RUSCHWOMAN is a convivial yet dissenting satellite project space residing in Chicago's La Villita neighborhood.

Exhibitions are viewable by appointment by contacting thewaves@ruschwoman.blue

She is located at 2100 South Marshall Boulevard, Unit 105, Chicago, IL 60623.
Nearby public transit includes the CTA Pink Line California Stop, the Marshall Boulevard stop of the #21 Cermak bus, and the Pink Line Station stop of the #94 California bus.

HISTORY

RUSCHMAN was founded in 2018 by Eric Ruschman as an itinerant curatorial project and art advisory service, following upon his years as a director of the Shane Campbell Gallery. After numerous guest curatorial endeavors, art fairs, and pop ups, RUSCHMAN opened as a physical premises in Irving Park’s Color Club facility in Fall 2020. In observance of the one year anniversary of that space, and in celebration of the successes the gallery humbly enjoyed in its work with an international coterie of contemporary artists, RUSCHMAN expanded with a second location. Playing off of the the gallery founder’s surname, RUSCHWOMAN is a joint creative endeavor between Eric Ruschman and his partner Matt Morris, an artist, professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and art critic who has contributed extensively to such publications as artforum.com, Flash Art, ArtNEWS, Sculpture, Art Papers, THE SEEN, and Fragrantica.com.

RUSCHWOMAN proceeds from Ruschman and Morris’ earlier roots operating artist-run DIY exhibition venues and is compelled by an interest in inviting feminist-oriented dissent into the marketplace in which the main gallery is positioned. Her exhibition program is both curatorially and commercially minded; further, the space is oriented toward additional purposes like care and support, critical inquiry, and strategic interventions into projects of dehierarchicalization and decolonization. Most of all, RUSCHWOMAN will be witchy, provocative, experimental, and irreverent.




NEIGHBORS

RUSCHWOMAN is situated in a culturally rich area of Chicago’s southwest side.
Other nearby visual art institutions include:


The National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608

Baby Blue
2233 S Throop St #518, Chicago, IL 60608

Prairie
2055 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608

Slow
2153 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608

Slung Leg
2254 S California Ave Chicago, IL 60608
(or reach Maddie Reyna here)

Tiger Strikes Asteroid
2233 S Throop St #419, Chicago, IL 60608