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Theaster Gates: OH, YOU’VE GOT TO COME BACK TO THE CITY
October 16, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
OH, YOU’VE GOT TO COME BACK TO THE CITY is a solo exhibition by Theaster Gates. The exhibition opens at GRAY Chicago, 2044 W. Carroll Ave. in East Garfield Park, with a public reception for the artist on October 16, and remains on view through December 20, 2025. This is Gates’s fourth solo exhibition with GRAY.
In OH, YOU’VE GOT TO COME BACK TO THE CITY, Gates brings together a new series of tar paintings, sculpture, and installation to tell an allegory of the city in decay and the potential contained within its ruins. The exhibition’s title comes from a song by Chicago musician and poet Marvin Tate, in which the City, personified as a character, has cleaned up its act and attempts to lure its residents back from the suburbs.
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