Despite their varied approaches to media and subject, these artists are bound by their sustained engagement with the human figure and by their use of pattern as a visual strategy to enhance, entice, or complicate our viewing experience.
Go Figure brings together exemplary paintings, drawings, and sculpture from the Smart Museum of Art and other collections throughout Chicago. Together, these works explore issues of identity, personal history, and social change and, in doing so, reveal the versatile capacity of art to capture the diversity and complexity of contemporary human experience.
Related Programs
Smart Readings:
Bodies Among Other Things, Part 1
July 24, 2011
Curator Tour
July 28, 2011
Lunch-hour Talk: “The Straw Man of Figuration”
August 5, 2011
Smart Readings:
Bodies Among Other Things, Part 2
August 14, 2011
Mixed Media Workshop
August 20, 2011
Art Afternoons
Join us every Wednesday afternoon in July to see the many different ways art can be made from the body through a series of fun interactive workshops and hands-on art activities.
Face it, You’re an Artist
July 6, 2011
Hands up, Hands on
July 13, 2011
Family Snapshots
July 20, 2011
Art from Head to Toe
July 27, 2011