Ignition project space

Join us on Friday, June 5, 6-9pm for the opening reception of our June exhibitions:
⚡️Samuel Schwindt / Pleasure Puncture
In this exhibition, hedonism in material marries desire in culture. His sources are the dirt coatings his nostrils after a music fest, his past pained motocross competitions, his strained hands from stitching leather, his euphoria at q***r spaces in the night.

⚡️Chris Reeves / Syllabus of Effects
Syllabus of Effects shares its name with the title of 6 themed artists books Chris Reeves made in 2024 based on his love of syllabus creation and a desire to share and galvanize unruly pedagogy.

⚡️Charlotte Briskin / Spontaneous Symmetry
This exhibition connects the synchronicities of life, from microscopic structures to planetary phenomena, through the material exploration of textiles and handmade paper.

Last weekend to see our May exhibitions! Gallery hours Saturday 12-4pm

⚡️Stacey Lee Gee - ROTATOR
⚡️Michael Thompson - Separate Church and State
⚡️Bethany Cordero - The Plurality of Structure

3839 W Grand Ave Chicago

Opening Friday May 1, 6-9pm
Gallery hours Saturdays, 12-4pm

⚡️Stacey Lee Gee / ROTATOR
The word reads the same forwards and backwards, mirroring itself perfectly. Rotator performs rotation just by being read - form and meaning reflect each other.
⚡️Bethany Cordero / The Plurality of Structure
Work driven by material process as a way of thinking through impermanence, time and the malleability of identity.
⚡️Michael Thompson / Separate Church and State
Multimedia cobbled together from discarded, appropriated, manufactured, objects, images, both in and out of the public domain.

Opening May 1!

⚡️Bethany Cordero
The Pluralities of Structure
Sculpture driven by material process as a way of thinking through impermanence, time and the malleability of identity

⚡️Stacey Lee Gee
ROTATOR
A meditation on palindromes through installation

⚡️Michael Thompson
Church and State

Objects cobbled together from discarded, appropriated and manufactured images and materials

May 1-25, 2026
Opening reception : May 1, 6-9pm
Celebrate the reopening of Ignition projects⚡️

The Ballad of Cocoon Baby, solo installation by Mariel Harari is now on view in our satellite space at Mana Contemporary. Message or email us to see it by appointment or come to the closing reception on Sunday May 18, 2-5pm

The Ballad of Cocoon Baby, installation by Mariel Harari

Opening this Saturday, April 26 from 2-10pm with the Mana open house in conjunction with Expo Chicago

Mana Contemporary, studio 421

Mariel Harari
The Ballad of Cocoon Baby (Part 1)

Ignition Satellite space
Mana Contemporary
April 23 - May 18

Opening /open house at Mana in conjunction with Expo Chicago
Saturday, April 26 2-10pm

The Ballad of Cocoon Baby (Part 1) is a new installation by Mariel Harari featuring sculpture, fiber, drawing and photo based works. This ongoing series considers ways to untangle what is nourishing in past and passed down experience, from what calcifies in memory to create holding patterns in and around us. The work follows the titular character as she breaks open to heal and build agency, by softening, rooting, adapting and learning from trees.

⚡️Saturday, December 7, 6-9pm⚡️
Join us for the closing reception of our November exhibitions and the Ignition 2024 season and artist talk
Last chance to see this exceptional work
⚡️Anthony Adcock / In Standstll
⚡️Melanie Brown / Driving my meat machine: a celebration
⚡️JohnClaud Ruder / Silver Tails

We are closed for Thanksgiving weekend, but please join us for the closing reception and artist talk for the 2024 year on Saturday, December 7 from 6-9pm!

Open this Sunday 12-4pm instead of Saturday with ! Meet Melanie and view our November exhibitions:
⚡️Melanie Brown / Driving my meat Machine, a celebration
⚡️Anthony Adcock / In Standstill
⚡️JohnClaud Ruder / Silver Tails