Director | Lorelei Stewart

In her tenure as Director of Gallery 400 since September 2000, Stewart has curated the group exhibitions Drawn Out, Depiction, Color Vaue, Loop, Revolutions Per Minute and Inside the City and organized the one-person exhibitions Rubén Ortiz Torres: Impure Beauty, Jenny Perlin: A worry free life or your money back, and Edgar Arceneaux: The Alchemy of Comedy...Stupid. In 2002 she initiated the acclaimed annual At the Edge: Innovative Art in Chicago series. As a member of the Voices Lecture Series selection board she has regularly invited accomplished, interesting younger artists to speak at the university. Stewart serves on the University of Illinois at Chicago's Public Art Committee as well as the UIC College of Architecture and the Arts Strategic Planning Committee and faculty and curator search committees of the School of Art and Design and Jane Addams Hull House Museum.

Stewart's essay on The Alchemy of Comedy...Stupid was published in the catalog for the show early in 2007. Stewart has also written for the Studio Museum catalog Frequency as well as local Chicago publications. She has taught at the graduate level at UIC and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, she has lectured and conducted critiques at the School of the Art Institute, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has participated in panel discussions at various Chicago area venues. In 2003 she was a juror for Milwaukee's Mary L. Nohl Artist Fellowships and a nominator for the 2004 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Individual Artist Awards in Chicago. In 2005 she was a juror for the Artadia Awards to Chicago artists.As a graduate student at Bard College's Center for Curatorial Studies from 1998-2000, she curated A World All Too Familiar and co-curated Positioning. As part of her graduate studies she was simultaneously a research intern at the MOCA LA and a curatorial intern at inSITE2000 San Diego/Tijuana. From 1994-98 Stewart was Program Director at New Langton Arts, San Francisco. Stewart holds a BA from Smith College, Massachusetts and a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art, Washington D.C.

Assistant Director | Anthony Elms

Elms joined Gallery 400 as Assistant Director in July 2005. An
artist and writer, he is also the Editor of WhiteWalls, a not-for-profit
organization that publishes artists' projects. With WhiteWalls he has
curated and/or edited five issues of the journal WhiteWalls;  fourteen books; the CD Pillow Plays Brotzmann (with Bottrop-Boy); and the 7inch single Filler (with Academy Records).

His writings have appeared in Art Asia Pacific, Artforum, Artforum.com, Cakewalk, Coterie, Interreview.org, Modern Painters, New Art Examiner, and Time Out Chicago. He has also written essays for the catalogs The Here and Now (Chicago Cultural Center), The Consistency of Shadows: Exhibition Catalogs as Autonomous Works of Art (Betty Rymer Gallery, SAIC), Crossings (Chicago Cultural Center), Spin/Spun: Danielle Gustafson-Sundell and
Melissa Pokorny (Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage), Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago), and Tony Tasset: All Things Must Pass (Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis). His essay, "A Broad Hat Does Not Always Cover a Vulnerable Head", on artist Brennan McGaffey, was recently published in In The Place of Sound: Architecture/Music/Acoustics (Cambridge Scholars Press). As an artist, Elms' works have been included in projects exhibited at Artists' Space (New York), Boom (Oak Park), Gahlberg Gallery (Glen Ellyn), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Mandrake (Los Angeles), Mess Hall (Chicago), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Randolph Street Gallery (Chicago), Suburban (Oak Park), and Temporary Services (Chicago), among others. He has curated the exhibitions: Andreas Fischer, Matthew Hanner, Robert Jacobs; Mean souls, like mean pictures, are often found in good-looking frames (with Elaine Ng) The Devil is in the Details; Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-61 (with John Corbett and Terri Kapsalis); Interstellar Low Ways (with Huey Copeland); and Carol Jackson. Additionally, he has taught at the University of Chicago's Laboratory Schools; the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and the University of Illinois, Chicago; lectured internationally; and participated in numerous panel discussions. In 2007 he was one of six jurors for the inaugural round of the Creative Capital/ Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant initiative.

Voices Lecture Series Coordinator | Isaac Lyles

Isaac Lyles joined Gallery 400 as a Graduate Gallery Assistant in August 2007. Isaac is the Voices Lecture Series Coordinator, exhibition coordinator, web developer, graphic designer and resident A/V specialist. He has formerly held positions at the Haunch of Venison Gallery, London; The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, New York; Cinematexas International Film Festival, Austin, TX; Texas Monthly Magazine, Austin, TX; and New Berlin Walking Tours, Berlin. Currently, he is a Master's student of Art History at UIC in the process of writing his thesis on Günter Brus' transition from performance to text and pictorial representation.

Gallery Assistant | Chaz Evans

Chaz joined the gallery staff as Graduate Gallery Assistant in the
fall of 2008. Chaz works as electronic marketing coordinator,
audience development and education coordinator and exhibition
assistant. He is currently working toward his MA in Art History at
UIC focusing on performance, new media, and ad culture. He completed
his BA in theatre and performance Studies at North Park University in
2006 and formerly worked as Box Office Coordinator at Chicago's Museum
of Contemporary Art. Chaz is also the founder and director of
Chicago-based performance collective, parker.

Gallery Assistant | Chris Smith

Chris joined Gallery 400 as an Undergraduate Assistant in October 2008 and is working on his BFA.  Chris is the gallery archivist, space rental contact, catalog sales contact, press communication contact, coordinates the mailing lists, manages the gallery library and manages the artist submission database.