Join the three MP3 II artists for a talk about their work on view at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

For his series Modifications, Curtis Mann collects found photographs depicting conflicts in the Middle East and Northern Africa. He then bleaches and scratches the surface of the images, removing information to create new meanings from his source material. John Opera investigates the uncanny in nature. Moving between representation and geometric abstraction, his works reference historical notions of the sublime and landscape as well as modernist photography. Stacia Yeapanis‘s interest in modes of entertainment and hobbies has led her to explore the simulated-reality computer game The Sims 2, and the craft of embroidery, as she stitches television screen captures of characters in states of distress.

MP3 II: Curtis Mann, John Opera, and Stacia Yeapanis
Artist’s Talk: Thursday, July 23, 5:30 pm

Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
(312) 663-5554

Exhibition on view:
Friday, July 17–Sunday, September 13, 2009

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Michael Wolf: The Transparent City

Upcoming Exhibition on View:
Friday, November 14, 2008 –Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Museum of Contemporary Photography
Columbia College Chicago
600 S. Michigan Ave
Chicago, Illinois

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Ongoing Exhibition on View:
Thursday, November 6, 2008 –Saturday, January 3, 2009

Robert Koch Gallery
49 Geary Street, Fl. 5
San Francisco, California

In this, Michael Wolf‘s first body of work to address an American city, the artist has chosen to focus on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux. Bringing his unique perspective on the changing urban environments in Chicago, a city renowned for its architectural legacy, Wolf chose to photograph the central downtown area, inviting the viewer to see beyond the dense outer structures and to think about the transparency and fluidity of the new American cityscape. This series was created as part of the Chicago-based U.S. Equities Realty artist-in-resident program, a collaboration with the MoCP.

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