Damon Locks’s “We Are Our People / Listen to This” at Goldfinch
Local artist and educator Damon Locks is better known in the music world. In the 80s and 90s, he had a punk band with Fred Armisen called Trenchmouth; more recently, he’s made music with the free jazz groups the Exploding Star Orchestra and Black Monument Ensemble; and in January, he dropped a funk-infused solo record called List of Demands (International Anthem). But like most great artists, especially ones from Chicago, he’s multidisciplinary, and he’s long maintained a visual art practice, including teaching art to people behind bars. This show assembles two rooms’ worth of ink-on-paper drawings inspired by Locks’s interest in Black liberation histories, Afrofuturism, and anticarceral justice. Through 5/3: Fri–Sat noon–4 PM and by appointment, Goldfinch, 319 N. Albany,
