Alberto Giacometti, Buste d'homme, 1950. Private Collection.
Cover image: Reggie Burrows Hodges, Face the Music: Slow Simmer (detail), 2024. Courtesy the artist and Karma.
Apparitions presents the work of over twenty pioneering artists from across the last century whose interrogations of the human form and its fleeting presence have pushed boundaries of representation. Whether by dematerializing the body, imagining spirits, or making mirages, the artists on view conjure a hallucinatory realm—a liminal space between what appears and what vanishes.
Theaster Gates, Black Figure, Leaning But Water Resistant, 2017–20
© Theaster Gates.
Exhibited artists include Magdalena Abakanowicz, Huma Bhabha, McArthur Binion, Roger Brown, Jean Dubuffet, Theaster Gates, Alberto Giacometti, Ewan Gibbs, Ann Hamilton, Reggie Burrows Hodges, Rashid Johnson, Alex Katz, David Klamen, Jim Lutes, Ana Mendieta, Sandra Mujinga, Trevor Paglen, Naudline Pierre, Jaume Plensa, Susan Rothenberg, Mira Schor, Evelyn Statsinger, John Storrs, Kara Walker, and Wilmer Wilson IV.
Apparitions will be on view at GRAY Chicago (2044 W. Carroll Ave.) from April 25 through June 27, 2025. The exhibition will open with a reception 6 - 8 PM on Friday, April 25.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Female Figure, 1985–86
Burlap and resin
69 × 18 ½ × 14 inches (175.3 × 47 × 35.6 cm)
Huma Bhabha
Untitled, 2009
Ink and pastel on paper
16 ⅛ × 12 ¼ inches (41 × 31.1 cm)
Framed: 18 ¾ × 14 ⅞ × 1 ¼ inches (47.6 × 37.8 × 3.2 cm)
McArthur Binion
Ghost:Rhythms:3, 2025
Ink, oil paint stick and paper on board
48 × 72 × 2 ⅛ inches (121.9 × 182.9 × 5.4 cm)
Roger Brown
Town Full of People on the Way to Somewhere Else, 1988
Oil on canvas
48 × 72 inches (121.9 × 182.9 cm)
Jean Dubuffet
House in the Country, 1957
Oil on canvas
35 × 45 3/4 inches (89 × 116.5 cm)
Private Collection
Theaster Gates
Black Figure, Leaning But Water Resistant, 2017–20
Bronze, tarpaper, tar and sand with wood and concrete base
52 ¾ × 19 × 19 inches (134 × 48.3 × 48.3 cm)
Alberto Giacometti
Portrait of G. David Thompson, 1955
Oil on canvas
25 ⅜ × 19 ¾ inches (64.5 × 50.2 cm)
Framed: 35 × 29 × 2 inches (88.9 × 73.8 × 5.1 cm)
Private Collection
Ewan Gibbs
New York, 2016
Pencil and pinpricks on paper
Image: 10 ⅝ x 7 ⅞ inches (27 x 20 cm)
Sheet: 16 ½ x 11 ⅝ inches (42 x 29.7 cm)
Framed: 17 ½ × 15 × 1 ¼ inches (44.5 × 38.1 × 3.2 cm)
Reggie Burrows Hodges
Face the Music: Slow Simmer, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
50 × 40 inches (127 × 101.6 cm)
Framed: 51 1/2 × 41 1/2 × 3 inches (130.8 × 105.4 × 7.6 cm)
Rashid Johnson
Eugene's Hands (Seeing in the Dark Series), 1999
Van Dyke Brown print
16 ⅛ × 19 ¼ inches (41 × 48.9 cm)
Framed: 18 ½ × 21 ¾ × 1 ⅝ inches (47 × 55.2 × 4.1 cm)
Unique
Ana Mendieta
Untitled: Ixchell Series, 1977
Color photograph
20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Framed: 25 7/8 × 19 × 1 1/4 inches (65.7 × 48.3 × 3.2 cm)
Edition 17 of 20 + 4 APs
Trevor Paglen
Shadow (Corpus: Things that Exist Negatively) Adversarially Evolved Hallucination, 2017
Dye sublimation metal print
59 ⅝ × 47 ½ inches (151.4 × 120.7 cm)
Framed: 61 ½ × 49 ½ × 2 inches (156.2 × 125.7 × 5.1 cm)
Edition 1 of 5 + 2 APs
Naudline Pierre
Into the Deep Beyond, 2024
Oil on canvas tondo
18 × 42 inches (45.7 × 106.7 cm)
Jaume Plensa
Martina Silence, 2023
Black granite
73 ½ × 36 ½ × 27 ⅞ inches (187 × 93 × 71 cm)
Susan Rothenberg
Pontiac, 1979
Acrylic and Flashe on canvas
88 × 61 inches (223.5 × 154.9 cm)
Mira Schor
Veiled Mask (December 16, 1977), 1977
Bronze powder, dry pigment, ink and Japan Gold Size on rice paper; two-sided
22 ⅞ × 13 ⅞ inches (58.1 × 35.2 cm)
Framed: 22 ⅞ × 13 ⅞ × ¾ inches (58.1 × 35.2 × 1.9 cm)
John Storrs
Untitled (Man and Woman), 1917
Woodcut on paper
Image: 5 x 3 ¼ inches (12.7 x 8.3 cm)
Sheet: 11 ⅜ x 7 ⅝ inches (28.9 x 19.4 cm)
Framed: 14 ¾ × 12 ¾ × 1 ¼ inches (37.5 × 32.4 × 3.2 cm)
Edition 2 of 8
Kara Walker
Ten Opaque Micro-regressions, 2023
Ink and cut paper on paper
78 ½ × 82 ½ inches (199.4 × 209.6 cm)
Framed: 81 ½ × 85 ⅞ × 3 ¼ inches (207 × 218.1 × 8.3 cm)
Wilmer Wilson IV
Dream of the Box Breaking, 2024
Staples on wood
48 × 48 × 1 ¾ inches (121.9 × 121.9 × 4.4 cm)
