Michi Meko, The Big Mental Pause, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim.
In Chicago for Expo? Don’t Miss These 12 Must-See Exhibitions
Michi Meko’s textured abstractions emerge from a disciplined material practice—using just five elements to build layered topographies that pulse with ecological and historical memory. Through acrylic, aerosol, oil pastel, colored pencil, and gold leaf, the artist crafts surfaces that shimmer and shift, evoking the tension between natural beauty and human impact. Each mark is both meditative and insurgent. With references to signal fires and Southern landscapes, Meko’s process becomes a form of cartography—mapping ancestral routes and the psychic terrain of the American South.
On view through May 31, 2025.
