Join us for this opening celebration of YOKO ONO: POETRY, PAINTING, MUSIC, OBJECTS, EVENTS, AND WISH TREES, featuring screenings of Ono’s films EYEBLINK, FLY, CUT PIECE, and MATCH PIECE. Robyn Farrell, Assistant Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, will introduce and give context to the films. Following the screening, attendees are invited to view the exhibition and contribute wishes to Ono’s newest installation of WISH TREES.
Robyn Farrell is Assistant Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she manages the annual one-person focus exhibition series, permanent collection presentations, special exhibitions, and curates the Donna and Howard Stone Gallery for Film, Video, and New Media.
Yoko Ono is widely recognized for her Conceptualist work, groundbreaking films, radical music, as well as her performance art. Ono has exhibited her work throughout the world. Recent exhibitions include those in Palermo, Istanbul, Amsterdam at the Nieuwe Kerk, and Tokyo at the Mori Art Museum.
Free Admission
Location:
Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine
61 W Superior St, Chicago, Illinois 60654