Laurie Jo Reynolds in Public Works: Artists' Interventions 1970s–Now
UIC School of Art & Art History faculty Laurie Jo Reynolds & Tamms Year Ten will be featured in Public Works: Artists' Interventions 1970s–Now. The exhibition examines strategies of public practice by women artists from the 1970s to the present. The exhibition presents photography, prints, audio, video, and installations from a number of important historical and contemporary projects that explore the inherent politics and social conditions of creating art in public space.
Public Works moves beyond traditional views of public art as monumental and/or permanent artworks and instead focuses often on small but powerful temporary artistic interventions online and in the urban environment. Through various tactics, Public Works explores themes of public space, public expression, public action, public platforms and public life through the evolving lens of participatory projects, socially engaged performance and political action, among other media.
A series of public commissions are featured alongside the works in the gallery, including Susan O'Malley's You Are Exactly Where You Need to Be (2012), a temporary mural on the facade of the museum and available as a take-away postcard; a newly commissioned gallery installation and newspaper intervention in the Oakland Tribune by Favianna Rodriguez; and off-site performance commissions by Constance Hockaday and Jenifer K. Wofford, produced in collaboration with the San Francisco-based nonprofit Southern Exposure.
Featuring works by Amy Balkin, Tania Bruguera, Candy Chang, Minerva Cuevas, Agnes Denes, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Karen Finley, Coco Fusco, Guerrilla Girls, Sharon Hayes, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jenny Holzer, Emily Jacir, Suzanne Lacy, Marie Lorenz, Susan O'Malley, Adrian Piper, Laurie Jo Reynolds & Tamms Year Ten, Favianna Rodriguez, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Stephanie Syjuco, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Southern Exposure Off-Site commissions by Constance Hockaday and Jenifer K. Wofford.
Curated by Christian L. Frock, independent curator, writer and educator, and Tanya Zimbardo, Assistant Curator of Media Arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
The fully illustrated exhibition catalogue of the same title features an introduction by Mills College Art Museum Director Stephanie Hanor, PhD, essays by curators Christian L. Frock and Tanya Zimbardo, and conversations and texts from María del Carmen Carrión, Courtney Fink, Leila Grothe, Valerie Imus, and Meredith Johnson. Available here.
Other information about location and time can be found here: http://mcam.mills.edu/
The exhibition is supported in part by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation