Sarah Pater | PEONY AT NIGHT (MOON CLOCK, RELIEF) | 14 x 11 inches / 35 x 28 cm, oil and wax on linen over panel 2026.
Brandon J. Donahue-Shipp | BASKETBALL BLOOM (BUTYL BLADDER) | 30 x 30 x 5 inches / 76 x 76 x 12 cm, searched for and found basketballs, shoestrings, 2025
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Fair Hours:May 14 | 11 am – 5 pm, by invitation & Henry Street Settlement Gala, 5 – 8 pm
May 15 | 11 am – 7 pm
May 16 | 11 am – 7 pm
May 17 | 11 am – 6 pmPentimenti is thrilled to debut at Independent with a solo presentation of works by Dan Gunn.
Nostalgia carries with it a quiet awareness that time moves farther and faster than we would like. It is a feeling of dislocation from the things that once defined us.
Growing up in the Midwest, Dan Gunn often found the region reflecting upon its past in everyday objects, familiar but often defunct things shaped by place, labor, and memory. In his work, he explores how these representations of regional identity become both a psychological foundation and a mythological mirror. Gunn’s objects reflect the complex ways myth, memory, and longing shape how we understand the past, and how it continues to echo in the present. In this new series of works, Gunn engages the layered meanings of “interior,” the Midwestern heartland, the nation’s collective psyche, and the decorative domestic space. He intertwines these registers into an exploration of identity, memory, and cultural inheritance.Download PDF
Dan Gunn received an MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent solo exhibitions include KMAC Contemporary Art Museum (Louisville, KY), Monique Meloche Gallery (Chicago, IL), The University Club of Chicago (Chicago, IL), and Good Weather Gallery (North Little Rock, AR).
Gunn has participated in group exhibitions at (forthcoming) Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield, CT), Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH), Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO), Elmhurst Art Museum (Elmhurst, IL), the University of Missouri–Kansas City (Kansas City, MO), Elephant Gallery (Nashville, TN), University of Toledo (Toledo, OH), Western Exhibitions (Chicago, IL), Marine Contemporary (Santa Monica, CA), Art Los Angeles Contemporary (Los Angeles, CA), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) (Chicago, IL), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL), Lloyd Dobler Gallery (Chicago, IL), Loyola University Museum of Art (Chicago, IL), and the Lubeznik Center for the Arts (Michigan City, IN). He has been awarded residencies at the Wassaic Project (2021), University of Arkansas (2019), Anderson Ranch Arts Center (2018), Vermont Studio Center (2015), and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2012).
Gunn’s work has been reviewed in Frieze, Art in America, Artforum, Two Coats of Paint, Newcity Magazine, Artslant.com, New American Paintings, TimeOut Chicago, and the Chicago Tribune.
His work is held in the collections of the Mayo Clinic (Minneapolis, MN), KMAC Contemporary (Louisville, KY), TD Bank (New York, NY), DePaul University School of Music, Fidelity Investments (Chicago, IL), Joyce Foundation (Chicago, IL), and the Marciano Art Foundation (Los Angeles, CA), among others.
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