Corporate · Art Advisory · Curation

1 North Wacker | Chicago

One North Wacker is one of Chicago's most recognizable addresses, a premier Loop office tower whose architecture already sets a high bar. The art program developed for this corporate client in collaboration with Epic Interiors had to meet that bar and then raise it, creating an environment that felt not just professional and polished but genuinely alive with curatorial intention.

This was a project I am particularly proud of because of the caliber of artists we were able to bring into a corporate context. The collection includes photography by Edward Burtynsky, one of the most important documentary photographers working today, known for his monumental images of industrial landscapes and human impact on the natural world. Alongside Burtynsky, works by photographers Caleb Charland and Penelope Umbrico bring conceptual rigor and a quietly poetic sensibility to the space. The painting program features works by Luciana Levinton and Whitney Bedford, two painters with strong gallery careers and distinct visual voices, as well as prints by Joanne Greenbaum, whose mark-making has an irreverent energy that keeps the collection from feeling too settled.

The result is a collection that functions the way the best corporate art programs should: not as decoration applied after the fact, but as a defining element of the space that tells you something real about the organization inhabiting it. These are works by artists with genuine reputations and distinct points of view, placed with care in an environment that gives them room to breathe and be seen.