Art Events

Attend the closing reception for The Jade by Laleh Motlagh on Sunday, September 20th, from 3:00-6:00 pm.

The Jade presents recent paintings by Laleh Motlagh, centering on a jade plant brought by her father from her hometown of Tabriz, Iran, in 2012. Over fourteen years of relocation across various Chicago homes and studios, Motlagh has nurtured this plant, developing an intimate, symbiotic bond with it. Since 2022, the jade has transitioned from a personal companion into one of the primary subjects of her visual practice.

Indigenous to South Africa but ubiquitous worldwide, the plant serves as a living metaphor for political displacement and global migration. Motlagh focuses intently on the plant's pot as a site of dual identity: it is both a protective shelter and a rigid constraint. Confined within this human-made structure, the jade adaptation mirrors the endurance of Iranian women navigating systemic restriction and control. Through daily and repetitive observation, The Jade maps the deep intimacy between human and botanical life, offering a quiet meditation on uprooting, survival, and the persistent will to grow within boundaries.

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Golden Hour at Epiphany:
Stop by Epiphany for Golden Hour beforehand for free live music, drinks and lite bites in the Café Bar! Doors open at 5pm with 1/2 priced bottles of wine and other specials until 7:00pm

Golden Hour Menu + Music Schedule

Please note that outside food or beverages are not permitted in the venue.

Attend the closing  reception for Dog Kicking in its Sleep by Ethan Shay Cowell on Sunday, September 20th from 3:00-6:00pm.

Dog Kicking in its Sleep is the first solo exhibition from Chicago based artist Ethan Shay-Cowell. His work combines observation with surrealist invention and symbolism to create dark, dream-like spaces that bridge the physical world with the ever-present allegory unfolding beneath it.

These works created between 2022 and 2026 were inspired by the artist's time spent living and studying in Chicago, as well as the increasing volatility of the global political theatre. The paintings are a response to uncertainty and conflict, both within and outside of the self, searching our stories and symbols for meaning that withstand this volatility. His practice personifies time and space as a parent and teacher in a way that blurs the line between art making and theistic reflection, seeking an intimacy that is only possible through confrontation.

The exhibition aims to create a moment in which the artist's works can together express a portrait of human nature in its juxtaposing elements as to be faithful to its complexity.

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Golden Hour at Epiphany:
Stop by Epiphany for Golden Hour beforehand for free live music, drinks and lite bites in the Café Bar! Doors open at 5pm with 1/2 priced bottles of wine and other specials until 7:00pm

Golden Hour Menu + Music Schedule

Please note that outside food or beverages are not permitted in the venue.

Attend the closing  reception for Medley by LATITUDE on Sunday, September 20th from 3:00-6:00pm.

The following work on these walls is tied together by its construction rather than its completed form. What joins the work is not a shared theme in representation and style but a means of making, composed of statements that potentially have nothing in common at all - which is exactly the space LATITUDE was made to support.

This exhibition is a net cast into the vast field of individuals that together make up LATITUDE Chicago’s diverse community - some who do it themselves, some who have the team do it for them, some who have donated their time, and some who have donated their resources and connections. Artists that work in painting, photography, collage, analog or digital process .. artists whose practices are built on personal joy or political justice.

Regardless of the “why”, this collection is born from a mission that holds the door open and welcomes a type of multiplicity that can be difficult to access otherwise. A thread spun from the shared belief that access and education around photographic “Fine Art” production should come without barriers.

curated by Keanna Boyko, Deputy Director of LATITUDE Chicago

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Golden Hour at Epiphany:
Stop by Epiphany for Golden Hour beforehand for free live music, drinks and lite bites in the Café Bar! Doors open at 5pm with 1/2 priced bottles of wine and other specials until 7:00pm

Golden Hour Menu + Music Schedule

Please note that outside food or beverages are not permitted in the venue.

Attend the closing  reception for Means of Production by LMRM on Sunday, September 20th from 3:00-6:00pm.

How should wealth be distributed, power structured, and labor organized when the focus is the shared experience of creating and consuming art?

If we could deepen our own practices as a consequence of supporting another’s would that change how we approach collaboration?

We can confront scarcity through generosity along novel dimensions: a loom is dressed and experimentation follows, a floating canvas with its incremental and iterative decorations across individuals form a chain; trust is essential for the call and response necessary for a community to thrive.

Fibers under tension, knowledge honed and shared, yield something coherent eventually.

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Golden Hour at Epiphany:
Stop by Epiphany for Golden Hour beforehand for free live music, drinks and lite bites in the Café Bar! Doors open at 5pm with 1/2 priced bottles of wine and other specials until 7:00pm

Golden Hour Menu + Music Schedule

Please note that outside food or beverages are not permitted in the venue.