Ignition project space

Our hearts are heavy with the loss of Jay Wolke, a great friend of the gallery, seen here in his 2024 show at Ignition curated by Christine Forni
An accomplished photographer and professor and longtime supporter of Ignition, it was a privilege to know him.
All our best to all his family and friends, especially avril greenberg

Stop in this Saturday during gallery hours to see our amazing September exhibitions and meet guest gallerist Christine Forni, Christine Forni
⚡️ (Un)real curated by Haylie Jimenez
⚡️ State of Being, solo exhibition by Azadeh Hussaini
⚡️Oscillation, solo exhibition by Rial Rye

3839 W Grand, Chicago

We are back from break! Join us for our September exhibitions, opening Friday, September 4, 6-9pm
⚡️(Un)Real, curated by Haylie Jimenez. A group exhibition that celebrates, interrogates and documents marginalized subcultures.
⚡️Azadeh Hussaini / State of Being
State of being brings together strands of recent and ongoing work to consider how life takes form under pressure, expressed through recycled paper, cardboard and newspaper.
⚡️Rial Rye / Oscillation
Oscillation translates ocular trauma and somatic disruption into a visceral, visual experience rooted in the artists personal experience with eye injury.

Thank you to everyone who made our Spring shows so successful and to the artists who created exceptional work⚡️⚡️⚡️

We are on summer break until September when we will return with shows by haylie jimenez Azadeh Hussaini David Jones Amay Kataria Abhishek Narula Green Garnet Press and more!

Last Saturday to see our June exhibitions!
⚡️Charlotte Briskin / Spontaneous Symmetry
⚡️Samuel Schwindt / Pleasure Puncture
⚡️Chris Reeves / Syllabus of Effects

Stop by this Saturday. 12-4 for your last chance to see these incredible shows! Special guest gallery artist Christine Forni will be there.

Join us during gallery hours Saturdays 12-4pm to see our fascinating June exhibitions
⚡️Chris Reeves / Syllabus of Effects
⚡️Charlotte Briskin / Spontaneous Symmetry
⚡️Samuel Schwindt / Pleasure Puncture

3839 W. Grand Chicago

Join us on Friday, June 5, 6-9pm for the opening reception of our June exhibitions:
⚡️Samuel Schwindt / Pleasure Puncture
In this exhibition, hedonism in material marries desire in culture. His sources are the dirt coatings his nostrils after a music fest, his past pained motocross competitions, his strained hands from stitching leather, his euphoria at q***r spaces in the night.

⚡️Chris Reeves / Syllabus of Effects
Syllabus of Effects shares its name with the title of 6 themed artists books Chris Reeves made in 2024 based on his love of syllabus creation and a desire to share and galvanize unruly pedagogy.

⚡️Charlotte Briskin / Spontaneous Symmetry
This exhibition connects the synchronicities of life, from microscopic structures to planetary phenomena, through the material exploration of textiles and handmade paper.

Last weekend to see our May exhibitions! Gallery hours Saturday 12-4pm

⚡️Stacey Lee Gee - ROTATOR
⚡️Michael Thompson - Separate Church and State
⚡️Bethany Cordero - The Plurality of Structure

3839 W Grand Ave Chicago

Opening Friday May 1, 6-9pm
Gallery hours Saturdays, 12-4pm

⚡️Stacey Lee Gee / ROTATOR
The word reads the same forwards and backwards, mirroring itself perfectly. Rotator performs rotation just by being read - form and meaning reflect each other.
⚡️Bethany Cordero / The Plurality of Structure
Work driven by material process as a way of thinking through impermanence, time and the malleability of identity.
⚡️Michael Thompson / Separate Church and State
Multimedia cobbled together from discarded, appropriated, manufactured, objects, images, both in and out of the public domain.

Opening May 1!

⚡️Bethany Cordero
The Pluralities of Structure
Sculpture driven by material process as a way of thinking through impermanence, time and the malleability of identity

⚡️Stacey Lee Gee
ROTATOR
A meditation on palindromes through installation

⚡️Michael Thompson
Church and State

Objects cobbled together from discarded, appropriated and manufactured images and materials

May 1-25, 2026
Opening reception : May 1, 6-9pm
Celebrate the reopening of Ignition projects⚡️