Reversible Eye is a testament to the fact (or cliche) that art builds community. Incorporating Latin American, African American and Chicago artistic traditions, the Humboldt Park gallery brings together this multicultural community's talent into a harmonious space.

Exhibits feel fresh and rotate every couple of months. Organizers are tapped into the local art, music and performance scenes, primarily focusing on experimental, folk, and outsider work. The 2006 "Public Image Enemy" exhibition celebrated punk and hip-hop's 30th anniversaries with a collage of fifteen local graffiti artists' brash and beautiful outbursts. The space also hosts performance art and all-ages concerts for audiences of up to 100, sans the Milwaukee Avenue hype.

The volunteers running the space partner with arts and civic groups by exhibiting the work of adults with developmental disabilities in the Arts of Life program, working with the area's musical youth free of charge in the RevEye Demo Project, and preserving neighborhood spirit in the face of gentrification by working with the Friends of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center.

Centerstage Reviewer: Justin Sondak