New City reviewed Bruno Smith and Ricardo Partida's "How One Becomes What One Was" at...

"In 2010, LVL3 started as a live-work space which has now turned into an inclusive exhibition space. LVL3 celebrated its ten-year anniversary in February, which is a large part of their selection...

"Wicker Park gallery LVL3 operates as an exhibition space and online publication, showcasing artists, designers, musicians and creative entrepreneurs. Through their interview series, LVL3 pairs...

"The best representation of a new homegrown model is in “Local Comfort” at LVL3, a Wicker Park hub where sixty-two Chicago-based artists are currently on exhibition. It’s an artist-run show...

If historians ever want to truly understand what 2017 felt like, they should consider the fact that “Mercy,” “WWE: No Mercy,” and “My Days of Mercy” hit our screens this year, all while...

Jeffly Gabriela Molina joins Dana and Ryan in the studio to discuss her paintings and upcoming group exhibition at LVL3. Jeffly introduces us to the intimacy of her image making and even graces us...

October 28, 2017, 6-10PM Work by: Jeffly Gabriela Molina, Curtis Stage, Matthew Schlagbaum, and Esther Ruiz Molina LVL3 Gallery: 1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3, Chicago, IL...

Christopher Meerdo and Cecilia Salama presented joint exhibition Displaced Desire at Chicago’s LVL3, which opened September 9 and is running to October...

The metaphors for starting over are innumerable: a snake sheds its skin, a phoenix rises from the ashes, one door shuts while another opens, everything you own’s in the box to the left. Transitions...

July 28, 2017, 6-10PM Work by: Katie Bell, Hannah Carr and Jenn Smith LVL3: 1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3rd, Chicago, IL...

Vincent Uribe believes in art, wherever he finds it. He's the founding director of LVL3 art gallery and online magazine in Wicker Park; works with adult artists with disabilities at The Arts of Life;...

January 7, 2017, 6-10PM Work by: Kara Joslyn and Soo Shin LVL3 Gallery:1524 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL...

Never Far Away, LVL3, Maximalist paintings delight with frenetic...

Interspersing the work of three millennials, this exhibit is an upbeat homage to better-living-thru-technology without the nods to personal angst, social justice or identity politics that also...

Initiated last year in San Francisco, stARTup Art Fair has succeeded in profiting from the art world’s unceasing fascination with and general loathing of the EXPOs and Art Basels of the world....

The Canadian-born artist discusses Richard Serra, the tension between chance and control in his abstract wall works, and the rich possibilities of the screen in reference to...

Visitors attending the “Germination” exhibition at LVL3, a gallery in Chicago, should expect to be surprised by the connections the show offers. The title brings to mind seeds growing into...

Louis Vuitton's City Guides share the Maison's unique take on the world, with a selection of addresses chosen with originality and a touch of bias. Featuring exclusive photographs by the Tendance...

This show pairs the work of two artists whose evocative, organic forms and narrative titles situate their pieces in an intimate context. Toronto-based Angelopoulos’ brightly colored drawings and...

Todd Kelly’s and Morgan Mandalay’s works reference paintings that are absent from their two-person exhibition—source material that is circumscribed and effaced rather than explicitly revealed...

The works by Todd Kelly and Morgan Mandalay in “Happy Little” help bring the concept of the still life into the twenty-first century. Kelly’s pieces are the more straightforward of the two,...

Gallery owners, curators, museum directors, entrepreneurs, and art professionals flock from every corner of the world to behold the shifts and summits of blue chip work, unveiled and celebrated at...

Art Basel week, at its most extreme, is a not-so-smooth fusion of art and commerce, the sublime and the quotidian. This jarring combination was perfectly embodied by the visual of the Sabra hummus...

In There is a Screen, Daniel Baird and Ryan Lauderdale present work that attempts to create compelling artifacts of the past, accessed through the sleek aesthetics of contemporary technology....

Tropical Depression is a collaborative work by Laura Hart Newlon and Kate O’Neill. It is also the title of the group exhibition at LVL3 that features their work, and the work of Kate Ruggeri and...

Aside from a predilection for including—in a deliciously apt, tacit titular nod—the kinds of fantastic colors found in the chemical inks that crowd candies and their wrappers, the five artists...

A great Chicago non-commercial gallery show to kick off the new year, Alex Chitty (SAIC Alum and faculty) and Zach Reini (Denver Based) have an exciting installment of sculpture, print media, and...

How is the project operated? Artist run, live work space. How long has it been in existence? Since February 2010. What was your motivation? To meet new people and promote artists whose work we...

The mural isn’t a large rectangle, or any other typical shape. It has no traditional signifier that designates it as a mural, and there’s no immediately obvious narrative or public service...

Is the myth of paradise all that compelling? The resort paradise, the motel bliss, dreams of tropical shores and youthful ocean air – are these the same dated visions of vacationing we still cling...

What does it mean to visibly leave an impression on someone else? 2 of a Kind, currently on view at LVL3, begs the question with an exhibition that focuses on the collaborations of sixteen artists,...

Lubinski Furniture at 1550 N. Milwaukee Avenue, located in the Wicker Park area of Chicago, has a long history of artist-run spaces. In the last ten years I’ve known a healthy series of disparate...

Up three flights of stairs from Milwaukee Avenue, beyond the trendy Wicker Park shops, is LVL3 Gallery. The current exhibition, “Transposed Planes,” brings together three artists working on...

Gallery hopping in Chicago can be a real pain in the ass since there is not a single substantial gallery district where to spend a Saturday afternoon. Art spaces are spread all over town and to reach...

Top 5 Art Interviews of 2012: Jenni Sorkin on Bad at Sports, Laura Shaeffer on Never the Same, Brad Troemel on Daily Dot Mental, 312 on Sixty Inches from Center, Peter Shear on LVL3 Artist of the...

“Failure” is a strange topic for artwork, it seems pathos would be a similar, yet more appropriate way to frame art. Artwork about failure has the tendency to create a negativity...

After a year that’s been rich in lively shows and discussion about the relevance and legacy of Minimalism—the Gerard Byrne show and accompanying panels at the Renaissance Society, for one—this...

The separation of image and content is a fundamental tenet of contemporary art, illustrated with work as various as illusionistic trompe l’oeil painting, architectural ornamentation, and the annual...

Though Medicine Cabinet, a project space housed in a Bridgeport bathroom, is on hiatus, “alternative” galleries—many only slightly less bizarre—thrive in Chicago, and have for several years....

The Chicago Cultural Center has hosted many art exhibits in its time, but the historic institution will make itself the center of attention with its upcoming exhibition...

Vincent Uribe is the Director of LVL3 Gallery—a live-work space he is reluctant to call an apartment galley—in the former location of Scott Projects in Wicker Park. According to the gallery’s...

Vincent Uribe is the Director of LVL3 Gallery—a live-work space he is reluctant to call an apartment galley—in the former location of Scott Projects in Wicker Park. This article is the second...

Chicago art critic, teacher, and mentor Kathryn Hixson was writing her dissertation on comedic aggression in art of the 1970s when she died suddenly in November of last year. As a student in what was...

Community is often formed out of a sense of loss, and this is often the loss of a community. In a piece on artist Bruce Nauman, acclaimed Chicago critic Kathryn Hixson wrote, “If the social...

What started as a simple passion and an opportunity to showcase new and emerging Chicago-based artists turned into something more. In early 2010, artist Vincent Uribe founded LVL3 Gallery an...

The group show, not unlike the group hang, is typically reserved for the warmer summer months, when the pace of the artistic community slows to a near-halt. Trips and residencies are taken, leaving...

First, the art community is capitalizing on our downtrodden economy. The ample supply of vacant and/or cheap real estate, has meant an increase in both thoughtful new spaces with potential for...

For a show curated by three people, Andrew Blackley, Stephanie Burke and Steve Ruiz, this exhibition surprisingly fits together quite well. “Registers” is hosted at LVL3 Gallery and is the fourth...