Fab Five: Look for this quintet of buzzy artists at this month’s Expo Chicago.
BY WEB BEHRENS
APRIL 6, 2023, 9:18 AM
From Berlin and London to Cape Town and São Paulo, the international modern-art world will converge on the city April 13 to 16 for Expo Chicago. Think of it as a massive pop-up global art museum — one where you can actually purchase the pieces. “You can live in Chicago, travel the world with your eyes, and experience an extraordinary amount of work, from beautiful to provocative,” says Tony Karman, Expo Chicago’s president and director. The scope of international eye candy filling Navy Pier’s Festival Hall will include large-scale sculptures, site-specific works, and limited-edition art books, with artists from 36 countries and 170 galleries represented at this 10th edition of the fair.
We asked Expo’s director of programming, Kate Sierzputowski, to identify a few buzzed-about participating artists from around the world, both established and up-and-comers.
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
A School of the Art Institute of Chicago alum (she received her MFA in 2007), the painter now lives in Connecticut, but her work resides in the collections of several Chicago institutions, including the Museum of Contemporary Art and the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. For her abstract pieces, she sometimes makes use of disparate materials like wool string, folded paper, and rubber gloves. Zuckerman-Hartung helps open Expo with an in-person conversation April 13 with a curator from Louisville’s Speed Art Museum.
Where to see her work At the booth of the local gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey
