Office Hours: Erol Scott Harris

Gertie Office Hours is an exhibition and residency initiative presented in the upstairs galleries at Gertie Hub, alongside our marquee programming on the first floor. The program alternates between solo presentations by artists who have yet to receive a solo exhibition in Chicago, are not yet positioned for a large-scale institutional presentation, or are seeking a foothold in the local gallery ecosystem, and exhibitions organized by emerging independent curators.

Through this model, Office Hours creates meaningful opportunities for artists and curators at pivotal moments in their development, offering greater visibility, resources, and support to help advance their practices.

Gertie’s inaugural Office Hours features Erol Scott Harris, an artist working across painting, collage, and installation. His practice investigates the floor and the ground as sites where material histories, labor, and memory accumulate exploring the idea of an impression. To the artist, an impression can be a mark left on a surface, a copy or image, or even a feeling that stays with us. In his work, an impression holds the memory of the action that made it: the pressure, the movement, the force. Each mark carries a life-lived.