Events Archive
Lincoln Park Art Night is back!
Thursday, November 6, 2025
5:30 - 8:30 PM
DePaul Art Museum, gallery 1871, Madron Gallery, Art on Sedgwick, and Leslie Wolfe Gallery, are participating in the fourth annual Lincoln Park Art Night. Five unique art locations have banded together to celebrate their Lincoln Park neighborhood and promote a destination for art lovers that is too-frequently overlooked. The event is FREE and open to all. Luxury sprinter vans will circulate the neighborhood offering hop-on/hop-off service for three hours on Thursday, November 6th from 5:30 - 8:30 PM. Riders may start and stop at any of the five participating locations.
Register for the event here. Registration is appreciated, but not required.
Artist Talk: Thursday May 8, 2025, 6:00 pm
with Zach Balousek, Margie Criner, John T. Upchurch, and Lucie Van der Elst
In an intimate setting and the artists of Synthesize talk about their individual studio practices and the influence of music on their lives and artworks.
Synthesize -Artist Talk - 5 videos in total
DePaul Art Museum, gallery 1871, Madron Gallery, Art on Sedgwick, and Leslie Wolfe Gallery, are participating in the third annual Lincoln Park Art Night. Five unique art locations have banded together to celebrate their Lincoln Park neighborhood and promote a destination for art lovers that is too-frequently overlooked. The event is FREE and open to all. Luxury sprinter vans will circulate the neighborhood offering hop-on/hop-off service for three hours on Thursday, November 14th from 5:30 - 8:30 PM. Riders may start and stop at any of the five participating locations. Register today at BIT.LY/LPAN2024 (registration is not required but appreciated
Sue Taylor: Saturday October 14, 2023 at 2pm
Art historian Sue Taylor will give a talk exploring Friebert’s art in the context of postwar American abstraction as well as concepts of empathy in painting—concerning both artist and audience—at Madron on Saturday, October 14, at 2:00 p.m.
Joseph Friebert: The Experimental Years
September 11 – December 22, 2023
Sue Taylor is an art historian, curator, and critic. She earned her B.A. in art history at Roosevelt University and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Taylor’s publications include numerous catalogue essays, as well as articles and reviews in American Art, American Craft, Art Journal, Art in America, ARTnews, ArtUS, Chicago Sun-Times, Dialogue, Fiberarts, New Art Examiner, Oregon ArtsWatch, and The Oregonian. She is the author of two monographs, Hans Bellmer: The Anatomy of Anxiety (MIT Press, 2000) and the award-winning Grant Wood’s Secrets (University of Delaware Press, 2020). Formerly Associate Dean in the College of the Arts and Professor of Art History at Portland State University, Taylor received the Kamelia Massih Outstanding Faculty Award before her appointment to emerita status in 2019.
Duncan Dance Chicago @ Madron Gallery
Sunday June 12th, 2:00 PM
Madron Gallery is pleased to present DuncanDuncan Dance Chicago @ Madron Gallery, an artist talk and live demonstration on the life and work of Isadora Duncan, on Sunday June 12, 2022 at 2:00 PM. Jennifer Sprowl, Duncan historian, dancer, and Artistic Director of Duncan Dance Chicago, will talk about Isadora Duncan, her life, and her lasting impact on the world of dance. The program will also include a demonstrated sampling of the movement vocabulary that made Duncan world-renowned. Sprowl’s lecture is held in conjunction with the exhibition Perpetual Motion: Abraham Walkowitz Draws Isadora Duncan, now on view through June 24th, “See Chicago Dance’s” annual Chicago Dance Month, and what Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) has designated the #YearofChicagoDance, which seeks to highlight Chicago’s dance community through a variety of citywide programming.
Drawn Together
March 1 – 27, 2020
AMERICAN OILS
October 23, 2014
6:00-8:00pm
Come join us at Madron Gallery for a tasting of some of our favorite American Olive Oils surrounded by the beauty of American Art! City Olive is a specialty olive oil, gourmet foods boutique based in the heart of Chicago’s Roscoe Village and Andersonville neighborhoods. They offer a meticulous selection of the finest ESTATE BOTTLED extra virgin olive oils, as well as olives, vinegars, tapenades, spices, pastas, mustards and other gourmet items from around the world. Join us for wine and light hors d'oeuvres as we feast our eyes and palate on American oils!