Cacchione, Mehring, Stockholder, Monochrome Multitudes: Art Historic, Curator, & Artist Perspectives

"Monochrome Multitudes: Art Historic, Curator, & Artist Perspectives"
University of Chicago
October 15, 2022
Orianna Cacchione, Curator of Global Contemporary Art, Smart Museum
Christine Mehring, Mary L. Block Professor of Art History and the College
Jessica Stockholder, Raymond W. & Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor of Visual Arts
Monochrome Multitudes, an exhibition at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, September 22, 2022-January 8, 2023, revisits a notoriously hermetic art to reveal its creative possibilities and conceive pedagogical strategies that make abstraction accessible from multiple perspectives. The exhibition aims to expand existing histories of “the monochrome” in three ways: articulating cultural, social, political, racial, or gendered meanings of monochrome art; emphasizing the hermeneutic significance of materials and media; and engaging North American art in a global dialogue. This session reflects on the exhibition through art historical, curatorial, and artistic points of view.