04/19/2026
Today is your last chance to view Vertical Gallery’s 13-Year Anniversary Show, on view inside Wicker Park’s Jackson Junge Gallery (). This all-star group showcase features 13 contemporary artists from across Chicago, across the U.S. and across the globe — but only one of the 13, Grant William Thye, can trace his relationship with the gallery back to our very first exhibition on April 6, 2013.
Grant’s dazzlingly geometric, cubist-inspired paintings and collages reinterpret the shapes, structures and forms synonymous with everyday life. The Chicago-based artist first encountered Vertical owner Patrick Hull during the gallery’s grand-opening group show ‘The Young and the Restless,’ curated by Windy City street art legend Dont Fret; Grant has since headlined three solo exhibitions in our space, and contributed to multiple group shows over the years.
“What’s interesting about Vertical Gallery is that the shingle out front says ‘street art and urban contemporary,’ but it encompasses a lot more than just that,” Grant () says. “Patrick loves the art that he shows, and he likes a vast variety of things. I’m not a street artist, but somehow my stuff fits in with his style.”
You can learn much more about Grant and his work in the latest installment of our web-exclusive Vertical Portraits series. Link in bio.
