Admission

• Free
• Opening Reception: Sunday, March 9th, 2:00 – 5:00 PM
• RSVP is encouraged: Eventbrite

Location

• 238 West 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
• 4th Floor
• March 9th – April 13th, 2025

Description

CAMOC is pleased to present Spotlight Artist, Jiaming You with “Looking Out.”

This exhibition explores the act of looking, something often done subconsciously, but a conscious drive for the artist. Figures in the work look into the picture as an act of personal revelation. Rather than obscuring faces to challenge stereotypes, now “their existence does not depend on being the subject of someone’s gaze,” and the work highlights their autonomy. Filling silhouettes with images of places and patterns, this show challenges the classic “figure-ground” relationship, inviting reflection on how self-presentation is shaped by social context.

About the Artist

Jiaming You is a Chicago-based painter and installation artist with an MFA from SAIC (2022) and a BS from UW-Madison (2018). A recipient of the Carrie Ellen Tuttle Fellowship, Jiaming has exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Shanghai Art021 2024, and featured in Soft Lightning Magazine, Emerge Magazine, CanvasRebel, Sina News, Artdaily, New City, Art Insider, and Chicago Reader.

Learn more about Jiaming You: jiamingyou.net