Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Hales is delighted to announce that Virginia Jaramillo's first major retrospective, Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence is now on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Principle of Equivalence traces the artist's practice from the mid-1960s through the present, featuring more than 40 abstract paintings and handmade paper works that reveal her long-standing preoccupation with the relationships between the earthly and metaphysical realms.

 

Taking shape in New York and Los Angeles of the 1960s and 1970s-amid mass political movements and heated debates in the art world around representation and the relevance of painting-Jaramillo's work has long engaged with the formal and social potential of abstraction. Drawing on a continued study of physics, science fiction, ancient mythologies, and modernist design, Jaramillo's work reaches for the fundamentals of comprehension: how our experience of the physical forms the basis of ideas, and how abstraction can offer alternate ways of understanding our world.

 

Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence was originally organized by Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, and curated by Erin Dziedzic, Director of Curatorial Affairs. The MCA's presentation is organized by René Morales, former James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, and Iris Colburn, Curatorial Associate.