sounds better with you

Chris Austin – Joey Center – Raven Chacon – Marcus Imani Kennedy – Bill Lilly – Isabelle Frances McGuire – Dave Muller –Micah Schippa-Wildfong – Lucy Walsh

******Guest curated by Iris Colburn and Gabriel Garza

Opening reception:
Friday May 23rd, 2025
5:00 – 8:00 pm. with a performance by VanGoGo.

Hours with the guest curators:
July 11th, 2025
With a performance by Dorothy Carlos, details forthcoming.

Iris Colburn is a curator and writer based in Chicago. She is currently curatorial associate at the MCA Chicago, where she recently curated Chicago Works | Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons as well as the MCA’s presentation of Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence. She has also organized performances with Joelle Mercedes, Katinka Kleijn, and Micah Schippa and contributed writing to several publications including Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence, Pope. L: Campaign, and Visualizing Genocide: Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives, and Museums. She holds a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in art history from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was awarded the Eugene Wurzel Memorial Art Scholarship.

Gabriel Garza is an artist from Los Angeles, currently pursuing his MFA in Art from University of Southern California. He holds a B.A. in Art and minor in Music History from UCLA. His solo shows include Malaprop Pablum at /(Slash) (San Francisco), and Escolar (Santa Rosa, CA). Recent group shows include Words That Start (Beauty Gallery @ Studio Route 29, Frenchtown NJ), and New Moon Figure Eight (120710, Berkeley CA). His curatorial projects include In Concert (San Francisco CA, 2023), Thats A More (Oakland CA, 2022), both of which were co-ran with Theadora Walsh, and from July 2020 to July 2021, he ran Punto Lairs inc, a gallery in his parents backyard (Los Angeles CA). He has organized exhibitions at Nationale (Portland OR), Personal Space (Vallejo CA), Staircase Gallery (San Francisco CA), and Bass & Reiner (SF).