Jodi Roberts, Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art, and Lynne Warren, Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, discuss The Conjured Life: The Legacy of Surrealism.
Ms. Warren is Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago where she has organized over 30 solo exhibitions of artists ranging from Robert Heinecken: Photographist (1999) and Dan Peterman: Plastic Economies (2004) to Jim Nutt: Coming Into Character (2011). Major exhibitions include Alexander Calder: Form, Balance, Joy (2010), the H.C. Westermann exhibition and catalogue raisonné projects (2001), both of which traveled nationally, and Art in Chicago, 1945-1995 (1997) which produced the first comprehensive book of Chicago’s unique art history. Most recently she mounted the well-received exhibition Surrealism: The Conjured Life from the MCA’s extensive surrealist holdings.
IMAGE: René Magritte, Les merveilles de la nature (The Wonders of Nature), 1953. Oil on canvas. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago MCA#1982.48, gift of Joseph and Jory Shapiro, © Rene Magritte/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago