Corbett vs Dempsey
1120 N Ashland Ave
773.278.1664
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Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Extending, oil, shells, tile grout, latex and collage on canvas, 2009 - 11, 14” x 11”
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Opens Friday Feb 3 (5–8pm)
Feb 3 – Mar 17
Thursdays–Saturdays (11am–4pm)
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“Well in advance of her May exhibition at the MCA in the newly minted Chicago Works series, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung presents Negative Joy at Corbett vs. Dempsey. Supremely elegant while still appearing messy, Zuckerman-Hartung's work combines refined modernist tropes with an intensely visceral materiality where the media used often seems quite contingent on other artistic decisions already made. Her works often have an open-ended feeling, like a conversation still in progress, and one hopes that the works at Corbett vs. Dempsey (and later at the MCA) will retain that openness and sense of possibility.”
Abraham Ritchie, Flavorpill
In her Corbett vs. Dempsey debut, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung continues a deeply inquisitive exploration of painting as a primary practice, investigating its material raptures, intellectual speed-bumps, and conceptual limits. Zuckerman-Hartung simultaneously has an adoring relationship with paint — its gooey, viscous, repulsive, sexy physicality — and is also instinctively skeptical of its fetishistic power. Working abstractly, in relatively small scale, she reaches into a deep trick-bag, pouring, spraying, incising, collaging, assemblaging, linking, amputating, and otherwise thoroughly working and reworking her canvases. Ferociously original and intent on maintaining a permanent personal revolution, Zuckerman-Hartung has rapidly become one of the most visible artists of her generation to emerge in Chicago.
