Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Crafty artists achieve object by using everyday materials

'Material Difference'

- Through Jan. 7

- Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Randolph

- (312) 744-6630

GALLERIES

The notion of valuing the valueless is an idea contemporaryartists have embraced heartily; witness the Richard Tuttle show atthe MCA in which raw materials are presented in perplexingcombinations meant to be meditated on for their essentialobjecthood. "Material Difference," now on view at the ChicagoCultural Center, likewise values sometimes-valueless materials butapproaches them from the opposite direction. Each object here iswrought and rendered unto preciousness through a process oncehonorably known as craft.

Indeed, in …

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