M.I.A.R.
In 2023, the Chicago Fine Art Salon launched MIAR for the community artists we love, to exhibit and sell their creations to Chicago art enthusiasts at Art City in Lincoln Park and on our website. Browse through our past installations or explore our collection of exquisite wall art available for purchase below.
Opening October 10th: Prisma Andrade’s PRISMA, Color-Coding
Combining painting and textile practice, PRISMA creates vibrant moments of intimacy and reflects on identity with fabric, dye, and plush. Anna Maria Andrade, who goes by the artist name PRISMA, was born and raised in Dallas, Texas to a Honduran-Spanish father and an American mother. Andrade discovered fiber arts in high school and then moved to Chicago to further study fiber and material studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Color Coding calls into the history of color signaling in queer communities and other historically marginalized groups, where color signals identity, intimacy, and resistance. PRISMA pulls from this color language to create her own color code and vocabulary of bodies, recalling moments of intimacy. The work in this show documents PRISMA’s transition from painting to textiles. Limited by traditional paint, she turned to synthetic fabric dye, which when combined with sodium alginate turns into a paint-like substance that bonds directly with natural fibers. By playing with fabrics by cutting, resewing, adding plush, and stitching to abstract the human figure, PRISMA transcends her paintings into textiles.
See the show in person on October 10th, 2025 at Art City, located at 1400 N Halsted Ave, from 5 to 8 PM
Open Last Month at Art City: Schetauna Powell’s Quilt Blox!
Schetauna Powell’s work translates complex information into material interactions and supports the pedagogy and performance of collaborative design. Powell has a BA in English Literature, MA in Black Studies, and an MFA in Designed Objects from the School of Art Institute. She is currently a fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago researching stories about African American Architecture and Design in Chicago. The mission of her design practice is to archive experience through objects and create tools for Black families to connect one’s personal history to the larger story of African American life.
Powell creates interior objects, picture frames, portraits, toys, and furniture to archive everyday ephemera, help Black families pass down cultural knowledge, and reflect the dreams of her mother, daughter, and community. Quilt Blox! presents family portraits and archival images with African American quilt patterns like Jacob’s Ladder as a means for intergenerational storytelling. Grounded in geometric design, her work translates emotional needs like archiving history, creating safe spaces, and honoring maternal heritage into physical form. This exhibition explores connections between Bauhaus Modernism and African American decorative arts, positioning domestic objects as vessels for identity and care. Her practice centers on the idea that home objects can transform everyday living into a form of art, reflecting her inner life as a Black mother.
April: Seonyoung Lee’s “Woven Emotions”
Seonyoung LEE is a weaver, designer and installation artist based in Chicago, IL. She studied Industrial design at Hongik University in Korea with a BFA degree. After graduating, she worked as a display designer for a fashion company, taking on roles in various locations such as Shanghai, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Seoul. Recently, she received her master’s degree for studying fashion and fiber within the Fashion, Body and Garment at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She participates in various exhibitions throughout the state.
Seonyoung engages with ideas about overcoming and healing processes related to one’s vulnerability, specifically emotional difficulties. Currently, she is pursuing space-based installations and creating tapestries and soft sculptures through weaving.
See Seonyoung’s work before our next installation artist on April 4th, 2025