When I was in Chicago earlier this month for the Art Chicago/NEXT Art Fairs, I attended a special tour courtesy of the nonprofit arts organization, Artadia. Artadia’s mission is to encourage innovative practice and meaningful dialogue across the United States by providing visual artists in specific communities with unrestricted awards and a national network of support. A group of Board and National Council members were treated to a very special program of art events that weekend, including….
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Pamela Alper Associate Curator, Julie Rodriguez Widholm spoke to me about the exhibition she organized from the MCA Collection and augmented with loans from private collections.
Seeing Is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion ends Sunday!! If you are in Chicago this holiday weekend, it is not to be missed (or seen one more time).
Seeing Is a Kind of Thinking includes work by more than 50 contemporary artists that resonates—either formally or through its subject matter—with aspects of Nutt’s work. The exhibition is organized into four thematic sections that examine how artists look to comics, folk art and non-Western art as source material; representations of surrealist psycho-sexual dramas; the traditional portrait bust genre; and an architectural approach to materials that oscillates between 2-D drawings and 3-D forms.
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Posted on May 27, 2011
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