A sense of urban chaos is implicit within the construction of the surrounding gallery environment; this is not
an isolated white cube space, but one which remains connected to the studio and the streets — to the source of these artworks.
«Exemplary of [The Chicago Effect: Redefining the Middle's] strengths is a brief interlude in the middle of the main gallery marked by a stripe of grey paint that hangs on the walls and floor between two halves of the
white cube...
Isolated Fictions: A Reenactment, as the sub-show is titled, presents a provocative case study in the generative possibilities between art schools, small galleries, art centers, and other «middle men» of the art economy.»