21c MUSEUM HOTEL CHICAGO
The Art of Now
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A reset in cultural engagement, 21c Chicago's museum hotel offers extraordinary art from world-renowned contemporary artists, free and open to the public 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Let curiosity take the lead and discover a beautifully curated experience with every stay.
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OFF-SPRING
Chief Curator Alice Gray Stites brings OFF-SPRING: New Generations to 21c Chicago. This thematic group exhibition of 100 multi-media artworks by 60 artists from across the globe highlighting how religious, cultural, familial, and personal rituals shape who we are and how and where we live, love, and learn.
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Working the Flow by Selina Trepp
Selina Trepp’s stop motion animation, Working the Flow, 2023 is the second site-specific artwork created for Elevate: Rm 921. Projected onto a 48-foot wall, the film is only viewable after dusk and from the windows of 21c Chicago guests with interior-facing rooms. The film will be on view through September 2024.
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Betsy Odom
On view in Gallery 3 as a part of the Elevate series at 21c Chicago is a suite of sculptures by Betsy Odom. Continental Breakfast includes artworks featuring the artists unique blending of athletics, leisure, and traditional craft practices such as tooled leather and woodworking, including a new site-specific sculpture. Odom’s self-described “Butchcraft” is both a subversive and humorous queering of everyday objects and an investigation into displays of identity.
Elevate at 21c presents temporary exhibitions of works by artists living and working in the communities surrounding each 21c Museum Hotel. Elevate provides hotel guests and visitors with unique access to the work of notable regional artists, while featuring their work in the context of 21c’s contemporary art space.
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Bryana Bibbs
Unforeseen, a solo exhibition by Bryana Bibbs of select Journal Series weavings from Winter 2023. As a part of the Elevate series at 21c Chicago, the work will be on view from August through October in Gallery 3.
The journals were made one month before her grandfather (Papa George) passed on December 18, 2023. Along with her mom, Bibbs stayed at her grandparents' home to assist her Papa George, hoping he would get better. Unable to create new materials, Bibbs journaled using found objects from her grandparents' backyard, her Mema's pantry, her Mema's sewing tins, and hand-spun wool that Bibbs had previously made.
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Horsepower 2023
Natalie Clare is a Chicago-based painter who practices her craft as (sub)urban warrior, creating murals in public and private spaces in cities across the U.S. Describing the inspiration behind the work she painted at 21c Chicago, the artist says: “Horsepower is a mural depicting horses in a slightly abstracted way. Horses are powerful animals at the peak of athleticism and strength in the animal kingdom. The animal/human connection is very strong and nature also produces endorphins, as does physical activity. The crossover is cerebral and meant to brighten the space and bring that same feeling that interacting with nature and animals does in an urban environment removed from those things.” Learn more here.
Wallworks by Nick Cave and Bob Faust
As a way to bring the energy and impetus of Nick Cave’s artwork outside of traditional museum walls, Cave, in collaboration with his design partner Bob Faust, have created nine unique patterns that pair in various ways to result in sixteen floors of Wallworks, installed in the elevator lobbies on floors 2-17.