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Meleko Mokgosi: Bread, Butter, and Power
Smart Museum of Art 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, IL, United StatesMeleko Mokgosi’s large-scale episodic painting cycle Bread, Butter, and Power forms the newest chapter in his ongoing series Democratic Intuition, which seeks to explore ideas about the many ways that democratic concepts influence our lives, loves, and relationships on macro- and micro-levels. This twenty-panel installation interrogates the theme of feminism in the context of southern Africa, and considers […]
Samson Young: Silver Moon or Golden Star, Which Will You Buy Of Me?
Smart Museum of Art 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, IL, United StatesIn his first U.S. museum exhibition, Samson Young premieres a trilogy of animated music videos that explore varying concepts of social progress and utopia. Loosely taking the idealism displayed at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago as a point of departure, this multimedia exhibition asks how do people adapt to societal changes that they have […]
Cross Currents / Intercambio Cultural
Smart Museum of Art 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, IL, United StatesThis 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 […]
Tara Donovan: Fieldwork
Smart Museum of Art 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, IL, United StatesFieldwork 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 […]
Opening reception: Tara Donovan Fieldwork
Smart Museum of Art 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, IL, United StatesPublic 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, […]