Unseen Currents, Sacred Grounds
Tulika Ladsariya
May 5 - 30, 2025
Reception: 5:00-8:00 p.m. Friday, May 16, 2025
work navigates the unseen forces that shape our connection to the earth—currents of memory, ecology, and devotion. Through a ritualistic practice of foraging, seed cultivation, and material transformation, she unearths the sacred resonance within the land. Working with ceramics—earth shaped by fire—her pieces embody cycles of rupture and renewal, permanence and impermanence.
In collaboration with the NEIU greenhouse, Ladsariya nurtures seeds as symbols of radical transformation, holding within them both ancestry and possibility. Cyanotypes (sunprints) further extend this dialogue, capturing traces of botanical forms and ephemeral gestures through the interplay of light and time. These collaged works, map an intuitive process of assemblage—where fragments of nature, history, and memory converge.
2024-2025 Season
Fall 2024
Angela Davis Fegan: "Better Than I Imagined"
Aug. 26-Sept. 30
Reception: 6:00-9:00 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30
"Better Than I Imagined" is a panoramic view of the shared, liminal consciousness of queer female relationships, self-made community, and the lasting reveries so crucial to the Black lesbian political imagination.
Nayeon Yang: "Inverse Proportion: Art As (Not) Labor"
Sept. 30-Oct. 25
Inverse Proportion: Art as (not) Labor realizes art practice as practical “work.” Yang discusses the inherited social framework that fails to recognize artists’ labor and their rights to get paid.
Colin Fleck: "Hell and High Water"
Nov. 1-29
"Hell and High Water" connects a storm from the artist's past with the cultural storms of today. Multifaceted in execution, the show contains paintings, drawings, prints and installation work.
Student Holiday Art Sale
Dec. 10-12
A sale of unique holiday gifts created by ŷϷ Art + Design students. All proceeds go directly to the students.
Spring 2025
NEIU Art + Design Faculty Exhibition
Jan. 21-Feb. 14
A Biennial showcasing the work of NEIU Art + Design Faculty across a diverse range of mediums.
Jeremy Carter and Jenny Halpern: "Shadow Between"
Curated by Dennissa Young
Feb. 24 -March 21
Displaying the visual language of two Chicago-based artists, this show leans into the themes of time, decay, intimacy and materiality as meaning.
Annual Art + Design Juried Student Exhibition
March 31-April 25
A juried exhibition of work in all media created by ŷϷ students with a declared major in Studio Art or Graphic Design or a declared minor in Interaction Design, Photography or Studio Art.
Tulika Ladsariya: "Unseen Currents, Sacred Grounds"
May 5-30
Using shadows to symbolize the unseen yet omnipresent, Ladsariya explores connections to the earth through ritualistic practice, ecology, and the material and mystical qualities of the land as a forager, immigrant, and nurturer.
Summer 2024
Sofía Fernández Díaz: "Casi visible"
June 6-June 27
Díaz’s latest exhibition explores how light, translucency and close observation can play with our perception, offering new ways to explore what is — or almost is — around us.
