Ellen Lanyon
Curious Worlds: The Art of Ellen Lanyon
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Madison Museum of Contemporary Art 227 State St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
ISTHMUS PICK
Friday, Dec. 4, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 6-9 pm (reception)
The late painter and printmaker Ellen Lanyon was a powerful force in the Chicago School of artists of the latter half of the 20th century. This exhibit focuses on her prolific “Magic” cycle of realist-surrealist mashups, produced between 1969 and 1984. Richly textured fantasies such as the ghostly, aureole-etched, sea-blue “Arabian Nights” shimmer with images from nature, objects of everyday life and other mingling presences seemingly wrought from the depths of boundless dreams. On display through April 17.
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