Gender and art

"The most important exhibition of the season is quietly taking place in the tucked-away tower galleries of a major New York museum. Doris Salcedo, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and currently installed at the Guggenheim Museum, is an understated yet searing indictment of violence. A Colombian artist who creates impossible sculptures out of furniture, hair, grass, and the fabric of everyday life, Salcedo carves out spaces for mourning tragedy."

Doris Salcedo continues at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1071 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan) through October 12.

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view/doris-salcedo

"The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents the first retrospective of the work of renowned sculptor Doris Salcedo (Colombian, b. 1958). Salcedo—who lives and works in Bogotá—gained prominence in the 1990s for her fusion of postminimalist forms with sociopolitical concerns. The exhibition features all major bodies of work from the artist’s thirty-year career—most of which have never been shown together before—as well as the US debut of her recent major work Plegaria Muda (2008–10)."

Doris Salcedo

Feb 21 - May 24, 2015

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago