April 4 - May 16, 2026
Regards, Chicago
Song
Regards gallery presents Song, a two-person exhibition between Margaret Crowley (DoVA MFA 2013) and Zander Raymond on view from April 4 - May 16.
From the gallery: "At the core of this joint exhibition by Margaret Crowley and Zander Raymond is the convergence of two key actions undertaken by both artists: observing and transforming. Or, better stated perhaps, it is the single joint formed by those two actions that defines the commitment each has made within their practices. By coming together as co-exhibitors, these artists are giving each other, as well as the viewers, an opportunity to engage the particular tensions that their respective approaches to observation and transformation reveal, thereby amplifying and complicating what each is after.
For Crowley’s and Raymond’s exhibition, looking / searching / observing creates a pathway of transformation toward belief / meaning / value, while simultaneously revealing that such a pathway is just as likely to be a falsehood. Thankfully, it doesn’t stop there. The real payoff that comes from engaging these questions in their work jointly is that it offers a divergence from what was once seen and what it may have become, moving us to uncover a new unified truth."
Margaret Crowley (b. 1987, Ottawa, Illinois) is a Chicago-based artist. Recent solo shows include Hazard at University Galleries at Illinois State University, and Birthday at the Epiphany Center for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at Ditch Projects in Springfield, Oregon; Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Chicago Artists Coalition; Cue Foundation, New York; and Área: Lugar de Proyectos, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Crowley has received the Jarislowsky Foundation’s Emerging Artist Award, which included a residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Canada. She has also been awarded multiple individual artist grants from the Illinois Arts Council and a residency at Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists. She received her M.F.A. from the University of Chicago, M.A. from Eastern Illinois University, and B.S. from Illinois State University.