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Eye Exam

by Abraham Ritchie
Tony Tasset at Pritzker Park July 5th, 2010 - October 31st, 2010
Posted 8/16/10

Tony Tasset’s giant, 30-foot eyeball has landed in Chicago. Located in the heart of the downtown area, Tasset’s Eye sculpture resides in Pritzker Park on State Street, across the street from the Harold Washington Library. Completed on June 28th and unofficially unveiled on July 7th, the sculpture has become a part of the daily grind for the downtown workforce and bears a critical examination at this point. Chicago’s public art collection is one of the oldest in the coun... [more]

Form & (un)Function

by Robyn Farrell Roulo
Tony Tasset at Kavi Gupta Gallery May 1st, 2010 - August 11th, 2010
Posted 6/4/10

2010 has been a good year for Tony Tasset. Known for his witty and often sardonic approach to postmodern art, Tasset’s work has gained quite a bit of attention in the city he calls home. The artist was selected alongside fellow Chicago artist, Phyllis Bramson, to participate in the College Art Association’s annual Artist Interviews during the organization’s conference that was held in Chicago in February, 2010. Last month, Tasset’s Blob Monster (2009) was one of several... [more]

Culture: Yours or Ours?

by Abraham Ritchie
Vito Acconci, Richard Artschwager, Matthew Barney, Alfredo Jaar, Mike Kelley, Sharon Lockhart, Richard Long, Richard Prince, Lorna Simpson, Tony Tasset, Gillian Wearing at Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) March 13th, 2010 - September 5th, 2010
Posted 5/17/10

It’s impossible to enter the Museum of Contemporary Art’s (MCA) current exhibition “Rewind: 1970s to 1990s, Works from the MCA Collection” without first encountering Kay Rosen’s new work Yours/ours, 2010. Rosen’s language-based works explore the significant shifts in meaning that can happen to words or phrases when seemingly insignificant shifts in their presentation are made. At the MCA, Rosen presents the word “YOURS” divided by the entrance to the galleries in su... [more]

Interview with Tony Tasset
by Abraham Ritchie
2010-08-03

Chicago, Aug. 2010 -- Tony Tasset is receiving a kind of city-wide, mini-retrospective currently in Chicago. The Museum of Contemporary Art is showing a significant number of his artworks from the 1980s (more), held in their permanent collection. Kavi Gupta Gallery has had a survey of Tasset's early work on view all summer (more). Tasset also has a work included in the Art Institute of Chicago's exhibition "Contemporary Collecting: Selected Works from the Donna and Howard Stone Collection." And speaking of sel... [more]