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A pioneer of multimedia installations, Jessica Stockholder creates complex installations, sculpture, and collages that incorporate the architecture in which they have been conceived, blanketing the floor, scaling walls and ceiling, and even spilling out of windows, through doors, an

In conjunction with the exhibition Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks, artist Rashid Johnson discusses his work.

In conjunction with the exhibition Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity, Laurinda Spear, founding principal of Arquitectonica, discusses her practice. Spear designed many of the firm’s signature, award-winning projects.

In MCA's 1980s Gallery Talk series, artists and scholars lead gallery conversations based on the major themes of This Will Have Been: Art Love and Politics in the 1980s.

Get to know the work of a different Chicago-based thought leader each month.

Get to know the work of a different Chicago-based thought leader each month during MCA's Culture Catalyst series.Michael C.