Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St
312.744.6630
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Christine Tarkowski, broadsheet, Courtesy of Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
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Jan 30, 2010 – May 2, 2010
Mondays–Thursdays (8am–7pm)
Fridays (8am–6pm)
Saturdays (9am–6pm)
Sundays (10am–6pm)
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It's clear now that the Cultural Center was really waiting for a mammoth, cardboard clipper ship with a broken corkscrew mast to fill its triple-height galleries. Christine Tarkowski works well with the ample space provided to her, spreading out a set of loosely-related works with political and social undercurrents: in addition to the ship, she installs a 30-foot screenprinted curtain; a Bucky-like half-dome with cement panels; a group of sculptural iron castings of parking structures; two walls of broadsides that deliver poem-like declarations about oil and slave ships. She even fills the air: an indefatigable turntable spins a record Tarkowski made with musician John Langford, sending out a melodic howl of veiled accusation in the form of brawny sloganeering, an endless echo of the broadsheets.
