Alex Chitty: Entirely opposite, with moments of overlap

January 21 – March 15, 2025

Opening and Gallery Talk: January 24, 5-7pm 

Alex Chitty’s exhibition brings together sculptural and photographic work spanning a decade of the artist’s practice, including a series of small tabletop sculptures referred to as “character studies” that echo the themes and motifs in a central triptych sculpture. Steeped in the histories and conventions of both art and design, Chitty’s work is fundamentally an inquiry into the formal and material bases of thought and experience.

Born in Miami, Chitty currently lives in Chicago and teaches at the Art Institute, where she received her MFA in 2008. Chitty’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Virginia Commonwealth University, the Elmhurst Art Museum, EXPO, Chicago, GAVLAK Gallery, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, among other venues. She is represented by Patron Gallery, Chicago.

Image: Alex Chitty, Figs break open of themselves (I, II, III), 2020-2022. Drafting table surface, walnut, oak, ebonized walnut, wing nuts, glass, digital print on fabric, pink ceramic vessels, stone grapes, stoneware “pretzels,” steel, brass nameplate, gold-plated chain, tape measure, digital print, color pencil, cast white bronze, cotton tape, powder coated steel. Image courtesy of the artist and Patron, Chicago. Photo by Evan Jenkins.