Isabel Monti

The Guests We Don‘t See

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Exhibition from October 17th – November 08th, 2025.

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Friday October 17th

7pm – opening

 

Thursday October 30th

6:30pm – Potluck Dinner 

We’re having an informal get-together with shared dishes; you’re welcome to bring something along if you’d like.

 

Saturday November 8th

2pm to 5pm – Finissage

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The Guests We Don’t See is a solo exhibition by Isabel Monti featuring painting, cyanotype, and installation.  Viewers are invited to commune with the spirits, as Monti’s work summons late loved ones through visual symbols and objects.  The table, often the heart of the home, serves as a liminal space and a place of grounding. Setting a table for 5, to hold physical space for the invisible, becoming a place of offering and a bridge between the living and the dead. The paintings bring us into a different realm, a place of memory and haze. Created from the collaging of memories and photos Monti’s paintings oscillate between abstraction and reality. Often grouped together to tell a story or a visual narrative of the magnetic pull between the living and the spirit realm.

 

 

Isabel Monti (Chicago, IL *1997) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work aims to hold close late loved ones. She is currently going back and forth between Austin, Texas, and Berlin, Germany. She received her MFA in 2022 from Alfred University’s Alfred Düsseldorf Painting MFA program and her BFA from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 2020. She has had two solo presentations of her work in Berlin, Magentaed Impressions (2025) at van Hofen and always in time (2023) at Tapir Gallery as a part of her artist in residence at TAKT Berlin.  She has participated in multiple group shows nationally and internationally. Her work is featured in New American Painting MFA issue #165, Fall Exhibition Catalog Fall 2022 by I Like Your Work titled Finding A Memory, and in the article „Departure from Medium“ by Til Will for the Flat Rate Contemporary 14 exhibition.