The campus comedy revolves around the show’s creator, Benito Skinner’s character Benny, a closeted college freshman, who tries to date Carmen, played by Baram, to keep his sexuality hidden.

Carmen Neely (b. 1987 in Charlotte, North Carolina; lives and works in Chicago) trades in semantics. Neely’s canvases are surfaces taught with conflict, line, color and language.

Fencing has gone up around the Carmen Court building at 900 E. 1st Ave., and a banner touts the services of American Demolition. “I can confirm that demolition is imminent,” said Marisa Monte ...