​Women’s Work That Always Was
Solo Exhibition of Candace Hunter

March 20th 2026 - April 12th 2026

Opening Reception @ 3rd Fl. Gallery, 1029 W 35th Chicago IL 60609, 3/20/2026 @ 7-10 PM

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OH Art Foundation is thrilled to presents 'Women’s Work That Always Was',  
Candace Hunter's Solo Exhibition. 

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They called it decorative. They called it useful. They called it women’s work.

Cutting. Mending. Layering. Repeating what needed to be done. Making beauty where none was expected.

When women appeared in history, it was rarely as artists— more often as hands.

When women appeared in Hunter’s life, they were the marvelous mothers who she encountered. This show honors these mothers and daughters – some seen as artists, some seeing motherhood as their art.

Women were never absent. The work was always here.

It always was.

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About Candace Hunter 

Candace Hunter (chlee), is a Chicago based artist and curator who tells stories of a mighty race – often through the eyes of little girls. Using appropriated materials from magazines, maps, cloth and various reused materials, she offers new landscapes back to the viewer with a glimpse of history and admiration of the beautiful.

A highly respected artist in the Midwest, chlee’s most recent honors include the Elevate Climate Changemakers Award (2022), 3Arts Next Level Award (2021) and the Tim and Helen Meier Foundation Award (2020). 

Hunter’s most recent notoriety has come from her Brown Limbed Girls series, which are painted and collaged 20 x 20 inch works that were born during the covid 19 pandemic. To date, those images have been featured on Chicago billboards. three book covers, two major shows in New Orleans and Oakland and became the inaugural show for the Narrow Bridge Arts Club in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago.

Being a stalwart fan of the mind and intellect of writer, Octavia Butler, chlee created an immersive exhibition of Butler’s “Xenogenesis Trilogy” and the “Parables” series at the Hyde Park Art Center which was the most viewed HPAC exhibitions of recent years. She is currently in the midst of a multi-year project, “50,831 +/- Dreams” which will culminate in 2027.

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