 London-born Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo (b. 1978) lives and works in Los Angeles.
Through her studio practice and fieldwork with riverside communities impacted by large-scale infrastructure projects around the world, Caycedo makes work that addresses humanity’s relationship with nature. She works on the front-lines of social and environmental justice, gathering materials, experiences, objects, and feelings to make her multidisciplinary work.
Informed by Indigenous philosophies, Cayced… moreKenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photographyphotographs by 16 women artistsPhotography from the MCA Collectioncurated by Francesco BonamiKerry Skarbakka's anxiety-provoking large format photographs depict figures falling from dreadful heights. These images, which document actual falls the artist has staged with the daring and skill of a Hollywood stuntman, signify the surrendering of control to external forces. As a result, feelings of helplessness yield to the more expansive sense of release and liberation.
There will be a tour led by Kerry Skarbakka on Tuesday, December 17, at noon.
moreReferences to the conditions of “life, death, love, hate, pleasure, pain”—a phrase borrowed from a work in the collection by artist Bruce Nauman—emanate from and reverberate within the most compelling art of any era.
MCA James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator Elizabeth Smith has assembled a selection of approximately 70 pieces from 50 artists to form Life Death Love Hate Pleasure Pain, an exhibition of many of the MCA’s most significant and powerful works. The presentation includes paintings,… moreGillian Wearing has emerged as one of the foremost British artists of her generation, creating video installations and photographic works that explore the strange humor and wrenching tragedy of everyday life. Her work often uses the techniques of documentary films and television to frame alternately unsettling, disturbing, comical, and unpredictable actions and words of various ordinary people drawn from London. Winner of Britain's prestigious Turner Prize in 1997, Wearing has exhibited extensiv… morePhotographs by Illinois Artists from the MCA CollectionThis exhibition presents work by eleven Illinois-based artists from 1930 to the present that evokes reveries, dreams, or other workings of the subconscious. While some of the artists' intentions are analytical or conceptual, all of the works transport the viewer away from the everyday world. The exhibition presents a brief history of the development of two separate strands within this theme. Photographers such as Kenneth Josephson and Ruth Thorne-Thomsen search the world for images of dreamlike … more |
