Ida Applebroog: Opening Reception
Exhibitions
Ida Applebroog: MONALISA
10.14.2021 – 01.16.2022
Photo by Robert Heishman.
Exhibition Summary
This exhibition, presented as part of Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40, features an installation of MONALISA by American artist Ida Applebroog. Living in Southern California in 1969, Applebroog sought refuge from her family in her bathtub, where she spent between two and three hours an evening drawing pictures of her body. This ritual eventually resulted in 160 portraits of Applebroog’s vagina. Packed away in 1974 and rediscovered in 2009, the drawings are installed as wallpaper on a wooden structure resembling a house.
Curated by Dieter Roelstraete
Installation photography by Robert Heishman. Event photography by Max Herman. Video by Robert Heishman and Robert Salazar. All rights reserved.
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Exhibition Narrative
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Featured Exhibition: Ida Applebroog, “MONALISA”
Featured Exhibition: Ida Applebroog, “MONALISA”
Mousse Magazine features Ida Applebroog's exhibition, MONALISA.
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Genius at Work: 29 MacArthur Fellows Show Their Art in Chicago
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Top 10 art shows in Chicago for fall 2021: All the art you didn’t get to see because of the pandemic
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In City-wide Exhibition, MacArthur Fellows Invoke Art as a Tool for Change
In City-wide Exhibition, MacArthur Fellows Invoke Art as a Tool for Change
When Abigail Winograd began planning the largest art exhibition of her career, she did not expect it to open in the middle of a pandemic.
Three years ago, Winograd was selected to put together a ...
About Toward Common Cause
About Toward Common Cause
Organized by the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago in collaboration with more than two dozen partner organizations across Chicago, Toward Common Cause is an expansive, multi-venue ...
Feminist Icon Ida Applebroog Displays Signature Monalisa
Feminist Icon Ida Applebroog Displays Signature Monalisa
Ida Applebroog: MONALISA is the final chapter of Toward Common Cause: Art & Social Change – The MacArthur Fellows Program at 40, a multi-venue exhibition project organized by the Smart Museum of ...
Carousel with 3 slides shown at a time. Use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate, or the slide dot buttons at the end to jump to slides.
Ida Applebroog: Opening Reception
Ida Applebroog: Opening Reception
Carousel with 3 slides shown at a time. Use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate, or the slide dot buttons at the end to jump to slides.
Featured Exhibition: Ida Applebroog, “MONALISA”
Featured Exhibition: Ida Applebroog, “MONALISA”
Mousse Magazine features Ida Applebroog's exhibition, MONALISA.
Genius at Work: 29 MacArthur Fellows Show Their Art in Chicago
Genius at Work: 29 MacArthur Fellows Show Their Art in Chicago
The New York Times tells the story of Toward Common Cause, the Chicago-wide, multi-site exhibition project featuring works by 29 MacArthur Fellows, including Ida Applebroog's MONALISA at the Neubauer ...
Top 10 art shows in Chicago for fall 2021: All the art you didn’t get to see because of the pandemic
Top 10 art shows in Chicago for fall 2021: All the art you didn’t get to see because of the pandemic
In its review of top art shows to see in fall 2021, the Chicago Tribune recommends Toward Common Cause, the multi-site exhibition project organized by the Smart Museum of Art, and one of its major ...
About Toward Common Cause
About Toward Common Cause
Organized by the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago in collaboration with more than two dozen partner organizations across Chicago, Toward Common Cause is an expansive, multi-venue ...
Carousel with 3 slides shown at a time. Use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate, or the slide dot buttons at the end to jump to slides.
In City-wide Exhibition, MacArthur Fellows Invoke Art as a Tool for Change
In City-wide Exhibition, MacArthur Fellows Invoke Art as a Tool for Change
When Abigail Winograd began planning the largest art exhibition of her career, she did not expect it to open in the middle of a pandemic.
Three years ago, Winograd was selected to put together a ...
Carousel with 3 slides shown at a time. Use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate, or the slide dot buttons at the end to jump to slides.
Feminist Icon Ida Applebroog Displays Signature Monalisa
Feminist Icon Ida Applebroog Displays Signature Monalisa
Ida Applebroog: MONALISA is the final chapter of Toward Common Cause: Art & Social Change – The MacArthur Fellows Program at 40, a multi-venue exhibition project organized by the Smart Museum of ...
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