Renaissance Society (Venue Partner)
The University of Chicago, Cobb Hall, 4th floor
5811 South Ellis Avenue, room 418
773 702 8670
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Courtesy of Maureen Paley, London, and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
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Oct 3, 2010 – Dec 12, 2010
Daily
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Directions: Green Line - Direction: Ashland / 63, to Garfield Station. X55 - Garfield Express - Direction: Museum of Science & Industry, to Ellis Avenue stop. Walk to 5811 South Ellis Avenue.
- Price
“Rebecca Warren, winner of the 2006 Turner Prize, is most recognizable for the messages about gender, nature, and the slipperiness of self-expression that are evoked in her powerful and amorphously unfired clay sculptures of female figures — pieces that have inspired some complex conversations with the male masters of figurative sculpture. Warren's new work shows the artist continuing to push her thinking about form in more geometric, conceptual, and abstract pieces that feel uncannily as organic and alive as her earlier work, and just as rigorous. Here, the Renaissance Society shows half-a-dozen of these sculptures with nine wall pieces.”
Monica Westin, Flavorpill
Perhaps best-known for her brash clay sculptures of female figures, Rebecca Warren (b. 1965) has developed a body of work distinguished for its formal risk-taking and the shrewd humor with which she faces the long, male-dominated tradition of figurative sculpture. For the solo exhibition at The Renaissance Society, her first in an American museum, Warren will be presenting new work. The show will be presented in collaboration with The Art Institute of Chicago, where three new site-specific bronzes will be installed on the Bluhm Family Terrace above the new Renzo Piano-designed Modern Wing. Placed in the open air against the dramatic Chicago skyline, Warren’s sculptures morph and abstract the human form, providing an organic counterpoint to the linearity of the cityscape.
