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Mar 02 21c Chicago's OFF-SPRING Exhibit Opening Reception
21c Chicago is unveiling a new exhibition with OFF-SPRING: New Generations. The exhibition, which remains on view through January 2024 throughout the 21c Chicago gallery spaces, presents a thematic group exhibition of 100 multi-media artworks by 60 artists from across the globe highlighting how religious, cultural, familial, and personal rituals shape who we are and how and where we live, love, and learn. OFF-SPRING features works by artists Gehard Demetz, Angela Ellsworth, Lalla Essaydi, Anthony Goicolea, Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Li Hongbo, Ragnar Kjartansson, Kelly Kristin Jones, Deana Lawson, Hans Op de Beeck, Chiaru Shiota, Vee Speers, Carrie Mae Weems, and others.
OFF-SPRING: New Generations, 21c Chicago’s latest exhibition, opens to the public with a reception on Thursday, March 2, 2023 from 6:30 to 8:30pm. An introduction to the exhibition by 21c Chief Curator Alice Gray Stites will be followed by a presentation by featured artist Angela Ellsworth at 6:30 pm. The exhibition will be on view through January 2024. The museum is free and open 24/7, 365 days a year.
Rituals—religious and cultural, institutional and domestic—provide the thematic infrastructure for OFF-SPRING: New Generations. These sculptures, paintings, photographs, and videos employ iconographic imagery to explore the development of both personal and group identity, childhood, family, history, and gender politics. “At the wedding altar, in the family home, or in the classroom, within the fantasy of childhood play or the familiarity of grown-up habit, these new, old narratives generate a spectrum of meditations on the contemporary construction of self and society,” says 21c Chief Curator Alice Gray Stites, “In OFF-SPRING, transformations of iconic imagery from spheres both sacred and profane generate a new power, the power of potential and change.”
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