Robert Lostutter and Kristi Cavataro

Lostutter is known for creating meticulously-rendered hybrid human forms in surreal settings. Seemingly beatific, even when contorted with exposed innards, these adorned creatures demonstrate both a technical mastery and wild imagination that is at once bound up with and reaches beyond the human figure. Occupying the gallery’s floor are Cavataro’s sculptures constructed out of opaque or translucent stained glass. Taking advantage of the abundant natural light of the gallery’s large windows, these closed and often biomorphic volumes reveal an interior space defined by their color. More than a superficial skin, the color in the glass goes all the way through the medium.

Robert Lostutter (b. 1939, Kansas) lives and works in Chicago. He has had solo museum exhibitions at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, and has been included in group shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Terra Museum of American Art, and the Corcoran Gallery. Lostutter's work is included in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Madison Art Center, The Smithsonian Institute, and the Smart Museum, University of Chicago. He is represented by Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago.

Kristi Cavataro (b. 1992, Connecticut) lives and works in New York. She received her BFA from the Cooper Union in 2015. Her work was part of the group exhibition Greater New York at MoMA PS1, New York in 2021.