Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Somewhere Behind Us, a HATCH Projects exhibition featuring works by Nora Chin, Andrea Coleman, and Erin Smego.
Somewhere Behind Us highlights the acts of casting aside formative influences by the exhibiting artists, as they came of age. What fragments will be found? What ideologies will remain intact? As individuals who are critically aware of their surrounding world and themselves, the artists break and discard binaries and other social constructs that were dictated by society to be true and absolute.
Nora Chin, Andrea Coleman, and Erin Smego use materials to reconsider personal and collective experiences to invoke new perspectives as they look forward. Family photographs become intuitive mosaics in the hands of Coleman, while Chin and Smego use clay and wood to unpack and process prescribed gender roles and a candy-coated, turbulent adolescence, respectively. Their works, however, thrive on carrying the heavy load of critical awareness to challenge cultural signifiers and bring levity to mutual respect and understanding.
Somewhere Behind Us is curated by Jamillah Hinson.