CHICAGO (May 24, 2025) — While there are plenty of upgrades like white wall panels to appropriately display the art, the original, indented wood floors on the first floor remain, and the brick and concrete walls, with their worn, overlapping layers of paint and often uneven surfaces are still visible and give the rooms edginess and personality.
At the same time, the architects came up with smart connections — what Kerr calls “adjacencies” — between rooms and imaginative ways to maximize limited space, like expanding the once-cramped mezzanine between the two main floors and adding a handsome new open-air stairway in the middle of the building that is both utilitarian and a striking architectural feature.
This highly successful renovation and expansion allows Intuit to show more art than ever before, reaffirms its values as an institution and goes far in enhancing its place as one of the city’s essential visual art institutions.
Intuit champions the diverse voices of self-taught art, welcoming both new and familiar audiences. Intuit presents the work of self-taught artists—also known as outsider art. These artists typically work outside the mainstream and may have faced societal, economic or geographic barriers to a traditional path of art making. By presenting a diversity of artistic voices, Intuit builds a bridge from art to audiences.
