Retrospective

Retrospective is a ten year survey of Prairie's program and our final exhibition.

Featuring: ASMA, Justin Chance, Peggy Chiang, Nick D’Alessandro, Joel Dean, Ficus Interfaith, Bea Fremderman, ektor garcia, Max Guy, Emily Jones, Manal Kara, Craig Jun Li, André Magaña, Jenine Marsh, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Anaïs Morales, Alberto Ortega Trejo, Nick Raffel, Amina Ross, Kira Scerbin, Micah Schippa-Wildfong, José Taymani, Katz Tepper, Liz Vitlin, Connie Wilson, and agustine zegers.

The exhibition includes a vent in the partition wall and ceiling fans running in opposite directions from Nick Raffel's 2025 exhibition Prairie.

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Isabelle Frances McGuire
Jack and The Little Boy, 2023
porcelain doll, PLA plastic, garland wire

Bea Fremderman
No. 8, 2021
found materials

Ficus Interfaith
FREE DOM (TAVA), 2018
various marbles, granite, Great South Bay oyster shells, glass, plastic waste, epoxy, zinc, and walnut

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ASMA
Un mundo de servicios, 2026
found objects, epoxy clay, cardboard, mdf, wood, metallic wall mount, metal hardware, fabrics, PVA glue, UV fixative, found text cutouts

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Liz Vitlin
Washington, D.C. (2007), 2025
archival pigment print

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Kira Scerbin
Triple Breather, 2019
beeswax, frankincense, and myrrh on stick

Katz Tepper
Maintenance Shirt/Erosion Shirt (RECTUM notes), 2025
cotton t-shirt, hardwood dowel, masking tape, packing tape, silicon caulk, thread, quilting pins, printer paper, toner, colored pencil, industrial wool felt, felt moving blanket, silicon rubber plumbing gaskets with silver paint marker, plastic pouch with unnameable protrusion, plastic bag with sharpie and sticker, lint, dirt, die-cast-end steel cables

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André Magaña
Jarra con ojas de magueyas cortados 2, 2019
thermoplastic, epoxy resin, oil paint, nylon fiber

Nick D’Alessandro
Outfit, 2/3, 2026
cast scrap glass

ektor garcia
trio de gotas, 2020/2026
glazed ceramic

Peggy Chiang
The cat in my brain is walking, 2022
flexible polyurethane foam, cat doll, wood, plexiglass, steel can, and glazed porcelain

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Max Guy
You and Me, 2020
inkjet print laminated to aluminum, painted with gel medium

agustine zegers
metanogénesis vítreo, 2024
ancient perfume bottles (ca. 100 AD), molecular derivatives of petroleum

Craig Jun Li
p.m.03, 2022
digital print on aluminum Dibond

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José Taymani
Ausente, 2023
cast platinum

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Emily Jones
And to every living thing that creepeth upon the earth, 2018
hand embroidery on linen

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Anaïs Morales
The Estrangement Involved In Poetry, 2020
leather, acrylic, horsehair

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Amina Ross
from the center of my earth-body/ that’s where i love you/ from, 2018
3D animation and window

Connie Wilson
Pig House, 2026
balsa wood, foam core, gesso, acrylic, ribbon

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Manal Kara
two wasps fucking (whirled~egg), 2019
glazed ceramic, photographic prints on fabric

Alberto Ortega Trejo
Visit from a relative (Araña), 2024
objet trouvé, ice, alcoholic beverages, maguey skin, steel skeleton

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Jenine Marsh
Proximity Flowers (no. 50), 2019
flowers, synthetic rubber, wire, acrylic uv varnish

Micah Schippa-Wildfong
as the organism decays and the bones are no longer held together by the flesh, 2018/2026
flowers, synthetic rubber, wire, acrylic uv varnish

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Joel Dean
Untitled, 2019
wine glasses, light fixture

Justin Chance
Worldview, 2024
vinyl

Prairie is an exhibition space in Chicago founded in 2017 by Tim Mann and Jack Schneider.