New works created by Stephanie Brooks will be exhibited at the Riverside Art Center Freeark Gallery. Opening reception on Friday, 3 December from 6 to 9 PM. The exhibition, titled "Obstacles and Intimacies", will continue until 8 January. <br/><br/>With the works in this exhibition, she interrogates ways in which intimacy and barriers intersect. Using barricades both literally and metaphorically, she asks viewers to think on what is a barricade and what is intimate in their lives.how do we navigate and negotiate public and private spaces? <br/><br/>Stephanie Brooks is a conceptual artist, writer, and curator living in Chicago. She earned her BFA degree from Ohio University and MFA degree from University of Illinois Chicago. She exhibits her work nationally and internationally including exhibits in Atlanta, Chicago, Denmark, Indianapolis, London, Los Angeles, Louisville, San Francisco, New York, Vienna, Phoenix, and Hawaii. <br/>She is an Adjunc