Artist featured include: Academy Records Benjamin Zellmer Bellas Judith Brotman Ann Chen Laura Davis Meg Duguid Jason Dunda Andreas Fischer Charles Fogarty Jeffrey Grauel John Henley Andrew Holmquist Carol Jackson Kevin Jennings Larry Lee Jinn Bronwen Lee Steve Reber Daniel Schmid Mindy Rose Schwartz Curated by: Paul Hopkin Chicago redesigned itself after the Great Fire. That was just the first rebirth of its cultural scene. More recently, there was the grand fire that devastated the River North gallery district in 1989 that gave rise to dirtier, scrappier, more independent artist venues. Other fires, other afters. After always tries to be better. Sometimes we get impatient. We want better sooner. We want to redo the f****d up parts so the sewage doesn’t back up into our bathrooms. To fix that deeply, we have to clear away. The fires of our history were terrible accidents that devastated who and what was there. It's an entirely different beast that sets the blaze in defiance. Does the end justify the means? We hardly think so. No guarantee that our end will approximate our better intention, just as likely paving the undesired path.