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Join me at Portrait Society Gallery January 17th 2025 for my solo exhibition. This show will include new bodies of work from the past year or so. Runs January 17th-March 15th 2025.
Chicago-based artist LaNia Sproles is known for contemplative and saucy explorations of self-perception, female empowerment, racial and sexual dynamics — seen through queer and feminist perspectives.
Sproles' practice involves drawing, painting, printmaking, and collage. For their first solo exhibition at Portrait Society titled "King for a Day," they have created several new bodies of work anchored by a series small-scale, expressively rendered portraits of friends. Other more elaborate figurative works are staged in imaginary landscapes, or harken to the pictorial language of Baroque painter Caravaggio. Fascinated by the terms of kinship, Sproles’ expands the range of emotional resonance within these richly detailed compositions that are infused with fantasy, sexual assertiveness, power, femininity, and carnal cravings. "There is mischief in this work," Sproles says.
Sproles earned a BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design in 2017. They have exhibited with Elijah Wheat Showroom hosted by David Zwirner’s online exhibition space, Platform; Goldfinch Gallery and FLXST Contemporary in Chicago; and Portrait Society Gallery (2019). A Mary L. Nohl fellow in 2019, Sproles has done projects with the Lynden Sculpture Garden, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, and curated an exhibition at a NADA art fair in partnership with Milwaukee’s Green Gallery.
Click here to visit Portrait Society Gallery’s main page for more info