Chicago artist Elijah Burgher

Local artist Elijah Burgher has already been mentioned on Occult Chicago on at least two separate occasions, so it seemed time to dedicate a post to him.

Burgher works with tools such as sigilization to produce magical-personal works of art.  He has recently shown at Western Exhibitions (at the same time as Black Thorns in the White Cube) and as part of Homoccult & Other Esoterotica.

Build Better Human Beings

Anal Swastika (Recruiter Version)

Ghost Vomit

Black Mirror

All images taken from Burgher's blog, Ghost Vomit.  He is also on Tumblr.

Black Thorns in the White Cube

Unfortunately this show ended right before I started this blog.  Chicago curator Amelia Ishmael curated this art exhibition relating to black metal culture.  "Esoteric symbols of the occult and strange ceremonies" filed the exhibition (quote by Flavorwire).

Photograph by Tereza Zelenkova, courtesy the artist's website

"Black Thorns in the White Cube" exhibited locally at Western Exhibitions.  Artists included:  Alexander Binder, Vincent Como, Terence Hannum, Karlynn Holland, Elodie Lesourd, Aaron Mette, Christophe Szpajdel, Grant Willing and Tereza Zelenkova.

Works left to right by Aaron Mette and Terence Hannum.  Photograph courtesy Western Exhibitions.

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