September 19th–October 31st, 2026

Permission Structures and Decorative Art Geof Oppenheimer

Opening Reception September 19th, 6-10pm

SHANGHAI SEMINARY presents Permission Structures and Decorative Art, an exhibition of new work by Geof Oppenheimer. This exhibition coincides with the fourth annual Chicago Exhibition Week.

One thing remains to be added: since becoming is the foremost consideration in delivery, different things become different people. Indeed, there is in this a certain hidden and inarticulable principle; and, as it has rightly been said, the chief thing in art is that what you do should become yourself. Yet this can neither exist without art nor be wholly taught by art.

—Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, XI.3.177

Geof Oppenheimer was born in Washington, D.C. and lives in Chicago, Illinois.