Visual Art Culture of Chicago and Beyond
“Weather Accents” is composed of work made over the last four years in which Macdonald’s concerns around landscape were gradually distilled down to weather, then purified further into rain.
The exhibition responds to the perceived impossibility of responding aesthetically to “the hyper object” that is climate change.
Conceptual artist Shonna Pryor delves into hidden individual histories to explore their past, present and future.
The conceptual currents of “Abattoir, USA!,” which explores the architecture and conflicted cultural resonances of the slaughterhouse, are thick.
No two artists could be farther apart in concept and style. While David’s long, long panoramic images are breathtaking in their portrayal of North American landscapes, Nancy’s wild, erratic and excitingly dynamic work is at the other end of the photographic spectrum.
Bannos produced a ten-episode podcast “My Dear Alice,” based on letters sent to the Victorian photographer Alice Austen (1866–1952).
For the better part of a decade, the L.A.-based artist has used a variety of bladed tools to make her signature alla prima monochromatic gestural abstractions. In the last year, however, the hand has cut off the knife.
Adams reflects on the inflated, abstracted nature of contemporary American and African American reality through the lens of television and media—their influence takes center stage whether concealed or unapologetically in-your-face.
A month for contemplation and interrogation of identity and under-representation.
In the compelling exhibition currently on display at the Smart Museum, photographs tell the story of the sixties in Africa. It was a decade of change, resistance, revolution and hard-won independence in many African countries.
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