Jingqi Steinhiser

Hollow Castle

November 1st - December 6th

Jingqi Steinheiser’s paintings synthesize iconography from a fragmented childhood. Growing up in China as an only child to parents who were diplomats, she would live in Russia, Mongolia, and Korea before coming to the US where she would earn a BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA at Rhode Island School of Design. Jingqi’s fluctuating history is leaned into as she acts as the conductor of her paintings’ theatrical fairy tale motifs in a world filled with creatures and their belongings. References of old-timey cartoons are evident in animated compositions that appear to have been paused at the crescendo. A subtle nod to cubist influences are seen in her two-dimensional waves and flowers, with a backbone of surrealism, and perhaps Imagism, stemming from her Chicago years studying at SAIC. Jingqi’s magical worlds encourage open ended viewer interpretations through a somewhat loosely painted collage of her personal iconography and landscapes.

Albert Nagele

Recent Discoveries

November 1st - December 6th

Albert Nagele (1935-2018) was an American abstract painter who created large scale, hypnotic, dot pattern paintings with a style he self coined as “Abstract Pointillism.” Winning multiple awards while exhibiting at the Art Institute of Chicago, he had a healthy art career with multiple institutional exhibitions in the 1970s while having representation by Deson-Zaks Gallery. Nagele’s paintings imbue a static white noise that seems chaotic up close, yet orderly from a distance. Intricately painted using dots, often from a stencil similar to Lichtenstein’s comic book printing dot magnifications, Nagele folded a manufactured, pop-derived, technique into his color field abstractions.