MCA Chicago (Venue Partner)
220 E. Chicago
312.280.2660
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Scott Reeder, Narcissus Cop, 2010.
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Nov 1, 2011 – Jan 24
Tuesdays (10am–8pm)
Wednesdays–Sundays (10am–5pm)
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$12 / FREE Tuesdays for Illinois residents
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“The Museum of Contemporary Art has moved to replace its long-running UBS 12x12 exhibitions, which focused on a different Chicago-based artist each month, with Chicago Works, a new series of exhibitions that take a broader look at the region's artists. Inaugurating the new series is Scott Reeder, a Milwaukee-based and Chicago-educated artist, whose quirky humor will no doubt be at play in the paintings exhibited, revolving as they do around a resort on the moon.”
Abraham Ritchie, Flavorpill
Scott Reeder's first solo museum exhibition includes new figurative paintings in his signature idiosyncratic style — for instance, anthropomorphic foods, fruits, and plants smoking cigarettes or enacting the myths of Sisyphus and Narcissus, and, most recently, abstract paintings made with cooked and raw spaghetti. Reeder's faux-naïve approach complicates the gravitas of his subject, namely the history of painting and the macho, academic nature of much of that history, with saccharine colors, atypical materials, and oddball subjects. For this exhibition, Reeder creates a large-scale, site-specific wall painting from his abstract spaghetti series for the second-floor lobby wall and screens his first feature-length film, Moon Dust, a futuristic story of a failing resort located on the moon.
