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'Third Places and Vanishing Spaces Between' opens at West Loop campus, examines social isolation
Summary
An art historian opened a solo exhibition titled Third Places and Vanishing Spaces Between at the West Loop campus, citing Ray Oldenburg's The Great Good Place and themes of isolation intensified during and after COVID-19.
An artist and art historian opened a solo exhibition, Third Places and Vanishing Spaces Between, at the West Loop campus, telling the broadcast the work examines disappearing public spaces where people build social bonds.
The artist said the exhibition was inspired by Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place and by cultural changes since the COVID-19 pandemic that she said have intensified isolation. “What he is talking about are the disappearing places where people can connect, where they build bonds, they build community, they get to know each other,” the artist said. The work explores contemporary solitude and the ways cities are built for cars rather than human connection.
The artist cited the surgeon general’s assessment that loneliness has reached epidemic levels as part of the inspiration and said pieces in the show were intended to represent the inward-turning behavior of modern life.
The broadcast framed the exhibition as a cultural and community-art event; it did not include ticketing or sales details.
