CFAS Presents:
Welcome to New Gallery, our featured artist gallery, nestled within Art City at 1400 N Halsted and proudly operated and curated by Chicago Fine Art Salon (CFAS). As Art City's associated gallery, we collaborate to expand our vibrant art community and showcase the talent of our represented artists, all based in Chicago. Discover a diverse array of artistic expressions, from painting and sculpture to photography and mixed media, showcased in our classes and exhibitions. We're continuously on the lookout for fresh, innovative talent and offer representation services to support artists in building their careers and connecting with new audiences. All artwork displayed in the New Gallery is available for sale below. Explore, experience, and join us in celebrating the rich tapestry of Chicago's art scene.
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Opening 8/8: Jim Yale’s Figurative Abstraction: Recent work and sketches
Jim Yale’s multi-disciplinary visual work is a meditation on the random combinations of color, message, language, and form found in everyday life.
Yale’s figurative painting and drawing work pulls inspiration from Matisse, Cezanne, Die Brucke, and the figurative art of the Bay Area in the 1950’s and 60’s. Figures are often alone, sometimes in an undefined space. Gesture takes precedence over realism. The figure is sometimes merely an assemblage of flat planes of color. Natural body language is the lingua franca; beauty is found in the turn of a head, a bend of a wrist or ankle, a shoulder half in shadow.
Jim Yale received his BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Illinoise at Urbana-Champaign. His work is in private collections in North America, South America, Europe, and the United Kingdom. He paints at his studio in Chicago.
See Jim Yale’s work and more on August 8th, 2025, at Art City (1400 N Halsted, Chicago, IL)
Open Last Month: Chemistry by Darrell Cruse
Chemistry is an oil painting series exploring my love for intimacy, music, and vibrant colors. Each piece depicts a couple in an intimate setting, inspired by the lyrics or tone of a specific song. The color palette for each painting is also inspired by the respective songs. Though usually pulled from the musical artist’s aesthetic, the palette could also represent the colors I personally see and feel when listening to their music. As a response to the never-ending and annoying discourse on love and dating in today’s world, I wanted to capture the unifying themes of love, peace, nostalgia, and escapism as a reminder of the magical feel of true romance with the right partner.
Last Month: Stones of Folly by Catie Burrill
Catie Burrill is a Chicago-based fiber artist whose work celebrates divergent minds through salvaged materials. Inspired by her years of traveling across the U.S. on Greyhound buses, in nondescript cargo vans, and on a circus train. Her art explores outsider narratives, mad identity, and storytelling through stitchwork.
Stones of Folly draws from Hieronymus Bosch’s The Extraction of the Stone of Madness (also known as The Cure of Folly), which depicts a doctor removing a so-called “stone of folly” from a patient’s head. In this series of vibrant wall sculptures, Catie Burrill challenges the notion of madness as mere pathology, instead embracing its complexity, and reinterpreting societal perceptions of mental health with humor, theatrics, and camp. Inspired by pop culture figures like Dolly Parton and Britney Spears, Burrill uses found materials such as Lake Michigan pebbles, faux fur, 90s beads, and nostalgic trinkets to weave playful yet poignant narratives.
The NEW Gallery has been open since 2023 and been rotating artists monthly since then! With now over a year of shows, we’ve shown plenty of artists. Some of those artists’ previous works are available below.
