Josiah McElheny, Imaginary Modernism: Hilma af Klint and Blinky Palermo

Join us for a lecture from New York-based sculptor, performance artist, writer, and filmmaker Josiah McElheny who will trace the contours of “imaginary modernisms” through the work of modern painters Hilma af Klint (Swedish, 1862-1944) and Blinky Palermo (German, 1943-1977). 

Opening Celebration of Jessica Stockholder: For Events

Join us in celebrating the opening of the exhibition Jessica Stockholder: For Events. The evening will feature Christine Mehring, Gabriel Moreno, Jeremy Sigler, and Augusta Read Thomas. The program, which also includes a toast to the artist, begins at 5:30pm.

Closing Party for 1/20 of a millennium (and then some)

Join the artists of 1/20 of a millennium (and then some) to celebrate their work and the close of this exhibition with conversations, jubilation, and a light reception! 

Artist-led Tours of 1/20 of a millennium (and then some)

Join artists Tongji Philip Qian and natalie jenkins of 1/20 of a millennium (and then some) for an exhibition walkthrough! The tour will begin in the Cochrane-Woods Art Center Lounge (CWAC 166) at 5:15pm and proceed through site-specific installations in both stairwells and on the second floor, with conversations to follow afterwards. The Cochrane-Woods Art Center is located at 5540 S. Greenwood Ave., across the courtyard from the Smart Museum of Art.

Chat About: Rebekka Federle

Chat About: Rebekka Federle is an exhibition in conjunction with the event Chat About: Christian Bumala & Rebekka Federle, March 1, 2024. Rebekka Federle is a first-year MFA student in DoVA whose recent work, The Liberators, is a mediation on plural truths, myth making, subjectivity, and exclusion.

1/20 of a millennium (and then some)

As the 50th anniversary is approaching for the Cochrane-Woods Art Center at the University of Chicago, we, a group of artists and scholars, want to take this opportunity to pause to not only reflect on the past but also gaze at the future. Anchoring the fleeting moment of the now, we present 50.5 works for CWAC Exhibitions as our ruminations on key aspects of our time, shared interests of the group, and individual contexts of our life.

Chat About: Eleonore Zurawski

Chat About: Eleonore Zurawski is an exhibition in conjunction with the event Chat About: Drew Redman & Eleanore Zurawski.

Eleonore Zurawski is a first-year MFA student in DoVA, working in the mediums of painting and photography. Eleanore presents recent ink jet prints on paper pair with a conversation that will dive into interpretations of historical and contemporary landscape and the horizon within image-making.

Chat About: Tianjiao Wang & Kavya Krishnamurthy + Snowy Iverson, Erin Gregory & Feifei Wang

Tianjiao Wang & Kavya Krishnamurthy + Sierra (Snowy) Iverson, Erin Gregory & Feifei Wang

Chat About: Guhn Lee & Lydia Dimsu

Guhn Lee & Lydia Dimsu