First Fridays is a FREE, self-guided monthly art walk throughout Wicker Park and Bucktown. You will find exhibition openings, local artist pop-ups, artist talks, and more each month as you explore the map below.

When: Every First Friday of the month

The next is October 2nd from 6 - 8 PM

Where: Check out the map below!

Check out our lineup of local events and exhibition openings for First Friday on September 4th!

Flat Iron Arts Building

1579 N Milwaukee Ave

First Fridays at the Flat Iron!
6 - 9 PM

Guest Artists:

Nathan Doty

CC Verser

Open studios include:
#204: Photographer and vintage curator Leigha Wondergem
#344: The Phil Circle Music First Friday Open Mic Jam Session
#304: The Miniatures of Bree Flammini and Andrew Jarvis' sculpture work

Jackson Junge Gallery

1389 N Milwaukee Ave

Lingering Stardust:

An Exhibition of Paintings by Laura Haberer

September 21st - November 1st

Jackson Junge Gallery is pleased to present their fourth solo exhibition of the year, LINGERING STARDUST, featuring the artwork of Chicago oil painter, Laura Haberer. This expressive collection sheds light on interiors across Chicago and in doing so constructs a portrait of our shared lives. By omitting human subjects, the viewer is made to consider the influence of humanity on the mutual spaces we occupy. The essence of the architecture we exist within is imbued with the stories of each passing face, their light a refraction which reverberates through the ages, all the way back to the stars from which we all came.

Sheep Cult Comics

1632 N Milwaukee Ave

Happy Haunting Season! 🎃🐑The Sheep Cult is kicking it off with a fantastical show, entitled Haunted Universe, with Mike Freiheit. Stop by for a haunting night of spooky paintings and sculptures!

Tom Robinson Studio

2416 W North Ave

Tom will be offering a selection of his own antiques along with new Miniatures, Paintings and Sculptures.

Little Broken Things

1632 N Milwaukee Ave

Opening Reception for Silver Linings, a new exhibition from Danielle Dyksterhouse at Little Broken Things!

David Leonardis Gallery

1346 N Paulina St

This month, David Leonardis Gallery will be presenting Zach Spangler and friends.

Zach Spangler is a photographer and visual artist who works for Q101. Zach will be presenting a series of new photographs coming off of a red hot, Riot Fest lineup. Chester Bennington, Chris Cornell and merle haggard, are some of the photos on display. 

Flatline Gallery

1925 N Milwaukee Ave

Death By Landscape

September 4th - October 16th

Flatline gallery presents, Death by Landscape, bringing together nine artists working across painting, sculpture, and kinetic systems to consider nature not as an exterior realm, but as a condition already inseparable from the technological, industrial, and human systems that attempt to contain it. The exhibition approaches ecology after the presumed distinction between the natural and the artificial has begun to collapse: nature as sustained collapse, as entropic runaway, as something that exceeds every boundary imposed upon it.
Preservation, extraction, contamination, extinction, infrastructure, and wilderness no longer occupy discrete territories; they have become mutually constitutive. The landscape is not a passive surface upon which these processes take place, but a record of their accumulation.
Rather than mourning the disappearance of some pristine nature that preceded human intervention, the works in the exhibition inhabit a post-natural ecology in which intervention has become an environmental condition. Ruin does not interrupt nature; it enters into its composition.

Featured artists:
Hope Barkov
Savannah Hodges
Fionn Kelly
Samantha Merrill
Zo Nicole Nielson
Lorenzo Osterheim
Jackie Pyles
Andrew Rutherdale
Eva Tellier

MarioInk

1441 N Ashland Ave

First Friday Tattoo Special! $50/$100 flat rate, Black & Grey design! Tonight only!

Fine art, hand painted clothing, custom vinyl figures, jewelry.

Prism Spaces

1212 N Ashland Ave, Ste. 202

Prism Spaces and curator Savanna Rita present monoCHROMATIC, anew exhibition!

Join them on October 2nd from 6-9 PM for an Artist Reception & Open House

A Pied

1933 N Damen Ave

Heaven Gallery

1550 N Milwaukee Ave, #2

Kind of Representational

September 25th - November 15th

Relative to the sense of truth iconic signification still seems to produce, abstraction can be seen as a kind of fiction rooted in a diversion of material, process, touch, and indexing of thinking and psycho-social positioning, among other things. When mixed with likeness, abstraction, in this sense, can push away from the attentiveness to the points of referential origin that likeness demands. Abstraction adds other energies, motivations, thoughts, calculations, and impulses that extend, challenge, and complicate what likeness does. It’s like making stuff up, while re-telling a story, in order to add interesting new possibilities (humorous or shocking exaggeration, for example), which often needs to come at the expense of the integrity of the original event.

And so many more!

Questions? luke@wickerparkbucktown.com