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SUMMARY:Bob Thompson: This House is Mine
DESCRIPTION:The University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art presents Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine\, the first museum exhibition dedicated to this visionary painter in more than twenty years. \nOrganized by the Colby College Museum of Art\, where it debuted in summer 2021\, the exhibition features more than 85 paintings and works on paper. This House Is Mine centers Bob Thompson’s brief but prolific transatlantic career within expansive art historical narratives and ongoing dialogues about the politics of representation\, charting his enduring influence. \nAbout the exhibition \nBorn in 1937 in Louisville\, Kentucky\, Thompson was recognized during his lifetime for his paintings of figurative complexity and chromatic intensity. Over a mere eight years\, from 1958 to his untimely death at the age of 28 in 1966\, he developed an enigmatic style that used canonical European paintings as points of departure to create radically inventive contemporary allegories. Human and animal figures\, often silhouetted and relatively featureless\, populate mysterious vignettes set in wooded landscapes or haunt theatrically compressed spaces. Thompson reconfigures well-known compositions by European artists such as Piero della Francesca and Francisco de Goya through brilliant acts of formal distortion and elision\, recasting these scenes in sumptuous colors. \nThis House Is Mine examines both Thompson’s formal inventiveness and his engagement with universal themes such as collectivity\, freedom\, bearing witness\, struggle\, justice and music. \nBob Thompson: This House Is Mine is organized by the Colby College Museum of Art\, Waterville\, Maine\, and curated by Diana Tuite. The presentation at the Smart Museum of Art is organized by Jennifer Carty\, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art with Orianna Cacchione\, Curator of Global Contemporary Art. It will continue its national tour with stops in Atlanta and Los Angeles. The exhibition is generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, halley k harrisburg and Michael Rosenfeld\, and the Alex Katz Foundation. Principal support for the presentation at the Smart Museum of Art has been provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Additional support has been provided by the Museum’s SmartPartners.
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SUMMARY:The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China
DESCRIPTION:Since the 1980s\, Chinese contemporary artists have cultivated intimate relationships with their materials\, establishing a framework of interpretation revolving around materiality. Their media range from the commonplace to the unconventional\, the natural to the synthetic\, the elemental to the composite: from plastic\, water\, and wood\, to hair\, gunpowder\, and Coca-Cola. \nArtists continue to explore and develop this creative mode\, with some devoting decades of their practice to experiments with a single material. For the first time\, The Allure of Matter brings together works from the past four decades in which conscious material choice has become a symbol of the artists’ expression\, representing this unique trend throughout recent history. \nThe exhibition features approximately 40 monumental works that are complementary in form\, material\, and visual effect. \n\nArtists\nAi Weiwei\, Cai Guo-Qiang\, Chen Zhen\, Gu Dexin\, Gu Wenda\, He Xiangyu\, Hu Xiaoyuan\, Huang Yong Ping\, Jin Shan\, Liang Shaoji\, Lin Tianmiao\, Liu Jianhua\, Liu Wei\, Ma Qiusha\, Shi Hui\, Song Dong\, Sui Jianguo\, Sun Yuan and Peng Yu\, Wang Jin\, Xu Bin\, Yin Xiuzhen\, Zhan Wang\, Zhang Yu\, and Zhu Jinshi. \n\nChicago Presentation\nIn Chicago\, the exhibition is co-presented at the Smart Museum and Wrightwood 659. \n\nNational Tour\n\nLos Angeles County Museum of Art (summer 2019)\nSmart Museum of Art and Wrightwood 659\, Chicago (winter 2020)\nSeattle Art Museum (summer 2020)\nPeabody Essex Museum\, Salem\, Massachusetts (fall 2020)
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SUMMARY:Meleko Mokgosi: Bread\, Butter\, and Power
DESCRIPTION:Meleko 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. \nThis twenty-panel installation interrogates the theme of feminism in the context of southern Africa\, and considers the consequences of dividing labor practices by gender. \nMokgosi’s approach to storytelling through the form of history painting allows us to compare what we see in the paintings to the realities of inequality and gendered labor division we know from experience. This approach to the content also inspires us to think expansively about politics\, power structures\, and the role of history in the creation of the current nations of southern Africa. \nMeleko Mokgosi: Bread\, Butter\, and Power was organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA and is curated by Erica P. Jones\, Associate Curator of African Arts. The Smart Museum presentation was overseen by Jennifer Carty\, Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art.
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SUMMARY:Samson Young: Silver Moon or Golden Star\, Which Will You Buy Of Me?
DESCRIPTION:In his first U.S. museum exhibition\, Samson Young premieres a trilogy of animated music videos that explore varying concepts of social progress and utopia. \nLoosely 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 little control over. For Young\, “progress” as it was defined in the 1933 fair’s subtitle “A Century of Progress” represents a specific variant of aspirational thinking. From cars to shopping malls and houses designed for the future to political change\, progressive thinking has had contrasting consequences as it made its impact felt across the globe in the decades that followed. \nThe exhibition is the culmination of a year-long research project undertaken by the artist that commenced during a residency co-sponsored by the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum and Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. The exhibition showcases a trilogy of music videos—The Highway is Like a Lion’s Mouth\, Da Da Company\, and the new Houses of Tomorrow—that Young describes as a “song cycle.” Additionally\, the exhibition includes archival materials related to the 1933 World’s Fair and “sound drawings” by the artist.
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SUMMARY:Cross Currents / Intercambio Cultural
DESCRIPTION: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. \nCross Currents is the result of an artist exchange organized by the National Museum of Mexican Art. Six Chicago-based artists visited Havana in spring 2017 and six Cuban artists visited Chicago in fall 2017 and summer 2018. The work on view reflects the artists’ experiences and observations as they interacted with each other\, curators\, cultural spaces\, and neighborhoods during their trips. The project aims to open pathways of communication and understanding between the two cities and peer artists while also reflecting on their own artistic practices at this moment in time. \n\nARTISTS\nBased in Chicago: \n\nAlberto Aguilar (b. 1974\, Chicago)\nCarlos Barberena (b. 1972\, Nicaragua)\nDianna Frid (b. 1967\, Mexico City)\nRodrigo Lara Zendejas (b. 1981\, Toluca\, Mexico)\nHarold Mendez (b. 1977\, Chicago)\nEdra Soto (b. 1971\, San Juan\, Puerto Rico)\n\nBased in Havana: \n\nHumberto Díaz (b. 1975\, Cuba)\nSusana Pilar Delahante Matienzo (b. 1984\, Cuba)\nDouglas Pérez Castro (b. 1972\, Cuba)\nAlejandro González (b. 1974\, Cuba)\nCelia Irina González Álvarez (b. 1985\, Cuba) and Yunior Aguiar Perdomo (b. 1984\, Cuba)\nRequer (Renier Quer Figueredo\, b. 1983\, Cuba)\n\n\nTOUR\nA version of the exhibition will travel to El Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales\, Havana\, Cuba in January 2020.
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SUMMARY:Tara Donovan: Fieldwork
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDonovan manipulates a material over and over again\, to see what it is capable of becoming\, where it might lead\, and how it migrates from an object of practical use to something surreal or sublime. In some instances\, she reworks a material into both two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms\, engaging with space and light in nuanced and unexpected ways. \nOrganized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver\, this exhibition presents\, for the first time\, wall-based and freestanding objects together\, demonstrating how fully the artist reimagines everyday materials. Taken together\, the works in this exhibition demonstrate how order and structure give way to unpredictability and how the mundane cedes to the marvelous. \nTara Donovan was born in 1969 in New York City\, where she currently lives and works. \nTara Donovan: Fieldwork is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and curated by Nora Burnett Abrams\, Ellen Bruss Curator and Director of Planning at MCA Denver. The Smart Museum’s presentation is overseen by Alison Gass\, Dana Feitler Director\, and Jennifer Carty\, Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art.
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SUMMARY:Opening reception: Tara Donovan Fieldwork
DESCRIPTION:Public opening of Tara Donovan: Fieldwork at the Smart Museum of Art. \nTara 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\, wall based works.
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