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Biography:
Solomon received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. He also studied writing at the University of Iowa, and was deeply engaged with the Intermedia Department in the late 1990s.
Outside Austin, Texas, he founded Cedar Valley Spirits Gallery, an artist-driven space that helped catalyze a vibrant local arts community. In 2012, the gallery presented Three Generations, a group exhibition featuring Solomon alongside his mother and grandfather, both lifelong artists.
After returning to Chicago he joined Rogers Park Art Gallery, where he was named gallery co-manager in 2019. That same year, he mounted a solo exhibition there titled TransDisciplinary Artworks. He currently resides outside Chicago where he continues his arts practice.
The Zine:
The Springfield Underground is an independently published journal of art, music, literature, history, memory, and visual culture.
Each issue gathers together disparate elements: original drawings, from the family art archives, musical scores, photographs, essays, conversations, quotations, diagrams, internet ephemera, and occasional works by other artists.
Each issue is assembled as an evolving archive—a record of curiosity rather than certainty. Some pages are carefully researched. Others begin with a question. Together they trace the movement of ideas through culture, memory, and everyday life.
This publication is an invitation to slow down, notice unexpected correspondences, and participate in the work of making meaning.
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