Michiko Itatani
My Virtual Country, Painting, Calendar Pages, Installation
Fassbender Stevens Gallery, Chicago
September 6 - October 12, 2002
Fassbender Stevens Gallery presents Michiko Itatani in her fourth solo exhibition at the gallery.
Michiko Itatani's new paintings constitute a continuation of her long-term pursuits both formal and contextual played out on a very large scale. With an avid interest in fiction, Itatani strongly believes in its ability to tell deep truths in relation to the human psyche, society and politics. Originally wanting to be a fiction writer, she eventually appropriated these influences into her visual art. Itatani pursues her imaging by gathering fragments from all manner of life experiences, mutating them, making images, and putting the fragments together to interact with each other...her fiction writing.
Michiko Itatani's new paintings employ the fictional creations of "views of space," examining such issues as the human body and the cosmos, flesh and technology, the individual and the state, desire and choice, taboo and obsession. Itatani sees "views of space" as a complicated layering of events both real and imagined where the idea of "view" is a psychological construct revealing who we are.
Michiko Itatani has been a powerful force in the Chicago Art Scene for 25 years. She is a professor at the School of the Art Institute and has shown her work world wide. A selection of major collections include: The Art Institute of Chicago; The Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona; and the Block Museum of Art.
FASSBENDER STEVENS GALLERY
835 W. Washington, Chicago, IL 60607
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