Please join us for the closing event for our current visual gallery exhibition GUNK! from artist Darby Jack. It’s been an honor to have this work on our walls and we’re sorry to see it go. The artist will be painting over the exhibition live in the room, collectively ending the exhibition alongside friends and family. Doors are at 7pm, and the event is free.

Darby Jack is a visual artist, musician, and radiocaster whose recent series of drawings and paintings derive their inspiration from the abundant debris which litters their adopted home, Chicago. GUNK! features a collection of complex hand-drawn landscapes of jagged waste and impossible oceans of rhythmic debris that encourage playful discovery and considers the unexpected beauty in the remnant of human activity.

The Birmingham-born artist’s “trash paintings”, are part of a larger ongoing preoccupation with the city's discarded waste that took hold during the early months of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. As self-isolation mandates and quarantines shuttered the artists shared studio, they found themselves spending an inordinate amount of time traversing the now de-populated city streets. Devoid of people, one might find the urban landscape blearily empty. Instead, the artist discovered it was teeming with trash, waste, and a copious quantity of discarded objects left out or thrown out by sheltering humans.