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Please join Monique Meloche for an Instagram Live chat with EXPO CHGO ONLINE participating artist Kajahl on Friday, April 9th at 12pm CST. Tune in here: https://www.instagram.com/moniquemeloche/ Through painting, Kajahl resurrects objects that are lying dormant in historical archives. He endlessly scours and sifts through books, online images and visits museums in order to gather source material. He takes these finds from his excavations and hybridizes entities that eventually become grandiose figures. Although the characters he constructs belong to a multiplicity of time periods, locations and cultures, they foreground the forgotten past and reanimate minor artifacts of history into what amounts to a transformative assemblage. Kajahl's debuted his first solo exhibition, Royal Specter at moniquemeloche, Chicago in November 2020.

Please join Monique Meloche for an Instagram Live chat with EXPO CHGO ONLINE participating artist David Shrobe on Saturday, April 10th at 10am CST. Tune in here: https://www.instagram.com/moniquemeloche/ New York based artist David Shrobe creates multi-layered portraits and assemblage paintings made in part from everyday materials that he finds in multiple geographies, and especially from around his familial home. He disassembles furniture, separating wood from fabric and recombines them as supports for collage, painting, and drawing. Through these various modes of production his work brings notions of identity, history, and memory into question, while challenging conventions of classical portraiture. Shrobe produces new narratives, fragmented and nonlinear, that feel intimate and personal without being anchored to a specific time or place. Shrobe will debut his first solo exhibition at moniquemeloche, Chicago in September 2021.