The Productive Messiness of Expo Chicago 2024

The art felt as if it was trying to find the language to merge emotion with content, to harness the energies of the search within the courage of experimentation.
Debra Brehmber, Hyperallergic, April 17, 2024

One of the fair’s curated or site-specific projects, by Cleveland artist Lauren Yeager, reimagines the form of modernist sculpture, a la Brancusi, with 21st-century domestic plastic products. Yeager stacks foam ice coolers or plastic end tables in simple compositions. While commenting on non-biodegradable waste, her seemingly authentic love of modernist sculpture endows what could easily read as pastiche with formal dignity. 

 

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