Cynthia Corbett Gallery returns to EXPO CHICAGO 2026 with a distinctly international presentation that brings together six artists whose practices are shaped by different geographies, cultural histories and material languages. Led by Italian-American, London-based gallerist Cynthia Valianti Corbett, the stand forms a cross-continental conversation between Europe, the United States, and Australia, united by a shared fascination with how ideas become form, and how structure, surface, and process carry design history into the present.
The presentation features Andy Burgess (British, US-based), whose bold geometric paintings and collaged constructions reimagine modernist and mid-century architecture with dream-like colour and theatrical light. Margo Selby (UK) brings handwoven works guided by her “Art Into Industry” ethos; her Shuttle Series draws on technological circuitry and the story of the women weavers behind the Apollo 11 mission, translating space-age narrative into precise graphic pattern and radiant colour gradients.
Marking her Chicago debut, Ebony Russell (Australian) presents new hand-piped porcelain sculptures where ornament becomes architecture, celebrating labour, excess, delight, and the politics of decorative form. Klari Reis (American, San Francisco-based) contributes vivid works made in her invented epoxy polymer medium, forming hypnotic cellular colour-fields shaped by a science-led, experimental approach that sits between painting and object.
Alastair Gordon (Scottish) presents meticulously illusionistic landscapes shaped by en plein air expeditions in the Scottish Highlands and Lake District, where hyperreal wilderness meets the studio’s marks and residue, reframing landscape as both artifact and “painting about painting.” Cristina Schek (Transylvanian surrealist, London-based) makes her EXPO CHICAGO debut with works from Diving Upwards alongside new Glamarine pieces, where weightless swimmers break gravity’s spell and surge toward light, suspended between water and sky in a vivid celebration of optimism and levity.
Together, this fully international range of practices links material intelligence with design heritage, mapping how contemporary artists remake tradition into new visual systems across media.
Selected works:
1. Andy Burgess, California Cool, 2025, acrylic on canvas.
2. Klari Reis, Hypochondria, 150, 2025,150 petri dish paintings; circular installation.
3. Cristina Schek, Glamarine IV, 2025, (Glamour Edit), archival pigment print.
4. Margo Selby, Shuttle II, 2025, British wool, cotton, silk & steel.
5. Ebony Russell, Decorative Urn: Pink, 2024, urn & pedestal set, porcelain and stain.
6. Alastair Gordon, Landscape Remembered, 2024, oil & acrylic on canvas.