Trauma and Loss, Reflection and Hope
Selections from the Collection
Intuit invites you to reflect on our shared human experiences of suffering and loss—and the possibility of healing and hope—reflected in works made by artists across varied cultural and social contexts. Many of us have experienced hardships and trauma since March 2020, with the onset of the global pandemic and a climate of political divisiveness, set against a year of uprisings for justice for Black lives.
While these challenges continue, it is our hope to provide a space for each of us to be present, to sit with thoughts and emotions, to contemplate works of art, or to be inspired or fortified by the narratives of those who made them.
Featured in Trauma and Loss, Reflection and Hope are works by Eugene Andolsek, Emery Blagdon, Hiroyuki Doi, Lonnie Holley, Mr. Imagination, Kevin Sampson, Dr. Charles Smith, Betty Zakoian and Malcah Zeldis. Much about these artists and artworks on view is varied. These artists did not pursue a formal program of arts training or education but came to making work in a variety of ways—out of personal necessity; to process trauma or grief; to proclaim a message, after having a vision; or while in retirement. In Trauma and Loss, Reflection and Hope, we ask you to consider the artist as a person who made work in response to the times and circumstances in which they live or lived. Their different paths and the wide-ranging type of work they produced, over the course of their period of art making, reminds us that creativity is possible at any age, at any time, by anyone.
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Photos
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Programs
One Night Stand: Judith Scott
Wednesday, June 30, 2021, 6:30–7 p.m. central, Zoom Video Conference
Art After Work: Emery Blagdon
Thursday, July 15, 2021, 5–6 p.m. central, Zoom Video Conference
Art After Work: Hiroyuki Doi
Thursday, September 16, 2021, 5–6 p.m. central, Zoom Video Conference
One Night Stand: Lonnie Holley
Wednesday, September 29, 2021, 6:30–7 p.m. central, Zoom Video Conference
Art After Work: Judith Scott
Thursday, October 21, 2021, 5–6 p.m. central, Zoom Video Conference
One Night Stand: Kevin Sampson
Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 6:30–7 p.m. central, Zoom Video Conference
Press coverage
- Trauma and Loss, Reflection and Hope: Selections from the Collection, Chicago Gallery News
- Featured Exhibitions: Trauma and Loss, Reflection and Hope: Selections from the Collection, North American Reciprocal Museum Association
- Trauma and Loss, Reflection and Hope: Selections from the Collection, The Visualist
- The Important Complexity of Hope: A Review of Trauma and Loss, Reflection and Hope at Intuit, Newcity Art
- Chicago-area Museums Welcoming Back Patrons with an Array of Exhibits, Chicago Sun-Times