A Feb. 28 snippet from Bonnie McGrath’s South Loop Observer blog:

“A great new art gallery in the South Loop — run by Realtor Colleen Harper — opened this weekend at 1915 S. Michigan. I visited Saturday night and I was very impressed. Harper is showcasing a nice array of artists and photographers that makes for a nice display. Very satisfying. And so were the nuts and wine and grapes she was serving, too.

The space is her former Cacciatore-Harper real estate office — a spiffy light-filled space of wood floors, white walls and molding that has adapted nicely to visual art. Harper is now with

@Properties on Fulton.

Harper’s son Dakota Blue, a 19-year-old studying photography at Columbia College, has a wonderful series of ominous black and white photographs on display at the new Harper Gallery that were taken in Bronzeville of the landscape. They proclaim empty lots as a backdrop to new houses and old buildings …”

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