Blackpuffin

Outside High and Low.
Zach Weber
Curated by Ayrika Hall.
Through April 27
Hours :
Th-Fr-Sat. 1pm to 5pm.

600 W Van Buren Chicago.

Blackpuffin Presents.

Outside High and Low.
Zachary Weber
April 5- April 27 , 2025 600 w van Buren st Chicago.

Curated by Ayrika Hall.

Throughout Outside High and Low, Zachary Weber examines the ontological conditions of form, wherein material asserts its agency through repetition, reconstruction, and continuous interplay. Weber’s work—assemblages of clay, gold luster, tarp, found objects, photography, canvas, paint, ceramic, and botanical fragments—operate in a space where their inherent qualities are continually interrogated, reformed, and reimagined. Many of these elements—drop cloths, rolled aluminum, tarps—emerge from industrial contexts as barrier materials, originally intended to conceal, shield, or be discarded. Recast as aesthetic agents, they disrupt distinctions between the provisional and the resolved, the functional and the expressive. Further, through probing infrastructures that traditionally impose order, such as grids, vessels,
and archives, Weber explores the generative tension between coherence and entropy, establishing a field in which process produces meaning as an ongoing condition rather than a fixed outcome. Through punctures, weavings, cutouts, and structural breaks, these works render their construction legible, allowing the process to register as part of their formal and conceptual integrity.

Opening April 5 - 5 to 9 pm.

In artist ’s large-scale watercolor paintings, monuments are in transition, broken or veiled. At their core, these works question how monuments participate in the construction and narratives of state power and supplant lived memories and histories.

On view this week in "Looks of Freedom III" at , a collaboration between For Freedoms and .co, Olujimi’s watercolor painting titled "When Monuments Fall" confronts manifestations of colonialism and their intersections with current conversations around the recontextualization, revision, and removal of monuments.

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Opening in 1 week at The Armory Show, For Freedoms in collaboration with blackpuffin.co presents its third visual essay, "Looks of Freedom III." A meditation on the power of time and language in shaping the present, the exhibition explores themes related to memory, reconciliation and agency.