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Hammer Projects: Mike Cloud
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Chicago-based artist Mike Cloud makes mixed-media assemblages that are typically composed of stretcher bars configured into geometric shapes and universal forms with objects embedded in thick oil paint.
Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70, Part II
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This exhibition marks the 70th anniversary of the Grunwald Center, celebrating its history through a selection of significant works that reflect the collection's breadth and diversity.
Hammer Projects: Vibeke Mascini
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Mascini presents a new installation in which electrical cables and aerial root systems intermingle by electroforming plants including ceiba trees and orchids, rendering otherwise nonelectrical subjects into carriers of electricity.
Hammer Projects: Gê Viana
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The first institutional presentation in the U.S. of Viana, a visual artist working in collage, sound, video, and installation to explore material culture, oral history, and syncretism within the African diaspora across Brazil.
Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines
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Lebanese by birth, French by marriage, and American by choice, Caland's life and work spanned continents and media, challenging the aesthetic and social conventions of her time in each place her diasporic migrations brought her.
Fall Exhibitions Celebration
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Celebrate a pair of retrospectives featuring two prolific and trailblazing abstract artists, Huguette Caland and Mavis Pusey, with galleries open late and music in the courtyard.
Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images Member Preview
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Members can experience the Mavis Pusey exhibition before it opens to the public, along with up to four guests, with coffee and tea provided.
Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images
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An important figure in geometric abstraction, Jamaican-born artist Mavis Pusey created rich abstract paintings and works on paper that reflect her wide-ranging engagement with fashion, printmaking, and the urban environment.
Curator Walk-through: Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images
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Curatorial assistants Jessi DiTillio and Kiki Teshome lead a walk-through of the Mavis Pusey exhibition.
Curator Walk-through: Huguette Caland: A Life in Few Lines
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Exhibition curator Hannah Feldman leads a walk-through of the Huguette Caland exhibition.
Felipe Baeza: Anima
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Baeza's figurative work depicts bodies in various states of fragmentation, hybridity, and legibility—which the artist has called "fugitive" and "unruly"—to explore racialized, queer, and migrant subjects who transgress the limitations of identity.