Art Department Professor Shona Macdonald's Launches Chicago Exhibit "Weather Accents"

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Art Department Professor Shona Macdonald's latest exhibit "Weather Accents" was thoughtfully reviewed in a recent article by New City Art writer Curtis Anthony Bozif. 

“Weather Accents" is currently on view at Boundary Gallery in Chicago, Illinois, from March 18 through April 28. The exhibit is composed of work made over the last four years in which Macdonald’s concerns around landscape were gradually distilled down to weather, then purified further into rain.

For Macdonald, who earned her MFA from University of Illinois at Chicago in 1996, it’s the first time exhibiting in Chicago since 2018 and her first solo show in the city since 2012.

It combines paintings from “View of Rain,” which Macdonald describes as exploring the “melancholic aspects of rain,” as well as small, knitted “Overcast” pieces that depict gray clouds floating in gray skies.

Macdonald has exhibited extensively across the U.S. and Canada, as well as the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. In addition to exhibiting her work, she has lectured extensively, participated in artist-residencies and workshops, and presented on several panels.