Art City September Receptions - Constellations, Emma Xhaxho, Annie Halpin

Schedule

Fri Sep 11 2026 at 05:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00
Location

Art City | Chicago, IL

Join us on Friday September 11th for the openings of two incredible solo shows and a new group exhibition, Constellations.
About this Event

OPENING: Solace, solo show by Annie Halpin

Annie Halpin’s Solace explores girlhood, healing, and body image in a series of oil paintings on canvas. A careful examination looking inward, the exhibition feels like seeing the artist’s own self-reflection in real time. Even when depicting friends in pairs, shared moments of contemporary commonplace activities, like painting nails and bedrotting, become introspective.


OPENING: Close to Pleasure, solo installation by Emma Xhaxho

Emma Xhaxho’s Close to Pleasure lives at the threshold of fantasy and reality. Hardware as fetish wear, dreamscapes as paintings, and inanimate objects as surrogates for the artist’s own body, Xhaxho embraces what some may consider lewd, reminding us that the line between indecent and intimate is razor thin. The works in Close to Pleasure are created with equal parts humor and seriousness, as the most significant moments in life tend to be.


OPENING: Constellations Curated Group Show

Constellations is a group exhibition exploring one of humanity's oldest obsessions — the sky. Spanning astronomy and astrology, wonder and dread, the works in this show map our collective need to find pattern and meaning in the vast, indifferent cosmos. From star charts to cosmic horror, Constellations asks what it means to look up.


Where is it happening?

Art City, 1400 North Halsted Street, Chicago, United States
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