Art inspired by the great Christian duality should be as grand as possible, or what’s a heaven (and hell) for? And so the biggest pieces in “Heaven + Hell”—a show that sprawls across two galleries, the Loyola University Museum of Art and Intuit—are a couple of 9-by-12-foot paintings by William Thomas Thompson, depicting the titular concepts. On display at LUMA along with other on-high artifacts, Thompson’s Heaven features so much white paint and so many radiating lines that you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s lit from behind. The thing envelops you. Thompson’s Hell has a big red pit and a spewing volcano and hangs at Intuit.
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Through 6/30: Tue 11 AM-8 PM, Wed-Sun 11 AM-6 PM, Loyola University Museum of Art, 820 N. Michigan, 312-915-7600, luc.edu/luma, $8, Tuesdays free; and Tue-Sat 11 AM-5 PM (Thu till 7:30), Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, 756 N. Milwaukee, 312-243-9088, art.org, $5.
