Opening Reception Ticket for Pooja Pittie & Matthew Girson Exhibitions

Be the first to see these two amazing exhibitions!  Join us on Friday, January 22nd, 2027 from 7:00 - 9:00 pm for the Opening Reception of Undercurrent, featuring the work of Pooja Pittie in the Museum and of Still Life at 4:00 a.m., featuring work by Matthew Girson in the McCormick House.

Reception ticket includes meeting the featured artists, admission to the exhibitions, and light refreshments.  

Advance tickets are required.  Space is limited.

The exhibition Undercurrent highlights a decade of artwork by intuitive artist Pooja Pittie (b.1977 Mumbai) in her first major museum exhibition. The selection of works will survey Pittie’s creative energy in progress, while she adjusts her practice in search of balance, living with a progressive muscular disability. Undercurrent features 40-50 paintings, drawings, and fiber works by the Chicago-based artist that emphasize the artist’s determination to articulate the body-mind experience through material exploration.

Matthew Girson’s paintings invite us to see in diminishing light. At 4:00am colors dissolve into grey and our eyes struggle to discern detail and form. As in previous work, Matthew relies on restrained color and the physicality of the paint to reflect on loss, absence, and things we may be lacking as we look at brush marks on his painted surfaces. The marks and the surfaces are just as important to him as the subjects he paints, but the things he paints are not as important as the things he chooses not to include.