Museum of Contemporary Art
220 E Chicago Ave
312.280.2660
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Caleb J. Lyons, Untitled Document, 2009
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June 5, 2010 – June 27, 2010
Tuesdays (10am–8pm)
Wednesdays–Sundays (10am–5pm)
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- Price
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$12 / FREE on Tuesdays
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“Caleb J. Lyons' work is obsessed with its own derivative nature, but the process by which that preoccupation is expressed makes for a fascinating consideration of aesthetics, politics, and the state of contemporary art. His current show at the MCA, Abstraction in the Twenty-First Century, uses cheap, non-archival materials to make purposely failed work, from landscapes and still lifes to an abstract-expressionist-type piece, that comprise a provocative simulacrum (or fetish) of canonical art. The exhibit contains a series of ceramics, paintings, and a clever video appropriating the nude figure — this time as artist.”
Monica Westin, Flavorpill
MCA says: Caleb J. Lyons's practice focuses on cultural detritus; mining and resurrecting the presence of melancholy and absurdity in cultural production from (very) recent history. His series of paintings, Real Pirates (a reference to piracy as a form of appropriation), and a related grouping of ceramics take on "high art" and address a turn to what might be called an aesthetics of failure in contemporary abstract practices, exemplified by cheap materials and unskilled craft.
