Museum of Contemporary Art
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Aspen Mays, Einstein Rainbow 1, 2009
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Opens Friday Feb 5, 2010 (6–10pm)
Feb 6, 2010 – Feb 28, 2010
Tuesdays (10am–8pm)
Wednesdays–Sundays (10am–5pm)
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$12
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Also check out Mays' sculptural installation at Hyde Park Art Center, From the Office of Scientists, through April 25.
Aspen Mays' photographs are among the more colorful, eye-catching works to grace the 12x12 exhibition series, but they're also the product of a methodical rigor that stems from the artist's fascination with the world of science. For one project, Mays individually photographed every single leaf on a summertime tree, resulting in a wall-spanning multitude of green. In another Herculean effort, she requested all 1900+ books about Einstein through inter-library loan, organizing their spines into gravity-taunting rainbows that arc between two chairs. If these cataloging efforts pick up the systematic playbook of Conceptual Art in certain respects, they're hardly austere or averse to aesthetics; Mays finds visual forms that embody her ideas and infuse her work with warmth and wit.
