Simple Pleasures and Silver Linings: An Unseen Universe is a mini retrospective of Chicago-based artist Renee Robbins’ vast body of work that explores the dynamic world and its complex relationships between humans, nature, and the cosmos, through luminous visual environments both real and imagined. This exhibition immerses the viewer in an otherworldly landscape of flowering botanicals and celestial bodies viewed at the subatomic and telescopic levels, as it surveys Robbins’ wondrously detailed collections of paintings and etchings.

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Jennifer Cronin + Dusty Patches

October 28, 2022 – March 17, 2023

NEWTOK: Seen and Unseen captures life in the Anthropocene, both in its beauty and its complexity.

[salonlb.] is proud to present the long-awaited collaborative exhibition that profoundly documents the reality of the climate crisis impacting the Alaska Native village of Newtok. This exhibition features Jennifer Cronin's "Seen and Unseen" painting and print series, which inspired the album "Newtok" by Dusty Patches, allowing viewers to experience this crisis through sight and sound.

Emily Shopp is a Chicago-based print artist working with copper etching, woodcut relief printing, and collage. Having engaged with nature to cope with her own anxiety, her work explores the human psychological relationship to the natural environment.

Beginning with the collection and study of found organic objects, she translates them into abstracted, ambiguous forms. Through variation, repetition, transparency, and intricate line work, she constructs an intimate, meditative space.