09/29/2023
The Chicago art world knows how to throw a party, and we can’t wait to join everyone this weekend for the inaugural
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The SCA was founded at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1940 to promote a better understanding and appreciation of the art of our time. Through its lectures and events, the Society has become one of the museum’s principle vehicles for exploring new and challenging art. Monthly SCA programs provide access to an exciting roster of leading national and international artists, dealers, critics, historia
ns, and curators, as well as visits to distinguished private collections and major art centers within the United States and abroad. The Society has also made a tremendous impact on the museum’s collection of modern and contemporary art. On an annual basis, acquisition committee members review a carefully selected group of contemporary works and present them throughout the Art Institute’s galleries. The entire membership then votes to purchase one or more objects for the museum’s permanent collection. Over the years, the SCA has acquired more than 150 works of art by distinguished artists such as Emma Amos, Carl Andre, Lee Bontecou, Larry Clark, Tacita Dean, Nicole Eisenman, Leon Golub, Dan Graham, Maren Hassinger, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Guillermo Kuitca, Joan Mitchell, Jackson Po***ck, Paul Sharits, Lorna Simpson, James Turrell, Martin Wong, and Christopher Wool.
09/28/2023
Join your fellow SCA Members for a tour of CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal, led by Faheed Majeed of the Floating Museum, CAB5's Curatorial Team.
The fifth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, curated by the interdisciplinary arts collective the Floating Museum, takes an expansive view of design as an iterative rehearsal process to explore architecture, cities, and the different social, ecological, economic and political forces that shape them. From artists, architects, engineers, performers, poets, and others, the practitioners represented in CAB 5 collectively set the stage for the cross-pollination of ideas in order to challenge and envision alternatives for the following: how we understand and address the needs of a city, who plays a role in imagining and making the city, and how our potential solutions attend to the overlapping crises that now inform our everyday lives.
This event is complimentary to SCA Members and their guests.
Registration is required.
09/23/2023
Thank you to .gallery and for hosting us this afternoon for the 2023 SCA Gallery Walk, and a perfect end to a beautiful summer.
09/21/2023
Thank you to everyone who joined us to kick off the Fall 2023 Program Season with Anne Appleby and Caroline Kent!
Visit the link in our bio to view and register for everything else we have in store this year.
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09/15/2023
Join your fellow SCA Members at the Hyde Park home of Chicago collectors Trissa Babrowski and Sundeep Mullangi. The evening will include a viewing of their private collection, with cocktails and light refreshments to be served.
Of their collection, Babrowski and Mullangi share:
"Organic while simultaneously intentional, our collection serves as an ongoing love letter to Chicago. We believe in fostering a rich arts ecosystem as philanthropists and patrons, convinced that a vibrant cultural milieu is the most effective mechanism to facilitate societal change and evolution. We consider ourselves keepers of this art rather than collectors, and especially seek to support the stories and practices of artists traditionally excluded from the historical cannon. While objecthood is central to any collection, we are most interested in how art serves as a vehicle for bridging cultural divides."
This event is complimentary to SCA Members. Registration required.
09/05/2023
Join the SCA and the for an Artist Talk by Tommy Kha.
Tommy Kha (b. Memphis, Tennessee) received his Photography MFA from Yale University. He’s been included in museum group shows at Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans), the High Museum (Atlanta), Leslie-Lohman Museum (NYC), and mostly recently, participating in the inaugural Tennessee Triennial at the Brooks Museum (Memphis). He has had solo shows at Higher Pictures Generation (NYC), Baxter St. at the Camera Club of New York (NYC), and Blue Sky Gallery (Portland), and presented, through Vasli Souza Gallery, at Paris Photo’s Curiosa section curated by Holly Roussell.
This program will be followed by a complimentary cocktail reception hosted by the MoCP. Separate registration for the reception is not required, it is included automatically with program registration.
This public program is made possible with the support of PRADA
Link in bio to register
08/30/2023
The SCA is pleased to announce our first Public Program of the season. Join us September 20th as we welcome Anne Appleby in conversation with Caroline Kent, followed by a ticketed dinner reception at Oakville Grill & Cellar.
This program is free and open to the public. Register at the link in our bio.
This public program is made possible with the support of Prada.
Ticketed dinner made possible with the support of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises.
Anne Appleby’s landscapes–reductive, delicately layered-monochrome appearing canvases and intricately rendered-figurative images alike–represent a visual distillation of the natural world. Extended observational consideration of her surroundings in rural Montana (the life cycles of the varied flora, and shifts in weather, atmospheric conditions, and seasons) activate and prompt Appleby’s investigations into humanity’s complex relationship with nature, resulting in subtly dynamic works which exude a deep sense of spirit. Anne Appleby (b. 1954, Harrisburg, PA) earned a B.F.A. at the University of Montana, Missoula in 1977. In 1979, she embarked upon a ten year-long apprenticeship with Ojibwe artist and elder Ed Barbeau, with whom she learned and refined processes of intense meditative awareness in nature and connected with her own Anishinaabe heritage.
08/23/2023
Considering SCA Membership, but uncertain what membership tier is right for you? Visit the link in our bio to view all your options, or DM us for details.
Join before September, and gain access to a full season of Artist Lectures, Private Collection Visits, Curator-led Tours, Member Happy Hours, and more.
08/17/2023
The SCA is pleased to announce our first Public Program of the season. Join us September 20th as we welcome Anne Appleby in conversation with Caroline Kent.
This program is free and open to the public. Register at the link in our bio.
This public program is made possible with the support of Prada.
Ticketed dinner made possible with the support of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises.
Anne Appleby’s landscapes–reductive, delicately layered-monochrome appearing canvases and intricately rendered-figurative images alike–represent a visual distillation of the natural world. Extended observational consideration of her surroundings in rural Montana (the life cycles of the varied flora, and shifts in weather, atmospheric conditions, and seasons) activate and prompt Appleby’s investigations into humanity’s complex relationship with nature, resulting in subtly dynamic works which exude a deep sense of spirit. Anne Appleby (b. 1954, Harrisburg, PA) earned a B.F.A. at the University of Montana, Missoula in 1977. In 1979, she embarked upon a ten year-long apprenticeship with Ojibwe artist and elder Ed Barbeau, with whom she learned and refined processes of intense meditative awareness in nature and connected with her own Anishinaabe heritage.
08/07/2023
Join us for our annual Gallery Walk in Chicago's West Town Gallery District.
This event is open to SCA Members. For information on joining the SCA, visit the link in our bio.
The 2023 Gallery Walk will include stops at MICKEY (1635 West Grand Avenue), Monique Meloche (451 N Paulina Street), and Mariane Ibrahim Gallery (437 N Paulina Street), with remarks from gallery staff to accompany each exhibition viewing. The day will conclude with a reception in the courtyard of Mariane Ibrahim Gallery. Light refreshments will be served.
Register to attend at the link in our bio.
08/01/2023
Visit the link in our bio to view past Artist Lectures, Member Programs, and more!
Programs will continue to be added as they are recorded. If you are looking for a past program that is not currently available in the online SCA Artist Lecture Archive, DM us or reach out at [email protected] for access.
07/13/2023
Summer member happy hour
07/13/2023
Thank you to the team at for hosting our Summer Member Happy Hour and a private viewing of “Gravity Pleasure Switchback” the first major survey of work by
For more information on Membership, visit the link in our bio.
06/14/2023
Now on view | Margaret Honda: Double Feature with Short Subject
Selected by our Members in 2022 as a recipient of support from the SCA Engagement Fund, this dynamic new work is now on view in the Modern Wing’s Griffin Court. Swipe for a view into the work’s installation process.
Margaret Honda (American, b.1961)
Double Feature with Short Subject
On view May 25, 2023–Oct 9, 2023
Art Institute of Chicago
Installation photography courtesy of Jonathan Mathias and Joe Tallarico
06/12/2023
Thank you to all of our Members who joined us on May 31 for the 2023 Annual Meeting and Acquisition Vote! It was a pleasure to be back in the museum, celebrating together with dinner beneath the Margaret Honda installation in Griffin Court.
Special thanks also to for supporting the event.
06/12/2023
Thank you to all of our Members who joined us on May 31 for the 2023 Annual Meeting and Acquisition Vote
Special thanks also to for supporting the event.
06/09/2023
Have you gotten your new SCA Member Tote yet? These durable canvas bags featuring the new SCA logo (designed by Jason Pickleman of the JNL Graphic Design) are sure to add a pop of color to your summer style! Pick yours up at our next Member Event.
12/15/2022
Thank you to for hosting our Members Happy Hour last night! And thanks to everyone who joined us for a glass or two of champagne and a viewing of Brian Calvin: Something or Other. Visit the exhibition through January 7th.
12/12/2022
Thank you to for the insightful conversation with on Friday evening, and to everyone who joined us in Fullerton Hall for this final program of the season!
If you haven’t seen Suzanne Jackson’s solo exhibition at the we recommend visiting before it closes on December 23.
12/01/2022
Join us for Suzanne Jackson in conversation with Giampaolo Bianconi on December 9th in Fullerton Hall. This program is free and open to the public. Register at the link in our bio.
works in Savannah, Georgia, where she has lived since 1996. Current exhibitions of her work include Listen' N Home, a solo exhibition of new work at the Arts Club of Chicago; Just Above Midtown: 1974 to the Present, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Joan Didion: What She Means, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
joined the Art Institute of Chicago as Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in October 2022. He was previously a curator at Museum Brandhorst, Munich, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
In a career spanning more than five decade Suzanne Jackson (b. 1944, St. Louis) has worked experimentally across genres including drawing, painting, printmaking, bookmaking, poetry, dance, theater and costume design. In her lyrical work from the 1960s and 70s, figures and recurring symbols are built up through multiple layers of acrylic wash on canvas, creating ethereal paintings in which any firm distinction between depicted elements is dissolved. Built up through layers of pure acrylic, Jackson’s recent “anti-canvases” are partially structured with netting, rods, and paper fragments, and strewn with cast-off color and other prosaic elements: peanut shells, bamboo, bells, loquat seeds, leather string. The artist’s handmade gestural impressions—pinching, crimping, and pleating—occur within a material transparency that lends each composition a uniquely lyrical and luminous dimensionality.
12/01/2022
Thank you to the for inviting our members for a viewing of Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s, and a special thanks to curator Corinne Granof for leading us on a private tour.
The exhibition remains on view through this Sunday. Visit the Block Museum’s website for information regarding hours and admission.
11/15/2022
Thank you to Evelyn T. Wang for the exciting new performance yesterday evening, and to all those who joined us for this long-awaited event!
Our thanks also go to and for all their hard work on the production of this program!
We are pleased to have returned to Fullerton Hall this season, and are grateful to be able to offer in-person programming again this season.
For information on upcoming programs, visit the link in our bio.
11/11/2022
Join us Friday, December 9th for an artist lecture by Suzanne Jackson. She will be joined in conversation by Giampaolo Bianconi, Associate Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago.
Free & Open to the public.
Link in bio to register.
In a career spanning more than five decades, Jackson has worked experimentally across genres including drawing, painting, printmaking, bookmaking, poetry, dance, theater and costume design. In her lyrical work from the 1960s and 70s, figures and recurring symbols are built up through multiple layers of acrylic wash on canvas, creating ethereal paintings in which any firm distinction between depicted elements is dissolved.
Photo: Peter Frank Edwards
Suzanne Jackson at her home in Savannah, GA
T Magazine, The New York Times
11/07/2022
Join us one week from tonight for a performance by Evelyn T. Wang. This performance is free and open to the public. Link in bio to register.
In her classical drawings and paintings, as well as videos and performances, Evelyn Taocheng Wang (China, 1981, lives and works in Rotterdam) combines a straightforward and at times confrontational tone with emotional, poetic and often autobiographical undercurrents. Through her diverse practice, she addresses ostensible fixed notions of identity, culture and socioeconomic backgrounds. In the past years, Wang's main
interest has been in image presentation', researching different (art) histories of the body from a personal perspective. Her work emerges from an interest in what constitutes identity and how one's own body is culturally relative to and intertwined with-
autobiographical structures. Autobiographical experiences are mixed with fictional fabrications, appropriating texts from novels here with weaving cultures together.
11/04/2022
The Society for Contemporary Art is pleased to introduce our new website. Visit through the link in our bio to access programs and events, learn about our history and impact, and join our membership. Connect with the artists, the curators, the educators, the collectors, the dealers & the curious. Expand your mind. Find your people.
10/24/2022
Tonight we welcome Maren Hassinger (American, b. 1947) for our first Artist Talk of the Fall 2022 season.
Hassinger has built an expansive practice that articulates the relationship between nature and humanity. Carefully choosing materials for their innate characteristics, Hassinger has explored the subject of movement, family, love, nature, environment, consumerism, identity, and race.
In 2019, the SCA acquired Interlock, an early wire-rope sculpture that visibly reflects the process of its production; Hassinger combines the found materials with industrially produced elements, revealing the tension between technology and nature.
We hope you will join us this evening at 6pm in Fullerton Hall for the artist’s talk!
10/22/2022
The SCA kicked off this beautiful fall weekend with a Members Tour of "Citing Black Geographies" with Curator Romi Crawford. Thank you to GRAY for hosting us!
To join us and learn more about SCA Membership, visit the link in our profile-- and
be sure to see this incredible exhibition before it closes in Chicago next Thursday, October 27.
10/13/2022
Thank you to for hosting our Members Happy Hour yesterday evening, and thanks to everyone who came out to join us for drinks and a viewing of James Krone’s solo exhibition A Promise of Happiness, on view now.
10/10/2022
Join us Monday, October 24 at 6pm in Fullerton Hall for a lecture by artist Maren Hassinger.
This program is free and open to the public. Register to attend at the link in our bio.
Maren Hassinger (American, born 1947) has built an expansive practice that articulates the relationship between nature and humanity. Carefully choosing materials for their innate characteristics, Hassinger has explored the subject of movement, family, love, nature, environment, consumerism, identity, and race.
Public Program Sponsored by Paul Rehder Salon
10/06/2022
Thank you to all of our friends, supporters, and members who helped make this year’s Collectors Sale a success! We were thrilled to be able to gather in person again this year for a beautiful evening of revelry and celebration at the Panorama Party on September 15. It was exhilarating to feel the energy and connection of our SCA community come together once again.
09/23/2022
Five outstanding
works in this year's Collectors Sale, for your
consideration! View and bid on these work by
Igshaan Adams, Michelle Grabner, Tony Tasset, Judy Ledgerwood, and Beverly Fishman (along with 59 others!) on
Sothebys. Link in bio. DM for private in-person
viewing appointments.
09/22/2022
Five outstanding
photographs in this year's Collectors Sale, for your
consideration! View and bid on these work by
Erica Deeman, Matt Saunders, Jessica LaBatte, Tim Hailand, Margarete Jakschik (along with 59 others!) on
Sothebys. Link in bio. DM for private in-person
viewing appointments.
09/21/2022
Five outstanding
sculptures in this year's Collectors Sale, for your
consideration! View and bid on these work by
Richard Nonas, Seung-taek Lee, Richard Hawkins, Brendan Fernandes, and Alex Chitty (along with 59 others!) on
Sothebys. Link in bio. DM for private in-person
viewing appointments.
09/20/2022
Five outstanding works on paper in this year’s Collectors Sale, for your consideration! View and bid on these work by Hannah Wilke, Rita Ackermann, Tim Gardner, Raul Guerrero, and Jeffrey Gibson (along with 59 others!) on Sothebys. Link in bio. DM for private in-person viewing appointments.
09/19/2022
Five outstanding paintings in this year’s Collectors Sale, for your consideration! View and bid on these work by Ryan Sullivan, Ilana Savdie, Caroline Kent, Kajahl, and Jon Rafman (along with 59 others!) on Sothebys. Link in bio. DM for private in-person viewing appointments.
09/19/2022
Want to view all 64 works available in this year’s Collectors Sale in-person? DM us or email [email protected] to book a private viewing appointment, or visit Wright during our open hours!
And don’t forget to bid! Link in bio to view and bid on all lots on
09/12/2022
We’re excited to be installing the Collectors Sale! The auction opens on this Thursday. Register to bid now, and make sure to stop in and see the lots in person. Swipe for viewing dates and times.
09/09/2022
Our sincere thanks to the Artists, Donating Galleries and Private Collections, Individual Sponsors, and our Host Committee for their generous support of this year’s Collectors Sale. We look forward to celebrating the opening of the auction with everyone on Thursday!
08/23/2022
The SCA is pleased to be releasing a new closed series of five unique works by Tony Lewis.
Tony Lewis (American, b. 1986)
Plunder, 2022
Graphite powder and rubber cement on paper
11x 15 inches
Closed series of five works
Each work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
To preview and acquire the work, join us September 15th at the PANORAMA party. Tickets in bio.
08/16/2022
The SCA is pleased to be releasing a new print by Christopher Wool.
Christopher Wool (American, b.1955)
Untitled, 2022
Intaglio with relief on Arches En Tout Cas paper
15 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches
Edition of 40 with 15 APs
Courtesy of the artist
To preview and acquire the work, join us September 15th at the PANORAMA party. Tickets in bio.
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Thank you to for hosting our Members Happy Hour last night! And thanks to everyone who joined us for a glass or two of champagne and a viewing of Brian Calvin: Something or Other. Visit the exhibition through January 7th.
Thank you to for the insightful conversation with on Friday evening, and to everyone who joined us in Fullerton Hall for this final program of the season!
If you haven’t seen Suzanne Jackson’s solo exhibition at the we recommend visiting before it closes on December 23.
If you haven’t seen Suzanne Jackson’s solo exhibition at the we recommend visiting before it closes on December 23.
Join us for Suzanne Jackson in conversation with Giampaolo Bianconi on December 9th in Fullerton Hall. This program is free and open to the public. Register at the link in our bio.
works in Savannah, Georgia, where she has lived since 1996. Current exhibitions of her work include Listen' N Home, a solo exhibition of new work at the Arts Club of Chicago; Just Above Midtown: 1974 to the Present, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Joan Didion: What She Means, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
joined the Art Institute of Chicago as Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in October 2022. He was previously a curator at Museum Brandhorst, Munich, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
In a career spanning more than five decade Suzanne Jackson (b. 1944, St. Louis) has worked experimentally across genres including drawing, painting, printmaking, bookmaking, poetry, dance, theater and costume design. In her lyrical work from the 1960s and 70s, figures and recurring symbols are built up through multiple layers of acrylic wash on canvas, creating ethereal paintings in which any firm distinction between depicted elements is dissolved. Built up through layers of pure acrylic, Jackson’s recent “anti-canvases” are partially structured with netting, rods, and paper fragments, and strewn with cast-off color and other prosaic elements: peanut shells, bamboo, bells, loquat seeds, leather string. The artist’s handmade gestural impressions—pinching, crimping, and pleating—occur within a material transparency that lends each composition a uniquely lyrical and luminous dimensionality.
works in Savannah, Georgia, where she has lived since 1996. Current exhibitions of her work include Listen' N Home, a solo exhibition of new work at the Arts Club of Chicago; Just Above Midtown: 1974 to the Present, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Joan Didion: What She Means, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
joined the Art Institute of Chicago as Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in October 2022. He was previously a curator at Museum Brandhorst, Munich, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
In a career spanning more than five decade Suzanne Jackson (b. 1944, St. Louis) has worked experimentally across genres including drawing, painting, printmaking, bookmaking, poetry, dance, theater and costume design. In her lyrical work from the 1960s and 70s, figures and recurring symbols are built up through multiple layers of acrylic wash on canvas, creating ethereal paintings in which any firm distinction between depicted elements is dissolved. Built up through layers of pure acrylic, Jackson’s recent “anti-canvases” are partially structured with netting, rods, and paper fragments, and strewn with cast-off color and other prosaic elements: peanut shells, bamboo, bells, loquat seeds, leather string. The artist’s handmade gestural impressions—pinching, crimping, and pleating—occur within a material transparency that lends each composition a uniquely lyrical and luminous dimensionality.
Thank you to the for inviting our members for a viewing of Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s, and a special thanks to curator Corinne Granof for leading us on a private tour.
The exhibition remains on view through this Sunday. Visit the Block Museum’s website for information regarding hours and admission.
The exhibition remains on view through this Sunday. Visit the Block Museum’s website for information regarding hours and admission.
Thank you to Evelyn T. Wang for the exciting new performance yesterday evening, and to all those who joined us for this long-awaited event!
Our thanks also go to and for all their hard work on the production of this program!
We are pleased to have returned to Fullerton Hall this season, and are grateful to be able to offer in-person programming again this season.
For information on upcoming programs, visit the link in our bio.
Our thanks also go to and for all their hard work on the production of this program!
We are pleased to have returned to Fullerton Hall this season, and are grateful to be able to offer in-person programming again this season.
For information on upcoming programs, visit the link in our bio.
Join us Friday, December 9th for an artist lecture by Suzanne Jackson. She will be joined in conversation by Giampaolo Bianconi, Associate Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago.
Free & Open to the public.
Link in bio to register.
In a career spanning more than five decades, Jackson has worked experimentally across genres including drawing, painting, printmaking, bookmaking, poetry, dance, theater and costume design. In her lyrical work from the 1960s and 70s, figures and recurring symbols are built up through multiple layers of acrylic wash on canvas, creating ethereal paintings in which any firm distinction between depicted elements is dissolved.
Photo: Peter Frank Edwards
Suzanne Jackson at her home in Savannah, GA
T Magazine, The New York Times
Free & Open to the public.
Link in bio to register.
In a career spanning more than five decades, Jackson has worked experimentally across genres including drawing, painting, printmaking, bookmaking, poetry, dance, theater and costume design. In her lyrical work from the 1960s and 70s, figures and recurring symbols are built up through multiple layers of acrylic wash on canvas, creating ethereal paintings in which any firm distinction between depicted elements is dissolved.
Photo: Peter Frank Edwards
Suzanne Jackson at her home in Savannah, GA
T Magazine, The New York Times
Join us one week from tonight for a performance by Evelyn T. Wang. This performance is free and open to the public. Link in bio to register.
In her classical drawings and paintings, as well as videos and performances, Evelyn Taocheng Wang (China, 1981, lives and works in Rotterdam) combines a straightforward and at times confrontational tone with emotional, poetic and often autobiographical undercurrents. Through her diverse practice, she addresses ostensible fixed notions of identity, culture and socioeconomic backgrounds. In the past years, Wang's main
interest has been in image presentation', researching different (art) histories of the body from a personal perspective. Her work emerges from an interest in what constitutes identity and how one's own body is culturally relative to and intertwined with-
autobiographical structures. Autobiographical experiences are mixed with fictional fabrications, appropriating texts from novels here with weaving cultures together.
In her classical drawings and paintings, as well as videos and performances, Evelyn Taocheng Wang (China, 1981, lives and works in Rotterdam) combines a straightforward and at times confrontational tone with emotional, poetic and often autobiographical undercurrents. Through her diverse practice, she addresses ostensible fixed notions of identity, culture and socioeconomic backgrounds. In the past years, Wang's main
interest has been in image presentation', researching different (art) histories of the body from a personal perspective. Her work emerges from an interest in what constitutes identity and how one's own body is culturally relative to and intertwined with-
autobiographical structures. Autobiographical experiences are mixed with fictional fabrications, appropriating texts from novels here with weaving cultures together.
The Society for Contemporary Art is pleased to introduce our new website. Visit through the link in our bio to access programs and events, learn about our history and impact, and join our membership. Connect with the artists, the curators, the educators, the collectors, the dealers & the curious. Expand your mind. Find your people.
Tonight we welcome Maren Hassinger (American, b. 1947) for our first Artist Talk of the Fall 2022 season.
Hassinger has built an expansive practice that articulates the relationship between nature and humanity. Carefully choosing materials for their innate characteristics, Hassinger has explored the subject of movement, family, love, nature, environment, consumerism, identity, and race.
In 2019, the SCA acquired Interlock, an early wire-rope sculpture that visibly reflects the process of its production; Hassinger combines the found materials with industrially produced elements, revealing the tension between technology and nature.
We hope you will join us this evening at 6pm in Fullerton Hall for the artist’s talk!
Hassinger has built an expansive practice that articulates the relationship between nature and humanity. Carefully choosing materials for their innate characteristics, Hassinger has explored the subject of movement, family, love, nature, environment, consumerism, identity, and race.
In 2019, the SCA acquired Interlock, an early wire-rope sculpture that visibly reflects the process of its production; Hassinger combines the found materials with industrially produced elements, revealing the tension between technology and nature.
We hope you will join us this evening at 6pm in Fullerton Hall for the artist’s talk!
The SCA kicked off this beautiful fall weekend with a Members Tour of "Citing Black Geographies" with Curator Romi Crawford. Thank you to GRAY for hosting us!
To join us and learn more about SCA Membership, visit the link in our profile-- and
be sure to see this incredible exhibition before it closes in Chicago next Thursday, October 27.
To join us and learn more about SCA Membership, visit the link in our profile-- and
be sure to see this incredible exhibition before it closes in Chicago next Thursday, October 27.
Thank you to for hosting our Members Happy Hour yesterday evening, and thanks to everyone who came out to join us for drinks and a viewing of James Krone’s solo exhibition A Promise of Happiness, on view now.
Join us Monday, October 24 at 6pm in Fullerton Hall for a lecture by artist Maren Hassinger.
This program is free and open to the public. Register to attend at the link in our bio.
Maren Hassinger (American, born 1947) has built an expansive practice that articulates the relationship between nature and humanity. Carefully choosing materials for their innate characteristics, Hassinger has explored the subject of movement, family, love, nature, environment, consumerism, identity, and race.
Public Program Sponsored by Paul Rehder Salon
This program is free and open to the public. Register to attend at the link in our bio.
Maren Hassinger (American, born 1947) has built an expansive practice that articulates the relationship between nature and humanity. Carefully choosing materials for their innate characteristics, Hassinger has explored the subject of movement, family, love, nature, environment, consumerism, identity, and race.
Public Program Sponsored by Paul Rehder Salon
Thank you to all of our friends, supporters, and members who helped make this year’s Collectors Sale a success! We were thrilled to be able to gather in person again this year for a beautiful evening of revelry and celebration at the Panorama Party on September 15. It was exhilarating to feel the energy and connection of our SCA community come together once again.
Five outstanding
works in this year's Collectors Sale, for your
consideration! View and bid on these work by
Igshaan Adams, Michelle Grabner, Tony Tasset, Judy Ledgerwood, and Beverly Fishman (along with 59 others!) on
Sothebys. Link in bio. DM for private in-person
viewing appointments.
works in this year's Collectors Sale, for your
consideration! View and bid on these work by
Igshaan Adams, Michelle Grabner, Tony Tasset, Judy Ledgerwood, and Beverly Fishman (along with 59 others!) on
Sothebys. Link in bio. DM for private in-person
viewing appointments.
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