Claudia Wieser, “Untitled,” 2020, Wallpaper/Photo: the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen
1 Intersect Chicago (online) SOFA Chicago becomes Intersect: a virtual art fair that spans media—glass, ceramics, wood, fiber, jewelry, metal, sculpture. November 6-12
2 Claudia Wieser: Generations (Smart Museum of Art) Ceramics, sculptures and site-specific wallpapers informed by art history, design, architecture and pop culture. Through December 13
3 Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People (Wrightwood 659) Sixty years of practice shown in work by the first Indian architect to receive the Pritzker Prize. Through December 12
4 Luftwerk & Normal: Color Code (Elmhurst Art Museum) Visualizing SOS, the international distress signal, as colored flags instead of Morse code. Through November 3
5 A Space Problem: Organized by David Salkin (Elmhurst Art Museum) Mid-century furnishings and design objects coexist with work by local artists and architects. Through November 15
Greek-born Vasia Rigou is a Chicago-based art critic and pop culture journalist, largely on the subjects of contemporary art, design, and fashion. She moved to Chicago in 2013 to study Arts Journalism at the School of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC,) where she was awarded the New Artist Society Merit Scholarship. She grew up to appreciate art after years of carefully planned, culture-filled travel itineraries and museum-hopping around Europe with her family. During this time, she received a bachelor’s in English Literature, in her native Athens; a master’s in Media, in Nottingham, UK; and studied foreign languages—English, German, and Spanish at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Her writing—reviewing museum exhibitions, gallery shows, art fairs, fashion shows, and music festivals among others—has been published nationally and internationally both in print and online. In 2017, she founded and now serves as editor-in-chief of Rainbowed.—an independently published website focused on the visual and performing arts, digital media, and popular culture. When she’s not writing about art or looking at art—wine in hand, she keeps up with Chicago’s creative entrepreneurial and startup community, makes lists for pretty much everything, drinks immense amounts of coffee and takes cross-country road trips every chance she gets.
