Good Naked (Chicago) is pleased to present:

LUCKY NUMBER / a 4-person exhibition of works by

Louis Block

Max Capus

Anita Lim

Alizah Sage

Hosted by Patient Info / 902 N Western Ave / Chicago IL 60622

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Good Naked (Chicago IL) is pleased to present LUCKY NUMBER, a 4-person exhibition opening Saturday, October 5th from 4-9pm.

The works in this exhibition turn about an inventory of forms. Accumulations of shapes are assembled and oriented within a range of methodical and intuitive systems. Each artist moves toward an interior architecture as they layer and connect materials, discovering a final image via repetition and alteration. Louis Block paints in oil on linen, stretched over irregularly shaped ellipses. While non-representational, the paintings begin with images culled from photographs and memory. Block’s underlying sketches are layered with color often to a point of obfuscation. Texture and material shifts emerge in this process as he works additively and subtractively with brushes, rags, and sandpaper. Max Capus pulls imagery more directly from photography and these sources remain present as he rearranges their structures in grid-like patterns, muting color, and altering pictures with moments of painterly disruptions that amplify humor and absurdity in personal encounters made public. Anita Lim builds modular structures via repetition, adopting a factory-like process that is slowed and made tactile via her hand-made approach. Lim’s forms and their iterations begin with an inherent boundlessness that is edited in presentation via site-specific installation. Alizah Sage works in dye on stitched canvas and silk to create compositions that reference landscape and architecture as well as an interior and exterior self. Liminal shadows and tactility of forms create space for reflection and pause amongst dynamic textures.

LUCKY NUMBER will be on view October 4 - November 16, 2024.

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Louis Block (b. 1995 Cambridge MA) lives and works in Brooklyn NY. He received his BFA at Maryland Institute College of Art. Recent exhibitions include Tappeto Volante Projects, Brooklyn; Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn; Below Grand, New York; and Mana Contemporary, Jersey City. He is a frequent contributor at the Brooklyn Rail including recent texts on Thomas Nozkowski, Ellsworth Kelly, and Lois Dodd.

Max Capus (b. 1999, New York NY) lives and works in Chicago IL. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibitions include Home to the Arts, Chicago; Paris London Hong Kong, Chicago; and Sulk Chicago, Chicago. Featured publications include Graphite Journal and Solo Show.

Anita Lim (b. 2001, Queens NY) lives and works in Chicago IL. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibitions include Offcut Studios, Chicago; and Site Galleries, Chicago.

Alizah Sage (b. 2001, Indianapolis IN) lives and works in Chicago IL. She received her BFA in Fibers from Indiana University, Bloomington. Recent exhibitions include Race Car Factory Indianapolis; Grunwald Gallery of Art, Bloomington; By Hand Gallery, Bloomington; Tangent Gallery, Bloomington; and FAR Gallery, Bloomington.