Join CXW for the second installment of the In Conversation with ICI series presented by CXW featuring Hamza Walker, Director of LAXART, and John Corbett, co-owner of Corbett vs. Dempsey.

The keystone exhibition for CXW, Over My Head: Encounters with Conceptual Art in a Flyover City, 1984-2015 presents Chicago as a nerve-center for post-conceptual art. One of the goals of the exhibition is to expand our perception and understanding of Chicago’s artistic history by foregrounding the legacies of some of the city’s great historical art dealers, and the artists they championed.

In this same spirit of expanding our knowledge, the presented conversations will aim to both “zoom out” and “zoom in” on the topic at hand. While honoring many of the influential galleries and dealers in the city, we must also zoom out and be aware of the artists that get left out of those systems. What institutions support these artists, and how do these different communities and spaces fit together to create and sustain the larger ecosystem?

This second conversation will zoom in, and engage with Over My Head through the lens of a friendship between two people who lived and shaped the very time period the exhibition explores. Walker and Corbett, will explore not only the specific theme of the show, but also the importance of our personal relationships to the larger cultural fabric of the city.

This conversation will be moderated by Scott Vincent Campbell, Midwest Programs Manager at ICI.

3-4:30 PM