May 1 - July 17, 2010 Preview: Friday, April 30 6-8pm Opening: Saturday, May 1 from 6-9pm
TONY TASSET Selections from the Donna and Howard Stone Collection Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Wing June 25 - September 19, 2010
Rewind: The 1970's -1990's Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago March 13th - September 5, 2010 The exhibition will also include works by Vito Acconci, Richard Artschwager, Alfredo Jaar, Lorna Simpson, Richard Long, Mike Kelley, Richard Prince, Matthew Barney, Gillian Wearing, and Sharon Lockhart.
Tony Tasset: Selected Works from 1986-1996 Kavi Gupta Chicago Opening May 1, 2010 (6-9 pm)
Blob Monster Art Chicago/ NEXT Chicago, IL Merchandise Mart Main Entrance May 2010
Eye Public Commission: City of Chicago Unveiling July 4th, 2010
100 Years, A Draft of History PS 1 MOMA, New York, NY Stoschek Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Roselee Goldberg Spring 2010
TONY TASSET Blob Monster Art Chicago/ NEXT Chicago, IL Merchandise Mart Main Entrance May 2010
At roughly 13 feet tall, Tony Tasset's Blob Monster (2009) looks down onto viewers. Rising from a multi-colored pool of formlessness, the monster sports a soft-witted smile and gloppy semi-formed hands that groggily reach outward. As an imposing mass of goo built from the techniques and methods that characterize modern art's theory of formlessness - from Pollock's splash to Louis' pour - the monster is a caricature and uncanny embodiment of the historical juggernaut that formlessness has become for art today. Where once formlessness was an underlying tactic that significantly altered the trajectory of formal aestheticism, Tasset's Blob Monster acts just as the historicization of art does, dumbly looking to absorb any that come to ogle.
-Marc Leblanc
NEXT ART FAIR 2010 April 30 - May 3, 2010
Works by: Jeff Carter Theaster Gates Jr. Susan Giles Jason Karolak Curtis Mann Angel Otero Clare Rojas Cordy Ryman Melanie Schiff Adam Scott Claire Sherman Tony Tasset
