About the exhibition

This exhibition considers the feeling of waiting for the other shoe to drop. Works teeter on the edge between anticipation and dread, interrogation and ambiguity. Whether through somatic text or reductive mark making, the gestures in these pieces exist almost as questions, making you wonder what’s coming next. 

About the organizer

Betsy Odom (b.  Amory, Mississippi) is an artist, curator, and educator based in Chicago. They received their MFA from Yale and their BFA from SFAI. They have exhibited internationally in group and solo exhibitions, including solo exhibitions at the DePaul Art Museum, ThreeWalls Gallery, Hyde Park Art Center, and WomanMade Gallery. Odom has been the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Grant, a Chances Dances Critical Fierceness prize, and two grants from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, among others. Odom currently teaches at Loyola University Chicago where they are the director of the Ralph Arnold Gallery.