Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave
312.663.5554
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John Opera, Caprice II, 2006
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July 17, 2009 – Sep 13, 2009
Mondays–Wednesdays (10am–5pm)
Thursdays (10am–8pm)
Fridays–Saturdays (10am–5pm)
Sundays (noon–5pm)
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MP3 II presents works by three Midwest-based photographers, their divergent approaches united by the transformative nature of their pieces. Curtis Mann bleaches out elements of existing photos, then adds his own drawn forms. His works go beyond mere appropriation to become sweeping recontextualizations, while also playing with the selective nature of viewing itself. Stacia Yeapanis' three-channel video My Life as a Sim gathers isolated moments from the universe of her video-game avatar, exploring identity through a lens of meta-mundanity. Her series Everybody Hurts, also on view, comprises embroidered reproductions of TV screen grabs, siphoning genuine emotion from prime-time genre fare like The X-Files and Dawson's Creek. Finally, John Opera juxtaposes landscape naturalism with recondite abstraction, taking cues from the intellectually vigorous spirituality of American Transcendentalism.
