We are thrilled to present our May 2025 exhibit featuring the Afrofuturist/Pop works of Chicago-based artist Steve Bravo!
With POPJECTS, Steve redefines "pop" as an expressive and layered form of storytelling — mythic, bodily, and emotional. His sculptures and visuals shift between familiarity and iconic grandeur, offering playful yet profound explorations of pop imagery transformed into portals of feeling, memory, and myth.
Join us the evening of Saturday, May 3, 6-8pm for an opening reception to meet the artist and groove to a live set by DJ Sean Doe while you check out the art!
POPJECTS
New Works by Steve Bravo
Presented by POPTOYPOP
May 3-June 1, 2025
Open 10am-6pm Daily
Opening Reception
Saturday, May 3, 6-8pm
with a live set by DJ Sean Doe
Free • All Ages
About the Artist
Steve Bravo, part of the creative group POPTOYPOP, brings over 15 years of art direction in advertising and the toy industry, visual narratives for brands like Pokémon, Disney, Nintendo, Nike, and Bacardi, and is notably featured in EA Sports Need For Speed Unbound. His vibrant works explore Afrofuturism, pop culture, vintage fashion, hip hop, and Black excellence. Inspired by Jack Kirby, Kerry James Marshall, Pose MSK, and designers Finn Juhl, Dieter Rams, and Verner Panton, Steve’s work in POPJECTS reimagines pop art as emotive, iconic, and monumental.
@steve_bravo @djseandoe
We are thrilled to present our May 2025 exhibit featuring the Afrofuturist/Pop works of Chicago-based artist Steve Bravo!
With POPJECTS, Steve redefines "pop" as an expressive and layered form of storytelling — mythic, bodily, and emotional. His sculptures and visuals shift between familiarity and iconic grandeur, offering playful yet profound explorations of pop imagery transformed into portals of feeling, memory, and myth.
Join us the evening of Saturday, May 3, 6-8pm for an opening reception to meet the artist and groove to a live set by DJ Sean Doe while you check out the art!
POPJECTS
New Works by Steve Bravo
Presented by POPTOYPOP
May 3-June 1, 2025
Open 10am-6pm Daily
Opening Reception
Saturday, May 3, 6-8pm
with a live set by DJ Sean Doe
Free • All Ages
About the Artist
Steve Bravo, part of the creative group POPTOYPOP, brings over 15 years of art direction in advertising and the toy industry, visual narratives for brands like Pokémon, Disney, Nintendo, Nike, and Bacardi, and is notably featured in EA Sports Need For Speed Unbound. His vibrant works explore Afrofuturism, pop culture, vintage fashion, hip hop, and Black excellence. Inspired by Jack Kirby, Kerry James Marshall, Pose MSK, and designers Finn Juhl, Dieter Rams, and Verner Panton, Steve’s work in POPJECTS reimagines pop art as emotive, iconic, and monumental.
Are you EGGcited for 4/20?
This year, Easter and 4/20 collide, and the good folks behind Egg Prize couldn’t let the occasion pass without something special. So, they brought together some of Chicago’s most talented artists to transform egg-shaped canvases into a one-of-a-kind collection of artwork. Come by, check out the art, and, of course, get
yourself an egg.
Join us Sunday, April 20, 11am-6pm for the opening reception...with a live set by DJ Sean Doe from 2 to 4pm! Exhibit continues through May 25th.
There will not be an online preview for this exhibit, however, our Gallery Previews email list members will get notified first when online sales are open. Sign up at previews.rotofugi.com
Eggstravaganza!
A Group Art Show presented by Egg Prize
April 20-May 25, 2025
Open 10am-6pm Daily
Opening Reception
Sunday, April 20, 11am-6pm with a live set by DJ Sean Doe, 2-4pm
All Ages • Free
A massive thank you to Egg Prize for organizing this exhibit and, of course, to all the artists that made this possible. Give em a follow (Instagram):
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@bird_milk_ •
@buwanbun •
@vandamone •
@davidkail •
@d_arloff •
@diskeuno •
@dome_chicago •
@98tides •
@notsopunk81 •
@fab_erre_pe •
@fugscreens •
@gohomejerome •
@g00senek •
@hinkstink •
@erikrhymeswell •
@jameseastwood •
@jpak4ever •
@le.panther •
@dreamit_makeit_studios •
@itsmilkbreath •
@moshershow •
@n.susta.art •
@virafuentes_art •
@nakedgooseart •
@nambopaints •
@nobadfruit •
@ocean_muerto •
@pabsprints •
@_pennypinch_ •
@chicago_poncho •
@pvper.plain •
@ramiro_arte_ •
@roiz_tm •
@shawnimals •
@sosa_theartist •
@squeakstarzula •
@sunnieskiez •
@inkedbytragiiccc
About the Curator
Egg Prize (@eggprize) is a custom vending machine that dispenses egg shaped capsules filled with original pieces of art made directly by an artist.
Making art accessible to all is what Egg Prize stands for. Whether you are an art buyer or an art creator, Egg Prize provides an easy opportunity for anyone to get involved with the artist community and experience the joys of art.
While the main Egg Prize machines are huge temporary installations, Egg Prize installed their first mini Egg Prize machine in Rotofugi in November 2024.
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Chicago-based artist and curator Aaron Robert Baker creates beautiful emotionally resonant works inspired by everyday objects. His new solo exhibit, "Burn After Feeling," opens on Saturday, April 5 and features a beautiful collection of new works as well as a first-time peek into the artist's sketchbooks!
Works will be available to purchase first by members of our Gallery Previews email list. Sign up at previews.rotofugi.com
Join us April 5, 6-8pm, for the opening reception to meet Aaron and view the works in person while grooving to a live set by DJ Sean Doe!
Burn After Feeling
New Works by Aaron Robert Baker
April 5-27, 2025
Open 10am-6pm Daily
Opening Reception
Saturday, April 5, 6-8pm
Free, All Ages
Artist Statement
My work explores the symmetry between beauty and awkwardness, nature and artifice, happiness and despair, the pleasant and the pathetic. Transformation and anthropomorphization interest me, as does our ability to turn any combination of shapes into a reflection of ourselves and our own humanity.
I enjoy whimsy and existential unease and like to depict a world where architectural forms and anthropomorphic objects express a human vulnerability. My characters lament, but also embrace, the fleeting nature of life.
In my drawings, structures liquefy, faces emerge from brick and mortar and candles take on expressions of agony, joy or contemplation. I use buildings, flames and organic forms to explore impermanence, identity and emotional expression.
"Burn After Feeling" is a celebration of the role that drawing plays in my life. It has been my life-long companion, my safe space, my antagonist and my greatest strategy for making sense of, and ultimately finding the humor in, this world.
About the Artist
Aaron Robert Baker is a Chicago-based artist and independent curator. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Art in America, Hi-Fructose and New American Painters.
Born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, Baker received his BFA from The University of North Texas and his MFA from The University of Nevada Las Vegas, where he studied under influential art critic Dave Hickey. When he was in the second grade, his teacher told his parents that he had drawn an impressive cheeseburger and that they should enroll him in art classes. Baker has been an artist ever since.
We are thrilled to welcome Chicago-based artist Laura Catherwood to our walls for our March exhibit! Join us this Saturday, March 8, 6-8pm, for the opening reception to meet Laura and groove to a new mix by DJ Sean Doe made especially for the opening!
Companions
New Works by Laura Catherwood
March 8-30, 2025
Open 10am-6pm Daily
Opening Reception
Saturday, March 8, 6-8pm
Free / All Ages
Works will be made available first to our Gallery Previews Email subscribers. Sign up at https://previews.rotofugi.com
About the Exhibit
Laura Catherwood’s ‘Companions’ celebrates and instantiates the power of togetherness.
‘Companions’ brings to life three quintessential Catherwood characters: The Guardian, a rough and ready canine protector; the Gardener, a curious and creative bird-frog explorer; and the Guide, a sleepy-eyed beetle at one with the universe. Catherwood depicts the trio’s adventures across a series of exquisitely rendered mixed-media drawings, in addition to embracing a new medium: cement statuettes, each standing four to six inches tall.
“‘Companions’ is a gesture of support and care,” Catherwood says. “These are difficult times, and when I make these little statues, I like to picture them offering comfort to people, whether it’s the bird-frog serving as a reminder of their own creativity, or the beetle as a reminder of trust and quietude. Most important of all, I want to remind people they’re not alone.”
- Show synopsis by Jason Ankeny
About the Artist
Laura Catherwood is a Chicago-based painter working primarily in graphite and oil paint. Coaxing these materials into soft textures and delicate gestures, she creates sensitive illustrations of plants, animals, and odd creatures.
Her compositions place familiar nature imagery in unexpected situations, resulting in quiet scenes that explore the inner emotional landscape while simultaneously soothing the viewer. The creatures offer the audience company in handling their ambivalent feelings, challenging experiences, unanswered questions, and grief. She works often in series, and these bodies of work evoke an intimate, mysterious narrative for the viewer to curiously enter.
