“Collage Intelligence (as coined by Lisa Wainwright, author of the essay ‘The Affordances of Collage’) relies on the capacity to imagine how disparate materials when joined together, create new content rich in conveying the multifariousness of human experience.”
Read more of Lisa’s essay in our just published exhibition catalogue ‘Collage Culture’, online for free and available in print for sale at moniquemeloche.com
Collage Culture is on view through July 27
#collage #contemporaryart #groupexhibition #moniquemeloche #chicago
Collage Culture Opens Today!
June 7-July 27
Featuring:
Sanford Biggers
Antonius-Tín Bui
Genevieve Gaignard
Kathia St. Hilaire
Sheree Hovsepian
Yashua Klos
Helina Metaferia
Lavar Munroe
Ebony G. Patterson
Monika Plioplyte
David Shrobe
Nguyen E. Smith
Shinique Smith
Wendy Red Star
Mickalene Thomas
Just published!
Shinique Smith: METAMORPH Exhibition Catalogue
Featuring beautiful installation views and a special contribution by Auttrianna Ward
Full digital catalogue available online, order your copy today!
METAMORPH is on view through Friday, May 24
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Shinique Smith takes us through her exhibition METAMORPH, on view through May 24
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Video: @bob.mov
Out now! Exhibition catalogue for David Shrobe’s second solo exhibition ‘Natural Sovereignty’, featuring installation views and an essay by Sheridan Tucker Anderson.
Closing March 23
Link in bio @daveshrobe
David Shrobe takes us through his second solo exhibition with moniquemeloche, ‘Natural Sovereignty,’ on view through March 16. @daveshrobe
Full Video Link in Bio
David Shrobe takes us through his second solo exhibition with moniquemeloche, ‘Natural Sovereignty,’ on view through March 16. @daveshrobe
Full Video Link in Bio
Out now! Exhibition catalogue for Candida Alvarez’s second solo exhibition ‘Multihyphenate’, featuring beautiful installation views and an essay by Rebecca Walker.
Link in bio
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Candida Alvarez takes us through her second solo exhibition with moniquemeloche, ‘Multihyphenate,’ on view through January 6. @candida_alvarez_studio
Candida Alvarez takes us through her second solo exhibition with moniquemeloche, ‘Multihyphenate,’ on view through January 6. @candida_alvarez_studio
Out Now! Maia Cruz Palileo's third solo exhibition, ‘Days Later, Down River’ exhibition catalogue featuring a transcribed conversation between Michael Darling and Ashlee Jacob. Link in Bio and available to view on our website.
Don’t miss the final days of Cruz’s exhibition, closing this Saturday, May 26th.
Lavar Munroe takes us through his first solo exhibition with moniquemeloche, ‘Sometime Come to Someplace’, on view through March 18, 2023.
Watch Full Video: https://tinyurl.com/27p32umn
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Just released, Arvie Smith’s digital exhibition catalogue ‘Call and Response’, featuring an essay by independent curator, art historian, and Ph.D candidate Heather Nickels, titled "A Smile or a Snarl? Pain, Pleasure, and Perspective in Arvie Smith's Oeuvre”. Link in bio.
‘Call and Response’ is on view through November 5, 2022.
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Call and Response
moniquemeloche is pleased to present Arvie Smith: Call and Response. Spanning both galleries, the exhibition features a series of new and legacy paintings by the Portland, OR-based artist Arvie Smith and is the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery.
Contextualized through paint, Call and Response evokes the oral tradition that enslaved Africans brought to colonized America. Firmly entrenched in African history, ‘call and response’ can be found in storytelling, religious rituals, protest, public discourse, children’s rhymes, and most notably music, in gospel, blues, R&B, rock and roll, jazz and hip-hop. Tapping into the spiritual significance that influenced and built upon African American culture, the act of call and response was a way to exchange stories about African life and create new lore about the American experience, shedding light on instances of hardship shared, unifying each other together. Smith embraces his ancestors’ songs using his art as resistance to call out embedded truths on America’s racial, social, and cultural history. As an American citizen and artist, Smith intends his work to be the “call,” a springboard for meaningful dialogue and understanding, soliciting the viewer’s “response” thus making space for us to collectively find the rhythm towards empathy by seeing others in ourselves.
In reflecting on his 4-decade career Smith remarks “I paint as an American of African descent, who grew up in the Jim Crow South and South-Central Los Angeles, and living in a white man's America, I paint. My narratives connect the present to the past, examining America's complex history of social and racial inequities. I have consumed a steady diet of racial injustices personally and collectively, providing an ever-growing catalyst for my artistic journey.”
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Thank you @cruz_art for taking the reigns yesterday for #mmgtakeover! Don’t miss David Antonio Cruz’s work presented by @moniquemeloche for @friezeartfair New York’s Viewing Room, preview opening today at 10am EST and open to the public May 8-15. Visit link in bio to register.
#davidantoniocruz #moniquemeloche #FriezeVR and #FriezeNY #stayhome
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Monique takes you behind the scenes for a special look at #MMG's viewing room featuring: David Antonio Cruz, Brendan Fernandes, Candida Alvarez and Carrie Schneider.
#chicagogalleries #moniquemelochegallery
MeganCloud
Sanford Biggers
Cumulous (large), 2013
Aluminum, plexiglass, vinyl, LEDs, variable flasher
40 1/2 x 60 x 5 1/4 inches
Installation shot from "on the wall" (2013) project at MMG.
#chicagogalleries #galleryfromhome #artfromhome #moniquemelochegallery #LEDsculpture #sanfordbiggers #contemporaryart #wfh
“There’s a difference between seeing and looking. Seeing is incredibly superficial. It is about the surface. But looking also incorporates seeing. The key thing that looking also involves is questioning. It requires a dig, it requires questions, so the eyes are engaged in looking but so is the brain. And asking what’s here, what’s happening and what are we looking at?”
Ebony G. Patterson speaks about her work in this exclusive video from @nashermuseum, where her exhibition “...while the dew is still on the roses...” is now on view. Though the museum is currently closed, we hope this clip provides some insight into the show that’s enjoyable from home. Watch the full video by visiting nasher.duke.edu
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#ebonygpatterson #whilethedewisstillontheroses #nashermuseum #stayhome
Candida Alvarez's “Estoy Bien” will be closing tomorrow, and although we are closed to the general public, you can book an appointment to view the show by emailing [email protected].
Candida began this new body of work as a way of coping with the passing of her father in 2017, followed shortly by Hurricane Maria, and her mother’s decision to relocate from Puerto Rico to the United States. Amidst this period of transformation, Alvarez found herself drawn to the comforts of her studio, exploring the shifting panorama of Puerto Rico. Drawing inspiration from a specific phrase widely spoken by the hurricane’s survivors, "Estoy Bien" (I’m Fine), these works illustrate perseverance through difficult times.
#candidaalvarez #moniquemelochegallery #contemporaryart #galleryfromhome
Have you stopped in to see Maia Cruz Palileo’s first exhibition with MMG, All The While I Thought You Had Received This?
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#maiacruzpalileo #moniquemeloche #contemporaryart #chicagonative #brooklynartist #allthewhile