Hank Willis Thomas, “Farewell Uncle Tom,” 1971/2007, LightJet Print, 55 x 46 inches/ Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
1 Hank Willis Thomas Block Museum of Art Advertisements stripped of everything but figures demand a fresh focus on the ways that gender and race are shaped by commodities.
2 Otobong Nkanga Museum of Contemporary Art Nkanga binds Africa to the West through nuanced investigations of economies of raw materials and consumer goods.
3 Nina Chanel Abney Chicago Cultural Center The Chicago-born artist brings it home with delightful and daring paintings and collage.
4 Ellen Rothenberg Spertus Institute Drawing on Spertus’ archives of Judaica and materials on the Holocaust, this photomontage installation connects the history of anti-Semitism with present-day Islamophobia.
5 Margot Bergman Corbett vs. Dempsey You won’t be able to look away from these eerie and intimate paintings of women.
Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert is a curator, critic and editor. She is the inaugural Curator of Contemporary Art at the Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University. She was formerly Curatorial Fellow at the Chicago Artists Coalition, Art Editor of Newcity and Assistant Curator at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University.
