“Hegemony of The Fool“

Art work created by Neil Gainer.

Monday, April 14, 2025 – Friday, May 16, 2025

Reception: Thursday, May 1, 2025 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. in the first floor Dulgar Gallery

Neil Gainer is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician in the Chicago Metropolitan area. Born in Hammond, Indiana, he grew up between worlds, from the rural lands of Indiana, and the impoverished and forgotten industry-based communities along the South Shore, to the economic center of the Midwest (Chicago.) This disparity in socioeconomic status directly influenced his upbringing and, thus, art practice. Hegemony of The Fool follows the archetypal “Fool’s Journey,” through a lens of surreal representations of problems facing the United States today. The beauty of the quasi-narrative path of the fool is its non-sequential iteration; akin to the stations of the cross, having no beginning and no end, brought upon by a McGuffin of happenstance.

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