An exhibition by Erik Wenzel. The show is a continuation Wenzel's reductive turn: creating a viewing situation from a selection of an increasingly sparse collection of things—in this case a new video work and some objects. A musical component will also be present during the opening in the form of a selection of songs played in alphabetical order by title.

Matthew Metzger’s subject is abstraction, but he excavates his motifs from the world of everyday things. His paintings of ping pong paddles, tattered paperbacks, scratched out lp sleeves, and other disregarded objects catalog the contents of basements, garages, closets, and attics. These outmoded objects, rendered with both deafening surface precision and also the vocabulary of abstraction, appear to pose a contemporary method of meaning making. Accessed through the tools of representation, the legibility of abstraction is scrambled and defamiliarized. As such, Metzger’s work emerges between present and past, theoretical and sensorial, real and falsified, the recognizable and the obscure.

As a young, but highly accomplished and recognized artist and writer, as well as an alumnae and active member of The University of Chicago community, Emma Bee Bernstein developed a successful body of photographic works up until her death in December 2008. This exhibition of 30 photographs is accompanied by a slide presentation curated by Antonia Pocock and a catalogue with critical statements by Kate Bussard, Assistant Curator of Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago; Hamza Walker, the Director of Education at The Renaissance Society; and Professor Matthew Jesse Jackson, of the Department of Art History and ...

Video installation by Michelle Menzies with audio by Max Alexander.

The revolutionary art by Emory Douglas. Presented in conjunction with the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago.