# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Bethany Cordero / Stacey Lee Gee / Michael Thompson
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 01 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Fri, 01 May, 2026 at 09:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Bethany Cordero
The Pluralities of Structure
May 1 - 25, 2026

My work is driven by material process as a way of thinking through
impermanence, time, and the malleability of identity. I work primarily with steel, bronze, clay, and textiles, materials that undergo visible and irreversible change through casting, welding, weaving, and forming.
These processes leave behind seams, scars, and residues that I treat as integral rather than corrective. I am interested in how materials carry memory: how heat alters metal, how clay records gesture, how fibers, when bound and wrapped, form structure. Conceptually, I approach sculpture as a site of transition, one that may hold moments of resolution, but never as fixed or final. My work emerges from a philosophical interest in Being as fluid and temporal, shaped through processes of change rather than defined by stable or absolute states.

Bethany Cordero is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist working in steel, bronze, clay, and textiles. Her sculptural practice explores how time, memory, and experience accumulate, shift, and reshape one’s sense of self, and she manifests those questions through process driven material inquiry. She has presented her work at the Hyde Park Art Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Elmhurst Art Museum, Beverly Arts Center, Arc Gallery, Comfort Station, File Review, and many others. She has collaborated with Surface Design Association on social media content, contributed a feature to their quarterly magazine, and
developed and facilitated multiple international meetups for their
community. She has served as a grant panelist for Chicago's DCASE, is an alumna of the Bridge and Center programs at HPAC, and currently teaches sculpture both in person and online.

Stacey Lee Gee
ROTATOR
May 1 - 25, 2026

This is a meditation on palindromes as philosophy. I am using the word rotator as a lens for thinking about time, presence, and the texture of lived experience. The opening establishes the literal: a rotator turns without arriving. Then it makes the key statement; the word rotator doesn’t just describe rotation, it enacts it. You read it forward and arrive back where you started. Form and
meaning are the same thing.

That line — a rotator is only stable when it’s moving; stillness breaks it — is a pivot. It inverts the usual assumption that stability means rest. For a gyroscope, a bicycle wheel, a spinning top, this is literally true. Motion is the equilibrium. Stop it and it falls.

The second half turns inward. It’s about what it feels like to be inside a life you once only imagined. And here the rotator becomes a metaphor for presence itself:

You planned for something, and then arrived inside it
But being inside it is nothing like the imagining

It has unexpected weight, texture, synchronicity that no plan could include. You have to circle a new room before it becomes yours

Stacey Lee Gee was born in New Jersey and currently resides in Chicago. She exhibits both nationally and internationally including at the the Lubeznik Center, Chicago Cultural Center, Ignition Project Space, Ceres Gallery, Terrain Biennial, and Centro d’Art e Cultura. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Iowa and is the current president of the historic feminist gallery ARC in Chicago. 

Stacey's work is an extension of the energy that leaks from her fingertips, a reconfiguration of objects past their appropriate era. Her art reorders the past in order to prepare for the future. She believes art is a service meant to perpetuate the healthy psyche of society.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/oak-park/bethany-cordero-stacey-lee-gee-michael-thompson/200029990097847
- **Event Categories**: art, meetups, health-wellness, meditation
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 16

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Oak Park
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Ignition project space
- **lat**: 41.90449
- **long**: -87.72293
- **full address**: Ignition project space, 3839 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651-2039, United States, Oak Park

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Bethany Cordero / Stacey Lee Gee / Michael Thompson being held?
  - **A:** Bethany Cordero / Stacey Lee Gee / Michael Thompson takes place on Fri, 01 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Fri, 01 May, 2026 at 09:00 pm at Ignition project space, 3839 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651-2039, United States, Oak Park.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Bethany Cordero / Stacey Lee Gee / Michael Thompson?
  - **A:** Bethany Cordero / Stacey Lee Gee / Michael Thompson is organized by Ignition project space.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Bethany Cordero / Stacey Lee Gee / Michael Thompson is ideal for art lovers, trade professionals, collectors, and exhibition enthusiasts exploring the latest in their field. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Oak Park, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Bethany Cordero / Stacey Lee Gee / Michael Thompson sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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