Loyola University Museum of Art
820 N Michigan Ave
312.915.7600
This event has passed.
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- When
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June 5, 2010 – Aug 1, 2010
Tuesdays (11am–8pm)
Wednesdays–Sundays (11am–6pm)
- Where
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- Price
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$6 / FREE Tuesdays
- Links
“Icons, by their very definition, can be difficult to understand. They act as signifiers, suggesting a meaning outside of themselves that relies on a particular cultural consciousness. The artists in LUMA's New Icon show, curated by Britton Bertran and presented by the Contemporary Arts Council, question both how icons are created and the supposedly inherent messages they communicate. Many of the artists displayed seem to be more iconoclasts than iconophiles: Carrie Gundersdorf inverts notions of singular, solar anomalies through collaged repetition; Sze Lin Pang tears meaning away from common emblems; Brennan McGaffey creates a fury of branded materials that signify nothing; and Dan Gunn and William J. O'Brien elevate the mundane — people and objects — to the sacred.
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Laura Fox, Flavorpill
