The fourth floor of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, through Oct. 1, will be a haunted house, a liminal space, a gateway to a past not settled.
Artist Gary Simmons photographed with “Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark”, part of his major retrospective"Public Enemy" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago on June 9, 2023.
Since the waning months of the Reagan administration, Simmons’ ghosts have been, ironically, indelible. Even heavy-handedly so. One installation in “Public Enemy” recalls, via old video and photographs, a 1996 work he organized in the skies of downtown Chicago, using a skywriting plane to leave stars that, like actual shooting stars, ask you to make a wish, and not dawdle; it’s almost gone.
So much cultural legacy gets referenced in the art of Gary Simmons, I called him at his Los Angeles studio to pick through a few frequent influences and recurring images.— you remember when movies looked cheap on the surface then occupied your head . Simmons, born in New York City in 1964, straddles that generational line between movie theaters and home video, when metaphors for a changing society looked thinly veiled in mainstream movies.
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