February is celebrated at the Chicago Botanic Garden with the return of its Orchid Show. It is also celebrated with the opening at the end of the month with two art shows: Immersive Frida in the former Immersive van Gogh space and “An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman” in the Chicago Cultural Center.
The Orchid Show: Untamed
Opening February 12 in time for Valentine’s Day and hanging around in the Regenstein Center and greenhouses through March 27, 2022, the show features wild orchids and the what-if scenarios of orchids left to do their own thing in gardens or on estates.
For tickets and more information visit Chicago Botanic Garden
Immersive Frida Dream
Of course, the famed Mexican artist, Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón, sometimes referred to by her first name, sometimes by her last name is Frida Kalo.
Even though she had polio and then suffered throughout her life from chronic pain following an accident, in her short life (1907-1954), she became one of Mexico’s most renowned painters.
Now she is honored in several cities, including Chicago with “Immersive Frido Dream,” a digital exhibition, cum experience, that pulls visitors into her magical, half realism, half surrealism world seen in her memorable self-portraits and paintings that reflect Mexican culture and her views of gender and identity.
Immersive Frida runs Feb. 24 through May 28 at the Lighthouse ArtSpace that had Immersive van Gogh. The building is the Landmark Germania Club building in the Gold Coast neighborhood at 1536 N. Clark St., (108 W. Germania Pl) Chicago. For tickets and more information visit Chicago – Frida (immersive-frida.com)
“An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman.”
A multi-artist show by Leslie Baum, Diana Christiansen and Selina Trepp with Annie Morris, brings abstract combinations of natural and surreal forms. The show is at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St, Chicago, Feb. 26-Sept 4, 2022. While there, take a tour of this building’s amazing apaces. For more information visit City of Chicago :: Chicago Cultural Center.
Jodie Jacobs