Will be selling shirts and pins as well as books and zines from Shadow Work Press at a booth for Staple + Stitch 2025. Staple + Stitch is an art book and print fair. A celebration and engagement with art, text, print, and paper hosted at...
William J. O’Brien’s newest publication, Ghosts Walk Differently: A Lyrical Apocalypse in 100 Questions, was published by Shadow Work Press in August 2025. This 80 page full color book moves between elegy and satire, posing one hundred haunting questions about survival, memory, and transformation in the...
The New York Times has published a second very short story about adolescence, toughness, femininity and football in their Tiny Love Stories series. See the article here. [gallery ids="3556"]...
William J. O'Brien: From Here to There Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park and Visual Arts Gallery at Governor's State University will be hosting a wide-ranging exhibition of work in their gallery space in University Park, IL. October 1 - November 14, 2025 Governor's State University 1 University Parkway, University Park,...
The New York Times published a 100 word story in their series Tiny Love Stories about being gay and broke in NYC the summer before 9/11. You can read it here. [gallery ids="3540"]...
Four new t-shirt designs and a restock of the book Ceramic Heads are available for purchase at the web store. [gallery ids="3520,3516,3517,3518,3519"]...
City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago Jul 05, 2025 - May 31, 2026 City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago is an intergenerational group exhibition that highlights Chicago’s essential, yet often underacknowledged, role in the story of queer art and activism....
Chicago Public Art Group and Special Service Area 61 Hyde Park has commissioned the studio to create a mural design for the 53rd and 55th street viaducts at Lake Park Avenue in Hyde Park. The Hyde Park viaduct panel restoration program features mural projects printed...
ANDREW RAFACZ is thrilled to begin the new year with Fringe Figure, a group exhibition of paintings, drawings, pastels, prints, textile and sculpture by twenty-one artists, in Galleries One & Two. The exhibition opens Friday, January 10th and continues through Saturday, February 22nd, 2025. Torso of an Archaic...
Making Space ALMA Art and Interiors 3636 South Iron Street, almaartandinteriors.com November 8 - February 28, 2025 Reception: Friday, November 8th, 12:00 am - 9:00 pm Making Space is an evocative exhibition that delves into the creative worlds of 113 Chicago artists. This extensive project, developed over six years, showcases the...