Chicago-based artist Eli Robb's life was going swimmingly — until his house and studio caught fire and burned to the ground. Undaunted, Robb used the personal tragedy as a catalyst for new art-making. Working in various mediums, including installation and video, he mingles a sense of loss and nostalgia with glimmers of hope, in narratives affirming that all of life's energies cycle through one form into the next — art to ashes to art.