Gary Simmons Presents 'Public Enemy' at MCA Chicago

MCA Chicago is gearing up to host the first comprehensive survey on multidisciplinary artist Gary Simmons. Originally from New York but now based in Los Angeles, Simmons, whose family comes from the West Indies, has spent the past 30 years interrogating the visual lexicon of American culture, in relations to race, class and gender identity. Public Enemy will retrace Simmons' early conceptual strategies of the late 1980s, such as his focus on sculpture, while progressing towards the wall artworks...