Dan Peterman: Plastic Economies

Since the late 1980s, internationally known, Chicago-based artist Dan Peterman has explored ideas about recycling, seeking to reveal how humans interact with both the natural world and their technological surroundings. Known to Chicago audiences through his Accessories to an Event (plaza) seating arrangements on the MCA plaza, Peterman has not had a major museum survey in the United States until now. For this exhibition he will create four works including a greenhouse that serves as a "carbon bank," and Running Shelf, a work that refers to Christo's renowned public art project as well as to Peterman's Running Table, a 100-foot-long picnic table commissioned in 1997 by the City of Chicago. Peterman will also launch a new public art project on the MCA plaza: Standard Kiosk (Chicago), which will be undertaken in conjunction with the Chicago Park District. The exhibition is curated by MCA Curator Lynne Warren.

This project is generously supported by Nancy and Sanfred Koltun, Susan and Lewis Manilow, and Jack Guthman/Shefsky & Froelich Ltd. . Pressetext

Dan Peterman: Plastic Economies