Karen Kilimnik at MCA Chicago, Review
Review of Karen Kilimnik’s Mid-Career Retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
The show, Karen Kilimnik, at the MCA is “the first major” look at the artist’s work (1). Helter-scelter scatterings of acid tabs, chopped up cocaine and unidentifiable pills on the floor of the MCA highlight the poignant dialogue between the fairy like dandies in oil paint and the excessive sometimes scary fetishizing of the Kilimnik’s other installations. The success of the show is in careful but not fussy display of the work. Most of the paintings in oil or acrylic are placed evenly on two opposing walls with a central vein of the work found on the floor between the paintings. More like spills and happy accidents than highly formalized installations one gets the sense that the formal qualities of the sculptures are as important as the over the top content.
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Thinking About Space…A Proposal that Worked.
After all the “issues” with this project the class was sent home to cry. Just kidding, D sent us home to reconsider this project. Was the project still worth doing or should we focus our energy on something else. We were assigned to three groups of 3 or 4. Two ideas were produced. The one included here was written by myself, “Pony”, and “Squirrel” (I won’t include their full names for their privacy). If I get permission from the authors of the other proposal I will try to post it also. Anyway, here it is. Continue Reading →