Larissa Borteh's Elusive Abstractions at Devening Projects

Larissa Borteh's exhibition 'In the Wind' at Devening Projects in Chicago runs through June 13. The show features a dozen oil paintings ranging from 16 x 20 inches to 60 x 72 inches, where Borteh merges still life with ethereal abstraction using thinned, viscous paint. Works like 'Tending and Receiving' (2026) and 'Glass House' (2025) explore the spectrum between legibility and opacity, with forms that evoke plants, skulls, and apparitional figures. The gallery, an artist-run space, previously introduced artists like Peter Shear and Sean Sullivan.