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Thresholds: An Exhibition of Drawings by Landis Blair


  • Sideshow Gallery 2219 North Western Avenue Chicago, IL, 60647 United States (map)

Thresholds is an exhibit of pen and ink drawings by Landis Blair that explore liminal spaces bridging the gap between life and death. On display will be numerous drawings of cemeteries that Blair has visited as well as a series of illustrations depicting a haunted house that were done in collaboration with the metal band Bad Manor. This series of illustrations corresponds to the various tracks of Bad Manor’s recent album The Haunting and appear alongside the lyrics in the album booklet. The Haunting will be available for purchase on LP and CD and Blair will be signing the booklets at the artist reception.

Landis Blair is the author and illustrator of The Night Tent and The Envious Siblings: and Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes, as well as the illustrator of the New York Times bestseller From Here to Eternity and the graphic novel The Hunting Accident, which won the 2021 Fauve d’Or and the 2020 Quai des Bulles prize. His illustrations have appeared in numerous print and online periodicals including The New Yorker, the New York Times, Chicago magazine, VQR, and Medium.