Opening reception: Tara Donovan Fieldwork

Smart Museum of Art 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, IL, United States

Public opening of Tara Donovan: Fieldwork at the Smart Museum of Art. Tara Donovan transforms mundane materials like plastic straws, index cards, rubber bands, Slinkys, and sheets of mylar into elaborate, mind-bending objects. The exhibition celebrates the American artist's distinctive practice through both large-scale three-dimensional forms that are evocative of the natural world and two-dimensional, […]

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Tara Donovan: Fieldwork

Smart Museum of Art 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, IL, United States

Fieldwork celebrates American artist Tara Donovan’s distinctive practice that transforms mundane materials like plastic straws, index cards, rubber bands, Slinkys, and Mylar into elaborate, mind-bending objects evocative of the natural world. Donovan manipulates a material over and over again, to see what it is capable of becoming, where it might lead, and how it migrates from […]

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Cross Currents / Intercambio Cultural

Smart Museum of Art 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, IL, United States

This exhibition explores how issues of Latin American and Latinx identity and place are manifest in the practices of artists working in Chicago and Havana at a moment of social change and strained political relations between the United States and Cuba. Cross Currents is the result of an artist exchange organized by the National Museum of Mexican […]

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