Four Techspressionist Artists Featured on Chicago’s LED Art Wall

Exhibition Dates:
April 28 – July 20, 2025

Public Opening Event:
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Free and open to the public

Curated by:
Yuge Zhou

Artists:
Colin Goldberg
Renata Janiszewska
Karen LaFleur
Jan Swinburne

Location
150 Media Stream
150 N Riverside Plaza
Chicago, IL

Four Techspressionist Artists, a new group exhibition featuring video works by Colin Goldberg, Renata Janiszewska, Karen LaFleur, and Jan Swinburne, is opening at 150 Media Stream in Chicago this month. On view from April 28 to July 20, 2025, this exhibition highlights four unique interpretations of the Techspressionist movement — an international, artist-led community that explores emotion and aesthetics through digital technology.

Read our interview with Renata Janiszewska to learn more about her art, creative process, and inspirations.

The exhibition will debut on the 150-foot-long LED installation in the lobby of 150 North Riverside Plaza. A public event will be held on Thursday, May 1, welcoming visitors to experience the work up close and connect with the creative ideas driving this movement.

Curated by Chicago-based video artist Yuge Zhou, Four Techspressionist Artists brings together abstract motion, sound, and digital expression.

Colin Goldberg’s Interior Landscape reimagines early 20th-century art movements like Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism through a digital lens. Paired with a score by Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), the piece invites open-ended interpretation through flowing geometric forms.

Renata Janiszewska’s Souffles Pastels (Pastel Sighs) blends portraiture and abstraction with soft, romantic tones and textures. Echoing traditional crafts and domestic arts, her work examines femininity in transition.

Karen LaFleur’s Mycorrhizal draws inspiration from the natural symbiosis between fungi and plant roots. The evolving visuals that resemble living circuitry are accompanied by a soundscape composed by Nancy Tucker.

Jan Swinburne’s SONIC FLIGHT: Towards Peace is a site-specific meditation on sound and transformation. Using the waveform of a sonic boom recorded during a Toronto air show, Swinburne transforms noise into slow-moving serenity.

150 Media Stream, the largest digital art installation of its kind in Chicago, is made up of 89 vertical LED blades and spans over 150 feet in length. Since 2017, the program has showcased over fifty commissioned works by emerging and established media artists from around the world.

Interior Landscape: Image by Colin Goldberg

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