BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//https://mckinleypark.news///NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.15// METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20261112T055455UTC-6208AMEVZ2@https://mckinleypark.news/ DTSTAMP:20261112T055455Z DESCRIPTION:View original art at the Long Habits Exhibition Opening from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday\, September 19\, 2026\, at Julius Caesar Galler y\, 3808 S. Ashland Ave.\, Chicago.\n'Motile' by Cameron Martin\, 2019\, A crylic on canvasLong habits presents works by Mike Cloud\, Michelle Grabne r\, Barbara Jenkins\, Judy Ledgerwood\, Madeleine Leplae\, Cameron Martin\ , Trey Rozell and Jonathan Worcester. It is  curated by MJ Lounsberry coin cides with Chicago Exhibition Week produced by Gertie.\n\nNothing repeats. The light changes\, the hand ages\, and pattern accrues.\nSome of that pa ttern is found. It arrives already made in textile and ornament and inheri ted symbol\, carrying use and belief that predate any individual mark. Som e of it is imposed\, an organizing decision laid over a situation that wil l not organize itself.\nEach artist here has spent years returning to a fo rm\, a mark\, a color\, a symbol\, a system. No repeated unit is identical to the one before it\, and the difference accumulates. That return is not a claim that the world is stable. Things rhyme closely enough to work wit h\, and a body of work built over decades holds together through the decis ion to keep going back.\nPattern works structurally in some of this\, thou ght carried out through color and seriality and the discipline of a unit t hat only registers once it appears again. In other work it is inherited ra ther than invented\, coded and symbolic\, carrying meaning that no single repetition contains. Elsewhere it is a rhythm kept mostly so that a break in it lands.\nRepetition does not fix anything in place\, and none of the work is asking it to. It offers a way to keep working toward an order that will not hold. Some habits run the length of a painting\, some the length of a career. Each gets made again tomorrow.\n\nMike Cloud (b. 1974\, Chic ago\, IL\; lives in Chicago) earned a BFA from the University of Illinois Chicago (2001) and an MFA from Yale University (2003). He is currently Ass ociate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Art \, Theory\, and Practice at Northwestern University. Cloud speaks openly a bout teachers who have influenced his practice\, including Mel Bochner\, P eter Halley\, Byron Kim\, Kerry James Marshall\, and Jessica Stockholder. Cloud’s solo and two-person exhibitions include Story Structure\, Pt. 2\, The Neubauer Collegium\, University of Chicago (with Nyeema Morgan\, 2026) \; Hammer Projects: Mike Cloud\, Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles (2026)\; Circ le Chat\, Corbett vs. Dempsey\, Chicago (2025)\; Called Ahead\, Fahrenheit Madrid (2024)\; The Myth of Education\, Reva and David Logan Center for t he Arts\, University of Chicago (2018)\; Bad Faith and Universal Technique \, Thomas Erben Gallery\, New York (2014)\; Systems\, Sheldon Museum of Ar t\, University of Nebraska\, Lincoln (2006)\; and Special Project: Mike Cl oud\, MoMA PS1\, New York (2005). He has also participated in group exhibi tions at Artists Space\, New York\; Xavier Hufkens\, Brussels\; Good Weath er\, Chicago\; White Columns\, New York\; and The Studio Museum in Harlem\ , New York. Cloud received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2024\, the Foundatio n for Contemporary Arts’ Richard Pousette-Dart Award in 2023\, and the Jul es Guerin Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome in 2023. His work i s also held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago\, the Metro politan Museum of Art\, New York\, and the Studio Museum in Harlem\, New Y ork.\nMichelle Grabner (b. 1962\, Oshkosh\, WI) Lives and works in Milwauk ee\, Chicago\, and Waupaca County\, WI as an artist\, writer and curator. She co-curated the 2014 Whitney Biennial and was the Artistic Director for the inaugural 2018 FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contempor ary Art. Her practice spans a variety of media including drawing\, paintin g\, and sculpture\, and finds a creative center in operating across platfo rms and towards community. Her work has been the subject of several nation al museum surveys. She is presently represented by James Cohan\, New York and Green Gallery\, Milwaukee\, among others. Grabner is the Crown Family Professor of Art and the Senior Chair of the Painting and Drawing Departme nt at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, where she has taught si nce 1996. She has also held teaching appointments at The University of Wis consin-Madison\, Cranbrook Academy of Art\; Milton Avery Graduate School o f Arts—Bard College\; Yale University School of Art\; and the Skowhegan Sc hool of Painting and Sculpture\, Maine.\nBarbara Jeanne Jenkins (b. 1978\, Trenton\, NJ) lives and works in Chicago\, IL. As an elementary art teach er in the Chicago Public Schools\, she has a radical daily morning routine that allows her to enter the studio each day before commuting to her scho ol. This routine is the substance that has led to her current practice. Sh e now spends weekends or days off from school organizing her canvases with oil sticks to manage her daily painting routine and create substantial wo rks of art. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of C hicago in 2012 and recently graduated from the American University\, Washi ngton DC with her MAT. She holds a BA from Northwestern Illinois Universit y\, 2007. Her most recent solo exhibition was Bird Show organized by Erin Toale. Group exhibitions include RE: CONNECT Teacher’s Art Exhibit\, C33 G allery\, Drawing On Patient Info\, 2025\, among others.\nJudy Ledgerwood ( b. 1959\, Brazil\, Indiana) received a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinn ati and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has he ld solo exhibitions at numerous venues\, including the Graham Foundation\, the Smart Museum of Art\, The Art Institute of Chicago\, and The Renaissa nce Society in Chicago\; Häusler Contemporary in Zurich\, Switzerland\, Mu nich\, Germany and Lustenau\, Austria\; and Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chica go. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art M useum\, Wisconsin\; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago\; the David Ows ley Museum of Art\, Ball State University\, Muncie\, Indiana\; the Univers ity of Kentucky Art Museum\, Lexington\, Kentucky\; and Museum of Arts and Design\, New York\, NY. She has received awards from the Driehaus Foundat ion\, Artadia\, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, and Illinois Art Council. Ledgerwood is professor emeritus at Northwestern University in Evanston\, Illinois\, where she served as Ch air of the Department of Art Theory and Practice. She lives and works betw een Chicago and Sawyer\, Michigan.\nMadeleine Leplae (b. 1994) received he r BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017 and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2025. She has exhibited in multip le group shows at Left Field along with Stowaway\, Main Projects\, Quarter s Gallery\, the Gentler International Drawing Space\, Care of Gallery\, An drew Refacz and a solo show at the Cleaner Gallery.\nCameron Martin (b. 19 70) received his BA from Brown University and continued his studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program. He has exhibited at venues including t he Whitney Museum\, Saint Louis Art Museum\, Columbus Museum of Art\, City Gallery (Wellington\, New Zealand)\, and Tel Aviv Museum. His work is inc luded in the public collections of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum\, Buffalo\, New York\; The Minneapolis Institute of Art\, Minneapolis\, Minnesota\; th e Saint Louis Art Museum\, St. Louis\, Missouri\; and The Whitney Museum o f American Art\, New York\, among others. Martin is a recipient of the Joh n Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2010)\, the Joan Mitche ll Foundation Fellowship (2008)\, and the Artists at Giverny Fellowship an d Residency (2001).\nTrey Rozell (b. 1996) is an artist from the American South who is currently living and working out of Chicago\, IL. His practic e is firmly rooted in painting\, but extends into sculpture\, performance\ , installation\, and animation. His work is made considering the perpetuat ed structures embedded within the history of painting\, Trey utilizes absu rdity\, repetition\, and gamesmanship as a means of inquiry into these age -old subjects with the hope to observe how the rhetoric of painting contin ues to survive and evolve today. Trey has had work exhibited at Twelve Ten Gallery (Chicago\, IL)\, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta\, G A)\, The End Project Space (Atlanta\, GA)\, Ruschman (Chicago\, IL)\, The Ionian Center for the Arts and Culture (Kefalonia\, GD) and recently recei ved his MFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.\n Jonathan Worcester lives and works in Chicago\, IL. He received his MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2 024\, and his BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2015. He is the Department al Specialist in the Applied Arts of Europe Department at the Art Institut e of Chicago and was awarded as a Teaching Fellow in Painting and Drawing at SAIC. In 2023 Worcester’s solo and two person exhibitions include Dead Reckoning 65 Grand\, Chicago (2025)\, Tempers Cleaner Gallery\, Chicago (2 024)\, along with group shows at Rockford University\, Secrist Beach\, Old Friends\, and Patient Info among others.\nJulius Caesar is an artist-run project space established in 2008 featuring an ever-evolving group of arti sts acts as co-directors. https://mckinleypark.news/events/full-calendar/e vent/29725-long-habits-exhibition-opening DTSTART:20260919T230000Z DTEND:20260920T020000Z LOCATION:Julius Caesar Gallery (3808 S Ashland Ave\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 6 0609) SUMMARY:Long Habits Exhibition Opening URL:https://mckinleypark.news/events/full-calendar/event/29725-long-habits- exhibition-opening END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR