January 26 – April 2, 2017
Rodrigo Lara Zendejas, Chapel, 2016. Photographed by Lizbeth Applewhite. Courtesy of DePaul Art Museum.
Installation view. Photographed by Lizbeth Applewhite. Courtesy of DePaul Art Museum.
Jeni Spota C., Bird Woman, 2015. Courtesy of Brennan & Griffin Gallery.
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Nate Young, Untitled (Altar No. 4), 2015. Courtesy of Deone Jackman. Image courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago.
Andrea Büttner, Bread Painting, 2016. Photography: Jörg Baumann, Courtesy of Hollybush Gardens, London and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. Copyright Andrea Büttner/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016.
Taking its title from a 1920s opera composed by Virgil Thomson and libretto by Gertrude Stein, this group exhibition brings together contemporary artists such as Andrea Büttner, Jeni Spota C., Devin Mays, Dan Ramirez, Kehinde Wiley, Nate Young, and Rodrigo Lara Zendejas who appropriate the iconography of saints and other religious forms in order to critically explore their relationship to this imagery.
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