Lori Waxman

Columnist at Chicago Tribune

Contributor at Hyperallergic

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Yalin Zhao turns insomnia into art

6 days ago | chicagoreader.com | Lori Waxman

In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish themselves professionally, or just wanting feedback for a secret hobby. For this iteration, Waxman reviewed work made by Chicago artist Yalin Zhao.
Must love dogs - Chicago Reader

3 weeks ago | chicagoreader.com | Lori Waxman

In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish themselves professionally, or just wanting feedback for a secret hobby. For this iteration, Waxman reviewed work made by Muchen Wang. Muchen WangCan a person love hot dogs and also real dogs? Muchen Wang, a big-hearted artist from Zhengzhou, a small city in central China, most certainly does.
Xiaohan Jiang’s plaintive pastoral landscapes

3 weeks ago | chicagoreader.com | Lori Waxman

In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish themselves professionally, or just wanting feedback for a secret hobby. For this iteration, Waxman reviewed work made by Xiaohan Jiang. Xiaohan JiangDoes Xiaohan Jiang dream of horses? Her paintings surely do.
Artists’ Monuments to the Great Migration

4 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Lori Waxman

CHICAGO — During the Great Migration, more than six million Black people moved to the North and West of the United States, driven to escape the racial violence and oppression of the Jim Crow South. It stands to reason that artworks exploring such a monumental exodus might themselves take on immense forms. Two opportunities to explore this convergence are currently on view in Chicago art institutions.
Woven Being Interweaves the Complexities of Native Art and Life

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Lori Waxman

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. EVANSTON, ILLINOIS — The single greatest collage I have ever seen is by Frank Big Bear, a member of the White Earth Ojibwe tribe. “The Walker Collage, Multiverse #10” stretches more than 30 feet wide and includes cut-out images of everything.
Review: ‘Materialities’ at the Driehaus Museum puts new Chicago art in an old Chicago mansion

1 month ago | chicagotribune.com | Lori Waxman

I really dig house museums. They’re like historical fiction rendered as physical space, a portal into the lives of other eras, made newly accessible across barriers of time, race, class, gender and other limitations. Sir John Soane’s Museum, a curiosities-stuffed townhouse in London, includes an Egyptian sarcophagus around which its owner used to throw parties. The Ulysses S. Grant Home in Galena has no electricity or indoor plumbing, and plenty of hand-cranked kitchen tools on view.
Zombie choreography

1 month ago | chicagoreader.com | Lori Waxman

In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish themselves professionally, or just wanting feedback for a secret hobby. For this iteration, Waxman reviewed work made by Chorong Yang. Chorong YangThose completely spaced-out folks you see on their commute, at work behind a counter, anywhere really, they give me the creeps.
An ode to labor - Chicago Reader

2 months ago | chicagoreader.com | Lori Waxman

In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish themselves professionally, or just wanting feedback for a secret hobby. For this iteration, Waxman reviewed work made by artist jinseok choi. jinseok choiMost of us are woefully ignorant of who exactly builds all the stuff we depend on in our daily lives.
Review: In ‘Project a Black Planet’ at the Art Institute, artists from all over expand on the idea of Pan-Africanism

2 months ago | chicagotribune.com | Lori Waxman

How to say “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica,” an ambitious, magnificent, jam-packed survey currently on view at the Art Institute? Put the stress on the first syllable and you have a noun meaning collaborative undertaking; put it on the second and you get a verb denoting the promotion of a particular view. Both are apropos. So, too, are the tracks from Public Enemy’s 1990 album “Fear of a Black Planet” that might be playing in your head.
The future according to Yuwen Huang

Feb 7, 2025 | chicagoreader.com | Lori Waxman

In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish themselves professionally, or just wanting feedback for a secret hobby. For this iteration, Waxman reviewed work made by local artist Yuwen Huang. Yuwen HuangIn the future, which is pretty much nearly here, artists, among others, will need to be critically fluent in the ways of advanced technology.