia
Lavar Munroe
Ebony G. Patterson
Monika Plioplyte
David Shrobe
Nyugen E. Smith
Shinique Smith
Wendy Red Star
Mickalene Thomas

On View: June 7-July 27
Opening Reception: Friday, June 7, 4-7pm

Panel Discussion: Saturday, June 8, 1pm
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Join us for a special panel discussion with Collage Culture artists, offering insights into the diverse techniques and creative processes that they employ in their work. Moderated by Lisa Wainwright, Rauschenberg scholar and art historian at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, who is also writing a scholarly essay for the publication of this exhibition.
RSVP link in bio

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Images:
1. Yashua Klos, The Wildflowers Dance for You, 2023
© Yashua Klos, courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
2. Lavar Munroe, So Silent Your Whisper, 2024
3. Ebony G. Patterson, …kiss goodbye … goodbye kiss…, 2022
4. Helina Metaferia, Headdress 8, 2020, courtesy of Helina Metaferia

Artist Talk: Sheree Hovsepian at The University Club of ChicagoThursday, May 165:30pmJoin Sheree Hovsepian for a recepti...
05/13/2024

Artist Talk: Sheree Hovsepian at The University Club of Chicago
Thursday, May 16
5:30pm

Join Sheree Hovsepian for a reception and discussion of her artistic practice and view pieces on loan to the University Club afterwards.

Sheree Hovsepian’s work highlights the physicality of the photograph and photography’s relationship to the human body. Coaxed into sculptural forms, layered with tactile materials, (such as nylon, ceramic and string) and assembled into larger compositions, Hovsepian’s pictures oscillate between object and image, creating a sensuous, bodily experience of the photographic document.

Discounted tickets available with code HOVSEPIAN: https://tinyurl.com/hnf8ktab

1. Hovsepian at her studio in New York’s East Village. Photo: Jordan Tiberio.
2. Sheree Hovsepian, Stylite, 2023
3. Sheree Hovsepian, Between One Eye and the Other, 2017
4. Sheree Hovsepian, Neural Glide, 2018

 now open!Visit us on the 6th floor to view works by Maia Cruz Palileo and Luke Agada   Photos: .photo
05/10/2024

now open!
Visit us on the 6th floor to view works by Maia Cruz Palileo and Luke Agada


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Moniquemeloche is at EXPO Chicago and open for public viewing! Visit Booth 313 to view works by Luke Agada, Candida Alva...
04/12/2024

Moniquemeloche is at EXPO Chicago and open for public viewing!

Visit Booth 313 to view works by Luke Agada, Candida Alvarez, Sanford Biggers, Antonius-Tín Bui, David Antonio Cruz, Yvette Mayorga, Lavar Munroe, Maia Cruz Palileo, Ebony G. Patterson, Cheryl Pope, David Shrobe, Arvie Smith, Shinique Smith, and Jake Troyli.


Public Dates
Friday, April 12: 11am-7pm
Saturday, April 13: 11am-7pm
Sunday April 14: 11am-6pm


Installation View: .mishin

We’re pleased to announce the acquisition of Arvie Smith’s ‘Fine Sugar Hill’, 2023 to the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa...
03/06/2024

We’re pleased to announce the acquisition of Arvie Smith’s ‘Fine Sugar Hill’, 2023 to the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK.

We’re pleased to announce Brendan Fernandes’ recent acquisitions: ‘Free Fall: For Camera’, 2019 acquired by Remai Modern...
02/28/2024

We’re pleased to announce Brendan Fernandes’ recent acquisitions:

‘Free Fall: For Camera’, 2019 acquired by Remai Modern, Saskatoon, CA

‘As One VIII’, 2017 acquired by the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO


Opening TodayDavid Shrobe’s second solo exhibition ‘Natural Sovereignty’ takes us to the backyard. For the Shrobe, the b...
02/03/2024

Opening Today

David Shrobe’s second solo exhibition ‘Natural Sovereignty’ takes us to the backyard. For the Shrobe, the backyard is a sanctuary, a space of work, pride, wellness, and leisure. They are spaces for self-governance, community, and legacy; worlds that return us to the natural sovereignty of the human being.

Opening reception from 4-7pm
The artist will be present


Image: David Shrobe, Gathering, 2023. Oil, acrylic, charcoal, ink, wood laminate, painted canvas, flocking, wool, printed acrylic, sandpaper, and wood furniture parts on joined wood panels.
78 x 59 x 1 1/2 in.

Congratulations to Brendan Fernandes for his distinguished inclusion in Prospect New Orleans 2024. His work will be show...
01/25/2024

Congratulations to Brendan Fernandes for his distinguished inclusion in Prospect New Orleans 2024. His work will be showcased in Prospect.6: the future is present, the harbinger is home, a triennial featuring 49 artists exhibited across 20 venues and unconventional spaces. Curated by the Artistic Director of Prospect.6 and senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Miranda Lash, and Susan Brennan Co-Artistic Director and artist Ebony G. Patterson, the exhibition opens on Saturday, November 2, 2024, and runs through February 2, 2025 in the culturally rich city of New Orleans.

Candida Alvarez's new body of work was birthed in the studio and continued through two residencies at the LUMA Foundatio...
12/12/2023

Candida Alvarez's new body of work was birthed in the studio and continued through two residencies at the LUMA Foundation in Arles, France in April and at Skowhegan in Maine this summer, marking Alvarez’s return as a mentor 42 years after her first residency there. Together, these bits and pieces become the compositional building blocks for her paintings and drawings, hybrid spaces ripe with color and pattern.

‘Multihyphenate’ is on view through January 6, 2024

moniquemeloche is pleased to present Multihyphenate, a solo exhibition by Candida Alvarez and the artist’s second show w...
11/06/2023

moniquemeloche is pleased to present Multihyphenate, a solo exhibition by Candida Alvarez and the artist’s second show with the gallery. Alvarez’s complex and colorful works delicately balance abstraction and representation, interweaving the artist’s daily observations with material life. Multihyphenate represents a mashup of how experiences are accumulated and what stays with us, visualizing our evolving histories and the shapes that come from the world.

On view from November 18-January 6

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 18, 4-7pm
Full Press Release in Bio

Image: Candida Alvarez, Skowhegan #4, 2023. Flashe paint on cotton, 19 x 19 in

Join the Poetry Foundation for an in-person reading and live stream of David Antonio Cruz’s performance, 'green,howiwant...
10/25/2023

Join the Poetry Foundation for an in-person reading and live stream of David Antonio Cruz’s performance, 'green,howiwantyougreen,' on Saturday, November 4, 2-3:30 PM CT.

green,howiwantyougreen is an experimental operatic performance piece based on the last 11 poems by the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, Sonnets of Dark Love, which were banned for 50 years following his assassination in 1936. Featuring four voices, a reader, and a musician, the bilingual Spanish and English libretto fuses references to popular culture, q***r slang, and Latino and Black gay culture to explore love and desire in dark places. The performance will be followed by a talkback with Carla Acevedo-Yates, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the MCA Chicago.

Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
Chicago, IL

Images:
(1-3) St. Croix Take Five: green, howIwantyougreen, Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, Frederiksted
(4-5)Meca: green,howIwantyougreen, The Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico


Registration link in Bio
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On view at ICA Philly through December 17David Antonio Cruz: 'When the Children Come Home' This is the artist’s first so...
10/20/2023

On view at ICA Philly through December 17
David Antonio Cruz: 'When the Children Come Home'

This is the artist’s first solo show at a museum and an artistic milestone and homecoming, embracing a sense of home that defies conventional definitions. For Cruz, home can be conjured through the bonds of community and chosen family, sustained by a sense of possibility, and belonging that comes from being among those you love.

Alongside the monumental portraits for which Cruz is best known, ‘When the Children Come Home’ features recent work that references deeply and personally meaningful sites in Philadelphia. Drawings that camouflage the figure in intricate, ancestrally significant backgrounds represent the artist’s expanded exploration of home and its intersections with geography, diaspora, LGBTQ+ culture, and autobiography. The exhibition also includes an immersive site-specific installation as well as a special performance incorporating original scores, costumes, and live music, which will occur on Sunday, October 22 at 4pm EST. Register to attend via the link in bio

moniquemeloche is delighted to announce the representation of artist Luke Agada, whose first solo show at the gallery Ar...
09/28/2023

moniquemeloche is delighted to announce the representation of artist Luke Agada, whose first solo show at the gallery Arms, Feet, and Fitful Dreams is on view through October 28.



Works:
Luke Agada, Late Bloomers, 2023. Oil on canvas, 72 x 60 in
Luke Agada, Origins and Insertions, 2023. Oil on canvas, 54 x 48 in
Luke Agada, Unstill Life, 2023. Oil on canvas, 54 x 48 in

We’re pleased to announce the acquisition of Nate Young’s 'In Black Untime No. 4', 2021 to 21c Museum Hotel, Louisville,...
09/27/2023

We’re pleased to announce the acquisition of Nate Young’s 'In Black Untime No. 4', 2021 to 21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, KY.

We’re pleased to announce the acquisition of Sheree Hovsepians’s work:Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Evanston, IL ...
09/21/2023

We’re pleased to announce the acquisition of Sheree Hovsepians’s work:

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Evanston, IL acquired Orbit, 2021

moniquemeloche is pleased to announce Sanford Biggers: ‘Back to the Stars’, the artist's fourth solo exhibition with the...
09/08/2023

moniquemeloche is pleased to announce Sanford Biggers: ‘Back to the Stars’, the artist's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition showcases new artworks from the artist’s ever-evolving Chimera and Codex series, which juxtaposes figurative marble sculptures and quilt compositions.

The gallery will also debut Luke Agada: ‘Arms, Feet, and Fitful Dreams’ in the viewing room.

On view from September 14-October 28
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 14, 5-7pm

Full Press Release in Bio



Images
Sanford Biggers, Furrow, 2023, antique quilts, assorted textiles, mixed media on fiberglass
Luke Agada, Late Bloomers, 2023, oil on canvas

Just published: New City’s “Art 50 2023: Chicago's Artist's Artist.” This edition honors Brendan Fernandes, Ebony G. Pat...
09/06/2023

Just published: New City’s “Art 50 2023: Chicago's Artist's Artist.” This edition honors Brendan Fernandes, Ebony G. Patterson, and Nate Young, and inducts Candida Alvarez into the Newcity Hall of Fame. Congrats!

Link in Bio




Image Credits:
Brendan Fernandes and Ebony G. Patterson, Images by Joseph A. Mietus
Candida Alvarez, Image by Chester Alamo-Costello

We’re pleased to announce the acquisition of Jake Troyli’s works:The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL Superfan, 2021...
08/30/2023

We’re pleased to announce the acquisition of Jake Troyli’s works:

The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL Superfan, 2021

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS Easy Bucket, 2022

Happy Birthday Karen Reimer!We are pleased to announce that the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago are in the pro...
08/28/2023

Happy Birthday Karen Reimer!
We are pleased to announce that the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago are in the process of acquiring Reimer's “Endless Set #1399", 2012, one of the most ambitious works in her oeuvre of embroidered and quilted works. Reimer's "Endless Set (2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31)", 2007, which refers to the infinite sequence of prime numbers featured on each pillowcase, is also in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

The Smart Museum of Art acquisition is generously funded by Mark and Judy Bednar



Image: Karen Reimer, "Endless Set #1399, Sewn fabric on wood platform, 27 x 18 1/2 x 29 in.
Karen Reimer, "Endless Set (2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31)", 2017, 26 x 20 in. each

We’re pleased to announce the acquisition of Arvie Smith’s work: The Pierce and Hill Harper Foundation, Detroit, MI acqu...
08/24/2023

We’re pleased to announce the acquisition of Arvie Smith’s work:

The Pierce and Hill Harper Foundation, Detroit, MI acquired Echo and Narcissus, 2022

Join us for David Antonio Cruz’s artistic milestone and homecoming solo exhibition, ‘When the Children Come Home’  at th...
08/18/2023

Join us for David Antonio Cruz’s artistic milestone and homecoming solo exhibition, ‘When the Children Come Home’ at the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, on view August 18 - December 17.

Alongside the monumental portraits for which Cruz is best known, ‘When the Children Come Home’ features new and past works centering Black, Brown, and Q***r communities as he combines personal history with art, historical, literary, fashion, and pop culture references to reinterpret classical modes of figuration. Camouflaging the figure in intricate, ancestrally significant backgrounds represents the artist’s exploration of home, chosen family, and the intersections of geography, diaspora, LGBTQ+ culture, and autobiography. The exhibition, curated by Monique Long, also includes an immersive site-specific installation as well as a performance incorporating original scores, costumes, and live music.

Opening Reception: Friday, September 8, 2023, 6-9PM
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Images (listed in order)

canyoustaywithmetonight_causeyouarehere,youarehere,andweareherewithyou, 2021, Oil and latex on wood panel, 72 x 48 in (each panel)

itsverylightandrefreshing,philly (detail), 2022, ink, flashe, and wax pencil on arches watercolor paper, 41 3/4 x 29 1/2 in

thoseboysdonteverplaynice, 2018, Oil and latex on wood, 60 x 48 in.

We’re pleased to announce the acquisition of Cheryl Pope’s Room with Striped Dresser, 2022, to the Museum of Contemporar...
08/09/2023

We’re pleased to announce the acquisition of Cheryl Pope’s Room with Striped Dresser, 2022, to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL.

We’re pleased to announce the acquisition of Karen Reimer’s 'Untitled (Chicago Tribune April 16, 2000)', 2021 to the Art...
08/02/2023

We’re pleased to announce the acquisition of Karen Reimer’s 'Untitled (Chicago Tribune April 16, 2000)', 2021 to the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

Antonius-Tín Bui: 'There are many ways to hold water without being called a vase', extended through August 25. The galle...
07/29/2023

Antonius-Tín Bui: 'There are many ways to hold water without being called a vase', extended through August 25. The gallery will be open by appointment only Tuesday-Friday, August 1-25



To schedule an appointment email [email protected] or call 312-243-2129

We’re pleased to announce Brendan Fernandes’s recent acquisitions: National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, CA acquired 'As O...
07/26/2023

We’re pleased to announce Brendan Fernandes’s recent acquisitions:

National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, CA acquired 'As One III', 'As One IV', 'As One VI', 'As One VII', and 'As One IX', 2017

The Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil acquired 'As One I' and 'As One II', 2017

(Image Pictured: III, IV, VI, VII, IX)

We’re pleased to announce recent acquisition of Maia Cruz Palileo's work: 'A Night That Was as Light as Day', 2021, acqu...
07/05/2023

We’re pleased to announce recent acquisition of Maia Cruz Palileo's work:

'A Night That Was as Light as Day', 2021, acquired by Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY

'Misty Morning', 2022, acquired by Chapman University, Orange, CA

'Isla, Dalawa, Tatlo (One, Two, Three)', 2021, acquired by The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C

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Monique Meloche Gallery was founded in October 2000 with an inaugural exhibition titled Homewrecker at Meloche’s home, and officially opened to the public in May 2001. Working with an international group of emerging artists in all media, the gallery presents conceptually challenging installations in Chicago and at art fairs internationally with an emphasis on curatorial and institutional outreach.

Gallery staff: Monique Meloche, Founder/Owner Aniko Berman, Gallery Director Allison Moore, Gallery Manager

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