Upcoming Exhibition
OPENS MAY 14, 2021
6:30 - 9 pm
Our Two Scents
Works by Marvin Chan, Ari Norris, and HorseTooth
May 14th - June 26th
Opening reception March 14, 6:30 - 9 pm (mask required).
On view during gallery hours: Saturdays 12-3 pm
Marvin Chan
Southside Chicago native, Marvin Chan wears many hats including artist, drafter, carpenter, mechanic, welder, and fabricator, to name just a few. He has been drawing, dismantling, investigating, constructing, and repairing as well as destroying for as far back as he can remember. An autodidact learner, a compulsive mode to be completely self-reliant. Marvin currently works as a metals fabricator and when he isn’t working on a punch list of projects he's out in the world attempting to attain some form of catharsis, introspection, or simply existing. Chan received his BFA from SAIC and MFA from Northern Illinois University.
Ari Norris
Originally from Muskegon, Michigan, Ari Norris is a midwest-based artist working in the field of sculpture. Norris received an MA from Northern Illinois University in 2021, and has exhibited in Chicago at David Salkin Creative, Baby Blue Gallery, the 75th Rockford Midwestern Biennial in Rockford, Illinois, the Midwest Sculpture Exhibition in Kokomo, Indiana, and other locations across Michigan, New York, Florida, and Texas.
HorseTooth
HorseTooth (HT) is a lone starry-eyed dreamer, a curious cowboy that sought to escape the constraints, complacency, and conservative landscape that is west Texas. HT exists on the threshold of our temporal world and the surreal hallucination that is their sketchbook. They work itinerantly often as a welder, a tattoo artist, muralist, as well as various temporary and seasonal positions, often finding themselves making art while on job sites or borrowing a friend's workshop. Constantly on the move and rarely calling any one place home, but if they could be found, stationary, for a moment, it would often be lurking around freight yards in the Big Sleazy. They find people weird and feel most at peace with an industrial crayon in hand on a cold steel canvas, cooking curry on a camp stove, and buying scratchers. Following an unpaved path and without a traditional education, HT owes their lessons from folks who were generous with their time and knowledge that they encountered along the way.
6:30 - 9 pm
Our Two Scents
Works by Marvin Chan, Ari Norris, and HorseTooth
May 14th - June 26th
Opening reception March 14, 6:30 - 9 pm (mask required).
On view during gallery hours: Saturdays 12-3 pm
Marvin Chan
Southside Chicago native, Marvin Chan wears many hats including artist, drafter, carpenter, mechanic, welder, and fabricator, to name just a few. He has been drawing, dismantling, investigating, constructing, and repairing as well as destroying for as far back as he can remember. An autodidact learner, a compulsive mode to be completely self-reliant. Marvin currently works as a metals fabricator and when he isn’t working on a punch list of projects he's out in the world attempting to attain some form of catharsis, introspection, or simply existing. Chan received his BFA from SAIC and MFA from Northern Illinois University.
Ari Norris
Originally from Muskegon, Michigan, Ari Norris is a midwest-based artist working in the field of sculpture. Norris received an MA from Northern Illinois University in 2021, and has exhibited in Chicago at David Salkin Creative, Baby Blue Gallery, the 75th Rockford Midwestern Biennial in Rockford, Illinois, the Midwest Sculpture Exhibition in Kokomo, Indiana, and other locations across Michigan, New York, Florida, and Texas.
HorseTooth
HorseTooth (HT) is a lone starry-eyed dreamer, a curious cowboy that sought to escape the constraints, complacency, and conservative landscape that is west Texas. HT exists on the threshold of our temporal world and the surreal hallucination that is their sketchbook. They work itinerantly often as a welder, a tattoo artist, muralist, as well as various temporary and seasonal positions, often finding themselves making art while on job sites or borrowing a friend's workshop. Constantly on the move and rarely calling any one place home, but if they could be found, stationary, for a moment, it would often be lurking around freight yards in the Big Sleazy. They find people weird and feel most at peace with an industrial crayon in hand on a cold steel canvas, cooking curry on a camp stove, and buying scratchers. Following an unpaved path and without a traditional education, HT owes their lessons from folks who were generous with their time and knowledge that they encountered along the way.
Past Exhibitions
October 2017-present
Projects
Artists Run Chicago 2.0 | Hyde Park Art Center | September 1 - November 20, 2020
Cleaner Gallery + Projects is proud to exhibit work alongside fifty artist-run spaces and organizations that fuel Chicago’s independent art scene in the exhibition Artists Run Chicago 2.0 Organized by Noah Hanna and Allison Peters Quinn with contributions from Max Guy and Andi Crist of Hyde Park Art Center. Logo provided by JNL design, Chicago.
Featuring: 062, 4th Ward Project Space, 65Grand, ACRE Projects, Adds Donna, AMFM, Annas, Apparatus Projects, Bad At Sports, Blanc Gallery, boundary,Chicago Art Department, Chuquimarca, Cleaner Gallery + Projects, Clutch, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Comfort Station, Compound Yellow, D Gallery, Devening Projects, Document, Experimental Sound Studio, F4F, The Franklin, Heaven Gallery, Iceberg Projects, Ignition Project Space, Julius Caesar, Lawrence and Clark, LVL3, Mujeres Mutantes, Ohklahomo, The Nightingale Cinema, Practise, Prairie, Roman Susan, Roots & Culture, Rootwork Gallery, The Silver Room, Slow, The Suburban, Sweet Water Foundation, table, Terrain Exhibitions, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Trunk Show, TRQPITECA, VGA Gallery, Wedge Projects, and Western Pole.
Cleaner Gallery + Projects exhibited work by Remy Bordas + Olivia Jade Juarez, Emma Bilyeu, Veronica Giraldo, Jonathan Worcester, Bradley Simmons, Marie Baldwin, Nina Rose +Pete Pasquale, Danny Epstein, Allen Moore, Marcy Thomas-Burns, and Ryan Burns.
Featuring: 062, 4th Ward Project Space, 65Grand, ACRE Projects, Adds Donna, AMFM, Annas, Apparatus Projects, Bad At Sports, Blanc Gallery, boundary,Chicago Art Department, Chuquimarca, Cleaner Gallery + Projects, Clutch, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Comfort Station, Compound Yellow, D Gallery, Devening Projects, Document, Experimental Sound Studio, F4F, The Franklin, Heaven Gallery, Iceberg Projects, Ignition Project Space, Julius Caesar, Lawrence and Clark, LVL3, Mujeres Mutantes, Ohklahomo, The Nightingale Cinema, Practise, Prairie, Roman Susan, Roots & Culture, Rootwork Gallery, The Silver Room, Slow, The Suburban, Sweet Water Foundation, table, Terrain Exhibitions, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Trunk Show, TRQPITECA, VGA Gallery, Wedge Projects, and Western Pole.
Cleaner Gallery + Projects exhibited work by Remy Bordas + Olivia Jade Juarez, Emma Bilyeu, Veronica Giraldo, Jonathan Worcester, Bradley Simmons, Marie Baldwin, Nina Rose +Pete Pasquale, Danny Epstein, Allen Moore, Marcy Thomas-Burns, and Ryan Burns.
Autotelic Studios
January 2016-October 2017
Chicago-based artist And Crist founded Autotelic Studios in 2010. Autotelic served as a nonprofit arts organization that offered affordable, alternative workspaces and exhibitions from 2010 until 2017. Ryan Burns (director of Cleaner Gallery) began curating shows at Autotelic Studios in 2016. Below are the exhibitions curated under his direction.
Cleaner Gallery History
Autotelic Studios was established as a 35 sq ft window gallery in the storefront window of 1856 N Richmond St. in Humboldt Park, Chicago. Chicago-based artist Andi Crist founded Autotelic Studios in 2010. Autotelic served as a nonprofit arts organization that offered affordable, alternative workspaces and exhibitions from 2010 until 2017. Ryan Burns (director of Cleaner Gallery) began curating shows at Autotelic Studios in 2016. Burns took over ownership of the gallery in 2017, initially naming it Night Light Gallery + Studios. In 2020, Burns renamed the gallery Cleaner Gallery + Projects after remodeling the studios and building out the gallery to 235 sq ft, in order to expand gallery programming and allow for two-person exhibitions.
The gallery focuses primarily on painting, sculpture, and installation, exhibiting emerging and mid-career artists across the midwest. Cleaner Gallery is owned and operated by Chicago artist Ryan Burns.
Autotelic Studios was established as a 35 sq ft window gallery in the storefront window of 1856 N Richmond St. in Humboldt Park, Chicago. Chicago-based artist Andi Crist founded Autotelic Studios in 2010. Autotelic served as a nonprofit arts organization that offered affordable, alternative workspaces and exhibitions from 2010 until 2017. Ryan Burns (director of Cleaner Gallery) began curating shows at Autotelic Studios in 2016. Burns took over ownership of the gallery in 2017, initially naming it Night Light Gallery + Studios. In 2020, Burns renamed the gallery Cleaner Gallery + Projects after remodeling the studios and building out the gallery to 235 sq ft, in order to expand gallery programming and allow for two-person exhibitions.
The gallery focuses primarily on painting, sculpture, and installation, exhibiting emerging and mid-career artists across the midwest. Cleaner Gallery is owned and operated by Chicago artist Ryan Burns.
Cleaner Gallery
1856 N Richmond St.
Chicago, IL 60647
cleanergallery@gmail.com
Gallery Hours
Saturday 12- 3 PM or by appointment only.
Please wear a mask and practice safe social distancing during your visit.
We can only allow groups of 5 in the gallery at a time.
1856 N Richmond St.
Chicago, IL 60647
cleanergallery@gmail.com
Gallery Hours
Saturday 12- 3 PM or by appointment only.
Please wear a mask and practice safe social distancing during your visit.
We can only allow groups of 5 in the gallery at a time.
Press
"Torrential Hag" at Cleaner Gallery + Projects | November 26, 2020 | Sixty Inches from the Center
Christian Campos "Fruitless" at Cleaner Gallery + Projects | October 20, 2021 | Chicago Artist Writers
Our favorite things for fall arts, part two: Visual arts and architecture highlights break us out of our screen life. | October 8, 2020 | Chicago Reader
Christian Campos "Fruitless" at Cleaner Gallery + Projects | October 20, 2021 | Chicago Artist Writers
Our favorite things for fall arts, part two: Visual arts and architecture highlights break us out of our screen life. | October 8, 2020 | Chicago Reader
