Art
Current Exhibitions
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Aug 06 – Aug 01
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Jun 05 – Oct 24
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Sep 18 – Jan 23
Caja de Visiones: Arte moderno y contemporáneo de México en el Medio Oeste de los Estados Unidos
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Chicago Imagists
MMoCA has one of the premier institutional collections of Chicago Imagist works. The Imagists were a group of figurative artists who emerged in Chicago in the mid-1960s. They used vibrant color, bold lines, and depicted the human body grossly distorted and highly stylized. Their bizarre portrayals of the human form expanded on Chicago’s artistic tradition of the grotesque established by artists like Ivan Albright and Leon Golub. Although influenced by the encyclopedic collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Imagists were equally inspired by ethnographic collections at the Field Museum, self-taught artists, comic books, storefront window displays, and advertisements in magazines.
Past Exhibitions
Learn more about MMoCA’s previous exhibitions. A complete list of exhibitions since 1979 is available here.
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