Claire Warner & Sam Vinz
Chicago

These passionate dealers are the co-founders of Volume Gallery. Their curatorial vision challenges hierarchies between fine arts, design, and craft with a focus on material-driven practices. In 2026, Volume expanded into a new West Town space in Chicago, tripling its footprint, while continuing to place works in numerous international institutions. More here.

At first glance, the woven works in Joe Feddersen: Urban Drama, running until July 25 at Chicago’s Volume Gallery, look just like the “sally bags”—cylindrical baskets that tribes on the Columbia Plateau in the Pacific Northwest decorate with symbols of tribal belief and history and use for gathering herbs—of the artist’s Colville ancestors. A closer look reveals how cleverly and masterfully Feddersen (Arrow Lakes/Okanagan) is adapting tradition. The little human images on one basket resemble ancient petroglyphs, but some look suspiciously like spacemen or 1980s video-game characters. A zig-zag pattern on another is somehow both geometrical abstraction and one of the giant transmission towers for power lines that crisscross Native lands. One basket is crowded with figures and oblong shapes—petroglyph people carrying protest signs. Full review here.