Go Figure examines the human form in contemporary art and presents new and iconic work from Chicago and beyond. With paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints by Nick Cave, Leon Golub, Yun-Fei Ji, Kerry James Marshall, Christina Ramberg, Martin Ramirez, Ravinder Reddy, Clare Rojas, and Sylvia Sleigh. Despite their varied approaches to media and subject, these artists are bound by their sustained engagement with the human figure and by their use of pattern as a visual strategy to enhance, entice, or complicate our viewing experience. Go Figure brings together exemplary paintings, drawings, and sculpture from the Smart Museum and other collections throughout Chicago. Together, these works explore issues of identity, personal history, and social change and, in doing so, reveal the versatile capacity of art to capture the diversity and complexity of contemporary human experience.
Smart Art Museum, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave., Chicago. June 30 – September 4. This exhibit is free and open to the public.








