Christina Nafziger

Create! Magazine • 13th April 2021

New Works by Martine Johanna at Hashimoto Contemporary

Martine Johanna’s subjects appear to be in alien landscapes, settings that are absent of identifying features or realistic elements to ground them. Instead, the viewers are given the space to absorb and take in the artist’s ethereal scenery that she...

Sixty Inches From Center • 9th April 2021

Review: 36° 15’ 43” N 29° 59’ 14” E at Goldfinch Gallery

Texture as memory, as language, as impression of thought and purpose; this is what is brought forth onto and within the imprints on the surface of objects made by SaraNoa Mark. Tactile and intricate, the artist’s mark making oftentimes reads like...

Sixty Inches From Center • 2nd December 2020

Fantasy of a Fantasy - A Review of Kajahl: "Royal Specter" at Monique Meloche

Monique Meloche’s exhibition Royal Specter, featuring work by the artist Kajahl, is in every aspect a museum-quality exhibition. I am not merely referencing the historically traditional and representational style of Kajahl’s paintings (that is to say,...

Sixty Inches From Center • 30th October 2020

Out of Time by Cass Davis at Aspect/Ratio Gallery

The exhibition Out of Time by Cass Davis is an investigation of personal history, collective history, and gendered violence. The work oscillates between soft/tactile, and ghostly/alarming. Rooted in imagery that is (for better or for worse) deeply...

Newcity Art • 26th October 2020

Continuously Becoming: A Review of Nine Lives at the Renaissance Society

I thought I knew what to expect when entering “Nine Lives” at The Renaissance Society, one exhibition of many that have opened around the country as part of the Feminist Art Coalition. I looked forward to seeing a collection of works that were by all...

Newcity Art • 17th February 2020

Ignoring the Male Gaze: A Review of Female Trouble at Western Exhibitions

Each artist in “Female Trouble” takes the once-tired subject of the female figure and gives it new life, as each piece strays from the traditional female nude in ways that are subtle at times, and other times louder than a bomb. Co-organized by Elijah...

Newcity Art • 22nd January 2020

Contending With the Object: A Review of Tracing Faults at Chicago Artists Coalition

Like many of the exhibitions at Chicago Artist Coalition, “Tracing Faults” requires time to be spent with each piece, and a bit more context. One thing you can always expect from CAC’s Hatch Residency exhibitions is for the artwork to include...

Newcity Art • 12th December 2019

A Tender and Strange Landscape: A Review of Elliot Ross at Filter Photo

The story in Elliot Ross’ solo exhibition at Filter Space: a selection of photographs from his tender and timely series “American Backyard,” is an unfolding narrative of gorgeous and softly surreal visuals of everyday life around the border between...

Create! Magazine • 3rd October 2019

10 (+1) Highlights from Expo Chicago 2019

Claire Oliver Gallery, located in New York, showcased the exhibition Upending the Narrative, which included the work of Bisa Butler and Leonardo Benzant. Claire Oliver Gallery explains that the two artists “create detailed and sumptuous works of art...

Feature Shoot • 8th April 2019

An Exhibition of Portrait Photos with a Surreal Twist

In conjunction with the Fourth Annual Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards, United Photo Industries (UPI) in Brooklyn, NY is showcasing the work of two awardees: Amelia Satzger and Lauren Menzies. These two artists were selected by Laura...

Create! Magazine • 28th October 2018

10 Highlights From EXPO Chicago

Although I am originally from the midwest, this year’s EXPO Chicago was my first time attending the international art fair. Having lived elsewhere for the past several years, and having visited a variety of different art fairs and festivals while...

Sixty Inches From Center • 20th September 2018

“Leaf by Leaf” at the Chicago Artist Coalition

How does our environment affect our cultural memory and identity? What relationship does geography have with power and how does it affect diasporic communities? HATCH Project exhibition “Leaf by Leaf” at the Chicago Artist Coalition investigates these...

THE SEEN | Chicago's International Online Journal • 7th June 2018

EXPANDING NARRATIVES: THE FIGURE AND THE GROUND // SMART MUSEUM OF ART

In this intimate review of Expanding Narratives: The Figure and the Ground at the Smart Museum of Art, we will walk as ‘figure’ throughout the exhibition, ‘ground,’ exploring these two terms in not only the most literal sense—meaning through portraits...

Sixty Inches From Center • 29th May 2018

‘Body As Image’ Exhibition at Chicago Artists Coalition

The ‘Body As Image’ exhibition featuring the work of Kioto Aoki, Colleen Keihm, and Darryl DeAngelo Terrell creates a space in which black identity and body politics are simultaneously explored within a historical context through the literal lens of...

Sixty Inches From Center • 1st May 2018

Performing Revolutionary: Art, Action, Activism by Nicole Garneau

Artist and activist Nicole Garneau’s new book Performing Revolutionary: Art, Action, Activism takes you on an intimate journey through her project UPRISING, a series of performances that took place once a month for five years. Defining her UPRISINGs...

Sixty Inches From Center • 14th February 2018

Review: “Woman With A Camera” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

The single room that held the exhibition provided a perfect amount of breathing room while allowing the viewer to become immersed in the photographs, both as a collection and as individual pieces. The works were shown in a non-linear, almost...

Create! Magazine • 29th November 2017

Top 10 Highlights at the Chicago Art Book Fair 2017

During November 16-19, Chicago hosted its first annual Chicago Art Book Fair, featuring over 100 independent publishers, small presses, comic and zine-makers, printmakers, and more. Taking over two floors of the stunning Chicago Athletic Association...

ArtMaze Magazine • 1st September 2017

Faux Realities by Signe Pierce

In the short time since its inception in 2015, Annka Kultys Gallery has brought thought-provoking exhibitions to East London that have generated a dialogue surrounding new, digital techniques being utilized by contemporary artists. Its June exhibition...

ArtMaze Magazine • 5th April 2017

The Other Art Fair, Event Review (London, 2017)

This past weekend had all kinds of talented artists at The Other Art Fair showing photography, painting, fibre art, drawing, installation art, and even interactive sculpture. As soon as you walk into the space, you are met with welcoming artists who...

The Arts Beacon • 30th March 2016

In Sight at Eye Lounge

The exhibition, In Sight: Ekphrastic Collaboration between Eye Lounge and Four Chambers Press, is a force be reckoned with. It is a precious collection of intimate connections between art and writing, each piece unique in its own right. The exhibition...